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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Minors Can Have Major Effects: Household Hurricane Preparation Insights from Alabama	44
An Analysis of Access in Devil’s Claw (HarpagophytumSpp.) Harvesting and Trade in Namibia	39
Mismatched Property Rights and Natural Resource Use: A Case Study of Grassland Resources on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	30
The Labor Governance Frontier in Fisheries: A Critical Review and Future Outlook	26
Socioenvironmental Conflict Management: Contributions from the Analysis of Visitor Spatial Behavior in Balandra Protected Natural Area, Mexico	25
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	22
Factors Influencing Communities’ Attitudes and Participation in Protected Area Conservation: A Case Study from Northern Myanmar	20
Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature: Indigenous People and Protected Spaces of Nature *Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature: Indigenous People and Protected Spa*	20
Factors That Influence On-Farm Decision-Making: Evidence from Weed Management	20
“Going Green” Rhetoric or Reality: An Assessment of the Prospects and Challenges of Ghana’s Youth in Afforestation Programme	16
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
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	14
Unlikely Alliances in Action: Balancing Alignment and Autonomy in Rural-Urban Water Conflicts	14
Correction	13
Examining Normative Influences on Intentions to Reduce Irrigated Landscape Area through a Compliance and Belonging Lens	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	12
Quantifying the Influence of Emotions on Management Acceptability for White-Tailed Deer(Odocoileus virginianus)	11
Customary Authorities and Environmental Governance in Africa: A Systematic Review	11
Balpara: A Practical Approach to Working With Ontological Difference in Indigenous Land & Sea Management	11
A Practical Approach to Developing and Using Online Games for Transdisciplinary Research into Complex Social-Ecological Systems	11
More than Just Honeybees: Exploring Native Insect Pollinator Knowledge and Support in Colorado	10
Hydropower Development and the Neglect of Inland Capture Fisheries from a Food Systems Perspective	10

Evaluating Conservation Easement and Land Records Data in Rapidly Growing Counties in the United States and the Implications for Environmental Governance	10
Managed Wildfire: A Strategy Facilitated by Civil Society Partnerships and Interagency Cooperation	10
Community Forestry Governance: Lessons for Cameroon and Nepal	10
Just Transitions’ Meanings: A Systematic Review	10
Conservation as Integration: Desire to Belong as Motivation for Environmental Conservation	10
Negotiated Agreements and Sámi Reindeer Herding in Sweden: Evaluating Outcomes	10
Supporting Women Landowners in Wetland Conservation	10
Disaster Resettlement and Adaptive Capacity among Rural Households in China	10
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
“There’s More Negatives than Positives”: Community Perceptions About Climate Changes to Water Ecosystem Services in Southeast Michigan	9
“They Need to Be Managed:” Hunters’ and Ranchers’ Narratives of Increased Tolerance of Wolves after a Decade of Wolf Hunting	9
Gender Inequality, Climate Change, and Armed Conflict: Exploring the Triple Challenges for Female Farmers in Northwestern Cameroon	9
Evaluating Social Equity in Protected Areas Co-management: Evidence from the Sundarbans Mangrove Forests, Bangladesh	8
Taking Stock of Land Use Conflict Research: A Systematic Map with Special Focus on Conceptual Approaches	8
Private Property and Social Capital: Dynamics of Exclusion and Sharing in the Subdivided Pastoral Rangelands of Kajiado, Kenya	8
Measuring Social Equity Outcomes in a Community-Based Conservation Program in Ethiopia: Developing and Applying Local Indicators	8
Using Personal Norms to Understand Deer Hunters’ Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Prevention Behaviors: The “Right” Thing to Do	8
Disrupting the Patrón: Indigenous Land Rights and the Fight for Environmental Justice in Paraguay’s Chaco	7
Applying Novel Visitation Models using Diverse Social Media to Understand Recreation Change after Wildfire and Site Closure	7
Building Community for Participatory Modeling: Network Composition, Trust, and Adaptive Process Design	7
The Evolution of Public Engagement in United States Environmental Governance: A Justice-Centered Framework	7
Measuring Tourism Impacts on Community Well-being at the Hani Rice Terraces GIAHS Site, Yunnan Province of China	7
Correction	7
Littering Prevention in Ghana: The Mediating and Moderating Effect of Awareness of Consequence with the Theory of Value-Belief-Norm	7
Application of Participatory Process Mapping to Evaluate Environmental Decision-Making and Implementation	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
“When Will the Tree Grow for Me to Benefit from It?”: Tree Tenure Reform to Counter Mining in Southwestern Ghana	7
Socioeconomic Trajectories of 10 Rural Federal Forest-Based Communities in the American Pacific Northwest	7
How Endogenous Cultural Institutions May (Not) Shape Farmers’ Climate Adaptation Practices: Learning from Rural Cameroon	7
“Here” Versus “There”: Authoritarian Populism, Environment, and Scapegoat Ecology Among Loggers of Northwestern Russia	6
Does Educational Profile Influence Student Perception of Ecosystem Service Provision by Blue-Green Infrastructure?	6
Water Equity: The South African Case	6
Assessing Social Capital Studies Related to Community-Based Forest Management in Asian Countries: A Review	6
Being Paramuno : Peasant World-Making Practices in the Paramos [High Moorlands] of the Colombian Andes	6
Displacement after the Camp Fire: Where are the Most Vulnerable?	6
The Use of Q Methodology as a Participatory Tool in Natural Resources Management	6
Conservation Conflict: A Political Ecology Meta-Synthesis of East Africa	6
Seeing the Forest for the Trees Sequel II: An Exploratory Bibliometric Analysis of the Chinese Environmental and Resource Sociology/Social Science Literature	6
More than Landscape: Toward Cosmophanic Diversity in Environmental Planning and Governance	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
“What’s Love Got to Do with It?”: Theorizing Emotional Attachments to Land Through the Concept of Terraphilia	6
Insights into the Cocoa and Forests Initiative: Smallholder Engagement with Certification Programs and Agroforestry	6
“Collaborative NGO Analysis in NRM: When your collaborator is also your unit of analysis”	6
Publisher’s Note, dated 6th May 2022	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
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

Book Review: Hottest of the Hotspots: The Rise of Eco-precarious Conservation Labor in Madagascar	5
Tackling (Not Only) Air Pollution: Cross-sectional Tensions behind State-led Energy Retrofit Program in Poland	5
Yellowstone Wolves: Science and Discovery in the World’s First National Park	5
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future	5
Navigating Cross-Cultural Relationships to Address the Illegal Wildlife Trade: Learning From Western-Interactions With Traditional Chinese Medicine and Traditional Knowledges	5
Spatial Biopolitics of Tick-Borne Disease Control Practices in Laikipia, Kenya	5
“I Can’t Breathe:” The Invisible Slow Violence of Breathing Politics in Minneapolis	5
Impact of Stone Quarrying on Sustainable Livelihoods and Environment in Selected Communities in Ghana: implications for the Sustainable Development Goals	5
Learning from an Interdisciplinary Research Experience Exploring the Impacts of Global Changes on Quebec’s Northern Shrimp Fishery	5
Visibility, Land Use, Social Norms, and Partisanship in Support for a Hypothetical Solar Facility in Non-Metropolitan Michigan	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
Citizen Science and Natural Resource Management: A Social Network Analysis of Two Community-Based Water Monitoring Programs	5
Exploring Conservation Actor Networks in Trinidad And Tobago	5
Understanding Local Peoples’ Deforestation Decisions in Gunung Leuser National Park, Indonesia	5
Conflicting Notions of Land in Indonesia	5
How Row-Crop Farmers Adapted Nitrogen Management in Response to Market Volatility: Evidence from Interviews in the United States Midwest	5
Understanding Multidirectional Climate Change Impacts on Local Livelihoods through the Lens of Local Ecological Knowledge: A Study in Western Amazonia	5
Political Ontologies of Colombian Amazonia: Peasant Resistance in Protected Areas	5
Transcending Consumer Roles: Evidence of Citizen Investment in Photovoltaic in China	4
Conservation Science and Discursive Violence: A Response to Two Rejoinders	4
Voting “Yes” for Community-Level Conservation: Cognitive Antecedents of Support for a Greenspace Ballot Initiative	4
“If You Had a Sensor, You Would Know”: Unequal Exposures and Behavioral Responses to Indoor Air Pollution	4
The Collective Memory of the Fluvial Environment: The Loss of a Healthy Natural Environment in the City of Toledo (Spain) through Pollution	4
Correction	4
“Death by a Thousand Cuts”: Conservation Stakeholders’ Perspectives on Protecting Lakes in a Tourist Region Surrounded by Agriculture	4
Review of Roots of Power: The Political Ecology of Boundary Plants	4
Social and Cultural Values and Representation Justice: Implications for Water	4
Enhancing Online Survey Research in Environmental and Conservation Social Sciences: A GIS-Based Place Mapping Validation Technique for Enhancing Sample Quality	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
Facilitating the Czech Coal Phase-Out: What Drives Inter-Organizational Collaboration?	4
An Irreplaceable Place: Onto-Epistemological Contestation in the Environmental Impact Assessment Process of the Green Anglo American Sakatti Mine, Arctic Finland	4
Multiple Ontologies of Evidence-Based Policy: The Case of Nature Type Mapping	4
Does Measuring Trust in Groups Also Measure Distrust? It Depends	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
How Sociopolitical Histories and Lifeways Impact the Formation of ‘Good Governance’ in the Restoration of Anadromous Fish in the Columbia River Basin	4
Neither Worse nor Better: Engagement in Pro-Environmental Behaviors by UK-Born and Global South Immigrant Residents of Manchester UK	4
Navigating the Space between Policy and Practice: Toward a Typology of Collaborators in a Federal Land Management Agency	4
Inter-Group Perceptions of Key Performance Indicators for Monitoring and Evaluating Scenic Viewpoints	4
Formative Interests and Pathways to Natural Resources Careers among Historically Underrepresented People	4