OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability is 7. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Unlocking the potential of biosphere reserves: a review of structural, institutional, and ideational challenges to transformational learning	202
Some feminist strands and their potential for the performativity of climate regulations: a review	169
Editorial Board	116
Research trends and gaps in climate change impacts and adaptation potentials in major crops	94
The global-capitalist elephant in the room: how resilient peacebuilding hinders substantive transformation and undermines long-term peace prospects	88
Digital Twins in agriculture: challenges and opportunities for environmental sustainability	84
Contents	73
Contents	63
Climate-changed development: organizing climate risk and response through an economic growth lens	62
Balancing efficiency and resilience objectives in pursuit of sustainable infrastructure transformations	60
Governance challenges for sustainable food systems: the return of politics and territories	51
The political economy of the social constraints to adaptation	48
Fisheries conflicts as drivers of social transformation	47
Trends in port decarbonisation research: are we reinventing the wheel?	44
Five priorities to advance transformative transdisciplinary research	44
Values as leverage points for sustainability transformation: two pathways for transformation research	43
Editorial Board	41
Rethinking the drivers of biotechnologies: a paradigm for holistic climate change solutions	38
Disaster resilience in conflict-affected areas: a review of how armed conflicts impact disaster resilience	38
Broadening the perspective for sustainable artificial intelligence: sustainability criteria and indicators for Artificial Intelligence systems	37
How serious are ethical considerations in energy system decarbonization?	37
Editorial overview: Leveraging the multiple values of nature for transformative change to just and sustainable futures — Insights from the IPBES Values Assessment	37
Contents	36
Editorial Board	35
Restoring trust in sustainability reporting: the enabling role of the external assurance	35

Monitoring, evaluation and learning requirements for climate-resilient development pathways	35
Potentials and limitations of complexity research for environmental sciences and modern farming applications	35
Patterns in reported adaptation constraints: insights from peer-reviewed literature on floods and sea-level rise	34
Using games for social learning to promote self-governance	34
Growing through transformation pains: integrating emotional holding and processing into competence frameworks for sustainability transformations	33
Research priorities for seafood-dependent livelihoods under ocean climate change extreme events	31
The Ocean Decade as an instrument of peace	31
Gaps between demand and supply of biodiversity impact finance in the Global South	31
The role of infrastructure in societal transformations	31
Capturing the moment: a snapshot review of contemporary food environment research featuring participatory photography methods	30
Agroforests as the intersection of instrumental and relational values of nature: gendered, culture-dependent perspectives?	29
Climate change and migration from atolls? No evidence yet	29
Three archetypical governance pathways for transformative change toward sustainability	29
Editorial Board	26
Diversification from field to landscape to adapt Mediterranean rainfed agriculture to water scarcity in climate change context	26
National environmental regulatory systems for the management of environmental impacts in small island jurisdictions	25
Advancing sustainable port development in the Western Indian Ocean region	25
What can methods for assessing worldviews and broad values tell us about socio-environmental conflicts?	24
Barriers and limits to adaptation in the Arctic	23
Integrating relational and instrumental values of nature in planning land use for multiple ecosystem services (LUMENS): tools and process	23
Future-proofing our ports against biological invasion	23
The biodiversity–finance nexus: a future research agenda	23
Towards just sustainability through government-led housing: conceptual and practical considerations	23
The paradox of climate resilience and elusive peace in the Lake Chad Basin: a case for an adaptive governance approach	22
Greening container terminals through optimization: a systematic review on recent advances	22
Contents	22
Deconstructing the Doughnut	22
Using the nexus approach to realise sustainable food systems	21
Climate change and biodiversity loss: new territories for financial authorities	21
Biosphere Reserves as catalysts for sustainability transformations: five strategies to support place-based innovation	21
Philosophies of good living and values of nature: power and uncertainties in decision-making to achieve social-environmental justice in the Americas	20
Social limits to climate change adaptation: temporalities in behavioural responses to climate risks	20
Adaptation limits as sufficiency entitlements of justice	20
Justice, sustainability, and the diverse values of nature: why they matter for biodiversity conservation	19
Climate stress testing in the financial industry	19
Preventing violent extremism with resilience, adaptive peacebuilding, and community-embedded approaches	19
Assessing the role of social networks in women’s access and use of climate services in Sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from literature	18
Contents	18
Positive social transformations of coastal communities: what conditions enable the success of territorial use rights for fishing?	18
Climate-resilient development in developing countries	18
Values and knowledges in decision-making on environmentally disruptive infrastructure projects: insights from large dams and mines	18
Editorial Board	18
The European Union Emission Trading System and its role for green budgeting development — the case of EU member states	18
Editorial Board	18
Whose values count? A review of the nature valuation studies with a focus on justice	17
Insurance and climate change	17
Editorial overview: Climate finance, risks, and accounting	17
Intercultural networks deepen learning for transformative sustainability education: lessons from co-designing transdisciplinary international learning labs	17
Mapping the automation of Twitter communications on climate change, sustainability, and environmental crises — a review of current research	16
A resilience-based transformations approach to peacebuilding and transformative justice	16

Artistic activism promotes three major forms of sustainability transformation	15
Editorial overview: Values and decisions: How can development trajectories transform	15
Review of policy action for healthy environmentally sustainable food systems in sub-Saharan Africa	15
What do we (not) know about biodiversity finance governance?	15
The role of power in leveraging the diverse values of nature for transformative change	15
Beyond the ‘urban’ and the ‘rural’: conceptualizing a new generation of infrastructure systems to enable rural–urban sustainability	15
A Maritime Sociology for Sustainability Science	14
Modular, adaptive, and decentralised water infrastructure: promises and perils for water justice	14
Planning for urban green infrastructure: addressing tradeoffs and synergies	14
Opportunities for nature-based solutions to contribute to climate-resilient development pathways	14
Editorial Board	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
Auctions in payments for ecosystem services and the plural values of nature	14
Finding the sweet spot in climate policy: balancing stakeholder engagement with bureaucratic autonomy	13
Prospects for implementing the SDGs	13
Nature’s disvalues: what are they and why do they matter?	13
The need for transnational networks and transdisciplinary education for sustainable development in UNESCO Biosphere Reserves in the Global South	13
A long road ahead: a review of the state of knowledge of the environmental effects of digitization	13
Biodiversity reporting: standardization, materiality, and assurance	13
Editorial Board	13
Agroecology as a transformative approach to tackle climatic, food, and ecosystemic crises	13
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
How civil society organizations influence environmental governance in the Global South	12
Five levels of internalizing environmental externalities: decision-making based on instrumental and relational values of nature	12
Location, location, location: asset location data sources for nature-related financial risk analysis	12
Transformative finance for climate-resilient development	11
Contents	11
Assuring the unknowable: a reflection on the evolving landscape of sustainability assurance for financial auditors	11
Mixed farming systems: potentials and barriers for climate change adaptation in food systems	11
Greenwashing and sustainable finance: an approach anchored in the philosophy of science	11
The European deforestation-free trade regulation: collateral damage to agroforesters?	11
Aquaculture governance: five engagement arenas for sustainability transformation	10
Contents	10
Environmental impact bonds: review, challenges, and perspectives	10
Smarter greener cities through a social-ecological-technological systems approach	10
How can peacebuilding contribute to climate resilience? Evidence from the drylands of East and West Africa	10
Editorial Board	10
Urban growth, resilience, and violence	10
Contents	10
The finance perspective on fossil fuel divestment	10
Governance of emerging pests and pathogens in production landscapes: pesticide resistance and collaborative governance	10
From gender gaps to gender-transformative climate-smart agriculture	9
The sustainability impact of a digital circular economy	9
Is food system research guided by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development?	9
The impacts of climate change and urbanization on food retailers in urban sub-Saharan Africa	9
Productivity versus sustainability: paradigms of climate-resilient development in South Asian smallholder agriculture	9
Leveraging shadow networks for procedural justice	9
Contents	9
Relational values in locally adaptive farmer-to-farmer extension: how important?	9
Tritrophic defenses as a central pivot of low-emission, pest-suppressive farming systems	9
Serious games in natural resource management: steps toward assessment of their contextualized impacts	8
Critical social science perspectives on transformations to sustainability	8
Modes of mobilizing values for sustainability transformation	8
Five steps towards transformative valuation of nature	8
Contents	8
Building knowledge infrastructure for diverse stakeholders to scale up co-production equitably	8
Security risks from climate change and environmental degradation: implications for sustainable land use transformation in the Global South	8
‘Tradescapes’ in the forest: framing infrastructure’s relation to territory, commodities, and flows	8
The Humanitarian–Development–Peace Nexus in practice: building climate and conflict sensitivity into humanitarian projects	7
The pitfalls of plural valuation	7
Environmental, social, and governance factor and financial returns: what is the relationship? Investigating environmental, social, and governance factor models	7
Protected spring and sacred forest institutions at the instrumental — relational value interface	7
Editorial Board	7
Editorial Board	7
Cash for conservation? Integrating basic income support into biodiversity and climate finance	7
Contents	7
Relational versus instrumental perspectives on values of nature and resource management decisions	7
Editorial Board	7
Maladaptation in food systems and ways to avoid it	7
Health system resilience and peacebuilding in fragile and conflict-affected settings	7
Who or what makes rainfall? Relational and instrumental paradigms for human impacts on atmospheric water cycling	7
Global biodiversity assessments need to consider mixed multifunctional land-use systems	7