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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

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	38
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
Why Do we Conserve?: Identifying Mechanisms in Agricultural Conservation Practice Adoption Decisions	24
Relational Capital and Connectedness in Adaptive Governance Processes: A Case Study of the Kafue Flats, Zambia	24
The Challenges of Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Pastoral Rangelands	22
“Going Green” Rhetoric or Reality: An Assessment of the Prospects and Challenges of Ghana’s Youth in Afforestation Programme	20
Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature: Indigenous People and Protected Spaces of Nature *Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature: Indigenous People and Protected Spa*	20
Quantifying the Influence of Emotions on Management Acceptability for White-Tailed Deer(Odocoileus virginianus)	19
Factors Influencing Communities’ Attitudes and Participation in Protected Area Conservation: A Case Study from Northern Myanmar	19
Factors That Influence On-Farm Decision-Making: Evidence from Weed Management	19
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
Protecting and Benefitting from Nature: Insights and Policy Dilemmas from Africa	15
“Evergreen and Charcoal Black”: The Institutional and Organizational Development of the Washington Department of Natural Resources in the Era of Megafires	15
Correction	15
Examining Normative Influences on Intentions to Reduce Irrigated Landscape Area through a Compliance and Belonging Lens	14
Salish Sea Survey: Geographic Literacy Enhancing Natural Resource Management	13
Does Cooperation between Finnish Forest Owners Increase Their Interest in Capercaillie (Tetrao Urogallus) Lekking Site Management?	12
Unsheltered Homelessness in Public Natural Areas Across an Urban-to-Wildland System: Institutional Perspectives	12
Community Forestry Governance: Lessons for Cameroon and Nepal	11
A Practical Approach to Developing and Using Online Games for Transdisciplinary Research into Complex Social-Ecological Systems	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
Balpara: A Practical Approach to Working With Ontological Difference in Indigenous Land & Sea Management	11

Supporting Women Landowners in Wetland Conservation	11
Customary Authorities and Environmental Governance in Africa: A Systematic Review	11
Hydropower Development and the Neglect of Inland Capture Fisheries from a Food Systems Perspective	10
Managed Wildfire: A Strategy Facilitated by Civil Society Partnerships and Interagency Cooperation	10
Negotiated Agreements and Sámi Reindeer Herding in Sweden: Evaluating Outcomes	10
Let Nature Take Its Course: Attitudes and Knowledge of Chronic Wasting Disease Among Southeastern Minnesota Amish Deer Hunters	9
Disaster Resettlement and Adaptive Capacity among Rural Households in China	9
Taking Stock of Land Use Conflict Research: A Systematic Map with Special Focus on Conceptual Approaches	9
Evaluating Conservation Easement and Land Records Data in Rapidly Growing Counties in the United States and the Implications for Environmental Governance	9
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 Social Equity in Protected Areas Co-management: Evidence from the Sundarbans Mangrove Forests, Bangladesh	9
A National Park in the Making: Local Perceptions and Equity Implications around a Proposed National Park in Romania	8
Private Property and Social Capital: Dynamics of Exclusion and Sharing in the Subdivided Pastoral Rangelands of Kajiado, Kenya	8
Conservation as Integration: Desire to Belong as Motivation for Environmental Conservation	8
“They Need to Be Managed:” Hunters’ and Ranchers’ Narratives of Increased Tolerance of Wolves after a Decade of Wolf Hunting	8
Using Personal Norms to Understand Deer Hunters’ Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Prevention Behaviors: The “Right” Thing to Do	8
Exploring the Potential of Internal Information Flows in Large Organizations as Leverage Points for Environmental Stewardship	8
Littering Prevention in Ghana: The Mediating and Moderating Effect of Awareness of Consequence with the Theory of Value-Belief-Norm	8
Measuring Tourism Impacts on Community Well-being at the Hani Rice Terraces GIAHS Site, Yunnan Province of China	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
Disrupting the Patrón: Indigenous Land Rights and the Fight for Environmental Justice in Paraguay’s Chaco	7
Correction	7
The Evolution of Public Engagement in United States Environmental Governance: A Justice-Centered Framework	7
How Endogenous Cultural Institutions May (Not) Shape Farmers’ Climate Adaptation Practices: Learning from Rural Cameroon	7
Application of Participatory Process Mapping to Evaluate Environmental Decision-Making and Implementation	7
Applying Novel Visitation Models using Diverse Social Media to Understand Recreation Change after Wildfire and Site Closure	7
Does Educational Profile Influence Student Perception of Ecosystem Service Provision by Blue-Green Infrastructure?	6
A Web-Based Approach to Stakeholder Analysis for Identifying and Understanding Broader Constituencies in Wildlife Conservation	6
“Here” Versus “There”: Authoritarian Populism, Environment, and Scapegoat Ecology Among Loggers of Northwestern Russia	6
Conservation Conflict: A Political Ecology Meta-Synthesis of East Africa	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
“When Will the Tree Grow for Me to Benefit from It?”: Tree Tenure Reform to Counter Mining in Southwestern Ghana	6
Water Equity: The South African Case	6
Perceptions of Climate Risks and Migration of Agricultural Producers in Northern Benin	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
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
The Use of Q Methodology as a Participatory Tool in Natural Resources Management	6
More than Landscape: Toward Cosmophanic Diversity in Environmental Planning and Governance	6
Navigating the Space between Policy and Practice: Toward a Typology of Collaborators in a Federal Land Management Agency	5
Impact of Stone Quarrying on Sustainable Livelihoods and Environment in Selected Communities in Ghana: implications for the Sustainable Development Goals	5
Yellowstone Wolves: Science and Discovery in the World’s First National Park	5
Political Ontologies of Colombian Amazonia: Peasant Resistance in Protected Areas	5
Insights into the Cocoa and Forests Initiative: Smallholder Engagement with Certification Programs and Agroforestry	5
Displacement after the Camp Fire: Where are the Most Vulnerable?	5
Visibility, Land Use, Social Norms, and Partisanship in Support for a Hypothetical Solar Facility in Non-Metropolitan Michigan	5

Spatial Biopolitics of Tick-Borne Disease Control Practices in Laikipia, Kenya	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
How Sociopolitical Histories and Lifeways Impact the Formation of ‘Good Governance’ in the Restoration of Anadromous Fish in the Columbia River Basin	5
Conflicting Notions of Land in Indonesia	5
Book Review: Hottest of the Hotspots: The Rise of Eco-precarious Conservation Labor in Madagascar	5
Understanding Local Peoples’ Deforestation Decisions in Gunung Leuser National Park, Indonesia	5
Navigating Cross-Cultural Relationships to Address the Illegal Wildlife Trade: Learning From Western-Interactions With Traditional Chinese Medicine and Traditional Knowledges	5
Mainstreaming Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Practices in Climate-Sensitive Policies for Resilient Agricultural Systems in Ghana	5
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future	5
A Systematic Review of Environmental Volunteer Motivations	5
Recreation Area Characteristics and Their Impact on Property Values within Florida’s Wekiva River System	5
“I Can’t Breathe:” The Invisible Slow Violence of Breathing Politics in Minneapolis	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
Linking Community Characteristics to Performance in Fisheries Co-Management and Community-Based Management: Evidence from South Korea	5
Understanding Multidirectional Climate Change Impacts on Local Livelihoods through the Lens of Local Ecological Knowledge: A Study in Western Amazonia	5
A Stakeholder Network for Managing Multiple Forest Stressors and Roadside Forests	5
Being Paramuno : Peasant World-Making Practices in the Paramos [High Moorlands] of the Colombian Andes	5
Citizen Science and Natural Resource Management: A Social Network Analysis of Two Community-Based Water Monitoring Programs	5
Linking Tourism and Conservation on Privately Owned Natural Areas: A Systematic Review of English-Language Literature	4
The Collective Memory of the Fluvial Environment: The Loss of a Healthy Natural Environment in the City of Toledo (Spain) through Pollution	4
Does Information and Deliberation Affect Ecosystem Service Judgments? Evidence from Tree Plantation Expansion in Argentina	4
Rethinking Decision Support Under Conditions of Irreducible Uncertainty: Co-Designing a Serious Game to Navigate Baltic Sea Nutrient Enrichment	4
Review of Roots of Power: The Political Ecology of Boundary Plants	4
“Not The End Of The World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet”	4
Social and Cultural Values and Representation Justice: Implications for Water	4
Violations of Forest Laws in the Bu Gia Map National Park, Vietnam	4
Workers’ Acquiescence to Air Pollution: A Qualitative Study of Coal Miners in China	4
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
Enhancing Online Survey Research in Environmental and Conservation Social Sciences: A GIS-Based Place Mapping Validation Technique for Enhancing Sample Quality	4
A Systematic Review of Key Factors of Effective Collaborative Governance of Social-Ecological Systems	4
Trust and Emotions Predict Support for Large Carnivore Recovery in the Absence of Real Threats	4
Inter-Group Perceptions of Key Performance Indicators for Monitoring and Evaluating Scenic Viewpoints	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
Using the Theory of Planned Behavior to Understand Family Forest Owners’ Intended Responses to Invasive Forest Insects	4
Facilitating the Czech Coal Phase-Out: What Drives Inter-Organizational Collaboration?	4
Conservation Science and Discursive Violence: A Response to Two Rejoinders	4
What Is at Stake? The Ontological Dimension of Environmental Conflicts	4
“Ordering the Wild”: How Adaptive Management Is Used to Maintain Nature Like a Postcard	4
Formative Interests and Pathways to Natural Resources Careers among Historically Underrepresented People	4
Perception of the Vulnerability of Quilombola Farmers in Alcântara, Eastern Amazonia, Brazil	4
Correction	4