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

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	340
Niches for transformative change within dominant territorial pathways: Practices and perspectives in a Nicaraguan agricultural frontier	189
Steel stocks and flows of global merchant fleets as material base of international trade from 1980 to 2050	176
Corrigendum to “Formation and performance of collaborative disaster management networks: Evidence from a Swedish wildfire response” [Global Environ. Change 41 (2016) 183–194]	164
Potential for climate change driven spatial mismatches between apple crops and their wild bee pollinators at a continental scale	148
Civil society and survival: Indigenous Amazigh climate adaptation in Morocco	141
Carbon tax salience counteracts price effects through moral licensing	116
Localized land tenure registration in Burundi and eastern DR Congo: Contributing to sustainable peace?	116
Tackling the climate, biodiversity and pollution emergencies by making peace with nature 50 years after the Stockholm Conference	113
Assisted tree migration can reduce but not avert the decline of forest ecosystem services in Europe	112
Enforcement and inequality in collective PES to reduce tropical deforestation: Effectiveness, efficiency and equity implications	108
Global energy consumption of the mineral mining industry: Exploring the historical perspective and future pathways to 2060	108
The multifaceted spectra of power − A participatory network analysis on power structures in diverse dryland regions	107
Beyond the binary of trapped populations and voluntary immobility: A people-centered perspective on environmental change and human immobility at Lake Urmia, Iran	103
Participatory storyworld building for unlocking climate adaptation	94
Agency, social networks, and adaptation to environmental change	83
“Scale and access to the Green climate Fund: Big challenges for small island developing States”	83
Diffusion of global climate policy: National depoliticization, local repoliticization in Turkey	81
OK Boomer: A decade of generational differences in feelings about climate change	73
Carbon territoriality at the land-water interface	71
National leverage points to reduce global pesticide pollution	71
Why are sustainable practices often elusive? The role of information flow in the management of networked human-environment interactions	71
The value of property rights and environmental policy in Brazil: Evidence from a new database on land prices	70
Corrigendum to “Scaling Indigenous-led natural resource management” [Glob. Environ. Chang. 84 (2024) 102799]	69
COVID-19 to go? The role of disasters and evacuation in the COVID-19 pandemic	66

Subnational institutions and power of landholders drive illegal deforestation in a major commodity production frontier	64
Mining threatens isolated indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon	63
How seasonal cultures shape adaptation on Aotearoa – New Zealand’s Coromandel Peninsula	62
How social movements use religious creativity to address environmental crises in Indonesian local communities	62
Anticipating socio-technical tipping points	62
Transformative potential in sustainable development goals engagement: Experience from local governance in Australia	61
Spinning in circles? A systematic review on the role of theory in social vulnerability, resilience and adaptation research	60
Knowledge co-production for decision-making in human-natural systems under uncertainty	59
Editorial Board	59
China’s nature-based solutions in the Global South: Evidence from Asia, Africa, and Latin America	59
Coercive environmentalism and political legitimacy in the age of climate change: the case of fisheries in Uganda	59
Catalyzing sustainability pathways: Navigating urban nature based solutions in Europe	58
Trade of crop products contribute to the alleviation of global nitrate leaching risks	58
Just social-ecological tipping scales: A mid-range social theory of change in coal and carbon intensive regions	56
Designing a virtuous cycle: Quality of governance, effective climate change mitigation, and just outcomes support each other	56
Expert preferences on options for biodiversity conservation under climate change	55
Does stakeholder participation improve environmental governance? Evidence from a meta-analysis of 305 case studies	53
Religious values and family upbringing as antecedents of food waste avoidance	53
Low perception of climate change by farmers and herders on Tibetan Plateau	52
Spectrums of Relocation: A typological framework for understanding risk-based relocation through space, time and power	52
Experience with extreme weather events increases willingness-to-pay for climate mitigation policy	52
Anti-corruption and corporate environmental responsibility: Evidence from China’s anti-corruption campaign	51
Everyday Adaptation: Theorizing climate change adaptation in daily life	50
Impact of lifestyle, human diet and nutrient use efficiency in food production on eutrophication of global aquifers and surface waters	50
A global multi-indicator assessment of the environmental impact of livestock products	49
Does Climate Change Exacerbate Gender Inequality in Cognitive Performance?	49
The production-protection nexus: How political-economic processes influence prospects for transformative change in human-wildlife interactions	49
Using Protection Motivation Theory to examine information-seeking behaviors on climate change	47
Heatwaves and violence against women: a spatial analysis of female homicides in Brazil	47
Heatwave adaptation conditioned by everyday life: Analysing interacting changes to daily activities during Pacific Northwest summers	47
Strong collaborative governance networks support effective Forest Stewardship Council-certified community-based forest management: Evidence from Southeast Tanzania	47
Conflict and conservation: On the role of protected areas for environmental justice	45
Carbon capability revisited: Theoretical developments and empirical evidence	44
Natural disasters and climate change beliefs: The role of distance and prior beliefs	43
Greenhouse gas emissions from global cities under SSP/RCP scenarios, 1990 to 2100	43
Climate change messages can promote support for climate action globally	43
Editorial Board	42
Drivers of future fluvial flood risk change for residential buildings in Europe	42
Fairness critically conditions the carbon budget allocation across countries	42
Carbon farming diffusion in Australia	41
Indigenous women are the “guardians of Pachamama”: Territorial sovereignty is indispensable for just climate change adaptations in Peru	38
Attributing deforestation-driven biodiversity decline in the Gran Chaco to agricultural commodity supply chains	37
Finding the right partners? Examining inequalities in the global investment landscape of hydropower	36
Challenges to anticipatory coastal adaptation for transformative nature-based solutions	36
Experiences of vulnerable households in low-attention disasters: Marshalltown, Iowa (United States) after the EF3 Tornado	35
Air pollution in Gaza during the post-october 7 era: a satellite and machine learning assessment	35
Methods matter: Improved practices for environmental evaluation of dietary patterns	35
Deep Transitions: Towards a comprehensive framework for mapping major continuities and ruptures in industrial modernity	35
Editorial Board	35
Technological breakthroughs can reverse the unintended negative impacts of carbon tariffs on China’s steel sector and global economy	34

Corporate concessions: Opportunity or liability for climate advocacy groups?	34
Beyond the boom-bust cycle: An interdisciplinary framework for analysing crop booms	33
Aligning climate and sustainable development finance through an SDG lens. The role of development assistance in implementing the Paris Agreement	33
The impact of the Sustainable Development Goals on a network of 276 international organizations	32
Climate change and coastal megacities: Adapting through mobility	32
Environmental change and migration aspirations: Evidence from Bangladesh	32
Sharing the road: Political ideologies and political party preference as drivers of public transport infrastructure support	31
Progress in understanding the social dimensions of desalination and future research directions	31
Corrigendum to “Making sense of the politics in the climate change loss & damage debate” [Glob. Environ. Chang. (2020) 102133]	31
Willingness-to-pay for carbon dioxide offsets: Field evidence on revealed preferences in the aviation industry	31
“Sometimes, I just want to scream”: Institutional barriers limiting adaptive capacity and resilience to extreme events	30
Cognition of feedback loops in a fire-prone social-ecological system	30
Editorial Board	30
Supporting climate resilient development planning − a dynamic adaptive pathways based approach and an illustrative case from Cork City, Ireland	30
Can REDD+ succeed? Occurrence and influence of various combinations of interventions in subnational initiatives	30
Editorial Board	30
Toward health-environment policy: Beyond the Rome Declaration	30
The emissions responsibility accounting of multinational enterprises for an efficient climate policy	30
More than a safety net: Ethiopia’s flagship public works program increases tree cover	29
Beyond property rights: all roads lead to sustainable grassland management	29
Global energy scenarios: A geopolitical reality check	29
Bridging extreme climate risks, financial precarity, and adaptation gaps: Advancing inclusive adaptation in rainfed agricultural systems	29
“Climate-smart agriculture and food security: Cross-country evidence from West Africa”	29
A review of everyday urban adaptations: What they are and how they can advance progress in adaptation	28
Implementing a knowledge system: Lessons from the global stewardship of climate services	28
Self-governance mediates small-scale fishing strategies, vulnerability and adaptive response	28
Why has the Brazilian Cerrado been left behind by voluntary environmental policies?	28
Constructing the adaptation economy: Climate resilient development and the economization of vulnerability	28
Climate-smart peatland management and the potential for synergies between food security and climate change objectives in Indonesia	27
On viability: Climate change and the science of possible futures	27
Scaling smallholder tree cover restoration across the tropics	27
Colonial contexts and the feasibility of mitigation through transition: A study of the impact of historical processes on the emissions dynamics of nation-states	27
Assessing the social and environmental impacts of critical mineral supply chains for the energy transition in Europe	26
Editorial Board	26
Vulnerability locked in. On the need to engage the outside of the adaptation box	26
Land-use spillovers from environmental policy interventions	26
Are managed retreat programs successful and just? A global mapping of success typologies, justice dimensions, and trade-offs	26
Environmental regulation and innovation: Evidence from China	25
A new dynamic framework is required to assess adaptation limits	25
Assessing synergies and trade-offs of diverging Paris-compliant mitigation strategies with long-term SDG objectives	25
Tackling the academic air travel dependency. An analysis of the (in)consistency between academics’ travel behaviour and their attitudes	25
A taste of tomorrow: Predicting food demand elasticities under different Shared Socioeconomic Pathways	25
Greenhouse gas mitigation co-benefits across the global agricultural development programs	24
Typologies of actionable climate information and its use	24
Navigating climate crises in the Great Barrier Reef	23
Compound[ing] disasters in Puerto Rico: Pathways for virtual transdisciplinary collaboration to enhance community resilience	23
Between theory and action: Assessing the transformative character of climate change adaptation in 51 cases in the Netherlands	23
Global forest products markets and forest sector carbon impacts of projected sea level rise	23
Public policies and global forest conservation: Empirical evidence from national borders	23
An actor-centered, scalable land system typology for addressing biodiversity loss in the world’s tropical dry woodlands	23
Resilience to disaster: Evidence from American wellbeing data	23
Implications of demographic policies on China’s food-related environmental footprints amid population ageing	23
Transformations to sustainability: Processes, practices, and pathways	23
Pathways to conventional and radical climate action: The role of temporal orientation, environmental cognitive alternatives, and eco-anxiety	23
Citizen science data can significantly improve predictions of potential ranges of non-charismatic species: a study on two freshwater sponges	23
Bookkeepers of catastrophes: The overlooked role of reinsurers in climate change debates	23
Editorial Board	23