OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning is 7. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
How coalitions of multiple actors advance policy in China: ecological agriculture at Danjiangkou	88
Behind the curtains of deliberation: unveiling climate policy and behavioural challenges through a mini-public in Spain	29
‘Green icing on the Gray Cake?’ Green infrastructure in federal enforcement action	24
Break, bridge or bolster? Participatory energy initiatives between frames and futures of local sustainability	24
A policy instruments palette for spatial quality: lessons from Dutch flood risk management	21
Act global, think local? Local perspectives towards environmental sustainability in semi-rural communities of Alberta, Canada	20
It’s not all about the money—landowner motivation and high voltage grid development	19
Policy instruments for governing water in cross-border metropolitan areas, the case of Greater Geneva	19
City-to-city learning: a synthesis and research agenda	19
Systemic impacts of low-carbon transition policies: co-designing potential leverage points to mitigate housing and energy vulnerabilities in Innsbruck	17
Indigenous land systems and emerging of Green Infrastructure planning in the Peruvian coastal desert: tensions and opportunities	16
Fjords of sovereignty: a case study of selective non-compliance in the Norwegian Environment Agency	16
Environmental justice implications of siting criteria in urban green infrastructure planning	16
Constructing regulatory regimes for sustainable development: commitment to resolve, clarity, and reasonableness	15
Green infrastructure implementation: perspectives from English planners	15
Trading radical for incremental change: the politics of a circular economy transition in the German packaging sector	14
What went right? A collaborative process to prepare a city forest management strategy	14
Resource dependency, perceived political environment, and ENGO advocacy under authoritarian rule	14
Learning and amplifying urban climate governance through cutting-edge projects	14
Placing environmental democracy at the heart of co-governance: rethinking the governance of complex waterways	14
Evidence integration for coherent nexus policy design: a Mediterranean perspective on managing water-energy interactions	14
In or outside the box? Citizen action between institutional and extra-institutional channels in Chinese environmental governance	14
Informing aquatic restoration decisions using environmental justice in New Hampshire	13
Ecological modernisation wanderings: ambivalent framing and unstable coalitions in the development of Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage (CCUS) in France	13
When decarbonization rhymes with industrialization. The political dilemmas of increasing wood usage within the French construction industry	13

Exploring the interaction between social norms and perceived justice of wind energy projects: a qualitative analysis	12
Between risk perceptions and adaptation policies: centering climate justice and social innovation in heat vulnerable cities	12
Can we promote plural local pathways to sustainable development? Insights from the implementation of Wales’s Future Generations Act	12
Contesting the framing of bioeconomy policy in Germany: the NGO perspective	12
The politics of agro-industrial greening: policy processes, market institutions and local power relations in the sugarcane sector of French overseas departments	11
Cross-cultural learning as a foundation for reimagining ocean governance	11
Who is (not) in the room? An epistemic justice perspective on low-carbon transport transitions	11
The European Union’s Directive on corporate sustainability development due diligence: an institutional design effectiveness analysis	10
Moral rifts in the coal phase-out—how mayors shape distributive and recognition-based dimensions of a just transition in Lusatia	10
Creating institutions to protect the environment: the role of Chinese central environmental inspection	9
Implementation gap of China’s environmental policies: logic behind the over-implementation of the coal to gas transition	9
Co-evolutionary dynamics of experimental governance: a longitudinal study of sustainable mobility services in Oslo	9
Assessing the impact of Fridays for Future on climate policy and policymaking in German cities	9
Shifting paradigms in stormwater management – hydrosocial relations and stormwater hydrocitizenship	9
How national bioeconomy strategies address governance challenges arising from forest-related trade-offs	8
‘Time’ as a focus for planning research: exploring temporalities of coastal change	8
Solving cross-sectoral policy problems: adding a cross-sectoral dimension to assess policy performance	8
Biogas at the intersection of agricultural, environment and energy governance: (potentially) conflicting interests and consistent policy framework?	8
Who participates in green infrastructure initiatives and why? Comparing participants and non-participants in Philadelphia’s GI programs	8
Airports’ environmental effects and limits to growth: an integrated framework	8
A comparative analysis of bioeconomy visions and pathways based on stakeholder dialogues in Colombia, Rwanda, Sweden, and Thailand	8
Engineering gentrification: urban redevelopment, sustainability policy, and green stormwater infrastructure in Minneapolis	8
The nested hierarchy of urban vulnerability within land use policies fails to address climate injustices in Turkey	8
The scaling up of the tiny house niche in Quebec – transformations and continuities in the housing regime	7
The role of discourses in understanding institutional stability and change – an analysis of Dutch flood risk governance	7
A multidimensional approach to evaluating the vulnerability of drinking water systems	7
Plugged in? Assessing the distribution of orphaned wells	7
The evolution of stakeholder participation in European UNESCO Biosphere Reserves: challenges and opportunities of the COVID pandemic and the digital shift	7
Reconfiguring energy flows: energy grid-lock and the role of regions in shaping electricity infrastructure networks	7
Sustainability transitions in Los Angeles’ water system: the ambivalent role of incumbents in urban experimentation	7
Tackling material dependency in sustainability transition: rationales and insights from the agriculture sector	7
Ecological transition in France’s margins: how industries adapt to ecological crisis and redefine their national and local roles	7