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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Minors Can Have Major Effects: Household Hurricane Preparation Insights from Alabama	43
An Analysis of Access in Devil’s Claw (HarpagophytumSpp.) Harvesting and Trade in Namibia	37
The Labor Governance Frontier in Fisheries: A Critical Review and Future Outlook	26
Mismatched Property Rights and Natural Resource Use: A Case Study of Grassland Resources on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	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	23
Socioenvironmental Conflict Management: Contributions from the Analysis of Visitor Spatial Behavior in Balandra Protected Natural Area, Mexico	22
Factors Influencing Communities’ Attitudes and Participation in Protected Area Conservation: A Case Study from Northern Myanmar	21
Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature: Indigenous People and Protected Spaces of Nature *Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature: Indigenous People and Protected Spa*	20
“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	18
Quantifying the Influence of Emotions on Management Acceptability for White-Tailed Deer(Odocoileus virginianus)	15
Does Cooperation between Finnish Forest Owners Increase Their Interest in Capercaillie (Tetrao Urogallus) Lekking Site Management?	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
Balpara: A Practical Approach to Working With Ontological Difference in Indigenous Land & Sea Management	14
“Evergreen and Charcoal Black”: The Institutional and Organizational Development of the Washington Department of Natural Resources in the Era of Megafires	13
Unlikely Alliances in Action: Balancing Alignment and Autonomy in Rural-Urban Water Conflicts	13
Correction	13
Protecting and Benefitting from Nature: Insights and Policy Dilemmas from Africa	12
Examining Normative Influences on Intentions to Reduce Irrigated Landscape Area through a Compliance and Belonging Lens	11
Unsheltered Homelessness in Public Natural Areas Across an Urban-to-Wildland System: Institutional Perspectives	11
Managed Wildfire: A Strategy Facilitated by Civil Society Partnerships and Interagency Cooperation	10
Just Transitions’ Meanings: A Systematic Review	10
Customary Authorities and Environmental Governance in Africa: A Systematic Review	10
Negotiated Agreements and Sámi Reindeer Herding in Sweden: Evaluating Outcomes	10

A Practical Approach to Developing and Using Online Games for Transdisciplinary Research into Complex Social-Ecological Systems	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
Supporting Women Landowners in Wetland Conservation	10
Gender Inequality, Climate Change, and Armed Conflict: Exploring the Triple Challenges for Female Farmers in Northwestern Cameroon	9
Evaluating Conservation Easement and Land Records Data in Rapidly Growing Counties in the United States and the Implications for Environmental Governance	9
Disaster Resettlement and Adaptive Capacity among Rural Households in China	9
A National Park in the Making: Local Perceptions and Equity Implications around a Proposed National Park in Romania	9
Conservation as Integration: Desire to Belong as Motivation for Environmental Conservation	9
Let Nature Take Its Course: Attitudes and Knowledge of Chronic Wasting Disease Among Southeastern Minnesota Amish Deer Hunters	8
Private Property and Social Capital: Dynamics of Exclusion and Sharing in the Subdivided Pastoral Rangelands of Kajiado, Kenya	8
“They Need to Be Managed:” Hunters’ and Ranchers’ Narratives of Increased Tolerance of Wolves after a Decade of Wolf Hunting	8
Measuring Social Equity Outcomes in a Community-Based Conservation Program in Ethiopia: Developing and Applying Local Indicators	8
“There’s More Negatives than Positives”: Community Perceptions About Climate Changes to Water Ecosystem Services in Southeast Michigan	8
Evaluating Social Equity in Protected Areas Co-management: Evidence from the Sundarbans Mangrove Forests, Bangladesh	8
Exploring the Potential of Internal Information Flows in Large Organizations as Leverage Points for Environmental Stewardship	8
Using Personal Norms to Understand Deer Hunters’ Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Prevention Behaviors: The “Right” Thing to Do	7
Measuring Tourism Impacts on Community Well-being at the Hani Rice Terraces GIAHS Site, Yunnan Province of China	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?	7
Taking Stock of Land Use Conflict Research: A Systematic Map with Special Focus on Conceptual Approaches	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
How Endogenous Cultural Institutions May (Not) Shape Farmers’ Climate Adaptation Practices: Learning from Rural Cameroon	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
Correction	7
Application of Participatory Process Mapping to Evaluate Environmental Decision-Making and Implementation	7
Linking Community Characteristics to Performance in Fisheries Co-Management and Community-Based Management: Evidence from South Korea	6
“Collaborative NGO Analysis in NRM: When your collaborator is also your unit of analysis”	6
Seeing the Forest for the Trees Sequel II: An Exploratory Bibliometric Analysis of the Chinese Environmental and Resource Sociology/Social Science Literature	6
“When Will the Tree Grow for Me to Benefit from It?”: Tree Tenure Reform to Counter Mining in Southwestern Ghana	6
Conservation Conflict: A Political Ecology Meta-Synthesis of East Africa	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
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
Building Community for Participatory Modeling: Network Composition, Trust, and Adaptive Process Design	6
Socioeconomic Trajectories of 10 Rural Federal Forest-Based Communities in the American Pacific Northwest	6
Perceptions of Climate Risks and Migration of Agricultural Producers in Northern Benin	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
“Here” Versus “There”: Authoritarian Populism, Environment, and Scapegoat Ecology Among Loggers of Northwestern Russia	6
Water Equity: The South African Case	6
Publisher’s Note, dated 6th May 2022	6
How Row-Crop Farmers Adapted Nitrogen Management in Response to Market Volatility: Evidence from Interviews in the United States Midwest	6
Insights into the Cocoa and Forests Initiative: Smallholder Engagement with Certification Programs and Agroforestry	6
A Systematic Review of Environmental Volunteer Motivations	5
Recreation Area Characteristics and Their Impact on Property Values within Florida’s Wekiva River System	5
Mainstreaming Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Practices in Climate-Sensitive Policies for Resilient Agricultural Systems in Ghana	5

Exploring Conservation Actor Networks in Trinidad And Tobago	5
Conflicting Notions of Land in Indonesia	5
Spatial Biopolitics of Tick-Borne Disease Control Practices in Laikipia, Kenya	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
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
Impact of Stone Quarrying on Sustainable Livelihoods and Environment in Selected Communities in Ghana: implications for the Sustainable Development Goals	5
Displacement after the Camp Fire: Where are the Most Vulnerable?	5
“What’s Love Got to Do with It?”: Theorizing Emotional Attachments to Land Through the Concept of Terraphilia	5
“I Can’t Breathe:” The Invisible Slow Violence of Breathing Politics in Minneapolis	5
Citizen Science and Natural Resource Management: A Social Network Analysis of Two Community-Based Water Monitoring Programs	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
Understanding Multidirectional Climate Change Impacts on Local Livelihoods through the Lens of Local Ecological Knowledge: A Study in Western Amazonia	5
Facilitating the Czech Coal Phase-Out: What Drives Inter-Organizational Collaboration?	4
How Sociopolitical Histories and Lifeways Impact the Formation of ‘Good Governance’ in the Restoration of Anadromous Fish in the Columbia River Basin	4
An Irreplaceable Place: Onto-Epistemological Contestation in the Environmental Impact Assessment Process of the Green Anglo American Sakatti Mine, Arctic Finland	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
“Not The End Of The World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet”	4
Conservation Science and Discursive Violence: A Response to Two Rejoinders	4
“If You Had a Sensor, You Would Know”: Unequal Exposures and Behavioral Responses to Indoor Air Pollution	4
Does Information and Deliberation Affect Ecosystem Service Judgments? Evidence from Tree Plantation Expansion in Argentina	4
Understanding Local Peoples’ Deforestation Decisions in Gunung Leuser National Park, Indonesia	4
Yellowstone Wolves: Science and Discovery in the World’s First National Park	4
Correction	4
Voting “Yes” for Community-Level Conservation: Cognitive Antecedents of Support for a Greenspace Ballot Initiative	4
Review of Roots of Power: The Political Ecology of Boundary Plants	4
Enhancing Online Survey Research in Environmental and Conservation Social Sciences: A GIS-Based Place Mapping Validation Technique for Enhancing Sample Quality	4
Formative Interests and Pathways to Natural Resources Careers among Historically Underrepresented People	4
“Death by a Thousand Cuts”: Conservation Stakeholders’ Perspectives on Protecting Lakes in a Tourist Region Surrounded by Agriculture	4
The Collective Memory of the Fluvial Environment: The Loss of a Healthy Natural Environment in the City of Toledo (Spain) through Pollution	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
Violations of Forest Laws in the Bu Gia Map National Park, Vietnam	4
A Systematic Review of Key Factors of Effective Collaborative Governance of Social-Ecological Systems	4
Does Measuring Trust in Groups Also Measure Distrust? It Depends	4
Social and Cultural Values and Representation Justice: Implications for Water	4
Transcending Consumer Roles: Evidence of Citizen Investment in Photovoltaic in China	4
Linking Tourism and Conservation on Privately Owned Natural Areas: A Systematic Review of English-Language Literature	4