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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Some feminist strands and their potential for the performativity of climate regulations: a review	326
Editorial Board	174
Contents	130
The global-capitalist elephant in the room: how resilient peacebuilding hinders substantive transformation and undermines long-term peace prospects	117
Pecuniary and non-pecuniary approaches for water conservation: a review	110
Climate-changed development: organizing climate risk and response through an economic growth lens	96
Governance challenges for sustainable food systems: the return of politics and territories	90
The political economy of the social constraints to adaptation	77
Unlocking the potential of biosphere reserves: a review of structural, institutional, and ideational challenges to transformational learning	65
Research trends and gaps in climate change impacts and adaptation potentials in major crops	63
Digital Twins in agriculture: challenges and opportunities for environmental sustainability	61
Participatory governance for people and nature in multifunctional landscapes — insights from Biosphere Reserves	60
Water–energy–food nexus in the circular economy: implications for climate mitigation	57
Editorial Board	54
Editorial overview: Leveraging the power of collective learning through networks to amplify sustainability transformation	54
Rethinking the drivers of biotechnologies: a paradigm for holistic climate change solutions	52
Trends in port decarbonisation research: are we reinventing the wheel?	50
Values as leverage points for sustainability transformation: two pathways for transformation research	50
Broadening the perspective for sustainable artificial intelligence: sustainability criteria and indicators for Artificial Intelligence systems	49
Circular approaches to urban water demand management: insights from a scoping review	48
Editorial overview: Leveraging the multiple values of nature for transformative change to just and sustainable futures — Insights from the IPBES Values Assessment	46
Five priorities to advance transformative transdisciplinary research	45
Disaster resilience in conflict-affected areas: a review of how armed conflicts impact disaster resilience	45
How serious are ethical considerations in energy system decarbonization?	44
Monitoring, evaluation and learning requirements for climate-resilient development pathways	43

Contents	40
Using games for social learning to promote self-governance	37
Determinants of circular economy adoption in wastewater treatment plants	37
Restoring trust in sustainability reporting: the enabling role of the external assurance	36
Potentials and limitations of complexity research for environmental sciences and modern farming applications	36
The Ocean Decade as an instrument of peace	35
Climate change and migration from atolls? No evidence yet	35
Editorial overview: Resilience and peace	35
The role of infrastructure in societal transformations	35
Research priorities for seafood-dependent livelihoods under ocean climate change extreme events	34
Patterns in reported adaptation constraints: insights from peer-reviewed literature on floods and sea-level rise	33
Gaps between demand and supply of biodiversity impact finance in the Global South	32
The salinization of the Mekong Delta: major drivers, coping strategies, and new hopes from ecosystem-based approaches	31
Growing through transformation pains: integrating emotional holding and processing into competence frameworks for sustainability transformations	31
Diversification from field to landscape to adapt Mediterranean rainfed agriculture to water scarcity in climate change context	31
Agroforests as the intersection of instrumental and relational values of nature: gendered, culture-dependent perspectives?	30
Capturing the moment: a snapshot review of contemporary food environment research featuring participatory photography methods	29
Future-proofing our ports against biological invasion	28
Three archetypical governance pathways for transformative change toward sustainability	28
Editorial Board	28
Integrating relational and instrumental values of nature in planning land use for multiple ecosystem services (LUMENS): tools and process	27
What can methods for assessing worldviews and broad values tell us about socio-environmental conflicts?	26
Advancing sustainable port development in the Western Indian Ocean region	26
The position of women in decision-making processes on environmental issues	26
National environmental regulatory systems for the management of environmental impacts in small island jurisdictions	24
Reviewing regulatory settings and their impacts on managed aquifer recharge implementation: evidence from six countries	24
The biodiversity–finance nexus: a future research agenda	23
Editorial overview: Biodiversity finance	23
Contents	23
Barriers and limits to adaptation in the Arctic	23
Philosophies of good living and values of nature: power and uncertainties in decision-making to achieve social-environmental justice in the Americas	23
Using the nexus approach to realise sustainable food systems	22
Climate change and biodiversity loss: new territories for financial authorities	22
Biosphere Reserves as catalysts for sustainability transformations: five strategies to support place-based innovation	22
Deconstructing the Doughnut	21
The paradox of climate resilience and elusive peace in the Lake Chad Basin: a case for an adaptive governance approach	21
Greening container terminals through optimization: a systematic review on recent advances	21
Climate stress testing in the financial industry	20
Editorial Board	20
Preventing violent extremism with resilience, adaptive peacebuilding, and community-embedded approaches	20
Adaptation limits as sufficiency entitlements of justice	20
Social limits to climate change adaptation: temporalities in behavioural responses to climate risks	20
Wastewater reuse for agriculture in Europe: regulatory frameworks, treatment technologies, and socio-economic perspectives	20
Justice, sustainability, and the diverse values of nature: why they matter for biodiversity conservation	20
Editorial overview: Social limits to climate change adaptation revisited	19
Defining and operationalizing ‘nature-positive’ — a question of power	19
Editorial Board	19
Whose values count? A review of the nature valuation studies with a focus on justice	19
Values and knowledges in decision-making on environmentally disruptive infrastructure projects: insights from large dams and mines	19
Intercultural networks deepen learning for transformative sustainability education: lessons from co-designing transdisciplinary international learning labs	19

Mapping the automation of Twitter communications on climate change, sustainability, and environmental crises — a review of current research	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
The European Union Emission Trading System and its role for green budgeting development — the case of EU member states	18
Contents	18
Advancing Social Life Cycle Assessment in wastewater treatment: a review of practices and alignment with ISO 14075	17
Editorial overview: Values and decisions: How can development trajectories transform	17
Editorial Board	17
What do we (not) know about biodiversity finance governance?	17
Editorial Board	16
Artistic activism promotes three major forms of sustainability transformation	16
Insurance and climate change	16
A resilience-based transformations approach to peacebuilding and transformative justice	16
The role of power in leveraging the diverse values of nature for transformative change	15
Review of policy action for healthy environmentally sustainable food systems in sub-Saharan Africa	15
Modular, adaptive, and decentralised water infrastructure: promises and perils for water justice	15
Auctions in payments for ecosystem services and the plural values of nature	14
Opportunities for nature-based solutions to contribute to climate-resilient development pathways	14
The role of value(s) in theories of human behavior	14
Leveraging place-based identities and senses of belonging to mobilize for action-oriented research in UNESCO sites	14
The potential contributions of irrigation channel networks to urban climate-resilience in the Hindu Kush Himalaya	14
The future of Global Environmental Assessments: 20 years after the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment	14
A Maritime Sociology for Sustainability Science	14
A long road ahead: a review of the state of knowledge of the environmental effects of digitization	13
Pathways to sustainability in Brazilian agriculture: technological drivers, governance, and policy linkages	13
Contents	13
How civil society organizations influence environmental governance in the Global South	13
The need for transnational networks and transdisciplinary education for sustainable development in UNESCO Biosphere Reserves in the Global South	13
Biodiversity reporting: standardization, materiality, and assurance	13
Greenwashing and sustainable finance: an approach anchored in the philosophy of science	13
Editorial Board	13
Exploring the future of photosynthetic biogas upgrading process	13
Agroecology as a transformative approach to tackle climatic, food, and ecosystemic crises	13
A typology of reciprocal management practices in biodiversity stewardship: insights from Patagonian family farming	13
Transformative finance for climate-resilient development	12
Assuring the unknowable: a reflection on the evolving landscape of sustainability assurance for financial auditors	12
Governance of emerging pests and pathogens in production landscapes: pesticide resistance and collaborative governance	12
Current perspectives on debt-for-nature swaps: moving from exploratory to empirical research	12
Location, location, location: asset location data sources for nature-related financial risk analysis	12
Mixed farming systems: potentials and barriers for climate change adaptation in food systems	12
Synthetic dyes: a barrier to circular economy within the textile industry?	12
Five levels of internalizing environmental externalities: decision-making based on instrumental and relational values of nature	12
Urban growth, resilience, and violence	11
The finance perspective on fossil fuel divestment	11
Editorial Board	11
Rethinking adaptation interventions in agricultural systems for sustainability	11
Environmental impact bonds: review, challenges, and perspectives	11
Editorial Board	11
Pathways to a blue economy	11
Contents	11
The European deforestation-free trade regulation: collateral damage to agroforesters?	11
How can peacebuilding contribute to climate resilience? Evidence from the drylands of East and West Africa	10
Relational values in locally adaptive farmer-to-farmer extension: how important?	10
Contents	10
Business and finance on a path towards meaningful biodiversity reporting?	10
Aquaculture governance: five engagement arenas for sustainability transformation	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
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
Maladaptation in food systems and ways to avoid it	9
Contents	9
Five steps towards transformative valuation of nature	9
From gender gaps to gender-transformative climate-smart agriculture	9
Serious games in natural resource management: steps toward assessment of their contextualized impacts	9
Leveraging shadow networks for procedural justice	9
Security risks from climate change and environmental degradation: implications for sustainable land use transformation in the Global South	9
Contents	8
The pitfalls of plural valuation	8
Editorial Board	8
Editorial Board	8
The Humanitarian–Development–Peace Nexus in practice: building climate and conflict sensitivity into humanitarian projects	8
Contents	8
Who or what makes rainfall? Relational and instrumental paradigms for human impacts on atmospheric water cycling	8
Editorial Board	8
Editorial Board	8
Operationalising circular economy and resilience in water management systems in an increasingly uncertain world	8
Modes of mobilizing values for sustainability transformation	8