OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environmental Policy and Governance is 5. 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
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
Climate adaptation in practice: How mainstreaming strategies matter for policy integration	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
Transforming land use governance: Global targets without equity miss the mark	15
How law structures public participation in environmental decision making: A comparative law approach	15
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
Disentangling municipal capacities for citizen participation in transformative climate adaptation	14
A transboundary political ecology of air pollution: Slow violence on Thailand's margins	13
Evaluating deliberative participation from a social learning perspective: A case study of the 2012 National Energy Deliberative Polling in post‐Fukushima Japan	13
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
The green side of social innovation: Using sustainable development goals to classify environmental impacts of rural grassroots initiatives	12

Governing toward decarbonization: The legitimacy of national orchestration	11
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
Facilitation of public Payments for Ecosystem Services through local intermediaries: An institutional analysis of agri‐environmental measure implementation in Germany	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
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
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
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
Territoriality, environment and hybrid governance tensions in alternative food networks: Cases of small‐scale viticulture in Chile	7
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
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
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
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