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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Act global, think local? Local perspectives towards environmental sustainability in semi-rural communities of Alberta, Canada	36
How coalitions of multiple actors advance policy in China: ecological agriculture at Danjiangkou	27
‘Green icing on the Gray Cake?’ Green infrastructure in federal enforcement action	24
A policy instruments palette for spatial quality: lessons from Dutch flood risk management	21
Break, bridge or bolster? Participatory energy initiatives between frames and futures of local sustainability	21
The aspirational shift of urban transport infrastructure: the emerging mobility transition in India	16
City-to-city learning: a synthesis and research agenda	15
Understanding ‘Bad Governance’ in the urban south: a case study of solid waste management in Ghana	14
It’s not all about the money—landowner motivation and high voltage grid development	14
Policy instruments for governing water in cross-border metropolitan areas, the case of Greater Geneva	13
Behind the curtains of deliberation: unveiling climate policy and behavioural challenges through a mini-public in Spain	13
Fjords of sovereignty: a case study of selective non-compliance in the Norwegian Environment Agency	12
Systemic impacts of low-carbon transition policies: co-designing potential leverage points to mitigate housing and energy vulnerabilities in Innsbruck	12
Characterizing bioeconomy policy instruments: A global comparative analysis of bioeconomy strategies	12
In or outside the box? Citizen action between institutional and extra-institutional channels in Chinese environmental governance	12
Learning and amplifying urban climate governance through cutting-edge projects	12
Green infrastructure implementation: perspectives from English planners	12
What went right? A collaborative process to prepare a city forest management strategy	11
Constructing regulatory regimes for sustainable development: commitment to resolve, clarity, and reasonableness	11
Evidence integration for coherent nexus policy design: a Mediterranean perspective on managing water-energy interactions	11
Informing aquatic restoration decisions using environmental justice in New Hampshire	10
Resource dependency, perceived political environment, and ENGO advocacy under authoritarian rule	10
When decarbonization rhymes with industrialization. The political dilemmas of increasing wood usage within the French construction industry	10
Ecological modernisation wanderings: ambivalent framing and unstable coalitions in the development of Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage (CCUS) in France	9
Placing environmental democracy at the heart of co-governance: rethinking the governance of complex waterways	9

Contesting the framing of bioeconomy policy in Germany: the NGO perspective	8
Privatizing environmental governance: the evolving relationship between regulators and private entities	8
Controversial cycle lanes: lessons from Cycleway C9, Chiswick High Road	8
Between risk perceptions and adaptation policies: centering climate justice and social innovation in heat vulnerable cities	8
Assessing the impact of Fridays for Future on climate policy and policymaking in German cities	8
Can we promote plural local pathways to sustainable development? Insights from the implementation of Wales’s Future Generations Act	8
The politics of agro-industrial greening: policy processes, market institutions and local power relations in the sugarcane sector of French overseas departments	8
Cross-cultural learning as a foundation for reimagining ocean governance	8
Shifting paradigms in stormwater management – hydrosocial relations and stormwater hydrocitizenship	7
Public engagement practice for electricity grid system change	7
Co-evolutionary dynamics of experimental governance: a longitudinal study of sustainable mobility services in Oslo	7
Who is (not) in the room? An epistemic justice perspective on low-carbon transport transitions	7
Implementation gap of China’s environmental policies: logic behind the over-implementation of the coal to gas transition	7
Gardening governance: CSO-government dynamics in Shanghai's urban renewal	7
The European Union’s Directive on corporate sustainability development due diligence: an institutional design effectiveness analysis	7
‘Time’ as a focus for planning research: exploring temporalities of coastal change	7
Creating institutions to protect the environment: the role of Chinese central environmental inspection	7
Municipal administration and citizens linkages in strategic environmental assessment: exploring agency features in participatory decision-making processes of municipal master plans	6
Ecological transition in France’s margins: how industries adapt to ecological crisis and redefine their national and local roles	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
Tackling material dependency in sustainability transition: rationales and insights from the agriculture sector	6
Airports’ environmental effects and limits to growth: an integrated framework	6
Sustainability transitions in Los Angeles’ water system: the ambivalent role of incumbents in urban experimentation	6
A comparative analysis of bioeconomy visions and pathways based on stakeholder dialogues in Colombia, Rwanda, Sweden, and Thailand	6
The CAPS framework for governance capacity building for local climate action	6
Community garden coproduction under collectivism	6
Urban carrying capacity in practice: supporting growth management and climate planning in the United States	6
Who participates in green infrastructure initiatives and why? Comparing participants and non-participants in Philadelphia’s GI programs	6