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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

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]	268
Civil society and survival: Indigenous Amazigh climate adaptation in Morocco	206
Enforcement and inequality in collective PES to reduce tropical deforestation: Effectiveness, efficiency and equity implications	149
Beyond the binary of trapped populations and voluntary immobility: A people-centered perspective on environmental change and human immobility at Lake Urmia, Iran	145
Localized land tenure registration in Burundi and eastern DR Congo: Contributing to sustainable peace?	142
Niches for transformative change within dominant territorial pathways: Practices and perspectives in a Nicaraguan agricultural frontier	139
Steel stocks and flows of global merchant fleets as material base of international trade from 1980 to 2050	137
The multifaceted spectra of power − A participatory network analysis on power structures in diverse dryland regions	137
Carbon tax salience counteracts price effects through moral licensing	132
Potential for climate change driven spatial mismatches between apple crops and their wild bee pollinators at a continental scale	124
Assisted tree migration can reduce but not avert the decline of forest ecosystem services in Europe	117
What future for primary aluminium production in a decarbonizing economy?	115
Why are carbon taxes unfair? Disentangling public perceptions of fairness	114
Global energy consumption of the mineral mining industry: Exploring the historical perspective and future pathways to 2060	114
Tackling the climate, biodiversity and pollution emergencies by making peace with nature 50 years after the Stockholm Conference	113
Why are sustainable practices often elusive? The role of information flow in the management of networked human-environment interactions	111
Agency, social networks, and adaptation to environmental change	106
OK Boomer: A decade of generational differences in feelings about climate change	103
How seasonal cultures shape adaptation on Aotearoa – New Zealand’s Coromandel Peninsula	102
Carbon territoriality at the land-water interface	95
Corrigendum to “Scaling Indigenous-led natural resource management” [Glob. Environ. Chang. 84 (2024) 102799]	93
Walking with farmers: Floods, agriculture and the social practice of everyday mobility	92
How social movements use religious creativity to address environmental crises in Indonesian local communities	90
The value of property rights and environmental policy in Brazil: Evidence from a new database on land prices	85
Anticipating socio-technical tipping points	83

Diffusion of global climate policy: National depoliticization, local repoliticization in Turkey	82
COVID-19 to go? The role of disasters and evacuation in the COVID-19 pandemic	79
Situated adaptation: Tackling the production of vulnerability through transformative action in Sri Lanka’s Dry Zone	78
Climate change and the demand for recreational ecosystem services on public lands in the continental United States	78
National leverage points to reduce global pesticide pollution	77
Mining threatens isolated indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon	75
“Scale and access to the Green climate Fund: Big challenges for small island developing States”	75
Subnational institutions and power of landholders drive illegal deforestation in a major commodity production frontier	75
Spinning in circles? A systematic review on the role of theory in social vulnerability, resilience and adaptation research	72
Transformative potential in sustainable development goals engagement: Experience from local governance in Australia	72
Editorial Board	71
Expert preferences on options for biodiversity conservation under climate change	70
Catalyzing sustainability pathways: Navigating urban nature based solutions in Europe	69
Impact of lifestyle, human diet and nutrient use efficiency in food production on eutrophication of global aquifers and surface waters	68
Low perception of climate change by farmers and herders on Tibetan Plateau	66
A global multi-indicator assessment of the environmental impact of livestock products	64
Anti-corruption and corporate environmental responsibility: Evidence from China’s anti-corruption campaign	63
Spectrums of Relocation: A typological framework for understanding risk-based relocation through space, time and power	62
Religious values and family upbringing as antecedents of food waste avoidance	62
Just social-ecological tipping scales: A mid-range social theory of change in coal and carbon intensive regions	60
Designing a virtuous cycle: Quality of governance, effective climate change mitigation, and just outcomes support each other	60
Experience with extreme weather events increases willingness-to-pay for climate mitigation policy	59
Does stakeholder participation improve environmental governance? Evidence from a meta-analysis of 305 case studies	58
Knowledge co-production for decision-making in human-natural systems under uncertainty	57
China’s nature-based solutions in the Global South: Evidence from Asia, Africa, and Latin America	56
Experience is not enough: A dynamic explanation of the limited adaptation to extreme weather events in public organizations	55
Everyday Adaptation: Theorizing climate change adaptation in daily life	53
Socio-economic and climatic changes lead to contrasting global urban vegetation trends	53
Natural disasters and climate change beliefs: The role of distance and prior beliefs	51
Using Protection Motivation Theory to examine information-seeking behaviors on climate change	51
Drivers of future fluvial flood risk change for residential buildings in Europe	51
Does Climate Change Exacerbate Gender Inequality in Cognitive Performance?	51
Global Environmental Change: 30 years of interdisciplinary research on the human and policy dimensions of environmental change	51
Climate change messages can promote support for climate action globally	51
Carbon capability revisited: Theoretical developments and empirical evidence	50
Conflict and conservation: On the role of protected areas for environmental justice	48
The production-protection nexus: How political-economic processes influence prospects for transformative change in human-wildlife interactions	48
Greenhouse gas emissions from global cities under SSP/RCP scenarios, 1990 to 2100	48
Fairness critically conditions the carbon budget allocation across countries	46
Strong collaborative governance networks support effective Forest Stewardship Council-certified community-based forest management: Evidence from Southeast Tanzania	46
Challenges to anticipatory coastal adaptation for transformative nature-based solutions	45
Editorial Board	45
Editorial Board	45
Carbon farming diffusion in Australia	43
Progress in understanding the social dimensions of desalination and future research directions	43
Corporate concessions: Opportunity or liability for climate advocacy groups?	42
Indigenous women are the “guardians of Pachamama”: Territorial sovereignty is indispensable for just climate change adaptations in Peru	42
Finding the right partners? Examining inequalities in the global investment landscape of hydropower	41
Attributing deforestation-driven biodiversity decline in the Gran Chaco to agricultural commodity supply chains	41
Beyond the boom-bust cycle: An interdisciplinary framework for analysing crop booms	41

Methods matter: Improved practices for environmental evaluation of dietary patterns	41
Experiences of vulnerable households in low-attention disasters: Marshalltown, Iowa (United States) after the EF3 Tornado	40
Environmental change and migration aspirations: Evidence from Bangladesh	40
Deep Transitions: Towards a comprehensive framework for mapping major continuities and ruptures in industrial modernity	40
The impact of the Sustainable Development Goals on a network of 276 international organizations	40
Are large-scale hydroelectric dams inherently undemocratic?	40
Willingness-to-pay for carbon dioxide offsets: Field evidence on revealed preferences in the aviation industry	39
Climate change mitigation on tropical peatlands: A triple burden for smallholder farmers in Indonesia	39
Aligning climate and sustainable development finance through an SDG lens. The role of development assistance in implementing the Paris Agreement	38
Climate change and coastal megacities: Adapting through mobility	38
“Sometimes, I just want to scream”: Institutional barriers limiting adaptive capacity and resilience to extreme events	37
Toward health-environment policy: Beyond the Rome Declaration	37
Sharing the road: Political ideologies and political party preference as drivers of public transport infrastructure support	37
To be ethical or to be good? The impact of ‘Good Provider’ and moral norms on food waste decisions in two countries	37
Empirical testing of the visualizations of climate change mitigation scenarios with citizens: A comparison among Germany, Poland, and France	37
Corrigendum to “Making sense of the politics in the climate change loss & damage debate” [Glob. Environ. Chang. (2020) 102133]	37
Editorial Board	36
How EU policies could reduce nutrient pollution in European inland and coastal waters	36
Editorial Board	35
Constructing the adaptation economy: Climate resilient development and the economization of vulnerability	34
More than a safety net: Ethiopia’s flagship public works program increases tree cover	34
Can REDD+ succeed? Occurrence and influence of various combinations of interventions in subnational initiatives	34
Embodied carbon dioxide emissions to provide high access levels to basic infrastructure around the world	33
Self-governance mediates small-scale fishing strategies, vulnerability and adaptive response	33
Cognition of feedback loops in a fire-prone social-ecological system	32
The emissions responsibility accounting of multinational enterprises for an efficient climate policy	32
Framing the just transition: How international trade unions engage with UN climate negotiations	32
How qualitative approaches matter in climate and ocean change research: Uncovering contradictions about climate concern	32
“Climate-smart agriculture and food security: Cross-country evidence from West Africa”	31
Climate-smart peatland management and the potential for synergies between food security and climate change objectives in Indonesia	31
Global energy scenarios: A geopolitical reality check	31
Colonial contexts and the feasibility of mitigation through transition: A study of the impact of historical processes on the emissions dynamics of nation-states	31
Vulnerability locked in. On the need to engage the outside of the adaptation box	30
On viability: Climate change and the science of possible futures	30
Renewable energy policies and household solid fuel dependence	30
Why has the Brazilian Cerrado been left behind by voluntary environmental policies?	29
Scaling smallholder tree cover restoration across the tropics	29
Land-use spillovers from environmental policy interventions	29
Implementing a knowledge system: Lessons from the global stewardship of climate services	29
Commentary: Transformative Change in Governance Systems	29
Assessing the social and environmental impacts of critical mineral supply chains for the energy transition in Europe	28
Are managed retreat programs successful and just? A global mapping of success typologies, justice dimensions, and trade-offs	28
Public policies and global forest conservation: Empirical evidence from national borders	27
Greenhouse gas mitigation co-benefits across the global agricultural development programs	27
An actor-centered, scalable land system typology for addressing biodiversity loss in the world’s tropical dry woodlands	27
Editorial Board	27
Environmental regulation and innovation: Evidence from China	27
Navigating climate crises in the Great Barrier Reef	27
Tackling the academic air travel dependency. An analysis of the (in)consistency between academics’ travel behaviour and their attitudes	27
Commentary : The Future of Changes in Global Ecosystem Services	27
Compound[ing] disasters in Puerto Rico: Pathways for virtual transdisciplinary collaboration to enhance community resilience	27
Typologies of actionable climate information and its use	27
A new dynamic framework is required to assess adaptation limits	26
Editorial Board	26
Measuring the contribution of nature-based solutions beyond climate adaptation in cities	26
Resilience to disaster: Evidence from American wellbeing data	26
Editorial Board	26
Global forest products markets and forest sector carbon impacts of projected sea level rise	26
Pathways to conventional and radical climate action: The role of temporal orientation, environmental cognitive alternatives, and eco-anxiety	26
Assessing synergies and trade-offs of diverging Paris-compliant mitigation strategies with long-term SDG objectives	26
Bookkeepers of catastrophes: The overlooked role of reinsurers in climate change debates	26
Climate change action as a project of identity: Eight meta-analyses	26
The global value of coastal wetlands for storm protection	25
The demographics of energy and mobility poverty: Assessing equity and justice in Ireland, Mexico, and the United Arab Emirates	25