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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Governing intersectional climate justice: Tactics and lessons from Barcelona	94
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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	36
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Everybody should contribute, but not too much: Perceptions of local governments on citizen responsibilisation in climate change adaptation in the Netherlands	23
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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	23
Energy governance in China: A mixture of democratic environmentalism and authoritarian environmentalism	20
Implementing general environmental duties: Regulators' perceptions of complementary toolkits	20
Political parties' influence on environmental policy in the forest: Natura 2000 forest sites in Germany as a case study	19
Accountability in the Anthropocene	18
Challenging state authority and hierarchical power: A case study of the engagement of Peru's Amazonian Indigenous Peoples' organizations in the governance of REDD+	17
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Community action on natural flood management and the governance of acatchment‐basedapproach in theUK	15
Enabling successful science‐policy knowledge exchange between marine biodiversity research and management: An Australian case study	15
The role of citizens in sustainability and climate change governance: Taking stock and looking ahead	14
Exploring enablers and obstacles to policy‐oriented learning in Swedish marine national park planning	14
Trading off benefits and requirements: How do city networks attract cities to their voluntary environmental programmes?	14
Reconciling welfare policy and sustainability transition – A case study of the Finnish welfare state	13
The transformative potential of experimentation as an environmental governance approach: The case of the Dutch peatlands	12
Banning protests at oil and gas sites: The influence of policy entrepreneurs and political pressure	12
Norm domestication challenges for local climate actions: A lesson from Arizona,USA	12
Five dimensions of climate governance: a framework for empirical research based on polycentric and multi‐level governance perspectives	11

Towards Catchment Scale Natural Flood Management: Developing evidence, funding and governance approaches	10
Policy coherence in the Nordic bioeconomy? A novel set‐theoretic approach to studying relations among policy goals	10
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Why policy coherence in the European Union matters for global sustainability	10
Governance gaps and accountability traps in renewables extractivism	9
Context‐related mechanisms of policy sustainability: Governance reform of the protected areas in Lombardy	9
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	9
Accountability in the environmental crisis: From microsocial practices to moral orders	8
Regulations ‘Under the Weather’: Legal Factors of Stability and Change for the Implementation of Natural Stormwater Management in Finland	8
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“Here and now, by us”: Co‐production of climate action pathways in forest landscapes	8
Correction to ‘Communication and urban air quality governance in Germany: Discursive framing by selected national environmental NGOs and the Automotive Industry Association (VDA)	8
Exploring paths and innovation in Norwegian carbon capture and storage policy	8
The role of trust in the international climate negotiations	8
Beyond the campaign‐style enforcement: A consensual approach to bridge the environmental policy implementation gap	7
The link between collaborative governance design and markers of legitimacy: Comparing Swedish water‐ and large carnivore management	7
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Accountability in the Anthropocene: Activating responsible agents of reform or futile finger‐pointing?	6
A participatory framework to evaluate coherence between climate change adaptation and sustainable development policies	6
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The effects of policy discourse on the governance of deforestation and forest degradation reduction in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)	6
The grammar of monitoring and enforcement mechanisms in international conservation: A comparative institutional analysis of four treaty regimes	6
Granting legitimacy from non‐state actor deliberation: An example of women's groups at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change	6
Transformative pragmatism: How a diversity of Leitbilder is harnessed for rural transformation in Réiden, Luxembourg	6
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Practitioners' perspectives on the enablers and barriers to successful Antarctic science‐policy knowledge exchange	6
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The influence of COVID‐19 on modes of governance for climate change—Expert views from the Netherlands and the UK	5
Mapping stakeholders and identifying institutional challenges and opportunities for waste management in towns of Uttar Pradesh, India	5
Responding to transboundary water challenges in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: In search of institutional fit	5
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The power of social innovation to steer sustainable governance of nature	5
An evaluation of public initiatives to change behaviours that affect water quality	5
Transboundary environmental publics and hydropower governance in the Mekong River Basin: A contested politics of place, scale and temporality	5
Swedish bureaucratic biodiversity: Analysing municipal worker discourse with the theory of sociocultural viability	5
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How law structures public participation in environmental decision making: A comparative law approach	5
How green are our laws? Presenting a normative coherence for sustainable development methodology	5
The state against the environment? Water management and the regulation of tensions between sectoral policies in France	5