OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Society & Natural Resources is 4. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Minors Can Have Major Effects: Household Hurricane Preparation Insights from Alabama	57
An Analysis of Access in Devil’s Claw (HarpagophytumSpp.) Harvesting and Trade in Namibia	41
Mismatched Property Rights and Natural Resource Use: A Case Study of Grassland Resources on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	37
The Labor Governance Frontier in Fisheries: A Critical Review and Future Outlook	26
Relational Capital and Connectedness in Adaptive Governance Processes: A Case Study of the Kafue Flats, Zambia	25
Why Do we Conserve?: Identifying Mechanisms in Agricultural Conservation Practice Adoption Decisions	24
Socioenvironmental Conflict Management: Contributions from the Analysis of Visitor Spatial Behavior in Balandra Protected Natural Area, Mexico	23
Factors Influencing Communities’ Attitudes and Participation in Protected Area Conservation: A Case Study from Northern Myanmar	23
Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature: Indigenous People and Protected Spaces of Nature *Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature: Indigenous People and Protected Spa*	21
“Going Green” Rhetoric or Reality: An Assessment of the Prospects and Challenges of Ghana’s Youth in Afforestation Programme	20
Factors That Influence On-Farm Decision-Making: Evidence from Weed Management	20
Quantifying the Influence of Emotions on Management Acceptability for White-Tailed Deer(Odocoileus virginianus)	19
Balpara: A Practical Approach to Working With Ontological Difference in Indigenous Land & Sea Management	18
Unlikely Alliances in Action: Balancing Alignment and Autonomy in Rural-Urban Water Conflicts	15
What Was the Norm Is No Longer the Norm: Capturing Socio-Ecological Histories of Flood Resilience in Wisconsin’s Driftless Area through Archival News Analysis	15
Does Cooperation between Finnish Forest Owners Increase Their Interest in Capercaillie (Tetrao Urogallus) Lekking Site Management?	15
“Evergreen and Charcoal Black”: The Institutional and Organizational Development of the Washington Department of Natural Resources in the Era of Megafires	14
Protecting and Benefitting from Nature: Insights and Policy Dilemmas from Africa	13
Salish Sea Survey: Geographic Literacy Enhancing Natural Resource Management	13
Correction	13
Examining Normative Influences on Intentions to Reduce Irrigated Landscape Area through a Compliance and Belonging Lens	13
Unsheltered Homelessness in Public Natural Areas Across an Urban-to-Wildland System: Institutional Perspectives	12
Customary Authorities and Environmental Governance in Africa: A Systematic Review	11
A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Government Influence on Collaborative Watershed Institutions in Ohio (USA) and the Dominican Republic and Implications for Decentralization of Resource Management	11
A Practical Approach to Developing and Using Online Games for Transdisciplinary Research into Complex Social-Ecological Systems	11

Community Forestry Governance: Lessons for Cameroon and Nepal	11
Managed Wildfire: A Strategy Facilitated by Civil Society Partnerships and Interagency Cooperation	10
Supporting Women Landowners in Wetland Conservation	10
Hydropower Development and the Neglect of Inland Capture Fisheries from a Food Systems Perspective	10
Negotiated Agreements and Sámi Reindeer Herding in Sweden: Evaluating Outcomes	10
Just Transitions’ Meanings: A Systematic Review	9
Measuring Social Equity Outcomes in a Community-Based Conservation Program in Ethiopia: Developing and Applying Local Indicators	9
Evaluating Conservation Easement and Land Records Data in Rapidly Growing Counties in the United States and the Implications for Environmental Governance	9
Let Nature Take Its Course: Attitudes and Knowledge of Chronic Wasting Disease Among Southeastern Minnesota Amish Deer Hunters	9
Gender Inequality, Climate Change, and Armed Conflict: Exploring the Triple Challenges for Female Farmers in Northwestern Cameroon	9
Disaster Resettlement and Adaptive Capacity among Rural Households in China	9
Conservation as Integration: Desire to Belong as Motivation for Environmental Conservation	9
A National Park in the Making: Local Perceptions and Equity Implications around a Proposed National Park in Romania	8
Exploring the Potential of Internal Information Flows in Large Organizations as Leverage Points for Environmental Stewardship	8
“There’s More Negatives than Positives”: Community Perceptions About Climate Changes to Water Ecosystem Services in Southeast Michigan	8
Taking Stock of Land Use Conflict Research: A Systematic Map with Special Focus on Conceptual Approaches	8
“They Need to Be Managed:” Hunters’ and Ranchers’ Narratives of Increased Tolerance of Wolves after a Decade of Wolf Hunting	8
Evaluating Social Equity in Protected Areas Co-management: Evidence from the Sundarbans Mangrove Forests, Bangladesh	8
Private Property and Social Capital: Dynamics of Exclusion and Sharing in the Subdivided Pastoral Rangelands of Kajiado, Kenya	8
Using Personal Norms to Understand Deer Hunters’ Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Prevention Behaviors: The “Right” Thing to Do	7
Application of Participatory Process Mapping to Evaluate Environmental Decision-Making and Implementation	7
Water Equity: The South African Case	7
Littering Prevention in Ghana: The Mediating and Moderating Effect of Awareness of Consequence with the Theory of Value-Belief-Norm	7
Disrupting the Patrón: Indigenous Land Rights and the Fight for Environmental Justice in Paraguay’s Chaco	7
The Evolution of Public Engagement in United States Environmental Governance: A Justice-Centered Framework	7
Does Educational Profile Influence Student Perception of Ecosystem Service Provision by Blue-Green Infrastructure?	7
Correction	7
Conference of the Parties Meetings as Regularly Scheduled Critical Events for Global Climate Governance: Reflecting on COP 26 and the Glasgow Climate Pact	7
Applying Novel Visitation Models using Diverse Social Media to Understand Recreation Change after Wildfire and Site Closure	7
Measuring Tourism Impacts on Community Well-being at the Hani Rice Terraces GIAHS Site, Yunnan Province of China	7
How Endogenous Cultural Institutions May (Not) Shape Farmers’ Climate Adaptation Practices: Learning from Rural Cameroon	7
Conservation Conflict: A Political Ecology Meta-Synthesis of East Africa	6
Socioeconomic Trajectories of 10 Rural Federal Forest-Based Communities in the American Pacific Northwest	6
Publisher’s Note, dated 6th May 2022	6
“Collaborative NGO Analysis in NRM: When your collaborator is also your unit of analysis”	6
Insights into the Cocoa and Forests Initiative: Smallholder Engagement with Certification Programs and Agroforestry	6
How Row-Crop Farmers Adapted Nitrogen Management in Response to Market Volatility: Evidence from Interviews in the United States Midwest	6
Building Community for Participatory Modeling: Network Composition, Trust, and Adaptive Process Design	6
Seeing the Forest for the Trees Sequel II: An Exploratory Bibliometric Analysis of the Chinese Environmental and Resource Sociology/Social Science Literature	6
The Use of Q Methodology as a Participatory Tool in Natural Resources Management	6
Managing Recreation, Managing Collective Attention: Exploring the Nexus Between Conservation and Use of Migratory Species in France	6
Assessing Social Capital Studies Related to Community-Based Forest Management in Asian Countries: A Review	6
More than Landscape: Toward Cosmophanic Diversity in Environmental Planning and Governance	6
“When Will the Tree Grow for Me to Benefit from It?”: Tree Tenure Reform to Counter Mining in Southwestern Ghana	6
“Here” Versus “There”: Authoritarian Populism, Environment, and Scapegoat Ecology Among Loggers of Northwestern Russia	6
Perceptions of Climate Risks and Migration of Agricultural Producers in Northern Benin	6
Mainstreaming Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Practices in Climate-Sensitive Policies for Resilient Agricultural Systems in Ghana	6
Understanding Multidirectional Climate Change Impacts on Local Livelihoods through the Lens of Local Ecological Knowledge: A Study in Western Amazonia	5
“I Can’t Breathe:” The Invisible Slow Violence of Breathing Politics in Minneapolis	5
Conflicting Notions of Land in Indonesia	5

Book Review: Hottest of the Hotspots: The Rise of Eco-precarious Conservation Labor in Madagascar	5
“Steeped in Oil”: The Socio-Psychological Factors and Processes That Influence Community Members’ Attitudes toward Economic Diversification in an Oil and Gas-Producing Community	5
Recreation Area Characteristics and Their Impact on Property Values within Florida’s Wekiva River System	5
A Systematic Review of Environmental Volunteer Motivations	5
“What’s Love Got to Do with It?”: Theorizing Emotional Attachments to Land Through the Concept of Terraphilia	5
Linking Community Characteristics to Performance in Fisheries Co-Management and Community-Based Management: Evidence from South Korea	5
Citizen Science and Natural Resource Management: A Social Network Analysis of Two Community-Based Water Monitoring Programs	5
Understanding Local Peoples’ Deforestation Decisions in Gunung Leuser National Park, Indonesia	5
Tackling (Not Only) Air Pollution: Cross-sectional Tensions behind State-led Energy Retrofit Program in Poland	5
Exploring Conservation Actor Networks in Trinidad And Tobago	5
Spatial Biopolitics of Tick-Borne Disease Control Practices in Laikipia, Kenya	5
Displacement after the Camp Fire: Where are the Most Vulnerable?	5
Being Paramuno : Peasant World-Making Practices in the Paramos [High Moorlands] of the Colombian Andes	5
Navigating Cross-Cultural Relationships to Address the Illegal Wildlife Trade: Learning From Western-Interactions With Traditional Chinese Medicine and Traditional Knowledges	5
Visibility, Land Use, Social Norms, and Partisanship in Support for a Hypothetical Solar Facility in Non-Metropolitan Michigan	5
Impact of Stone Quarrying on Sustainable Livelihoods and Environment in Selected Communities in Ghana: implications for the Sustainable Development Goals	5
Political Ontologies of Colombian Amazonia: Peasant Resistance in Protected Areas	5
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future	5
A Stakeholder Network for Managing Multiple Forest Stressors and Roadside Forests	5
An Irreplaceable Place: Onto-Epistemological Contestation in the Environmental Impact Assessment Process of the Green Anglo American Sakatti Mine, Arctic Finland	4
Voting “Yes” for Community-Level Conservation: Cognitive Antecedents of Support for a Greenspace Ballot Initiative	4
Conservation Science and Discursive Violence: A Response to Two Rejoinders	4
“Ordering the Wild”: How Adaptive Management Is Used to Maintain Nature Like a Postcard	4
Review of Roots of Power: The Political Ecology of Boundary Plants	4
Poor Air Quality during Wildfires Related to Support for Public Safety Power Shutoffs	4
Trust and Emotions Predict Support for Large Carnivore Recovery in the Absence of Real Threats	4
Transmigrants Experiences of Recognitional (in)Justice in Indonesia’s Environmental Impact Assessment	4
“Death by a Thousand Cuts”: Conservation Stakeholders’ Perspectives on Protecting Lakes in a Tourist Region Surrounded by Agriculture	4
Facilitating the Czech Coal Phase-Out: What Drives Inter-Organizational Collaboration?	4
Navigating the Space between Policy and Practice: Toward a Typology of Collaborators in a Federal Land Management Agency	4
Does Information and Deliberation Affect Ecosystem Service Judgments? Evidence from Tree Plantation Expansion in Argentina	4
Inter-Group Perceptions of Key Performance Indicators for Monitoring and Evaluating Scenic Viewpoints	4
Perception of the Vulnerability of Quilombola Farmers in Alcântara, Eastern Amazonia, Brazil	4
Does Measuring Trust in Groups Also Measure Distrust? It Depends	4
Rethinking Decision Support Under Conditions of Irreducible Uncertainty: Co-Designing a Serious Game to Navigate Baltic Sea Nutrient Enrichment	4
Formative Interests and Pathways to Natural Resources Careers among Historically Underrepresented People	4
Correction	4
Using the Theory of Planned Behavior to Understand Family Forest Owners’ Intended Responses to Invasive Forest Insects	4
The Collective Memory of the Fluvial Environment: The Loss of a Healthy Natural Environment in the City of Toledo (Spain) through Pollution	4
How Sociopolitical Histories and Lifeways Impact the Formation of ‘Good Governance’ in the Restoration of Anadromous Fish in the Columbia River Basin	4
Yellowstone Wolves: Science and Discovery in the World’s First National Park	4
Enhancing Online Survey Research in Environmental and Conservation Social Sciences: A GIS-Based Place Mapping Validation Technique for Enhancing Sample Quality	4
Critical Consciousness of Systemic Racism in Parks among Park Agency Directors and Policymakers: An Environmental Justice Tool for Recreation and Conservation Leaders	4
A Systematic Review of Key Factors of Effective Collaborative Governance of Social-Ecological Systems	4
Social and Cultural Values and Representation Justice: Implications for Water	4
Transcending Consumer Roles: Evidence of Citizen Investment in Photovoltaic in China	4
Violations of Forest Laws in the Bu Gia Map National Park, Vietnam	4
Linking Tourism and Conservation on Privately Owned Natural Areas: A Systematic Review of English-Language Literature	4