OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Environmental Policy and Governance is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Institutional Design of Collaborative Water Governance: The River Chief System in China	122
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Regulations ‘Under the Weather’: Legal Factors of Stability and Change for the Implementation of Natural Stormwater Management in Finland	34
Banning protests at oil and gas sites: The influence of policy entrepreneurs and political pressure	33
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	32
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Reconciling welfare policy and sustainability transition – A case study of the Finnish welfare state	23
Why policy coherence in the European Union matters for global sustainability	21
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A global‐scale study on decision making in renewable energy policy: Internal and external factors driving the adoption of Feed‐in Tariffs and Renewable Portfolio Standards	21
Energy governance in China: A mixture of democratic environmentalism and authoritarian environmentalism	19
Implementing general environmental duties: Regulators' perceptions of complementary toolkits	19
Challenging state authority and hierarchical power: A case study of the engagement of Peru's Amazonian Indigenous Peoples' organizations in the governance of REDD+	16
Accountability in the Anthropocene	16
Analysing Coherence in Policy for Multi‐Functional Landscapes: An Exploratory Framework	16
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Policy coherence in the Nordic bioeconomy? A novel set‐theoretic approach to studying relations among policy goals	14
Governing intersectional climate justice: Tactics and lessons from Barcelona	13
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Enabling successful science‐policy knowledge exchange between marine biodiversity research and management: An Australian case study	12
The role of citizens in sustainability and climate change governance: Taking stock and looking ahead	12
Exploring enablers and obstacles to policy‐oriented learning in Swedish marine national park planning	12
Context‐related mechanisms of policy sustainability: Governance reform of the protected areas in Lombardy	11

Towards Catchment Scale Natural Flood Management: Developing evidence, funding and governance approaches	11
Communication and urban air quality governance in Germany: Discursive framing by selected national environmental NGOs and the Automotive Industry Association (VDA) and its potential impacts	10
The role of trust in the international climate negotiations	10
Governance gaps and accountability traps in renewables extractivism	10
Correction to ‘Communication and urban air quality governance in Germany: Discursive framing by selected national environmental NGOs and the Automotive Industry Association (VDA)	10
“Here and now, by us”: Co‐production of climate action pathways in forest landscapes	10
Trading off benefits and requirements: How do city networks attract cities to their voluntary environmental programmes?	9
Everybody should contribute, but not too much: Perceptions of local governments on citizen responsibilisation in climate change adaptation in the Netherlands	9
The transformative potential of experimentation as an environmental governance approach: The case of the Dutch peatlands	9
Norm domestication challenges for local climate actions: A lesson from Arizona,USA	9
Community action on natural flood management and the governance of acatchment‐basedapproach in theUK	9
Five dimensions of climate governance: a framework for empirical research based on polycentric and multi‐level governance perspectives	8
Fostering Urban Climate Transition Through Innovative Governance Coordination	8
Knowledge cumulation and interdisciplinarity: Integrating epistemologies, disciplines, and sectors to produce actionable environmental governance research	7
The Evolution of China's Domestic Climate Policy Frames (2009–2024): Problems, Solutions, and Motivations	7
The grammar of monitoring and enforcement mechanisms in international conservation: A comparative institutional analysis of four treaty regimes	7
Social‐ecological reflexivity of extractive industry governance? The case of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative in Indonesia	7
The link between collaborative governance design and markers of legitimacy: Comparing Swedish water‐ and large carnivore management	7
Accountability in the Anthropocene: Activating responsible agents of reform or futile finger‐pointing?	7
Practitioners' perspectives on the enablers and barriers to successful Antarctic science‐policy knowledge exchange	7
How environmental regulation can drive innovation: Lessons learned from a systematic review	7
Beyond the campaign‐style enforcement: A consensual approach to bridge the environmental policy implementation gap	7
Knowledge Cumulation at Science‐Policy Interfaces: Opportunities for Environmental Governance Research	7
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A participatory framework to evaluate coherence between climate change adaptation and sustainable development policies	6
The importance of calibration in policy mixes: Environmental policy integration in the implementation of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy in Germany (2014–2022)	6
The influence of COVID‐19 on modes of governance for climate change—Expert views from the Netherlands and the UK	6
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Granting legitimacy from non‐state actor deliberation: An example of women's groups at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change	6
Is Policy Coherence Leaving No One Behind? Analyzing Gender Inequality in the Governance of the Sustainable Development Goals in India	6
Policy implementation barriers in climate change adaptation: The case of Pakistan	6
The effects of policy discourse on the governance of deforestation and forest degradation reduction in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)	5
What determines how governance indicators shape policy processes? Evidence from three environmental issues in India	5
An evaluation of public initiatives to change behaviours that affect water quality	5
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Forest and water policy integration: A process and output‐oriented policy network analysis	5
Governing sustainable corridor development: A case study of the Gilimanuk–Denpasar–Padang Bai corridor in Indonesia	5
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)	5
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Swedish bureaucratic biodiversity: Analysing municipal worker discourse with the theory of sociocultural viability	5
Urban climatological research informing environmental policy and planning in Fukuoka, Japan: What makes an epistemic community successful locally?	5
“Us versus them” mentalities in co‐managing a Natura 2000 forest: Narratives, identities, and a culture of conflict	5
Transboundary environmental publics and hydropower governance in the Mekong River Basin: A contested politics of place, scale and temporality	5
Transformative climate governance in small Swedish municipalities: Exploring the cases of Enköping and Kiruna	5
The climate change adaptation readiness of co‐operative housing in Nova Scotia, Canada	4
Playing the CITES game: Lessons on global conservation governance from African megafauna	4

Achieving Sustainable Development Goals Through the Governance of Local Food Systems in Western Countries: A Realist Synthesis	4
Bracing urban governance against climate crises: How to integrate high reliability into strategic decision‐making?	4
The state against the environment? Water management and the regulation of tensions between sectoral policies in France	4
Accountability in the environmental crisis: From microsocial practices to moral orders	4
Strategies for greening the economy in three Nordic countries	3
The power of social innovation to steer sustainable governance of nature	3
Responding to transboundary water challenges in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: In search of institutional fit	3
How law structures public participation in environmental decision making: A comparative law approach	3
Popular Protest Movements, Political Attitudes and Democratic Climate Governance: Exploring the Dynamics in Four Scandinavian Cities	3
How green are our laws? Presenting a normative coherence for sustainable development methodology	3
Exploring paths and innovation in Norwegian carbon capture and storage policy	3
Political drivers of policy coherence for sustainable development: An analytical framework	3
Disentangling municipal capacities for citizen participation in transformative climate adaptation	3
Climate Backlash and Policy Dismantling: How Discursive Mechanisms Legitimised Radical Shifts in Swedish Climate Policy	3
Defusing environmental activism through scientific greening: Government framing strategy and its effects in China	3
Political economy of renewable energy transition in rentier states: The case of Oman	3
Mapping stakeholders and identifying institutional challenges and opportunities for waste management in towns of Uttar Pradesh, India	3
Cross‐sectoral information and actors' contact networks in natural resource governance in the Swiss Alps	2
Green finance for soft power: An analysis of China's green policy signals and investments in the Belt and Road Initiative	2
From fabrication to consolidation of China's political blue‐sky: How can environmental regulations shape sustainable air pollution governance?	2
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How resilience is framed matters for governance of coastal social‐ecological systems	2
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Understanding the Complexity of Governing Energy Transitions: Introducing an Integrated Approach of Policy and Transition Perspectives	2
Externalities as the status quo: Federal application of environmental charges in the United States	2
Management plans as resources in conservation conflicts	2
Call for papers – Special issue on policy and governance of energy efficiency	2
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Unpacking Forest Stewardship Council certification in Chile: The scope and limitations of neoliberal market‐driven governance for achieving sustainable development	1
Facilitation of public Payments for Ecosystem Services through local intermediaries: An institutional analysis of agri‐environmental measure implementation in Germany	1
Rivers under pressure: Interdisciplinary feasibility analysis of sustainable hydropower	1
Emissions trading in China: New political economy dynamics	1
Policy coherence for sustainable development and environmental security: A case study of European Union policies on renewable energy	1
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Social acceptance of biodiversity offsetting: Motivations and practices in the designing of an emerging mechanism	1
Governance challenges for urban logistics: Lessons from three Norwegian cities	1
Taking knowledge exchange to practice: A scoping review of practical case studies to identify enablers of success in environmental management	1
Illuminating the collective learning continuum in the Colorado River Basin Science‐Policy Forums	1
Reframing governance possibilities for urban biodiversity conservation through systemic co‐inquiry	1
A transboundary political ecology of air pollution: Slow violence on Thailand's margins	1
Framing just transition: The case of sustainable food system transition in Finland	1
Extended producer responsibility: An empirical investigation into municipalities' contributions to and perspectives on e‐waste management	1
How can a cooperative‐based organization of indigenous fisheries foster the resilience to global changes? Lessons learned by coastal communities in eastern Québec	1
Synergy of soft and hard regulations in climate governance: The impact of state policies on local climate mitigation actions	1
How might we co‐design energy transition policy in old industrial regions?	1
Understanding public preferences for energy efficiency policies in building and agricultural sectors in the western US: Values, knowledge, and identity	1
Shifts in governance modes and explanatory factors in the NIMBY: Findings from the X waste incineration plant in Shenzhen, China	1
The roles of community‐based organizations in socializing sustainable behavior: Examining the urban case of Budapest, Hungary	1
Influence of messaging and party affiliation on energy conservation behavior: An evaluation from the US	1
Contextualizing and generalizing drivers and barriers of urban living labs for climate resilience	1
Governing toward decarbonization: The legitimacy of national orchestration	1
The transformative potential of environmental governance integration for sustainable land use: The case of subsidence in the Dutch peatlands	1