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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	312
Civil society and survival: Indigenous Amazigh climate adaptation in Morocco	250
Corrigendum to “Formation and performance of collaborative disaster management networks: Evidence from a Swedish wildfire response” [Global Environ. Change 41 (2016) 183–194]	179
Carbon tax salience counteracts price effects through moral licensing	161
Localized land tenure registration in Burundi and eastern DR Congo: Contributing to sustainable peace?	157
Niches for transformative change within dominant territorial pathways: Practices and perspectives in a Nicaraguan agricultural frontier	143
Steel stocks and flows of global merchant fleets as material base of international trade from 1980 to 2050	134
Potential for climate change driven spatial mismatches between apple crops and their wild bee pollinators at a continental scale	130
Assisted tree migration can reduce but not avert the decline of forest ecosystem services in Europe	129
The multifaceted spectra of power − A participatory network analysis on power structures in diverse dryland regions	111
Beyond the binary of trapped populations and voluntary immobility: A people-centered perspective on environmental change and human immobility at Lake Urmia, Iran	109
Global energy consumption of the mineral mining industry: Exploring the historical perspective and future pathways to 2060	109
Tackling the climate, biodiversity and pollution emergencies by making peace with nature 50 years after the Stockholm Conference	108
Enforcement and inequality in collective PES to reduce tropical deforestation: Effectiveness, efficiency and equity implications	103
Agency, social networks, and adaptation to environmental change	101
Transformative potential in sustainable development goals engagement: Experience from local governance in Australia	98
Carbon territoriality at the land-water interface	98
Corrigendum to “Scaling Indigenous-led natural resource management” [Glob. Environ. Chang. 84 (2024) 102799]	98
How social movements use religious creativity to address environmental crises in Indonesian local communities	90
Why are sustainable practices often elusive? The role of information flow in the management of networked human-environment interactions	88
Diffusion of global climate policy: National depoliticization, local repoliticization in Turkey	86
How seasonal cultures shape adaptation on Aotearoa – New Zealand’s Coromandel Peninsula	81
The value of property rights and environmental policy in Brazil: Evidence from a new database on land prices	81
National leverage points to reduce global pesticide pollution	77
Anticipating socio-technical tipping points	76

Spinning in circles? A systematic review on the role of theory in social vulnerability, resilience and adaptation research	68
Situated adaptation: Tackling the production of vulnerability through transformative action in Sri Lanka’s Dry Zone	68
Mining threatens isolated indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon	66
“Scale and access to the Green climate Fund: Big challenges for small island developing States”	65
OK Boomer: A decade of generational differences in feelings about climate change	64
COVID-19 to go? The role of disasters and evacuation in the COVID-19 pandemic	63
Subnational institutions and power of landholders drive illegal deforestation in a major commodity production frontier	60
Editorial Board	60
Coercive environmentalism and political legitimacy in the age of climate change: the case of fisheries in Uganda	59
Experience with extreme weather events increases willingness-to-pay for climate mitigation policy	59
Everyday Adaptation: Theorizing climate change adaptation in daily life	57
Impact of lifestyle, human diet and nutrient use efficiency in food production on eutrophication of global aquifers and surface waters	57
Just social-ecological tipping scales: A mid-range social theory of change in coal and carbon intensive regions	57
Spectrums of Relocation: A typological framework for understanding risk-based relocation through space, time and power	56
A global multi-indicator assessment of the environmental impact of livestock products	55
Anti-corruption and corporate environmental responsibility: Evidence from China’s anti-corruption campaign	54
Expert preferences on options for biodiversity conservation under climate change	53
Low perception of climate change by farmers and herders on Tibetan Plateau	53
Does stakeholder participation improve environmental governance? Evidence from a meta-analysis of 305 case studies	52
Designing a virtuous cycle: Quality of governance, effective climate change mitigation, and just outcomes support each other	52
Knowledge co-production for decision-making in human-natural systems under uncertainty	52
Socio-economic and climatic changes lead to contrasting global urban vegetation trends	51
Catalyzing sustainability pathways: Navigating urban nature based solutions in Europe	49
Does Climate Change Exacerbate Gender Inequality in Cognitive Performance?	48
Carbon capability revisited: Theoretical developments and empirical evidence	48
Global Environmental Change: 30 years of interdisciplinary research on the human and policy dimensions of environmental change	48
Religious values and family upbringing as antecedents of food waste avoidance	48
Strong collaborative governance networks support effective Forest Stewardship Council-certified community-based forest management: Evidence from Southeast Tanzania	48
China’s nature-based solutions in the Global South: Evidence from Asia, Africa, and Latin America	48
The production-protection nexus: How political-economic processes influence prospects for transformative change in human-wildlife interactions	47
Natural disasters and climate change beliefs: The role of distance and prior beliefs	46
Heatwave adaptation conditioned by everyday life: Analysing interacting changes to daily activities during Pacific Northwest summers	46
Fairness critically conditions the carbon budget allocation across countries	45
Conflict and conservation: On the role of protected areas for environmental justice	45
Climate change messages can promote support for climate action globally	45
Greenhouse gas emissions from global cities under SSP/RCP scenarios, 1990 to 2100	44
Drivers of future fluvial flood risk change for residential buildings in Europe	42
Using Protection Motivation Theory to examine information-seeking behaviors on climate change	42
Progress in understanding the social dimensions of desalination and future research directions	42
Editorial Board	42
Indigenous women are the “guardians of Pachamama”: Territorial sovereignty is indispensable for just climate change adaptations in Peru	41
Carbon farming diffusion in Australia	41
Attributing deforestation-driven biodiversity decline in the Gran Chaco to agricultural commodity supply chains	40
Aligning climate and sustainable development finance through an SDG lens. The role of development assistance in implementing the Paris Agreement	40
The impact of the Sustainable Development Goals on a network of 276 international organizations	40
Finding the right partners? Examining inequalities in the global investment landscape of hydropower	39
Beyond the boom-bust cycle: An interdisciplinary framework for analysing crop booms	39
Air pollution in Gaza during the post-october 7 era: a satellite and machine learning assessment	38
Willingness-to-pay for carbon dioxide offsets: Field evidence on revealed preferences in the aviation industry	37
Climate change mitigation on tropical peatlands: A triple burden for smallholder farmers in Indonesia	37

Are large-scale hydroelectric dams inherently undemocratic?	36
Environmental change and migration aspirations: Evidence from Bangladesh	36
Methods matter: Improved practices for environmental evaluation of dietary patterns	35
Editorial Board	35
Experiences of vulnerable households in low-attention disasters: Marshalltown, Iowa (United States) after the EF3 Tornado	34
Corporate concessions: Opportunity or liability for climate advocacy groups?	34
Climate change and coastal megacities: Adapting through mobility	33
Corrigendum to “Making sense of the politics in the climate change loss & damage debate” [Glob. Environ. Chang. (2020) 102133]	33
Challenges to anticipatory coastal adaptation for transformative nature-based solutions	33
Deep Transitions: Towards a comprehensive framework for mapping major continuities and ruptures in industrial modernity	33
Sharing the road: Political ideologies and political party preference as drivers of public transport infrastructure support	32
Toward health-environment policy: Beyond the Rome Declaration	32
“Sometimes, I just want to scream”: Institutional barriers limiting adaptive capacity and resilience to extreme events	32
More than a safety net: Ethiopia’s flagship public works program increases tree cover	31
Beyond property rights: all roads lead to sustainable grassland management	31
Editorial Board	31
Self-governance mediates small-scale fishing strategies, vulnerability and adaptive response	31
Cognition of feedback loops in a fire-prone social-ecological system	30
Can REDD+ succeed? Occurrence and influence of various combinations of interventions in subnational initiatives	30
Global energy scenarios: A geopolitical reality check	30
The emissions responsibility accounting of multinational enterprises for an efficient climate policy	29
“Climate-smart agriculture and food security: Cross-country evidence from West Africa”	29
Constructing the adaptation economy: Climate resilient development and the economization of vulnerability	29
Climate-smart peatland management and the potential for synergies between food security and climate change objectives in Indonesia	29
Editorial Board	29
Scaling smallholder tree cover restoration across the tropics	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
Renewable energy policies and household solid fuel dependence	28
Commentary: Transformative Change in Governance Systems	28
Land-use spillovers from environmental policy interventions	28
Vulnerability locked in. On the need to engage the outside of the adaptation box	28
Implementing a knowledge system: Lessons from the global stewardship of climate services	28
On viability: Climate change and the science of possible futures	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
Why has the Brazilian Cerrado been left behind by voluntary environmental policies?	26
Editorial Board	26
Compound[ing] disasters in Puerto Rico: Pathways for virtual transdisciplinary collaboration to enhance community resilience	25
Tackling the academic air travel dependency. An analysis of the (in)consistency between academics’ travel behaviour and their attitudes	25
Resilience to disaster: Evidence from American wellbeing data	25
Typologies of actionable climate information and its use	25
Environmental regulation and innovation: Evidence from China	24
Commentary : The Future of Changes in Global Ecosystem Services	24
A taste of tomorrow: Predicting food demand elasticities under different Shared Socioeconomic Pathways	24
Greenhouse gas mitigation co-benefits across the global agricultural development programs	24
Pathways to conventional and radical climate action: The role of temporal orientation, environmental cognitive alternatives, and eco-anxiety	24
Assessing synergies and trade-offs of diverging Paris-compliant mitigation strategies with long-term SDG objectives	23
Public policies and global forest conservation: Empirical evidence from national borders	23
Bookkeepers of catastrophes: The overlooked role of reinsurers in climate change debates	23
Editorial Board	23
Navigating climate crises in the Great Barrier Reef	23
An actor-centered, scalable land system typology for addressing biodiversity loss in the world’s tropical dry woodlands	23
Socioeconomic geography of climate change views in Europe	23
A new dynamic framework is required to assess adaptation limits	23
Assessing the supply risks of critical metals in China's low-carbon energy transition	23
Political ideology and climate change-mitigating behaviors: Insights from fixed world beliefs	23