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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
A policy instruments palette for spatial quality: lessons from Dutch flood risk management	49
Making well-being legible in Wales: the various territorialities of the Well-being of Future Generations Act	27
City-to-city learning: a synthesis and research agenda	22
The aspirational shift of urban transport infrastructure: the emerging mobility transition in India	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	19
Behind the curtains of deliberation: unveiling climate policy and behavioural challenges through a mini-public in Spain	18
Understanding ‘Bad Governance’ in the urban south: a case study of solid waste management in Ghana	17
Systemic impacts of low-carbon transition policies: co-designing potential leverage points to mitigate housing and energy vulnerabilities in Innsbruck	16
What has driven onshore wind farm closures in the UK, and what happens next? Understanding end-of-life pathways	16
Fjords of sovereignty: a case study of selective non-compliance in the Norwegian Environment Agency	15
Characterizing bioeconomy policy instruments:	14
Policy instruments for governing water in cross-border metropolitan areas, the case of Greater Geneva	14
Provincial flood risk in Türkiye: hazard–exposure–vulnerability patterns and planning pathways	13
The Clean Industrial Deal as a new stage of EU climate governance: evaluating the scope and strength of CPI	12
Green infrastructure implementation: perspectives from English planners	12
‘Everybody’s welcome, but don’t change it’: barriers to equitable climate action in Fayetteville, Arkansas	12
In or outside the box? Citizen action between institutional and extra-institutional channels in Chinese environmental governance	11
A framework for evaluating policy integration under the Green Deal: a case study on climate change and air pollution	11
Learning and amplifying urban climate governance through cutting-edge projects	11
Politics of sustainable mobility transitions: AI urban planning for shrinking cities in South Korea	10
Constructing regulatory regimes for sustainable development: commitment to resolve, clarity, and reasonableness	10
Discursive power of risks, resilience, and responsibility in multi-scalar climate and disaster governance: evidence from Pakistan	9
Informing aquatic restoration decisions using environmental justice in New Hampshire	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
What went right? A collaborative process to prepare a city forest management strategy	9
When decarbonization rhymes with industrialization. The political dilemmas of increasing wood usage within the French construction industry	9
Controversial cycle lanes: lessons from Cycleway C9, Chiswick High Road	9
Privatizing environmental governance: the evolving relationship between regulators and private entities	8
Cross-cultural learning as a foundation for reimagining ocean governance	8
Climate policy backlash: taming an unruly concept?	8
Who is (not) in the room? An epistemic justice perspective on low-carbon transport transitions	8
Exploring a Source to Sea approach for plastic pollution policy integration in the European Union: the case of tyre wear particles	8
The European Union’s Directive on corporate sustainability development due diligence: an institutional design effectiveness analysis	8
Between risk perceptions and adaptation policies: centering climate justice and social innovation in heat vulnerable cities	8
Shifting paradigms in stormwater management – hydrosocial relations and stormwater hydrocitizenship	8
Can we promote plural local pathways to sustainable development? Insights from the implementation of Wales’s Future Generations Act	8
The politics of agro-industrial greening: policy processes, market institutions and local power relations in the sugarcane sector of French overseas departments	8
Assessing the impact of Fridays for Future on climate policy and policymaking in German cities	8
Creating institutions to protect the environment: the role of Chinese central environmental inspection	8
Implementation gap of China’s environmental policies: logic behind the over-implementation of the coal to gas transition	7
Public engagement practice for electricity grid system change	7
Gardening governance: CSO-government dynamics in Shanghai's urban renewal	7
‘Time’ as a focus for planning research: exploring temporalities of coastal change	7
Sustainability transitions in Los Angeles’ water system: the ambivalent role of incumbents in urban experimentation	6
Community garden coproduction under collectivism	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
Urban carrying capacity in practice: supporting growth management and climate planning in the United States	6
Plugged in? Assessing the distribution of orphaned wells	6
Mobility cultures as bundle of powerful practices	6
Who participates in green infrastructure initiatives and why? Comparing participants and non-participants in Philadelphia’s GI programs	6
Assessing environmental justice contributions in research and public policy: an applied framework and methodology	6
Municipal administration and citizens linkages in strategic environmental assessment: exploring agency features in participatory decision-making processes of municipal master plans	6
Airports’ environmental effects and limits to growth: an integrated framework	6