OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability is 14. 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
Technology innovations and environmental sustainability in the Anthropocene	106
Managing supply and demand of ecosystem services in dryland catchments	102
The ethical foundations of biodiversity metrics	102
The Mezquital Valley from the perspective of the new Dryland Development Paradigm (DDP): present and future challenges to achieve sustainable development	88
Old problem, the Millennial solution: using mobile technology to inform decision making for sustainable fertilizer management	81
Reaching the poorest and most vulnerable: addressing loss and damage through social protection	69
Algorithmic conservation in a changing climate	62
Improving rangeland climate services for ranchers and pastoralists with social science	62
Transformation as praxis: responding to climate change uncertainties in marginal environments in South Asia	59
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Transformative finance for climate-resilient development	49
Preventing violent extremism with resilience, adaptive peacebuilding, and community-embedded approaches	47
Inclusive engagement for environmental sustainability in small island states	47
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An inclusive typology of values for navigating transformations towards a just and sustainable future	43
Embedding local values in Payments for Ecosystem Services for transformative change	43
Editorial Overview: Open Issue 2023: Sustainability Science, Digitization, and Artificial Intelligence	42
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Reorienting climate decision making research for smallholder farming systems through decision science	39
Fostering bottom-up actor coalitions for transforming complex rural territorial pathways	36
Soil salinisation in Vojvodina - the Republic of Serbia	34

Justice, sustainability, and the diverse values of nature: why they matter for biodiversity conservation	34
Promoting land tenure security for sustainable peace — lessons on the politics of transformation	34
Psychological resilience for climate change transformation: relational, differentiated and situated perspectives	34
Expertise and exclusivity in adaptation decision-making	34
Five levels of internalizing environmental externalities: decision-making based on instrumental and relational values of nature	34
Transformational adaptation in drylands	33
Patch-scale to hillslope-scale geodiversity alleviates susceptibility of dryland ecosystems to climate change: insights from the Israeli Negev	33
The influence of indigenous peoples in global climate governance	32
Transformative potential of managed retreat as climate adaptation	32
Urban climate resilience through hybrid infrastructure	32
Triangulating agent-based models, role-playing games, and a stakeholder-centric approach to change scenarios	32
Climate-changed development: organizing climate risk and response through an economic growth lens	32
Melting of Himalayan glaciers and planetary health	31
Embodied rationality: a framework of human action in water infrastructure governance	30
The global-capitalist elephant in the room: how resilient peacebuilding hinders substantive transformation and undermines long-term peace prospects	30
Upscaling climate change adaptation in small- and medium-sized municipalities: current barriers and future potentials	30
Transformation for inclusive conservation: evidence on values, decisions, and impacts in protected areas	30
Climate stress testing in the financial industry	29
Greenwashing and sustainable finance: an approach anchored in the philosophy of science	29
Governance challenges for sustainable food systems: the return of politics and territories	27
Some feminist strands and their potential for the performativity of climate regulations: a review	25
Assuring the unknowable: a reflection on the evolving landscape of sustainability assurance for financial auditors	25
Mixed farming systems: potentials and barriers for climate change adaptation in food systems	23
Research trends and gaps in climate change impacts and adaptation potentials in major crops	23
An inclusive future: disabled populations in the context of climate and environmental change	22
Balancing efficiency and resilience objectives in pursuit of sustainable infrastructure transformations	22
Rethinking community hubs: community facilities as critical infrastructure	22
Leveraging SETS resilience capabilities for safe-to-fail infrastructure under climate change	21
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Transforming matters: sustaining gold lifeways in artisanal and small-scale mining	20
How politics shapes the outcomes of forest carbon finance	20
Farmer land-use decision-making from an instrumental and relational perspective	20
Equity, inclusion, and justice as criteria for decision-making on climate adaptation in cities	20
Digital Twins in agriculture: challenges and opportunities for environmental sustainability	19
Innovation through Green Finance: a thematic review	19
Decision-making and scalar biases in solar photovoltaics roll-out	19
The political economy of the social constraints to adaptation	19
Fisheries conflicts as drivers of social transformation	19
Collective adaptation to climate change	19
Social limits to climate change adaptation: temporalities in behavioural responses to climate risks	19
Finance for Loss and Damage: a comprehensive risk analytical approach	19
Editorial Board	18
Monitoring agroecological transitions: how to measure complexity in an agile manner	18
Positive social transformations of coastal communities: what conditions enable the success of territorial use rights for fishing?	18
Energy transition to decarbonize the energy system in Mauritius	18
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Climate-resilient development in developing countries	18
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What makes people act climate-friendly? A decision-making path model for designing effective climate change policies	17

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Urban growth, resilience, and violence	16
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After the vote: climate policy decision-making in the administrative state	15
Understanding and supporting climate-sensitive decision processes in southern African cities	14
Navigating slow-onset risks through foresight and flexibility in Fiji: emerging recommendations for the planned relocation of climate-vulnerable communities	14
Serious games and citizen science; from parallel pathways to greater synergies	14
Rethinking the drivers of biotechnologies: a paradigm for holistic climate change solutions	14
Environmental impact bonds: review, challenges, and perspectives	14
The Social Licence to Operate and the legitimacy of resource extraction	14
Smarter greener cities through a social-ecological-technological systems approach	14
Essential dryland ecosystem variables	14
Transformative governance of biodiversity: insights for sustainable development	14
The finance perspective on fossil fuel divestment	14
The role of crop diversity in climate change adaptation: insights from local observations to inform decision making in agriculture	14
Whose values count? A review of the nature valuation studies with a focus on justice	14
Values and knowledges in decision-making on environmentally disruptive infrastructure projects: insights from large dams and mines	14
Recent developments for robust potato seed systems through agrobiodiversity and farmers engagement in the Andes	14
The European Union Emission Trading System and its role for green budgeting development — the case of EU member states	14