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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Act global, think local? Local perspectives towards environmental sustainability in semi-rural communities of Alberta, Canada	33
Break, bridge or bolster? Participatory energy initiatives between frames and futures of local sustainability	30
The aspirational shift of urban transport infrastructure: the emerging mobility transition in India	22
Behind the curtains of deliberation: unveiling climate policy and behavioural challenges through a mini-public in Spain	20
‘Green icing on the Gray Cake?’ Green infrastructure in federal enforcement action	20
It’s not all about the money—landowner motivation and high voltage grid development	20
A policy instruments palette for spatial quality: lessons from Dutch flood risk management	19
How coalitions of multiple actors advance policy in China: ecological agriculture at Danjiangkou	19
City-to-city learning: a synthesis and research agenda	18
Fjords of sovereignty: a case study of selective non-compliance in the Norwegian Environment Agency	18
Policy instruments for governing water in cross-border metropolitan areas, the case of Greater Geneva	18
In or outside the box? Citizen action between institutional and extra-institutional channels in Chinese environmental governance	17
Systemic impacts of low-carbon transition policies: co-designing potential leverage points to mitigate housing and energy vulnerabilities in Innsbruck	17
Constructing regulatory regimes for sustainable development: commitment to resolve, clarity, and reasonableness	16
Learning and amplifying urban climate governance through cutting-edge projects	14
Informing aquatic restoration decisions using environmental justice in New Hampshire	13
What went right? A collaborative process to prepare a city forest management strategy	13
Resource dependency, perceived political environment, and ENGO advocacy under authoritarian rule	13
Green infrastructure implementation: perspectives from English planners	13
Evidence integration for coherent nexus policy design: a Mediterranean perspective on managing water-energy interactions	13
Placing environmental democracy at the heart of co-governance: rethinking the governance of complex waterways	12
Exploring the interaction between social norms and perceived justice of wind energy projects: a qualitative analysis	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
Between risk perceptions and adaptation policies: centering climate justice and social innovation in heat vulnerable cities	11

Can we promote plural local pathways to sustainable development? Insights from the implementation of Wales’s Future Generations Act	11
The European Union’s Directive on corporate sustainability development due diligence: an institutional design effectiveness analysis	10
Contesting the framing of bioeconomy policy in Germany: the NGO perspective	10
Assessing the impact of Fridays for Future on climate policy and policymaking in German cities	10
Cross-cultural learning as a foundation for reimagining ocean governance	10
Moral rifts in the coal phase-out—how mayors shape distributive and recognition-based dimensions of a just transition in Lusatia	10
Who is (not) in the room? An epistemic justice perspective on low-carbon transport transitions	10
The politics of agro-industrial greening: policy processes, market institutions and local power relations in the sugarcane sector of French overseas departments	10
Co-evolutionary dynamics of experimental governance: a longitudinal study of sustainable mobility services in Oslo	9
‘Time’ as a focus for planning research: exploring temporalities of coastal change	9
Implementation gap of China’s environmental policies: logic behind the over-implementation of the coal to gas transition	8
Creating institutions to protect the environment: the role of Chinese central environmental inspection	8
Gardening governance: CSO-government dynamics in Shanghai's urban renewal	8
Who participates in green infrastructure initiatives and why? Comparing participants and non-participants in Philadelphia’s GI programs	7
The scaling up of the tiny house niche in Quebec – transformations and continuities in the housing regime	7
Airports’ environmental effects and limits to growth: an integrated framework	7
A comparative analysis of bioeconomy visions and pathways based on stakeholder dialogues in Colombia, Rwanda, Sweden, and Thailand	7
Tackling material dependency in sustainability transition: rationales and insights from the agriculture sector	7
Biogas at the intersection of agricultural, environment and energy governance: (potentially) conflicting interests and consistent policy framework?	7
Shifting paradigms in stormwater management – hydrosocial relations and stormwater hydrocitizenship	7
The nested hierarchy of urban vulnerability within land use policies fails to address climate injustices in Turkey	7
Plugged in? Assessing the distribution of orphaned wells	6
The evolution of stakeholder participation in European UNESCO Biosphere Reserves: challenges and opportunities of the COVID pandemic and the digital shift	6
Experimental governance in China: models of stakeholder interaction and evolution of the low-carbon cities pilot programme	6
Reconfiguring energy flows: energy grid-lock and the role of regions in shaping electricity infrastructure networks	6
The CAPS framework for governance capacity building for local climate action	6
Curbing the European Union’s global deforestation footprint through trade	6
Ecological transition in France’s margins: how industries adapt to ecological crisis and redefine their national and local roles	6
A multidimensional approach to evaluating the vulnerability of drinking water systems	6
Sustainability transitions in Los Angeles’ water system: the ambivalent role of incumbents in urban experimentation	6
Assessing environmental justice contributions in research and public policy: an applied framework and methodology	6
Performance without legitimacy? Examining the performance-legitimacy dilemma of China’s authoritarian environmentalism model through Hebei’s ‘ban on coal furnace’ project	5
Can the Sustainable Development Goals Green International Organisations? Sustainability Integration in the International Labour Organisation	5
Does multidimensional distance matter? Perceptions and acceptance of wind power	5
Empirical insights into knowledge-weaving processes in strategic environmental research	5
Urban heat governance: examining the role of urban planning	5
Designing policy mixes for the sustainable management of water resources	5
Energy spaces: bridging scales and standpoints of just energy transitions	5
Designing integrative governance arrangements for policy performance in the Energy Union: evidence from seven member states	5
A convenient untruth: environmental water reallocation and the art of ambiguous arrangements in south-east France	5
Assessing biodiversity policy designs in Australia, France and Sweden. Comparative lessons for transformative governance of biodiversity?	5
Planning for renewable energy without conflict: the potential of using sensitivity mapping as a decision-support tool	5
Tussling with seascape character assessment and assemblage theories	5
The impact of state-led traceability on fisheries sustainability	5
New problems for assemblage thinking: materiality, governance and cycling in Sydney, Australia	5
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	5
Not at the table but stuck paying the bill: perceptions of injustice in China’s Xin’anjiang eco-compensation program	4
A renewable light unto the nations? Modelling the limits of culturally appealing climate frames: a case study from Israel	4
Policy mixes for biodiversity: a diffusion analysis of state-level citizens’ initiatives in Germany	4
Contentious governance of wind energy planning: strategic dilemmas in collaborative resistance by local governments and citizen action groups	4

From conceptualization to practice: enhancing economic resilience at the local government level in Australia	4
The European Union’s management of the environment-trade nexus at the World Trade Organization before and after the European Green Deal	4
Making profit from energy transition. Political struggles and accumulation strategies in Guadeloupe	4
The Isle of Man Biosphere Reserve: an entire nation approach to sustainable development	4
A public administration perspective on wind power development: decision-making logic of local government officials	4
Mainstreaming passive houses: more gradual reconfiguration than transition	4
The governmentality of tropical forests and sustainable food systems, and possibilities for post-2020 sustainability governance	4
Mixed policy feedback and evolution of environmental regulation: analysing instrument recalibration and layering in Danish nitrogen policy	4
Taking control to do more: how local governments and communities can enact ambitious climate mitigation policies	4
Centralized urgency to autonomous caution: A Q-method exploration of Dutch citizens’ energy transition visions	3
Policy integration from a practice-theoretical perspective: integrated food policy in the making in two German cities	3
Guerra del agua in Bolivia: environmental discourse, power and the politics of ‘green’	3
Governing resource making in energy transitions: a study of shifting configurations of biogas in Denmark from farming to big business	3
In- and exclusion in urban food governance: exploring networks and power in the city of Almere	3
The role of experts in policy design: transcoding strategies in the making of the Water Framework Directive	3
Concerning emotions: feminist contributions to reflexive marine governance	3
The multifaceted geographies of green infrastructure policy and planning: socio-environmental dreams, nightmares, and amnesia	3
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
The role of niche and regime intermediaries in building partnerships for urban transitions towards sustainability	3
Contested renewable energy projects in Latin America: bridging frameworks of justice to understand ‘triple inequalities of decarbonisation policies’	3
Do citizens’ perspectives matter? A comparison of formal planning and local preferences for the deployment of renewable energies	3
Regulatory, accompanying, and collective governance? The challenges of re-orientating environmental-economic interdependencies in two French ports	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
Climate policy integration as a process: from shallow to embedded integration	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
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