OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Climate and Development 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Seasonal deprivation in the Sahel is large, widespread, and can be anticipated	59
Barriers to nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation in Mexico	49
Concealing, naming, or tackling inequalities? Art, culture and (In)justice at COP27	48
Vulnerability of local farmers’ livelihood to climate variability across different agro ecology zone in Suha watershed, Upper Blue Nile basin, Ethiopia	40
Collaborative event ethnography of the UNFCCC Process: power and (in)justice in global climate governance arenas	39
Techno-social systems and readiness for energy transition: solar mini-grids in Tanzania	38
Addressing the diversity of Loss and damage in Pacific Island countries to foster a just transition towards a climate-resilient future	38
‘We do in the spirit of togetherness’: stories of collective resilience, wellbeing and climate (im)mobility in the Pacific	32
Traditional crops and climate change adaptation: insights from the Andean agricultural sector	31
Safe drinking water supply under extreme climate events: evidence from four urban sprawl communities	30
Optimism predicts future economic mobility among hurricane maria migrants	28
Climate adaptation and resilience indices for the Caribbean region: an assessment of four leading indices	27
It’s not just about women: broadening perspectives in gendered environmental mobilities research	26
Pluralizing climate change adaptation: mapping discourses in Vietnam	23
‘These days, things have changed’: historicizing current dynamics of climate-related migration in the savannah zone of Ghana	23
Integrating low-carbon development issues into strategic environmental assessment: insights from Tanzania	22
Bridging farmers’ non-cognitive and self-conscious emotional factors to cognitive determinants of climate change adaptation in southwest Iran	22
Climate change, local leadership and the formal-informal nexus: case of Machar Colony, Karachi	21
A high-frequency analysis of weather and crime in Jamaica	21
Climate change, hurricanes, and sovereign debt in the Caribbean basin	19
Energy transitions, clean fuel access and urbanization: a multi-level assessment of climate risk	19
Climate obstruction in the United States and Brazil: a comparative analysis of discourses by foreign policy authorities of the Trump and Bolsonaro administrations	17
Impact assessment of sustainable agricultural practices on smallholder households food security: evidence from Burkina Faso	17
Local communities’ perceptions on malaria prevalence in the face of climate change in Chimanimani District, Zimbabwe	17
Climate change and human economic misery in West Africa: evidence from a tail-dependence model	17

The revival of the drylands: re-learning resilience to climate change from pastoral livelihoods in East Africa	17
Future research directions for understanding the interconnections between climate change, water scarcity, and mobility in rural Central Asia	17
Exploring combined adaptation strategies to improve crop yield and smallholder farmers’ welfare	17
Gender and climate change: differential risks and resilience among internal migrants at their urban destination in coastal Bangladesh	16
Does local government debt curb carbon intensity? Macro-evidence from China	16
Enhancing farmers’ resilience to climate change-induced impacts through financial inclusion in Sidama region, southern Ethiopia	16
Examining the link between marginality and differential climate resilience among disaster-affected communities in southwestern Bangladesh	15
‘Who is going to talk about my grandad? Who is going to talk about me?’: Spatial politics in the advocacy of youth from the MENA region at COP 27	15
Latin American NGOs’ perceptions of cross-scale and cross-actor interactions in polycentric climate governance	15
Assessing the vulnerability of livelihoods and ecosystems during the KwaZulu-Natal floods and their implications for climate resilience	15
Understanding ecological grief as a response to climate change-induced loss in Ghana	15
Social and political opposition to energy pricing reforms	14
Indigenous entrepreneurship and agricultural development: insights from the case of ‘Darjeeling tea’ in Eastern Himalayas	14
Towards a livelihood-interdependence approach to framing adaptation in research and practice: evidence from farmers’ and herders’ relations in Northern Ghana	14
The ‘Single Adaptation Imaginary’ (SAI): mapping the contours of dominant adaptation	14
Women and climate change adaptation behaviour: What’s the problem and solution?	13
Gendered perceptions of climate change and agricultural adaptation practices: a systematic review	13
Climate resilient development pathways for farmer producer organizations in semi-arid India	13
Sustainability transitioning in a developmental state: an analysis of Singapore’s climate change mitigation and adaptation policies	13
Exploring discourses of climate delay in energy transition debates in national media	13
Potential tipping points for climate change adaptation costs	13
Navigating contradictions: perceptions of climate action progress and obstruction in Argentina	13
Third-generation adaptive capacity assessment for climate-resilient development	13
An accounting framework for implementing India’s NDCs and reporting the capacity building needs in the context of the Paris rulebook	13
Hoping to return? Migration and ecological balance in the Sundarbans	12
Strategies to strengthen institutional capacities for climate-resilient coastal socio-ecological systems in Bangladesh	12
Dried up Bt cotton narratives: climate, debt and distressed livelihoods in semi-arid smallholder India	12
Expansive climate governance: advancing transformative climate justice through the six pillars of climate action	12
Cyclones and skinny dolphins: adaptation pathways for Pacific communities under rapid global change	12
Discourses of climate delay promoting fossil fuel extraction in Uruguay	12
FIRE: A framework for integrating human rights and gender equality in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation	11
Relational approach to examine the cascading effects of climate narratives: eviction cases of Samburu pastoralists and Dorobo Foragers in North-Central Kenya	11
Gender empowerment and parity in East Africa: evidence from climate-smart agriculture in Ethiopia and Kenya	11
Systematic literature review on climate change adaptation strategies in Africa: bibliometric analysis and topic modelling	10
Human health and climate change in the Pacific: a review of current knowledge	10
Achieving climate justice: climate finance and income inequality in developing countries	10
Climate change at the margins of the megacity: informal settlements’ adaptation infrastructures	10
Examining environmental justice in legacy city climate action planning	10
Navigating climate knowledge and anxiety in Ghana: insights from urban and peri-urban Greater Accra	9
Examining complementary relationships among climate change adaptation practices of rice producers in Chitwan, Nepal	9
Effects of foreign finance measures on the decoupling of greenhouse gas emissions from economic development: a panel study of 97 developing countries over the period 2000–2018	9
A critical political economy of climate obstruction: forests, fossils, and foundations of developmentalism in Indonesia	9
Spatiotemporal changes of climatic disasters and population displacements in Africa	9
Prevent or repair? Experimental evidence from providing incentives for climate resilient housing in Vietnam	9
Assessing household drought risk perception in resource-dependent communities, Cambodia	9
Climate information access and use in East and Southern Africa: identifying linkages between smallholder household characteristics and climate change adaptation	9
Climate unemployment	9
The production, distribution and attribution of risk: a conceptual framework to climate-related risk management from the perspective of Arraigo in Bogotá, Colombia	9
Complexities of climate change education in conflict-settings: the case of Birzeit University, Palestine	9
Land fragmentation, adoption intensity of climate-smart agricultural practices, and economic performance of banana farmers in China	9

Valuing a values-based approach for assessing loss and damage	9
Promoting environmental sustainability in Africa: evidence from governance synergy	8
Epistemic justice as energy justice: reflections from a transnational collaboration on hydropower and Indigenous rights	8
From victims to change agents: farmer-driven climate action and implications for policy reforms in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta	8
Effects and resilience to climate crisis among adolescents: a narrative review on South Asian countries	8
Justice in nature conservation: limits and possibilities under global capitalism	8
Measuring the farmers’ vulnerability to climate change in Tashk and Bakhtegan Lakes in Iran	8
Food sovereignty and climate resilience through regional development assistance programs: insights from the Pacific region	8
‘No one to help us when the rains don’t come’: gendered climate resilience strategies of female informal dairy and herb traders in Ain Lahcen, Morocco	7
Firms’ use of formal and informal finance in coping with droughts and floods: experiences from Kenya	7
Identifying constraints and limits to adaptation to climate-related risks in the Peruvian Andes	7
Characterizing rural households’ livelihood vulnerability to climate change and extremes in Migori River Watershed, Kenya	7
Gate-Cane: (Un)tying the knots between climate, cane, and early marriage in rural India	7
Gender and adaptive capacity in climate change scholarship of developing countries: a systematic review of literature	7
Exploring co-production in redirecting climate urbanism	7
Sugarcane farmers’ perceptions of climate change and their “adaptation” methods in Fiji: adaptation for the industry or for their livelihood?	7
Structured timeline mapping as a data collection methodology: a new perspective for research on environmental adaptation	7
Talking the talk vs. walking the walk: greening of central banks’ speeches and policies	7
Mobile commoning	7
What’s “holding back change”? Opportunities and challenges for the ‘participation’ and ‘inclusion’ of people with diverse SOGIESC in disaster risk reduction	7