OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Environmental Policy and Governance is 2. 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
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Prospects and limitations of ‘Responsible Agricultural Investment’ for governing transboundary agri‐food systems in Mekong Southeast Asia: Implications for upland maize in the Lao‐Vietnamese	57
The role of trust in the international climate negotiations	42
Digital Technology Empowering Rural Environmental Governance: Evidences From Villages in Shanghai, China	28
Institutional Design of Collaborative Water Governance: The River Chief System in China	28
The effects of policy discourse on the governance of deforestation and forest degradation reduction in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)	27
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Beyond the campaign‐style enforcement: A consensual approach to bridge the environmental policy implementation gap	26
Responding to transboundary water challenges in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: In search of institutional fit	23
Playing the CITES game: Lessons on global conservation governance from African megafauna	23
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Unpacking Forest Stewardship Council certification in Chile: The scope and limitations of neoliberal market‐driven governance for achieving sustainable development	21
Dynamic Interactions and Governance Capabilities of State and Non‐State Actors in Small‐Scale Tuna Fishery Certification in Indonesia	21
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Contextualizing and generalizing drivers and barriers of urban living labs for climate resilience	18
Framing just transition: The case of sustainable food system transition in Finland	17
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Vulnerability, climate laws, and adaptation in the Middle East and North Africa	14
The influence of visions on cooperation among interest organizations in fragmented socio‐technical systems	14
Harnessing the temporal and projective attributes of human agency to promote anticipatory climate change adaptation	14
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Can polycentric governance lower industrial greenhouse gas emissions: Evidence from the United States	13
How to Assess Knowledge Cumulation in Environmental Governance Research? Conceptual and Empirical Explorations	13

Moving beyond the plan: Exploring the opportunities to accelerate the implementation of municipal climate change adaptation policies and plans	12
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A Multi‐Layered Collaborative Marine Governance Model: Evaluating Change and Innovation of Marine Governance Arrangements	12
The green side of social innovation: Using sustainable development goals to classify environmental impacts of rural grassroots initiatives	12
Danish nearshore wind energy policy: Exploring actors, ideas, discursive processes and institutions via discursive institutionalism	12
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Correction to “Regulations ‘Under the Weather’: Legal Factors of Stability and Change for the Implementation of Natural Stormwater Management in Finland”	12
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Implementing Nature‐Based Solutions in Cities: Testing and Refining the Integrative Framework for Collaborative Governance	12
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Flood Risk‐Sensitive Land Use Governance: Explaining Enforcement Gaps in the Case of Accra, Ghana	11
Reflections on Energy Efficiency Policies in Sustainable Transition: Bedrock, Gamechanger, or More of the Same?	10
Polycentric energy governance: Under what conditions do energy communities scale?	10
Context‐related mechanisms of policy sustainability: Governance reform of the protected areas in Lombardy	10
The Quest for Coherence in Climate Actions: The Case for Québec's Climate Strategy	10
Deliberating Justice in Citizen Jury Processes—Lessons for Just Transitions Governance	10
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Accountability in the Anthropocene	10
Towards Catchment Scale Natural Flood Management: Developing evidence, funding and governance approaches	10
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Bracing urban governance against climate crises: How to integrate high reliability into strategic decision‐making?	9
Integrating Science With Indigenous and Experiential Knowledge in Collaborative Governance	9
Regulations ‘Under the Weather’: Legal Factors of Stability and Change for the Implementation of Natural Stormwater Management in Finland	9
Mapping stakeholders and identifying institutional challenges and opportunities for waste management in towns of Uttar Pradesh, India	9
Political drivers of policy coherence for sustainable development: An analytical framework	8
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The climate change adaptation readiness of co‐operative housing in Nova Scotia, Canada	8
Exploring paths and innovation in Norwegian carbon capture and storage policy	8
Knowledge cumulation and interdisciplinarity: Integrating epistemologies, disciplines, and sectors to produce actionable environmental governance research	8
Swedish bureaucratic biodiversity: Analysing municipal worker discourse with the theory of sociocultural viability	8
Social acceptance of biodiversity offsetting: Motivations and practices in the designing of an emerging mechanism	7
Granting legitimacy from non‐state actor deliberation: An example of women's groups at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change	7
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Cross‐sectoral information and actors' contact networks in natural resource governance in the Swiss Alps	7
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Governance challenges for urban logistics: Lessons from three Norwegian cities	7
Synergy of soft and hard regulations in climate governance: The impact of state policies on local climate mitigation actions	7
Externalities as the status quo: Federal application of environmental charges in the United States	7
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Beyond Regulation: Coordinating an Environmental Federalist Response to “Forever Chemicals” in Drinking Water	6
Institutionalizing co‐production diplomacy in contexts of long‐term epistemological conflict: A case study of cod fisheries governance	6
Disaster management policy changes in Bangladesh: Drivers and factors of a shift from reactive to proactive approach	6
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Protection of water resources from agricultural pressures: Embracing different knowledge domains in governance approaches	6
Designing and leading collaborative urban climate governance: Comparative experiences of co‐creation from Copenhagen and Oslo	6
Laggard by Intent or Constraint? Rethinking Environmental Implementation Deficits in Greece Through the Capacity–Intentionality Framework	6
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Multi‐Level Policy Coherence Analysis in Wicked Nexus Problem Settings: The Case of Nitrogen Pollution in Germany	6
Promoting Stakeholder Interaction to Facilitate Wildfire Management: Insights From a Case Study in Monreale, Sicily	6
Evaluating offsetting as a component of biodiversity governance	6

How accurate is citizen science? Evaluating public assessments of coastal water quality	6
Collective forestry regimes to enhance transition to climate smart forestry	5
Exploring enablers and obstacles to policy‐oriented learning in Swedish marine national park planning	5
The role of citizens in sustainability and climate change governance: Taking stock and looking ahead	5
Collaboration or Capture? Unpacking the Notion of Forest Governance in Madhupur and Lawachara Forests of Bangladesh	5
Bridging Social Innovation with Forest and Landscape Restoration	5
Social innovation in a typical social‐ecological system in China: Identifying linkages between the dependence of key stakeholders on ecosystem services and the level of their multi‐dimensional human w	5
Challenging state authority and hierarchical power: A case study of the engagement of Peru's Amazonian Indigenous Peoples' organizations in the governance of REDD+	5
Governance gaps and accountability traps in renewables extractivism	5
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A new framework to understand the drivers of policy mixes in multilevel contexts: The case of urban air pollution	5
Social innovation for developing sustainable solutions in a fisheries sector	5
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Everybody should contribute, but not too much: Perceptions of local governments on citizen responsibilisation in climate change adaptation in the Netherlands	5
Practitioners' perspectives on the enablers and barriers to successful Antarctic science‐policy knowledge exchange	5
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Transboundary environmental publics and hydropower governance in the Mekong River Basin: A contested politics of place, scale and temporality	4
How environmental regulation can drive innovation: Lessons learned from a systematic review	4
What determines how governance indicators shape policy processes? Evidence from three environmental issues in India	4
Social‐ecological reflexivity of extractive industry governance? The case of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative in Indonesia	4
Defusing environmental activism through scientific greening: Government framing strategy and its effects in China	4
Call for papers – Special issue on policy and governance of energy efficiency	4
Conflicting perspectives on ecosystem conservation in a cultivated floodplain: The role of science and the challenge of pluralism in decision‐making in Lac Saint‐Pierre (Quebec, Canada)	4
The grammar of monitoring and enforcement mechanisms in international conservation: A comparative institutional analysis of four treaty regimes	4
“Us versus them” mentalities in co‐managing a Natura 2000 forest: Narratives, identities, and a culture of conflict	4
The transformative potential of environmental governance integration for sustainable land use: The case of subsidence in the Dutch peatlands	3
From fabrication to consolidation of China's political blue‐sky: How can environmental regulations shape sustainable air pollution governance?	3
The roles and unexplored potential of policy experimentation in climate adaptation governance: A systematic literature review	3
Understanding public preferences for energy efficiency policies in building and agricultural sectors in the western US: Values, knowledge, and identity	3
Emissions trading in China: New political economy dynamics	3
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Exploring friendship in hydropolitics: The case of the friendship dam on the Asi/Orontes river	3
The Imperative of New and Shiny Clothes: A Discussion on Novelty and Its Effects in Water Governance Research	3
Taking knowledge exchange to practice: A scoping review of practical case studies to identify enablers of success in environmental management	3
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Quasi‐Governmental Organization Under Pressure: The Connecticut Green Bank's Response to a Budget Shock	3
Mapping the Ontology and Epistemology of Research Into Forest Carbon Offsetting in Developing Countries	2
Water governance on the streets of Scotland: How frontline public workers encounter and respond to tensions in delivering water services with communities	2
The water–energy–food–land–climate nexus: Policy coherence for sustainable resource management in Sweden	2
Spatial Statecraft and Carbon Governance in Semi‐Peripheral Uzbekistan	2
Analysing Coherence in Policy for Multi‐Functional Landscapes: An Exploratory Framework	2
Drivers of Energy Policy Asymmetry Between Supply and Demand in the United Kingdom	2
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Why policy coherence in the European Union matters for global sustainability	2
Driving governance beyond ecological modernization: REDD+ and the Amazon Fund	2
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Do Transnational Municipal Networks Accelerate the Net‐Zero Transition? A Mixed‐Methods Analysis of the C40 Cities Initiative and the Challenge of Urban Climate Change Mitigation	2
Revisiting the success of co‐management in forest protected areas of Bangladesh: Untangling the interplay of power, participation, and community empowerment	2
Fostering Urban Climate Transition Through Innovative Governance Coordination	2
Influence of messaging and party affiliation on energy conservation behavior: An evaluation from the US	2
The power of social innovation to steer sustainable governance of nature	2
Accountability in the environmental crisis: From microsocial practices to moral orders	2
Governing intersectional climate justice: Tactics and lessons from Barcelona	2
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Unpacking notions of residents' responsibility in flood risk governance	2
Theorising the climate change accountability of Persian Gulf petrostates	2
Sustaining business as usual or enabling transformation? A discourse analysis of climate change mitigation policy in Swedish municipalities	2
Achieving economy‐wide gains from residential energy efficiency improvements: The importance of timing and funding approach in driving the transition	2
Banning protests at oil and gas sites: The influence of policy entrepreneurs and political pressure	2
Forging Just Climate Policies: Reconciling Justice Perceptions in Deliberative Mini‐Publics	2
Disentangling municipal capacities for citizen participation in transformative climate adaptation	2
Implementing Network Governance in Natural Resources Management: Evidence From Water Protection Networks in Brazil	2
Policy implementation barriers in climate change adaptation: The case of Pakistan	2