OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions is 23. 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
Corrigendum to “Formation and performance of collaborative disaster management networks: Evidence from a Swedish wildfire response” [Global Environ. Change 41 (2016) 183–194]	277
Civil society and survival: Indigenous Amazigh climate adaptation in Morocco	217
Enforcement and inequality in collective PES to reduce tropical deforestation: Effectiveness, efficiency and equity implications	158
Beyond the binary of trapped populations and voluntary immobility: A people-centered perspective on environmental change and human immobility at Lake Urmia, Iran	144
Niches for transformative change within dominant territorial pathways: Practices and perspectives in a Nicaraguan agricultural frontier	143
Steel stocks and flows of global merchant fleets as material base of international trade from 1980 to 2050	141
Potential for climate change driven spatial mismatches between apple crops and their wild bee pollinators at a continental scale	139
Global energy consumption of the mineral mining industry: Exploring the historical perspective and future pathways to 2060	133
Localized land tenure registration in Burundi and eastern DR Congo: Contributing to sustainable peace?	120
The multifaceted spectra of power − A participatory network analysis on power structures in diverse dryland regions	119
Carbon tax salience counteracts price effects through moral licensing	117
Assisted tree migration can reduce but not avert the decline of forest ecosystem services in Europe	115
Tackling the climate, biodiversity and pollution emergencies by making peace with nature 50 years after the Stockholm Conference	110
Why are carbon taxes unfair? Disentangling public perceptions of fairness	105
Why are sustainable practices often elusive? The role of information flow in the management of networked human-environment interactions	105
Mining threatens isolated indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon	96
Agency, social networks, and adaptation to environmental change	96
How seasonal cultures shape adaptation on Aotearoa – New Zealand’s Coromandel Peninsula	94
Carbon territoriality at the land-water interface	87
Corrigendum to “Scaling Indigenous-led natural resource management” [Glob. Environ. Chang. 84 (2024) 102799]	86
Diffusion of global climate policy: National depoliticization, local repoliticization in Turkey	83
The value of property rights and environmental policy in Brazil: Evidence from a new database on land prices	83
COVID-19 to go? The role of disasters and evacuation in the COVID-19 pandemic	80
Transformative potential in sustainable development goals engagement: Experience from local governance in Australia	78
Anticipating socio-technical tipping points	77

Subnational institutions and power of landholders drive illegal deforestation in a major commodity production frontier	77
OK Boomer: A decade of generational differences in feelings about climate change	76
Spinning in circles? A systematic review on the role of theory in social vulnerability, resilience and adaptation research	75
How social movements use religious creativity to address environmental crises in Indonesian local communities	73
Situated adaptation: Tackling the production of vulnerability through transformative action in Sri Lanka’s Dry Zone	73
Climate change and the demand for recreational ecosystem services on public lands in the continental United States	70
“Scale and access to the Green climate Fund: Big challenges for small island developing States”	66
National leverage points to reduce global pesticide pollution	65
Editorial Board	63
Anti-corruption and corporate environmental responsibility: Evidence from China’s anti-corruption campaign	62
Religious values and family upbringing as antecedents of food waste avoidance	60
Catalyzing sustainability pathways: Navigating urban nature based solutions in Europe	59
China’s nature-based solutions in the Global South: Evidence from Asia, Africa, and Latin America	59
Spectrums of Relocation: A typological framework for understanding risk-based relocation through space, time and power	59
Low perception of climate change by farmers and herders on Tibetan Plateau	59
Impact of lifestyle, human diet and nutrient use efficiency in food production on eutrophication of global aquifers and surface waters	54
Just social-ecological tipping scales: A mid-range social theory of change in coal and carbon intensive regions	53
Experience with extreme weather events increases willingness-to-pay for climate mitigation policy	53
Knowledge co-production for decision-making in human-natural systems under uncertainty	53
A global multi-indicator assessment of the environmental impact of livestock products	52
Designing a virtuous cycle: Quality of governance, effective climate change mitigation, and just outcomes support each other	51
Socio-economic and climatic changes lead to contrasting global urban vegetation trends	51
Expert preferences on options for biodiversity conservation under climate change	50
Experience is not enough: A dynamic explanation of the limited adaptation to extreme weather events in public organizations	50
Does stakeholder participation improve environmental governance? Evidence from a meta-analysis of 305 case studies	48
Does Climate Change Exacerbate Gender Inequality in Cognitive Performance?	47
Global Environmental Change: 30 years of interdisciplinary research on the human and policy dimensions of environmental change	47
Everyday Adaptation: Theorizing climate change adaptation in daily life	47
Drivers of future fluvial flood risk change for residential buildings in Europe	46
Climate change messages can promote support for climate action globally	46
Using Protection Motivation Theory to examine information-seeking behaviors on climate change	45
Strong collaborative governance networks support effective Forest Stewardship Council-certified community-based forest management: Evidence from Southeast Tanzania	43
Natural disasters and climate change beliefs: The role of distance and prior beliefs	43
The production-protection nexus: How political-economic processes influence prospects for transformative change in human-wildlife interactions	43
Fairness critically conditions the carbon budget allocation across countries	42
Greenhouse gas emissions from global cities under SSP/RCP scenarios, 1990 to 2100	42
Conflict and conservation: On the role of protected areas for environmental justice	42
Carbon capability revisited: Theoretical developments and empirical evidence	41
Editorial Board	41
Challenges to anticipatory coastal adaptation for transformative nature-based solutions	41
Editorial Board	40
Finding the right partners? Examining inequalities in the global investment landscape of hydropower	40
Progress in understanding the social dimensions of desalination and future research directions	40
Carbon farming diffusion in Australia	40
Methods matter: Improved practices for environmental evaluation of dietary patterns	39
Indigenous women are the “guardians of Pachamama”: Territorial sovereignty is indispensable for just climate change adaptations in Peru	39
Corporate concessions: Opportunity or liability for climate advocacy groups?	39
Willingness-to-pay for carbon dioxide offsets: Field evidence on revealed preferences in the aviation industry	38
Climate change mitigation on tropical peatlands: A triple burden for smallholder farmers in Indonesia	38
Deep Transitions: Towards a comprehensive framework for mapping major continuities and ruptures in industrial modernity	37

Attributing deforestation-driven biodiversity decline in the Gran Chaco to agricultural commodity supply chains	37
Climate change and coastal megacities: Adapting through mobility	36
Are large-scale hydroelectric dams inherently undemocratic?	35
Experiences of vulnerable households in low-attention disasters: Marshalltown, Iowa (United States) after the EF3 Tornado	34
Environmental change and migration aspirations: Evidence from Bangladesh	34
Beyond the boom-bust cycle: An interdisciplinary framework for analysing crop booms	34
The impact of the Sustainable Development Goals on a network of 276 international organizations	33
Aligning climate and sustainable development finance through an SDG lens. The role of development assistance in implementing the Paris Agreement	33
Corrigendum to “Making sense of the politics in the climate change loss & damage debate” [Glob. Environ. Chang. (2020) 102133]	33
Toward health-environment policy: Beyond the Rome Declaration	32
Sharing the road: Political ideologies and political party preference as drivers of public transport infrastructure support	32
“Sometimes, I just want to scream”: Institutional barriers limiting adaptive capacity and resilience to extreme events	32
Empirical testing of the visualizations of climate change mitigation scenarios with citizens: A comparison among Germany, Poland, and France	32
Editorial Board	31
Embodied carbon dioxide emissions to provide high access levels to basic infrastructure around the world	30
Framing the just transition: How international trade unions engage with UN climate negotiations	30
Can REDD+ succeed? Occurrence and influence of various combinations of interventions in subnational initiatives	30
The emissions responsibility accounting of multinational enterprises for an efficient climate policy	30
Editorial Board	30
“Climate-smart agriculture and food security: Cross-country evidence from West Africa”	29
Constructing the adaptation economy: Climate resilient development and the economization of vulnerability	29
Global energy scenarios: A geopolitical reality check	29
How qualitative approaches matter in climate and ocean change research: Uncovering contradictions about climate concern	29
More than a safety net: Ethiopia’s flagship public works program increases tree cover	29
Cognition of feedback loops in a fire-prone social-ecological system	28
Are managed retreat programs successful and just? A global mapping of success typologies, justice dimensions, and trade-offs	28
On viability: Climate change and the science of possible futures	28
Land-use spillovers from environmental policy interventions	28
Self-governance mediates small-scale fishing strategies, vulnerability and adaptive response	28
Assessing the social and environmental impacts of critical mineral supply chains for the energy transition in Europe	27
Climate-smart peatland management and the potential for synergies between food security and climate change objectives in Indonesia	27
Vulnerability locked in. On the need to engage the outside of the adaptation box	27
Why has the Brazilian Cerrado been left behind by voluntary environmental policies?	27
Commentary: Transformative Change in Governance Systems	27
Implementing a knowledge system: Lessons from the global stewardship of climate services	27
Scaling smallholder tree cover restoration across the tropics	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	27
Renewable energy policies and household solid fuel dependence	27
Pathways to conventional and radical climate action: The role of temporal orientation, environmental cognitive alternatives, and eco-anxiety	26
Editorial Board	26
A new dynamic framework is required to assess adaptation limits	26
Commentary : The Future of Changes in Global Ecosystem Services	26
Compound[ing] disasters in Puerto Rico: Pathways for virtual transdisciplinary collaboration to enhance community resilience	26
Navigating climate crises in the Great Barrier Reef	24
Greenhouse gas mitigation co-benefits across the global agricultural development programs	24
Assessing synergies and trade-offs of diverging Paris-compliant mitigation strategies with long-term SDG objectives	24
Typologies of actionable climate information and its use	24
Public policies and global forest conservation: Empirical evidence from national borders	24
Tackling the academic air travel dependency. An analysis of the (in)consistency between academics’ travel behaviour and their attitudes	24
An actor-centered, scalable land system typology for addressing biodiversity loss in the world’s tropical dry woodlands	24
Environmental regulation and innovation: Evidence from China	24
Resilience to disaster: Evidence from American wellbeing data	24
Editorial Board	23
Global forest products markets and forest sector carbon impacts of projected sea level rise	23
Designing effective and equitable zero-deforestation supply chain policies	23
Bookkeepers of catastrophes: The overlooked role of reinsurers in climate change debates	23
Measuring the contribution of nature-based solutions beyond climate adaptation in cities	23
Conflicted transitions: Exploring the actors, tactics, and outcomes of social opposition against energy infrastructure	23
Do we prioritize floodplains for development and farming? Mapping global dependence and exposure to inundation	23
How the future of the global forest sink depends on timber demand, forest management, and carbon policies	23
Climate change action as a project of identity: Eight meta-analyses	23