OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Environmental Policy and Governance is 2. 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
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Digital Technology Empowering Rural Environmental Governance: Evidences From Villages in Shanghai, China	44
Knowledge Cumulation in Environmental Governance Research	38
Prospects and limitations of ‘Responsible Agricultural Investment’ for governing transboundary agri‐food systems in Mekong Southeast Asia: Implications for upland maize in the Lao‐Vietnamese	36
The role of trust in the international climate negotiations	35
Institutional Design of Collaborative Water Governance: The River Chief System in China	27
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Playing the CITES game: Lessons on global conservation governance from African megafauna	24
Beyond the campaign‐style enforcement: A consensual approach to bridge the environmental policy implementation gap	21
The effects of policy discourse on the governance of deforestation and forest degradation reduction in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)	21
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Contextualizing and generalizing drivers and barriers of urban living labs for climate resilience	20
Unpacking Forest Stewardship Council certification in Chile: The scope and limitations of neoliberal market‐driven governance for achieving sustainable development	19
Dynamic Interactions and Governance Capabilities of State and Non‐State Actors in Small‐Scale Tuna Fishery Certification in Indonesia	19
Environmental Policy Without Implementation? A Review of Factors Contributing to Implementation Gaps in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries	19
Framing just transition: The case of sustainable food system transition in Finland	18
Harnessing the temporal and projective attributes of human agency to promote anticipatory climate change adaptation	18
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How to Assess Knowledge Cumulation in Environmental Governance Research? Conceptual and Empirical Explorations	16
Can polycentric governance lower industrial greenhouse gas emissions: Evidence from the United States	16
Vulnerability, climate laws, and adaptation in the Middle East and North Africa	16
The influence of visions on cooperation among interest organizations in fragmented socio‐technical systems	15
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The Widening Scope of Just Transitions Research: A Review of an Emblematic Concept	14
Correction to “Regulations ‘Under the Weather’: Legal Factors of Stability and Change for the Implementation of Natural Stormwater Management in Finland”	14
Successful Implementation of Environmental Policy and Governance: Understanding and Modeling Micro Governance	13
Moving beyond the plan: Exploring the opportunities to accelerate the implementation of municipal climate change adaptation policies and plans	13
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Deliberating Justice in Citizen Jury Processes—Lessons for Just Transitions Governance	12
The green side of social innovation: Using sustainable development goals to classify environmental impacts of rural grassroots initiatives	12
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Implementing Nature‐Based Solutions in Cities: Testing and Refining the Integrative Framework for Collaborative Governance	12
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Flood Risk‐Sensitive Land Use Governance: Explaining Enforcement Gaps in the Case of Accra, Ghana	12
A Multi‐Layered Collaborative Marine Governance Model: Evaluating Change and Innovation of Marine Governance Arrangements	11
Danish nearshore wind energy policy: Exploring actors, ideas, discursive processes and institutions via discursive institutionalism	11
Exploring the Complementary Role of Voluntary Environmental Programs in Regulatory Governance: Evidence From South Korea	11
Open Space Policy‐Making and Planning in Urban Regions: Towards a Theoretical Approach Based on the Multiple Streams Framework	11
Context‐related mechanisms of policy sustainability: Governance reform of the protected areas in Lombardy	10
Regulations ‘Under the Weather’: Legal Factors of Stability and Change for the Implementation of Natural Stormwater Management in Finland	10
Reflections on Energy Efficiency Policies in Sustainable Transition: Bedrock, Gamechanger, or More of the Same?	10
The Quest for Coherence in Climate Actions: The Case for Québec's Climate Strategy	10
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For the Few, Not the Many: Tracing the Residualist and Compensatory Nature of British Energy Support	9
Towards Catchment Scale Natural Flood Management: Developing evidence, funding and governance approaches	9
Integrating Science With Indigenous and Experiential Knowledge in Collaborative Governance	9
Winds of Change: Environmental Collectives Navigating Small Island Governance in Tourism‐Dominated Aruba	9
Accountability in the Anthropocene	9
Mapping stakeholders and identifying institutional challenges and opportunities for waste management in towns of Uttar Pradesh, India	8
A Network Approach to Support Sustainability Policy Coordination: Exploring Linkages Between Biodiversity Indicators and Essential Biodiversity Variables	8
Bracing urban governance against climate crises: How to integrate high reliability into strategic decision‐making?	8
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Swedish bureaucratic biodiversity: Analysing municipal worker discourse with the theory of sociocultural viability	8
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The climate change adaptation readiness of co‐operative housing in Nova Scotia, Canada	8
Exploring paths and innovation in Norwegian carbon capture and storage policy	8
Governance challenges for urban logistics: Lessons from three Norwegian cities	7
Knowledge cumulation and interdisciplinarity: Integrating epistemologies, disciplines, and sectors to produce actionable environmental governance research	7
Synergy of soft and hard regulations in climate governance: The impact of state policies on local climate mitigation actions	7
Nature‐Based Solutions for Climate Adaptation: Review of Barriers to Adoption and Guidelines for Policymakers	7
Social acceptance of biodiversity offsetting: Motivations and practices in the designing of an emerging mechanism	7
Political drivers of policy coherence for sustainable development: An analytical framework	7
Putting Insects on the Agenda: An Analysis of Actors in Multiple Streams for Biodiversity Conservation Policy in Germany	7
The Role of the State and Actor Participation in Polycentric Governance: The Case of India's Renewable Energy Transitions	7
Externalities as the status quo: Federal application of environmental charges in the United States	7
Granting legitimacy from non‐state actor deliberation: An example of women's groups at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change	7
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Cross‐sectoral information and actors' contact networks in natural resource governance in the Swiss Alps	7
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Beyond Regulation: Coordinating an Environmental Federalist Response to “Forever Chemicals” in Drinking Water	6
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Protection of water resources from agricultural pressures: Embracing different knowledge domains in governance approaches	6

Sidelining Mitigation: Climate Delay Discourses Among Municipal Legislators in Southeastern Brazil	6
Promoting Stakeholder Interaction to Facilitate Wildfire Management: Insights From a Case Study in Monreale, Sicily	6
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Multi‐Level Policy Coherence Analysis in Wicked Nexus Problem Settings: The Case of Nitrogen Pollution in Germany	6
Evaluating offsetting as a component of biodiversity governance	6
Collective forestry regimes to enhance transition to climate smart forestry	5
State‐Level Politics in Forest Governance: The Role of the Narrative‐Policy Nexus in the Brazilian Amazon	5
Social innovation for developing sustainable solutions in a fisheries sector	5
Laggard by Intent or Constraint? Rethinking Environmental Implementation Deficits in Greece Through the Capacity–Intentionality Framework	5
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Inspector‐Level Bureaucracy: Drilling Into Discretion in a State Natural Resource Agency	5
A new framework to understand the drivers of policy mixes in multilevel contexts: The case of urban air pollution	5
Institutionalizing co‐production diplomacy in contexts of long‐term epistemological conflict: A case study of cod fisheries governance	5
Bridging Social Innovation with Forest and Landscape Restoration	5
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Disaster management policy changes in Bangladesh: Drivers and factors of a shift from reactive to proactive approach	5
Meshing or Clashing Gears? Design (In)Coherences Between the EU Regulation on Deforestation‐Free Products and Third Country Environmental Regulations	5
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Does Collaboration Distribute Power? Evidence From State Forest Lands Governance in the United States	5
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 w	5
Challenging state authority and hierarchical power: A case study of the engagement of Peru's Amazonian Indigenous Peoples' organizations in the governance of REDD+	4
Innovations for Stakeholder Engagement in Water Governance: A Systematic Literature Review From a Sustainability Transition Perspective	4
Policymakers' Perceptions of the Use of Deliberative Mini‐Publics to Support Sustainability Policies	4
“Us versus them” mentalities in co‐managing a Natura 2000 forest: Narratives, identities, and a culture of conflict	4
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Collaboration or Capture? Unpacking the Notion of Forest Governance in Madhupur and Lawachara Forests of Bangladesh	4
Conflicting Emotions, Environmental and Political Factors in Support for Local Environmental Morality Policies: Evidence From an Experiment on Wild Boars in Haifa	4
Governance gaps and accountability traps in renewables extractivism	4
How environmental regulation can drive innovation: Lessons learned from a systematic review	4
The grammar of monitoring and enforcement mechanisms in international conservation: A comparative institutional analysis of four treaty regimes	4
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From Disruption to Stabilization: A Functional Governance Perspective on the Renewable Energy Transition in Montenegro	4
Exploring enablers and obstacles to policy‐oriented learning in Swedish marine national park planning	4
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)	4
What determines how governance indicators shape policy processes? Evidence from three environmental issues in India	4
The roles and unexplored potential of policy experimentation in climate adaptation governance: A systematic literature review	3
Call for papers – Special issue on policy and governance of energy efficiency	3
Quasi‐Governmental Organization Under Pressure: The Connecticut Green Bank's Response to a Budget Shock	3
Taking knowledge exchange to practice: A scoping review of practical case studies to identify enablers of success in environmental management	3
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Mapping Instrument Preferences for Deforestation Policies Based on EU Public Consultation Data	3
Understanding public preferences for energy efficiency policies in building and agricultural sectors in the western US: Values, knowledge, and identity	3
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The Imperative of New and Shiny Clothes: A Discussion on Novelty and Its Effects in Water Governance Research	3
Unravelling the Policy‐to‐Implementation Gap: Climate Adaptation Governance Arrangements in Medium‐Sized Cities	3
Practitioners' perspectives on the enablers and barriers to successful Antarctic science‐policy knowledge exchange	3
Emissions trading in China: New political economy dynamics	3
The EU Cities Mission: A Governance Innovation for Stockholm?	3
The transformative potential of environmental governance integration for sustainable land use: The case of subsidence in the Dutch peatlands	3
Exploring friendship in hydropolitics: The case of the friendship dam on the Asi/Orontes river	2
Spatial Statecraft and Carbon Governance in Semi‐Peripheral Uzbekistan	2
The water–energy–food–land–climate nexus: Policy coherence for sustainable resource management in Sweden	2
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Banning protests at oil and gas sites: The influence of policy entrepreneurs and political pressure	2
Water governance on the streets of Scotland: How frontline public workers encounter and respond to tensions in delivering water services with communities	2
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Sustaining business as usual or enabling transformation? A discourse analysis of climate change mitigation policy in Swedish municipalities	2
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Achieving economy‐wide gains from residential energy efficiency improvements: The importance of timing and funding approach in driving the transition	2
Implementing Network Governance in Natural Resources Management: Evidence From Water Protection Networks in Brazil	2
Mapping the Ontology and Epistemology of Research Into Forest Carbon Offsetting in Developing Countries	2
Do Transnational Municipal Networks Accelerate the Net‐Zero Transition? A Mixed‐Methods Analysis of the C40 Cities Initiative and the Challenge of Ur	2
Theorising the climate change accountability of Persian Gulf petrostates	2
Institutional Externalities and Collaborative Governance in the Cuyahoga River Watershed (CRW)	2
Revisiting the success of co‐management in forest protected areas of Bangladesh: Untangling the interplay of power, participation, and community empowerment	2
Analysing Coherence in Policy for Multi‐Functional Landscapes: An Exploratory Framework	2