OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions is 22. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	326
Civil society and survival: Indigenous Amazigh climate adaptation in Morocco	182
Localized land tenure registration in Burundi and eastern DR Congo: Contributing to sustainable peace?	167
Potential for climate change driven spatial mismatches between apple crops and their wild bee pollinators at a continental scale	161
Niches for transformative change within dominant territorial pathways: Practices and perspectives in a Nicaraguan agricultural frontier	144
Steel stocks and flows of global merchant fleets as material base of international trade from 1980 to 2050	136
The multifaceted spectra of power − A participatory network analysis on power structures in diverse dryland regions	113
Carbon tax salience counteracts price effects through moral licensing	110
Corrigendum to “Formation and performance of collaborative disaster management networks: Evidence from a Swedish wildfire response” [Global Environ. Change 41 (2016) 183–194]	109
Global energy consumption of the mineral mining industry: Exploring the historical perspective and future pathways to 2060	105
Assisted tree migration can reduce but not avert the decline of forest ecosystem services in Europe	105
Tackling the climate, biodiversity and pollution emergencies by making peace with nature 50 years after the Stockholm Conference	101
Enforcement and inequality in collective PES to reduce tropical deforestation: Effectiveness, efficiency and equity implications	101
Beyond the binary of trapped populations and voluntary immobility: A people-centered perspective on environmental change and human immobility at Lake Urmia, Iran	100
Carbon territoriality at the land-water interface	93
Why are sustainable practices often elusive? The role of information flow in the management of networked human-environment interactions	81
The value of property rights and environmental policy in Brazil: Evidence from a new database on land prices	80
Participatory storyworld building for unlocking climate adaptation	79
COVID-19 to go? The role of disasters and evacuation in the COVID-19 pandemic	70
Subnational institutions and power of landholders drive illegal deforestation in a major commodity production frontier	69
Transformative potential in sustainable development goals engagement: Experience from local governance in Australia	69
Anticipating socio-technical tipping points	68
Agency, social networks, and adaptation to environmental change	68
Corrigendum to “Scaling Indigenous-led natural resource management” [Glob. Environ. Chang. 84 (2024) 102799]	67
National leverage points to reduce global pesticide pollution	64

How social movements use religious creativity to address environmental crises in Indonesian local communities	61
Mining threatens isolated indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon	61
Diffusion of global climate policy: National depoliticization, local repoliticization in Turkey	61
How seasonal cultures shape adaptation on Aotearoa – New Zealand’s Coromandel Peninsula	60
Spinning in circles? A systematic review on the role of theory in social vulnerability, resilience and adaptation research	59
“Scale and access to the Green climate Fund: Big challenges for small island developing States”	59
OK Boomer: A decade of generational differences in feelings about climate change	58
Coercive environmentalism and political legitimacy in the age of climate change: the case of fisheries in Uganda	57
Editorial Board	57
Just social-ecological tipping scales: A mid-range social theory of change in coal and carbon intensive regions	56
Knowledge co-production for decision-making in human-natural systems under uncertainty	55
Impact of lifestyle, human diet and nutrient use efficiency in food production on eutrophication of global aquifers and surface waters	55
A global multi-indicator assessment of the environmental impact of livestock products	54
China’s nature-based solutions in the Global South: Evidence from Asia, Africa, and Latin America	54
Everyday Adaptation: Theorizing climate change adaptation in daily life	52
Low perception of climate change by farmers and herders on Tibetan Plateau	51
Religious values and family upbringing as antecedents of food waste avoidance	51
Catalyzing sustainability pathways: Navigating urban nature based solutions in Europe	51
Does stakeholder participation improve environmental governance? Evidence from a meta-analysis of 305 case studies	50
Experience with extreme weather events increases willingness-to-pay for climate mitigation policy	50
Trade of crop products contribute to the alleviation of global nitrate leaching risks	49
Spectrums of Relocation: A typological framework for understanding risk-based relocation through space, time and power	49
Expert preferences on options for biodiversity conservation under climate change	49
Anti-corruption and corporate environmental responsibility: Evidence from China’s anti-corruption campaign	48
Using Protection Motivation Theory to examine information-seeking behaviors on climate change	48
Designing a virtuous cycle: Quality of governance, effective climate change mitigation, and just outcomes support each other	48
Climate change messages can promote support for climate action globally	47
Heatwave adaptation conditioned by everyday life: Analysing interacting changes to daily activities during Pacific Northwest summers	47
Conflict and conservation: On the role of protected areas for environmental justice	46
Strong collaborative governance networks support effective Forest Stewardship Council-certified community-based forest management: Evidence from Southeast Tanzania	44
Does Climate Change Exacerbate Gender Inequality in Cognitive Performance?	44
Carbon capability revisited: Theoretical developments and empirical evidence	43
The production-protection nexus: How political-economic processes influence prospects for transformative change in human-wildlife interactions	43
Greenhouse gas emissions from global cities under SSP/RCP scenarios, 1990 to 2100	42
Natural disasters and climate change beliefs: The role of distance and prior beliefs	41
Heatwaves and violence against women: a spatial analysis of female homicides in Brazil	41
Drivers of future fluvial flood risk change for residential buildings in Europe	41
Editorial Board	40
Fairness critically conditions the carbon budget allocation across countries	40
Progress in understanding the social dimensions of desalination and future research directions	39
Carbon farming diffusion in Australia	37
Attributing deforestation-driven biodiversity decline in the Gran Chaco to agricultural commodity supply chains	36
Indigenous women are the “guardians of Pachamama”: Territorial sovereignty is indispensable for just climate change adaptations in Peru	36
Finding the right partners? Examining inequalities in the global investment landscape of hydropower	36
Methods matter: Improved practices for environmental evaluation of dietary patterns	35
Environmental change and migration aspirations: Evidence from Bangladesh	35
Experiences of vulnerable households in low-attention disasters: Marshalltown, Iowa (United States) after the EF3 Tornado	34
Challenges to anticipatory coastal adaptation for transformative nature-based solutions	33
Air pollution in Gaza during the post-october 7 era: a satellite and machine learning assessment	33
Technological breakthroughs can reverse the unintended negative impacts of carbon tariffs on China’s steel sector and global economy	33

Climate change and coastal megacities: Adapting through mobility	33
Willingness-to-pay for carbon dioxide offsets: Field evidence on revealed preferences in the aviation industry	32
The impact of the Sustainable Development Goals on a network of 276 international organizations	32
Editorial Board	31
Beyond the boom-bust cycle: An interdisciplinary framework for analysing crop booms	31
Aligning climate and sustainable development finance through an SDG lens. The role of development assistance in implementing the Paris Agreement	31
Corporate concessions: Opportunity or liability for climate advocacy groups?	31
Supporting climate resilient development planning − a dynamic adaptive pathways based approach and an illustrative case from Cork City, Ireland	30
Toward health-environment policy: Beyond the Rome Declaration	30
Editorial Board	30
“Sometimes, I just want to scream”: Institutional barriers limiting adaptive capacity and resilience to extreme events	30
Corrigendum to “Making sense of the politics in the climate change loss & damage debate” [Glob. Environ. Chang. (2020) 102133]	30
Sharing the road: Political ideologies and political party preference as drivers of public transport infrastructure support	30
Can REDD+ succeed? Occurrence and influence of various combinations of interventions in subnational initiatives	30
Deep Transitions: Towards a comprehensive framework for mapping major continuities and ruptures in industrial modernity	30
A review of everyday urban adaptations: What they are and how they can advance progress in adaptation	29
More than a safety net: Ethiopia’s flagship public works program increases tree cover	29
Bridging extreme climate risks, financial precarity, and adaptation gaps: Advancing inclusive adaptation in rainfed agricultural systems	29
The emissions responsibility accounting of multinational enterprises for an efficient climate policy	29
Beyond property rights: all roads lead to sustainable grassland management	28
Editorial Board	28
Cognition of feedback loops in a fire-prone social-ecological system	27
“Climate-smart agriculture and food security: Cross-country evidence from West Africa”	27
Why has the Brazilian Cerrado been left behind by voluntary environmental policies?	26
Global energy scenarios: A geopolitical reality check	26
Colonial contexts and the feasibility of mitigation through transition: A study of the impact of historical processes on the emissions dynamics of nation-states	26
Constructing the adaptation economy: Climate resilient development and the economization of vulnerability	26
Scaling smallholder tree cover restoration across the tropics	26
Self-governance mediates small-scale fishing strategies, vulnerability and adaptive response	26
Assessing the social and environmental impacts of critical mineral supply chains for the energy transition in Europe	25
Are managed retreat programs successful and just? A global mapping of success typologies, justice dimensions, and trade-offs	25
On viability: Climate change and the science of possible futures	25
Land-use spillovers from environmental policy interventions	25
Implementing a knowledge system: Lessons from the global stewardship of climate services	25
Vulnerability locked in. On the need to engage the outside of the adaptation box	25
Climate-smart peatland management and the potential for synergies between food security and climate change objectives in Indonesia	25
Editorial Board	24
Typologies of actionable climate information and its use	24
A new dynamic framework is required to assess adaptation limits	23
Compound[ing] disasters in Puerto Rico: Pathways for virtual transdisciplinary collaboration to enhance community resilience	23
An actor-centered, scalable land system typology for addressing biodiversity loss in the world’s tropical dry woodlands	23
A taste of tomorrow: Predicting food demand elasticities under different Shared Socioeconomic Pathways	23
Greenhouse gas mitigation co-benefits across the global agricultural development programs	23
Assessing synergies and trade-offs of diverging Paris-compliant mitigation strategies with long-term SDG objectives	23
Citizen science data can significantly improve predictions of potential ranges of non-charismatic species: a study on two freshwater sponges	23
Pathways to conventional and radical climate action: The role of temporal orientation, environmental cognitive alternatives, and eco-anxiety	23
Environmental regulation and innovation: Evidence from China	23
Tackling the academic air travel dependency. An analysis of the (in)consistency between academics’ travel behaviour and their attitudes	22
Navigating climate crises in the Great Barrier Reef	22
Bookkeepers of catastrophes: The overlooked role of reinsurers in climate change debates	22
Public policies and global forest conservation: Empirical evidence from national borders	22
Political ideology and climate change-mitigating behaviors: Insights from fixed world beliefs	22
Global forest products markets and forest sector carbon impacts of projected sea level rise	22
Resilience to disaster: Evidence from American wellbeing data	22
Editorial Board	22
Protected areas as a double edge sword: An analysis of factors driving urbanisation in their surroundings	22