OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Citizen participation in the governance of nature‐based solutions	74
Overarching policy framework for product life extension in a circular economy—A bottom‐up business perspective	45
Designing and leading collaborative urban climate governance: Comparative experiences of co‐creation from Copenhagen and Oslo	36
Polycentric urban climate governance: Creating synergies between integrative and interactive governance in Oslo	31
Pro‐environmental behavior: Social norms, intrinsic motivation and external conditions	30
Strategies for greening the economy in three Nordic countries	24
Climate adaptation in practice: How mainstreaming strategies matter for policy integration	23
Green finance for soft power: An analysis of China's green policy signals and investments in the Belt and Road Initiative	23
Political drivers of policy coherence for sustainable development: An analytical framework	23
Media coverage, attention cycles and the governance of plastics pollution	20
Five dimensions of climate governance: a framework for empirical research based on polycentric and multi‐level governance perspectives	20
How scholars break down “policy coherence”: The impact of sustainable development global agendas on academic literature	19
Climate policy integration viewed through the stakeholders' eyes: A co‐production of knowledge in social‐ecological transformation research	18
Governing a multilevel and cross‐sectoral climate policy implementation network	17
How law structures public participation in environmental decision making: A comparative law approach	15
Transforming land use governance: Global targets without equity miss the mark	15
Disentangling municipal capacities for citizen participation in transformative climate adaptation	14
Responding to transboundary water challenges in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: In search of institutional fit	14
Projectified governance and sustainability transitions: How projects and framework programmes can accelerate transition processes	14
Evaluating deliberative participation from a social learning perspective: A case study of the 2012 National Energy Deliberative Polling in post‐Fukushima Japan	13
A transboundary political ecology of air pollution: Slow violence on Thailand's margins	13
The green side of social innovation: Using sustainable development goals to classify environmental impacts of rural grassroots initiatives	12
Policy coherence for sustainable development and environmental security: A case study of European Union policies on renewable energy	12
The impact of environmental federalism: An analysis of watershedeco‐compensationpolicy design in China	12
Community action on natural flood management and the governance of acatchment‐basedapproach in theUK	12

Governing toward decarbonization: The legitimacy of national orchestration	11
Facilitation of public Payments for Ecosystem Services through local intermediaries: An institutional analysis of agri‐environmental measure implementation in Germany	10
Uncovering regime resistance in energy transition: Role of electricity iron triangle in Taiwan	10
Polycentric energy governance: Under what conditions do energy communities scale?	10
Politics of flood risk management in Switzerland: Political feasibility of instrument mixes	10
Participation and politics in transboundary hydropower development: The case of the Pak Beng dam in Laos	10
The limits of collaborative governance: The role of inter‐group learning and trust in the case of the Estonian “Forest War”	9
The importance of calibration in policy mixes: Environmental policy integration in the implementation of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy in Germany (2014–2022)	9
Feed me! China, agriculture, ecologically unequal exchange, and forest loss in a cross‐national perspective	9
Party politics and civil society: The role of policy entrepreneurs in nuclear power politics in Taiwan	9
Driving governance beyond ecological modernization: REDD+ and the Amazon Fund	8
Toward the sustainability state? Conceptualizing national sustainability institutions and their impact on policy‐making	8
Hybrid infrastructures: The role of strategy and compromise in grassroot governance	8
How accurate is citizen science? Evaluating public assessments of coastal water quality	8
Flatpack democracy: Power and politics at the boundaries of transition	8
Everybody should contribute, but not too much: Perceptions of local governments on citizen responsibilisation in climate change adaptation in the Netherlands	8
Territoriality, environment and hybrid governance tensions in alternative food networks: Cases of small‐scale viticulture in Chile	7
Collective forestry regimes to enhance transition to climate smart forestry	7
Transboundary environmental publics and hydropower governance in the Mekong River Basin: A contested politics of place, scale and temporality	7
Unpacking notions of residents' responsibility in flood risk governance	7
From fragmentation to centralization in policymaking: An explanation for the expansion of China's civilian nuclear industry	7
Frontline bureaucrats in wildlife management: Caught in the dilemma between effectiveness and responsiveness	6
Bridging Social Innovation with Forest and Landscape Restoration	6
Promoting ecodesign implementation: The role and development areas of national public policy	6
Forest and water policy integration: A process and output‐oriented policy network analysis	6
Modes of drought climatization: A frame analysis of drought problematization in Germany across policy fields	6
The rising stars of social innovations: How do local governments facilitate citizen initiatives to thrive? The case of waste management in Brussels and Hong Kong	6
Governance challenges for urban logistics: Lessons from three Norwegian cities	6
Why do citizens engage in climate action? A comprehensive framework of individual conditions and a proposed research approach	6
Governing through community: Transformative geographies from the bottom up	6
Political economy of renewable energy transition in rentier states: The case of Oman	6
The role of citizens in sustainability and climate change governance: Taking stock and looking ahead	5
Emergent geographies of chronic air pollution governance in Southeast Asia: Transboundary publics in Singapore	5
Revisiting institutional stability: A systematic review and distillations of dominant modes	5
How environmental regulation can drive innovation: Lessons learned from a systematic review	5
The link between collaborative governance design and markers of legitimacy: Comparing Swedish water‐ and large carnivore management	5
Beyond the barriers: An overview of mechanisms driving barriers to adaptation in Bangladesh	5
Expanding transboundary environmental governance: A mobile political ecology of sand and shifting resource‐based livelihoods in Southeast Asia	5
Social acceptance of biodiversity offsetting: Motivations and practices in the designing of an emerging mechanism	5
Social‐ecological reflexivity of extractive industry governance? The case of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative in Indonesia	5
Why policy coherence in the European Union matters for global sustainability	5
Norm domestication challenges for local climate actions: A lesson from Arizona,USA	5
The role of knowledge in supporting the revitalisation of traditional landscape governance through social innovation in Slovakia	5
Co‐benefits and conflicts in alternative stormwater planning: Blue versus green infrastructure?	5
From fabrication to consolidation of China's political blue‐sky: How can environmental regulations shape sustainable air pollution governance?	5
Everyday political geographies of community‐building: Exploring the practices of three Zimbabwean permaculture communities	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	4
Can polycentric governance lower industrial greenhouse gas emissions: Evidence from the United States	4
Policy implementation barriers in climate change adaptation: The case of Pakistan	4
The social learning potential of participatory water valuation workshops: A case study in Tasmania, Australia	4

Hopefulness for transformative grassroots change	4
Policy integration in urban living labs: Delivering multi‐functional blue‐green infrastructure in Antwerp, Dordrecht, and Gothenburg	4
Trading off benefits and requirements: How do city networks attract cities to their voluntary environmental programmes?	4
Comparative politics of nuclear energy in East Asia: Interactions between traditional and new actors	4
Results‐based management of wicked problems? Indicators and comparative evidence from Latin America	4
Extended producer responsibility: An empirical investigation into municipalities' contributions to and perspectives on e‐waste management	4
Transboundary environmental governance: Emerging themes and lessons from Southeast Asia	3
Copenhagen CO₂ neutrality in 2025? A polycentric analysis of urban climate governance in Copenhagen 2006–2020	3
Defusing environmental activism through scientific greening: Government framing strategy and its effects in China	3
Mobilising change in cities: A capacity framework for understanding urban energy transition pathways	3
Accountability in the Anthropocene: Activating responsible agents of reform or futile finger‐pointing?	3
Exploring enablers and obstacles to policy‐oriented learning in Swedish marine national park planning	3
A new framework to understand the drivers of policy mixes in multilevel contexts: The case of urban air pollution	3
“Going out to get in”—Roles of forest conflicts in bottom‐linked environmental governance progressing toward socio‐political innovations	3
How green are our laws? Presenting a normative coherence for sustainable development methodology	3
Collaborative governance or state regulation? Endless efforts but little capacity for sustainability transformation of the German textile sector	3
Beyond the campaign‐style enforcement: A consensual approach to bridge the environmental policy implementation gap	3
Social innovation for developing sustainable solutions in a fisheries sector	3
Disaster management policy changes in Bangladesh: Drivers and factors of a shift from reactive to proactive approach	3
Improving the climate change mitigation regime of major emitting countries: The case of South Africa, China, Germany and the United States of America	3
Transformative pragmatism: How a diversity of Leitbilder is harnessed for rural transformation in Réiden, Luxembourg	3
How can a cooperative‐based organization of indigenous fisheries foster the resilience to global changes? Lessons learned by coastal communities in eastern Québec	3
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	3
Barriers and enablers of environmental policy coherence: A systematic review	2
Management plans as resources in conservation conflicts	2
Governing intersectional climate justice: Tactics and lessons from Barcelona	2
Energy governance in China: A mixture of democratic environmentalism and authoritarian environmentalism	2
The Circular Economy in European Union Policy: Explaining an idea's success through policy learning	2
Reframing governance possibilities for urban biodiversity conservation through systemic co‐inquiry	2
Accountability in the environmental crisis: From microsocial practices to moral orders	2
Political parties' influence on environmental policy in the forest: Natura 2000 forest sites in Germany as a case study	2
The water–energy–food–land–climate nexus: Policy coherence for sustainable resource management in Sweden	2
Emissions trading in China: New political economy dynamics	2
Policy coherence in the Nordic bioeconomy? A novel set‐theoretic approach to studying relations among policy goals	2
Accountability in the Anthropocene	2
How resilience is framed matters for governance of coastal social‐ecological systems	1
Externalities as the status quo: Federal application of environmental charges in the United States	1
Governing sustainable corridor development: A case study of the Gilimanuk–Denpasar–Padang Bai corridor in Indonesia	1
Mapping stakeholders and identifying institutional challenges and opportunities for waste management in towns of Uttar Pradesh, India	1
Granting legitimacy from non‐state actor deliberation: An example of women's groups at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change	1
Communication and urban air quality governance in Germany: Discursive framing by selected national environmental NGOs and the Automotive Industry Association (VDA) and its potential impacts	1
A global‐scale study on decision making in renewable energy policy: Internal and external factors driving the adoption of Feed‐in Tariffs and Renewable Portfolio Standards	1
Business accountability in the Anthropocene	1
Danish nearshore wind energy policy: Exploring actors, ideas, discursive processes and institutions via discursive institutionalism	1
Evaluating offsetting as a component of biodiversity governance	1
Shifts in governance modes and explanatory factors in the NIMBY: Findings from the X waste incineration plant in Shenzhen, China	1
Framing just transition: The case of sustainable food system transition in Finland	1
How might we co‐design energy transition policy in old industrial regions?	1
Transformative climate governance in small Swedish municipalities: Exploring the cases of Enköping and Kiruna	1
The power of social innovation to steer sustainable governance of nature	1
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A policy portfolio approach to plastics throughout their life cycle: Supranational and national regulation in the European Union	1
Theorising the climate change accountability of Persian Gulf petrostates	1
Exploring friendship in hydropolitics: The case of the friendship dam on the Asi/Orontes river	1
Rivers under pressure: Interdisciplinary feasibility analysis of sustainable hydropower	1
Contextualizing and generalizing drivers and barriers of urban living labs for climate resilience	1
“Us versus them” mentalities in co‐managing a Natura 2000 forest: Narratives, identities, and a culture of conflict	1
An evaluation of public initiatives to change behaviours that affect water quality	1
The influence of COVID‐19 on modes of governance for climate change—Expert views from the Netherlands and the UK	1
Reconciling welfare policy and sustainability transition – A case study of the Finnish welfare state	1
Governance gaps and accountability traps in renewables extractivism	1
Towards sustainable urban transport—Political agenda formation and policy windows in Helsinki, Oslo, and Stockholm	1
Water governance on the streets of Scotland: How frontline public workers encounter and respond to tensions in delivering water services with communities	1
Marine restoration governance arrangements: Issues of legitimacy	1
Greening recovery – Overcoming policy incoherence for sustainability transformations	1