OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Local Environment is 4. 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.)

Article	Citations
Re-embedding the circular economy in Circles of Social Life: beyond the self-repairing (and still-rapacious) economy	45
The Hanford plaintiffs: voices from the fight for atomic justice	39
Resource Nexus for decision-making: an industry-community synergistic approach for textile wastewater management	28
U.S. brain drain as local distributive justice: the case of distressed rural locations	26
Emerging processes of territorial food systems governance: lessons from a local food action plan in Sheffield, UK	25
From smart cities to a happy and sustainable society: urban happiness as a critical pathway toward sustainability transitions	24
Talking to the young generation: perception of nature-based solutions’ attractiveness by children from Generation Z	22
Living labs as transformative incrementalism: lessons learned on the role of a university living lab in mobilising just sustainabilities on campus	21
Embracing emergence: reframing and reimagining the visionary communities project	21
Prime-time access for whom? Rhythms fairness and the dynamic pricing of infrastructure services	21
Exploring attention to justice, equity, diversity and inclusion in Canadian environmental non-profits: implications for racialised migrants	21
Active inaction: why the climate crisis is a moral crisis	21
The role of social capital in climate change mitigation: a case study of agricultural sector in Ambarawa, Central Java	21
Herder-farmer conflict in sub-Saharan Africa and corporate social responsibility in Nigeria’s oil host communities	20
Cultural probes: a speculative and creative method for environmental research	19
Muslim environmentalism: religious and social foundation	19
The post-industrial legacy in Brazil: where circular economy principles meet collective urban practices by design	18
Social network, sustainable livelihood capital and risk response: an empirical analysis of rural China	18
Toward holistic neighbourhood sustainability assessment: integrating fuzzy Delphi method for sustainable indicator selection for Aizawl city	18
The politics of airing grievances: an analysis of air quality knowledge and ignorance in Pittsburgh	17
Does local cognition of climate change really matters in adaptation: farmer perspectives	17
An examination of national climate policy integration at the local level of development in Ghana	17
Different pasts, contested presents and desired futures: local narratives and identities in the co-production of a shared wind energy ownership model	16
Just sustainabilities: The case of eco-estates in South Africa	16
A critical air quality science perspective on citizen science in action	16

Challenges facing sustainable water supply, sanitation and hygiene achievement in urban areas in sub-Saharan Africa	16
Cult violence in Nigeria and corporate social responsibility in oil-producing communities	15
Investigating determinants of intentions and behaviours of farmers towards a circular economy for water recycling in paddy field	15
Towards sustainable solid waste management: nature, operational dynamics and complexities of Informal Waste Service Providers in Kumasi, Ghana	15
Co-producing just energy transition in everyday practices: sociotechnical innovation and sustainable development in the Thailand-Myanmar border	14
Revealing community capacity for applying rain water harvesting in Semarang coastal areas	14
As South Africa’s cities burn: we can clean-up, but we cannot sweep away inequality	14
Adaptation through knowledge coexistence: insights for environmental and sea lamprey stewardship	14
The rise of blockadia as a global anti-extractivism movement	14
Environmental justice in Kuwait metropolitan area: a spatial analysis of land-use impact on environmental quality variability	14
Neighbourhood social sustainable development and spatial scale: a qualitative case study in Sweden	14
In the land of the “fair go”: global food policy lessons beyond the charity model	13
Seeds of change? Social practices of urban community seed sharing initiatives for just transitions to sustainability	13
Geopolitics of climate change-induced conflict and population displacement in West Africa	12
Opportunities for more ecologically centred and equitable relations in local government environmental discourse: insights from Victoria, Australia	12
Towards representative resilience: the power of culture to foster local resource representation	12
Collaborating for nature-based solutions: bringing research and practice together	12
“How could it be our responsibility?” The equity of Local Authority climate action in England	12
Discursive strategies and activist framing in anti-mining campaigns	12
Socially embedding the food system: the role of alternative food initiatives to build sustainable food models	11
Advocacy journalism and climate justice in a Global Southern country	11
COVID-19 and social sustainability: the case of Mauritius	11
Spatial coupling relationship between multidimensional poverty and the risk of geological disaster	11
Correction	11
Spatial analysis of urban agriculture in the utilization of open spaces in Nigeria	11
Visualising Heritage: a critical discourse analysis of place, race, and nationhood along the Erie Canal	10
Equitable accessibility of public open spaces: a comparison of measurement methods in metropolitan area of Izmir, Türkiye	10
Well understood? A literature study defining and operationalising community social sustainability	10
Towards degrowth housing development? Lessons from a scenario-based gaming session in the Oslo region	10
The impacts of and responses to place loss in a coastal community in Ireland	10
Community participation in marine ecotourism development: a qualitative systematic review	10
The emotional element of urban densification	10
What constitutes the social in (social) sustainability? Community, society and equity in South African water governance	10
Social innovation: a preliminary exploration of a contested concept	10
Just transition in the post-pandemic city	10
Spatialising degrowth, degrowing urban planning	10
Perceived differential vulnerability and climate change-related hazards in informal settlements in Accra, Ghana: re-thinking vulnerability to climate change in urban areas	9
Gardening from the ground up: a review of grassroots governance and management of domestic gardening in Canada	9
Factors that influence user patronage and satisfaction of urban parks in Ghanaian cities: case of the Rattray Park in Nhyiaeso, Kumasi	9
Use of menstrual cup and awareness of environmental effects of menstrual hygiene products	9
A move towards just sustainability: transformation of discourses around urban sustainability planning in Seoul, Republic of Korea	9
The potential use of green infrastructure in the regeneration of brownfield sites: three case studies from Japan’s Osaka Bay Area	9
The interests, ideas, and institutions shaping public participation in local climate change governance in Ireland	9
Gender equality of privacy protection in the use of urban furniture in the Muslim context of Iran	8
ParkLIV – engaging non-users in green space management	8
Participatory planning for the future of accessible nature	8
Environmental health capital: a paradigm for environmental injustice prevention and truth and reconciliation	8
(Re)configuring moral boundaries of intergenerational justice: the UK parent-led climate movement	8
Co-designing publics: [re]producing the public realm via informal urbanisms in cities of the global south	8
Soil publics: regenerating relations with urban soils through citizen science	7

If it’s in our backyard: the roles of local knowledge in the formation of a nuclear oversight organisation	7
“No fish – no fishermen”: staying as a voluntary choice despite environmental risks	7
A report on the impacts of cyclone Yaas over a fish landing centre vulnerable to cyclonic storms and natural hazards – Talsari, Northern Odisha	7
The legitimisation of local environmental organisations by community members	7
Challenges and opportunities of urban agriculture programme implementation in Indonesia: social, economic, and environmental perspectives	7
Language, context, and action: exploring equity and justice content in Vancouver environmental plans	7
Indigenous education as community of practice: a case of grassroots learning of the Manobo in the Philippines	7
Can liberalised electricity markets deliver on climate change and energy poverty? Evidence from community projects in Great Britain	7
Barriers to and enablers of sustainable practices: insights from ethnic minority migrants	7
Carceral jaguar geographies along the US/México border and the case for border abolition	7
Deliberative democracy and environmental justice: evaluating the role of citizens’ juries in urban climate governance	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	6
Building territorial value within local circular economy’s projects: lessons from French scholars’ studies	6
Contemporary urban environmental stresses and challenges on the pathway to sustainable development: insights from an intersectional gender perspective in the ger communi	6
Social capital: improving community capacity to respond to urban heat	6
Conceptualising and enacting pathways to transformative climate justice: examples from the Philippines	6
Analysis of public attitudes towards “local agreements” on restarting nuclear power plants: a questionnaire survey in four prefectures in Japan	6
Mobilizing infrastructure investments for urban climate action in Africa: enabling factors for multilevel action	6
Assessing the post-COVID prospects for the energy transition in the Netherlands and the UK, using a policy barriers approach	5
Spatial vulnerability assessment of urbanites of Rawalpindi to the combined effects of climate change and pandemics using GIS mapping	5
Combating food insecurity and creating sustenance: addressing the root causes of hunger in the US through political empowerment and public policy engagement	5
Perceptions of tropical urban and peri-urban lagoons in the Gulf of Mexico coastal plain: a public ecosystem services study	5
Does internet-based climate information improve non-fishing employment opportunities? Insights from smallholder fishermen in Indonesia	5
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 districts	5
The effects of resettlement in urban redevelopment; insights from the Kejetia project in Ghana	5
Is there room for a circular economy “from below”? Reflections on privatisation and commoning of circular waste loops in Argentina	5
Bottom-up perspectives on “climate adaptation” from “vulnerable” coastal communities: a political ecology perspective from Taiwan	5
Practising conservation: the intersection of decolonial and Ubuntu lenses	5
Are socio-demographic and building characteristics associated with noise complaints?	5
Stormwater isn’t impervious to racism: rethinking stormwater capture in Los Angeles County	5
Smallholder farmers’ perceptions, coping and adaptation strategies to climate variability in the UNESCO designated cultural landscapes of Konso, Ethiopia	5
Access heterogeneities and collection time inequalities of drinking water sources in Ghana: implications for water and development policy	5
Efficiency in environmental spending for sustainable development in Spanish cities	4
“You want protected bike lanes, I want protected Black children. Let’s link”: equity, justice, and the barriers to active transportation in North America	4
The influence of trust on the public’s environmental risk perception: evidence from China	4
Effects on perceptions of greenspace benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Growing, consuming, and wasting/disposing: a study of the sustainable food practices of Australian households	4
Ethnicity as a social determinant of energy poverty: the case of Mexican indigenous population	4
Revisiting the garden city concept and urban green infrastructure discourse in sustainable city planning in sub-Saharan Africa	4
Climate change loss and damage governance. Where are we now? A case study from Fiji’s sugar industry	4
Farm level adaptation to climate change: insight from rice farmers in the coastal region of Bangladesh	4
Community gardens as local learning environments in social housing contexts: participant perceptions of enhanced wellbeing and community connection	4
Citizen science and environmental justice: exploring contradictory outcomes through a case study of air quality monitoring in Dublin	4
Transport innovations in the cracks: reading for potential post-growth transport and mobilities with Deleuze and Guattari	4
Assessing how rural-urban migration is incorporated in Ghana’s national urban policy: a qualitative content analysis	4
Urban sprawl and the changing socioecological systems in peri-urban Ghana	4
Participatory network mapping of an emergent social network for a regional transition to a low-carbon and just society on the Dingle Peninsula	4
Becoming community economy: how community-supported agriculture diversifies farm labour	4
Living Waters or Resource? Ontological differences and the governance of waters and rivers	4
An intersectional reading of circular economy policies: towards just and sufficiency-driven sustainabilities	4
Holding up a mirror: researching symmetrically to explore exclusion, othering and whiteness in local environmental governance	4
Just by design: exploring justice as a multidimensional concept in US circular economy discourse	4
People as environment: local environmental concerns and urban marginality in the Tel Aviv Metropolitan region	4
Contextualising environmental and climate change migration in Uganda	4
Post-growth municipalism: exploring the scalar constitution, strategic relevance, and legal viability of the municipal scale for tackling growth dependencies	4
Different visions of climate equity that don’t see eye to eye	4
Failing septic systems in Lowndes County, Alabama: citizen participation, science, and community knowledge	4
Determinants of job satisfaction and motivation among community forest workers: insights from the Hindu Kush Himalaya, Pakistan	4
Climate change vulnerability assessment of dryland farmers and factors Identification using machine learning techniques	4
Hydropower policy in Ecuador: an analysis from environmental perspective and recommendations for future policymaking	4
Collaborative governance in “community energy planning”: insights from an intersectoral governance network in Durham Region, Canada	4
Balancing water rights in metropolitan water conservation areas: the case of Chengdu, China	4
Rural gentrification and local food networks: the case of a shopping community in a small Hungarian rural town	4