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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

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	151
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Institutional Design of Collaborative Water Governance: The River Chief System in China	49
The role of trust in the international climate negotiations	36
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Responding to transboundary water challenges in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: In search of institutional fit	33
Beyond the campaign‐style enforcement: A consensual approach to bridge the environmental policy implementation gap	31
The effects of policy discourse on the governance of deforestation and forest degradation reduction in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)	26
Contextualizing and generalizing drivers and barriers of urban living labs for climate resilience	25
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Playing the CITES game: Lessons on global conservation governance from African megafauna	25
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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
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Framing just transition: The case of sustainable food system transition in Finland	20
How to Assess Knowledge Cumulation in Environmental Governance Research? Conceptual and Empirical Explorations	19
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Vulnerability, climate laws, and adaptation in the Middle East and North Africa	19
Harnessing the temporal and projective attributes of human agency to promote anticipatory climate change adaptation	18
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
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	13
The green side of social innovation: Using sustainable development goals to classify environmental impacts of rural grassroots initiatives	13

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Danish nearshore wind energy policy: Exploring actors, ideas, discursive processes and institutions via discursive institutionalism	11
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Polycentric energy governance: Under what conditions do energy communities scale?	10
Frontline bureaucrats in wildlife management: Caught in the dilemma between effectiveness and responsiveness	10
Context‐related mechanisms of policy sustainability: Governance reform of the protected areas in Lombardy	10
The impact of environmental federalism: An analysis of watershedeco‐compensationpolicy design in China	10
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Accountability in the Anthropocene	10
The Quest for Coherence in Climate Actions: The Case for Québec's Climate Strategy	10
The climate change adaptation readiness of co‐operative housing in Nova Scotia, Canada	9
Towards Catchment Scale Natural Flood Management: Developing evidence, funding and governance approaches	9
Bracing urban governance against climate crises: How to integrate high reliability into strategic decision‐making?	9
Regulations ‘Under the Weather’: Legal Factors of Stability and Change for the Implementation of Natural Stormwater Management in Finland	9
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Mapping stakeholders and identifying institutional challenges and opportunities for waste management in towns of Uttar Pradesh, India	8
Swedish bureaucratic biodiversity: Analysing municipal worker discourse with the theory of sociocultural viability	8
Granting legitimacy from non‐state actor deliberation: An example of women's groups at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change	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	7
Synergy of soft and hard regulations in climate governance: The impact of state policies on local climate mitigation actions	7
Cross‐sectoral information and actors' contact networks in natural resource governance in the Swiss Alps	7
Externalities as the status quo: Federal application of environmental charges in the United States	7
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Governance challenges for urban logistics: Lessons from three Norwegian cities	7
Social acceptance of biodiversity offsetting: Motivations and practices in the designing of an emerging mechanism	7
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Exploring paths and innovation in Norwegian carbon capture and storage policy	7
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Evaluating offsetting as a component of biodiversity governance	6
Disaster management policy changes in Bangladesh: Drivers and factors of a shift from reactive to proactive approach	6
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How scholars break down “policy coherence”: The impact of sustainable development global agendas on academic literature	6
Institutionalizing co‐production diplomacy in contexts of long‐term epistemological conflict: A case study of cod fisheries governance	6
Protection of water resources from agricultural pressures: Embracing different knowledge domains in governance approaches	6
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Designing and leading collaborative urban climate governance: Comparative experiences of co‐creation from Copenhagen and Oslo	6