OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Local Environment is 5. 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
The politics of airing grievances: an analysis of air quality knowledge and ignorance in Pittsburgh	62
Opportunities for more ecologically centred and equitable relations in local government environmental discourse: insights from Victoria, Australia	57
Embracing emergence: reframing and reimagining the visionary communities project	39
Toward equity in heat mitigation planning: a review of literature, current practices, and future pathways	37
“How could it be our responsibility?” The equity of Local Authority climate action in England	32
Talking to the young generation: perception of nature-based solutions’ attractiveness by children from Generation Z	31
Emerging processes of territorial food systems governance: lessons from a local food action plan in Sheffield, UK	31
Survival strategy of Indonesian villagers in coping with climate change	30
From smart cities to a happy and sustainable society: urban happiness as a critical pathway toward sustainability transitions	29
Advocacy journalism and climate justice in a Global Southern country	27
“I felt as someone special today”. Advancing marine citizen science throught participatory and critical geography explorations	26
The Hanford plaintiffs: voices from the fight for atomic justice	26
Cultural probes: a speculative and creative method for environmental research	25
Just sustainabilities: The case of eco-estates in South Africa	25
U.S. brain drain as local distributive justice: the case of distressed rural locations	23
Socially embedding the food system: the role of alternative food initiatives to build sustainable food models	23
Community participation in marine ecotourism development: a qualitative systematic review	21
Beyond solutionism: quantum-secured NFTs as contested infrastructures for radical urban futures	20
The importance of school greening for students’ physical health: HGLM estimation from Hangzhou, China	19
Re-embedding the circular economy in Circles of Social Life: beyond the self-repairing (and still-rapacious) economy	19
Rural gentrification and local food networks: the case of a shopping community in a small Hungarian rural town	19
Just transition in the post-pandemic city	19
“No fish – no fishermen”: staying as a voluntary choice despite environmental risks	18
The interests, ideas, and institutions shaping public participation in local climate change governance in Ireland	18
The legitimisation of local environmental organisations by community members	18

Transport innovations in the cracks: reading for potential post-growth transport and mobilities with Deleuze and Guattari	18
Determinants of job satisfaction and motivation among community forest workers: insights from the Hindu Kush Himalaya, Pakistan	16
Holding up a mirror: researching symmetrically to explore exclusion, othering and whiteness in local environmental governance	16
Perceived differential vulnerability and climate change-related hazards in informal settlements in Accra, Ghana: re-thinking vulnerability to climate change in urban areas	16
How do local government strategies advance social accountability? The challenges from environmental management of Slaughterhouse in Semarang City, Indonesia	15
Social costs of coping with energy insecurity at Deschambault Lake, Saskatchewan: a community resilience perspective	15
Conceptualising and enacting pathways to transformative climate justice: examples from the Philippines	15
Effects of trail and greenspace exposure on hospitalisations in a highly populated urban area: retrospective cohort study of the Houston Bayou Greenways program	15
Unexpected effects of urban food activism on community and human wellbeing	14
Equitable approaches to plastic waste management: integrating carbon finance into local sustainability initiatives in Pakistan: a systematic literature review	14
Hybridizations and reconfigurations in the roles of actors in voluntary carbon offsetting	14
Environmental racism and “the media-government complex”: failures of municipal waste collection for a racialised community in Bulgaria	14
Oral histories document community mobilisation to participate in decision-making regarding a hazardous waste thermal treatment facility	13
Urban degrowth economics: making cities better places for living, working, and playing	13
What rural women say about their role in household waste management in Kashmir? A case-series approach	13
Social protection for transformative resilience: do programmes really address underlying causes of vulnerability of subsistence farmers to climate change?	12
The material politics of integrated urban stormwater management in Los Angeles, California	12
Talking ‘bout a revolution: resilience and coastal policy in England	12
Climate change and urban vulnerabilities: analysing flood and drought resilience of Islamabad	12
Considering the emotional landscape in planning the local environment: a case study from Finland	12
Social workers as agents of change: understanding water conservation behaviours and the role of environmental education	12
Deciding on justice: environmental justice in city council agenda-setting	11
Opportunity access as a design framework for guiding transportation and land use integration: an evaluation of U.S. transit-oriented developments (TOD)	11
Exploring perspectives on sustainability and planning from national and local planners for effective practice: the experience of Ghana	11
A community-integrated geographic information system study of air pollution exposure impacts in Colfax, LA	11
Learning with compost: digging down into food waste, urban soils and community	10
Climate, governance, inequality, and the elusive promise of water access in Limpopo Province, South Africa: an integrative review	10
How do the elderly perceive their community vitality? Taking old and dilapidated communities (ODCs) in Guangzhou as a case to study	10
Whispers at the tea stall: social networks, situated choices and the relational dynamics of environmental migration	10
Correction	9
Development for whom?: an Indigenous environmental justice movement in Bangladesh	9
Designing sustainable public spaces using design justice framework: a case study in Southern Iran	9
Discourse analysis of the perceptions of environmental justice and respiratory health disparities in Dallas, TX	9
Analysing the variation in farmers’ perceptions of climate change impacts on crop production and adaptation measures across the Ganges’ Tidal Floodplain in Bangladesh	9
Building rural public cultural spaces for enhanced well-being: evidence from China	9
Addressing food insecurity and intersectional health-related social needs at a federally qualified health centre during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study	9
Factors determining farmers’ adoption of cultural practices for forest resources conservation in Delta State, Nigeria	9
Saving the “lungs of the city”: emerging civic action in urban environmental policy: case studies from Tampere, Finland and Worcester, Massachusetts	9
Epistemic injustice in planning: a framework for identifying degrees of harm	9
Democratisation of the outdoors: how equipment lending is emerging in Norway’s sharing economy to provide sustainable consumption at the local scale	9
Reclaiming traditional food systems in alternative food networks. Insights from Mexico city peri-urban agriculture	9
Climate smart agricultural policy in sub-Saharan Africa: a case study of Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality of North West Province, South Africa	9
Flood risk perception and disaster preparedness in marginalised flood-prone communities: evidence from Saadi neighbourhood, Shiraz, Iran	8
A just mobility transition? Intersectional responses to car-use reduction measures	8
Visualising Heritage: a critical discourse analysis of place, race, and nationhood along the Erie Canal	8
Climate change and adaptation policies in South Asia: addressing the gender-specific needs of women	8
Active inaction: why the climate crisis is a moral crisis	8
Discursive strategies and activist framing in anti-mining campaigns	8
Dissonance between framing & acting for climate justice	8
The forgotten essential workers in the circular economy? Waste picker precarity and resilience amidst the COVID-19 pandemic	8

Collaborating for nature-based solutions: bringing research and practice together	8
Adaptation through knowledge coexistence: insights for environmental and sea lamprey stewardship	7
Climate change loss and damage governance. Where are we now? A case study from Fiji’s sugar industry	7
Neighbourhood social sustainable development and spatial scale: a qualitative case study in Sweden	7
Resource Nexus for decision-making: an industry-community synergistic approach for textile wastewater management	7
Climate change vulnerability assessment of dryland farmers and factors Identification using machine learning techniques	7
Living labs as transformative incrementalism: lessons learned on the role of a university living lab in mobilising just sustainabilities on campus	7
Language, context, and action: exploring equity and justice content in Vancouver environmental plans	7
Use of menstrual cup and awareness of environmental effects of menstrual hygiene products	7
Different visions of climate equity that don’t see eye to eye	7
Uneven ecologies: nature-based solutions and new gendered exclusions in the Pacific	7
The impacts of and responses to place loss in a coastal community in Ireland	7
An examination of national climate policy integration at the local level of development in Ghana	7
If it’s in our backyard: the roles of local knowledge in the formation of a nuclear oversight organisation	7
The forgotten thermal comfort. Lived experiences of cooling poverty from the trans community in Rio de Janeiro.	7
Utopia of social distancing and dystopia of living in slums: urban poor’s perspectives from the global south and the theory of planned behaviour	7
Analysis of public attitudes towards “local agreements” on restarting nuclear power plants: a questionnaire survey in four prefectures in Japan	7
Transformative urban food governance: how municipal staff coordinating urban living labs navigate politics, administration and participation	7
Seeds of change? Social practices of urban community seed sharing initiatives for just transitions to sustainability	7
Farmers perception of climate change trends in Ethiopia: implications for crafting robust adaptation strategies	7
Spatialising degrowth, degrowing urban planning	7
Pura vida for who? Slow violence against Indigenous land defenders in Costa Rica	7
Can liberalised electricity markets deliver on climate change and energy poverty? Evidence from community projects in Great Britain	6
Gender equality of privacy protection in the use of urban furniture in the Muslim context of Iran	6
Factors that influence user patronage and satisfaction of urban parks in Ghanaian cities: case of the Rattray Park in Nhyiaeso, Kumasi	6
The final straw: a commentary on science, social justice and sustainability	6
A gendered analysis of perception and adaptation to climate change among High Mountain farmers: a case study of Nagar District, Pakistan	6
Mass housing planning and environmental considerations: case studies of post-war urban redevelopment in Erbil city, Kurdistan	6
Soil publics: regenerating relations with urban soils through citizen science	6
Becoming community economy: how community-supported agriculture diversifies farm labour	6
Indigenous rights and managed public land: a critical treaty analysis of parks and reserves in New Zealand	6
Infrastructuring for caring food practices: learnings from an Alpine community academy	6
Agricultural policies and local sustainability: a normative coherence for development analysis of Mexico's pineapple sector	6
Subterranean eco-dystopia in Istanbul: the concreted segregation of Tarlabaşı	6
Environmental justice and corporate–community conflicts: an analysis of the role of governance and public stakeholders	6
Assessing the post-COVID prospects for the energy transition in the Netherlands and the UK, using a policy barriers approach	6
Citizen science and environmental justice: exploring contradictory outcomes through a case study of air quality monitoring in Dublin	6
Spatial vulnerability assessment of urbanites of Rawalpindi to the combined effects of climate change and pandemics using GIS mapping	6
Can you standardise transformation? Reflections on the transformative potential of benchmarking as a mode of governance	6
Trends community-based waste management practice through waste bank in Indonesia: towards local environmental resilience	6
Where are urban farms and community gardens? Examining sociodemographic and neighbourhood characteristics associated with urban agriculture in Ohio	6
The compound risk of heat and COVID-19 in New York City: riskscapes, physical and social factors, and interventions	5
Do Islamic principles matter for green development?	5
Combining remote sensing applications and local knowledge in understanding urban heat in a semi-arid region: a case study of Tamale’s thermal landscape	5
Extreme heat adaptation in urban areas: a comparative case study of New York City and New Orleans	5
A research-based, practice-relevant urban resilience framework for local government	5
“The bad job brings the good one”: photovoice study with female and male waste workers in Rwanda	5
Correction	5
River co-learning arenas: principles and practices for transdisciplinary knowledge co-creation and multi-scalar (inter)action	5
Sustainable sharing in local communities: exploring the role of social capital	5
Coping mechanisms and “homemaking” in the face of environmental challenges: exploring the experiences of adolescent refugees in Jordan	5
Promoting equity in urban heat: a greening approach for HOLC's legacy in Houston, Texas	5
Perceived changes in the quality of terrestrial, coastal, marine environment and natural resources in coastal communities in the Caribbean	5
Beyond transformative community engagement: the evasion and contact zones of a European climate change project	5
Water poverty in cities in the Global North: an interpretation of unpaid water bills in two Spanish cities	5
Struggles of street food vendors in Helsinki: a study of food truck and fixed stall vending using municipal land	5
The social implications of the vital city model: measuring the impact of urban vitality on neighbourhood sustainability	5
A social identity approach to understanding sustainability and environmental behaviours in South Africa	5
Bridging climate vulnerability and household poverty: perspectives from coastal fishery communities in Vietnam	5
The contributions of socio-environmental information maps in an environmental mobilisation: the case of a fight against a highway project in France	5
Using a smart city framework to advance justice: applying an equity lens to compare air quality in neighbourhoods of different socioeconomic profiles	5
Why do (some) people in informal settlements in Latin America grow food today and what is their struggle?	5
Regional energy futures as decision support in the transition to net zero emissions: North of Tyne case study	5