OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environment and Planning E-Nature and Space 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Ruderal involutions: An uneven vegetal geography of Coimbatore	48
Entangled, unraveled, and reconfigured: Human–animal relations among ethnic minority farmers and water buffalo in the northern uplands of Vietnam	36
Governing pathological markets: Microbes, banana export markets, and speculative farming practices	32
Bodies in Landscapes: Entanglements of trout and waters in South Africa	30
Mobile kinship: Exploring more-than-human entanglements in the context of climate-related planned relocation	29
BIG U(nicorn)?: The nature of nature in coastal resilience planning	27
Debating animal agriculture in contemporary India: Ethics, politics, ecologies	25
The eco-munitionary subject: Conservation with and of firearms	23
Wildlife as an affective multiplicity: Approaching Deleuzo–Guattarian pack-animals	23
Understanding lived experiences of climate change adaptation processes: Diversification subjectivities among Maasai pastoralists in southern Kenya	22
Dealing with sentient surplus: A moral economy of greyhound rehoming	21
Environmental justice for whom? Citizen participation and brownfield redevelopment in downtown Birmingham, Alabama	20
Contested estuary ontologies: The conflict over the fairway adaptation of the Elbe River, Germany	20
Critical environmental justice and the Wasteocene: Oppression and resistance in an Italian prison during the Covid-19 pandemic	20
The White Amur and the WasteShark: Hungry machines and circumventive remediations of waste	20
Value-rent-finance in Spain's solar transition	19
Digital hives, nonhuman work and the real subsumption of nature: Fixing pollination in capitalist agriculture	18
All dried up: The materiality of drought in Ladismith, South Africa	17
Chennai flyways: birds, biodiversity, and ecological decay	17
Contested flows: An ethnographic contribution to narratives of groundwater over abstraction in the central Jordanian highlands	17
Farm borders and biosecurity bordering: Securing livestock identities in Aotearoa New Zealand	17
The bioeconomy, carbon sinks, and depoliticization in Finnish forest politics	16
Producing conservation territories: Transforming páramos in Ecuador	16
Beyond AI as an environmental pharmakon: Principles for reopening the problem-space of machine learning's carbon footprint	15
Brazilian concentration camps for drought refugees 1915/1932	14

Territories of hope: A human geography of agrarian politics in Brazil	14
The material politics of living in close proximity to our wastewaters: A case of decentralisation in the Netherlands	14
Scrutinising commodity hype in imaginaries of the Swedish green steel transition	14
Preparing the grounds for emancipation. Explaining commoning as an emancipatory mechanism through dialectical social theory	14
Toward autonomous abolition ecologies: Lessons from Stop Cop City at the end of liberal democracy	14
Destabilizing the science of soils: Geoscientists as spokespersons for land subsidence in Semarang, Indonesia	14
Planning use values or values-based planning? “Rolling with” neoliberal flood risk governance in Vancouver, Canada	14
Resonant relations: eco-lalia, political ec(h)ology and autistic ways of worlding	13
Critically assembling water quality ethics beyond thresholds, hierarchies and best practices	13
CORRIGENDUM to The social life of mangroves: Neoliberal development and mangrove conservation in the changing landscape of Kutch	13
Organised abandonment in Lebanon's Litani River Basin	12
On the fire line and on strike: Collective action by incarcerated firefighters 1971–2	12
Expertise, trading zones and the planning system: A case study of an energy-from-biomass plant	12
Theme issue introduction: The species turn in Indian identity politics	11
Caring for water in Northern Peru: On fragile infrastructures and the diverse work involved in irrigation	11
Don’t waste the crisis: The COVID-19 Anthropause as an experiment for rethinking human–environment relations	11
Race, citizenship, and belonging in the pursuit of water and climate justice in California	11
Disentangling Waterworlds: The role of ‘agential cuts’ and ‘method assemblages’ in ontological politics – an example from Loweswater, the English Lake District	10
Material subjects: Wetland enclosure and the making of a speculative peasantry in peri-urban Vientiane	10
Corrigendum to “Breeding distrust: The biopolitics of chronic wasting disease in white-tailed deer”	10
Enacting the blue economy in the Western Indian Ocean: A ‘collaborative blue economy governmentality’	10
Placing animals in the Plantationocene: The plantation after/lives of nutria in Eastern Germany	10
The socio-ecological contradictions of land degradation and coastal agriculture in south India	9
State, scarcity, and survival: A minor history of people and place in the Lower Bari Doab, Punjab	9
Emotional subjectivities and the trajectory of a Peruvian mining conflict	9
Climate change in Norway: Destabilized social imaginaries of welfare, growth, and nature in a rich oil state	9
Folk art, storytelling, and space: Collective memory and pesticide exposure	9
Just water transitions at the end of sugar in Maui, Hawai‘i	9
Conservation violence: Paradoxes of “making live” and “letting die” in anti-poaching practices	8
The greening of human rights in Iran: Lake Orumiyeh, human rights, and environmental justice	8
The coyote in the cloud	8
The socioenvironmental state and urban transitions: Eco-urbanism in China and the UK	8
Land system resilience amidst the ravages of war: Insights from Tigray (Northern Ethiopia)	8
Building resilience or reinforcing vulnerability? The enduring allure of hard infrastructure as adaptation	8
Where land meets sea: Islands, erosion and the thing-power of hard coastal protection structures	8
Making global oceans governance in/visible with Smart Earth: The case of Global Fishing Watch	8
Domestic technonatures: A research agenda on smart gardens and indoor food production	8
The garden territory: Politics, aesthetics and the invention of green infrastructure in post-war Belgium	8
“Making do”: Religious segregation and everyday water struggles	8
Buying nature to save it? From neoliberal failure to markets-at-hand	8
Reindeer, rockets and space infrastructures: Enacting oligoptic-satellitarian environments in Northern Sweden	7
Engineering immunity? Biotechnical governance and the experimental failures of Project Wolbachia in Singapore	7
Pathways, targets and temporalities: Analysing English agriculture's net zero futures	7
Perpetual planning: Expertise, uncertainty, and the politics of delay in Colombia's Guayuriba river-basin	7
Landscape plasticity and its erasure	7
Unruly Mountains: Hydropower assemblages and geological surprises in the Indian Himalayas	7
Making the mos(s)t of nature? Cleantech, smart nature-based solutions, and the ‘rendering investable’ of urban moss	7
Expulsion by suffocation: Soybean plantations, toxicity, and land grabbing in the Brazilian Amazon	7
Smart energopower: Energy, work and waste within a UK smart grid trial	7
Reimagining the governance of water from the ground up: On the ‘worlding-practices’ of grassroots movements building alternative ‘water worlds’	7

Energopower, statecraft and political legitimacy	7
Decolonising spaces of knowledge production: Mpala research centre in Laikipia County, Kenya	7
Everyday politics of care and exclusion: Conceptualising agency in rural south India	7
Uncertainty talk for bio-digital technologies: Expert conceptions of uncertainties in genomic selection for forestry	7
Hydro-heritage for healing? Examining the gendered experience of water in post-conflict Swat, Pakistan	6
Towards a transformative approach to just rural transitions: Landscape restoration in the Scottish highlands	6
Extending the boundaries of ‘urban society’: The urban political ecologies and pathologies of Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa	6
Everyday youth climate politics and performances of climate citizenship in Aotearoa New Zealand	6
Bankrolling biodiversity: The politics of philanthropic conservation finance in Chile	6
Seascape shadows: Life in the ruins of the edible bird's nest harvest in northern Palawan, the Philippines	6
Pluralising the materiality of water: More-than-water, lively waters, water with, and the agency of hydro-social assemblages	6
‘We are not the ones to blame’: Stakeholders’ conflicting rationalities in wetlands management in Ghana	6
Analysis of ocean ontologies in three frameworks: A study of law of the sea discourse	6
Gardens as multispecies public spaces in Georgian modernity	5
Restoration as world-making and repair: A pragmatist agenda	5
Nature and the extended city: Wasteland governmentality, the sacred, and anti-wasteland politics in the Aravalli region	5
Geographies of Hope-in-Praxis: Collaboratively decolonizing relations and regenerating relational spaces	5
Indigenous coastal management in Papua New Guinea: Resilience and the revitalization of polepole stone fish traps on Lovongai Island	5
Storytelling dreams and life: Traveling across worlds in the Amazon of Ecuador	5
Conserving inequality: How private conservation and property developers ‘fix’ spatial injustice in South Africa	5
Solar power for some? Energy transition injustices in Kerala, India	5
Care and its discontents: Commodification, coercive cooperation, and resistance in Copenhagen Zoo	5
The ‘brother layer problem’: Routine killing, biotechnology and the pursuit of ‘ethical sustainability’ in industrial poultry	5
Making development legible to capital: The promise and limits of ‘innovative’ debt financing for the Sustainable Development Goals in Indonesia	5
Why now? Questioning the confidence in eco-political experimentation in civil society	5
Activism and non-activism: The politics of claiming environmental justice in Vietnam	5
Reclaimed ecotones in the climate change era:A long-durée framing of urban expansion in Mumbai, Amsterdam, New York, and Tokyo	5
Connecting across difference in environmental governance: Beyond rights, recognition, and participation	5
Decolonizing conservation? Indigenous resurgence and buffalo restoration in the American West	5
The politics of spatial memory and the Barrio : Narratives of climate-led adaptation and dispossession	5
The invisible afterlives of extractivism: a queer feminist landscape perspective on Quiruvilca, Peru	5