OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning is 2. 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
Toward a leading-agency coordinated collaboration model? lessons learned from interagency collaboration in Chinese environmental protection	83
The European Union’s Directive on corporate sustainability development due diligence: an institutional design effectiveness analysis	27
Who is (not) in the room? An epistemic justice perspective on low-carbon transport transitions	23
The impact of state-led traceability on fisheries sustainability	22
Assessing the impact of Fridays for Future on climate policy and policymaking in German cities	21
‘Green icing on the Gray Cake?’ Green infrastructure in federal enforcement action	20
Act global, think local? Local perspectives towards environmental sustainability in semi-rural communities of Alberta, Canada	19
Governing resource making in energy transitions: a study of shifting configurations of biogas in Denmark from farming to big business	19
The territorialisation of industry in times of transition: ecosystems, infrastructures and hubs in the green hydrogen sector	18
Analyzing argumentation patterns in political discourse for better policy design	17
The politics of agro-industrial greening: policy processes, market institutions and local power relations in the sugarcane sector of French overseas departments	17
A convenient untruth: environmental water reallocation and the art of ambiguous arrangements in south-east France	16
Behind the curtains of deliberation: unveiling climate policy and behavioural challenges through a mini-public in Spain	16
Designing integrative governance arrangements for policy performance in the Energy Union: evidence from seven member states	15
Contesting the framing of bioeconomy policy in Germany: the NGO perspective	15
It’s not all about the money—landowner motivation and high voltage grid development	14
Climate policy and the eco-social divide: the discourse of climate and social integration in water governance	14
Sun, wind or water? Public support for large-scale renewable energy development in Canada	14
Empirical insights into knowledge-weaving processes in strategic environmental research	14
Designing policy mixes for emerging wicked problems. The case of pharmaceutical residues in freshwaters	13
Cross-cultural learning as a foundation for reimagining ocean governance	13
City-to-city learning: a synthesis and research agenda	13
The good process or the great illusion? A spatial perspective on public participation in Danish municipal wind turbine planning	13
How are local governments planning for heat mitigation? A study of Metro Vancouver and Fraser Valley jurisdictions	13
Raising the voice of science in complex socio-political contexts: an assessment of contested water decisions	12

New problems for assemblage thinking: materiality, governance and cycling in Sydney, Australia	12
Institutionalizing barriers to access? An equity scan of green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) incentive programs in the United States	12
How coalitions of multiple actors advance policy in China: ecological agriculture at Danjiangkou	12
Does multidimensional distance matter? Perceptions and acceptance of wind power	12
Can we promote plural local pathways to sustainable development? Insights from the implementation of Wales’s Future Generations Act	12
Protected areas and Indigenous rights in Sápmi: an agonistic reading of conflict and collaboration in land use planning	11
A policy instruments palette for spatial quality: lessons from Dutch flood risk management	11
Assessing biodiversity policy designs in Australia, France and Sweden. Comparative lessons for transformative governance of biodiversity?	11
Antimicrobial resistance policies in European countries – a comparative analysis of policy integration in the water-food-health nexus	11
Between risk perceptions and adaptation policies: centering climate justice and social innovation in heat vulnerable cities	11
Break, bridge or bolster? Participatory energy initiatives between frames and futures of local sustainability	10
Moral rifts in the coal phase-out—how mayors shape distributive and recognition-based dimensions of a just transition in Lusatia	9
Guerra del agua in Bolivia: environmental discourse, power and the politics of ‘green’	9
Systemic impacts of low-carbon transition policies: co-designing potential leverage points to mitigate housing and energy vulnerabilities in Innsbruck	9
Strategic visions for local sustainability transition: measuring maturity in Swedish municipalities	9
Policy instruments for governing water in cross-border metropolitan areas, the case of Greater Geneva	8
Protecting endangered marine species in CITES: China and selective socialization	8
Othermothering in Detroit, MI: understanding race and gender inequalities in green stormwater infrastructure labor	7
Creating institutions to protect the environment: the role of Chinese central environmental inspection	7
How national bioeconomy strategies address governance challenges arising from forest-related trade-offs	7
The role of public consultations in decision-making on future agricultural pesticide use: insights from European Union’s Farm to Fork Strategy public consultation	7
The role of niche and regime intermediaries in building partnerships for urban transitions towards sustainability	7
‘No-one visits me anymore’: Low Emission Zones and social exclusion via sustainable transport policy	7
Assessing justice in sustainable mobility transitions: narratives from transport policies in Jakarta	7
Politics of knowledge use: epistemic governance in marine spatial planning	7
Climate policy integration as a process: from shallow to embedded integration	7
Co-evolutionary dynamics of experimental governance: a longitudinal study of sustainable mobility services in Oslo	7
The spatialization of social capital in the collective management of natural resources, a theoretical and methodological model	7
Implementation gap of China’s environmental policies: logic behind the over-implementation of the coal to gas transition	7
Shifting paradigms in stormwater management – hydrosocial relations and stormwater hydrocitizenship	7
Barriers to equitable greening in urban environmental policies	7
‘Time’ as a focus for planning research: exploring temporalities of coastal change	6
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	6
What does an inclusive bioeconomy mean for primary producers? An analysis of European bioeconomy strategies	6
A comparative analysis of bioeconomy visions and pathways based on stakeholder dialogues in Colombia, Rwanda, Sweden, and Thailand	6
Which energy citizenship in positive energy districts? A governmentality social psychological analysis of participatory governance	6
Impacts of citizen science on trust between stakeholders and trust in science in a polarized context	5
The governmentality of tropical forests and sustainable food systems, and possibilities for post-2020 sustainability governance	5
How organized credibility enables climate action: the U.S. climate security coalition as a credibility machine	5
The Waste War: on the electoral costs of local sustainability policies	5
Fjords of sovereignty: a case study of selective non-compliance in the Norwegian Environment Agency	5
Contentious governance of wind energy planning: strategic dilemmas in collaborative resistance by local governments and citizen action groups	5
Reflexivity and transformative change: empirical and theoretical insights from a special issue on reflexive marine governance	5
Making profit from energy transition. Political struggles and accumulation strategies in Guadeloupe	5
Indigenous land systems and emerging of Green Infrastructure planning in the Peruvian coastal desert: tensions and opportunities	5
Urban heat governance: examining the role of urban planning	5
The concurrent existence of goal conflict and goal synergy in public programs: a case study of the Pennsylvania’s Well Plugging Program	5
How can we govern if we don’t see our feet? Speaking of the matter of sustainability transitions	4
Environmental justice against environmental policies: the example of Montreal boroughs	4
Municipal capacity for water justice: a cross-case comparison of affordability and equity policies in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts	4

Drivers and energy justice implications of renewable energy project siting in the United States	4
Radical energy justice: a Green Deal for Romanian coal miners?	4
A leap of Green faith: the religious discourse of Socio-Ecological Care as an Earth system governmentality	4
Land management policy tools and institutionally contingent types of goods: understanding rock climbers’ resistance to and desire for public lands fees and quotas	4
‘But who’s going to pay for it?’ Contemporary approaches to green infrastructure financing, development and governance in London, UK	4
Critical masculine and feminine norms in sustainable municipal transport policies and planning	4
Implementing the green infrastructure concept in practice: an example of the EU-strategy for Alpine Region	4
Utopianism in state–society interaction: reflections on the transdisciplinary intervention ‘Places of Hope’	4
Urban governance and policy mixes for nature-based solutions and integrated water policy	3
Airports’ environmental effects and limits to growth: an integrated framework	3
A renewable light unto the nations? Modelling the limits of culturally appealing climate frames: a case study from Israel	3
Towards spatializing consumer energy sustainability. Empirical findings about the policy and practice of energy conservation and poverty in Barcelona and North Macedonia	3
How can an alternative natural resource co-management system be established? —Evidence from Chinese community forestry	3
Winds of change: examining attitude shifts regarding an offshore wind project	3
Engineering gentrification: urban redevelopment, sustainability policy, and green stormwater infrastructure in Minneapolis	3
Biogas at the intersection of agricultural, environment and energy governance: (potentially) conflicting interests and consistent policy framework?	3
The Isle of Man Biosphere Reserve: an entire nation approach to sustainable development	3
The nested hierarchy of urban vulnerability within land use policies fails to address climate injustices in Turkey	3
Environmental justice implications of siting criteria in urban green infrastructure planning	3
Chiefs and floods: hybrid governance and co-production of flood risk adaptation in Tamale, Ghana	3
Domesticating circular economy? An enquiry into Norwegian subnational authorities’ process of implementing circularity	3
Policy mixes for biodiversity: a diffusion analysis of state-level citizens’ initiatives in Germany	3
Who participates in green infrastructure initiatives and why? Comparing participants and non-participants in Philadelphia’s GI programs	3
Ideational bricolage as a route to transforming local institutions for heat decarbonisation: heat networks and local government in England	2
The digital turn of marine planning: a global analysis of ocean geoportals	2
A public administration perspective on wind power development: decision-making logic of local government officials	2
Materialities, discourses and governance: scallop culture in Sechura, Peru	2
Climate policy integration: taking advantage of policy windows? An analysis of the energy and environment sectors in Mexico (1997–2018)	2
Green infrastructure implementation: perspectives from English planners	2
Constructing regulatory regimes for sustainable development: commitment to resolve, clarity, and reasonableness	2
How the waste management system’s materialised normativity influences engagement in sustainable waste practices.	2
Taking control to do more: how local governments and communities can enact ambitious climate mitigation policies	2
Mainstreaming passive houses: more gradual reconfiguration than transition	2
Exploring the potential of city networks for climate: the case of URBACT	2
The effect of supply chain position on zero-deforestation commitments: evidence from the cocoa industry	2
Mixed policy feedback and evolution of environmental regulation: analysing instrument recalibration and layering in Danish nitrogen policy	2
Green infrastructure and energy justice in health adaptation: leveraging climate policy innovation and vulnerability-readiness nexus	2
Assessing the state of extreme heat planning in Virginia (USA) through the lens of hazard mitigation plans	2
What role for sustainability in post-fossil regional transition processes? Exploring governance conditions, actors, and transition projects in a German coal phase-out region	2
From conceptualization to practice: enhancing economic resilience at the local government level in Australia	2
Solving cross-sectoral policy problems: adding a cross-sectoral dimension to assess policy performance	2
The scaling up of the tiny house niche in Quebec – transformations and continuities in the housing regime	2
Learning and amplifying urban climate governance through cutting-edge projects	2