OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability is 8. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Some feminist strands and their potential for the performativity of climate regulations: a review	293
Editorial Board	144
Contents	119
Climate-changed development: organizing climate risk and response through an economic growth lens	100
Contents	100
The political economy of the social constraints to adaptation	85
Research trends and gaps in climate change impacts and adaptation potentials in major crops	76
Unlocking the potential of biosphere reserves: a review of structural, institutional, and ideational challenges to transformational learning	67
Balancing efficiency and resilience objectives in pursuit of sustainable infrastructure transformations	61
Digital Twins in agriculture: challenges and opportunities for environmental sustainability	57
The global-capitalist elephant in the room: how resilient peacebuilding hinders substantive transformation and undermines long-term peace prospects	56
Governance challenges for sustainable food systems: the return of politics and territories	52
Participatory governance for people and nature in multifunctional landscapes — insights from Biosphere Reserves	52
Editorial Board	51
Trends in port decarbonisation research: are we reinventing the wheel?	48
Disaster resilience in conflict-affected areas: a review of how armed conflicts impact disaster resilience	46
Rethinking the drivers of biotechnologies: a paradigm for holistic climate change solutions	46
Editorial overview: Leveraging the multiple values of nature for transformative change to just and sustainable futures — Insights from the IPBES Values Assessment	45
Editorial overview: Leveraging the power of collective learning through networks to amplify sustainability transformation	44
Potentials and limitations of complexity research for environmental sciences and modern farming applications	41
Values as leverage points for sustainability transformation: two pathways for transformation research	41
Broadening the perspective for sustainable artificial intelligence: sustainability criteria and indicators for Artificial Intelligence systems	41
Contents	41
Five priorities to advance transformative transdisciplinary research	41
Restoring trust in sustainability reporting: the enabling role of the external assurance	38

Monitoring, evaluation and learning requirements for climate-resilient development pathways	36
How serious are ethical considerations in energy system decarbonization?	36
Using games for social learning to promote self-governance	36
Growing through transformation pains: integrating emotional holding and processing into competence frameworks for sustainability transformations	35
Climate change and migration from atolls? No evidence yet	34
Editorial overview: Resilience and peace	34
Research priorities for seafood-dependent livelihoods under ocean climate change extreme events	32
Capturing the moment: a snapshot review of contemporary food environment research featuring participatory photography methods	31
Gaps between demand and supply of biodiversity impact finance in the Global South	31
Patterns in reported adaptation constraints: insights from peer-reviewed literature on floods and sea-level rise	31
The salinization of the Mekong Delta: major drivers, coping strategies, and new hopes from ecosystem-based approaches	31
The Ocean Decade as an instrument of peace	30
Diversification from field to landscape to adapt Mediterranean rainfed agriculture to water scarcity in climate change context	30
The role of infrastructure in societal transformations	29
Agroforests as the intersection of instrumental and relational values of nature: gendered, culture-dependent perspectives?	29
Three archetypical governance pathways for transformative change toward sustainability	28
Advancing sustainable port development in the Western Indian Ocean region	28
Editorial Board	28
The position of women in decision-making processes on environmental issues	28
Barriers and limits to adaptation in the Arctic	27
Future-proofing our ports against biological invasion	27
National environmental regulatory systems for the management of environmental impacts in small island jurisdictions	27
The biodiversity–finance nexus: a future research agenda	27
What can methods for assessing worldviews and broad values tell us about socio-environmental conflicts?	25
Contents	24
Integrating relational and instrumental values of nature in planning land use for multiple ecosystem services (LUMENS): tools and process	24
Climate change and biodiversity loss: new territories for financial authorities	23
Greening container terminals through optimization: a systematic review on recent advances	23
Using the nexus approach to realise sustainable food systems	22
The paradox of climate resilience and elusive peace in the Lake Chad Basin: a case for an adaptive governance approach	22
Biosphere Reserves as catalysts for sustainability transformations: five strategies to support place-based innovation	22
Deconstructing the Doughnut	22
Philosophies of good living and values of nature: power and uncertainties in decision-making to achieve social-environmental justice in the Americas	22
Editorial overview: Biodiversity finance	22
Preventing violent extremism with resilience, adaptive peacebuilding, and community-embedded approaches	21
Social limits to climate change adaptation: temporalities in behavioural responses to climate risks	21
Adaptation limits as sufficiency entitlements of justice	21
Climate stress testing in the financial industry	21
The European Union Emission Trading System and its role for green budgeting development — the case of EU member states	19
Justice, sustainability, and the diverse values of nature: why they matter for biodiversity conservation	19
Editorial Board	19
Editorial overview: Social limits to climate change adaptation revisited	19
Editorial Board	19
Values and knowledges in decision-making on environmentally disruptive infrastructure projects: insights from large dams and mines	18
Defining and operationalizing ‘nature-positive’ — a question of power	18
Whose values count? A review of the nature valuation studies with a focus on justice	18
Intercultural networks deepen learning for transformative sustainability education: lessons from co-designing transdisciplinary international learning labs	18
Climate-resilient development in developing countries	18
Editorial overview: Climate finance, risks, and accounting	18
Assessing the role of social networks in women’s access and use of climate services in Sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from literature	18

Contents	17
Mapping the automation of Twitter communications on climate change, sustainability, and environmental crises — a review of current research	17
Editorial overview: Values and decisions: How can development trajectories transform	17
Editorial Board	16
What do we (not) know about biodiversity finance governance?	16
Artistic activism promotes three major forms of sustainability transformation	16
Review of policy action for healthy environmentally sustainable food systems in sub-Saharan Africa	16
A resilience-based transformations approach to peacebuilding and transformative justice	16
Insurance and climate change	16
Modular, adaptive, and decentralised water infrastructure: promises and perils for water justice	16
Beyond the ‘urban’ and the ‘rural’: conceptualizing a new generation of infrastructure systems to enable rural–urban sustainability	16
The role of power in leveraging the diverse values of nature for transformative change	16
The role of value(s) in theories of human behavior	15
Opportunities for nature-based solutions to contribute to climate-resilient development pathways	15
A Maritime Sociology for Sustainability Science	15
The future of Global Environmental Assessments: 20 years after the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment	15
Auctions in payments for ecosystem services and the plural values of nature	15
Editorial Board	14
The need for transnational networks and transdisciplinary education for sustainable development in UNESCO Biosphere Reserves in the Global South	14
Leveraging place-based identities and senses of belonging to mobilize for action-oriented research in UNESCO sites	14
A long road ahead: a review of the state of knowledge of the environmental effects of digitization	14
Pathways to sustainability in Brazilian agriculture: technological drivers, governance, and policy linkages	13
Nature’s disvalues: what are they and why do they matter?	13
Exploring the future of photosynthetic biogas upgrading process	13
Biodiversity reporting: standardization, materiality, and assurance	13
Prospects for implementing the SDGs	13
Agroecology as a transformative approach to tackle climatic, food, and ecosystemic crises	13
Mixed farming systems: potentials and barriers for climate change adaptation in food systems	12
Transformative finance for climate-resilient development	12
Five levels of internalizing environmental externalities: decision-making based on instrumental and relational values of nature	12
Current perspectives on debt-for-nature swaps: moving from exploratory to empirical research	12
Embodied rationality: a framework of human action in water infrastructure governance	12
Location, location, location: asset location data sources for nature-related financial risk analysis	12
How civil society organizations influence environmental governance in the Global South	12
Contents	11
Editorial Board	11
Governance of emerging pests and pathogens in production landscapes: pesticide resistance and collaborative governance	11
Rethinking adaptation interventions in agricultural systems for sustainability	11
Greenwashing and sustainable finance: an approach anchored in the philosophy of science	11
Editorial Board	11
Urban growth, resilience, and violence	11
Environmental impact bonds: review, challenges, and perspectives	11
Assuring the unknowable: a reflection on the evolving landscape of sustainability assurance for financial auditors	11
Synthetic dyes: a barrier to circular economy within the textile industry?	11
The finance perspective on fossil fuel divestment	11
The European deforestation-free trade regulation: collateral damage to agroforesters?	11
Pathways to a blue economy	10
Transformative pathways for social networks to navigate towards a nature-positive society: collaborate, challenge, and disrupt	10
The sustainability impact of a digital circular economy	10
Aquaculture governance: five engagement arenas for sustainability transformation	10
Contents	10
How can peacebuilding contribute to climate resilience? Evidence from the drylands of East and West Africa	10
Contents	10
Relational values in locally adaptive farmer-to-farmer extension: how important?	10
Serious games in natural resource management: steps toward assessment of their contextualized impacts	9
Five steps towards transformative valuation of nature	9
Productivity versus sustainability: paradigms of climate-resilient development in South Asian smallholder agriculture	9
Is food system research guided by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development?	9
Tritrophic defenses as a central pivot of low-emission, pest-suppressive farming systems	9
Business and finance on a path towards meaningful biodiversity reporting?	9
Security risks from climate change and environmental degradation: implications for sustainable land use transformation in the Global South	9
From gender gaps to gender-transformative climate-smart agriculture	9
Contents	9
Contents	8
Editorial Board	8
The pitfalls of plural valuation	8
Editorial Board	8
The Humanitarian–Development–Peace Nexus in practice: building climate and conflict sensitivity into humanitarian projects	8
Modes of mobilizing values for sustainability transformation	8
Maladaptation in food systems and ways to avoid it	8
Leveraging shadow networks for procedural justice	8
Editorial Board	8
Editorial Board	8