OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environmental Policy and Governance is 6. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
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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‐Vietnamese	58
The role of trust in the international climate negotiations	53
Knowledge Cumulation in Environmental Governance Research	32
Digital Technology Empowering Rural Environmental Governance: Evidences From Villages in Shanghai, China	31
Issue Information	30
Institutional Design of Collaborative Water Governance: The River Chief System in China	30
The effects of policy discourse on the governance of deforestation and forest degradation reduction in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)	27
Responding to transboundary water challenges in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: In search of institutional fit	25
Beyond the campaign‐style enforcement: A consensual approach to bridge the environmental policy implementation gap	24
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Playing the CITES game: Lessons on global conservation governance from African megafauna	23
Dynamic Interactions and Governance Capabilities of State and Non‐State Actors in Small‐Scale Tuna Fishery Certification in Indonesia	22
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Framing just transition: The case of sustainable food system transition in Finland	20
Contextualizing and generalizing drivers and barriers of urban living labs for climate resilience	19
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Unpacking Forest Stewardship Council certification in Chile: The scope and limitations of neoliberal market‐driven governance for achieving sustainable development	18
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Harnessing the temporal and projective attributes of human agency to promote anticipatory climate change adaptation	16
Vulnerability, climate laws, and adaptation in the Middle East and North Africa	15
Can polycentric governance lower industrial greenhouse gas emissions: Evidence from the United States	15
The influence of visions on cooperation among interest organizations in fragmented socio‐technical systems	15
How to Assess Knowledge Cumulation in Environmental Governance Research? Conceptual and Empirical Explorations	15

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Correction to “Regulations ‘Under the Weather’: Legal Factors of Stability and Change for the Implementation of Natural Stormwater Management in Finland”	14
The green side of social innovation: Using sustainable development goals to classify environmental impacts of rural grassroots initiatives	14
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Moving beyond the plan: Exploring the opportunities to accelerate the implementation of municipal climate change adaptation policies and plans	14
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Implementing Nature‐Based Solutions in Cities: Testing and Refining the Integrative Framework for Collaborative Governance	12
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Danish nearshore wind energy policy: Exploring actors, ideas, discursive processes and institutions via discursive institutionalism	11
Flood Risk‐Sensitive Land Use Governance: Explaining Enforcement Gaps in the Case of Accra, Ghana	11
Accountability in the Anthropocene	11
Deliberating Justice in Citizen Jury Processes—Lessons for Just Transitions Governance	11
Polycentric energy governance: Under what conditions do energy communities scale?	11
A Multi‐Layered Collaborative Marine Governance Model: Evaluating Change and Innovation of Marine Governance Arrangements	11
Context‐related mechanisms of policy sustainability: Governance reform of the protected areas in Lombardy	10
The Quest for Coherence in Climate Actions: The Case for Québec's Climate Strategy	10
Towards Catchment Scale Natural Flood Management: Developing evidence, funding and governance approaches	10
Reflections on Energy Efficiency Policies in Sustainable Transition: Bedrock, Gamechanger, or More of the Same?	10
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Regulations ‘Under the Weather’: Legal Factors of Stability and Change for the Implementation of Natural Stormwater Management in Finland	10
Integrating Science With Indigenous and Experiential Knowledge in Collaborative Governance	10
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Mapping stakeholders and identifying institutional challenges and opportunities for waste management in towns of Uttar Pradesh, India	9
Bracing urban governance against climate crises: How to integrate high reliability into strategic decision‐making?	9
Knowledge cumulation and interdisciplinarity: Integrating epistemologies, disciplines, and sectors to produce actionable environmental governance research	8
Swedish bureaucratic biodiversity: Analysing municipal worker discourse with the theory of sociocultural viability	8
Granting legitimacy from non‐state actor deliberation: An example of women's groups at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change	8
The climate change adaptation readiness of co‐operative housing in Nova Scotia, Canada	8
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Exploring paths and innovation in Norwegian carbon capture and storage policy	8
Political drivers of policy coherence for sustainable development: An analytical framework	7
Governance challenges for urban logistics: Lessons from three Norwegian cities	7
Cross‐sectoral information and actors' contact networks in natural resource governance in the Swiss Alps	7
Social acceptance of biodiversity offsetting: Motivations and practices in the designing of an emerging mechanism	7
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Putting Insects on the Agenda: An Analysis of Actors in Multiple Streams for Biodiversity Conservation Policy in Germany	7
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Synergy of soft and hard regulations in climate governance: The impact of state policies on local climate mitigation actions	7
Externalities as the status quo: Federal application of environmental charges in the United States	7
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Does Collaboration Distribute Power? Evidence From State Forest Lands Governance in the United States	6
Evaluating offsetting as a component of biodiversity governance	6
Multi‐Level Policy Coherence Analysis in Wicked Nexus Problem Settings: The Case of Nitrogen Pollution in Germany	6
Designing and leading collaborative urban climate governance: Comparative experiences of co‐creation from Copenhagen and Oslo	6
How accurate is citizen science? Evaluating public assessments of coastal water quality	6
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Beyond Regulation: Coordinating an Environmental Federalist Response to “Forever Chemicals” in Drinking Water	6
Laggard by Intent or Constraint? Rethinking Environmental Implementation Deficits in Greece Through the Capacity–Intentionality Framework	6
Promoting Stakeholder Interaction to Facilitate Wildfire Management: Insights From a Case Study in Monreale, Sicily	6

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Protection of water resources from agricultural pressures: Embracing different knowledge domains in governance approaches	6