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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	224
Niches for transformative change within dominant territorial pathways: Practices and perspectives in a Nicaraguan agricultural frontier	192
Assisted tree migration can reduce but not avert the decline of forest ecosystem services in Europe	151
Civil society and survival: Indigenous Amazigh climate adaptation in Morocco	150
Resource use and resource efficiency in the Asia–Pacific region revisited	141
Global energy consumption of the mineral mining industry: Exploring the historical perspective and future pathways to 2060	126
Advancing national Shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs): A novel procedure applied to develop current Swiss SSPs	121
The multifaceted spectra of power − A participatory network analysis on power structures in diverse dryland regions	96
Carbon tax salience counteracts price effects through moral licensing	93
Beyond the binary of trapped populations and voluntary immobility: A people-centered perspective on environmental change and human immobility at Lake Urmia, Iran	89
Localized land tenure registration in Burundi and eastern DR Congo: Contributing to sustainable peace?	88
Potential for climate change driven spatial mismatches between apple crops and their wild bee pollinators at a continental scale	87
Beyond projects: Relational durability and the measurement of climate adaptation success in practice	85
Carbon territoriality at the land-water interface	78
The value of property rights and environmental policy in Brazil: Evidence from a new database on land prices	77
Diffusion of global climate policy: National depoliticization, local repoliticization in Turkey	75
How seasonal cultures shape adaptation on Aotearoa – New Zealand’s Coromandel Peninsula	74
National leverage points to reduce global pesticide pollution	72
Anticipating socio-technical tipping points	69
How social movements use religious creativity to address environmental crises in Indonesian local communities	66
Spinning in circles? A systematic review on the role of theory in social vulnerability, resilience and adaptation research	65
Guns or Green? A social-ecological systems analysis of defense expenditure, clean energy, and financial inclusivity in India and Pakistan	65
Transformative potential in sustainable development goals engagement: Experience from local governance in Australia	63
Participatory storyworld building for unlocking climate adaptation	59
Why are sustainable practices often elusive? The role of information flow in the management of networked human-environment interactions	58

Corrigendum to “Scaling Indigenous-led natural resource management” [Glob. Environ. Chang. 84 (2024) 102799]	56
Agency, social networks, and adaptation to environmental change	55
“Scale and access to the Green climate Fund: Big challenges for small island developing States”	54
Trade of crop products contribute to the alleviation of global nitrate leaching risks	53
Impact of lifestyle, human diet and nutrient use efficiency in food production on eutrophication of global aquifers and surface waters	52
A global multi-indicator assessment of the environmental impact of livestock products	51
China’s nature-based solutions in the Global South: Evidence from Asia, Africa, and Latin America	51
Spectrums of Relocation: A typological framework for understanding risk-based relocation through space, time and power	50
Designing a virtuous cycle: Quality of governance, effective climate change mitigation, and just outcomes support each other	48
Religious values and family upbringing as antecedents of food waste avoidance	48
Low perception of climate change by farmers and herders on Tibetan Plateau	46
Editorial Board	44
Coercive environmentalism and political legitimacy in the age of climate change: the case of fisheries in Uganda	42
Experience with extreme weather events increases willingness-to-pay for climate mitigation policy	42
Knowledge co-production for decision-making in human-natural systems under uncertainty	42
Expert preferences on options for biodiversity conservation under climate change	42
Everyday Adaptation: Theorizing climate change adaptation in daily life	39
Heatwaves and violence against women: a spatial analysis of female homicides in Brazil	39
Just social-ecological tipping scales: A mid-range social theory of change in coal and carbon intensive regions	39
Does stakeholder participation improve environmental governance? Evidence from a meta-analysis of 305 case studies	39
The production-protection nexus: How political-economic processes influence prospects for transformative change in human-wildlife interactions	38
Heatwave adaptation conditioned by everyday life: Analysing interacting changes to daily activities during Pacific Northwest summers	38
Drivers of future fluvial flood risk change for residential buildings in Europe	38
Using Protection Motivation Theory to examine information-seeking behaviors on climate change	37
Does Climate Change Exacerbate Gender Inequality in Cognitive Performance?	37
Climate change messages can promote support for climate action globally	37
Strong collaborative governance networks support effective Forest Stewardship Council-certified community-based forest management: Evidence from Southeast Tanzania	36
Conflict and conservation: On the role of protected areas for environmental justice	36
Carbon capability revisited: Theoretical developments and empirical evidence	36
Editorial Board	36
Technological breakthroughs can reverse the unintended negative impacts of carbon tariffs on China’s steel sector and global economy	35
Carbon farming diffusion in Australia	34
Corporate concessions: Opportunity or liability for climate advocacy groups?	34
Editorial Board	34
Progress in understanding the social dimensions of desalination and future research directions	33
Environmental change and migration aspirations: Evidence from Bangladesh	33
Challenges to anticipatory coastal adaptation for transformative nature-based solutions	33
Climate change and coastal megacities: Adapting through mobility	32
Beyond the boom-bust cycle: An interdisciplinary framework for analysing crop booms	32
Air pollution in Gaza during the post-october 7 era: a satellite and machine learning assessment	32
Attributing deforestation-driven biodiversity decline in the Gran Chaco to agricultural commodity supply chains	32
Indigenous women are the “guardians of Pachamama”: Territorial sovereignty is indispensable for just climate change adaptations in Peru	32
Perceived plasticity of climate-relevant behaviors and policy support among high- and lower-income individuals	32
Supporting climate resilient development planning − a dynamic adaptive pathways based approach and an illustrative case from Cork City, Ireland	31
Experiences of vulnerable households in low-attention disasters: Marshalltown, Iowa (United States) after the EF3 Tornado	31
Corrigendum to “Making sense of the politics in the climate change loss & damage debate” [Glob. Environ. Chang. (2020) 102133]	31
The impact of the Sustainable Development Goals on a network of 276 international organizations	31
Editorial Board	30
“Sometimes, I just want to scream”: Institutional barriers limiting adaptive capacity and resilience to extreme events	30
A review of everyday urban adaptations: What they are and how they can advance progress in adaptation	30

Sharing the road: Political ideologies and political party preference as drivers of public transport infrastructure support	30
Editorial Board	29
Self-governance mediates small-scale fishing strategies, vulnerability and adaptive response	29
Global energy scenarios: A geopolitical reality check	29
Can REDD+ succeed? Occurrence and influence of various combinations of interventions in subnational initiatives	29
Beyond property rights: all roads lead to sustainable grassland management	28
Bridging extreme climate risks, financial precarity, and adaptation gaps: Advancing inclusive adaptation in rainfed agricultural systems	28
The emissions responsibility accounting of multinational enterprises for an efficient climate policy	28
Colonial contexts and the feasibility of mitigation through transition: A study of the impact of historical processes on the emissions dynamics of nation-states	28
Pyro-socioecological zoning: A proposal for fire management in the tropical dry forest	28
More than a safety net: Ethiopia’s flagship public works program increases tree cover	28
Why has the Brazilian Cerrado been left behind by voluntary environmental policies?	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
Vulnerability locked in. On the need to engage the outside of the adaptation box	27
Land-use spillovers from environmental policy interventions	27
Editorial Board	27
Who do we trust on climate change, and why?	27
Scaling smallholder tree cover restoration across the tropics	27
Climate-smart peatland management and the potential for synergies between food security and climate change objectives in Indonesia	27
Are managed retreat programs successful and just? A global mapping of success typologies, justice dimensions, and trade-offs	27
Assessing the social and environmental impacts of critical mineral supply chains for the energy transition in Europe	27
Resilience to disaster: Evidence from American wellbeing data	26
Typologies of actionable climate information and its use	26
A taste of tomorrow: Predicting food demand elasticities under different Shared Socioeconomic Pathways	26
Citizen science data can significantly improve predictions of potential ranges of non-charismatic species: a study on two freshwater sponges	26
Greenhouse gas mitigation co-benefits across the global agricultural development programs	26
Editorial Board	25
A new dynamic framework is required to assess adaptation limits	25
Tackling the academic air travel dependency. An analysis of the (in)consistency between academics’ travel behaviour and their attitudes	25
Transformations to sustainability: Processes, practices, and pathways	25
Environmental regulation and innovation: Evidence from China	25
An actor-centered, scalable land system typology for addressing biodiversity loss in the world’s tropical dry woodlands	25
Assessing synergies and trade-offs of diverging Paris-compliant mitigation strategies with long-term SDG objectives	25
Compound[ing] disasters in Puerto Rico: Pathways for virtual transdisciplinary collaboration to enhance community resilience	25
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
Implications of demographic policies on China’s food-related environmental footprints amid population ageing	25