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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Entangled, unraveled, and reconfigured: Human–animal relations among ethnic minority farmers and water buffalo in the northern uplands of Vietnam	48
Governing pathological markets: Microbes, banana export markets, and speculative farming practices	37
Bodies in Landscapes: Entanglements of trout and waters in South Africa	32
Mobile kinship: Exploring more-than-human entanglements in the context of climate-related planned relocation	31
Debating animal agriculture in contemporary India: Ethics, politics, ecologies	30
Understanding lived experiences of climate change adaptation processes: Diversification subjectivities among Maasai pastoralists in southern Kenya	28
Wildlife as an affective multiplicity: Approaching Deleuzo–Guattarian pack-animals	28
Ruderal involutions: An uneven vegetal geography of Coimbatore	25
The eco-munitionary subject: Conservation with and of firearms	24
BIG U(nicorn)?: The nature of nature in coastal resilience planning	23
A ‘City in Nature’ and its porcine interlopers: Confronting the edges of urban ecological order	22
Environmental justice for whom? Citizen participation and brownfield redevelopment in downtown Birmingham, Alabama	20
Digital hives, nonhuman work and the real subsumption of nature: Fixing pollination in capitalist agriculture	20
Dealing with sentient surplus: A moral economy of greyhound rehoming	20
Value-rent-finance in Spain's solar transition	20
The White Amur and the WasteShark: Hungry machines and circumventive remediations of waste	20
Critical environmental justice and the Wasteocene: Oppression and resistance in an Italian prison during the Covid-19 pandemic	20
Contested estuary ontologies: The conflict over the fairway adaptation of the Elbe River, Germany	19
Chennai flyways: birds, biodiversity, and ecological decay	18
Farm borders and biosecurity bordering: Securing livestock identities in Aotearoa New Zealand	17
Contested flows: An ethnographic contribution to narratives of groundwater over abstraction in the central Jordanian highlands	17
Producing conservation territories: Transforming páramos in Ecuador	16
All dried up: The materiality of drought in Ladismith, South Africa	16
Toward autonomous abolition ecologies: Lessons from Stop Cop City at the end of liberal democracy	16
Territories of hope: A human geography of agrarian politics in Brazil	15

The bioeconomy, carbon sinks, and depoliticization in Finnish forest politics	15
Brazilian concentration camps for drought refugees 1915/1932	15
Planning use values or values-based planning? “Rolling with” neoliberal flood risk governance in Vancouver, Canada	14
CORRIGENDUM to The social life of mangroves: Neoliberal development and mangrove conservation in the changing landscape of Kutch	14
Beyond AI as an environmental pharmakon: Principles for reopening the problem-space of machine learning's carbon footprint	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
Destabilizing the science of soils: Geoscientists as spokespersons for land subsidence in Semarang, Indonesia	14
Expertise, trading zones and the planning system: A case study of an energy-from-biomass plant	13
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
Theme issue introduction: The species turn in Indian identity politics	12
On the fire line and on strike: Collective action by incarcerated firefighters 1971–2	12
Don’t waste the crisis: The COVID-19 Anthropause as an experiment for rethinking human–environment relations	12
Race, citizenship, and belonging in the pursuit of water and climate justice in California	11
Caring for water in Northern Peru: On fragile infrastructures and the diverse work involved in irrigation	11
Enacting the blue economy in the Western Indian Ocean: A ‘collaborative blue economy governmentality’	11
Organised abandonment in Lebanon's Litani River Basin	11
Corrigendum to “Breeding distrust: The biopolitics of chronic wasting disease in white-tailed deer”	10
The socio-ecological contradictions of land degradation and coastal agriculture in south India	10
Material subjects: Wetland enclosure and the making of a speculative peasantry in peri-urban Vientiane	10
Disentangling Waterworlds: The role of ‘agential cuts’ and ‘method assemblages’ in ontological politics – an example from Loweswater, the English Lake District	10
Emotional subjectivities and the trajectory of a Peruvian mining conflict	9
Just water transitions at the end of sugar in Maui, Hawai‘i	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
Land system resilience amidst the ravages of war: Insights from Tigray (Northern Ethiopia)	9
State, scarcity, and survival: A minor history of people and place in the Lower Bari Doab, Punjab	9
Where land meets sea: Islands, erosion and the thing-power of hard coastal protection structures	9
The coyote in the cloud	9
The greening of human rights in Iran: Lake Orumiyeh, human rights, and environmental justice	8
Unruly Mountains: Hydropower assemblages and geological surprises in the Indian Himalayas	8
The socioenvironmental state and urban transitions: Eco-urbanism in China and the UK	8
“Making do”: Religious segregation and everyday water struggles	8
Reindeer, rockets and space infrastructures: Enacting oligoptic-satellitarian environments in Northern Sweden	8
Building resilience or reinforcing vulnerability? The enduring allure of hard infrastructure as adaptation	8
Placing animals in the Plantationocene: The plantation after/lives of nutria in Eastern Germany	8
Domestic technonatures: A research agenda on smart gardens and indoor food production	8
Engineering immunity? Biotechnical governance and the experimental failures of Project Wolbachia in Singapore	8
Buying nature to save it? From neoliberal failure to markets-at-hand	8
Making global oceans governance in/visible with Smart Earth: The case of Global Fishing Watch	8
Expulsion by suffocation: Soybean plantations, toxicity, and land grabbing in the Brazilian Amazon	7
Pathways, targets and temporalities: Analysing English agriculture's net zero futures	7
Making the mos(s)t of nature? Cleantech, smart nature-based solutions, and the ‘rendering investable’ of urban moss	7
Uncertainty talk for bio-digital technologies: Expert conceptions of uncertainties in genomic selection for forestry	7
Everyday youth climate politics and performances of climate citizenship in Aotearoa New Zealand	7
Conservation violence: Paradoxes of “making live” and “letting die” in anti-poaching practices	7
Everyday politics of care and exclusion: Conceptualising agency in rural south India	7
Smart energopower: Energy, work and waste within a UK smart grid trial	7

Landscape plasticity and its erasure	7
The garden territory: Politics, aesthetics and the invention of green infrastructure in post-war Belgium	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
Perpetual planning: Expertise, uncertainty, and the politics of delay in Colombia's Guayuriba river-basin	7
Hydro-heritage for healing? Examining the gendered experience of water in post-conflict Swat, Pakistan	7
Pluralising the materiality of water: More-than-water, lively waters, water with, and the agency of hydro-social assemblages	6
Storytelling dreams and life: Traveling across worlds in the Amazon of Ecuador	6
Towards a transformative approach to just rural transitions: Landscape restoration in the Scottish highlands	6
Nature and the extended city: Wasteland governmentality, the sacred, and anti-wasteland politics in the Aravalli region	6
Bankrolling biodiversity: The politics of philanthropic conservation finance in Chile	6
Why now? Questioning the confidence in eco-political experimentation in civil society	6
‘We are not the ones to blame’: Stakeholders’ conflicting rationalities in wetlands management in Ghana	6
Activism and non-activism: The politics of claiming environmental justice in Vietnam	6
Solar power for some? Energy transition injustices in Kerala, India	6
Analysis of ocean ontologies in three frameworks: A study of law of the sea discourse	6
Extending the boundaries of ‘urban society’: The urban political ecologies and pathologies of Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa	6
Restoration as world-making and repair: A pragmatist agenda	5
The invisible afterlives of extractivism: a queer feminist landscape perspective on Quiruvilca, Peru	5
Care and its discontents: Commodification, coercive cooperation, and resistance in Copenhagen Zoo	5
Connecting across difference in environmental governance: Beyond rights, recognition, and participation	5
New political ecologies of renewable energy	5
Weathering violence: Atmospheric materialities and olfactory durations of ‘skunk water’ in Palestine	5
AirPods and the earth: Digital technologies, planned obsolescence and the Capitalocene	5
The ‘brother layer problem’: Routine killing, biotechnology and the pursuit of ‘ethical sustainability’ in industrial poultry	5
Gardens as multispecies public spaces in Georgian modernity	5
Reclaimed ecotones in the climate change era:A long-durée framing of urban expansion in Mumbai, Amsterdam, New York, and Tokyo	5
Geographies of Hope-in-Praxis: Collaboratively decolonizing relations and regenerating relational spaces	5
Conversion, coordination and care: Unpacking housing-featured urban renaturing in Taichung	5
Making development legible to capital: The promise and limits of ‘innovative’ debt financing for the Sustainable Development Goals in Indonesia	5
Expelled from the garden? Understanding the dynamics of green gentrification in Vancouver, British Columbia	5
An uncooperative transition: Material contradictions in Chile's renewable energy boom	5
Conserving inequality: How private conservation and property developers ‘fix’ spatial injustice in South Africa	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
Strange birds of a feather: Israeli common myna, between invasiveness and belonging	5
Indigenous coastal management in Papua New Guinea: Resilience and the revitalization of polepole stone fish traps on Lovongai Island	5
River and drain: Ambiguity in the waterways of Accra	5
Unabsorbed: Assemblages and spectres of contested Welsh waterscapes	5