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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

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]	264
Civil society and survival: Indigenous Amazigh climate adaptation in Morocco	193
Niches for transformative change within dominant territorial pathways: Practices and perspectives in a Nicaraguan agricultural frontier	142
Localized land tenure registration in Burundi and eastern DR Congo: Contributing to sustainable peace?	142
Carbon tax salience counteracts price effects through moral licensing	137
Steel stocks and flows of global merchant fleets as material base of international trade from 1980 to 2050	135
Enforcement and inequality in collective PES to reduce tropical deforestation: Effectiveness, efficiency and equity implications	131
What future for primary aluminium production in a decarbonizing economy?	126
Tackling the climate, biodiversity and pollution emergencies by making peace with nature 50 years after the Stockholm Conference	126
Assisted tree migration can reduce but not avert the decline of forest ecosystem services in Europe	118
Potential for climate change driven spatial mismatches between apple crops and their wild bee pollinators at a continental scale	113
Beyond the binary of trapped populations and voluntary immobility: A people-centered perspective on environmental change and human immobility at Lake Urmia, Iran	112
Why are carbon taxes unfair? Disentangling public perceptions of fairness	110
Global energy consumption of the mineral mining industry: Exploring the historical perspective and future pathways to 2060	110
How social movements use religious creativity to address environmental crises in Indonesian local communities	108
Why are sustainable practices often elusive? The role of information flow in the management of networked human-environment interactions	106
How seasonal cultures shape adaptation on Aotearoa – New Zealand’s Coromandel Peninsula	100
The value of property rights and environmental policy in Brazil: Evidence from a new database on land prices	99
Carbon territoriality at the land-water interface	98
Corrigendum to “Scaling Indigenous-led natural resource management” [Glob. Environ. Chang. 84 (2024) 102799]	91
Walking with farmers: Floods, agriculture and the social practice of everyday mobility	89
Diffusion of global climate policy: National depoliticization, local repoliticization in Turkey	87
COVID-19 to go? The role of disasters and evacuation in the COVID-19 pandemic	86
Anticipating socio-technical tipping points	82
Situated adaptation: Tackling the production of vulnerability through transformative action in Sri Lanka’s Dry Zone	79

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	78
“Scale and access to the Green climate Fund: Big challenges for small island developing States”	77
Transformative potential in sustainable development goals engagement: Experience from local governance in Australia	77
OK Boomer: A decade of generational differences in feelings about climate change	74
Subnational institutions and power of landholders drive illegal deforestation in a major commodity production frontier	72
Mining threatens isolated indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon	72
Spinning in circles? A systematic review on the role of theory in social vulnerability, resilience and adaptation research	71
Expert preferences on options for biodiversity conservation under climate change	70
Experience is not enough: A dynamic explanation of the limited adaptation to extreme weather events in public organizations	70
China’s nature-based solutions in the Global South: Evidence from Asia, Africa, and Latin America	67
Low perception of climate change by farmers and herders on Tibetan Plateau	65
A global multi-indicator assessment of the environmental impact of livestock products	65
Impact of lifestyle, human diet and nutrient use efficiency in food production on eutrophication of global aquifers and surface waters	63
Knowledge co-production for decision-making in human-natural systems under uncertainty	63
Catalyzing sustainability pathways: Navigating urban nature based solutions in Europe	62
Designing a virtuous cycle: Quality of governance, effective climate change mitigation, and just outcomes support each other	62
Anti-corruption and corporate environmental responsibility: Evidence from China’s anti-corruption campaign	61
Religious values and family upbringing as antecedents of food waste avoidance	57
Spectrums of Relocation: A typological framework for understanding risk-based relocation through space, time and power	57
Socio-economic and climatic changes lead to contrasting global urban vegetation trends	56
Everyday Adaptation: Theorizing climate change adaptation in daily life	56
Experience with extreme weather events increases willingness-to-pay for climate mitigation policy	55
Does stakeholder participation improve environmental governance? Evidence from a meta-analysis of 305 case studies	53
Global Environmental Change: 30 years of interdisciplinary research on the human and policy dimensions of environmental change	53
Does Climate Change Exacerbate Gender Inequality in Cognitive Performance?	52
Carbon capability revisited: Theoretical developments and empirical evidence	51
Using Protection Motivation Theory to examine information-seeking behaviors on climate change	51
Natural disasters and climate change beliefs: The role of distance and prior beliefs	50
Conflict and conservation: On the role of protected areas for environmental justice	50
Greenhouse gas emissions from global cities under SSP/RCP scenarios, 1990 to 2100	49
The production-protection nexus: How political-economic processes influence prospects for transformative change in human-wildlife interactions	49
Climate change messages can promote support for climate action globally	49
Drivers of future fluvial flood risk change for residential buildings in Europe	49
Strong collaborative governance networks support effective Forest Stewardship Council-certified community-based forest management: Evidence from Southeast Tanzania	49
Fairness critically conditions the carbon budget allocation across countries	47
Editorial Board	45
Challenges to anticipatory coastal adaptation for transformative nature-based solutions	45
Editorial Board	45
Carbon farming diffusion in Australia	44
Progress in understanding the social dimensions of desalination and future research directions	43
Deep Transitions: Towards a comprehensive framework for mapping major continuities and ruptures in industrial modernity	43
Indigenous women are the “guardians of Pachamama”: Territorial sovereignty is indispensable for just climate change adaptations in Peru	42
Corporate concessions: Opportunity or liability for climate advocacy groups?	42
Methods matter: Improved practices for environmental evaluation of dietary patterns	41
Environmental change and migration aspirations: Evidence from Bangladesh	41
Climate change mitigation on tropical peatlands: A triple burden for smallholder farmers in Indonesia	41
Are large-scale hydroelectric dams inherently undemocratic?	40
Climate change and coastal megacities: Adapting through mobility	39
Willingness-to-pay for carbon dioxide offsets: Field evidence on revealed preferences in the aviation industry	39

Aligning climate and sustainable development finance through an SDG lens. The role of development assistance in implementing the Paris Agreement	39
Experiences of vulnerable households in low-attention disasters: Marshalltown, Iowa (United States) after the EF3 Tornado	38
Finding the right partners? Examining inequalities in the global investment landscape of hydropower	38
Beyond the boom-bust cycle: An interdisciplinary framework for analysing crop booms	38
Corrigendum to “Making sense of the politics in the climate change loss & damage debate” [Glob. Environ. Chang. (2020) 102133]	38
The impact of the Sustainable Development Goals on a network of 276 international organizations	38
Empirical testing of the visualizations of climate change mitigation scenarios with citizens: A comparison among Germany, Poland, and France	37
Toward health-environment policy: Beyond the Rome Declaration	37
To be ethical or to be good? The impact of ‘Good Provider’ and moral norms on food waste decisions in two countries	37
How EU policies could reduce nutrient pollution in European inland and coastal waters	37
“Sometimes, I just want to scream”: Institutional barriers limiting adaptive capacity and resilience to extreme events	36
Editorial Board	36
Editorial Board	35
Constructing the adaptation economy: Climate resilient development and the economization of vulnerability	35
Self-governance mediates small-scale fishing strategies, vulnerability and adaptive response	35
More than a safety net: Ethiopia’s flagship public works program increases tree cover	34
How qualitative approaches matter in climate and ocean change research: Uncovering contradictions about climate concern	33
Cognition of feedback loops in a fire-prone social-ecological system	33
Framing the just transition: How international trade unions engage with UN climate negotiations	33
Global energy scenarios: A geopolitical reality check	32
Embodied carbon dioxide emissions to provide high access levels to basic infrastructure around the world	32
“Climate-smart agriculture and food security: Cross-country evidence from West Africa”	32
Can REDD+ succeed? Occurrence and influence of various combinations of interventions in subnational initiatives	32
The emissions responsibility accounting of multinational enterprises for an efficient climate policy	31
Commentary: Transformative Change in Governance Systems	31
Climate-smart peatland management and the potential for synergies between food security and climate change objectives in Indonesia	31
Vulnerability locked in. On the need to engage the outside of the adaptation box	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
On viability: Climate change and the science of possible futures	30
Renewable energy policies and household solid fuel dependence	30
Scaling smallholder tree cover restoration across the tropics	30
Assessing the social and environmental impacts of critical mineral supply chains for the energy transition in Europe	29
Are managed retreat programs successful and just? A global mapping of success typologies, justice dimensions, and trade-offs	29
Implementing a knowledge system: Lessons from the global stewardship of climate services	29
Tackling the academic air travel dependency. An analysis of the (in)consistency between academics’ travel behaviour and their attitudes	28
Commentary : The Future of Changes in Global Ecosystem Services	28
Editorial Board	28
An actor-centered, scalable land system typology for addressing biodiversity loss in the world’s tropical dry woodlands	27
Compound[ing] disasters in Puerto Rico: Pathways for virtual transdisciplinary collaboration to enhance community resilience	27
A new dynamic framework is required to assess adaptation limits	27
Public policies and global forest conservation: Empirical evidence from national borders	27
Pathways to conventional and radical climate action: The role of temporal orientation, environmental cognitive alternatives, and eco-anxiety	27
Typologies of actionable climate information and its use	27
Resilience to disaster: Evidence from American wellbeing data	27
Navigating climate crises in the Great Barrier Reef	27
Climate change action as a project of identity: Eight meta-analyses	26
Bookkeepers of catastrophes: The overlooked role of reinsurers in climate change debates	26
Environmental regulation and innovation: Evidence from China	26
Political ideology and climate change-mitigating behaviors: Insights from fixed world beliefs	26
Between theory and action: Assessing the transformative character of climate change adaptation in 51 cases in the Netherlands	26
Editorial Board	26
Assessing synergies and trade-offs of diverging Paris-compliant mitigation strategies with long-term SDG objectives	26
Protected areas as a double edge sword: An analysis of factors driving urbanisation in their surroundings	26
Global forest products markets and forest sector carbon impacts of projected sea level rise	26
Editorial Board	26
Greenhouse gas mitigation co-benefits across the global agricultural development programs	26
Measuring the contribution of nature-based solutions beyond climate adaptation in cities	25
Weapons of the vulnerable? A review of popular resistance to climate adaptation	25
Do we prioritize floodplains for development and farming? Mapping global dependence and exposure to inundation	25