OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning is 3. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Act global, think local? Local perspectives towards environmental sustainability in semi-rural communities of Alberta, Canada	33
The aspirational shift of urban transport infrastructure: the emerging mobility transition in India	22
‘Green icing on the Gray Cake?’ Green infrastructure in federal enforcement action	22
A policy instruments palette for spatial quality: lessons from Dutch flood risk management	22
How coalitions of multiple actors advance policy in China: ecological agriculture at Danjiangkou	21
Behind the curtains of deliberation: unveiling climate policy and behavioural challenges through a mini-public in Spain	21
Break, bridge or bolster? Participatory energy initiatives between frames and futures of local sustainability	21
It’s not all about the money—landowner motivation and high voltage grid development	20
City-to-city learning: a synthesis and research agenda	20
Policy instruments for governing water in cross-border metropolitan areas, the case of Greater Geneva	20
Fjords of sovereignty: a case study of selective non-compliance in the Norwegian Environment Agency	19
Systemic impacts of low-carbon transition policies: co-designing potential leverage points to mitigate housing and energy vulnerabilities in Innsbruck	16
Characterizing bioeconomy policy instruments: A global comparative analysis of bioeconomy strategies	15
Green infrastructure implementation: perspectives from English planners	14
Learning and amplifying urban climate governance through cutting-edge projects	14
What went right? A collaborative process to prepare a city forest management strategy	13
In or outside the box? Citizen action between institutional and extra-institutional channels in Chinese environmental governance	13
Resource dependency, perceived political environment, and ENGO advocacy under authoritarian rule	13
Constructing regulatory regimes for sustainable development: commitment to resolve, clarity, and reasonableness	13
Informing aquatic restoration decisions using environmental justice in New Hampshire	12
Placing environmental democracy at the heart of co-governance: rethinking the governance of complex waterways	12
Evidence integration for coherent nexus policy design: a Mediterranean perspective on managing water-energy interactions	12
When decarbonization rhymes with industrialization. The political dilemmas of increasing wood usage within the French construction industry	12
Ecological modernisation wanderings: ambivalent framing and unstable coalitions in the development of Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage (CCUS) in France	11
Assessing the impact of Fridays for Future on climate policy and policymaking in German cities	10

The European Union’s Directive on corporate sustainability development due diligence: an institutional design effectiveness analysis	10
Controversial cycle lanes: lessons from Cycleway C9, Chiswick High Road	10
Contesting the framing of bioeconomy policy in Germany: the NGO perspective	10
Exploring the interaction between social norms and perceived justice of wind energy projects: a qualitative analysis	10
Cross-cultural learning as a foundation for reimagining ocean governance	10
The politics of agro-industrial greening: policy processes, market institutions and local power relations in the sugarcane sector of French overseas departments	9
Moral rifts in the coal phase-out—how mayors shape distributive and recognition-based dimensions of a just transition in Lusatia	9
Between risk perceptions and adaptation policies: centering climate justice and social innovation in heat vulnerable cities	9
Who is (not) in the room? An epistemic justice perspective on low-carbon transport transitions	9
Privatizing environmental governance: the evolving relationship between regulators and private entities	9
Shifting paradigms in stormwater management – hydrosocial relations and stormwater hydrocitizenship	8
Creating institutions to protect the environment: the role of Chinese central environmental inspection	8
‘Time’ as a focus for planning research: exploring temporalities of coastal change	8
Can we promote plural local pathways to sustainable development? Insights from the implementation of Wales’s Future Generations Act	8
Implementation gap of China’s environmental policies: logic behind the over-implementation of the coal to gas transition	7
A comparative analysis of bioeconomy visions and pathways based on stakeholder dialogues in Colombia, Rwanda, Sweden, and Thailand	7
Biogas at the intersection of agricultural, environment and energy governance: (potentially) conflicting interests and consistent policy framework?	7
Co-evolutionary dynamics of experimental governance: a longitudinal study of sustainable mobility services in Oslo	7
Gardening governance: CSO-government dynamics in Shanghai's urban renewal	7
Airports’ environmental effects and limits to growth: an integrated framework	7
Public engagement practice for electricity grid system change	7
Who participates in green infrastructure initiatives and why? Comparing participants and non-participants in Philadelphia’s GI programs	7
Ecological transition in France’s margins: how industries adapt to ecological crisis and redefine their national and local roles	6
Municipal administration and citizens linkages in strategic environmental assessment: exploring agency features in participatory decision-making processes of municipal master plans	6
The evolution of stakeholder participation in European UNESCO Biosphere Reserves: challenges and opportunities of the COVID pandemic and the digital shift	6
Performance without legitimacy? Examining the performance-legitimacy dilemma of China’s authoritarian environmentalism model through Hebei’s ‘ban on coal furnace’ project	6
Sustainability transitions in Los Angeles’ water system: the ambivalent role of incumbents in urban experimentation	6
Tackling material dependency in sustainability transition: rationales and insights from the agriculture sector	6
Plugged in? Assessing the distribution of orphaned wells	6
The nested hierarchy of urban vulnerability within land use policies fails to address climate injustices in Turkey	6
Designing policy mixes for the sustainable management of water resources	6
Urban carrying capacity in practice: supporting growth management and climate planning in the United States	6
The CAPS framework for governance capacity building for local climate action	6
The scaling up of the tiny house niche in Quebec – transformations and continuities in the housing regime	6
A multidimensional approach to evaluating the vulnerability of drinking water systems	6
Reconfiguring energy flows: energy grid-lock and the role of regions in shaping electricity infrastructure networks	6
Assessing environmental justice contributions in research and public policy: an applied framework and methodology	6
Curbing the European Union’s global deforestation footprint through trade	5
The impact of state-led traceability on fisheries sustainability	5
Designing integrative governance arrangements for policy performance in the Energy Union: evidence from seven member states	5
Tussling with seascape character assessment and assemblage theories	5
Experimental governance in China: models of stakeholder interaction and evolution of the low-carbon cities pilot programme	5
A convenient untruth: environmental water reallocation and the art of ambiguous arrangements in south-east France	5
Planning for renewable energy without conflict: the potential of using sensitivity mapping as a decision-support tool	5
Energy spaces: bridging scales and standpoints of just energy transitions	5
From local to EU: understanding energy citizenship and the willingness to join energy communities across geographical levels	5
New problems for assemblage thinking: materiality, governance and cycling in Sydney, Australia	5
Empirical insights into knowledge-weaving processes in strategic environmental research	4
The modern railway and the Swedish state – competing storylines about state capacity, modernisation and material dependencies in the Swedish high-speed rail discourse, 1995–2020	4
Does multidimensional distance matter? Perceptions and acceptance of wind power	4

The promises and pitfalls of Hanoi’s urban mobility transition: how residents are navigating the infrastructural politics of a new urban railway	4
The governmentality of tropical forests and sustainable food systems, and possibilities for post-2020 sustainability governance	4
Assessing biodiversity policy designs in Australia, France and Sweden. Comparative lessons for transformative governance of biodiversity?	4
The Isle of Man Biosphere Reserve: an entire nation approach to sustainable development	4
Contentious governance of wind energy planning: strategic dilemmas in collaborative resistance by local governments and citizen action groups	4
Mainstreaming passive houses: more gradual reconfiguration than transition	4
Urban heat governance: examining the role of urban planning	4
Making profit from energy transition. Political struggles and accumulation strategies in Guadeloupe	4
A renewable light unto the nations? Modelling the limits of culturally appealing climate frames: a case study from Israel	4
The European Union’s management of the environment-trade nexus at the World Trade Organization before and after the European Green Deal	4
Unlocking citizens’ investment potential in photovoltaics: the role of information communication	3
Participation in regional energy transitions: impacts, dynamics, strategies and science-policy dialogues – perspectives from Germany and Austria	3
Contested renewable energy projects in Latin America: bridging frameworks of justice to understand ‘triple inequalities of decarbonisation policies’	3
Not at the table but stuck paying the bill: perceptions of injustice in China’s Xin’anjiang eco-compensation program	3
Mixed policy feedback and evolution of environmental regulation: analysing instrument recalibration and layering in Danish nitrogen policy	3
Biodiversity Policy Integration at the sub-national level: Insights from the German Länder in the context of sub-national biodiversity strategies and action plans	3
In- and exclusion in urban food governance: exploring networks and power in the city of Almere	3
Governing resource making in energy transitions: a study of shifting configurations of biogas in Denmark from farming to big business	3
The role of experts in policy design: transcoding strategies in the making of the Water Framework Directive	3
Do citizens’ perspectives matter? A comparison of formal planning and local preferences for the deployment of renewable energies	3
A public administration perspective on wind power development: decision-making logic of local government officials	3
Centralized urgency to autonomous caution: A Q-method exploration of Dutch citizens’ energy transition visions	3
Guerra del agua in Bolivia: environmental discourse, power and the politics of ‘green’	3
Procedural injustices in large-scale solar energy: a case study in the Mayan region of Yucatan, Mexico	3
Becoming Sponge City Berlin: ‘planned scaling’ vs. ‘permanent experimentation’	3
The role of public consultations in decision-making on future agricultural pesticide use: insights from European Union’s Farm to Fork Strategy public consultation	3
Concerning emotions: feminist contributions to reflexive marine governance	3
Regulatory, accompanying, and collective governance? The challenges of re-orientating environmental-economic interdependencies in two French ports	3
From conceptualization to practice: enhancing economic resilience at the local government level in Australia	3
Just give them the money? Voting behaviour on agricultural policies in the European Parliament	3
Policy integration from a practice-theoretical perspective: integrated food policy in the making in two German cities	3