OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning is 6. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Act global, think local? Local perspectives towards environmental sustainability in semi-rural communities of Alberta, Canada	33
How coalitions of multiple actors advance policy in China: ecological agriculture at Danjiangkou	22
A policy instruments palette for spatial quality: lessons from Dutch flood risk management	21
Behind the curtains of deliberation: unveiling climate policy and behavioural challenges through a mini-public in Spain	20
‘Green icing on the Gray Cake?’ Green infrastructure in federal enforcement action	20
It’s not all about the money—landowner motivation and high voltage grid development	20
City-to-city learning: a synthesis and research agenda	20
Policy instruments for governing water in cross-border metropolitan areas, the case of Greater Geneva	19
Break, bridge or bolster? Participatory energy initiatives between frames and futures of local sustainability	19
Fjords of sovereignty: a case study of selective non-compliance in the Norwegian Environment Agency	19
The aspirational shift of urban transport infrastructure: the emerging mobility transition in India	19
Systemic impacts of low-carbon transition policies: co-designing potential leverage points to mitigate housing and energy vulnerabilities in Innsbruck	18
Characterizing bioeconomy policy instruments A global comparative analysis of bioeconomy strategies	16
Learning and amplifying urban climate governance through cutting-edge projects	14
In or outside the box? Citizen action between institutional and extra-institutional channels in Chinese environmental governance	14
Constructing regulatory regimes for sustainable development: commitment to resolve, clarity, and reasonableness	14
Green infrastructure implementation: perspectives from English planners	14
Evidence integration for coherent nexus policy design: a Mediterranean perspective on managing water-energy interactions	13
What went right? A collaborative process to prepare a city forest management strategy	13
When decarbonization rhymes with industrialization. The political dilemmas of increasing wood usage within the French construction industry	12
Ecological modernisation wanderings: ambivalent framing and unstable coalitions in the development of Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage (CCUS) in France	12
Informing aquatic restoration decisions using environmental justice in New Hampshire	12
Placing environmental democracy at the heart of co-governance: rethinking the governance of complex waterways	12
Resource dependency, perceived political environment, and ENGO advocacy under authoritarian rule	12
Controversial cycle lanes: lessons from Cycleway C9, Chiswick High Road	11

Can we promote plural local pathways to sustainable development? Insights from the implementation of Wales’s Future Generations Act	10
Between risk perceptions and adaptation policies: centering climate justice and social innovation in heat vulnerable cities	10
Exploring the interaction between social norms and perceived justice of wind energy projects: a qualitative analysis	10
Assessing the impact of Fridays for Future on climate policy and policymaking in German cities	10
The politics of agro-industrial greening: policy processes, market institutions and local power relations in the sugarcane sector of French overseas departments	10
Moral rifts in the coal phase-out—how mayors shape distributive and recognition-based dimensions of a just transition in Lusatia	10
Contesting the framing of bioeconomy policy in Germany: the NGO perspective	9
Cross-cultural learning as a foundation for reimagining ocean governance	9
The European Union’s Directive on corporate sustainability development due diligence: an institutional design effectiveness analysis	9
Shifting paradigms in stormwater management – hydrosocial relations and stormwater hydrocitizenship	8
‘Time’ as a focus for planning research: exploring temporalities of coastal change	8
Creating institutions to protect the environment: the role of Chinese central environmental inspection	8
Who is (not) in the room? An epistemic justice perspective on low-carbon transport transitions	8
Gardening governance: CSO-government dynamics in Shanghai's urban renewal	7
Co-evolutionary dynamics of experimental governance: a longitudinal study of sustainable mobility services in Oslo	7
Who participates in green infrastructure initiatives and why? Comparing participants and non-participants in Philadelphia’s GI programs	7
Public engagement practice for electricity grid system change	7
Biogas at the intersection of agricultural, environment and energy governance: (potentially) conflicting interests and consistent policy framework?	7
Implementation gap of China’s environmental policies: logic behind the over-implementation of the coal to gas transition	7
A comparative analysis of bioeconomy visions and pathways based on stakeholder dialogues in Colombia, Rwanda, Sweden, and Thailand	7
Airports’ environmental effects and limits to growth: an integrated framework	7
Tackling material dependency in sustainability transition: rationales and insights from the agriculture sector	6
Plugged in? Assessing the distribution of orphaned wells	6
A multidimensional approach to evaluating the vulnerability of drinking water systems	6
Sustainability transitions in Los Angeles’ water system: the ambivalent role of incumbents in urban experimentation	6
Performance without legitimacy? Examining the performance-legitimacy dilemma of China’s authoritarian environmentalism model through Hebei’s ‘ban on coal furnace’ project	6
The CAPS framework for governance capacity building for local climate action	6
The nested hierarchy of urban vulnerability within land use policies fails to address climate injustices in Turkey	6
Reconfiguring energy flows: energy grid-lock and the role of regions in shaping electricity infrastructure networks	6
Designing policy mixes for the sustainable management of water resources	6
The evolution of stakeholder participation in European UNESCO Biosphere Reserves: challenges and opportunities of the COVID pandemic and the digital shift	6
Ecological transition in France’s margins: how industries adapt to ecological crisis and redefine their national and local roles	6
The scaling up of the tiny house niche in Quebec – transformations and continuities in the housing regime	6
Municipal administration and citizens linkages in strategic environmental assessment: exploring agency features in participatory decision-making processes of municipal master plans	6
Assessing environmental justice contributions in research and public policy: an applied framework and methodology	6
Energy spaces: bridging scales and standpoints of just energy transitions	6