OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Local Environment is 6. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Community participation in marine ecotourism development: a qualitative systematic review	50
U.S. brain drain as local distributive justice: the case of distressed rural locations	37
Beyond solutionism: quantum-secured NFTs as contested infrastructures for radical urban futures	30
Embracing emergence: reframing and reimagining the visionary communities project	28
The politics of airing grievances: an analysis of air quality knowledge and ignorance in Pittsburgh	27
“I felt as someone special today”. Advancing marine citizen science throught participatory and critical geography explorations	26
Opportunities for more ecologically centred and equitable relations in local government environmental discourse: insights from Victoria, Australia	26
Emerging processes of territorial food systems governance: lessons from a local food action plan in Sheffield, UK	26
“How could it be our responsibility?” The equity of Local Authority climate action in England	26
Just sustainabilities: The case of eco-estates in South Africa	26
Re-embedding the circular economy in Circles of Social Life: beyond the self-repairing (and still-rapacious) economy	25
Just transition in the post-pandemic city	25
The Hanford plaintiffs: voices from the fight for atomic justice	24
Muslim environmentalism: religious and social foundation	23
Cultural probes: a speculative and creative method for environmental research	22
Advocacy journalism and climate justice in a Global Southern country	22
Socially embedding the food system: the role of alternative food initiatives to build sustainable food models	22
From smart cities to a happy and sustainable society: urban happiness as a critical pathway toward sustainability transitions	21
Talking to the young generation: perception of nature-based solutions’ attractiveness by children from Generation Z	21
Transport innovations in the cracks: reading for potential post-growth transport and mobilities with Deleuze and Guattari	20
Holding up a mirror: researching symmetrically to explore exclusion, othering and whiteness in local environmental governance	20
The interests, ideas, and institutions shaping public participation in local climate change governance in Ireland	19
“No fish – no fishermen”: staying as a voluntary choice despite environmental risks	19
The legitimisation of local environmental organisations by community members	19
Conceptualising and enacting pathways to transformative climate justice: examples from the Philippines	18

Perceived differential vulnerability and climate change-related hazards in informal settlements in Accra, Ghana: re-thinking vulnerability to climate change in urban areas	18
Rural gentrification and local food networks: the case of a shopping community in a small Hungarian rural town	18
Determinants of job satisfaction and motivation among community forest workers: insights from the Hindu Kush Himalaya, Pakistan	17
Understanding the multiple harms of energy poverty through Nussbaum’s theory of central capabilities	17
Unexpected effects of urban food activism on community and human wellbeing	17
How do local government strategies advance social accountability? The challenges from environmental management of Slaughterhouse in Semarang City, Indonesia	16
Oral histories document community mobilisation to participate in decision-making regarding a hazardous waste thermal treatment facility	16
Equitable approaches to plastic waste management: integrating carbon finance into local sustainability initiatives in Pakistan: a systematic literature review	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
Environmental racism and “the media-government complex”: failures of municipal waste collection for a racialised community in Bulgaria	15
Urban degrowth economics: making cities better places for living, working, and playing	14
Hybridizations and reconfigurations in the roles of actors in voluntary carbon offsetting	14
What rural women say about their role in household waste management in Kashmir? A case-series approach	13
Talking ‘bout a revolution: resilience and coastal policy in England	13
The material politics of integrated urban stormwater management in Los Angeles, California	13
Climate change and urban vulnerabilities: analysing flood and drought resilience of Islamabad	13
A community-integrated geographic information system study of air pollution exposure impacts in Colfax, LA	13
Resistance to mining and adaptation of Indonesia farmer's household to economic vulnerability of small scale sand mining activities	13
Just by design: exploring justice as a multidimensional concept in US circular economy discourse	13
Towards energy security in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region: insights from community members and local residents	13
Social protection for transformative resilience: do programmes really address underlying causes of vulnerability of subsistence farmers to climate change?	13
Epistemic injustice in planning: a framework for identifying degrees of harm	12
Building rural public cultural spaces for enhanced well-being: evidence from China	12
Opportunity access as a design framework for guiding transportation and land use integration: an evaluation of U.S. transit-oriented developments (TOD)	12
Correction	12
Exploring perspectives on sustainability and planning from national and local planners for effective practice: the experience of Ghana	11
Democratisation of the outdoors: how equipment lending is emerging in Norway’s sharing economy to provide sustainable consumption at the local scale	11
Development for whom?: an Indigenous environmental justice movement in Bangladesh	11
Learning with compost: digging down into food waste, urban soils and community	11
How do the elderly perceive their community vitality? Taking old and dilapidated communities (ODCs) in Guangzhou as a case to study	11
Flood risk perception and disaster preparedness in marginalised flood-prone communities: evidence from Saadi neighbourhood, Shiraz, Iran	10
Deciding on justice: environmental justice in city council agenda-setting	10
Whispers at the tea stall: social networks, situated choices and the relational dynamics of environmental migration	10
Paradoxes surrounding carbon credits and local area development: the case of Mbire District, Zimbabwe	10
Factors determining farmers’ adoption of cultural practices for forest resources conservation in Delta State, Nigeria	10
Analysing the variation in farmers’ perceptions of climate change impacts on crop production and adaptation measures across the Ganges’ Tidal Floodplain in Bangladesh	10
The forgotten essential workers in the circular economy? Waste picker precarity and resilience amidst the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Designing sustainable public spaces using design justice framework: a case study in Southern Iran	9
Socially just community-based climate change adaptation? Insights from Bangladesh	9
Landowners’ willingness to supply agricultural land for conversion into urban uses in peri-urban Ghana	9
Discourse analysis of the perceptions of environmental justice and respiratory health disparities in Dallas, TX	9
Dissonance between framing & acting for climate justice	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
Climate change and adaptation policies in South Asia: addressing the gender-specific needs of women	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
Reclaiming traditional food systems in alternative food networks. Insights from Mexico city peri-urban agriculture	9
An examination of national climate policy integration at the local level of development in Ghana	8
Co-producing just energy transition in everyday practices: sociotechnical innovation and sustainable development in the Thailand-Myanmar border	8
Farmers perception of climate change trends in Ethiopia: implications for crafting robust adaptation strategies	8
Adaptation through knowledge coexistence: insights for environmental and sea lamprey stewardship	8

Transformative urban food governance: how municipal staff coordinating urban living labs navigate politics, administration and participation	8
Spatialising degrowth, degrowing urban planning	8
Living labs as transformative incrementalism: lessons learned on the role of a university living lab in mobilising just sustainabilities on campus	8
Discursive strategies and activist framing in anti-mining campaigns	8
Active inaction: why the climate crisis is a moral crisis	8
The forgotten thermal comfort. Lived experiences of cooling poverty from the trans community in Rio de Janeiro.	8
Seeds of change? Social practices of urban community seed sharing initiatives for just transitions to sustainability	8
Factors that influence user patronage and satisfaction of urban parks in Ghanaian cities: case of the Rattray Park in Nhyiaeso, Kumasi	7
If it’s in our backyard: the roles of local knowledge in the formation of a nuclear oversight organisation	7
Collaborating for nature-based solutions: bringing research and practice together	7
Resource Nexus for decision-making: an industry-community synergistic approach for textile wastewater management	7
Towards representative resilience: the power of culture to foster local resource representation	7
Climate change vulnerability assessment of dryland farmers and factors Identification using machine learning techniques	7
The impacts of and responses to place loss in a coastal community in Ireland	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
Language, context, and action: exploring equity and justice content in Vancouver environmental plans	7
Visualising Heritage: a critical discourse analysis of place, race, and nationhood along the Erie Canal	7
Neighbourhood social sustainable development and spatial scale: a qualitative case study in Sweden	7
Analysis of public attitudes towards “local agreements” on restarting nuclear power plants: a questionnaire survey in four prefectures in Japan	6
“You want protected bike lanes, I want protected Black children. Let’s link”: equity, justice, and the barriers to active transportation in North America	6
Different visions of climate equity that don’t see eye to eye	6
Becoming community economy: how community-supported agriculture diversifies farm labour	6
The final straw: a commentary on science, social justice and sustainability	6
Mass housing planning and environmental considerations: case studies of post-war urban redevelopment in Erbil city, Kurdistan	6
Can you standardise transformation? Reflections on the transformative potential of benchmarking as a mode of governance	6
Assessing the post-COVID prospects for the energy transition in the Netherlands and the UK, using a policy barriers approach	6
Gender equality of privacy protection in the use of urban furniture in the Muslim context of Iran	6
Climate change loss and damage governance. Where are we now? A case study from Fiji’s sugar industry	6
Soil publics: regenerating relations with urban soils through citizen science	6
Subterranean eco-dystopia in Istanbul: the concreted segregation of Tarlabaşı	6
A social identity approach to understanding sustainability and environmental behaviours in South Africa	6
Can liberalised electricity markets deliver on climate change and energy poverty? Evidence from community projects in Great Britain	6
Spatial vulnerability assessment of urbanites of Rawalpindi to the combined effects of climate change and pandemics using GIS mapping	6
Use of menstrual cup and awareness of environmental effects of menstrual hygiene products	6
(Re)configuring moral boundaries of intergenerational justice: the UK parent-led climate movement	6
Citizen science and environmental justice: exploring contradictory outcomes through a case study of air quality monitoring in Dublin	6
From the ger districts to the city centre: contrasts and inequities of access and mobility in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia	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