OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environmental Development is 9. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Impact of land use change on ecosystem services: A review	280
Strategic mineral resources: Availability and future estimations for the renewable energy sector	73
Soil erosion control practices in the Chinese Loess Plateau: A systematic review	68
Spatial variability of sustainable development goals in China: A provincial level evaluation	50
Evaluations of water yield and soil erosion in the Shaanxi-Gansu Loess Plateau under different land use and climate change scenarios	48
Changes in land use and ecosystem services values in Pakistan, 1950–2050	46
Assessing the effects of ecological engineering on spatiotemporal dynamics of carbon storage from 2000 to 2016 in the Loess Plateau area using the InVEST model: A case study in Huining County, China	43
Smart energy cities: The evolution of the city-energy-sustainability nexus	41
Drivers and consequences of agricultural land abandonment and its reutilisation pathways: A systematic review	40
Carbon footprint reduction potential of waste management strategies in tourism	39
Impacts of climate change on the tourism sector of a Small Island Developing State: A case study for the Bahamas	38
Carbon capture and storage as a strategic reserve against China's CO2 emissions	38
Comparative coastal and marine tourism, climate change, and the blue economy in African Large Marine Ecosystems	38
Circular economy of water: Tackling quantity, quality and footprint of water	32
Whose European bioeconomy? Relations of forces in the shaping of an updated EU bioeconomy strategy	31
Predictors of access to and willingness to pay for climate information services in north-eastern Ghana: A gendered perspective	31
Measuring sustainable development, its antecedents, barriers and consequences in agriculture: An exploratory factor analysis	30
Spatio-Temporal Pattern of Land Degradation from 1990 to 2015 in Mongolia	30
Urban water security: A comparative assessment and policy analysis of five cities in diverse developing countries of Asia	29
Socioeconomic determinants of climate change adaptations in the flood-prone rural community of Indus Basin, Pakistan	29
The impact of renewable energy and urbanization on CO2 emissions in Europe – Spatio-temporal approach	29
Climate change and variability awareness and livelihood adaptive strategies among smallholder farmers in semi-arid northern Ghana	28
Review on energy conservation and emission reduction approaches for cement industry	28
Impacts of renewable energy, trade globalization, and technological innovation on environmental development in China: Evidence from various environmental indicators and novel quantile methods	27
Does hydropower energy help to reduce CO2 emissions in European Union countries? evidence from quantile estimation	27

Role and significance of restoration technologies for vulnerable ecosystems in building an ecological civilization in China	26
Vegetation cover changes and sand-fixing service responses in the Beijing–Tianjin sandstorm source control project area	22
The living marine resources in the Mediterranean Sea Large Marine Ecosystem	22
Interregional ecosystem services benefits transfer from wind erosion control measures in Inner Mongolia	22
Modeling adaptation policies to increase the synergies of the water-climate-agriculture nexus under climate change	21
How does digital finance affect environmental total factor productivity: A comprehensive analysis based on econometric model	21
Cooperation or competition? State environmental relations and the SDGs agenda in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region	21
Food-energy-water security in sub-Saharan Africa: Quantitative and spatial assessments using an indicator-based approach	21
Towards weather and climate services that integrate indigenous and scientific forecasts to improve forecast reliability and acceptability in Ghana	21
Small hydropower sustainability evaluation for the countries along the Belt and Road	21
The dynamics of livestock and its influencing factors on the Mongolian Plateau	21
Analysis of rural households’ resilience to food insecurity: Does livelihood systems/choice/ matter? The case of Boricha woreda of sidama zone in southern Ethiopia	21
Causes of domestic livestock–wild herbivore conflicts in the alpine ecosystem of the Chang Tang Plateau	20
A review on bioaccessibility and the associated health risks due to heavy metal pollution in coal mines: Content and trend analysis	19
Evolutionary game analysis of strategic interaction of environmental regulation among local governments	19
Assessment of scenario-based land use changes in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh	19
Fisheries yields, climate change, and ecosystem-based management of the Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem	19
Farmers’ maladaptation: Eroding sustainable development, rebounding and shifting vulnerability in smallholder agriculture system	18
Do ecosystem insecurity and social vulnerability lead to failure of water security?	18
The stock-flow-service nexus of personal mobility in an urban context: Vienna, Austria	17
Kyoto Protocol and global value chains: Trade effects of an international environmental policy	17
Ecological conservation pattern based on ecosystem services in the Qilian Mountains, northwest China	17
Fisheries of the Canary Current Large Marine Ecosystem: From capture to trade with a consideration of migratory fisheries	16
Food consumption and its local dependence: A case study in the Xilin Gol Grassland, China	16
Final consumer embedded carbon emissions and externalities: A case of Chinese consumers	16
Evaluation of human-environment system vulnerability for sustainable development in the Liupan mountainous region of Ningxia, China	16
Comparative production of fisheries yields and ecosystem overfishing in African Large Marine Ecosystems	16
Profitability of erosion control with cover crops in European vineyards under consideration of environmental costs	16
Assessing the value of forest resources to rural households: A case of forest-fringe communities in the Northern Region of Ghana	15
Rethinking climate leadership: Annex I countries' expectations for China's leadership role in the post-Paris UN climate negotiations	15
Putting the Ecosystem Services idea at work: Applications on impact assessment and territorial planning	15
Can green finance improve China's haze pollution reduction? The role of energy efficiency	15
Rediscovering the past to negotiate the future: How knowledge about settlement history on high tropical Pacific Islands might facilitate future relocations	15
The law is spider's web: An assessment of illegal deforestation in the Argentine Dry Chaco ten years after the enactment of the “Forest Law”	15
Topography intensifies variations in the effect of human activities on forest NPP across altitude and slope gradients	14
Analyzing water policy impacts on vulnerability: Cases across the rural-urban continuum in the arid Americas	14
Stakeholders’ perceptions of social and environmental changes affecting Everglades National Park in South Florida	14
Recent advancement and applications of biochar technology as a multifunctional component towards sustainable environment	14
Could community science drive environmental management in Nigeria's degrading coastal Niger delta? Prospects and challenges	14
Contribution to low-carbon cement studies: Effects of silica fume, fly ash, sugarcane bagasse ash and acai stone ash incorporation in quaternary blended limestone-calcined clay cement concretes	14
Eco-efficiency measurement as an approach to improve the sustainable development of municipalities: A case study in the Midwest of Brazil	14
Recent trends in the fire dynamics in Brazilian Legal Amazon: Interaction between the ENSO phenomenon, climate and land use	13
Predicting recycling intention in New York state: The impact of cognitive and social factors	13
Valuation of coastal ecosystem services in the Large Marine Ecosystems of Africa	13
Trends in sea surface temperature and chlorophyll-a in the seven African Large Marine Ecosystems	13
Assessment of land use and climate change effects on hydrology in the upper Siem Reap River and Angkor Temple Complex, Cambodia	13
Semantic network analysis of sustainable development goals to quantitatively measure their interactions	13
Biodiversity and ecosystem services on the African continent – What is changing, and what are our options?	12
An exploratory study of the public's views on residential solar photovoltaic systems in oil-rich Saudi Arabia	12
Life cycle assessment (LCA) in the olive oil value chain: A descriptive review	12

Consumption of products of livestock resources in Kazakhstan: Characteristics and influencing factors	12
Prospects for treated wastewater reuse in agriculture in low- and middle-income countries: Systematic analysis and decision-making trees for diverse management approaches	11
Marine Spatial Planning in the Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem	11
Pursuing sustainable development goals: A review of renewable energy and poverty alleviation nexus	11
Conservation versus socio-economic sustainability: A case study of the Udawalawe National Park, Sri Lanka	11
Effects of cumulative energy aid projects on renewable energy generation capacity	11
Stakeholder analysis and prioritization of management measures for a sustainable development in the social-ecological system of the Mar Menor (SE, Spain)	11
Socio-economic determinants of land use and land cover change in South-Kivu wetlands, eastern D.R. Congo: Case study of Hogola and Chisheke wetlands	11
Socioeconomic development versus deforestation: considerations on the sustainability of economic and social growth in most Brazilian municipalities	10
Coping with environmental hazards and shocks in Kiribati: Experiences of climate change by atoll communities in the Equatorial Pacific	10
The limits of livelihood diversification and sustainable household well-being, evidence from China	10
Predicting environmental sustainability performances of firms using trigonometric grey prediction model	10
Spatio-temporal evolution of the social-ecological landscape resilience and management zoning in the loess hill and gully region of China	10
Participatory and rapid vulnerability assessments to support adaptation planning in small-scale fishing communities of the Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem	10
Green development level, resource utilization, and ecological protection across China from 2006 to 2017: Based on the national standard indicator system	10
The development and prudent application of climate-based forecasts of seasonal malaria in the Limpopo province in South Africa	9
Using radical terraces for erosion control and water quality improvement in Rwanda: A case study in Sebeya catchment	9
Explaining environmental performance: Insights for progress on sustainability	9
Political construction of carbon pricing: Experience from New Zealand emissions trading scheme	9
Forest co-management in the Sundarban mangrove forest: Impacts of women's participation on their livelihoods and sustainable forest resource conservation	9
The coordinated relationship among industrialization, environmental carrying capacity and green infrastructure: A comparative research of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, China	9
Livelihood sustainability of rural households in adapting to environmental changes: An empirical analysis of ecological shrimp aquaculture model in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta	9
Identifying intrinsic drivers to changes in riparian ecosystem services by using PSR framework: A case study of the Grand Canal in Jiangsu, China	9
Social institution changes and their ecological impacts in Kazakhstan over the past hundred years	9
An investigation on shaping local waste management services based on public participation: A case study of Amol, Mazandaran Province, Iran	9
Circular economy and the resource nexus: Realignment and progress towards sustainable development in Saudi Arabia	9
Livelihood resilience of vulnerable groups in the face of climate change: A systematic review and meta-analysis	9
Nitrogen emissions in Latin America: A conceptual framework of drivers, impacts, and policy responses	9