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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
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Digital Technology Empowering Rural Environmental Governance: Evidences From Villages in Shanghai, China	44
Knowledge Cumulation in Environmental Governance Research	38
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
The role of trust in the international climate negotiations	35
Institutional Design of Collaborative Water Governance: The River Chief System in China	27
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Playing the CITES game: Lessons on global conservation governance from African megafauna	24
The effects of policy discourse on the governance of deforestation and forest degradation reduction in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)	21
Beyond the campaign‐style enforcement: A consensual approach to bridge the environmental policy implementation gap	21
Contextualizing and generalizing drivers and barriers of urban living labs for climate resilience	20
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Environmental Policy Without Implementation? A Review of Factors Contributing to Implementation Gaps in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries	19
Unpacking Forest Stewardship Council certification in Chile: The scope and limitations of neoliberal market‐driven governance for achieving sustainable development	19
Dynamic Interactions and Governance Capabilities of State and Non‐State Actors in Small‐Scale Tuna Fishery Certification in Indonesia	19
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Framing just transition: The case of sustainable food system transition in Finland	18
Harnessing the temporal and projective attributes of human agency to promote anticipatory climate change adaptation	18
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Vulnerability, climate laws, and adaptation in the Middle East and North Africa	16
How to Assess Knowledge Cumulation in Environmental Governance Research? Conceptual and Empirical Explorations	16
Can polycentric governance lower industrial greenhouse gas emissions: Evidence from the United States	16
The influence of visions on cooperation among interest organizations in fragmented socio‐technical systems	15
Correction to “Regulations ‘Under the Weather’: Legal Factors of Stability and Change for the Implementation of Natural Stormwater Management in Finland”	14

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The Widening Scope of Just Transitions Research: A Review of an Emblematic Concept	14
Successful Implementation of Environmental Policy and Governance: Understanding and Modeling Micro Governance	13
Moving beyond the plan: Exploring the opportunities to accelerate the implementation of municipal climate change adaptation policies and plans	13
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Implementing Nature‐Based Solutions in Cities: Testing and Refining the Integrative Framework for Collaborative Governance	12
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Flood Risk‐Sensitive Land Use Governance: Explaining Enforcement Gaps in the Case of Accra, Ghana	12
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Deliberating Justice in Citizen Jury Processes—Lessons for Just Transitions Governance	12
The green side of social innovation: Using sustainable development goals to classify environmental impacts of rural grassroots initiatives	12
Open Space Policy‐Making and Planning in Urban Regions: Towards a Theoretical Approach Based on the Multiple Streams Framework	11
A Multi‐Layered Collaborative Marine Governance Model: Evaluating Change and Innovation of Marine Governance Arrangements	11
Danish nearshore wind energy policy: Exploring actors, ideas, discursive processes and institutions via discursive institutionalism	11
Exploring the Complementary Role of Voluntary Environmental Programs in Regulatory Governance: Evidence From South Korea	11
The Quest for Coherence in Climate Actions: The Case for Québec's Climate Strategy	10
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Context‐related mechanisms of policy sustainability: Governance reform of the protected areas in Lombardy	10
Regulations ‘Under the Weather’: Legal Factors of Stability and Change for the Implementation of Natural Stormwater Management in Finland	10
Reflections on Energy Efficiency Policies in Sustainable Transition: Bedrock, Gamechanger, or More of the Same?	10
Winds of Change: Environmental Collectives Navigating Small Island Governance in Tourism‐Dominated Aruba	9
Accountability in the Anthropocene	9
For the Few, Not the Many: Tracing the Residualist and Compensatory Nature of British Energy Support	9
Towards Catchment Scale Natural Flood Management: Developing evidence, funding and governance approaches	9
Integrating Science With Indigenous and Experiential Knowledge in Collaborative Governance	9
The climate change adaptation readiness of co‐operative housing in Nova Scotia, Canada	8
Exploring paths and innovation in Norwegian carbon capture and storage policy	8
Mapping stakeholders and identifying institutional challenges and opportunities for waste management in towns of Uttar Pradesh, India	8
A Network Approach to Support Sustainability Policy Coordination: Exploring Linkages Between Biodiversity Indicators and Essential Biodiversity Variables	8
Bracing urban governance against climate crises: How to integrate high reliability into strategic decision‐making?	8
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Swedish bureaucratic biodiversity: Analysing municipal worker discourse with the theory of sociocultural viability	8
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Putting Insects on the Agenda: An Analysis of Actors in Multiple Streams for Biodiversity Conservation Policy in Germany	7
The Role of the State and Actor Participation in Polycentric Governance: The Case of India's Renewable Energy Transitions	7
Externalities as the status quo: Federal application of environmental charges in the United States	7
Granting legitimacy from non‐state actor deliberation: An example of women's groups at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change	7
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Cross‐sectoral information and actors' contact networks in natural resource governance in the Swiss Alps	7
Governance challenges for urban logistics: Lessons from three Norwegian cities	7
Knowledge cumulation and interdisciplinarity: Integrating epistemologies, disciplines, and sectors to produce actionable environmental governance research	7
Synergy of soft and hard regulations in climate governance: The impact of state policies on local climate mitigation actions	7
Nature‐Based Solutions for Climate Adaptation: Review of Barriers to Adoption and Guidelines for Policymakers	7
Social acceptance of biodiversity offsetting: Motivations and practices in the designing of an emerging mechanism	7
Political drivers of policy coherence for sustainable development: An analytical framework	7
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Multi‐Level Policy Coherence Analysis in Wicked Nexus Problem Settings: The Case of Nitrogen Pollution in Germany	6
Evaluating offsetting as a component of biodiversity governance	6
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Beyond Regulation: Coordinating an Environmental Federalist Response to “Forever Chemicals” in Drinking Water	6
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Protection of water resources from agricultural pressures: Embracing different knowledge domains in governance approaches	6
Sidelining Mitigation: Climate Delay Discourses Among Municipal Legislators in Southeastern Brazil	6
Promoting Stakeholder Interaction to Facilitate Wildfire Management: Insights From a Case Study in Monreale, Sicily	6