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

Article	Citations
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	160
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Institutional Design of Collaborative Water Governance: The River Chief System in China	37
The role of trust in the international climate negotiations	35
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The effects of policy discourse on the governance of deforestation and forest degradation reduction in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)	32
Responding to transboundary water challenges in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: In search of institutional fit	26
Playing the CITES game: Lessons on global conservation governance from African megafauna	26
Beyond the campaign‐style enforcement: A consensual approach to bridge the environmental policy implementation gap	25
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Contextualizing and generalizing drivers and barriers of urban living labs for climate resilience	22
Framing just transition: The case of sustainable food system transition in Finland	21
Unpacking Forest Stewardship Council certification in Chile: The scope and limitations of neoliberal market‐driven governance for achieving sustainable development	21
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Harnessing the temporal and projective attributes of human agency to promote anticipatory climate change adaptation	19
Can polycentric governance lower industrial greenhouse gas emissions: Evidence from the United States	16
The influence of visions on cooperation among interest organizations in fragmented socio‐technical systems	16
How to Assess Knowledge Cumulation in Environmental Governance Research? Conceptual and Empirical Explorations	14
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Vulnerability, climate laws, and adaptation in the Middle East and North Africa	13
Correction to “Regulations ‘Under the Weather’: Legal Factors of Stability and Change for the Implementation of Natural Stormwater Management in Finland”	13
Moving beyond the plan: Exploring the opportunities to accelerate the implementation of municipal climate change adaptation policies and plans	12

The green side of social innovation: Using sustainable development goals to classify environmental impacts of rural grassroots initiatives	12
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Implementing Nature‐Based Solutions in Cities: Testing and Refining the Integrative Framework for Collaborative Governance	11
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A Multi‐Layered Collaborative Marine Governance Model: Evaluating Change and Innovation of Marine Governance Arrangements	11
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Danish nearshore wind energy policy: Exploring actors, ideas, discursive processes and institutions via discursive institutionalism	11
Context‐related mechanisms of policy sustainability: Governance reform of the protected areas in Lombardy	10
Flood Risk‐Sensitive Land Use Governance: Explaining Enforcement Gaps in the Case of Accra, Ghana	10
Regulations ‘Under the Weather’: Legal Factors of Stability and Change for the Implementation of Natural Stormwater Management in Finland	10
Accountability in the Anthropocene	10
Polycentric energy governance: Under what conditions do energy communities scale?	10
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Deliberating Justice in Citizen Jury Processes—Lessons for Just Transitions Governance	10
The impact of environmental federalism: An analysis of watershedeco‐compensationpolicy design in China	10
The Quest for Coherence in Climate Actions: The Case for Québec's Climate Strategy	9
Integrating Science With Indigenous and Experiential Knowledge in Collaborative Governance	9
Towards Catchment Scale Natural Flood Management: Developing evidence, funding and governance approaches	8
Knowledge cumulation and interdisciplinarity: Integrating epistemologies, disciplines, and sectors to produce actionable environmental governance research	8
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The climate change adaptation readiness of co‐operative housing in Nova Scotia, Canada	8
Bracing urban governance against climate crises: How to integrate high reliability into strategic decision‐making?	8
Synergy of soft and hard regulations in climate governance: The impact of state policies on local climate mitigation actions	7
Exploring paths and innovation in Norwegian carbon capture and storage policy	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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Political drivers of policy coherence for sustainable development: An analytical framework	7
Swedish bureaucratic biodiversity: Analysing municipal worker discourse with the theory of sociocultural viability	7
Governance challenges for urban logistics: Lessons from three Norwegian cities	7
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Mapping stakeholders and identifying institutional challenges and opportunities for waste management in towns of Uttar Pradesh, India	7
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Social acceptance of biodiversity offsetting: Motivations and practices in the designing of an emerging mechanism	6
How scholars break down “policy coherence”: The impact of sustainable development global agendas on academic literature	6
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Cross‐sectoral information and actors' contact networks in natural resource governance in the Swiss Alps	6
Evaluating offsetting as a component of biodiversity governance	6
Protection of water resources from agricultural pressures: Embracing different knowledge domains in governance approaches	6
Externalities as the status quo: Federal application of environmental charges in the United States	6
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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
Institutionalizing co‐production diplomacy in contexts of long‐term epistemological conflict: A case study of cod fisheries governance	5
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Social innovation for developing sustainable solutions in a fisheries sector	5
Designing and leading collaborative urban climate governance: Comparative experiences of co‐creation from Copenhagen and Oslo	5
How accurate is citizen science? Evaluating public assessments of coastal water quality	5
A new framework to understand the drivers of policy mixes in multilevel contexts: The case of urban air pollution	5
The role of citizens in sustainability and climate change governance: Taking stock and looking ahead	5

Disaster management policy changes in Bangladesh: Drivers and factors of a shift from reactive to proactive approach	5
Bridging Social Innovation with Forest and Landscape Restoration	5
Collective forestry regimes to enhance transition to climate smart forestry	5
Everybody should contribute, but not too much: Perceptions of local governments on citizen responsibilisation in climate change adaptation in the Netherlands	5
Exploring enablers and obstacles to policy‐oriented learning in Swedish marine national park planning	4
Five dimensions of climate governance: a framework for empirical research based on polycentric and multi‐level governance perspectives	4
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Practitioners' perspectives on the enablers and barriers to successful Antarctic science‐policy knowledge exchange	4
How environmental regulation can drive innovation: Lessons learned from a systematic review	4
Call for papers – Special issue on policy and governance of energy efficiency	4
Governance gaps and accountability traps in renewables extractivism	4
Challenging state authority and hierarchical power: A case study of the engagement of Peru's Amazonian Indigenous Peoples' organizations in the governance of REDD+	4
What determines how governance indicators shape policy processes? Evidence from three environmental issues in India	4
The grammar of monitoring and enforcement mechanisms in international conservation: A comparative institutional analysis of four treaty regimes	4
Transboundary environmental publics and hydropower governance in the Mekong River Basin: A contested politics of place, scale and temporality	4
Defusing environmental activism through scientific greening: Government framing strategy and its effects in China	4
Collaboration or Capture? Unpacking the Notion of Forest Governance in Madhupur and Lawachara Forests of Bangladesh	4
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“Us versus them” mentalities in co‐managing a Natura 2000 forest: Narratives, identities, and a culture of conflict	4
Social‐ecological reflexivity of extractive industry governance? The case of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative in Indonesia	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 roles and unexplored potential of policy experimentation in climate adaptation governance: A systematic literature review	3
Emissions trading in China: New political economy dynamics	3
Quasi‐Governmental Organization Under Pressure: The Connecticut Green Bank's Response to a Budget Shock	3
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Understanding public preferences for energy efficiency policies in building and agricultural sectors in the western US: Values, knowledge, and identity	3
The Imperative of New and Shiny Clothes: A Discussion on Novelty and Its Effects in Water Governance Research	3
Exploring friendship in hydropolitics: The case of the friendship dam on the Asi/Orontes river	3
Theorising the climate change accountability of Persian Gulf petrostates	3
Taking knowledge exchange to practice: A scoping review of practical case studies to identify enablers of success in environmental management	3
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
Unpacking notions of residents' responsibility in flood risk governance	2
Achieving economy‐wide gains from residential energy efficiency improvements: The importance of timing and funding approach in driving the transition	2
Feed me! China, agriculture, ecologically unequal exchange, and forest loss in a cross‐national perspective	2
Banning protests at oil and gas sites: The influence of policy entrepreneurs and political pressure	2
Governing intersectional climate justice: Tactics and lessons from Barcelona	2
Why policy coherence in the European Union matters for global sustainability	2
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Driving governance beyond ecological modernization: REDD+ and the Amazon Fund	2
Water governance on the streets of Scotland: How frontline public workers encounter and respond to tensions in delivering water services with communities	2
Sustaining business as usual or enabling transformation? A discourse analysis of climate change mitigation policy in Swedish municipalities	2
Accountability in the environmental crisis: From microsocial practices to moral orders	2
Fostering Urban Climate Transition Through Innovative Governance Coordination	2
The power of social innovation to steer sustainable governance of nature	2
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Revisiting the success of co‐management in forest protected areas of Bangladesh: Untangling the interplay of power, participation, and community empowerment	2
The water–energy–food–land–climate nexus: Policy coherence for sustainable resource management in Sweden	2
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Analysing Coherence in Policy for Multi‐Functional Landscapes: An Exploratory Framework	2
Disentangling municipal capacities for citizen participation in transformative climate adaptation	2
Policy implementation barriers in climate change adaptation: The case of Pakistan	2