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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

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	174
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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	37
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Responding to transboundary water challenges in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: In search of institutional fit	35
Playing the CITES game: Lessons on global conservation governance from African megafauna	27
The effects of policy discourse on the governance of deforestation and forest degradation reduction in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)	27
Beyond the campaign‐style enforcement: A consensual approach to bridge the environmental policy implementation gap	26
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Issue Information	26
Unpacking Forest Stewardship Council certification in Chile: The scope and limitations of neoliberal market‐driven governance for achieving sustainable development	23
Framing just transition: The case of sustainable food system transition in Finland	22
Contextualizing and generalizing drivers and barriers of urban living labs for climate resilience	21
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Harnessing the temporal and projective attributes of human agency to promote anticipatory climate change adaptation	20
Vulnerability, climate laws, and adaptation in the Middle East and North Africa	16
The influence of visions on cooperation among interest organizations in fragmented socio‐technical systems	16
Can polycentric governance lower industrial greenhouse gas emissions: Evidence from the United States	15
How to Assess Knowledge Cumulation in Environmental Governance Research? Conceptual and Empirical Explorations	15
Issue Information	13
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Moving beyond the plan: Exploring the opportunities to accelerate the implementation of municipal climate change adaptation policies and plans	13

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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The green side of social innovation: Using sustainable development goals to classify environmental impacts of rural grassroots initiatives	12
Implementing Nature‐Based Solutions in Cities: Testing and Refining the Integrative Framework for Collaborative Governance	11
Danish nearshore wind energy policy: Exploring actors, ideas, discursive processes and institutions via discursive institutionalism	11
Issue Information	11
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A Multi‐Layered Collaborative Marine Governance Model: Evaluating Change and Innovation of Marine Governance Arrangements	11
Accountability in the Anthropocene	10
Polycentric energy governance: Under what conditions do energy communities scale?	10
Issue Information	10
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
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
The Quest for Coherence in Climate Actions: The Case for Québec's Climate Strategy	9
Issue Information	9
Towards Catchment Scale Natural Flood Management: Developing evidence, funding and governance approaches	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
The climate change adaptation readiness of co‐operative housing in Nova Scotia, Canada	8
Granting legitimacy from non‐state actor deliberation: An example of women's groups at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change	8
Swedish bureaucratic biodiversity: Analysing municipal worker discourse with the theory of sociocultural viability	8
Bracing urban governance against climate crises: How to integrate high reliability into strategic decision‐making?	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
Political drivers of policy coherence for sustainable development: An analytical framework	8
Mapping stakeholders and identifying institutional challenges and opportunities for waste management in towns of Uttar Pradesh, India	8
Social acceptance of biodiversity offsetting: Motivations and practices in the designing of an emerging mechanism	7
Externalities as the status quo: Federal application of environmental charges in the United States	7
Issue Information	7
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Governance challenges for urban logistics: Lessons from three Norwegian cities	7
Cross‐sectoral information and actors' contact networks in natural resource governance in the Swiss Alps	7
Issue Information	7
Synergy of soft and hard regulations in climate governance: The impact of state policies on local climate mitigation actions	7
Protection of water resources from agricultural pressures: Embracing different knowledge domains in governance approaches	6
Promoting Stakeholder Interaction to Facilitate Wildfire Management: Insights From a Case Study in Monreale, Sicily	6
Laggard by Intent or Constraint? Rethinking Environmental Implementation Deficits in Greece Through the Capacity–Intentionality Framework	6
Issue Information	6
Evaluating offsetting as a component of biodiversity governance	6
Designing and leading collaborative urban climate governance: Comparative experiences of co‐creation from Copenhagen and Oslo	6
Bridging Social Innovation with Forest and Landscape Restoration	6
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Issue Information	6
How scholars break down “policy coherence”: The impact of sustainable development global agendas on academic literature	6
Beyond Regulation: Coordinating an Environmental Federalist Response to “Forever Chemicals” in Drinking Water	6