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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Environmental conflicts and defenders: A global overview	218
Providing decent living with minimum energy: A global scenario	209
When worry about climate change leads to climate action: How values, worry and personal responsibility relate to various climate actions	194
The global scale, distribution and growth of aviation: Implications for climate change	168
Country-specific dietary shifts to mitigate climate and water crises	138
What makes climate change adaptation effective? A systematic review of the literature	128
Imperialist appropriation in the world economy: Drain from the global South through unequal exchange, 1990–2015	115
Multiple cropping systems of the world and the potential for increasing cropping intensity	106
Plural valuation of nature for equity and sustainability: Insights from the Global South	101
Anticipating futures through models: the rise of Integrated Assessment Modelling in the climate science-policy interface since 1970	95
The climate change mitigation impacts of active travel: Evidence from a longitudinal panel study in seven European cities	90
Growing stocks of buildings, infrastructures and machinery as key challenge for compliance with climate targets	89
Contextualizing climate justice activism: Knowledge, emotions, motivations, and actions among climate strikers in six cities	88
Multi-method evidence for when and how climate-related disasters contribute to armed conflict risk	84
Spatially-explicit footprints of agricultural commodities: Mapping carbon emissions embodied in Brazil's soy exports	84
Meeting the food security challenge for nine billion people in 2050: What impact on forests?	82
Hard or soft flood adaptation? Advantages of a hybrid strategy for Shanghai	82
Socio-economic conditions for satisfying human needs at low energy use: An international analysis of social provisioning	81
Global inequalities in food consumption, cropland demand and land-use efficiency: A decomposition analysis	77
The influence of political ideology on greenhouse gas emissions	76
The Hogg Eco-Anxiety Scale: Development and validation of a multidimensional scale	76
Provisioning systems for a good life within planetary boundaries	75
Surge in global metal mining threatens vulnerable ecosystems	73
The trap of climate change-induced “natural” disasters and inequality	71
Co-productive agility and four collaborative pathways to sustainability transformations	70

Sustainability transformations: socio-political shocks as opportunities for governance transitions	69
Global-scale impact analysis of mine tailings dam failures: 1915–2020	69
A national approach to greenhouse gas abatement through blue carbon management	68
Knowledge co-production for Indigenous adaptation pathways: Transform post-colonial articulation complexes to empower local decision-making	65
“Youth is not a political position”: Exploring justice claims-making in the UN Climate Change Negotiations	64
Nature-dependent people: Mapping human direct use of nature for basic needs across the tropics	64
Climate change in news media across the globe: An automated analysis of issue attention and themes in climate change coverage in 10 countries (2006–2018)	64
Explaining Growing Glyphosate Use: The Political Economy of Herbicide-Dependent Agriculture	63
Linking internal and external transformation for sustainability and climate action: Towards a new research and policy agenda	63
Exploratory modeling for analyzing coupled human-natural systems under uncertainty	63
Economic costs of heat-induced reductions in worker productivity due to global warming	61
Use of aviation by climate change researchers: Structural influences, personal attitudes, and information provision	59
(Un)making in sustainability transformation beyond capitalism	58
Exploring river nitrogen and phosphorus loading and export to global coastal waters in the Shared Socio-economic pathways	58
Science with society: Evidence-based guidance for best practices in environmental transdisciplinary work	56
Toward a climate mobilities research agenda: Intersectionality, immobility, and policy responses	55
Exploring future copper demand, recycling and associated greenhouse gas emissions in the EU-28	55
Improving the evidence base: A methodological review of the quantitative climate migration literature	55
Shared Socio-economic Pathways for European agriculture and food systems: The Eur-Agri-SSPs	54
Early warnings and emerging accountability: Total’s responses to global warming, 1971–2021	54
Conflicted transitions: Exploring the actors, tactics, and outcomes of social opposition against energy infrastructure	54
Mapping feasibilities of greenhouse gas removal: Key issues, gaps and opening up assessments	53
Negative-emissions technology portfolios to meet the 1.5 °C target	53
Scaling up zero-deforestation initiatives through public-private partnerships: A look inside post-conflict Colombia	52
Income, consumer preferences, and the future of livestock-derived food demand	51
The economics of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) deployment in a 1.5 °C or 2 °C world	50
Quantifying interregional flows of multiple ecosystem services – A case study for Germany	50
The scale and drivers of carbon footprints in households, cities and regions across India	49
Challenges and opportunities for re-framing resource use policy with practice theories: The change points approach	49
Nature unsettled: How knowledge and power shape ‘nature-based’ approaches to societal challenges	49
Aligning climate and sustainable development finance through an SDG lens. The role of development assistance in implementing the Paris Agreement	48
Colonial dynamics limit climate adaptation in Oceania: Perspectives from the Marshall Islands	48
Prospects for a saturation of humanity’s resource use? An analysis of material stocks and flows in nine world regions from 1900 to 2035	48
Air conditioning and global inequality	48
How EU policies could reduce nutrient pollution in European inland and coastal waters	45
A global assessment of the human pressure on the world's lakes	45
Knowing like a global expert organization: Comparative insights from the IPCC and IPBES	44
Modelling food security: Bridging the gap between the micro and the macro scale	44
Legume dreams: The contested futures of sustainable plant-based food systems in Europe	44
Public concern about, and desire for research into, the human health effects of marine plastic pollution: Results from a 15-country survey across Europe and Australia	43
Climate change in a changing world: Socio-economic and technological transitions, regulatory frameworks and trends on global greenhouse gas emissions from EDGAR v.5.0	43
“Reporting on climate change: A computational analysis of U.S. newspapers and sources of bias, 1997–2017”	42
An assessment of the performance of scenarios against historical global emissions for IPCC reports	41
Greenhouse gas emissions from global cities under SSP/RCP scenarios, 1990 to 2100	41
Environmental and land defenders: Global patterns and determinants of repression	41
A scale-based framework to understand the promises, pitfalls and paradoxes of irrigation efficiency to meet major water challenges	40
Mapping global patterns of land use decision-making	40
Cattle ranchers and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: Production, location, and policies	40
Defining and classifying personal and household climate change adaptation behaviors	39
The global value of coastal wetlands for storm protection	39

Policy integration: Do laws or actors integrate issues relevant to flood risk management in Switzerland?	39
The political ecology playbook for ecosystem restoration: Principles for effective, equitable, and transformative landscapes	38
Closing yield gap is crucial to avoid potential surge in global carbon emissions	38
A conceptual framework for cross-border impacts of climate change	38
Climate change action as a project of identity: Eight meta-analyses	37
The global environmental paw print of pet food	37
No peace for the forest: Rapid, widespread land changes in the Andes-Amazon region following the Colombian civil war	37
Systems thinking as a paradigm shift for sustainability transformation	37
Natural variability or climate change? Stakeholder and citizen perceptions of extreme event attribution	37
Understanding plastic packaging: The co-evolution of materials and society	36
Making sense of the politics in the climate change loss & damage debate	36
Engagement, involvement and empowerment: Three realms of a coproduction framework for climate services	35
Climate variability and child nutrition: Findings from sub-Saharan Africa	35
Global long-term mapping of surface temperature shows intensified intra-city urban heat island extremes	34
Incorporating blue carbon sequestration benefits into sub-national climate policies	34
Co-designing global target-seeking scenarios: A cross-scale participatory process for capturing multiple perspectives on pathways to sustainability	34
Spatial targeting of floodplain restoration to equitably mitigate flood risk	34
Fairness critically conditions the carbon budget allocation across countries	34
Hot dry days increase perceived experience with global warming	33
Prioritising resilience policies to reduce welfare losses from natural disasters: A case study for coastal Bangladesh	33
The quiet opposition: How the pro-economy lobby influences climate policy	33
China’s pathway to carbon neutrality for the iron and steel industry	33
Socio-economic and climatic changes lead to contrasting global urban vegetation trends	33
Estimating the global potential of water harvesting from successful case studies	33
Does smallholder maize intensification reduce deforestation? Evidence from Zambia	32
Water borrowing is consistently practiced globally and is associated with water-related system failures across diverse environments	32
Telecoupled environmental impacts of current and alternative Western diets	32
How the future of the global forest sink depends on timber demand, forest management, and carbon policies	32
Sharing responsibility for trade-related emissions based on economic benefits	32
Designing effective and equitable zero-deforestation supply chain policies	32
Mining threatens isolated indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon	32
What could go wrong with cooking? Exploring vulnerability at the water, energy and food Nexus in Kampala through a social practices lens.	32
Global sustainability, innovation and governance dynamics of national smart electricity meter transitions	32
Why climate migration is not managed retreat: Six justifications	31
Why are carbon taxes unfair? Disentangling public perceptions of fairness	31
The future urban heat-wave challenge in Africa: Exploratory analysis	31
Greenhouse gas emissions from Mediterranean agriculture: Evidence of unbalanced research efforts and knowledge gaps	30
Climate-Induced migration and unemployment in middle-income Africa	30
The behavioral response to a corporate carbon offset program: A field experiment on adverse effects and mitigation strategies	29
Harnessing scientific and local knowledge to face climate change in small-scale fisheries	29
A framework for nitrogen futures in the shared socioeconomic pathways	29
The impacts of cocaine-trafficking on conservation governance in Central America	29
Trans-Arctic shipping routes expanding faster than the model projections	28
Environmental justice in coastal systems: Perspectives from communities confronting change	28
Resilient livelihoods in an era of global transformation	28
The anticipatory governance of sustainability transformations: Hybrid approaches and dominant perspectives	28
Illicit Drivers of Land Use Change: Narcotrafficking and Forest Loss in Central America	27
Tackling the climate, biodiversity and pollution emergencies by making peace with nature 50 years after the Stockholm Conference	27
Just adaptation? Generating new vulnerabilities and shaping adaptive capacities through the politics of climate-related resettlement in a Philippine coastal city	27
How stable are Australian farmers’ climate change risk perceptions? New evidence of the feedback loop between risk perceptions and behaviour	27
Plastic pollution and the open burning of plastic wastes	27
Extreme weather and marriage among girls and women in Bangladesh	26
“Mind the (Policy-Implementation) Gap”: Transport decarbonisation policies and performances of leading global economies (1990–2018)	26
The role and limits of strategic framing for promoting sustainable consumption and policy	26
The effect of industrialization and globalization on domestic land-use: A global resource footprint perspective	26
A green-gray path to global water security and sustainable infrastructure	26
Pathways for climate resilient development: Human well-being within a safe and just space in the 21st century	26
After the floods: Differential impacts of rainfall anomalies on child stunting in India	25
Just another buzzword? A systematic literature review of knowledge-related concepts in sustainability science	25
The impact of the Sustainable Development Goals on a network of 276 international organizations	25
A global production network for ecosystem services: The emergent governance of landscape restoration in the Brazilian Amazon	25
A global comparison of carbon-water-food nexus based on dietary consumption	25
Agency shifts in agricultural land governance and their implications for land degradation neutrality	24
Environmental regulation and innovation: Evidence from China	24
Does funds-based adaptation finance reach the most vulnerable countries?	24
Water, energy and land insecurity in global supply chains	24
Patience, persistence and pre-signals: Policy dynamics of planned relocation in Austria	24
Institutional changes drive land use transitions on rangelands: The case of grazing on public lands in the American West	24
The Arctic Council: an agent of change?	23
OK Boomer: A decade of generational differences in feelings about climate change	23
Impact of a climate network: The role of intermediaries in local level climate action	23
Cultural ecosystem services caught in a ‘coastal squeeze’ between sea level rise and urban expansion	23
Relating root causes to local risk conditions: A comparative study of the institutional pathways to small-scale disasters in three urban flood contexts	23
A global review of the impact of forest property rights interventions on poverty	23
The prosocial origin of sustainable behavior: A case study in the ecological domain	23
Novel insights on intensity and typology of direct human-nature interactions in protected areas through passive crowdsourcing	23
Inclusive wealth index measuring sustainable development potentials for Chinese cities	23