OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environmental Policy and Governance is 5. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
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Knowledge Cumulation in Environmental Governance Research	73
Digital Technology Empowering Rural Environmental Governance: Evidences From Villages in Shanghai, China	41
The role of trust in the international climate negotiations	34
Institutional Design of Collaborative Water Governance: The River Chief System in China	31
The effects of policy discourse on the governance of deforestation and forest degradation reduction in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)	24
Issue Information	24
Beyond the campaign‐style enforcement: A consensual approach to bridge the environmental policy implementation gap	24
Playing the CITES game: Lessons on global conservation governance from African megafauna	23
Deconstructing Identity Politics in Forest Governance Through Women‐Led Conservation Movements of South Asia	22
Framing just transition: The case of sustainable food system transition in Finland	21
Dynamic Interactions and Governance Capabilities of State and Non‐State Actors in Small‐Scale Tuna Fishery Certification in Indonesia	21
Making Sense of the Bioeconomy: A Critical Analysis of EU Policy Narratives and Responses	21
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Contextualizing and generalizing drivers and barriers of urban living labs for climate resilience	20
Environmental Policy Without Implementation? A Review of Factors Contributing to Implementation Gaps in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries	20
Unpacking Forest Stewardship Council certification in Chile: The scope and limitations of neoliberal market‐driven governance for achieving sustainable development	20
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The Widening Scope of Just Transitions Research: A Review of an Emblematic Concept	18
The influence of visions on cooperation among interest organizations in fragmented socio‐technical systems	18
Nested Institutions and Overlapping Mandates: A Policy Analysis of Mangrove Governance in Ghana, Tanzania Mainland, and Zanzibar	18
A Novel Multilevel Conceptual Framework for Flood Risk Governance	18
How to Assess Knowledge Cumulation in Environmental Governance Research? Conceptual and Empirical Explorations	17
Can polycentric governance lower industrial greenhouse gas emissions: Evidence from the United States	17

When Policy Is the Hazard: Institutional Legitimacy and Climate Risk Attribution Among Farmers in Water Stressed California	17
Challenges in Implementing European Regulation on Water Reuse for Sustainable Agriculture	17
Successful Implementation of Environmental Policy and Governance: Understanding and Modeling Micro Governance	15
Vulnerability, climate laws, and adaptation in the Middle East and North Africa	15
Correction to “Regulations ‘Under the Weather’: Legal Factors of Stability and Change for the Implementation of Natural Stormwater Management in Finland”	15
Issue Information	15
Moving beyond the plan: Exploring the opportunities to accelerate the implementation of municipal climate change adaptation policies and plans	14
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Issue Information	13
Exploring the Complementary Role of Voluntary Environmental Programs in Regulatory Governance: Evidence From South Korea	12
Danish nearshore wind energy policy: Exploring actors, ideas, discursive processes and institutions via discursive institutionalism	12
Implementing Nature‐Based Solutions in Cities: Testing and Refining the Integrative Framework for Collaborative Governance	12
Flood Risk‐Sensitive Land Use Governance: Explaining Enforcement Gaps in the Case of Accra, Ghana	12
A Multi‐Layered Collaborative Marine Governance Model: Evaluating Change and Innovation of Marine Governance Arrangements	11
Deliberating Justice in Citizen Jury Processes—Lessons for Just Transitions Governance	11
Open Space Policy‐Making and Planning in Urban Regions: Towards a Theoretical Approach Based on the Multiple Streams Framework	11
Issue Information	10
Context‐related mechanisms of policy sustainability: Governance reform of the protected areas in Lombardy	10
Collective Decision‐Making and Institutional Configurations in Polycentric Environmental Governance	10
Reflections on Energy Efficiency Policies in Sustainable Transition: Bedrock, Gamechanger, or More of the Same?	10
Accountability in the Anthropocene	9
Winds of Change: Environmental Collectives Navigating Small Island Governance in Tourism‐Dominated Aruba	9
The Quest for Coherence in Climate Actions: The Case for Québec's Climate Strategy	9
For the Few, Not the Many: Tracing the Residualist and Compensatory Nature of British Energy Support	9
Towards Catchment Scale Natural Flood Management: Developing evidence, funding and governance approaches	8
The climate change adaptation readiness of co‐operative housing in Nova Scotia, Canada	8
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Radical Listening as a Governance Innovation: Integrating Planetary Health and Community‐Led Forest Conservation in Indonesia	8
Regulations ‘Under the Weather’: Legal Factors of Stability and Change for the Implementation of Natural Stormwater Management in Finland	8
Bracing urban governance against climate crises: How to integrate high reliability into strategic decision‐making?	8
Integrating Traditional Ecological Knowledge Into Forest Governance: Pathways to Sustainable Development in Protected Forest Ecosystems	8
Integrating Science With Indigenous and Experiential Knowledge in Collaborative Governance	8
Knowledge cumulation and interdisciplinarity: Integrating epistemologies, disciplines, and sectors to produce actionable environmental governance research	8
Exploring paths and innovation in Norwegian carbon capture and storage policy	7
Mapping stakeholders and identifying institutional challenges and opportunities for waste management in towns of Uttar Pradesh, India	7
Cross‐sectoral information and actors' contact networks in natural resource governance in the Swiss Alps	7
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
Putting Insects on the Agenda: An Analysis of Actors in Multiple Streams for Biodiversity Conservation Policy in Germany	7
Nature‐Based Solutions for Climate Adaptation: Review of Barriers to Adoption and Guidelines for Policymakers	7
Granting legitimacy from non‐state actor deliberation: An example of women's groups at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change	7
A Network Approach to Support Sustainability Policy Coordination: Exploring Linkages Between Biodiversity Indicators and Essential Biodiversity Variables	7
Social acceptance of biodiversity offsetting: Motivations and practices in the designing of an emerging mechanism	7
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Learning Networks Drive Environmental Innovation: Evidence From Fourth‐Stage Purification Diffusion	6
Synergy of soft and hard regulations in climate governance: The impact of state policies on local climate mitigation actions	6
The Role of the State and Actor Participation in Polycentric Governance: The Case of India's Renewable Energy Transitions	6
The Role of Collaborative Gaps in Stakeholders' Partnership Evaluations in Complex Environmental Governance Systems	6
Issue Information	5

Protection of water resources from agricultural pressures: Embracing different knowledge domains in governance approaches	5
How Do Regional Governments Navigate Policy Integration for Eco‐Industrial Parks? Dimensions and Mechanisms	5
Beyond Regulation: Coordinating an Environmental Federalist Response to “Forever Chemicals” in Drinking Water	5
Issue Information	5
From External Intervention to Endogenous Resilience: NGO Pathways to Adaptive Environmental Governance in State—Centric Settings	5
Promoting Stakeholder Interaction to Facilitate Wildfire Management: Insights From a Case Study in Monreale, Sicily	5
Multi‐Level Policy Coherence Analysis in Wicked Nexus Problem Settings: The Case of Nitrogen Pollution in Germany	5
Sidelining Mitigation: Climate Delay Discourses Among Municipal Legislators in Southeastern Brazil	5
Issue Information	5
Bridging Policy Gaps in Transition Times: How Local Actors Navigate Low Policy Coherence for Advancing a Circular Built Environment	5
Evaluating offsetting as a component of biodiversity governance	5
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