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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The politics of genetic technoscience for conservation: The case of blight-resistant American chestnut	42
Governing pathological markets: Microbes, banana export markets, and speculative farming practices	38
The permissible and the perverse: Indian geographies of interspecies sex	29
The eco-munitionary subject: Conservation with and of firearms	27
Entangled, unraveled, and reconfigured: Human–animal relations among ethnic minority farmers and water buffalo in the northern uplands of Vietnam	23
Wildlife as an affective multiplicity: Approaching Deleuzo–Guattarian pack-animals	23
Debating animal agriculture in contemporary India: Ethics, politics, ecologies	22
Critical environmental justice and the Wasteocene: Oppression and resistance in an Italian prison during the Covid-19 pandemic	18
Contested estuary ontologies: The conflict over the fairway adaptation of the Elbe River, Germany	17
Digital hives, nonhuman work and the real subsumption of nature: Fixing pollination in capitalist agriculture	17
The White Amur and the WasteShark: Hungry machines and circumventive remediations of waste	17
Environmental justice for whom? Citizen participation and brownfield redevelopment in downtown Birmingham, Alabama	17
Chennai flyways: birds, biodiversity, and ecological decay	16
Destabilizing the science of soils: Geoscientists as spokespersons for land subsidence in Semarang, Indonesia	16
Dealing with sentient surplus: A moral economy of greyhound rehoming	16
The bioeconomy, carbon sinks, and depoliticization in Finnish forest politics	16
Beyond AI as an environmental pharmakon: Principles for reopening the problem-space of machine learning's carbon footprint	15
Preparing the grounds for emancipation. Explaining commoning as an emancipatory mechanism through dialectical social theory	15
The material politics of living in close proximity to our wastewaters: A case of decentralisation in the Netherlands	14
Cultivating response: Peasant seed and plant–human collaboration in an agro-industrial heartland	14
Planning use values or values-based planning? “Rolling with” neoliberal flood risk governance in Vancouver, Canada	14
All dried up: The materiality of drought in Ladismith, South Africa	14
Oysteropolis: Animals in coastal gentrification	13
Territories of hope: A human geography of agrarian politics in Brazil	13
Farm borders and biosecurity bordering: Securing livestock identities in Aotearoa New Zealand	12

Contested flows: An ethnographic contribution to narratives of groundwater over abstraction in the central Jordanian highlands	12
Nightcrawler commodities: A brief history on the commodification of the humble dew worm	11
Scrutinising commodity hype in imaginaries of the Swedish green steel transition	11
CORRIGENDUM to The social life of mangroves: Neoliberal development and mangrove conservation in the changing landscape of Kutch	11
Organised abandonment in Lebanon's Litani River Basin	11
Expertise, trading zones and the planning system: A case study of an energy-from-biomass plant	10
Enacting the blue economy in the Western Indian Ocean: A ‘collaborative blue economy governmentality’	10
Theme issue introduction: The species turn in Indian identity politics	10
Don’t waste the crisis: The COVID-19 Anthropause as an experiment for rethinking human–environment relations	10
Race, citizenship, and belonging in the pursuit of water and climate justice in California	10
Critically assembling water quality ethics beyond thresholds, hierarchies and best practices	10
Caring for water in Northern Peru: On fragile infrastructures and the diverse work involved in irrigation	10
Resonant relations: eco-lalia, political ec(h)ology and autistic ways of worlding	10
Disentangling Waterworlds: The role of ‘agential cuts’ and ‘method assemblages’ in ontological politics – an example from Loweswater, the English Lake District	9
State, scarcity, and survival: A minor history of people and place in the Lower Bari Doab, Punjab	9
Corrigendum to “Breeding distrust: The biopolitics of chronic wasting disease in white-tailed deer”	9
Just water transitions at the end of sugar in Maui, Hawai‘i	9
Placing animals in the Plantationocene: The plantation after/lives of nutria in Eastern Germany	9
Holding water for the city: Emergent geographies of storage and the urbanization of nature	9
The socio-ecological contradictions of land degradation and coastal agriculture in south India	9
Climate change in Norway: Destabilized social imaginaries of welfare, growth, and nature in a rich oil state	8
Folk art, storytelling, and space: Collective memory and pesticide exposure	8
Emotional subjectivities and the trajectory of a Peruvian mining conflict	8
In pursuit of diverse energy futures: The political economy of electricity in Senegal	8
The coyote in the cloud	8
The socioenvironmental state and urban transitions: Eco-urbanism in China and the UK	8
Material subjects: Wetland enclosure and the making of a speculative peasantry in peri-urban Vientiane	8
Where land meets sea: Islands, erosion and the thing-power of hard coastal protection structures	8
The greening of human rights in Iran: Lake Orumiyeh, human rights, and environmental justice	7
“Making do”: Religious segregation and everyday water struggles	7
The garden territory: Politics, aesthetics and the invention of green infrastructure in post-war Belgium	7
Everyday politics of care and exclusion: Conceptualising agency in rural south India	7
Making global oceans governance in/visible with Smart Earth: The case of Global Fishing Watch	7
Energopower, statecraft and political legitimacy	7
Pathways, targets and temporalities: Analysing English agriculture's net zero futures	7
Conservation violence: Paradoxes of “making live” and “letting die” in anti-poaching practices	7
Knowing bears: An ethnographic study of knowledge and agency in human–bear cohabitation	7
Decolonising spaces of knowledge production: Mpala research centre in Laikipia County, Kenya	7
Reimagining the governance of water from the ground up: On the ‘worlding-practices’ of grassroots movements building alternative ‘water worlds’	7
Everyday youth climate politics and performances of climate citizenship in Aotearoa New Zealand	6
Making the mos(s)t of nature? Cleantech, smart nature-based solutions, and the ‘rendering investable’ of urban moss	6
Solar power for some? Energy transition injustices in Kerala, India	6
Pluralising the materiality of water: More-than-water, lively waters, water with, and the agency of hydro-social assemblages	6
Agrarian Marxism, Animal Geographies, and non-human labor in Democratic Kampuchea	6
Unruly Mountains: Hydropower assemblages and geological surprises in the Indian Himalayas	6
Reindeer, rockets and space infrastructures: Enacting oligoptic-satellitarian environments in Northern Sweden	6
Smart energopower: Energy, work and waste within a UK smart grid trial	6
Why now? Questioning the confidence in eco-political experimentation in civil society	6
Uncertainty talk for bio-digital technologies: Expert conceptions of uncertainties in genomic selection for forestry	6
Community narratives and local impacts of invasion in the Eastern Cape: A critical invasion ethnography of black wattle	6

Energy transition, rural transformation and local land-use planning: Insights from Ontario, Canada	6
Perpetual planning: Expertise, uncertainty, and the politics of delay in Colombia's Guayuriba river-basin	6
Decolonizing conservation? Indigenous resurgence and buffalo restoration in the American West	5
Hydro-heritage for healing? Examining the gendered experience of water in post-conflict Swat, Pakistan	5
Political ecology and the Foucault effect: A need to diversify disciplinary approaches to ecological management?	5
Restoration as world-making and repair: A pragmatist agenda	5
Geographies of Hope-in-Praxis: Collaboratively decolonizing relations and regenerating relational spaces	5
Nature and the extended city: Wasteland governmentality, the sacred, and anti-wasteland politics in the Aravalli region	5
Bankrolling biodiversity: The politics of philanthropic conservation finance in Chile	5
Connecting across difference in environmental governance: Beyond rights, recognition, and participation	5
Conserving inequality: How private conservation and property developers ‘fix’ spatial injustice in South Africa	5
Care and its discontents: Commodification, coercive cooperation, and resistance in Copenhagen Zoo	5
Landscape plasticity and its erasure	5
The ‘brother layer problem’: Routine killing, biotechnology and the pursuit of ‘ethical sustainability’ in industrial poultry	5
Extending the boundaries of ‘urban society’: The urban political ecologies and pathologies of Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa	5
Analysis of ocean ontologies in three frameworks: A study of law of the sea discourse	5
Storytelling dreams and life: Traveling across worlds in the Amazon of Ecuador	5
Reclaimed ecotones in the climate change era:A long-durée framing of urban expansion in Mumbai, Amsterdam, New York, and Tokyo	5
Activism and non-activism: The politics of claiming environmental justice in Vietnam	5
The politics of spatial memory and the Barrio : Narratives of climate-led adaptation and dispossession	5
Seascape shadows: Life in the ruins of the edible bird's nest harvest in northern Palawan, the Philippines	5
Expelled from the garden? Understanding the dynamics of green gentrification in Vancouver, British Columbia	5