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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
An Analysis of Access in Devil’s Claw (HarpagophytumSpp.) Harvesting and Trade in Namibia	44
The Labor Governance Frontier in Fisheries: A Critical Review and Future Outlook	40
Factors That Influence On-Farm Decision-Making: Evidence from Weed Management	37
Factors Influencing Communities’ Attitudes and Participation in Protected Area Conservation: A Case Study from Northern Myanmar	27
Why Do we Conserve?: Identifying Mechanisms in Agricultural Conservation Practice Adoption Decisions	26
Socioenvironmental Conflict Management: Contributions from the Analysis of Visitor Spatial Behavior in Balandra Protected Natural Area, Mexico	25
Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature: Indigenous People and Protected Spaces of Nature *Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature: Indigenous People and Protected Spa*	24
Minors Can Have Major Effects: Household Hurricane Preparation Insights from Alabama	24
Mismatched Property Rights and Natural Resource Use: A Case Study of Grassland Resources on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	21
“Going Green” Rhetoric or Reality: An Assessment of the Prospects and Challenges of Ghana’s Youth in Afforestation Programme	17
Quantifying the Influence of Emotions on Management Acceptability for White-Tailed Deer(Odocoileus virginianus)	16
Correction	16
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
“Evergreen and Charcoal Black”: The Institutional and Organizational Development of the Washington Department of Natural Resources in the Era of Megafires	14
Does Cooperation between Finnish Forest Owners Increase Their Interest in Capercaillie (Tetrao Urogallus) Lekking Site Management?	14
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	12
Examining Normative Influences on Intentions to Reduce Irrigated Landscape Area through a Compliance and Belonging Lens	12
Balpara: A Practical Approach to Working With Ontological Difference in Indigenous Land & Sea Management	12
A Practical Approach to Developing and Using Online Games for Transdisciplinary Research into Complex Social-Ecological Systems	11
Supporting Women Landowners in Wetland Conservation	11
Customary Authorities and Environmental Governance in Africa: A Systematic Review	11
Just Transitions’ Meanings: A Systematic Review	10
More than Just Honeybees: Exploring Native Insect Pollinator Knowledge and Support in Colorado	10

“There’s More Negatives than Positives”: Community Perceptions About Climate Changes to Water Ecosystem Services in Southeast Michigan	10
Gender Inequality, Climate Change, and Armed Conflict: Exploring the Triple Challenges for Female Farmers in Northwestern Cameroon	10
Hydropower Development and the Neglect of Inland Capture Fisheries from a Food Systems Perspective	10
Community Forestry Governance: Lessons for Cameroon and Nepal	10
Disaster Resettlement and Adaptive Capacity among Rural Households in China	10
Negotiated Agreements and Sámi Reindeer Herding in Sweden: Evaluating Outcomes	10
Managed Wildfire: A Strategy Facilitated by Civil Society Partnerships and Interagency Cooperation	10
In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua	10
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
Let Nature Take Its Course: Attitudes and Knowledge of Chronic Wasting Disease Among Southeastern Minnesota Amish Deer Hunters	9
Exploring the Potential of Internal Information Flows in Large Organizations as Leverage Points for Environmental Stewardship	9
Private Property and Social Capital: Dynamics of Exclusion and Sharing in the Subdivided Pastoral Rangelands of Kajiado, Kenya	9
Evaluating Social Equity in Protected Areas Co-management: Evidence from the Sundarbans Mangrove Forests, Bangladesh	9
Conservation as Integration: Desire to Belong as Motivation for Environmental Conservation	9
Using Personal Norms to Understand Deer Hunters’ Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Prevention Behaviors: The “Right” Thing to Do	8
“They Need to Be Managed:” Hunters’ and Ranchers’ Narratives of Increased Tolerance of Wolves after a Decade of Wolf Hunting	8
Applying Novel Visitation Models using Diverse Social Media to Understand Recreation Change after Wildfire and Site Closure	8
Conference of the Parties Meetings as Regularly Scheduled Critical Events for Global Climate Governance: Reflecting on COP 26 and the Glasgow Climate Pact	8
Disrupting the Patrón: Indigenous Land Rights and the Fight for Environmental Justice in Paraguay’s Chaco	8
Littering Prevention in Ghana: The Mediating and Moderating Effect of Awareness of Consequence with the Theory of Value-Belief-Norm	8
Evaluating Conservation Easement and Land Records Data in Rapidly Growing Counties in the United States and the Implications for Environmental Governance	8
The Evolution of Public Engagement in United States Environmental Governance: A Justice-Centered Framework	8
Application of Participatory Process Mapping to Evaluate Environmental Decision-Making and Implementation	8
Socioeconomic Trajectories of 10 Rural Federal Forest-Based Communities in the American Pacific Northwest	7
Measuring Tourism Impacts on Community Well-being at the Hani Rice Terraces GIAHS Site, Yunnan Province of China	7
Correction	7
Building Community for Participatory Modeling: Network Composition, Trust, and Adaptive Process Design	7
Water Equity: The South African Case	7
Are Left-Wing and Right-Wing Authoritarianism Associated with Resident Attitudes and Support for Marine Reserves?	7
Does Educational Profile Influence Student Perception of Ecosystem Service Provision by Blue-Green Infrastructure?	7
“When Will the Tree Grow for Me to Benefit from It?”: Tree Tenure Reform to Counter Mining in Southwestern Ghana	7
How Endogenous Cultural Institutions May (Not) Shape Farmers’ Climate Adaptation Practices: Learning from Rural Cameroon	7
Co-Produced Science/co-Produced Communication: Mediated Science Storytelling and Generative Dialogue in Indigenous Knowledge co-Production Relationships	7
“Collaborative NGO Analysis in NRM: When your collaborator is also your unit of analysis”	6
“Here” Versus “There”: Authoritarian Populism, Environment, and Scapegoat Ecology Among Loggers of Northwestern Russia	6
Seeing the Forest for the Trees Sequel II: An Exploratory Bibliometric Analysis of the Chinese Environmental and Resource Sociology/Social Science Literature	6
Assessing Social Capital Studies Related to Community-Based Forest Management in Asian Countries: A Review	6
Linking Community Characteristics to Performance in Fisheries Co-Management and Community-Based Management: Evidence from South Korea	6
A Systematic Review of Environmental Volunteer Motivations	6
Managing Recreation, Managing Collective Attention: Exploring the Nexus Between Conservation and Use of Migratory Species in France	6
More than Landscape: Toward Cosmophanic Diversity in Environmental Planning and Governance	6
Conservation Conflict: A Political Ecology Meta-Synthesis of East Africa	6
Being Paramuno : Peasant World-Making Practices in the Paramos [High Moorlands] of the Colombian Andes	6
Insights into the Cocoa and Forests Initiative: Smallholder Engagement with Certification Programs and Agroforestry	6
Investigating the Dynamics of Human–Wildlife Conflict in Oil Palm Plantation: Cases from Johor and Sabah, Malaysia	6
“What’s Love Got to Do with It?”: Theorizing Emotional Attachments to Land Through the Concept of Terraphilia	6
How Row-Crop Farmers Adapted Nitrogen Management in Response to Market Volatility: Evidence from Interviews in the United States Midwest	6
Publisher’s Note, dated 6th May 2022	6
Perceptions of Climate Risks and Migration of Agricultural Producers in Northern Benin	6

“The Great Vermont Floods of 2023”: A Risk and Crisis Communication Assessment	6
Mainstreaming Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Practices in Climate-Sensitive Policies for Resilient Agricultural Systems in Ghana	6
The Use of Q Methodology as a Participatory Tool in Natural Resources Management	6
A Stakeholder Network for Managing Multiple Forest Stressors and Roadside Forests	6
Unraveling Irrigation Governance: A Qualitative Systematic Review of Global Transformations Amid Agricultural Modernization and Neoliberalism	5
Understanding Local Peoples’ Deforestation Decisions in Gunung Leuser National Park, Indonesia	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
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future	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
The Influences of Performance and Process Factors on Public Participation in Water Governance: Multilevel Evidence of Survey Data in Guangzhou, China	5
Learning from an Interdisciplinary Research Experience Exploring the Impacts of Global Changes on Quebec’s Northern Shrimp Fishery	5
Navigating Cross-Cultural Relationships to Address the Illegal Wildlife Trade: Learning From Western-Interactions With Traditional Chinese Medicine and Traditional Knowledges	5
No Single Story: Exploring the Viewpoints of Estonian Environmental Civil Servants on Citizen Science with Q-Methodology	5
Understanding Multidirectional Climate Change Impacts on Local Livelihoods through the Lens of Local Ecological Knowledge: A Study in Western Amazonia	5
Recreation Area Characteristics and Their Impact on Property Values within Florida’s Wekiva River System	5
Political Ontologies of Colombian Amazonia: Peasant Resistance in Protected Areas	5
Book Review: Hottest of the Hotspots: The Rise of Eco-precarious Conservation Labor in Madagascar	5
Lessons from Europe About Just Agrifood Governance: EU Green Deal, Farmer Protests, and the Politics of Diagonalism	5
Impact of Stone Quarrying on Sustainable Livelihoods and Environment in Selected Communities in Ghana: implications for the Sustainable Development Goals	5
Citizen Science and Natural Resource Management: A Social Network Analysis of Two Community-Based Water Monitoring Programs	5
Tackling (Not Only) Air Pollution: Cross-sectional Tensions behind State-led Energy Retrofit Program in Poland	5
“I Can’t Breathe:” The Invisible Slow Violence of Breathing Politics in Minneapolis	5
Exploring Conservation Actor Networks in Trinidad And Tobago	5
Conflicting Notions of Land in Indonesia	5
Navigating the Space between Policy and Practice: Toward a Typology of Collaborators in a Federal Land Management Agency	4
Yellowstone Wolves: Science and Discovery in the World’s First National Park	4
An Irreplaceable Place: Onto-Epistemological Contestation in the Environmental Impact Assessment Process of the Green Anglo American Sakatti Mine, Arctic Finland	4
Correction	4
Voting “Yes” for Community-Level Conservation: Cognitive Antecedents of Support for a Greenspace Ballot Initiative	4
Multiple Ontologies of Evidence-Based Policy: The Case of Nature Type Mapping	4
Perception of the Vulnerability of Quilombola Farmers in Alcântara, Eastern Amazonia, Brazil	4
Using a Modified Drop-Off/Pick-Up Survey to Reduce Costs and Increase Response Rates	4
Facilitating the Czech Coal Phase-Out: What Drives Inter-Organizational Collaboration?	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
“If You Had a Sensor, You Would Know”: Unequal Exposures and Behavioral Responses to Indoor Air Pollution	4
Inter-Group Perceptions of Key Performance Indicators for Monitoring and Evaluating Scenic Viewpoints	4
Conservation Science and Discursive Violence: A Response to Two Rejoinders	4
Critical Consciousness of Systemic Racism in Parks among Park Agency Directors and Policymakers: An Environmental Justice Tool for Recreation and Conservation Leaders	4
“Death by a Thousand Cuts”: Conservation Stakeholders’ Perspectives on Protecting Lakes in a Tourist Region Surrounded by Agriculture	4
Neither Worse nor Better: Engagement in Pro-Environmental Behaviors by UK-Born and Global South Immigrant Residents of Manchester UK	4
Linking Tourism and Conservation on Privately Owned Natural Areas: A Systematic Review of English-Language Literature	4
Violations of Forest Laws in the Bu Gia Map National Park, Vietnam	4
Formative Interests and Pathways to Natural Resources Careers among Historically Underrepresented People	4
Enhancing Online Survey Research in Environmental and Conservation Social Sciences: A GIS-Based Place Mapping Validation Technique for Enhancing Sample Quality	4
Social and Cultural Values and Representation Justice: Implications for Water	4
A Systematic Review of Key Factors of Effective Collaborative Governance of Social-Ecological Systems	4