OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Climate and Development is 3. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Vulnerability of local farmers’ livelihood to climate variability across different agro ecology zone in Suha watershed, Upper Blue Nile basin, Ethiopia	68
Seasonal deprivation in the Sahel is large, widespread, and can be anticipated	66
Concealing, naming, or tackling inequalities? Art, culture and (In)justice at COP27	66
Addressing the diversity of Loss and damage in Pacific Island countries to foster a just transition towards a climate-resilient future	49
Intensive and extensive rice farm adaptations in salinity-prone areas of the Mekong Delta	31
Barriers to nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation in Mexico	28
Collaborative event ethnography of the UNFCCC Process: power and (in)justice in global climate governance arenas	28
It’s not just about women: broadening perspectives in gendered environmental mobilities research	25
Predicting China’s carbon intensity through 2050: an integrated analysis method	25
Spatial overview of climate change impacts in Bangladesh: a systematic review	23
Pluralizing climate change adaptation: mapping discourses in Vietnam	23
Safe drinking water supply under extreme climate events: evidence from four urban sprawl communities	23
Tackling knowledge and power: an environmental justice perspective on climate change adaptation in Kiribati	21
‘These days, things have changed’: historicizing current dynamics of climate-related migration in the savannah zone of Ghana	21
‘We do in the spirit of togetherness’: stories of collective resilience, wellbeing and climate (im)mobility in the Pacific	21
Traditional crops and climate change adaptation: insights from the Andean agricultural sector	19
Climate adaptation and resilience indices for the Caribbean region: an assessment of four leading indices	18
Future research directions for understanding the interconnections between climate change, water scarcity, and mobility in rural Central Asia	18
Integrating low-carbon development issues into strategic environmental assessment: insights from Tanzania	17
Climate change, local leadership and the formal-informal nexus: case of Machar Colony, Karachi	17
Evaluating the impact of adaptation interventions on vulnerability and livelihood resilience	16
The revival of the drylands: re-learning resilience to climate change from pastoral livelihoods in East Africa	16
Climate change, hurricanes, and sovereign debt in the Caribbean basin	16
A high-frequency analysis of weather and crime in Jamaica	15
Local communities’ perceptions on malaria prevalence in the face of climate change in Chimanimani District, Zimbabwe	14

Impact assessment of sustainable agricultural practices on smallholder households food security: evidence from Burkina Faso	14
Bridging farmers’ non-cognitive and self-conscious emotional factors to cognitive determinants of climate change adaptation in southwest Iran	14
Exploring combined adaptation strategies to improve crop yield and smallholder farmers’ welfare	14
Climate change and human economic misery in West Africa: evidence from a tail-dependence model	14
Understanding ecological grief as a response to climate change-induced loss in Ghana	13
Indigenous entrepreneurship and agricultural development: insights from the case of ‘Darjeeling tea’ in Eastern Himalayas	13
Enhancing farmers’ resilience to climate change-induced impacts through financial inclusion in Sidama region, southern Ethiopia	12
Women and climate change adaptation behaviour: What’s the problem and solution?	12
Climate services for the Greater Horn of Africa: interviews exploring practitioner perspectives from Kenya and beyond	12
Examining the link between marginality and differential climate resilience among disaster-affected communities in southwestern Bangladesh	12
Climate resilient development pathways for farmer producer organizations in semi-arid India	12
‘Who is going to talk about my grandad? Who is going to talk about me?’: Spatial politics in the advocacy of youth from the MENA region at COP 27	12
Navigating contradictions: perceptions of climate action progress and obstruction in Argentina	12
Adaptive capacities for women’s mobility during displacement after floods and riverbank erosion in Assam, India	11
Social and political opposition to energy pricing reforms	11
Towards a livelihood-interdependence approach to framing adaptation in research and practice: evidence from farmers’ and herders’ relations in Northern Ghana	11
Third-generation adaptive capacity assessment for climate-resilient development	10
An accounting framework for implementing India’s NDCs and reporting the capacity building needs in the context of the Paris rulebook	10
Effects of social capital on farmers’ choices of climate change adaptation behavior in Dazu District, China	10
Constraints on farmers’ adaptive capacity to climate variability and change	10
Expansive climate governance: advancing transformative climate justice through the six pillars of climate action	10
Gendered perceptions of climate change and agricultural adaptation practices: a systematic review	10
Sustainability transitioning in a developmental state: an analysis of Singapore’s climate change mitigation and adaptation policies	10
Potential tipping points for climate change adaptation costs	10
Examining environmental justice in legacy city climate action planning	9
Cyclones and skinny dolphins: adaptation pathways for Pacific communities under rapid global change	9
Dried up Bt cotton narratives: climate, debt and distressed livelihoods in semi-arid smallholder India	9
FIRE: A framework for integrating human rights and gender equality in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation	9
Sustainable, green, and climate-resilient cities: an analysis of multilateral development banks	9
Gender empowerment and parity in East Africa: evidence from climate-smart agriculture in Ethiopia and Kenya	9
Human health and climate change in the Pacific: a review of current knowledge	9
How is science making its way into national climate change adaptation policy? Insights from Burkina Faso	9
Can perceptions of reduction in physical water availability affect irrigation behaviour? Evidence from Jordan	9
Effects of foreign finance measures on the decoupling of greenhouse gas emissions from economic development: a panel study of 97 developing countries over the period 2000–2018	8
Networking for gender equitable climate-smart agriculture	8
Examining complementary relationships among climate change adaptation practices of rice producers in Chitwan, Nepal	8
The production, distribution and attribution of risk: a conceptual framework to climate-related risk management from the perspective of Arraigo in Bogotá, Colombia	8
The politics of women’s lives: gendered re-presentations in Bangladesh’s climate change adaptation regime	8
Prevent or repair? Experimental evidence from providing incentives for climate resilient housing in Vietnam	8
Spatiotemporal changes of climatic disasters and population displacements in Africa	8
Climate information access and use in East and Southern Africa: identifying linkages between smallholder household characteristics and climate change adaptation	8
Land fragmentation, adoption intensity of climate-smart agricultural practices, and economic performance of banana farmers in China	8
Valuing a values-based approach for assessing loss and damage	8
A comparative review on the mitigation strategies of urban heat island (UHI): a pathway for sustainable urban development	8
Justice in nature conservation: limits and possibilities under global capitalism	8
Promoting environmental sustainability in Africa: evidence from governance synergy	8
Measuring the farmers’ vulnerability to climate change in Tashk and Bakhtegan Lakes in Iran	7
Epistemic justice as energy justice: reflections from a transnational collaboration on hydropower and Indigenous rights	7
Talking the talk vs. walking the walk: greening of central banks’ speeches and policies	7
Effects and resilience to climate crisis among adolescents: a narrative review on South Asian countries	7

Firms’ use of formal and informal finance in coping with droughts and floods: experiences from Kenya	7
Gate-Cane: (Un)tying the knots between climate, cane, and early marriage in rural India	7
Exploring co-production in redirecting climate urbanism	7
Re-framing non-economic losses to non-economic impacts for effective policymaking: evidence from the Caribbean	7
Are forest carbon projects in Africa green but mean?: A mixed-method analysis	7
What’s “holding back change”? Opportunities and challenges for the ‘participation’ and ‘inclusion’ of people with diverse SOGIESC in disaster risk reduction	7
Gender and adaptive capacity in climate change scholarship of developing countries: a systematic review of literature	6
Promoting banana farmers’ adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices: the role of agricultural cooperatives	6
Social vulnerability shapes the experiences of climate migrants displaced by Hurricane Maria	6
Assessment of farmers’ resilience to drought and its influencing components: the case of Fars Province, Iran	6
Structured timeline mapping as a data collection methodology: a new perspective for research on environmental adaptation	6
Sugarcane farmers’ perceptions of climate change and their “adaptation” methods in Fiji: adaptation for the industry or for their livelihood?	6
Multinational companies and climate change and sustainable development debate: evidence from cement production in Nigeria	6
Institutionalizing urban climate governance in the global South? Evidence from Tehran urban management, Iran	6
When nature treats farmers strictly: hazard management strategies in the Sistan Plain, Iran	6
Characterizing rural households’ livelihood vulnerability to climate change and extremes in Migori River Watershed, Kenya	6
Improving the design of climate insurance: combining empirical approaches and modelling	6
Institutional analysis for scaling alternate wetting and drying for low-emissions rice production: evidence from Bangladesh	6
Floodplain farming and maladaptation to extreme rainfall events in northern Ghana	6
Assessment of Brazilian household consumption patterns and their associated CO ₂ emissions	6
Enhancing capacity building initiatives at sub-national level for supporting climate change adaptation	6
Insuring against droughts: addressing issues of trust, transparency and liquidity in the demand for livestock index insurance	6
Private disaster expenditures by rural Bangladeshi households: evidence from survey data	5
Harnessing climate information service use for cocoa farming sustainability in Ghana	5
Is the development model moving towards a low-carbon resilience? Analysis on the characteristics of China’s provincial carbon emissions in the context of urbanization	5
Study on stochastic convergence of China’s carbon emission efficiency	5
How to track progress on the Global Goal on Adaptation?: a stocktaking of Parties’ positions on measurement one year into the GlaSS work programme	5
Win-win: designing dual-use in climate projects for effective anti-corruption in Bangladesh	5
Assessing the effect of green financing on inclusive growth: evidence from Ghana	5
Mainstreaming forecast based action into national disaster risk management systems: experience from drought risk management in Kenya	5
Plan(T)ing for the future: using socially engaged climate art to mobilize change agents	5
Assessing the barriers to climate change adaptation: evidence from Western Himalayan Region of India	5
Beyond AOSIS: small island states’ presence and participation at COP27	5
The effect of carbon farming training on food security and development resilience in Northern Ghana	5
China at COP27: CBDR, national sovereignty, and climate justice	5
Effectiveness of aid projects in climate technology familiarization in recipient countries	4
The evidence gap index: mapping evidence where it matters for climate change impacts	4
Addressing women’s climate change awareness in Sindh, Pakistan: an empirical study of rural and urban women	4
Disentangling the concepts of global climate change, adaptation, and human mobility: a political-ecological exploration in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta	4
Can Indigenous ecotheology save the world? Affinities between traditional worldviews and environmental sustainability	4
Nature-based solutions (NbS) and climate change adaptation in Bangladesh: does planning law facilitate NbS for climate change adaptation in Dhaka?	4
External power dynamics and international climate governance in a crises-constrained world	4
Participating under constraints: roles and limitations of rural women’s involvement in climate change adaptation planning and implementation in Ghana	4
Collective action by community groups: solutions for climate change or different players in the same game?	4
Scaling climate resilient seed systems through SMEs in Eastern and Southern Africa: challenges and opportunities	4
Diffusion of climate-resilient seeds and information: evidence from semi-arid regions of Ghana	4
Epistemic silences, subversive politics: post-disaster economic assessments as technologies of persistent coloniality and route to an emancipatory climate justice agenda in the Caribbean	4
The impact of warming on food consumption	4
Climate change impacts on non-timber forest products: NTFP-dependent community responses from India	4
Polycentric governance systems: addressing the power gap centered on climate entrepreneurs in Semnan Province of Iran	4
Non-cognitive skills and willingness to participate in drought index crop insurance in Ghana	4
Effect of indigenous and scientific forecasts on pastoralists’ climate change perceptions in the Rwenzori region, Western Uganda	4
Cocoa vs. food crops: smallholders' seasonal food access and extension support for climate adaptation in Ghana	3
Moving beyond a climate politics of justice with no peace	3
Unpacking the progression of climate uncertainty into precarity in the urban context of drylands: the case of floods in Lodwar, Turkana	3
Media coverage of CPEC in Pakistan: the case of the missing frame	3
Climate change, mental health and wellbeing: privileging Pacific peoples’ perspectives – phase one	3
Role of community-based conservation and natural resource management in building climate resilience among vulnerable mountain societies	3
Land matters: how Indigenous land restitution can inform loss and damage policy and chart a path toward an otherwise climate justice	3
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency	3
Downplaying extreme heat: global imaginaries of ‘relative invulnerability’ and ‘common sense’ adaptation	3
Adapting East and Southern Africa’s livestock to climate change: a decision making under deep uncertainty-based approach for effective actions	3
Exploring the possible effects of social vulnerability components on terrorism	3
Impact of urbanization on low-carbon development: an empirical study in Yangtze River Delta	3
Use and economic benefits of indigenous seasonal climate forecasts: evidence from Benin, West Africa	3
The macroeconomic impact of disasters: a review of hurricanes in Caribbean small island developing states	3
Farmers’ quality of life prediction under climate variability: the role of psychological coping strategies	3
Governing for a safe and just future with science-based targets: opportunities and limitations	3
Engaging with informality and the subaltern in overlooked cities: towards an agenda for climate change research in the Global South	3
Social remittances and the environment in the context of climate change: What do we know? Where do we go?	3
Migrating injustices in the small city: drought-impacted interstate migrant workers’ experiences in Tiruppur’s sanitation sector	3