OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions is 25. 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
Editorial Board	213
Global energy consumption of the mineral mining industry: Exploring the historical perspective and future pathways to 2060	184
Advancing national Shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs): A novel procedure applied to develop current Swiss SSPs	145
Localized land tenure registration in Burundi and eastern DR Congo: Contributing to sustainable peace?	140
Potential for climate change driven spatial mismatches between apple crops and their wild bee pollinators at a continental scale	135
Assisted tree migration can reduce but not avert the decline of forest ecosystem services in Europe	126
Carbon tax salience counteracts price effects through moral licensing	124
Beyond the binary of trapped populations and voluntary immobility: A people-centered perspective on environmental change and human immobility at Lake Urmia, Iran	121
The multifaceted spectra of power − A participatory network analysis on power structures in diverse dryland regions	119
Niches for transformative change within dominant territorial pathways: Practices and perspectives in a Nicaraguan agricultural frontier	91
Civil society and survival: Indigenous Amazigh climate adaptation in Morocco	89
Enforcement and inequality in collective PES to reduce tropical deforestation: Effectiveness, efficiency and equity implications	89
Resource use and resource efficiency in the Asia–Pacific region revisited	87
Participatory storyworld building for unlocking climate adaptation	85
“Scale and access to the Green climate Fund: Big challenges for small island developing States”	84
Agency, social networks, and adaptation to environmental change	81
Corrigendum to “Scaling Indigenous-led natural resource management” [Glob. Environ. Chang. 84 (2024) 102799]	75
Carbon territoriality at the land-water interface	72
Transformative potential in sustainable development goals engagement: Experience from local governance in Australia	72
Anticipating socio-technical tipping points	72
Subnational institutions and power of landholders drive illegal deforestation in a major commodity production frontier	71
The value of property rights and environmental policy in Brazil: Evidence from a new database on land prices	70
Diffusion of global climate policy: National depoliticization, local repoliticization in Turkey	68
National leverage points to reduce global pesticide pollution	64
Beyond projects: Relational durability and the measurement of climate adaptation success in practice	64

How seasonal cultures shape adaptation on Aotearoa – New Zealand’s Coromandel Peninsula	63
Spinning in circles? A systematic review on the role of theory in social vulnerability, resilience and adaptation research	61
Guns or Green? A social-ecological systems analysis of defense expenditure, clean energy, and financial inclusivity in India and Pakistan	58
Why are sustainable practices often elusive? The role of information flow in the management of networked human-environment interactions	56
How social movements use religious creativity to address environmental crises in Indonesian local communities	54
Low perception of climate change by farmers and herders on Tibetan Plateau	53
Editorial Board	53
Designing a virtuous cycle: Quality of governance, effective climate change mitigation, and just outcomes support each other	53
Expert preferences on options for biodiversity conservation under climate change	53
Religious values and family upbringing as antecedents of food waste avoidance	50
Just social-ecological tipping scales: A mid-range social theory of change in coal and carbon intensive regions	49
Catalyzing sustainability pathways: Navigating urban nature based solutions in Europe	48
China’s nature-based solutions in the Global South: Evidence from Asia, Africa, and Latin America	48
Coercive environmentalism and political legitimacy in the age of climate change: the case of fisheries in Uganda	48
Spectrums of Relocation: A typological framework for understanding risk-based relocation through space, time and power	48
Impact of lifestyle, human diet and nutrient use efficiency in food production on eutrophication of global aquifers and surface waters	46
Knowledge co-production for decision-making in human-natural systems under uncertainty	45
Experience with extreme weather events increases willingness-to-pay for climate mitigation policy	44
Trade of crop products contribute to the alleviation of global nitrate leaching risks	43
A global multi-indicator assessment of the environmental impact of livestock products	42
Does stakeholder participation improve environmental governance? Evidence from a meta-analysis of 305 case studies	42
Everyday Adaptation: Theorizing climate change adaptation in daily life	41
Heatwaves and violence against women: a spatial analysis of female homicides in Brazil	40
Does Climate Change Exacerbate Gender Inequality in Cognitive Performance?	38
Using Protection Motivation Theory to examine information-seeking behaviors on climate change	38
Conflict and conservation: On the role of protected areas for environmental justice	38
Strong collaborative governance networks support effective Forest Stewardship Council-certified community-based forest management: Evidence from Southeast Tanzania	38
Carbon capability revisited: Theoretical developments and empirical evidence	37
Fairness critically conditions the carbon budget allocation across countries	37
Drivers of future fluvial flood risk change for residential buildings in Europe	36
Climate change messages can promote support for climate action globally	36
Natural disasters and climate change beliefs: The role of distance and prior beliefs	36
Technological breakthroughs can reverse the unintended negative impacts of carbon tariffs on China’s steel sector and global economy	36
Heatwave adaptation conditioned by everyday life: Analysing interacting changes to daily activities during Pacific Northwest summers	36
The production-protection nexus: How political-economic processes influence prospects for transformative change in human-wildlife interactions	36
Editorial Board	36
Attributing deforestation-driven biodiversity decline in the Gran Chaco to agricultural commodity supply chains	34
Progress in understanding the social dimensions of desalination and future research directions	34
The impact of the Sustainable Development Goals on a network of 276 international organizations	33
Perceived plasticity of climate-relevant behaviors and policy support among high- and lower-income individuals	33
Corporate concessions: Opportunity or liability for climate advocacy groups?	33
Editorial Board	33
Challenges to anticipatory coastal adaptation for transformative nature-based solutions	33
Finding the right partners? Examining inequalities in the global investment landscape of hydropower	33
Beyond the boom-bust cycle: An interdisciplinary framework for analysing crop booms	33
Air pollution in Gaza during the post-october 7 era: a satellite and machine learning assessment	32
Carbon farming diffusion in Australia	32
Climate change and coastal megacities: Adapting through mobility	32
Aligning climate and sustainable development finance through an SDG lens. The role of development assistance in implementing the Paris Agreement	32
Experiences of vulnerable households in low-attention disasters: Marshalltown, Iowa (United States) after the EF3 Tornado	32

Environmental change and migration aspirations: Evidence from Bangladesh	31
Indigenous women are the “guardians of Pachamama”: Territorial sovereignty is indispensable for just climate change adaptations in Peru	31
“Sometimes, I just want to scream”: Institutional barriers limiting adaptive capacity and resilience to extreme events	30
Supporting climate resilient development planning − a dynamic adaptive pathways based approach and an illustrative case from Cork City, Ireland	30
Corrigendum to “Making sense of the politics in the climate change loss & damage debate” [Glob. Environ. Chang. (2020) 102133]	30
Sharing the road: Political ideologies and political party preference as drivers of public transport infrastructure support	30
Editorial Board	29
Bridging extreme climate risks, financial precarity, and adaptation gaps: Advancing inclusive adaptation in rainfed agricultural systems	29
Can REDD+ succeed? Occurrence and influence of various combinations of interventions in subnational initiatives	29
Editorial Board	29
A review of everyday urban adaptations: What they are and how they can advance progress in adaptation	29
Global energy scenarios: A geopolitical reality check	28
Self-governance mediates small-scale fishing strategies, vulnerability and adaptive response	28
Beyond property rights: all roads lead to sustainable grassland management	28
“Climate-smart agriculture and food security: Cross-country evidence from West Africa”	28
Constructing the adaptation economy: Climate resilient development and the economization of vulnerability	28
Cognition of feedback loops in a fire-prone social-ecological system	28
More than a safety net: Ethiopia’s flagship public works program increases tree cover	28
The emissions responsibility accounting of multinational enterprises for an efficient climate policy	28
Pyro-socioecological zoning: A proposal for fire management in the tropical dry forest	28
Are managed retreat programs successful and just? A global mapping of success typologies, justice dimensions, and trade-offs	27
Who do we trust on climate change, and why?	27
Implementing a knowledge system: Lessons from the global stewardship of climate services	27
Assessing the social and environmental impacts of critical mineral supply chains for the energy transition in Europe	27
Vulnerability locked in. On the need to engage the outside of the adaptation box	27
Scaling smallholder tree cover restoration across the tropics	27
Why has the Brazilian Cerrado been left behind by voluntary environmental policies?	27
Land-use spillovers from environmental policy interventions	27
Colonial contexts and the feasibility of mitigation through transition: A study of the impact of historical processes on the emissions dynamics of nation-states	26
Greenhouse gas mitigation co-benefits across the global agricultural development programs	26
An actor-centered, scalable land system typology for addressing biodiversity loss in the world’s tropical dry woodlands	26
Tackling the academic air travel dependency. An analysis of the (in)consistency between academics’ travel behaviour and their attitudes	26
Climate-smart peatland management and the potential for synergies between food security and climate change objectives in Indonesia	26
A taste of tomorrow: Predicting food demand elasticities under different Shared Socioeconomic Pathways	26
Typologies of actionable climate information and its use	26
Assessing synergies and trade-offs of diverging Paris-compliant mitigation strategies with long-term SDG objectives	26
Editorial Board	26
Navigating climate crises in the Great Barrier Reef	26
Compound[ing] disasters in Puerto Rico: Pathways for virtual transdisciplinary collaboration to enhance community resilience	26
Pathways to conventional and radical climate action: The role of temporal orientation, environmental cognitive alternatives, and eco-anxiety	25
Public policies and global forest conservation: Empirical evidence from national borders	25
Resilience to disaster: Evidence from American wellbeing data	25
Environmental regulation and innovation: Evidence from China	25
Citizen science data can significantly improve predictions of potential ranges of non-charismatic species: a study on two freshwater sponges	25