Local Environment

Papers
(The median citation count of Local Environment is 1. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Re-embedding the circular economy in Circles of Social Life: beyond the self-repairing (and still-rapacious) economy45
The Hanford plaintiffs: voices from the fight for atomic justice39
Resource Nexus for decision-making: an industry-community synergistic approach for textile wastewater management28
U.S. brain drain as local distributive justice: the case of distressed rural locations26
Emerging processes of territorial food systems governance: lessons from a local food action plan in Sheffield, UK25
From smart cities to a happy and sustainable society: urban happiness as a critical pathway toward sustainability transitions24
Talking to the young generation: perception of nature-based solutions’ attractiveness by children from Generation Z22
Active inaction: why the climate crisis is a moral crisis21
The role of social capital in climate change mitigation: a case study of agricultural sector in Ambarawa, Central Java21
Living labs as transformative incrementalism: lessons learned on the role of a university living lab in mobilising just sustainabilities on campus21
Embracing emergence: reframing and reimagining the visionary communities project21
Prime-time access for whom? Rhythms fairness and the dynamic pricing of infrastructure services21
Exploring attention to justice, equity, diversity and inclusion in Canadian environmental non-profits: implications for racialised migrants21
Herder-farmer conflict in sub-Saharan Africa and corporate social responsibility in Nigeria’s oil host communities20
Muslim environmentalism: religious and social foundation19
Cultural probes: a speculative and creative method for environmental research19
Toward holistic neighbourhood sustainability assessment: integrating fuzzy Delphi method for sustainable indicator selection for Aizawl city18
The post-industrial legacy in Brazil: where circular economy principles meet collective urban practices by design18
Social network, sustainable livelihood capital and risk response: an empirical analysis of rural China18
The politics of airing grievances: an analysis of air quality knowledge and ignorance in Pittsburgh17
Does local cognition of climate change really matters in adaptation: farmer perspectives17
An examination of national climate policy integration at the local level of development in Ghana17
Challenges facing sustainable water supply, sanitation and hygiene achievement in urban areas in sub-Saharan Africa16
Different pasts, contested presents and desired futures: local narratives and identities in the co-production of a shared wind energy ownership model16
Just sustainabilities: The case of eco-estates in South Africa16
A critical air quality science perspective on citizen science in action16
Towards sustainable solid waste management: nature, operational dynamics and complexities of Informal Waste Service Providers in Kumasi, Ghana15
Cult violence in Nigeria and corporate social responsibility in oil-producing communities15
Investigating determinants of intentions and behaviours of farmers towards a circular economy for water recycling in paddy field15
The rise of blockadia as a global anti-extractivism movement14
Environmental justice in Kuwait metropolitan area: a spatial analysis of land-use impact on environmental quality variability14
Neighbourhood social sustainable development and spatial scale: a qualitative case study in Sweden14
Co-producing just energy transition in everyday practices: sociotechnical innovation and sustainable development in the Thailand-Myanmar border14
Revealing community capacity for applying rain water harvesting in Semarang coastal areas14
As South Africa’s cities burn: we can clean-up, but we cannot sweep away inequality14
Adaptation through knowledge coexistence: insights for environmental and sea lamprey stewardship14
In the land of the “fair go”: global food policy lessons beyond the charity model13
Seeds of change? Social practices of urban community seed sharing initiatives for just transitions to sustainability13
“How could it be our responsibility?” The equity of Local Authority climate action in England12
Discursive strategies and activist framing in anti-mining campaigns12
Geopolitics of climate change-induced conflict and population displacement in West Africa12
Opportunities for more ecologically centred and equitable relations in local government environmental discourse: insights from Victoria, Australia12
Towards representative resilience: the power of culture to foster local resource representation12
Collaborating for nature-based solutions: bringing research and practice together12
Correction11
Spatial analysis of urban agriculture in the utilization of open spaces in Nigeria11
Socially embedding the food system: the role of alternative food initiatives to build sustainable food models11
Advocacy journalism and climate justice in a Global Southern country11
COVID-19 and social sustainability: the case of Mauritius11
Spatial coupling relationship between multidimensional poverty and the risk of geological disaster11
Social innovation: a preliminary exploration of a contested concept10
Just transition in the post-pandemic city10
Spatialising degrowth, degrowing urban planning10
Visualising Heritage: a critical discourse analysis of place, race, and nationhood along the Erie Canal10
Equitable accessibility of public open spaces: a comparison of measurement methods in metropolitan area of Izmir, Türkiye10
Well understood? A literature study defining and operationalising community social sustainability10
Towards degrowth housing development? Lessons from a scenario-based gaming session in the Oslo region10
The impacts of and responses to place loss in a coastal community in Ireland10
Community participation in marine ecotourism development: a qualitative systematic review10
The emotional element of urban densification10
What constitutes the social in (social) sustainability? Community, society and equity in South African water governance10
A move towards just sustainability: transformation of discourses around urban sustainability planning in Seoul, Republic of Korea9
The potential use of green infrastructure in the regeneration of brownfield sites: three case studies from Japan’s Osaka Bay Area9
The interests, ideas, and institutions shaping public participation in local climate change governance in Ireland9
Perceived differential vulnerability and climate change-related hazards in informal settlements in Accra, Ghana: re-thinking vulnerability to climate change in urban areas9
Gardening from the ground up: a review of grassroots governance and management of domestic gardening in Canada9
Factors that influence user patronage and satisfaction of urban parks in Ghanaian cities: case of the Rattray Park in Nhyiaeso, Kumasi9
Use of menstrual cup and awareness of environmental effects of menstrual hygiene products9
(Re)configuring moral boundaries of intergenerational justice: the UK parent-led climate movement8
Co-designing publics: [re]producing the public realm via informal urbanisms in cities of the global south8
Gender equality of privacy protection in the use of urban furniture in the Muslim context of Iran8
ParkLIV – engaging non-users in green space management8
Participatory planning for the future of accessible nature8
Environmental health capital: a paradigm for environmental injustice prevention and truth and reconciliation8
Barriers to and enablers of sustainable practices: insights from ethnic minority migrants7
Carceral jaguar geographies along the US/México border and the case for border abolition7
Deliberative democracy and environmental justice: evaluating the role of citizens’ juries in urban climate governance7
Soil publics: regenerating relations with urban soils through citizen science7
If it’s in our backyard: the roles of local knowledge in the formation of a nuclear oversight organisation7
“No fish – no fishermen”: staying as a voluntary choice despite environmental risks7
A report on the impacts of cyclone Yaas over a fish landing centre vulnerable to cyclonic storms and natural hazards – Talsari, Northern Odisha7
The legitimisation of local environmental organisations by community members7
Challenges and opportunities of urban agriculture programme implementation in Indonesia: social, economic, and environmental perspectives7
Language, context, and action: exploring equity and justice content in Vancouver environmental plans7
Indigenous education as community of practice: a case of grassroots learning of the Manobo in the Philippines7
Can liberalised electricity markets deliver on climate change and energy poverty? Evidence from community projects in Great Britain7
Conceptualising and enacting pathways to transformative climate justice: examples from the Philippines6
Analysis of public attitudes towards “local agreements” on restarting nuclear power plants: a questionnaire survey in four prefectures in Japan6
Mobilizing infrastructure investments for urban climate action in Africa: enabling factors for multilevel action6
Utopia of social distancing and dystopia of living in slums: urban poor’s perspectives from the global south and the theory of planned behaviour6
Building territorial value within local circular economy’s projects: lessons from French scholars’ studies6
Contemporary urban environmental stresses and challenges on the pathway to sustainable development: insights from an intersectional gender perspective in the ger communi6
Social capital: improving community capacity to respond to urban heat6
Practising conservation: the intersection of decolonial and Ubuntu lenses5
Are socio-demographic and building characteristics associated with noise complaints?5
Stormwater isn’t impervious to racism: rethinking stormwater capture in Los Angeles County5
Smallholder farmers’ perceptions, coping and adaptation strategies to climate variability in the UNESCO designated cultural landscapes of Konso, Ethiopia5
Access heterogeneities and collection time inequalities of drinking water sources in Ghana: implications for water and development policy5
Assessing the post-COVID prospects for the energy transition in the Netherlands and the UK, using a policy barriers approach5
Spatial vulnerability assessment of urbanites of Rawalpindi to the combined effects of climate change and pandemics using GIS mapping5
Combating food insecurity and creating sustenance: addressing the root causes of hunger in the US through political empowerment and public policy engagement5
Perceptions of tropical urban and peri-urban lagoons in the Gulf of Mexico coastal plain: a public ecosystem services study5
Does internet-based climate information improve non-fishing employment opportunities? Insights from smallholder fishermen in Indonesia5
Alley greening: a tool for enhancing community resilience?5
Just sustainability, actor-networks and environmental politics in China: local controversies over shared environmental infrastructure in industrial districts5
The effects of resettlement in urban redevelopment; insights from the Kejetia project in Ghana5
Is there room for a circular economy “from below”? Reflections on privatisation and commoning of circular waste loops in Argentina5
Bottom-up perspectives on “climate adaptation” from “vulnerable” coastal communities: a political ecology perspective from Taiwan5
Contextualising environmental and climate change migration in Uganda4
Post-growth municipalism: exploring the scalar constitution, strategic relevance, and legal viability of the municipal scale for tackling growth dependencies4
Different visions of climate equity that don’t see eye to eye4
Failing septic systems in Lowndes County, Alabama: citizen participation, science, and community knowledge4
Determinants of job satisfaction and motivation among community forest workers: insights from the Hindu Kush Himalaya, Pakistan4
Climate change vulnerability assessment of dryland farmers and factors Identification using machine learning techniques4
Hydropower policy in Ecuador: an analysis from environmental perspective and recommendations for future policymaking4
Collaborative governance in “community energy planning”: insights from an intersectoral governance network in Durham Region, Canada4
Balancing water rights in metropolitan water conservation areas: the case of Chengdu, China4
Rural gentrification and local food networks: the case of a shopping community in a small Hungarian rural town4
Efficiency in environmental spending for sustainable development in Spanish cities4
“You want protected bike lanes, I want protected Black children. Let’s link”: equity, justice, and the barriers to active transportation in North America4
The influence of trust on the public’s environmental risk perception: evidence from China4
Effects on perceptions of greenspace benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic4
Growing, consuming, and wasting/disposing: a study of the sustainable food practices of Australian households4
Ethnicity as a social determinant of energy poverty: the case of Mexican indigenous population4
Revisiting the garden city concept and urban green infrastructure discourse in sustainable city planning in sub-Saharan Africa4
Climate change loss and damage governance. Where are we now? A case study from Fiji’s sugar industry4
Farm level adaptation to climate change: insight from rice farmers in the coastal region of Bangladesh4
Community gardens as local learning environments in social housing contexts: participant perceptions of enhanced wellbeing and community connection4
Citizen science and environmental justice: exploring contradictory outcomes through a case study of air quality monitoring in Dublin4
Transport innovations in the cracks: reading for potential post-growth transport and mobilities with Deleuze and Guattari4
Assessing how rural-urban migration is incorporated in Ghana’s national urban policy: a qualitative content analysis4
Urban sprawl and the changing socioecological systems in peri-urban Ghana4
Participatory network mapping of an emergent social network for a regional transition to a low-carbon and just society on the Dingle Peninsula4
Becoming community economy: how community-supported agriculture diversifies farm labour4
Living Waters or Resource? Ontological differences and the governance of waters and rivers4
An intersectional reading of circular economy policies: towards just and sufficiency-driven sustainabilities4
Holding up a mirror: researching symmetrically to explore exclusion, othering and whiteness in local environmental governance4
Just by design: exploring justice as a multidimensional concept in US circular economy discourse4
People as environment: local environmental concerns and urban marginality in the Tel Aviv Metropolitan region4
Understanding how justice is considered in climate adaptation approaches: a qualitative review of climate adaptation plans3
Recognising summer energy poverty. Evidence from Southern Europe3
Agricultural policies and local sustainability: a normative coherence for development analysis of Mexico's pineapple sector3
Diversity and inclusion in environmentalism3
“We are from there, that’s our land”: contestation, maize, and the problemisation of waste at Blantyre, Malawi’s Mzedi dumpsite3
Grassroots learning through indigenous co-design for a Kvmemongen in Coastal Lake Budi, Chile3
Who should I interview in a household survey? The role of multiple interviews in research on adaptation to environmental change3
The landscape of faith-based environmental engagement in Canada3
Transforming waste-picking landscape in Ghana: from survival to sustainable enterprise3
Cultivating circular economies in the gaps of governance: lessons from Lebanon’s ecosystem of CE micro projects3
A research-based, practice-relevant urban resilience framework for local government3
Can you standardise transformation? Reflections on the transformative potential of benchmarking as a mode of governance3
Meaningful climate change communication: an analysis of women dry season farmers in Kuliyaa community of Ghana3
Investigating the coping strategies of rural households to the drying of Urmia Lake3
Transformation or deformation? Ghana's Bui hydropower dam and the myth of modernity of the resettlement camps3
Workers perception of and coping with the health risks of informal electronic waste recycling in Ghana3
Conviviality in urban neighborhoods: an experience of social interactions in urban space3
Oral histories document community mobilisation to participate in decision-making regarding a hazardous waste thermal treatment facility3
Semi high-speed rail development in Kerala, India: a political ecology perspective3
How do local government strategies advance social accountability? The challenges from environmental management of Slaughterhouse in Semarang City, Indonesia3
Unexpected effects of urban food activism on community and human wellbeing3
Hybridizations and reconfigurations in the roles of actors in voluntary carbon offsetting3
Effects of trail and greenspace exposure on hospitalisations in a highly populated urban area: retrospective cohort study of the Houston Bayou Greenways program3
Blue Infrastructures: Natural History, Political Ecology and Urban Development in Kolkata3
Analysing the treatment of environmental justice and nature-based solutions in the Urban Climate Action Plans of Latin American metropolitan areas3
The social implications of the vital city model: measuring the impact of urban vitality on neighbourhood sustainability3
Investigating pedestrian connectivity within apartment complexes: a case study of Seoul and Singapore3
Analyzing alternative food networks in highly-globalised and standardised agrifood systems to attain sustainability for small-scale growers: inferences from tea sector3
A social identity approach to understanding sustainability and environmental behaviours in South Africa3
Pigs, waste, and creative extraction: racialised uneven development in Eastern North Carolina2
The intention-implementation gap for community involvement in urban waterways governance: a scoping review2
Community perceptions on institutional gaps in flood disaster preparedness and management in Mepe community, Ghana2
From the ger districts to the city centre: contrasts and inequities of access and mobility in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia2
Local opposition to landfill siting in a coastal community in Aotearoa–New Zealand: measuring stakeholder efforts, costs and power imbalance2
Urban degrowth economics: making cities better places for living, working, and playing2
Subterranean eco-dystopia in Istanbul: the concreted segregation of Tarlabaşı2
How does group availability affect distributional equity of outdoor physical activity facilities? Evidence from Nanjing, China2
Compatibility of climate adaptation strategies with livelihood vulnerability patterns: the case of Fars province, Iran2
Thinking outside the neoliberal box? The discursive potential of national climate legislation for the local governance of climate change2
Farmers’ livelihood resilience and its optimisation path in world heritage sites: a Chinese case study2
Translanguaging for more-than-English sustainability transitions2
Understanding place-based “just transitions” in Ireland: a co-creation approach2
Highland communities’ climate change perceptions, climatic shocks and livelihood practices during COVID-19 pandemic2
Understanding the multiple harms of energy poverty through Nussbaum’s theory of central capabilities2
A gendered analysis of perception and adaptation to climate change among High Mountain farmers: a case study of Nagar District, Pakistan2
“Community wellspring: harnessing citizen science for Sustainable Development Goal 6 in a smart city”2
Community-led management of the (urban) commons: lessons from the Narroways Nature Reserve, Bristol2
Grassroots modalities of learning: creating and maintaining pluriversal knowing, being and doing for collective survival2
Trapped within nature: climatic variability and its impact on traditional livelihood of Gaddi transhumance of Indian Himalayas2
An evaluation of the Place Standard Tool as a means of examining inequalities in relation to place2
COVID-19 pandemic and informal women workers in peri-urban communities in Nigeria2
Tourists’ willingness to pay for protecting the agricultural landscapes maintained by Rukai traditional agricultural methods2
Sustainable sharing in local communities: exploring the role of social capital2
The role of public procurement to foster social equity and justice: critical reflections on the circular procurement concept2
“Nobody” matters in circular landscapes2
Food system transformation: a progressive place-based approach2
Gender vulnerability and coping strategies to changing provisioning ecosystem services in Bongo and Kassena-Nankana West districts in the Upper East Region of Ghana2
Electricity subsidies targeting performance indicators in selected Latin American countries2
Understanding urban agriculture in context: environmental, social, and psychological benefits of agriculture in Singapore2
Just sustainabilities: lessons from the Lake Turkana Wind Power project in Kenya2
The governance of plastic in India: towards a just transition for recycling in the unorganised sector1
Sustainable circular cities? Analysing urban circular economy policies in Amsterdam, Glasgow, and Copenhagen1
What rural women say about their role in household waste management in Kashmir? A case-series approach1
Women in ginger production and livelihood sustainability in rural Ghana: an explorative study1
Indigenous community members’ views about water quality in Lake Atitlán, Guatemala1
Hydropower: renewable and contributing to sustainable development? A critical analysis from the Mazar-Dudas project (Ecuador)1
Self-help and spontaneous heroism in urban service delivery in Ghana’s informal neighbourhoods: a case study of Moshie Zongo1
The material politics of integrated urban stormwater management in Los Angeles, California1
People’s action for climate justice: a systematic review1
Barriers and bridges: contributions of mobile farmers markets to fresh food access for low-income and minority consumers1
Enablers, barriers, and future considerations for living lab effectiveness in environmental and agricultural sustainability transitions: a review of studies evaluating living labs1
Circularity, entropy, ecological conflicts and LFFU1
Correction1
Local governments as gatekeepers to community gardens: what does “support” mean?1
Climate change adaptation through traditional Buffalo knowledge: learning reflection from the Blackfoot indigenous community1
Towards energy security in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region: insights from community members and local residents1
Informal institutions and adaptation: patterns and pathways of influence in a remote Arctic community1
“Be ready to pay because others are paying”: contested solid waste management transitions and charges in Accra’s open-air markets1
Approaching an efficient means of addressing urban environmental challenges: a review of Ghana's “reactive” measures to “proactive” measures1
The nexus of traditional knowledge and climate change adaptation: Romanian farmers’ behavior towards landraces1
The role and potential of tripartite partnerships to promote strong sustainable consumption in the context of Brazil: an evaluation of possibilities and risks1
Challenging gender inequity in wildlife conservation: a women’s group leading sea turtle conservation efforts in El Salvador1
Bridging climate vulnerability and household poverty: perspectives from coastal fishery communities in Vietnam1
Unequal considerations of justice in municipal adaptation planning: an assessment of US climate plans over time and by context1
Compounding barriers to environmental justice1
Commodity association’s roles and determinants of farmers’ participation in their climate change adaptation activities in Sierra Leone1
A degrowth approach to urban mobility options: just, desirable and practical options1
The final straw: a commentary on science, social justice and sustainability1
Right tree, right place for whom? Environmental justice and practices of urban forest assessment1
A socio-economic analysis of the wood supply ecosystem service in the Oued Beht watershed, Morocco1
A community-integrated geographic information system study of air pollution exposure impacts in Colfax, LA1
Affordable overnight lodging in high-cost, high-need coastal environments1
Understanding environmental generational amnesia through urban school garden learning experiences in Gimuy/Cairns, Australia1
Between the market and the developmental state – the place and limits of pro-poor ENGO led “waste-preneurship” in South Africa1
Investigating the performance of models estimating NO2 and PM2.5 in the US metropolitan areas and their environmental inequality and vulnerable people areas1
Climate change, mining development and residential water security in the uMkhanyakude District Muncipality, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a double catastrophe for local communities1
Policing the stigma in our waste: what we know about informal waste pickers in the global north1
Vertical gardening and Syrian women refugees in Lebanon: an exploratory study on motivation for gardening and depression relief1
Climate change in rural Ghana: perceptions and adaptive responses1
Kulturökologie und ökologische Kulturen in der Großregion/Écologie culturelle et cultures écologiques dans la Grande Région1
Energy justice intermediaries: Living Labs in the low-carbon transformation1
Exploring the sociomaterial dynamics of home food gardening in a Black-majority, low-income neighbourhood in Chicago, IL, U.S.A.1
Strategic sustainable service design for creative-cultural hotels: a multi-level and multi-domain view1
How much for an inclusive and solidary selective waste collection? A Brazilian study case1
Trends community-based waste management practice through waste bank in Indonesia: towards local environmental resilience1
Exploring the potential role of Muslim spiritual leaders in coping with climate change through tree planting in Pakistan1
Living lab as support for co-creation of value: application to agro-biodiversity contracting solutions1
Balancing socio-economic development goals and coping with climate impacts: lessons from historically marginalised communities in New York City1
Generating transformative capacity: ICLEI Africa’s urban natural assets for Africa programme1
GIS-based mappings of park accessibility at multiple spatial scales: a research framework with the case of Izmir (Turkey)1
Are vital neighbourhoods socially privileged? Exploring the spatial relationship between urban vitality and urban vulnerability1
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