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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
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The role of trust in the international climate negotiations	51
Knowledge Cumulation in Environmental Governance Research	39
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	37
Institutional Design of Collaborative Water Governance: The River Chief System in China	35
Digital Technology Empowering Rural Environmental Governance: Evidences From Villages in Shanghai, China	30
Issue Information	27
Playing the CITES game: Lessons on global conservation governance from African megafauna	24
The effects of policy discourse on the governance of deforestation and forest degradation reduction in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)	22
Beyond the campaign‐style enforcement: A consensual approach to bridge the environmental policy implementation gap	21
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Deconstructing Identity Politics in Forest Governance Through Women‐Led Conservation Movements of South Asia	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
Making Sense of the Bioeconomy: A Critical Analysis of EU Policy Narratives and Responses	19
Contextualizing and generalizing drivers and barriers of urban living labs for climate resilience	18
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Dynamic Interactions and Governance Capabilities of State and Non‐State Actors in Small‐Scale Tuna Fishery Certification in Indonesia	18
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Framing just transition: The case of sustainable food system transition in Finland	18
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The Widening Scope of Just Transitions Research: A Review of an Emblematic Concept	16
Can polycentric governance lower industrial greenhouse gas emissions: Evidence from the United States	16
How to Assess Knowledge Cumulation in Environmental Governance Research? Conceptual and Empirical Explorations	16
Harnessing the temporal and projective attributes of human agency to promote anticipatory climate change adaptation	16

A Novel Multilevel Conceptual Framework for Flood Risk Governance	16
Vulnerability, climate laws, and adaptation in the Middle East and North Africa	16
When Policy Is the Hazard: Institutional Legitimacy and Climate Risk Attribution Among Farmers in Water Stressed California	16
The influence of visions on cooperation among interest organizations in fragmented socio‐technical systems	15
Issue Information	14
Nested Institutions and Overlapping Mandates: A Policy Analysis of Mangrove Governance in Ghana, Tanzania Mainland, and Zanzibar	14
Correction to “Regulations ‘Under the Weather’: Legal Factors of Stability and Change for the Implementation of Natural Stormwater Management in Finland”	13
The green side of social innovation: Using sustainable development goals to classify environmental impacts of rural grassroots initiatives	13
Successful Implementation of Environmental Policy and Governance: Understanding and Modeling Micro Governance	13
Issue Information	12
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Implementing Nature‐Based Solutions in Cities: Testing and Refining the Integrative Framework for Collaborative Governance	12
Moving beyond the plan: Exploring the opportunities to accelerate the implementation of municipal climate change adaptation policies and plans	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
Exploring the Complementary Role of Voluntary Environmental Programs in Regulatory Governance: Evidence From South Korea	11
Open Space Policy‐Making and Planning in Urban Regions: Towards a Theoretical Approach Based on the Multiple Streams Framework	11
Deliberating Justice in Citizen Jury Processes—Lessons for Just Transitions Governance	11
Reflections on Energy Efficiency Policies in Sustainable Transition: Bedrock, Gamechanger, or More of the Same?	10
Issue Information	10
Danish nearshore wind energy policy: Exploring actors, ideas, discursive processes and institutions via discursive institutionalism	10
The Quest for Coherence in Climate Actions: The Case for Québec's Climate Strategy	9
Context‐related mechanisms of policy sustainability: Governance reform of the protected areas in Lombardy	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
Radical Listening as a Governance Innovation: Integrating Planetary Health and Community‐Led Forest Conservation in Indonesia	8
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Exploring paths and innovation in Norwegian carbon capture and storage policy	8
Winds of Change: Environmental Collectives Navigating Small Island Governance in Tourism‐Dominated Aruba	8
Accountability in the Anthropocene	8
The climate change adaptation readiness of co‐operative housing in Nova Scotia, Canada	8
Mapping stakeholders and identifying institutional challenges and opportunities for waste management in towns of Uttar Pradesh, India	8
Knowledge cumulation and interdisciplinarity: Integrating epistemologies, disciplines, and sectors to produce actionable environmental governance research	8
Issue Information	8
Towards Catchment Scale Natural Flood Management: Developing evidence, funding and governance approaches	8
Granting legitimacy from non‐state actor deliberation: An example of women's groups at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change	8
Bracing urban governance against climate crises: How to integrate high reliability into strategic decision‐making?	8
For the Few, Not the Many: Tracing the Residualist and Compensatory Nature of British Energy Support	8
Putting Insects on the Agenda: An Analysis of Actors in Multiple Streams for Biodiversity Conservation Policy in Germany	7
Cross‐sectoral information and actors' contact networks in natural resource governance in the Swiss Alps	7
Swedish bureaucratic biodiversity: Analysing municipal worker discourse with the theory of sociocultural viability	7
Nature‐Based Solutions for Climate Adaptation: Review of Barriers to Adoption and Guidelines for Policymakers	7
Synergy of soft and hard regulations in climate governance: The impact of state policies on local climate mitigation actions	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
Political drivers of policy coherence for sustainable development: An analytical framework	7
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Learning Networks Drive Environmental Innovation: Evidence From Fourth‐Stage Purification Diffusion	6
Issue Information	6

Multi‐Level Policy Coherence Analysis in Wicked Nexus Problem Settings: The Case of Nitrogen Pollution in Germany	6
The Role of the State and Actor Participation in Polycentric Governance: The Case of India's Renewable Energy Transitions	6
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Governance challenges for urban logistics: Lessons from three Norwegian cities	6
Beyond Regulation: Coordinating an Environmental Federalist Response to “Forever Chemicals” in Drinking Water	6
Protection of water resources from agricultural pressures: Embracing different knowledge domains in governance approaches	6