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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
An Analysis of Access in Devil’s Claw (HarpagophytumSpp.) Harvesting and Trade in Namibia	80
Socioenvironmental Conflict Management: Contributions from the Analysis of Visitor Spatial Behavior in Balandra Protected Natural Area, Mexico	30
The Labor Governance Frontier in Fisheries: A Critical Review and Future Outlook	30
Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature: Indigenous People and Protected Spaces of Nature *Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature: Indigenous People and Protected Spa*	28
The Ecological-Symbolic Perspective and Ontological Security: An Analysis of Lead Contamination	23
Minors Can Have Major Effects: Household Hurricane Preparation Insights from Alabama	21
Mismatched Property Rights and Natural Resource Use: A Case Study of Grassland Resources on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	19
“Evergreen and Charcoal Black”: The Institutional and Organizational Development of the Washington Department of Natural Resources in the Era of Megafires	19
Examining Normative Influences on Intentions to Reduce Irrigated Landscape Area through a Compliance and Belonging Lens	16
Balpara: A Practical Approach to Working With Ontological Difference in Indigenous Land & Sea Management	16
Unlikely Alliances in Action: Balancing Alignment and Autonomy in Rural-Urban Water Conflicts	14
Does Cooperation between Finnish Forest Owners Increase Their Interest in Capercaillie (Tetrao Urogallus) Lekking Site Management?	13
Local Opposition to Renewable Energy: Integrating Misinformation and Controversy Perspectives	13
Protecting and Benefitting from Nature: Insights and Policy Dilemmas from Africa	13
Unsheltered Homelessness in Public Natural Areas Across an Urban-to-Wildland System: Institutional Perspectives	13
Correction	13
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	13
Customary Authorities and Environmental Governance in Africa: A Systematic Review	12
A Practical Approach to Developing and Using Online Games for Transdisciplinary Research into Complex Social-Ecological Systems	12
Water, Territory, and Identity: Traditional Knowledge in the Water Management of Ihe Xerente Indigenous Community	12
Quantifying the Influence of Emotions on Management Acceptability for White-Tailed Deer(Odocoileus virginianus)	12
Hydropower Development and the Neglect of Inland Capture Fisheries from a Food Systems Perspective	12
More than Just Honeybees: Exploring Native Insect Pollinator Knowledge and Support in Colorado	11
Supporting Women Landowners in Wetland Conservation	11
Negotiated Agreements and Sámi Reindeer Herding in Sweden: Evaluating Outcomes	11

Managed Wildfire: A Strategy Facilitated by Civil Society Partnerships and Interagency Cooperation	10
“There’s More Negatives than Positives”: Community Perceptions About Climate Changes to Water Ecosystem Services in Southeast Michigan	10
Exploring the Potential of Internal Information Flows in Large Organizations as Leverage Points for Environmental Stewardship	10
Constraints to Recreational Fishing among Underrepresented Anglers of Colorado	10
In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua	10
Just Transitions’ Meanings: A Systematic Review	10
Let Nature Take Its Course: Attitudes and Knowledge of Chronic Wasting Disease Among Southeastern Minnesota Amish Deer Hunters	10
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Experiences of the Chronic Wasting Disease Management Community	9
Gender Inequality, Climate Change, and Armed Conflict: Exploring the Triple Challenges for Female Farmers in Northwestern Cameroon	9
The Implementation of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) Within Canada’s Forest Sector: Examining the Transformative Influence of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Certification	9
Taking Stock of Land Use Conflict Research: A Systematic Map with Special Focus on Conceptual Approaches	9
Measuring Social Equity Outcomes in a Community-Based Conservation Program in Ethiopia: Developing and Applying Local Indicators	9
Evaluating Social Equity in Protected Areas Co-management: Evidence from the Sundarbans Mangrove Forests, Bangladesh	9
Social Influence in Forest Management Transitions: A Study of Private Forest Owners in Sweden	8
Are Left-Wing and Right-Wing Authoritarianism Associated with Resident Attitudes and Support for Marine Reserves?	8
Application of Participatory Process Mapping to Evaluate Environmental Decision-Making and Implementation	8
Disrupting the Patrón: Indigenous Land Rights and the Fight for Environmental Justice in Paraguay’s Chaco	8
Measuring Tourism Impacts on Community Well-being at the Hani Rice Terraces GIAHS Site, Yunnan Province of China	8
Applying Novel Visitation Models using Diverse Social Media to Understand Recreation Change after Wildfire and Site Closure	8
Using Personal Norms to Understand Deer Hunters’ Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Prevention Behaviors: The “Right” Thing to Do	8
Littering Prevention in Ghana: The Mediating and Moderating Effect of Awareness of Consequence with the Theory of Value-Belief-Norm	8
How Endogenous Cultural Institutions May (Not) Shape Farmers’ Climate Adaptation Practices: Learning from Rural Cameroon	8
Correction	7
Conservation-Induced Dispossession and Local Community Responses: A Narrative Review of South Africa’s Dwesa-Cwebe	7
Role of Unauthorized Informal Institutions in Urban Water Governance: The Case of Faisalabad, Pakistan	7
Promoting Wildlife Conservation Through Value-Framed Messages: A Study with Marmosets in Brazil and Wild Boar in Spain	7
Does Educational Profile Influence Student Perception of Ecosystem Service Provision by Blue-Green Infrastructure?	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
The Evolution of Public Engagement in United States Environmental Governance: A Justice-Centered Framework	7
Building Community for Participatory Modeling: Network Composition, Trust, and Adaptive Process Design	7
Publisher’s Note, dated 6th May 2022	7
Co-Produced Science/co-Produced Communication: Mediated Science Storytelling and Generative Dialogue in Indigenous Knowledge co-Production Relationships	7
“When Will the Tree Grow for Me to Benefit from It?”: Tree Tenure Reform to Counter Mining in Southwestern Ghana	7
Water Equity: The South African Case	7
“Here” Versus “There”: Authoritarian Populism, Environment, and Scapegoat Ecology Among Loggers of Northwestern Russia	7
Being Paramuno : Peasant World-Making Practices in the Paramos [High Moorlands] of the Colombian Andes	6
More than Landscape: Toward Cosmophanic Diversity in Environmental Planning and Governance	6
Perceptions of Climate Risks and Migration of Agricultural Producers in Northern Benin	6
The Determinants of Progress in Kenya’s Community-Based Conservation	6
Factors Influencing Reenrollment in the Conservation Reserve Program	6
“The Great Vermont Floods of 2023”: A Risk and Crisis Communication Assessment	6
How Row-Crop Farmers Adapted Nitrogen Management in Response to Market Volatility: Evidence from Interviews in the United States Midwest	6
“What’s Love Got to Do with It?”: Theorizing Emotional Attachments to Land Through the Concept of Terraphilia	6
Linking Community Characteristics to Performance in Fisheries Co-Management and Community-Based Management: Evidence from South Korea	6
Managing Recreation, Managing Collective Attention: Exploring the Nexus Between Conservation and Use of Migratory Species in France	6
A Stakeholder Network for Managing Multiple Forest Stressors and Roadside Forests	6
“Collaborative NGO Analysis in NRM: When your collaborator is also your unit of analysis”	6
Assessing Social Capital Studies Related to Community-Based Forest Management in Asian Countries: A Review	6
Seeing the Forest for the Trees Sequel II: An Exploratory Bibliometric Analysis of the Chinese Environmental and Resource Sociology/Social Science Literature	6
Investigating the Dynamics of Human–Wildlife Conflict in Oil Palm Plantation: Cases from Johor and Sabah, Malaysia	6

Unraveling Irrigation Governance: A Qualitative Systematic Review of Global Transformations Amid Agricultural Modernization and Neoliberalism	5
A Systematic Review of Environmental Volunteer Motivations	5
Visibility, Land Use, Social Norms, and Partisanship in Support for a Hypothetical Solar Facility in Non-Metropolitan Michigan	5
“I Can’t Breathe:” The Invisible Slow Violence of Breathing Politics in Minneapolis	5
The Influences of Performance and Process Factors on Public Participation in Water Governance: Multilevel Evidence of Survey Data in Guangzhou, China	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
Navigating Cross-Cultural Relationships to Address the Illegal Wildlife Trade: Learning From Western-Interactions With Traditional Chinese Medicine and Traditional Knowledges	5
Conservation Conflict: A Political Ecology Meta-Synthesis of East Africa	5
Spatial Biopolitics of Tick-Borne Disease Control Practices in Laikipia, Kenya	5
The Use of Q Methodology as a Participatory Tool in Natural Resources Management	5
Narratives of Legitimacy in Carbon Forestry: A Political Ecology Perspective	5
Understanding Local Peoples’ Deforestation Decisions in Gunung Leuser National Park, Indonesia	5
Exploring Conservation Actor Networks in Trinidad And Tobago	5
Understanding Multidirectional Climate Change Impacts on Local Livelihoods through the Lens of Local Ecological Knowledge: A Study in Western Amazonia	5
Mainstreaming Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Practices in Climate-Sensitive Policies for Resilient Agricultural Systems in Ghana	5
Lessons from Europe About Just Agrifood Governance: EU Green Deal, Farmer Protests, and the Politics of Diagonalism	5
Citizen Science and Natural Resource Management: A Social Network Analysis of Two Community-Based Water Monitoring Programs	5
Book Review: Hottest of the Hotspots: The Rise of Eco-precarious Conservation Labor in Madagascar	5
Political Ontologies of Colombian Amazonia: Peasant Resistance in Protected Areas	5
Linking Tourism and Conservation on Privately Owned Natural Areas: A Systematic Review of English-Language Literature	4
Navigating the Space between Policy and Practice: Toward a Typology of Collaborators in a Federal Land Management Agency	4
Tackling (Not Only) Air Pollution: Cross-sectional Tensions behind State-led Energy Retrofit Program in Poland	4
Conflicting Notions of Land in Indonesia	4
The Collective Memory of the Fluvial Environment: The Loss of a Healthy Natural Environment in the City of Toledo (Spain) through Pollution	4
“If You Had a Sensor, You Would Know”: Unequal Exposures and Behavioral Responses to Indoor Air Pollution	4
Facilitating the Czech Coal Phase-Out: What Drives Inter-Organizational Collaboration?	4
No Single Story: Exploring the Viewpoints of Estonian Environmental Civil Servants on Citizen Science with Q-Methodology	4
Yellowstone Wolves: Science and Discovery in the World’s First National Park	4
Neither Worse nor Better: Engagement in Pro-Environmental Behaviors by UK-Born and Global South Immigrant Residents of Manchester UK	4
How Sociopolitical Histories and Lifeways Impact the Formation of ‘Good Governance’ in the Restoration of Anadromous Fish in the Columbia River Basin	4
“Death by a Thousand Cuts”: Conservation Stakeholders’ Perspectives on Protecting Lakes in a Tourist Region Surrounded by Agriculture	4
Role of Trust and Relationships in Collaborative Research on Natural Resource Management with Farmers on Private Lands in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia	4
Learning from an Interdisciplinary Research Experience Exploring the Impacts of Global Changes on Quebec’s Northern Shrimp Fishery	4
Impact of Stone Quarrying on Sustainable Livelihoods and Environment in Selected Communities in Ghana: implications for the Sustainable Development Goals	4
An Irreplaceable Place: Onto-Epistemological Contestation in the Environmental Impact Assessment Process of the Green Anglo American Sakatti Mine, Arctic Finland	4