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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Environmental Governance of China's Belt and Road Initiative	86
Citizen participation in the governance of nature‐based solutions	39
Overarching policy framework for product life extension in a circular economy—A bottom‐up business perspective	30
Pro‐environmental behavior: Social norms, intrinsic motivation and external conditions	21
Strategies for greening the economy in three Nordic countries	21
Public values and goals for public participation	20
The role of domestic policy coalitions in extractive industries' governance: Disentangling the politics of “responsible mining” in the Philippines	19
Polycentric urban climate governance: Creating synergies between integrative and interactive governance in Oslo	19
Climate policy integration viewed through the stakeholders' eyes: A co‐production of knowledge in social‐ecological transformation research	18
Designing and leading collaborative urban climate governance: Comparative experiences of co‐creation from Copenhagen and Oslo	17
Green finance for soft power: An analysis of China's green policy signals and investments in the Belt and Road Initiative	17
Delivering a timely and Just Energy Transition: Which policy research priorities?	17
Climate adaptation in practice: How mainstreaming strategies matter for policy integration	16
From nuclear energy developmental state to energy transition in South Korea: The role of the political epistemic community	15
Changing dynamics of the nuclear energy policy‐making process in Japan	14
Calculating the value of the commons: Generating resilient urban futures	14
Exploring the contours of climate governance: An interdisciplinary systematic literature review from a southern perspective	14
Alternative economies, digital innovation and commoning in grassroots organisations: Analysing degrowth currencies in the Spanish region of Catalonia	14
How scholars break down “policy coherence”: The impact of sustainable development global agendas on academic literature	14
Media coverage, attention cycles and the governance of plastics pollution	13
Five dimensions of climate governance: a framework for empirical research based on polycentric and multi‐level governance perspectives	13
Polycentric to monocentric governance: Power dynamics in Lake Victoria's fisheries	13
The role of experimentation in water management under climate uncertainty: Institutional barriers to social learning	13
Back to the future: Can Chinese doubling down and American muddling through fulfill 21st century needs for environmental governance?	13
How law structures public participation in environmental decision making: A comparative law approach	13

Transforming land use governance: Global targets without equity miss the mark	12
Evaluating deliberative participation from a social learning perspective: A case study of the 2012 National Energy Deliberative Polling in post‐Fukushima Japan	12
When global norms meet local politics: Localising transparency in extractive industries governance	12
Governing a multilevel and cross‐sectoral climate policy implementation network	12
Projectified governance and sustainability transitions: How projects and framework programmes can accelerate transition processes	11
Domestication of international norms for sustainable resource governance: Elite capture in Peru	11
Can interbasin water transfer affect water consumption and pollution? Lessons from China's South–North water transfer project	10
Indigenous tenure security and local participation in climate mitigation programs: Exploring the institutional gaps of REDD+ implementation in the Peruvian Amazon	10
The impact of environmental federalism: An analysis of watershed eco‐compensation policy design in China	10
Policy coherence for sustainable development and environmental security: A case study of European Union policies on renewable energy	10
A transboundary political ecology of air pollution: Slow violence on Thailand's margins	9
Cities and the governance framing of climate change	9
Participation and politics in transboundary hydropower development: The case of the Pak Beng dam in Laos	9
Governing toward decarbonization: The legitimacy of national orchestration	9
Facilitation of public Payments for Ecosystem Services through local intermediaries: An institutional analysis of agri‐environmental measure implementation in Germany	9
Uncovering regime resistance in energy transition: Role of electricity iron triangle in Taiwan	9
Party politics and civil society: The role of policy entrepreneurs in nuclear power politics in Taiwan	9
Flatpack democracy: Power and politics at the boundaries of transition	8
Political drivers of policy coherence for sustainable development: An analytical framework	8
Community action on natural flood management and the governance of a catchment‐based approach in the UK	8
Politics of flood risk management in Switzerland: Political feasibility of instrument mixes	8
Responding to transboundary water challenges in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: In search of institutional fit	8
The limits of collaborative governance: The role of inter‐group learning and trust in the case of the Estonian “Forest War”	8
Disentangling municipal capacities for citizen participation in transformative climate adaptation	8
Can science diplomacy address the global climate change challenge?	8
Hybrid infrastructures: The role of strategy and compromise in grassroot governance	7
Territoriality, environment and hybrid governance tensions in alternative food networks: Cases of small‐scale viticulture in Chile	7
Emerging dynamics of public participation in climate governance: A case study of solar energy application in Shenzhen, China	7
Participatory experimentation on a climate street	7
Feed me! China, agriculture, ecologically unequal exchange, and forest loss in a cross‐national perspective	7
Polycentric energy governance: Under what conditions do energy communities scale?	6
How accurate is citizen science? Evaluating public assessments of coastal water quality	6
Frontline bureaucrats in wildlife management: Caught in the dilemma between effectiveness and responsiveness	6
Driving governance beyond ecological modernization: REDD+ and the Amazon Fund	6
The green side of social innovation: Using sustainable development goals to classify environmental impacts of rural grassroots initiatives	6
Why administrative leaders take pro‐environmental leadership actions: Evidence from an eco‐compensation programme in China	6
Unpacking notions of residents' responsibility in flood risk governance	6
From fragmentation to centralization in policymaking: An explanation for the expansion of China's civilian nuclear industry	6
Everyday political geographies of community‐building: Exploring the practices of three Zimbabwean permaculture communities	5
Everybody should contribute, but not too much: Perceptions of local governments on citizen responsibilisation in climate change adaptation in the Netherlands	5
Collective forestry regimes to enhance transition to climate smart forestry	5
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	5
Transboundary environmental publics and hydropower governance in the Mekong River Basin: A contested politics of place, scale and temporality	5
Using power, mental model, and learning to analyze the evolution of water governance in Bangalore	5
Toward the sustainability state? Conceptualizing national sustainability institutions and their impact on policy‐making	5
Dammed if you do, dammed if you don't: The impact of economic rationalist imperatives on the adaptive capacity of public infrastructure in Brisbane, Australia and Cork, Ireland	5
Multilevel governance in environmental policy integration: A content analysis of regional and urban nested hierarchies in China	5
Beyond the barriers: An overview of mechanisms driving barriers to adaptation in Bangladesh	5
Governing through community: Transformative geographies from the bottom up	5
The link between collaborative governance design and markers of legitimacy: Comparing Swedish water‐ and large carnivore management	5

Comparative politics of nuclear energy in East Asia: Interactions between traditional and new actors	4
Bridging Social Innovation with Forest and Landscape Restoration	4
Forest and water policy integration: A process and output‐oriented policy network analysis	4
Expanding transboundary environmental governance: A mobile political ecology of sand and shifting resource‐based livelihoods in Southeast Asia	4
The social learning potential of participatory water valuation workshops: A case study in Tasmania, Australia	4
Revisiting institutional stability: A systematic review and distillations of dominant modes	4
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)	4
The role of knowledge in supporting the revitalisation of traditional landscape governance through social innovation in Slovakia	4
Emergent geographies of chronic air pollution governance in Southeast Asia: Transboundary publics in Singapore	4
Political economy of renewable energy transition in rentier states: The case of Oman	4
Global norm domestication and selective compliance: The case of Mongolia's Oyu Tolgoi mine	4
Modes of drought climatization: A frame analysis of drought problematization in Germany across policy fields	3
The role of citizens in sustainability and climate change governance: Taking stock and looking ahead	3
Results‐based management of wicked problems? Indicators and comparative evidence from Latin America	3
From fabrication to consolidation of China's political blue‐sky: How can environmental regulations shape sustainable air pollution governance?	3
Trading off benefits and requirements: How do city networks attract cities to their voluntary environmental programmes?	3
Why do citizens engage in climate action? A comprehensive framework of individual conditions and a proposed research approach	3
Resource governance and norm domestication in the developing world	3
Transformative pragmatism: How a diversity of Leitbilder is harnessed for rural transformation in Réiden, Luxembourg	3
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	3
Norm domestication challenges for local climate actions: A lesson from Arizona, USA	3
Hopefulness for transformative grassroots change	3
Governance challenges for urban logistics: Lessons from three Norwegian cities	3
Exploring enablers and obstacles to policy‐oriented learning in Swedish marine national park planning	3
Defusing environmental activism through scientific greening: Government framing strategy and its effects in China	2
How environmental regulation can drive innovation: Lessons learned from a systematic review	2
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	2
A new framework to understand the drivers of policy mixes in multilevel contexts: The case of urban air pollution	2
Collaborative governance or state regulation? Endless efforts but little capacity for sustainability transformation of the German textile sector	2
How can a cooperative‐based organization of indigenous fisheries foster the resilience to global changes? Lessons learned by coastal communities in eastern Québec	2
Social‐ecological reflexivity of extractive industry governance? The case of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative in Indonesia	2
How green are our laws? Presenting a normative coherence for sustainable development methodology	2
Introducing an egocentric method to explore information flow in a postflood governance network	2
Improving the climate change mitigation regime of major emitting countries: The case of South Africa, China, Germany and the United States of America	2
Systems perspectives on water security: An applied review and conceptual framework	2
Emissions trading in China: New political economy dynamics	2
Policy implementation barriers in climate change adaptation: The case of Pakistan	2
Accountability in the Anthropocene	2
Promoting ecodesign implementation: The role and development areas of national public policy	2
Social acceptance of biodiversity offsetting: Motivations and practices in the designing of an emerging mechanism	2
“Going out to get in”—Roles of forest conflicts in bottom‐linked environmental governance progressing toward socio‐political innovations	1
Policy integration in urban living labs: Delivering multi‐functional blue‐green infrastructure in Antwerp, Dordrecht, and Gothenburg	1
How might we co‐design energy transition policy in old industrial regions?	1
Rivers under pressure: Interdisciplinary feasibility analysis of sustainable hydropower	1
Beyond the campaign‐style enforcement: A consensual approach to bridge the environmental policy implementation gap	1
The power of social innovation to steer sustainable governance of nature	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
Political parties' influence on environmental policy in the forest: Natura 2000 forest sites in Germany as a case study	1
The politics of norm domestication in private transnational business regulation: A typology and illustrations	1
The water–energy–food–land–climate nexus: Policy coherence for sustainable resource management in Sweden	1
Copenhagen CO₂ neutrality in 2025? A polycentric analysis of urban climate governance in Copenhagen 2006–2020	1
Can polycentric governance lower industrial greenhouse gas emissions: Evidence from the United States	1
Reframing governance possibilities for urban biodiversity conservation through systemic co‐inquiry	1
Management plans as resources in conservation conflicts	1
An evaluation of public initiatives to change behaviours that affect water quality	1
Accountability in the environmental crisis: From microsocial practices to moral orders	1
Governing energy in organisations: Energy management professionals, marginalised practices, and the limits to change	1
Why policy coherence in the European Union matters for global sustainability	1
Business accountability in the Anthropocene	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
Exploring friendship in hydropolitics: The case of the friendship dam on the Asi/Orontes river	1
Shifts in governance modes and explanatory factors in the NIMBY: Findings from the X waste incineration plant in Shenzhen, China	1
Extended producer responsibility: An empirical investigation into municipalities' contributions to and perspectives on e‐waste management	1
How resilience is framed matters for governance of coastal social‐ecological systems	1
Granting legitimacy from non‐state actor deliberation: An example of women's groups at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change	1
Governing intersectional climate justice: Tactics and lessons from Barcelona	1
Issue Information	1
Policy coherence in the Nordic bioeconomy? A novel set‐theoretic approach to studying relations among policy goals	1
Transboundary environmental governance: Emerging themes and lessons from Southeast Asia	1
Social innovation for developing sustainable solutions in a fisheries sector	1