OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Climate and Development 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Vulnerability of local farmers’ livelihood to climate variability across different agro ecology zone in Suha watershed, Upper Blue Nile basin, Ethiopia	150
Collaborative event ethnography of the UNFCCC Process: power and (in)justice in global climate governance arenas	66
Concealing, naming, or tackling inequalities? Art, culture and (In)justice at COP27	63
Addressing the diversity of Loss and damage in Pacific Island countries to foster a just transition towards a climate-resilient future	59
Seasonal deprivation in the Sahel is large, widespread, and can be anticipated	48
Intensive and extensive rice farm adaptations in salinity-prone areas of the Mekong Delta	33
Safe drinking water supply under extreme climate events: evidence from four urban sprawl communities	30
Predicting China’s carbon intensity through 2050: an integrated analysis method	28
Traditional crops and climate change adaptation: insights from the Andean agricultural sector	28
Tackling knowledge and power: an environmental justice perspective on climate change adaptation in Kiribati	24
Pluralizing climate change adaptation: mapping discourses in Vietnam	24
Spatial overview of climate change impacts in Bangladesh: a systematic review	23
It’s not just about women: broadening perspectives in gendered environmental mobilities research	22
‘We do in the spirit of togetherness’: stories of collective resilience, wellbeing and climate (im)mobility in the Pacific	21
‘These days, things have changed’: historicizing current dynamics of climate-related migration in the savannah zone of Ghana	21
Climate adaptation and resilience indices for the Caribbean region: an assessment of four leading indices	21
Integrating low-carbon development issues into strategic environmental assessment: insights from Tanzania	19
Future research directions for understanding the interconnections between climate change, water scarcity, and mobility in rural Central Asia	19
Evaluating the impact of adaptation interventions on vulnerability and livelihood resilience	17
Climate change, local leadership and the formal-informal nexus: case of Machar Colony, Karachi	17
Climate change, hurricanes, and sovereign debt in the Caribbean basin	17
The revival of the drylands: re-learning resilience to climate change from pastoral livelihoods in East Africa	16
A high-frequency analysis of weather and crime in Jamaica	16
Bridging farmers’ non-cognitive and self-conscious emotional factors to cognitive determinants of climate change adaptation in southwest Iran	16
Local communities’ perceptions on malaria prevalence in the face of climate change in Chimanimani District, Zimbabwe	15

Exploring combined adaptation strategies to improve crop yield and smallholder farmers’ welfare	15
Climate change and human economic misery in West Africa: evidence from a tail-dependence model	15
Impact assessment of sustainable agricultural practices on smallholder households food security: evidence from Burkina Faso	14
Understanding ecological grief as a response to climate change-induced loss in Ghana	14
Assessing vulnerability of wetland fisheries to climate change: a stakeholders’ perception-based approach	14
Indigenous entrepreneurship and agricultural development: insights from the case of ‘Darjeeling tea’ in Eastern Himalayas	13
Examining the link between marginality and differential climate resilience among disaster-affected communities in southwestern Bangladesh	13
‘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
Women and climate change adaptation behaviour: What’s the problem and solution?	12
Enhancing farmers’ resilience to climate change-induced impacts through financial inclusion in Sidama region, southern Ethiopia	12
Climate resilient development pathways for farmer producer organizations in semi-arid India	12
Constraints on farmers’ adaptive capacity to climate variability and change	12
Climate services for the Greater Horn of Africa: interviews exploring practitioner perspectives from Kenya and beyond	12
Third-generation adaptive capacity assessment for climate-resilient development	12
Navigating contradictions: perceptions of climate action progress and obstruction in Argentina	11
Sustainability transitioning in a developmental state: an analysis of Singapore’s climate change mitigation and adaptation policies	11
Potential tipping points for climate change adaptation costs	11
Adaptive capacities for women’s mobility during displacement after floods and riverbank erosion in Assam, India	11
Towards a livelihood-interdependence approach to framing adaptation in research and practice: evidence from farmers’ and herders’ relations in Northern Ghana	10
Social and political opposition to energy pricing reforms	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
Gendered perceptions of climate change and agricultural adaptation practices: a systematic review	10
Can perceptions of reduction in physical water availability affect irrigation behaviour? Evidence from Jordan	9
Dried up Bt cotton narratives: climate, debt and distressed livelihoods in semi-arid smallholder India	9
How is science making its way into national climate change adaptation policy? Insights from Burkina Faso	9
Gender empowerment and parity in East Africa: evidence from climate-smart agriculture in Ethiopia and Kenya	9
Expansive climate governance: advancing transformative climate justice through the six pillars of climate action	9
Human health and climate change in the Pacific: a review of current knowledge	9
Cyclones and skinny dolphins: adaptation pathways for Pacific communities under rapid global change	9
Examining environmental justice in legacy city climate action planning	9
Sustainable, green, and climate-resilient cities: an analysis of multilateral development banks	9
FIRE: A framework for integrating human rights and gender equality in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation	9
A comparative review on the mitigation strategies of urban heat island (UHI): a pathway for sustainable urban development	8
Examining complementary relationships among climate change adaptation practices of rice producers in Chitwan, Nepal	8
Climate information access and use in East and Southern Africa: identifying linkages between smallholder household characteristics and climate change adaptation	8
Spatiotemporal changes of climatic disasters and population displacements in Africa	8
Valuing a values-based approach for assessing loss and damage	8
The politics of women’s lives: gendered re-presentations in Bangladesh’s climate change adaptation regime	8
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
Prevent or repair? Experimental evidence from providing incentives for climate resilient housing in Vietnam	8
Networking for gender equitable climate-smart agriculture	8
Justice in nature conservation: limits and possibilities under global capitalism	8
Promoting environmental sustainability in Africa: evidence from governance synergy	7
Re-framing non-economic losses to non-economic impacts for effective policymaking: evidence from the Caribbean	7
Exploring co-production in redirecting climate urbanism	7
Talking the talk vs. walking the walk: greening of central banks’ speeches and policies	7
Are forest carbon projects in Africa green but mean?: A mixed-method analysis	7
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

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
Structured timeline mapping as a data collection methodology: a new perspective for research on environmental adaptation	7
Land fragmentation, adoption intensity of climate-smart agricultural practices, and economic performance of banana farmers in China	7
Effects and resilience to climate crisis among adolescents: a narrative review on South Asian countries	7
The production, distribution and attribution of risk: a conceptual framework to climate-related risk management from the perspective of Arraigo in Bogotá, Colombia	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	7