OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Act global, think local? Local perspectives towards environmental sustainability in semi-rural communities of Alberta, Canada	40
Making well-being legible in Wales: the various territorialities of the Well-being of Future Generations Act	37
Behind the curtains of deliberation: unveiling climate policy and behavioural challenges through a mini-public in Spain	19
‘Green icing on the Gray Cake?’ Green infrastructure in federal enforcement action	19
Break, bridge or bolster? Participatory energy initiatives between frames and futures of local sustainability	17
It’s not all about the money—landowner motivation and high voltage grid development	17
A policy instruments palette for spatial quality: lessons from Dutch flood risk management	16
Understanding ‘Bad Governance’ in the urban south: a case study of solid waste management in Ghana	16
The aspirational shift of urban transport infrastructure: the emerging mobility transition in India	16
City-to-city learning: a synthesis and research agenda	16
Provincial flood risk in Türkiye: hazard–exposure–vulnerability patterns and planning pathways	15
Fjords of sovereignty: a case study of selective non-compliance in the Norwegian Environment Agency	14
Policy instruments for governing water in cross-border metropolitan areas, the case of Greater Geneva	14
Systemic impacts of low-carbon transition policies: co-designing potential leverage points to mitigate housing and energy vulnerabilities in Innsbruck	13
Characterizing bioeconomy policy instruments:	13
In or outside the box? Citizen action between institutional and extra-institutional channels in Chinese environmental governance	12
The Clean Industrial Deal as a new stage of EU climate governance: evaluating the scope and strength of CPI	12
Learning and amplifying urban climate governance through cutting-edge projects	11
What went right? A collaborative process to prepare a city forest management strategy	10
Constructing regulatory regimes for sustainable development: commitment to resolve, clarity, and reasonableness	10
Green infrastructure implementation: perspectives from English planners	10
Privatizing environmental governance: the evolving relationship between regulators and private entities	9
When decarbonization rhymes with industrialization. The political dilemmas of increasing wood usage within the French construction industry	9
Informing aquatic restoration decisions using environmental justice in New Hampshire	9
Controversial cycle lanes: lessons from Cycleway C9, Chiswick High Road	9

Discursive power of risks, resilience, and responsibility in multi-scalar climate and disaster governance: evidence from Pakistan	9
Politics of sustainable mobility transitions: AI urban planning for shrinking cities in South Korea	9
Ecological modernisation wanderings: ambivalent framing and unstable coalitions in the development of Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage (CCUS) in France	9
Placing environmental democracy at the heart of co-governance: rethinking the governance of complex waterways	9
Who is (not) in the room? An epistemic justice perspective on low-carbon transport transitions	8
Between risk perceptions and adaptation policies: centering climate justice and social innovation in heat vulnerable cities	8
Can we promote plural local pathways to sustainable development? Insights from the implementation of Wales’s Future Generations Act	8
Exploring a Source to Sea approach for plastic pollution policy integration in the European Union: the case of tyre wear particles	8
The politics of agro-industrial greening: policy processes, market institutions and local power relations in the sugarcane sector of French overseas departments	8
The European Union’s Directive on corporate sustainability development due diligence: an institutional design effectiveness analysis	8
Shifting paradigms in stormwater management – hydrosocial relations and stormwater hydrocitizenship	7
Climate policy backlash: taming an unruly concept?	7
Gardening governance: CSO-government dynamics in Shanghai's urban renewal	7
Contesting the framing of bioeconomy policy in Germany: the NGO perspective	7
Assessing the impact of Fridays for Future on climate policy and policymaking in German cities	7
Cross-cultural learning as a foundation for reimagining ocean governance	7
‘Time’ as a focus for planning research: exploring temporalities of coastal change	6
Public engagement practice for electricity grid system change	6
Community garden coproduction under collectivism	6
Creating institutions to protect the environment: the role of Chinese central environmental inspection	6
Co-evolutionary dynamics of experimental governance: a longitudinal study of sustainable mobility services in Oslo	6
The nested hierarchy of urban vulnerability within land use policies fails to address climate injustices in Turkey	6
The CAPS framework for governance capacity building for local climate action	6
Implementation gap of China’s environmental policies: logic behind the over-implementation of the coal to gas transition	6
Airports’ environmental effects and limits to growth: an integrated framework	6
Plugged in? Assessing the distribution of orphaned wells	6
Who participates in green infrastructure initiatives and why? Comparing participants and non-participants in Philadelphia’s GI programs	6
Curbing the European Union’s global deforestation footprint through trade	5
Designing policy mixes for the sustainable management of water resources	5
Municipal administration and citizens linkages in strategic environmental assessment: exploring agency features in participatory decision-making processes of municipal master plans	5
A user-oriented application for the economic evaluation of the CO ₂ sequestration function	5
Planning for renewable energy without conflict: the potential of using sensitivity mapping as a decision-support tool	5
Experimental governance in China: models of stakeholder interaction and evolution of the low-carbon cities pilot programme	5
Ecological transition in France’s margins: how industries adapt to ecological crisis and redefine their national and local roles	5
Sustainability transitions in Los Angeles’ water system: the ambivalent role of incumbents in urban experimentation	5
The evolution of stakeholder participation in European UNESCO Biosphere Reserves: challenges and opportunities of the COVID pandemic and the digital shift	5
Tussling with seascape character assessment and assemblage theories	5
Performance without legitimacy? Examining the performance-legitimacy dilemma of China’s authoritarian environmentalism model through Hebei’s ‘ban on coal furnace’ project	5
Urban carrying capacity in practice: supporting growth management and climate planning in the United States	5
Assessing environmental justice contributions in research and public policy: an applied framework and methodology	5
Timely transitions? How time-bound targets shape visions for the future of emerging energy storage technologies	5
Energy spaces: bridging scales and standpoints of just energy transitions	5
A convenient untruth: environmental water reallocation and the art of ambiguous arrangements in south-east France	4
From local to EU: understanding energy citizenship and the willingness to join energy communities across geographical levels	4
Climate promotion tournaments and collaborative governance: central-local dynamics in China’s carbon neutrality policy implementation	4
Designing integrative governance arrangements for policy performance in the Energy Union: evidence from seven member states	4
Assessing biodiversity policy designs in Australia, France and Sweden. Comparative lessons for transformative governance of biodiversity?	4
Urban heat governance: examining the role of urban planning	4
The European Union’s CBAM: averting emissions leakage or promoting the diffusion of carbon pricing?	4
The impact of state-led traceability on fisheries sustainability	4

A three-perspective problem? Sustainability governance of renewable hydrogen certification in Tasmania	4
Does multidimensional distance matter? Perceptions and acceptance of wind power	4
From conceptualization to practice: enhancing economic resilience at the local government level in Australia	3
Biodiversity Policy Integration at the sub-national level: Insights from the German Länder in the context of sub-national biodiversity strategies and action plans	3
A renewable light unto the nations? Modelling the limits of culturally appealing climate frames: a case study from Israel	3
Do citizens’ perspectives matter? A comparison of formal planning and local preferences for the deployment of renewable energies	3
The promises and pitfalls of Hanoi’s urban mobility transition: how residents are navigating the infrastructural politics of a new urban railway	3
Public participation towards procedural justice: oil and gas development in Colorado	3
Seeing beyond Europe’s nose: a critical interpretive synthesis of negative impacts of the European bioeconomy transition	3
The role of experts in policy design: transcoding strategies in the making of the Water Framework Directive	3
Uncertainty confounds justice: the offshore wind ‘Devil they don't know’ in the Northeast United States	3
Policy integration in the EU under crisis: shifting the balance between renewable energy expansion and biodiversity protection	3
Making profit from energy transition. Political struggles and accumulation strategies in Guadeloupe	3
Divergent responses to the cadre evaluation system reform: contrasting strategies in Chinese cities towards environmental information disclosure	3
The European Union’s management of the environment-trade nexus at the World Trade Organization before and after the European Green Deal	3
Regulatory, accompanying, and collective governance? The challenges of re-orientating environmental-economic interdependencies in two French ports	3
Mixed policy feedback and evolution of environmental regulation: analysing instrument recalibration and layering in Danish nitrogen policy	3
Concerning emotions: feminist contributions to reflexive marine governance	3
The Isle of Man Biosphere Reserve: an entire nation approach to sustainable development	3
Centralized urgency to autonomous caution: A Q-method exploration of Dutch citizens’ energy transition visions	3
The governmentality of tropical forests and sustainable food systems, and possibilities for post-2020 sustainability governance	3
Becoming Sponge City Berlin: ‘planned scaling’ vs. ‘permanent experimentation’	3
Just give them the money? Voting behaviour on agricultural policies in the European Parliament	3
A public administration perspective on wind power development: decision-making logic of local government officials	3
The role of public consultations in decision-making on future agricultural pesticide use: insights from European Union’s Farm to Fork Strategy public consultation	2
Participation in regional energy transitions: impacts, dynamics, strategies and science-policy dialogues – perspectives from Germany and Austria	2
Providing orientation in a fragmented field of research: the critical review series of the Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning	2
Governing resource making in energy transitions: a study of shifting configurations of biogas in Denmark from farming to big business	2
Winds of change: examining attitude shifts regarding an offshore wind project	2
Is non-zoning of land impossible? Eight fundamental propositions of zoning	2
Discursive strategies and paths forward for EU chemical legislation: bridging German stakeholder narratives on pollution and competitiveness for the announced REACH revision	2
Drivers and energy justice implications of renewable energy project siting in the United States	2
Anchoring climate policy integration: progress and limitations under the European Green Deal	2
Guerra del agua in Bolivia: environmental discourse, power and the politics of ‘green’	2
Unlocking citizens’ investment potential in photovoltaics: the role of information communication	2
Critical masculine and feminine norms in sustainable municipal transport policies and planning	2
Reflexivity and transformative change: empirical and theoretical insights from a special issue on reflexive marine governance	2
Spatializing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): the role of urbanization in SDGs localization across spatial scales	2
The land tenure and environmental policies nexus: policy integration and spatial planning in Benin	2
What role for sustainability in post-fossil regional transition processes? Exploring governance conditions, actors, and transition projects in a German coal phase-out region	2
The role of policy capacity in energy transitions: the case of the Brazilian wind energy sector	2
Evaluating urban heat resilience in Indian cities through the comprehensive assessment of municipal plans	2
Climate policy integration as a process: from shallow to embedded integration	2
Guardians of the green? A critical examination of procuratorial public interest litigation in China’s environmental governance	2
Implementation of trade and sustainable development chapters in EU free trade agreements: promoting environmental reforms?	2
Practices and acts of energy citizenship	2
Development of a hybrid public–private natural area governance model in the Adirondack Park of New York State	2