OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Act global, think local? Local perspectives towards environmental sustainability in semi-rural communities of Alberta, Canada	33
A policy instruments palette for spatial quality: lessons from Dutch flood risk management	22
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
Break, bridge or bolster? Participatory energy initiatives between frames and futures of local sustainability	21
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
Policy instruments for governing water in cross-border metropolitan areas, the case of Greater Geneva	20
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
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
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
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
When decarbonization rhymes with industrialization. The political dilemmas of increasing wood usage within the French construction industry	12
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
Ecological modernisation wanderings: ambivalent framing and unstable coalitions in the development of Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage (CCUS) in France	11
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
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
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
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
Can we promote plural local pathways to sustainable development? Insights from the implementation of Wales’s Future Generations Act	8
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
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
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
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
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