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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Forest 404: Using a BBC drama series to explore the impact of nature’s changing soundscapes on human wellbeing and behavior	230
Differential disadvantages in the distribution of federal aid across three decades of voluntary buyouts in the United States	172
“Climate-smart agriculture and food security: Cross-country evidence from West Africa”	134
Prospects for a sustainable and climate-resilient African economy post-COVID-19	133
Applying the Three Horizons approach in local and regional scenarios to support policy coherence in SDG implementation: Insights from arid Spain	124
The emissions responsibility accounting of multinational enterprises for an efficient climate policy	122
Social and structural vulnerabilities: Associations with disaster readiness	118
Tracking the global anthropogenic gallium cycle during 2000–2020: A trade-linked multiregional material flow analysis	118
Assessing the state of traditional knowledge at national level	117
From mountains to megaregions: A powershed analysis of the Third Pole hydropower boom	103
Editorial Board	103
Editorial Board	102
Editorial Board	102
Can REDD+ succeed? Occurrence and influence of various combinations of interventions in subnational initiatives	100
Global rainbow distribution under current and future climates	98
Localized land tenure registration in Burundi and eastern DR Congo: Contributing to sustainable peace?	97
Editorial Board	95
Forty-year multi-scale land cover change and political ecology data reveal a dynamic and regenerative process of forests in Peruvian Indigenous Territories	94
Potentially harmful World Bank projects are proximate to areas of biodiversity conservation importance	85
How do natural resource dependent firms gain and lose a social licence?	85
Commentary: Food choices and environmental impacts: Achievements and challenges	82
Global energy scenarios: A geopolitical reality check	81
Commentary: Recent progress and future directions for research related to migration and conflict	81
China’s pathway to carbon neutrality for the iron and steel industry	80
Scenario archetypes reveal risks and opportunities for global mountain futures	78

Exploring river nitrogen and phosphorus loading and export to global coastal waters in the Shared Socio-economic pathways	77
Framing the just transition: How international trade unions engage with UN climate negotiations	76
Explaining the stickiness of supply chain relations in the Brazilian soybean trade	76
More than a safety net: Ethiopia’s flagship public works program increases tree cover	73
What role do climate considerations play in consumption of red meat in Norway?	72
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon could be halved by scaling up the implementation of zero-deforestation cattle commitments	71
Scaling patterns of human diseases and population size in Colombia	70
Collaboration and individual performance during disaster response	69
Status, challenges and pathways to the sustainable use of wild species	69
Editorial Board	68
Pathways to human well-being in the context of land acquisitions in Lao PDR	67
Voices of young biosphere stewards on the strengths, weaknesses, and ways forward for 74 UNESCO Biosphere Reserves across 83 countries	65
Why common interests and collective action are not enough for environmental cooperation – Lessons from the China-EU cooperation discourse on circular economy	63
Forest carbon trajectories: Consequences of alternative land-use scenarios in New England	62
The impact of local temperature volatility on attention to climate change: Evidence from Spanish tweets	62
Commentary : Progress in understanding and overcoming barriers to public engagement with climate change	61
In government we trust? Micro-business adaptation to climate change in four post-colonial and transitional economies of China	59
Air pollutions and loan decision bias	58
Enforcement and inequality in collective PES to reduce tropical deforestation: Effectiveness, efficiency and equity implications	56
Mapping public appraisals of carbon dioxide removal	56
Cognition of feedback loops in a fire-prone social-ecological system	56
Beyond the binary of trapped populations and voluntary immobility: A people-centered perspective on environmental change and human immobility at Lake Urmia, Iran	55
Gender dimensions of climate change adaptation in Tigray, Ethiopia	55
Adaptive capacity within tropical marine protected areas – Differences between men- and women-headed households	55
Self-governance mediates small-scale fishing strategies, vulnerability and adaptive response	54
The drivers of individual climate actions in Europe	53
Policies to bring about social-ecological tipping points in coal and carbon intensive regions	53
Greening to shield: The impacts of extreme rainfall on economic activity in Latin American cities	53
Niches for transformative change within dominant territorial pathways: Practices and perspectives in a Nicaraguan agricultural frontier	53
Civil society and survival: Indigenous Amazigh climate adaptation in Morocco	50
Regulatory politics and hybrid governance: the case of Brazil’s Amazon Soy Moratorium	49
Does hostility affect public support for the provision of global public goods among competing neighboring countries? A survey experiment in Northeast Asia	48
Effects of ozone air pollution on crop pollinators and pollination	47
Mapping a sustainable water future: Private sector opportunities for global water security and resilience	47
Crisis and opportunity: Transforming climate governance for SMEs	47
Using publicly available remote sensing products to evaluate REDD+ projects i	47
Trade-offs between physical risk and economic reward affect fishers’ vulnerability to changing storminess	46
Agroecological measures and circular economy strategies to ensure sufficient nitrogen for sustainable farming	45
Why are carbon taxes unfair? Disentangling public perceptions of fairness	45
The trap of climate change-induced “natural” disasters and inequality	45
The open veins of Latin America: Long-term physical trade flows (1900–2016)	44
Corrigendum to “The Hogg Eco-Anxiety Scale: Development and validation of a multidimensional scale” [Glob. Environ. Change 71 (2021) 1–10/102391]	44
Potential for climate change driven spatial mismatches between apple crops and their wild bee pollinators at a continental scale	43
Corrigendum to “Formation and performance of collaborative disaster management networks: Evidence from a Swedish wildfire response” [Global Environ. Change 41 (2016) 183–194]	43
How qualitative approaches matter in climate and ocean change research: Uncovering contradictions about climate concern	43
The infrastructure cost of permafrost degradation for the Northern Hemisphere	43
Women participation in formal decision-making: Empirical evidence from participatory forest management in Ethiopia	42
Constructing the adaptation economy: Climate resilient development and the economization of vulnerability	42
Assessing future vulnerability and risk of humanitarian crises using climate change and population projections within the INFORM framework	41
Citizen preferences on private-public co-regulation in environmental governance: Evidence from Switzerland	40

Grappling with a sea change: Tensions in expert imaginaries of marine carbon dioxide removal	40
Africa's protected areas are brightening at night: A long-term light pollution monitor based on nighttime light imagery	39
Scaling mechanisms of energy communities: A comparison of 28 initiatives	39
Influences of international agricultural trade on the global phosphorus cycle and its associated issues	39
Embodied carbon dioxide emissions to provide high access levels to basic infrastructure around the world	38
Accelerated contraction of future climate comfort zones in the southern subtropics: Insights from analysis and simulation of hiking big data	38
Assisted tree migration can reduce but not avert the decline of forest ecosystem services in Europe	38
Tackling the climate, biodiversity and pollution emergencies by making peace with nature 50 years after the Stockholm Conference	38
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	37
Steel stocks and flows of global merchant fleets as material base of international trade from 1980 to 2050	37
Broadening resilience: An evaluation of policy and planning for drinking water resilience in 100 US cities	37
The booming non-food bioeconomy drives large share of global land-use emissions	37
The contribution of energy law to the energy transition and energy research	37
The economics of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) deployment in a 1.5 °C or 2 °C world	37
The impact of agricultural trade approaches on global economic modeling	36
Global-scale impact analysis of mine tailings dam failures: 1915–2020	36
Exposure to extreme climate decreases self-rated health score: Large-scale survey evidence from China	36
What future for primary aluminium production in a decarbonizing economy?	36
Plastic pollution and the open burning of plastic wastes	35
Global energy consumption of the mineral mining industry: Exploring the historical perspective and future pathways to 2060	35
Quantifying community resilience to riverine hazards in Bangladesh	34
Carbon tax salience counteracts price effects through moral licensing	34
REDD+ finance in Brazil, Indonesia and Vietnam: Stakeholder perspectives between 2009-2019	33
Colonial contexts and the feasibility of mitigation through transition: A study of the impact of historical processes on the emissions dynamics of nation-states	33
Does stricter sewage treatment targets policy exacerbate the contradiction between effluent water quality improvement and carbon emissions mitigation? An evidence from China	33
When the whole is less than the sum of all parts – Tracking global-level impacts of national sustainability initiatives	33
Inclusive wealth index measuring sustainable development potentials for Chinese cities	33
Understanding drivers of global urban bird diversity	32
Climate change, water availability, and the burden of rural women’s triple role in Muyuka, Cameroon	31
Why are sustainable practices often elusive? The role of information flow in the management of networked human-environment interactions	30
When does the energy transition impact household affordability? A mixed-methods comparison of fourteen coal and carbon-intensive regions	30
Mining threatens isolated indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon	30
Unequally distributed education impacts of ecosystem degradation: Evidence from an invasive species	30
Stories from the IPCC: An essay on climate science in fourteen questions	30
Developing action competence for sustainability – Do school experiences in influencing society matter?	30
Vulnerability locked in. On the need to engage the outside of the adaptation box	29
Blinded by sunspots: Revealing the multidimensional and intersectional inequities of solar energy in India	29
Values shift in response to social learning through deliberation about protected areas	28
Commentary: The Beat Goes On? Print Media Coverage of Anthropogenic Climate Change over the past three decades	28
Explaining radical policy change: Norwegian climate policy and the ban on cultivating peatlands	28
Editorial Board	28
Editorial Board	28
The organizational structure of global gene drive research	28
Situated adaptation: Tackling the production of vulnerability through transformative action in Sri Lanka’s Dry Zone	27
Narratives and water: A bibliometric review	27
Renewable energy policies and household solid fuel dependence	27
Shared injustice, splintered solidarity: Water governance across urban-rural divides	27
Knowing like a global expert organization: Comparative insights from the IPCC and IPBES	27
“Mind the (Policy-Implementation) Gap”: Transport decarbonisation policies and performances of leading global economies (1990–2018)	26
Climate change and the demand for recreational ecosystem services on public lands in the continental United States	26
The political ecology playbook for ecosystem restoration: Principles for effective, equitable, and transformative landscapes	26
Corrigendum to “Scaling Indigenous-led natural resource management” [Glob. Environ. Chang. 84 (2024) 102799]	25
Biological invasions as burdens to primary economic sectors	25
Corrigendum to “What future for primary aluminium production in a decarbonizing economy?” [Global Environ. Change 69 (2021) 102316]	25
Assessing the social and environmental impacts of critical mineral supply chains for the energy transition in Europe	25
COVID-19 to go? The role of disasters and evacuation in the COVID-19 pandemic	25
The role of everyday mobility in adaptation to air pollution hazard: A mixed-method approach combining big and traditional data	24
Effectively communicating the removal of fossil energy subsidies: Evidence from Latin America	24
Conservation science and policy should care about violent extremism	24
Place-based solutions for global social-ecological dilemmas: An analysis of locally grounded, diversified, and cross-scalar initiatives in the Amazon	23
Regimes of global and national oil palm cultivations from 2001 to 2018	23
Climate-smart peatland management and the potential for synergies between food security and climate change objectives in Indonesia	23
Development and validation of the motivation to avoid food waste scale	23
Democracy through technocracy? Reinventing civil society as a state-monitored and unpaid service provider in the EU FLEGT VPA in Laos	23
Is anticipatory governance opening up or closing down future possibilities? Findings from diverse contexts in the Global South	23
The value of property rights and environmental policy in Brazil: Evidence from a new database on land prices	23