Environmental Policy and Governance

Papers
(The median citation count of Environmental Policy and Governance is 1. 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.)
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Prospects and limitations of ‘Responsible Agricultural Investment’ for governing transboundary agri‐food systems in Mekong Southeast Asia: Implications for upland maize in the Lao‐Vietnamese128
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Institutional Design of Collaborative Water Governance: The River Chief System in China40
The role of trust in the international climate negotiations35
Community action on natural flood management and the governance of acatchment‐basedapproach in theUK33
Beyond the campaign‐style enforcement: A consensual approach to bridge the environmental policy implementation gap31
Playing the CITES game: Lessons on global conservation governance from African megafauna30
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The effects of policy discourse on the governance of deforestation and forest degradation reduction in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)22
Responding to transboundary water challenges in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: In search of institutional fit22
Framing just transition: The case of sustainable food system transition in Finland21
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Unpacking Forest Stewardship Council certification in Chile: The scope and limitations of neoliberal market‐driven governance for achieving sustainable development19
Contextualizing and generalizing drivers and barriers of urban living labs for climate resilience19
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Harnessing the temporal and projective attributes of human agency to promote anticipatory climate change adaptation17
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The rising stars of social innovations: How do local governments facilitate citizen initiatives to thrive? The case of waste management in Brussels and Hong Kong16
The influence of visions on cooperation among interest organizations in fragmented socio‐technical systems16
Vulnerability, climate laws, and adaptation in the Middle East and North Africa15
Can polycentric governance lower industrial greenhouse gas emissions: Evidence from the United States14
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How to Assess Knowledge Cumulation in Environmental Governance Research? Conceptual and Empirical Explorations13
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Moving beyond the plan: Exploring the opportunities to accelerate the implementation of municipal climate change adaptation policies and plans12
Frontline bureaucrats in wildlife management: Caught in the dilemma between effectiveness and responsiveness12
The green side of social innovation: Using sustainable development goals to classify environmental impacts of rural grassroots initiatives12
The impact of environmental federalism: An analysis of watershedeco‐compensationpolicy design in China11
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Regulations ‘Under the Weather’: Legal Factors of Stability and Change for the Implementation of Natural Stormwater Management in Finland10
Danish nearshore wind energy policy: Exploring actors, ideas, discursive processes and institutions via discursive institutionalism10
Accountability in the Anthropocene10
Modes of drought climatization: A frame analysis of drought problematization in Germany across policy fields10
Polycentric energy governance: Under what conditions do energy communities scale?10
Towards Catchment Scale Natural Flood Management: Developing evidence, funding and governance approaches9
Context‐related mechanisms of policy sustainability: Governance reform of the protected areas in Lombardy9
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Granting legitimacy from non‐state actor deliberation: An example of women's groups at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change8
Exploring paths and innovation in Norwegian carbon capture and storage policy8
The Quest for Coherence in Climate Actions: The Case for Québec's Climate Strategy8
Swedish bureaucratic biodiversity: Analysing municipal worker discourse with the theory of sociocultural viability8
The climate change adaptation readiness of co‐operative housing in Nova Scotia, Canada8
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Bracing urban governance against climate crises: How to integrate high reliability into strategic decision‐making?8
Mapping stakeholders and identifying institutional challenges and opportunities for waste management in towns of Uttar Pradesh, India7
Cross‐sectoral information and actors' contact networks in natural resource governance in the Swiss Alps7
Political drivers of policy coherence for sustainable development: An analytical framework7
Externalities as the status quo: Federal application of environmental charges in the United States7
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Knowledge cumulation and interdisciplinarity: Integrating epistemologies, disciplines, and sectors to produce actionable environmental governance research7
Social acceptance of biodiversity offsetting: Motivations and practices in the designing of an emerging mechanism7
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Governance challenges for urban logistics: Lessons from three Norwegian cities6
Synergy of soft and hard regulations in climate governance: The impact of state policies on local climate mitigation actions6
Evaluating offsetting as a component of biodiversity governance6
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How scholars break down “policy coherence”: The impact of sustainable development global agendas on academic literature6
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Bridging Social Innovation with Forest and Landscape Restoration6
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Designing and leading collaborative urban climate governance: Comparative experiences of co‐creation from Copenhagen and Oslo6
Protection of water resources from agricultural pressures: Embracing different knowledge domains in governance approaches6
Institutionalizing co‐production diplomacy in contexts of long‐term epistemological conflict: A case study of cod fisheries governance5
Disaster management policy changes in Bangladesh: Drivers and factors of a shift from reactive to proactive approach5
A new framework to understand the drivers of policy mixes in multilevel contexts: The case of urban air pollution5
Challenging state authority and hierarchical power: A case study of the engagement of Peru's Amazonian Indigenous Peoples' organizations in the governance of REDD+5
Everybody should contribute, but not too much: Perceptions of local governments on citizen responsibilisation in climate change adaptation in the Netherlands5
How accurate is citizen science? Evaluating public assessments of coastal water quality5
Collective forestry regimes to enhance transition to climate smart forestry5
Five dimensions of climate governance: a framework for empirical research based on polycentric and multi‐level governance perspectives5
The role of citizens in sustainability and climate change governance: Taking stock and looking ahead5
Governance gaps and accountability traps in renewables extractivism5
Social innovation for developing sustainable solutions in a fisheries sector5
Social innovation in a typical social‐ecological system in China: Identifying linkages between the dependence of key stakeholders on ecosystem services and the level of their multi‐dimensional human w5
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Exploring enablers and obstacles to policy‐oriented learning in Swedish marine national park planning5
Trading off benefits and requirements: How do city networks attract cities to their voluntary environmental programmes?5
How environmental regulation can drive innovation: Lessons learned from a systematic review4
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Social‐ecological reflexivity of extractive industry governance? The case of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative in Indonesia4
The link between collaborative governance design and markers of legitimacy: Comparing Swedish water‐ and large carnivore management4
The grammar of monitoring and enforcement mechanisms in international conservation: A comparative institutional analysis of four treaty regimes3
Emissions trading in China: New political economy dynamics3
Call for papers – Special issue on policy and governance of energy efficiency3
Transboundary environmental publics and hydropower governance in the Mekong River Basin: A contested politics of place, scale and temporality3
What determines how governance indicators shape policy processes? Evidence from three environmental issues in India3
Practitioners' perspectives on the enablers and barriers to successful Antarctic science‐policy knowledge exchange3
From fabrication to consolidation of China's political blue‐sky: How can environmental regulations shape sustainable air pollution governance?3
Conflicting perspectives on ecosystem conservation in a cultivated floodplain: The role of science and the challenge of pluralism in decision‐making in Lac Saint‐Pierre (Quebec, Canada)3
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Defusing environmental activism through scientific greening: Government framing strategy and its effects in China3
Forest and water policy integration: A process and output‐oriented policy network analysis3
Facilitation of public Payments for Ecosystem Services through local intermediaries: An institutional analysis of agri‐environmental measure implementation in Germany3
“Us versus them” mentalities in co‐managing a Natura 2000 forest: Narratives, identities, and a culture of conflict3
Governing a multilevel and cross‐sectoral climate policy implementation network2
Understanding public preferences for energy efficiency policies in building and agricultural sectors in the western US: Values, knowledge, and identity2
Exploring friendship in hydropolitics: The case of the friendship dam on the Asi/Orontes river2
Theorising the climate change accountability of Persian Gulf petrostates2
Achieving economy‐wide gains from residential energy efficiency improvements: The importance of timing and funding approach in driving the transition2
Feed me! China, agriculture, ecologically unequal exchange, and forest loss in a cross‐national perspective2
The transformative potential of environmental governance integration for sustainable land use: The case of subsidence in the Dutch peatlands2
Quasi‐Governmental Organization Under Pressure: The Connecticut Green Bank's Response to a Budget Shock2
The roles and unexplored potential of policy experimentation in climate adaptation governance: A systematic literature review2
Sustaining business as usual or enabling transformation? A discourse analysis of climate change mitigation policy in Swedish municipalities2
Driving governance beyond ecological modernization: REDD+ and the Amazon Fund2
Taking knowledge exchange to practice: A scoping review of practical case studies to identify enablers of success in environmental management2
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The water–energy–food–land–climate nexus: Policy coherence for sustainable resource management in Sweden2
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Rivers under pressure: Interdisciplinary feasibility analysis of sustainable hydropower1
A transboundary political ecology of air pollution: Slow violence on Thailand's margins1
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How resilience is framed matters for governance of coastal social‐ecological systems1
Fostering Urban Climate Transition Through Innovative Governance Coordination1
Unpacking notions of residents' responsibility in flood risk governance1
Water governance on the streets of Scotland: How frontline public workers encounter and respond to tensions in delivering water services with communities1
Disentangling municipal capacities for citizen participation in transformative climate adaptation1
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Influence of messaging and party affiliation on energy conservation behavior: An evaluation from the US1
Management plans as resources in conservation conflicts1
Understanding the Complexity of Governing Energy Transitions: Introducing an Integrated Approach of Policy and Transition Perspectives1
Accountability in the environmental crisis: From microsocial practices to moral orders1
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Why policy coherence in the European Union matters for global sustainability1
The power of social innovation to steer sustainable governance of nature1
Policy implementation barriers in climate change adaptation: The case of Pakistan1
Success by agreement? Uncovering power struggles in translating Swedish moose policy1
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How can a cooperative‐based organization of indigenous fisheries foster the resilience to global changes? Lessons learned by coastal communities in eastern Québec1
Governing intersectional climate justice: Tactics and lessons from Barcelona1
Banning protests at oil and gas sites: The influence of policy entrepreneurs and political pressure1
Revisiting the success of co‐management in forest protected areas of Bangladesh: Untangling the interplay of power, participation, and community empowerment1
Analysing Coherence in Policy for Multi‐Functional Landscapes: An Exploratory Framework1
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