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 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
‘Green icing on the Gray Cake?’ Green infrastructure in federal enforcement action	19
Behind the curtains of deliberation: unveiling climate policy and behavioural challenges through a mini-public in Spain	19
It’s not all about the money—landowner motivation and high voltage grid development	17
Break, bridge or bolster? Participatory energy initiatives between frames and futures of local sustainability	17
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
A policy instruments palette for spatial quality: lessons from Dutch flood risk management	16
Provincial flood risk in Türkiye: hazard–exposure–vulnerability patterns and planning pathways	15
Policy instruments for governing water in cross-border metropolitan areas, the case of Greater Geneva	14
Fjords of sovereignty: a case study of selective non-compliance in the Norwegian Environment Agency	14
Characterizing bioeconomy policy instruments:	13
Systemic impacts of low-carbon transition policies: co-designing potential leverage points to mitigate housing and energy vulnerabilities in Innsbruck	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
Green infrastructure implementation: perspectives from English planners	10
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
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
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
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
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
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
Shifting paradigms in stormwater management – hydrosocial relations and stormwater hydrocitizenship	7
Climate policy backlash: taming an unruly concept?	7
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
‘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