OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environmental Policy and Governance is 6. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Environmental Governance of China's Belt and Road Initiative	95
Citizen participation in the governance of nature‐based solutions	51
Overarching policy framework for product life extension in a circular economy—A bottom‐up business perspective	39
Pro‐environmental behavior: Social norms, intrinsic motivation and external conditions	25
Designing and leading collaborative urban climate governance: Comparative experiences of co‐creation from Copenhagen and Oslo	23
Strategies for greening the economy in three Nordic countries	22
Polycentric urban climate governance: Creating synergies between integrative and interactive governance in Oslo	21
Public values and goals for public participation	20
Green finance for soft power: An analysis of China's green policy signals and investments in the Belt and Road Initiative	20
Climate adaptation in practice: How mainstreaming strategies matter for policy integration	20
The role of domestic policy coalitions in extractive industries' governance: Disentangling the politics of “responsible mining” in the Philippines	19
Delivering a timely and Just Energy Transition: Which policy research priorities?	18
Climate policy integration viewed through the stakeholders' eyes: A co‐production of knowledge in social‐ecological transformation research	18
How scholars break down “policy coherence”: The impact of sustainable development global agendas on academic literature	15
Polycentric to monocentric governance: Power dynamics in Lake Victoria's fisheries	15
From nuclear energy developmental state to energy transition in South Korea: The role of the political epistemic community	15
Media coverage, attention cycles and the governance of plastics pollution	15
Calculating the value of the commons: Generating resilient urban futures	14
Exploring the contours of climate governance: An interdisciplinary systematic literature review from a southern perspective	14
Alternative economies, digital innovation and commoning in grassroots organisations: Analysing degrowth currencies in the Spanish region of Catalonia	14
Changing dynamics of the nuclear energy policy‐making process in Japan	14
Transforming land use governance: Global targets without equity miss the mark	13
How law structures public participation in environmental decision making: A comparative law approach	13
Five dimensions of climate governance: a framework for empirical research based on polycentric and multi‐level governance perspectives	13
Projectified governance and sustainability transitions: How projects and framework programmes can accelerate transition processes	12

Governing a multilevel and cross‐sectoral climate policy implementation network	12
When global norms meet local politics: Localising transparency in extractive industries governance	12
Evaluating deliberative participation from a social learning perspective: A case study of the 2012 National Energy Deliberative Polling in post‐Fukushima Japan	12
Domestication of international norms for sustainable resource governance: Elite capture in Peru	11
Community action on natural flood management and the governance of a catchment‐based approach in the UK	11
Disentangling municipal capacities for citizen participation in transformative climate adaptation	11
Political drivers of policy coherence for sustainable development: An analytical framework	11
The impact of environmental federalism: An analysis of watershed eco‐compensation policy design in China	10
Governing toward decarbonization: The legitimacy of national orchestration	10
Can interbasin water transfer affect water consumption and pollution? Lessons from China's South–North water transfer project	10
Policy coherence for sustainable development and environmental security: A case study of European Union policies on renewable energy	10
The limits of collaborative governance: The role of inter‐group learning and trust in the case of the Estonian “Forest War”	9
A transboundary political ecology of air pollution: Slow violence on Thailand's margins	9
Party politics and civil society: The role of policy entrepreneurs in nuclear power politics in Taiwan	9
Uncovering regime resistance in energy transition: Role of electricity iron triangle in Taiwan	9
Facilitation of public Payments for Ecosystem Services through local intermediaries: An institutional analysis of agri‐environmental measure implementation in Germany	9
Responding to transboundary water challenges in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: In search of institutional fit	9
Participation and politics in transboundary hydropower development: The case of the Pak Beng dam in Laos	9
Politics of flood risk management in Switzerland: Political feasibility of instrument mixes	9
Cities and the governance framing of climate change	9
Flatpack democracy: Power and politics at the boundaries of transition	8
Feed me! China, agriculture, ecologically unequal exchange, and forest loss in a cross‐national perspective	8
Hybrid infrastructures: The role of strategy and compromise in grassroot governance	8
Can science diplomacy address the global climate change challenge?	8
The green side of social innovation: Using sustainable development goals to classify environmental impacts of rural grassroots initiatives	8
Unpacking notions of residents' responsibility in flood risk governance	7
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)	7
How accurate is citizen science? Evaluating public assessments of coastal water quality	7
From fragmentation to centralization in policymaking: An explanation for the expansion of China's civilian nuclear industry	7
Territoriality, environment and hybrid governance tensions in alternative food networks: Cases of small‐scale viticulture in Chile	7
Participatory experimentation on a climate street	7
Why administrative leaders take pro‐environmental leadership actions: Evidence from an eco‐compensation programme in China	6
Frontline bureaucrats in wildlife management: Caught in the dilemma between effectiveness and responsiveness	6
Driving governance beyond ecological modernization: REDD+ and the Amazon Fund	6
Polycentric energy governance: Under what conditions do energy communities scale?	6