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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Community participation in marine ecotourism development: a qualitative systematic review45
U.S. brain drain as local distributive justice: the case of distressed rural locations31
Emerging processes of territorial food systems governance: lessons from a local food action plan in Sheffield, UK28
Embracing emergence: reframing and reimagining the visionary communities project28
The politics of airing grievances: an analysis of air quality knowledge and ignorance in Pittsburgh26
“How could it be our responsibility?” The equity of Local Authority climate action in England25
Opportunities for more ecologically centred and equitable relations in local government environmental discourse: insights from Victoria, Australia24
Just sustainabilities: The case of eco-estates in South Africa23
Re-embedding the circular economy in Circles of Social Life: beyond the self-repairing (and still-rapacious) economy22
The Hanford plaintiffs: voices from the fight for atomic justice22
Muslim environmentalism: religious and social foundation22
Advocacy journalism and climate justice in a Global Southern country21
Socially embedding the food system: the role of alternative food initiatives to build sustainable food models21
From smart cities to a happy and sustainable society: urban happiness as a critical pathway toward sustainability transitions21
Just transition in the post-pandemic city21
Cultural probes: a speculative and creative method for environmental research21
Talking to the young generation: perception of nature-based solutions’ attractiveness by children from Generation Z20
The legitimisation of local environmental organisations by community members19
Holding up a mirror: researching symmetrically to explore exclusion, othering and whiteness in local environmental governance19
“No fish – no fishermen”: staying as a voluntary choice despite environmental risks18
Determinants of job satisfaction and motivation among community forest workers: insights from the Hindu Kush Himalaya, Pakistan18
Rural gentrification and local food networks: the case of a shopping community in a small Hungarian rural town17
Perceived differential vulnerability and climate change-related hazards in informal settlements in Accra, Ghana: re-thinking vulnerability to climate change in urban areas17
The interests, ideas, and institutions shaping public participation in local climate change governance in Ireland17
Participatory network mapping of an emergent social network for a regional transition to a low-carbon and just society on the Dingle Peninsula16
Just by design: exploring justice as a multidimensional concept in US circular economy discourse16
Transport innovations in the cracks: reading for potential post-growth transport and mobilities with Deleuze and Guattari16
Conceptualising and enacting pathways to transformative climate justice: examples from the Philippines16
Effects of trail and greenspace exposure on hospitalisations in a highly populated urban area: retrospective cohort study of the Houston Bayou Greenways program16
Hybridizations and reconfigurations in the roles of actors in voluntary carbon offsetting15
Understanding the multiple harms of energy poverty through Nussbaum’s theory of central capabilities15
How do local government strategies advance social accountability? The challenges from environmental management of Slaughterhouse in Semarang City, Indonesia15
Oral histories document community mobilisation to participate in decision-making regarding a hazardous waste thermal treatment facility15
Equitable approaches to plastic waste management: integrating carbon finance into local sustainability initiatives in Pakistan: a systematic literature review14
Environmental racism and “the media-government complex”: failures of municipal waste collection for a racialised community in Bulgaria14
Urban degrowth economics: making cities better places for living, working, and playing14
Talking ‘bout a revolution: resilience and coastal policy in England13
Climate change and urban vulnerabilities: analysing flood and drought resilience of Islamabad13
Towards energy security in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region: insights from community members and local residents13
What rural women say about their role in household waste management in Kashmir? A case-series approach13
Unexpected effects of urban food activism on community and human wellbeing13
Resistance to mining and adaptation of Indonesia farmer's household to economic vulnerability of small scale sand mining activities12
The material politics of integrated urban stormwater management in Los Angeles, California12
Opportunity access as a design framework for guiding transportation and land use integration: an evaluation of U.S. transit-oriented developments (TOD)12
A community-integrated geographic information system study of air pollution exposure impacts in Colfax, LA12
Epistemic injustice in planning: a framework for identifying degrees of harm12
Social protection for transformative resilience: do programmes really address underlying causes of vulnerability of subsistence farmers to climate change?12
Correction12
Paradoxes surrounding carbon credits and local area development: the case of Mbire District, Zimbabwe11
Urban foraging, resilience and food provisioning services provided by edible plants in interstitial urban spaces in Mexico City11
Analysing the variation in farmers’ perceptions of climate change impacts on crop production and adaptation measures across the Ganges’ Tidal Floodplain in Bangladesh11
Democratisation of the outdoors: how equipment lending is emerging in Norway’s sharing economy to provide sustainable consumption at the local scale11
Building rural public cultural spaces for enhanced well-being: evidence from China11
Exploring perspectives on sustainability and planning from national and local planners for effective practice: the experience of Ghana11
Learning with compost: digging down into food waste, urban soils and community10
Factors determining farmers’ adoption of cultural practices for forest resources conservation in Delta State, Nigeria10
Deciding on justice: environmental justice in city council agenda-setting10
Flood risk perception and disaster preparedness in marginalised flood-prone communities: evidence from Saadi neighbourhood, Shiraz, Iran10
Development for whom?: an Indigenous environmental justice movement in Bangladesh10
How do the elderly perceive their community vitality? Taking old and dilapidated communities (ODCs) in Guangzhou as a case to study10
Climate smart agricultural policy in sub-Saharan Africa: a case study of Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality of North West Province, South Africa9
Discourse analysis of the perceptions of environmental justice and respiratory health disparities in Dallas, TX9
Reclaiming traditional food systems in alternative food networks. Insights from Mexico city peri-urban agriculture9
Landowners’ willingness to supply agricultural land for conversion into urban uses in peri-urban Ghana9
The forgotten essential workers in the circular economy? Waste picker precarity and resilience amidst the COVID-19 pandemic9
Climate change and adaptation policies in South Asia: addressing the gender-specific needs of women9
Addressing food insecurity and intersectional health-related social needs at a federally qualified health centre during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study9
Designing sustainable public spaces using design justice framework: a case study in Southern Iran9
Dissonance between framing & acting for climate justice9
Socially just community-based climate change adaptation? Insights from Bangladesh9
Neighbourhood social sustainable development and spatial scale: a qualitative case study in Sweden8
Adaptation through knowledge coexistence: insights for environmental and sea lamprey stewardship8
An examination of national climate policy integration at the local level of development in Ghana8
Discursive strategies and activist framing in anti-mining campaigns8
Resource Nexus for decision-making: an industry-community synergistic approach for textile wastewater management8
Towards representative resilience: the power of culture to foster local resource representation8
Transformative urban food governance: how municipal staff coordinating urban living labs navigate politics, administration and participation8
Co-producing just energy transition in everyday practices: sociotechnical innovation and sustainable development in the Thailand-Myanmar border7
Seeds of change? Social practices of urban community seed sharing initiatives for just transitions to sustainability7
Spatialising degrowth, degrowing urban planning7
Gender equality of privacy protection in the use of urban furniture in the Muslim context of Iran7
The impacts of and responses to place loss in a coastal community in Ireland7
Farmers perception of climate change trends in Ethiopia: implications for crafting robust adaptation strategies7
Living labs as transformative incrementalism: lessons learned on the role of a university living lab in mobilising just sustainabilities on campus7
Visualising Heritage: a critical discourse analysis of place, race, and nationhood along the Erie Canal7
If it’s in our backyard: the roles of local knowledge in the formation of a nuclear oversight organisation7
Active inaction: why the climate crisis is a moral crisis7
Collaborating for nature-based solutions: bringing research and practice together7
Becoming community economy: how community-supported agriculture diversifies farm labour7
The forgotten thermal comfort. Lived experiences of cooling poverty from the trans community in Rio de Janeiro.7
(Re)configuring moral boundaries of intergenerational justice: the UK parent-led climate movement7
Different visions of climate equity that don’t see eye to eye6
Assessing the post-COVID prospects for the energy transition in the Netherlands and the UK, using a policy barriers approach6
Analysis of public attitudes towards “local agreements” on restarting nuclear power plants: a questionnaire survey in four prefectures in Japan6
Language, context, and action: exploring equity and justice content in Vancouver environmental plans6
Agricultural policies and local sustainability: a normative coherence for development analysis of Mexico's pineapple sector6
From the ger districts to the city centre: contrasts and inequities of access and mobility in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia6
Can liberalised electricity markets deliver on climate change and energy poverty? Evidence from community projects in Great Britain6
Factors that influence user patronage and satisfaction of urban parks in Ghanaian cities: case of the Rattray Park in Nhyiaeso, Kumasi6
Citizen science and environmental justice: exploring contradictory outcomes through a case study of air quality monitoring in Dublin6
Climate change loss and damage governance. Where are we now? A case study from Fiji’s sugar industry6
Soil publics: regenerating relations with urban soils through citizen science6
The social implications of the vital city model: measuring the impact of urban vitality on neighbourhood sustainability6
The final straw: a commentary on science, social justice and sustainability6
Climate change vulnerability assessment of dryland farmers and factors Identification using machine learning techniques6
Use of menstrual cup and awareness of environmental effects of menstrual hygiene products6
Spatial vulnerability assessment of urbanites of Rawalpindi to the combined effects of climate change and pandemics using GIS mapping6
Utopia of social distancing and dystopia of living in slums: urban poor’s perspectives from the global south and the theory of planned behaviour6
“You want protected bike lanes, I want protected Black children. Let’s link”: equity, justice, and the barriers to active transportation in North America6
A gendered analysis of perception and adaptation to climate change among High Mountain farmers: a case study of Nagar District, Pakistan6
Subterranean eco-dystopia in Istanbul: the concreted segregation of Tarlabaşı6
Trends community-based waste management practice through waste bank in Indonesia: towards local environmental resilience5
Bridging climate vulnerability and household poverty: perspectives from coastal fishery communities in Vietnam5
The contributions of socio-environmental information maps in an environmental mobilisation: the case of a fight against a highway project in France5
Combining remote sensing applications and local knowledge in understanding urban heat in a semi-arid region: a case study of Tamale’s thermal landscape5
Climate change in rural Ghana: perceptions and adaptive responses5
Can you standardise transformation? Reflections on the transformative potential of benchmarking as a mode of governance5
Coping mechanisms and “homemaking” in the face of environmental challenges: exploring the experiences of adolescent refugees in Jordan5
Extreme heat adaptation in urban areas: a comparative case study of New York City and New Orleans5
Promoting equity in urban heat: a greening approach for HOLC's legacy in Houston, Texas5
Sustainable sharing in local communities: exploring the role of social capital5
Mass housing planning and environmental considerations: case studies of post-war urban redevelopment in Erbil city, Kurdistan5
Policing the stigma in our waste: what we know about informal waste pickers in the global north5
Approaching an efficient means of addressing urban environmental challenges: a review of Ghana's “reactive” measures to “proactive” measures5
Regional energy futures as decision support in the transition to net zero emissions: North of Tyne case study5
A research-based, practice-relevant urban resilience framework for local government5
A social identity approach to understanding sustainability and environmental behaviours in South Africa5
Intersectional climate action: the role of community-based organisations in urban climate justice4
Perceived changes in the quality of terrestrial, coastal, marine environment and natural resources in coastal communities in the Caribbean4
Application of space syntax in neighbourhood park research: an investigation of multiple socio-spatial attributes of park use4
Understanding resistance to reductions in water subsidies in Kuwait4
A critical air quality science perspective on citizen science in action4
The rise of blockadia as a global anti-extractivism movement4
Environmental justice from the ground(water) up: coping with contamination in Tallevast, Florida4
Eliciting community-driven sustainability indicators: a survey-based study in Aizawl, Mizoram, India4
Assessing the publicness of three streets in ethnically-diverse neighbourhoods4
Beyond transformative community engagement: the evasion and contact zones of a European climate change project4
Organic for everyone? Access to sustainable, locally grown produce at farmers markets in New Jersey4
“The bad job brings the good one”: photovoice study with female and male waste workers in Rwanda4
How does community food growing build community bonds? Insights from grassroots visual storytelling4
Unravelling the relationship between spatial and social inclusion: evidence from Korean cities and regions4
Harvesting potential: unveiling urban agriculture trends in Abu Dhabi’s cityscape4
Equitable accessibility of public open spaces: a comparison of measurement methods in metropolitan area of Izmir, Türkiye4
Addressing rural waste management challenges through community-led solutions: insights from participatory action research in India4
Towards degrowth housing development? Lessons from a scenario-based gaming session in the Oslo region4
Children’s everyday recreational mobilities – growing up in a densifying Swedish small town4
From concern to action: the founding of the Wellington Water Watchers and the battle against water bottling in Ontario, Canada4
River co-learning arenas: principles and practices for transdisciplinary knowledge co-creation and multi-scalar (inter)action4
“Two quid, chicken and chips, done”: understanding what makes for young people’s sense of living well in the city through the lens of fast food consumption4
Why do (some) people in informal settlements in Latin America grow food today and what is their struggle?4
Are Green, dense cities more inclusive? Densification and housing accessibility in Oslo4
Living on the edge: how do perceptions of coastal erosion risk affect residential mobility decisions?4
Struggles of street food vendors in Helsinki: a study of food truck and fixed stall vending using municipal land4
The compound risk of heat and COVID-19 in New York City: riskscapes, physical and social factors, and interventions4
Residents Against Dirty Energy: using energy justice to understand the role of local activism in shaping low-carbon transitions4
Intercultural cities: policy and practice for a new era4
Perceptions of environmental impacts of artisanal coal mining vis-à-vis the scientific reality: a case of a community in South Africa's Kwazulu-Natal Province4
Using a smart city framework to advance justice: applying an equity lens to compare air quality in neighbourhoods of different socioeconomic profiles4
Addressing social vulnerability: insights and challenges in the formulation of the local climate change program of Zapopan, Mexico4
Geopolitics of climate change-induced conflict and population displacement in West Africa3
Post-growth municipalism: exploring the scalar constitution, strategic relevance, and legal viability of the municipal scale for tackling growth dependencies3
Just sustainability, actor-networks and environmental politics in China: local controversies over shared environmental infrastructure in industrial districts3
Local opposition to landfill siting in a coastal community in Aotearoa–New Zealand: measuring stakeholder efforts, costs and power imbalance3
Translanguaging for more-than-English sustainability transitions3
Smallholder farmers’ perceptions, coping and adaptation strategies to climate variability in the UNESCO designated cultural landscapes of Konso, Ethiopia3
Understanding environmental generational amnesia through urban school garden learning experiences in Gimuy/Cairns, Australia3
Who should I interview in a household survey? The role of multiple interviews in research on adaptation to environmental change3
Collaborative governance in “community energy planning”: insights from an intersectoral governance network in Durham Region, Canada3
Combating food insecurity and creating sustenance: addressing the root causes of hunger in the US through political empowerment and public policy engagement3
The influence of trust on the public’s environmental risk perception: evidence from China3
Understanding place-based “just transitions” in Ireland: a co-creation approach3
Electricity subsidies targeting performance indicators in selected Latin American countries3
Decarbonising cities: exploring regional energy justice implications3
“Nobody” matters in circular landscapes3
Revealing community capacity for applying rain water harvesting in Semarang coastal areas3
Revisiting the garden city concept and urban green infrastructure discourse in sustainable city planning in sub-Saharan Africa3
Ethnicity as a social determinant of energy poverty: the case of Mexican indigenous population3
ParkLIV – engaging non-users in green space management3
Urban agriculture for environmentally just cities: the case of urban community gardens in Cape Town, South Africa3
Meaningful climate change communication: an analysis of women dry season farmers in Kuliyaa community of Ghana3
Community perceptions on institutional gaps in flood disaster preparedness and management in Mepe community, Ghana3
A layout optimization approach to urban park green spaces based on accessibility evaluation: a case study of the central area in Wuxi city2
Overcoming the local trap through inclusive and multi-scalar food systems2
Just transitions at the local level: insights from coal communities in Japan2
Access, participation and socio-economic benefits of blue versus green economy: a systematic literature review2
Reimagining craft for community development2
Commodity association’s roles and determinants of farmers’ participation in their climate change adaptation activities in Sierra Leone2
Risk-benefit perceptions of natural gas export in Oregon2
Challenging gender inequity in wildlife conservation: a women’s group leading sea turtle conservation efforts in El Salvador2
Evaluating equity and justice in Vancouver’s Sea2City Design Challenge2
Strategic sustainable service design for creative-cultural hotels: a multi-level and multi-domain view2
Latin American immigrants and the environment: acculturation, information sources, and place2
Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink: qualitatively unraveling the nuances of non-economic loss and damage in Bangladesh2
Contextual factors for transnational municipal network's local environmental action: a study of ICLEI Africa's LAB Wetlands SA Programme2
Municipal solid waste charging based on residents’ preference, a case of Harbin City, China2
Using the capability approach to evaluate energy vulnerability policies and initiatives in Victoria, Australia2
The local context of energy assistance: exploring spatial associations between community characteristics and Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program facilities2
Local governments as gatekeepers to community gardens: what does “support” mean?2
Understanding thermal justice and systemic cooling poverty from the margins: intersectional perspectives from Rio de Janeiro2
Generating transformative capacity: ICLEI Africa’s urban natural assets for Africa programme2
Indigenous community members’ views about water quality in Lake Atitlán, Guatemala2
Different shades of green: how transnational actors frame nature as a solution to sustainability challenges in African cities2
Historical neighbourhood redlining and contemporary environmental racism2
Creative counter-discourses to the “green city” narrative: practices of small-scale urban agriculture in Hanoi, Vietnam2
Street vendors and the human rights to water and sanitation: a scoping review2
Farmers’ perceived effectiveness of indigenous land management practices: a study in semi-arid Ghana2
Defying gravity: environmental justice rises in California’s capital city2
Connecting art and development: studying the role of city art on bridges in forwarding urban sustainability2
Conflicts between traditional and modern governance structures in Irish seaweed harvesting2
The multi-scalar relationship between children’s self-determination and environmental justice in the United States2
Unequal considerations of justice in municipal adaptation planning: an assessment of US climate plans over time and by context2
Expansion patterns of walking activity spaces in superblock neighbourhoods based on mHealth data from Jamsil2
An assessment of the smallholder rice farming households’ vulnerability to climate change and variability in the Mekong delta region of Vietnam2
Beyond inclusion? Perceptions of the extent to which Extinction Rebellion speaks to, and for, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and working-class communities2
Transformation through transdisciplinary practice: cultivating new lines of sight for urban transformation1
An evaluation of the Place Standard Tool as a means of examining inequalities in relation to place1
Balancing water rights in metropolitan water conservation areas: the case of Chengdu, China1
Public perceptions of the health benefits of green spaces in urban Ghana1
Thinking outside the neoliberal box? The discursive potential of national climate legislation for the local governance of climate change1
Community-led management of the (urban) commons: lessons from the Narroways Nature Reserve, Bristol1
A degrowth approach to urban mobility options: just, desirable and practical options1
The nexus of traditional knowledge and climate change adaptation: Romanian farmers’ behavior towards landraces1
Compounding barriers to environmental justice1
The data treadmill: water governance and the politics of pollution in rural Ireland1
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
“Be ready to pay because others are paying”: contested solid waste management transitions and charges in Accra’s open-air markets1
The landscape of faith-based environmental engagement in Canada1
Trapped within nature: climatic variability and its impact on traditional livelihood of Gaddi transhumance of Indian Himalayas1
Highland communities’ climate change perceptions, climatic shocks and livelihood practices during COVID-19 pandemic1
Pigs, waste, and creative extraction: racialised uneven development in Eastern North Carolina1
People’s action for climate justice: a systematic review1
The role of social capital in climate change mitigation: a case study of agricultural sector in Ambarawa, Central Java1
Nature identification and gender spill-over: an intersectional analysis of Umeå’s local climate policy1
Interactions between traditional and modern institutions in environmental governance of mining in Asutifi North District of Ghana1
“Community wellspring: harnessing citizen science for Sustainable Development Goal 6 in a smart city”1
Government rainwater harvesting initiative in northern Ghana and its impacts on local livelihoods and work-life balance: evidence from Savelugu Municipality1
Women in ginger production and livelihood sustainability in rural Ghana: an explorative study1
Transforming REDD+ for Indigenous rights in Costa Rica1
The role of public procurement to foster social equity and justice: critical reflections on the circular procurement concept1
Analyzing alternative food networks in highly-globalised and standardised agrifood systems to attain sustainability for small-scale growers: inferences from tea sector1
Understanding urban agriculture in context: environmental, social, and psychological benefits of agriculture in Singapore1
Failing septic systems in Lowndes County, Alabama: citizen participation, science, and community knowledge1
Community gardens as local learning environments in social housing contexts: participant perceptions of enhanced wellbeing and community connection1
Farmers’ livelihood resilience and its optimisation path in world heritage sites: a Chinese case study1
Right tree, right place for whom? Environmental justice and practices of urban forest assessment1
Affordable overnight lodging in high-cost, high-need coastal environments1
Environmental justice is exhausting: five decades of air pollution and community advocacy at Ezra Prentice Homes in Albany, New York1
Are vital neighbourhoods socially privileged? Exploring the spatial relationship between urban vitality and urban vulnerability1
Planning for heat beyond the big city: comparing smaller cities’ heat activities, opportunities, and constraints in California1
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