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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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Knowledge Cumulation in Environmental Governance Research73
Digital Technology Empowering Rural Environmental Governance: Evidences From Villages in Shanghai, China41
The role of trust in the international climate negotiations34
Institutional Design of Collaborative Water Governance: The River Chief System in China31
Beyond the campaign‐style enforcement: A consensual approach to bridge the environmental policy implementation gap24
The effects of policy discourse on the governance of deforestation and forest degradation reduction in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)24
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Playing the CITES game: Lessons on global conservation governance from African megafauna23
Deconstructing Identity Politics in Forest Governance Through Women‐Led Conservation Movements of South Asia22
Making Sense of the Bioeconomy: A Critical Analysis of EU Policy Narratives and Responses21
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Framing just transition: The case of sustainable food system transition in Finland21
Dynamic Interactions and Governance Capabilities of State and Non‐State Actors in Small‐Scale Tuna Fishery Certification in Indonesia21
Unpacking Forest Stewardship Council certification in Chile: The scope and limitations of neoliberal market‐driven governance for achieving sustainable development20
Contextualizing and generalizing drivers and barriers of urban living labs for climate resilience20
Environmental Policy Without Implementation? A Review of Factors Contributing to Implementation Gaps in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries20
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The Widening Scope of Just Transitions Research: A Review of an Emblematic Concept18
The influence of visions on cooperation among interest organizations in fragmented socio‐technical systems18
Nested Institutions and Overlapping Mandates: A Policy Analysis of Mangrove Governance in Ghana, Tanzania Mainland, and Zanzibar18
A Novel Multilevel Conceptual Framework for Flood Risk Governance18
How to Assess Knowledge Cumulation in Environmental Governance Research? Conceptual and Empirical Explorations17
Can polycentric governance lower industrial greenhouse gas emissions: Evidence from the United States17
When Policy Is the Hazard: Institutional Legitimacy and Climate Risk Attribution Among Farmers in Water Stressed California17
Challenges in Implementing European Regulation on Water Reuse for Sustainable Agriculture17
Successful Implementation of Environmental Policy and Governance: Understanding and Modeling Micro Governance15
Vulnerability, climate laws, and adaptation in the Middle East and North Africa15
Correction to “Regulations ‘Under the Weather’: Legal Factors of Stability and Change for the Implementation of Natural Stormwater Management in Finland”15
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Moving beyond the plan: Exploring the opportunities to accelerate the implementation of municipal climate change adaptation policies and plans14
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Flood Risk‐Sensitive Land Use Governance: Explaining Enforcement Gaps in the Case of Accra, Ghana12
Exploring the Complementary Role of Voluntary Environmental Programs in Regulatory Governance: Evidence From South Korea12
Danish nearshore wind energy policy: Exploring actors, ideas, discursive processes and institutions via discursive institutionalism12
Implementing Nature‐Based Solutions in Cities: Testing and Refining the Integrative Framework for Collaborative Governance12
Open Space Policy‐Making and Planning in Urban Regions: Towards a Theoretical Approach Based on the Multiple Streams Framework11
A Multi‐Layered Collaborative Marine Governance Model: Evaluating Change and Innovation of Marine Governance Arrangements11
Deliberating Justice in Citizen Jury Processes—Lessons for Just Transitions Governance11
Collective Decision‐Making and Institutional Configurations in Polycentric Environmental Governance10
Reflections on Energy Efficiency Policies in Sustainable Transition: Bedrock, Gamechanger, or More of the Same?10
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Context‐related mechanisms of policy sustainability: Governance reform of the protected areas in Lombardy10
For the Few, Not the Many: Tracing the Residualist and Compensatory Nature of British Energy Support9
Accountability in the Anthropocene9
Winds of Change: Environmental Collectives Navigating Small Island Governance in Tourism‐Dominated Aruba9
The Quest for Coherence in Climate Actions: The Case for Québec's Climate Strategy9
Towards Catchment Scale Natural Flood Management: Developing evidence, funding and governance approaches8
The climate change adaptation readiness of co‐operative housing in Nova Scotia, Canada8
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Radical Listening as a Governance Innovation: Integrating Planetary Health and Community‐Led Forest Conservation in Indonesia8
Regulations ‘Under the Weather’: Legal Factors of Stability and Change for the Implementation of Natural Stormwater Management in Finland8
Bracing urban governance against climate crises: How to integrate high reliability into strategic decision‐making?8
Integrating Traditional Ecological Knowledge Into Forest Governance: Pathways to Sustainable Development in Protected Forest Ecosystems8
Integrating Science With Indigenous and Experiential Knowledge in Collaborative Governance8
Knowledge cumulation and interdisciplinarity: Integrating epistemologies, disciplines, and sectors to produce actionable environmental governance research8
Social acceptance of biodiversity offsetting: Motivations and practices in the designing of an emerging mechanism7
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Exploring paths and innovation in Norwegian carbon capture and storage policy7
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
Swedish bureaucratic biodiversity: Analysing municipal worker discourse with the theory of sociocultural viability7
Putting Insects on the Agenda: An Analysis of Actors in Multiple Streams for Biodiversity Conservation Policy in Germany7
Nature‐Based Solutions for Climate Adaptation: Review of Barriers to Adoption and Guidelines for Policymakers7
Granting legitimacy from non‐state actor deliberation: An example of women's groups at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change7
A Network Approach to Support Sustainability Policy Coordination: Exploring Linkages Between Biodiversity Indicators and Essential Biodiversity Variables7
The Role of Collaborative Gaps in Stakeholders' Partnership Evaluations in Complex Environmental Governance Systems6
Learning Networks Drive Environmental Innovation: Evidence From Fourth‐Stage Purification Diffusion6
Synergy of soft and hard regulations in climate governance: The impact of state policies on local climate mitigation actions6
The Role of the State and Actor Participation in Polycentric Governance: The Case of India's Renewable Energy Transitions6
Bridging Policy Gaps in Transition Times: How Local Actors Navigate Low Policy Coherence for Advancing a Circular Built Environment5
Evaluating offsetting as a component of biodiversity governance5
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Protection of water resources from agricultural pressures: Embracing different knowledge domains in governance approaches5
How Do Regional Governments Navigate Policy Integration for Eco‐Industrial Parks? Dimensions and Mechanisms5
Beyond Regulation: Coordinating an Environmental Federalist Response to “Forever Chemicals” in Drinking Water5
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From External Intervention to Endogenous Resilience: NGO Pathways to Adaptive Environmental Governance in State—Centric Settings5
Promoting Stakeholder Interaction to Facilitate Wildfire Management: Insights From a Case Study in Monreale, Sicily5
Multi‐Level Policy Coherence Analysis in Wicked Nexus Problem Settings: The Case of Nitrogen Pollution in Germany5
Sidelining Mitigation: Climate Delay Discourses Among Municipal Legislators in Southeastern Brazil5
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Collaboration or Capture? Unpacking the Notion of Forest Governance in Madhupur and Lawachara Forests of Bangladesh4
Orchestration of Climate Action in Municipalities: A Collective Capacity Approach4
Sustaining Collective Action Under Institutional Constraint: Governance Dynamics in Interdisciplinary Sociotechnical Interventions4
Laggard by Intent or Constraint? Rethinking Environmental Implementation Deficits in Greece Through the Capacity–Intentionality Framework4
Inspector‐Level Bureaucracy: Drilling Into Discretion in a State Natural Resource Agency4
Innovations for Stakeholder Engagement in Water Governance: A Systematic Literature Review From a Sustainability Transition Perspective4
Institutionalizing co‐production diplomacy in contexts of long‐term epistemological conflict: A case study of cod fisheries governance4
Does Collaboration Distribute Power? Evidence From State Forest Lands Governance in the United States4
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Social innovation for developing sustainable solutions in a fisheries sector4
Meshing or Clashing Gears? Design (In)Coherences Between the EU Regulation on Deforestation‐Free Products and Third Country Environmental Regulations4
Towards Transformative Climate Governance: Capacities and Constraints for Local Government in Aotearoa New Zealand4
Disaster management policy changes in Bangladesh: Drivers and factors of a shift from reactive to proactive approach4
Integrating Social and Ecological Dimensions in Fisheries Sustainability: A Comparative Analysis of Assessment Frameworks4
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State‐Level Politics in Forest Governance: The Role of the Narrative‐Policy Nexus in the Brazilian Amazon4
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Governance gaps and accountability traps in renewables extractivism3
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
From Disruption to Stabilization: A Functional Governance Perspective on the Renewable Energy Transition in Montenegro3
Challenging state authority and hierarchical power: A case study of the engagement of Peru's Amazonian Indigenous Peoples' organizations in the governance of REDD+3
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How environmental regulation can drive innovation: Lessons learned from a systematic review3
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Conflicting Emotions, Environmental and Political Factors in Support for Local Environmental Morality Policies: Evidence From an Experiment on Wild Boars in Haifa3
What determines how governance indicators shape policy processes? Evidence from three environmental issues in India3
“Us versus them” mentalities in co‐managing a Natura 2000 forest: Narratives, identities, and a culture of conflict3
Exploring friendship in hydropolitics: The case of the friendship dam on the Asi/Orontes river2
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Emissions trading in China: New political economy dynamics2
Taking knowledge exchange to practice: A scoping review of practical case studies to identify enablers of success in environmental management2
The EU Cities Mission: A Governance Innovation for Stockholm?2
Practitioners' perspectives on the enablers and barriers to successful Antarctic science‐policy knowledge exchange2
Understanding public preferences for energy efficiency policies in building and agricultural sectors in the western US: Values, knowledge, and identity2
The transformative potential of environmental governance integration for sustainable land use: The case of subsidence in the Dutch peatlands2
The roles and unexplored potential of policy experimentation in climate adaptation governance: A systematic literature review2
Spatial Statecraft and Carbon Governance in Semi‐Peripheral Uzbekistan2
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Mapping Instrument Preferences for Deforestation Policies Based on EU Public Consultation Data2
The grammar of monitoring and enforcement mechanisms in international conservation: A comparative institutional analysis of four treaty regimes2
The Imperative of New and Shiny Clothes: A Discussion on Novelty and Its Effects in Water Governance Research2
Unravelling the Policy‐to‐Implementation Gap: Climate Adaptation Governance Arrangements in Medium‐Sized Cities2
The Dynamics of the Policy Mix and Sectoral Gaps in South Korea's Decarbonization Transition2
Sustaining business as usual or enabling transformation? A discourse analysis of climate change mitigation policy in Swedish municipalities2
Quasi‐Governmental Organization Under Pressure: The Connecticut Green Bank's Response to a Budget Shock2
Policymakers' Perceptions of the Use of Deliberative Mini‐Publics to Support Sustainability Policies2
Public Opinion About Community Participation in Natural Resources Governance: A Population Survey in Indonesia and Malaysia2
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Unraveling the Interplay Between Collaborative Governance and Experimentation for Transformative Potential in Circular Water Systems: A Dutch Case Study1
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Drivers of Energy Policy Asymmetry Between Supply and Demand in the United Kingdom1
Fostering Urban Climate Transition Through Innovative Governance Coordination1
Policy implementation barriers in climate change adaptation: The case of Pakistan1
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Banning protests at oil and gas sites: The influence of policy entrepreneurs and political pressure1
Steering Industrial Decarbonisation: Explaining OECD Policy Variation1
Theorising the climate change accountability of Persian Gulf petrostates1
Do Transnational Municipal Networks Accelerate the Net‐Zero Transition? A Mixed‐Methods Analysis of the C40 Cities Initiative and the Challenge of Ur1
Institutional Externalities and Collaborative Governance in the Cuyahoga River Watershed (CRW)1
Governing intersectional climate justice: Tactics and lessons from Barcelona1
Letting People in: Redefining Collaboration in Wildland–Urban Interface Governance1
Community‐Led Forest Management and Conservation: Insights From Nigeria's Obudu and Mambilla Mountain Forests1
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Achieving economy‐wide gains from residential energy efficiency improvements: The importance of timing and funding approach in driving the transition1
Revisiting the success of co‐management in forest protected areas of Bangladesh: Untangling the interplay of power, participation, and community empowerment1
The water–energy–food–land–climate nexus: Policy coherence for sustainable resource management in Sweden1
Why policy coherence in the European Union matters for global sustainability1
Ecological Institutional Failure in Local Governments: Rethinking Environmental Governance in Decentralized Indonesia1
Implementing Network Governance in Natural Resources Management: Evidence From Water Protection Networks in Brazil1
Everything Changed, Yet Hunting Rights Did Not: Formulation of Wildlife Property Rights in Postsocialist Slovenia1
Accountability in the environmental crisis: From microsocial practices to moral orders1
Analysing Coherence in Policy for Multi‐Functional Landscapes: An Exploratory Framework1
Mapping the Ontology and Epistemology of Research Into Forest Carbon Offsetting in Developing Countries1
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