OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability is 16. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Contents	153
The political economy of the social constraints to adaptation	136
Contents	136
Governance challenges for sustainable food systems: the return of politics and territories	131
Some feminist strands and their potential for the performativity of climate regulations: a review	102
Patch-scale to hillslope-scale geodiversity alleviates susceptibility of dryland ecosystems to climate change: insights from the Israeli Negev	81
The global-capitalist elephant in the room: how resilient peacebuilding hinders substantive transformation and undermines long-term peace prospects	78
Research trends and gaps in climate change impacts and adaptation potentials in major crops	77
Climate-changed development: organizing climate risk and response through an economic growth lens	77
Balancing efficiency and resilience objectives in pursuit of sustainable infrastructure transformations	77
Fisheries conflicts as drivers of social transformation	72
Digital Twins in agriculture: challenges and opportunities for environmental sustainability	71
Rethinking the drivers of biotechnologies: a paradigm for holistic climate change solutions	68
Contents	60
Editorial Board	55
Disaster resilience in conflict-affected areas: a review of how armed conflicts impact disaster resilience	52
Editorial overview: Leveraging the multiple values of nature for transformative change to just and sustainable futures — Insights from the IPBES Values Assessment	51
Values as leverage points for sustainability transformation: two pathways for transformation research	49
Five priorities to advance transformative transdisciplinary research	48
Broadening the perspective for sustainable artificial intelligence: sustainability criteria and indicators for Artificial Intelligence systems	48
Trends in port decarbonisation research: are we reinventing the wheel?	48
How serious are ethical considerations in energy system decarbonization?	46
Restoring trust in sustainability reporting: the enabling role of the external assurance	45
From peril to promise? Local mitigation and adaptation policy decisions after extreme weather	44
Monitoring, evaluation and learning requirements for climate-resilient development pathways	38

Editorial Board	38
Using games for social learning to promote self-governance	37
Potentials and limitations of complexity research for environmental sciences and modern farming applications	37
Agroforests as the intersection of instrumental and relational values of nature: gendered, culture-dependent perspectives?	35
Patterns in reported adaptation constraints: insights from peer-reviewed literature on floods and sea-level rise	35
Editorial Board	35
Contents	35
Climate change and migration from atolls? No evidence yet	34
The effects of weather experiences on climate change attitudes and behaviors	34
Capturing the moment: a snapshot review of contemporary food environment research featuring participatory photography methods	33
Diversification from field to landscape to adapt Mediterranean rainfed agriculture to water scarcity in climate change context	33
The role of infrastructure in societal transformations	32
Three archetypical governance pathways for transformative change toward sustainability	32
The Ocean Decade as an instrument of peace	31
Research priorities for seafood-dependent livelihoods under ocean climate change extreme events	31
Growing through transformation pains: integrating emotional holding and processing into competence frameworks for sustainability transformations	31
National environmental regulatory systems for the management of environmental impacts in small island jurisdictions	29
Advancing sustainable port development in the Western Indian Ocean region	29
Integrating relational and instrumental values of nature in planning land use for multiple ecosystem services (LUMENS): tools and process	29
The biodiversity–finance nexus: a future research agenda	28
Editorial Board	28
Towards just sustainability through government-led housing: conceptual and practical considerations	28
Barriers and limits to adaptation in the Arctic	27
Governing natural climate solutions: prospects and pitfalls	26
Future-proofing our ports against biological invasion	26
Contents	25
Greening container terminals through optimization: a systematic review on recent advances	25
What can methods for assessing worldviews and broad values tell us about socio-environmental conflicts?	25
Using the nexus approach to realise sustainable food systems	25
Philosophies of good living and values of nature: power and uncertainties in decision-making to achieve social-environmental justice in the Americas	24
Navigating capitalist expansion and climate change in pastoral social-ecological systems: impacts, vulnerability and decision-making	24
Climate change and biodiversity loss: new territories for financial authorities	23
Biosphere Reserves as catalysts for sustainability transformations: five strategies to support place-based innovation	23
Deconstructing the Doughnut	23
The paradox of climate resilience and elusive peace in the Lake Chad Basin: a case for an adaptive governance approach	22
Climate stress testing in the financial industry	21
Navigating slow-onset risks through foresight and flexibility in Fiji: emerging recommendations for the planned relocation of climate-vulnerable communities	21
Social limits to climate change adaptation: temporalities in behavioural responses to climate risks	21
Expertise and exclusivity in adaptation decision-making	21
Contents	21
Preventing violent extremism with resilience, adaptive peacebuilding, and community-embedded approaches	21
Adaptation limits as sufficiency entitlements of justice	21
Justice, sustainability, and the diverse values of nature: why they matter for biodiversity conservation	21
Climate-resilient development in developing countries	20
Editorial Board	20
Assessing the role of social networks in women’s access and use of climate services in Sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from literature	20
Editorial overview: Climate finance, risks, and accounting	20
Contents	20
Decision-making and scalar biases in solar photovoltaics roll-out	20
Whose values count? A review of the nature valuation studies with a focus on justice	20

Editorial Board	20
Positive social transformations of coastal communities: what conditions enable the success of territorial use rights for fishing?	19
Values and knowledges in decision-making on environmentally disruptive infrastructure projects: insights from large dams and mines	18
The European Union Emission Trading System and its role for green budgeting development — the case of EU member states	18
The rise of green bonds for sustainable finance: global standards and issues with the expanding Chinese market	17
Entry points for addressing justice and politics in urban flood adaptation decision making	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
Beyond the ‘urban’ and the ‘rural’: conceptualizing a new generation of infrastructure systems to enable rural–urban sustainability	16
Insurance and climate change	16
Editorial overview: Better climate-related decision making	16
Artistic activism promotes three major forms of sustainability transformation	16
Designing a funding framework for the impacts of slow-onset climate change — insights from recent experiences with planned relocation	16
Drivers of soil salinity and their correlation with climate change	16
A resilience-based transformations approach to peacebuilding and transformative justice	16
Editorial Board	16