OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning is 7. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
How coalitions of multiple actors advance policy in China: ecological agriculture at Danjiangkou	90
A policy instruments palette for spatial quality: lessons from Dutch flood risk management	28
It’s not all about the money—landowner motivation and high voltage grid development	24
‘Green icing on the Gray Cake?’ Green infrastructure in federal enforcement action	22
Break, bridge or bolster? Participatory energy initiatives between frames and futures of local sustainability	21
Act global, think local? Local perspectives towards environmental sustainability in semi-rural communities of Alberta, Canada	21
City-to-city learning: a synthesis and research agenda	19
Behind the curtains of deliberation: unveiling climate policy and behavioural challenges through a mini-public in Spain	18
Fjords of sovereignty: a case study of selective non-compliance in the Norwegian Environment Agency	17
Policy instruments for governing water in cross-border metropolitan areas, the case of Greater Geneva	17
Indigenous land systems and emerging of Green Infrastructure planning in the Peruvian coastal desert: tensions and opportunities	16
Environmental justice implications of siting criteria in urban green infrastructure planning	16
Green infrastructure implementation: perspectives from English planners	16
Systemic impacts of low-carbon transition policies: co-designing potential leverage points to mitigate housing and energy vulnerabilities in Innsbruck	16
Constructing regulatory regimes for sustainable development: commitment to resolve, clarity, and reasonableness	16
In or outside the box? Citizen action between institutional and extra-institutional channels in Chinese environmental governance	15
Learning and amplifying urban climate governance through cutting-edge projects	15
Resource dependency, perceived political environment, and ENGO advocacy under authoritarian rule	14
Ecological modernisation wanderings: ambivalent framing and unstable coalitions in the development of Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage (CCUS) in France	14
What went right? A collaborative process to prepare a city forest management strategy	14
Evidence integration for coherent nexus policy design: a Mediterranean perspective on managing water-energy interactions	14
Informing aquatic restoration decisions using environmental justice in New Hampshire	13
Exploring the interaction between social norms and perceived justice of wind energy projects: a qualitative analysis	13
When decarbonization rhymes with industrialization. The political dilemmas of increasing wood usage within the French construction industry	13
Can we promote plural local pathways to sustainable development? Insights from the implementation of Wales’s Future Generations Act	13

Placing environmental democracy at the heart of co-governance: rethinking the governance of complex waterways	13
Between risk perceptions and adaptation policies: centering climate justice and social innovation in heat vulnerable cities	13
Cross-cultural learning as a foundation for reimagining ocean governance	12
The politics of agro-industrial greening: policy processes, market institutions and local power relations in the sugarcane sector of French overseas departments	12
Contesting the framing of bioeconomy policy in Germany: the NGO perspective	11
Moral rifts in the coal phase-out—how mayors shape distributive and recognition-based dimensions of a just transition in Lusatia	11
Assessing the impact of Fridays for Future on climate policy and policymaking in German cities	11
The European Union’s Directive on corporate sustainability development due diligence: an institutional design effectiveness analysis	10
‘Time’ as a focus for planning research: exploring temporalities of coastal change	10
Implementation gap of China’s environmental policies: logic behind the over-implementation of the coal to gas transition	10
Who is (not) in the room? An epistemic justice perspective on low-carbon transport transitions	10
Shifting paradigms in stormwater management – hydrosocial relations and stormwater hydrocitizenship	10
Engineering gentrification: urban redevelopment, sustainability policy, and green stormwater infrastructure in Minneapolis	9
Airports’ environmental effects and limits to growth: an integrated framework	9
Creating institutions to protect the environment: the role of Chinese central environmental inspection	9
Biogas at the intersection of agricultural, environment and energy governance: (potentially) conflicting interests and consistent policy framework?	9
How national bioeconomy strategies address governance challenges arising from forest-related trade-offs	9
Co-evolutionary dynamics of experimental governance: a longitudinal study of sustainable mobility services in Oslo	9
Who participates in green infrastructure initiatives and why? Comparing participants and non-participants in Philadelphia’s GI programs	9
A comparative analysis of bioeconomy visions and pathways based on stakeholder dialogues in Colombia, Rwanda, Sweden, and Thailand	9
Solving cross-sectoral policy problems: adding a cross-sectoral dimension to assess policy performance	8
The scaling up of the tiny house niche in Quebec – transformations and continuities in the housing regime	8
Tackling material dependency in sustainability transition: rationales and insights from the agriculture sector	8
The CAPS framework for governance capacity building for local climate action	8
The nested hierarchy of urban vulnerability within land use policies fails to address climate injustices in Turkey	8
Plugged in? Assessing the distribution of orphaned wells	8
Ecological transition in France’s margins: how industries adapt to ecological crisis and redefine their national and local roles	7
Reconfiguring energy flows: energy grid-lock and the role of regions in shaping electricity infrastructure networks	7
Assessing environmental justice contributions in research and public policy: an applied framework and methodology	7
The role of discourses in understanding institutional stability and change – an analysis of Dutch flood risk governance	7
The evolution of stakeholder participation in European UNESCO Biosphere Reserves: challenges and opportunities of the COVID pandemic and the digital shift	7
A multidimensional approach to evaluating the vulnerability of drinking water systems	7