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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Act global, think local? Local perspectives towards environmental sustainability in semi-rural communities of Alberta, Canada	29
Break, bridge or bolster? Participatory energy initiatives between frames and futures of local sustainability	27
The aspirational shift of urban transport infrastructure: the emerging mobility transition in India	22
City-to-city learning: a synthesis and research agenda	20
It’s not all about the money—landowner motivation and high voltage grid development	19
Behind the curtains of deliberation: unveiling climate policy and behavioural challenges through a mini-public in Spain	19
‘Green icing on the Gray Cake?’ Green infrastructure in federal enforcement action	19
How coalitions of multiple actors advance policy in China: ecological agriculture at Danjiangkou	18
Policy instruments for governing water in cross-border metropolitan areas, the case of Greater Geneva	17
A policy instruments palette for spatial quality: lessons from Dutch flood risk management	17
Systemic impacts of low-carbon transition policies: co-designing potential leverage points to mitigate housing and energy vulnerabilities in Innsbruck	16
Fjords of sovereignty: a case study of selective non-compliance in the Norwegian Environment Agency	16
In or outside the box? Citizen action between institutional and extra-institutional channels in Chinese environmental governance	15
Constructing regulatory regimes for sustainable development: commitment to resolve, clarity, and reasonableness	14
Green infrastructure implementation: perspectives from English planners	14
Learning and amplifying urban climate governance through cutting-edge projects	14
What went right? A collaborative process to prepare a city forest management strategy	13
Evidence integration for coherent nexus policy design: a Mediterranean perspective on managing water-energy interactions	13
Resource dependency, perceived political environment, and ENGO advocacy under authoritarian rule	13
Ecological modernisation wanderings: ambivalent framing and unstable coalitions in the development of Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage (CCUS) in France	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
When decarbonization rhymes with industrialization. The political dilemmas of increasing wood usage within the French construction industry	12
Exploring the interaction between social norms and perceived justice of wind energy projects: a qualitative analysis	11
Between risk perceptions and adaptation policies: centering climate justice and social innovation in heat vulnerable cities	11

Assessing the impact of Fridays for Future on climate policy and policymaking in German cities	10
Contesting the framing of bioeconomy policy in Germany: the NGO perspective	10
Can we promote plural local pathways to sustainable development? Insights from the implementation of Wales’s Future Generations Act	10
Who is (not) in the room? An epistemic justice perspective on low-carbon transport transitions	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
The European Union’s Directive on corporate sustainability development due diligence: an institutional design effectiveness analysis	10
The politics of agro-industrial greening: policy processes, market institutions and local power relations in the sugarcane sector of French overseas departments	10
‘Time’ as a focus for planning research: exploring temporalities of coastal change	9
A comparative analysis of bioeconomy visions and pathways based on stakeholder dialogues in Colombia, Rwanda, Sweden, and Thailand	9
Shifting paradigms in stormwater management – hydrosocial relations and stormwater hydrocitizenship	9
Implementation gap of China’s environmental policies: logic behind the over-implementation of the coal to gas transition	8
Gardening governance: CSO-government dynamics in Shanghai's urban renewal	8
The nested hierarchy of urban vulnerability within land use policies fails to address climate injustices in Turkey	7
How national bioeconomy strategies address governance challenges arising from forest-related trade-offs	7
Biogas at the intersection of agricultural, environment and energy governance: (potentially) conflicting interests and consistent policy framework?	7
Who participates in green infrastructure initiatives and why? Comparing participants and non-participants in Philadelphia’s GI programs	7
Co-evolutionary dynamics of experimental governance: a longitudinal study of sustainable mobility services in Oslo	7
Airports’ environmental effects and limits to growth: an integrated framework	7
Creating institutions to protect the environment: the role of Chinese central environmental inspection	7
Reconfiguring energy flows: energy grid-lock and the role of regions in shaping electricity infrastructure networks	6
Plugged in? Assessing the distribution of orphaned wells	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
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
The evolution of stakeholder participation in European UNESCO Biosphere Reserves: challenges and opportunities of the COVID pandemic and the digital shift	6
The CAPS framework for governance capacity building for local climate action	6
Tackling material dependency in sustainability transition: rationales and insights from the agriculture sector	6
Ecological transition in France’s margins: how industries adapt to ecological crisis and redefine their national and local roles	6