OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environment and Planning E-Nature and Space is 4. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Restoration as world-making and repair: A pragmatist agenda	45
Hydro-heritage for healing? Examining the gendered experience of water in post-conflict Swat, Pakistan	40
Look after gardens and they look after you: Cultivating wellbeing in a pandemic through a popular TV gardening programme	33
The Paleolithic imagination:Nature, science, and race in Anthropocene fitness cultures	28
Conserving inequality: How private conservation and property developers ‘fix’ spatial injustice in South Africa	26
The making of an uneven shore: How coastal management and housing policies shaped racial inequality in asbury park NJ	23
The politics of genetic technoscience for conservation: The case of blight-resistant American chestnut	23
Deadwood: People, place, and neoliberal forest policy in British Columbia, Canada	21
The permissible and the perverse: Indian geographies of interspecies sex	18
Earth in practice: Uncertainty, expertise and the expected Istanbul earthquake	17
From chains to chainsaws: Modern slavery and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon	15
Landscape plasticity and its erasure	15
Feminist digital natures	15
Everyday youth climate politics and performances of climate citizenship in Aotearoa New Zealand	14
Gambling with our climate futures: On the temporal structure of negative emissions	14
Agrarian Marxism, Animal Geographies, and non-human labor in Democratic Kampuchea	14
Nature and the extended city: Wasteland governmentality, the sacred, and anti-wasteland politics in the Aravalli region	14
Scientific expertise and volunteer power in the Cook County forest preserves	13
“You can’t manage what you can’t measure”: Regenerative agriculture, farming by numbers, and calculability in soil microbiopolitics	13
An intersectional approach to neoliberal environmentality: Women's engagement with ecotourism at Corbett Tiger Reserve, India	13
Bankrolling biodiversity: The politics of philanthropic conservation finance in Chile	12
Activism and non-activism: The politics of claiming environmental justice in Vietnam	12
Why now? Questioning the confidence in eco-political experimentation in civil society	12
Extending the boundaries of ‘urban society’: The urban political ecologies and pathologies of Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa	11
Limits to measurement: Rethinking the role of monitoring in environmental governance	11

The epistemic tensions of nuclear waste siting in a nuclear landscape	11
Ecology of grief: Climatic events and disasters in the Himalaya	11
Pluralising the materiality of water: More-than-water, lively waters, water with, and the agency of hydro-social assemblages	10
Governing pathological markets: Microbes, banana export markets, and speculative farming practices	10
Perpetual planning: Expertise, uncertainty, and the politics of delay in Colombia's Guayuriba river-basin	10
Capabilities, place, and wellbeing in conservation spaces: An empirical analysis	10
Fossilized conservation, or the unsustainability of saving nature in South Africa	10
Re-attaching to coal in a Climate Emergency: The case of the Whitehaven mine	10
Wildlife as an affective multiplicity: Approaching Deleuzo–Guattarian pack-animals	10
The eco-munitionary subject: Conservation with and of firearms	10
Seascape shadows: Life in the ruins of the edible bird's nest harvest in northern Palawan, the Philippines	9
Storytelling dreams and life: Traveling across worlds in the Amazon of Ecuador	9
Smart energopower: Energy, work and waste within a UK smart grid trial	9
Analysis of ocean ontologies in three frameworks: A study of law of the sea discourse	9
Entangled, unraveled, and reconfigured: Human–animal relations among ethnic minority farmers and water buffalo in the northern uplands of Vietnam	9
(Un)claiming rights, resources, and ocean spaces: Marine genetic resources and area-based management tools in high seas governance negotiations	9
“Because we’re dying in here”: A study of environmental vulnerability and climate risks in incarceration infrastructure	9
(Dis)Entangling livestock marketplaces: Cattle purchasing, fluid engineering and market displays	9
Labour in transition: A value-theoretical approach to renewable energy labour	9
Tribal sovereignty in land use decision making: Evaluating cultural resource law in California	8
Uncertainty talk for bio-digital technologies: Expert conceptions of uncertainties in genomic selection for forestry	8
Methodological rift: Applying infrastructure activism's ‘skin in the game’ embodied art research methods to urban green infrastructure planning	8
The political ecologies of fire: Recasting fire geographies in British Columbia, Canada	8
Climate imaginaries as praxis	8
Airplanes, cameras, computers, wildebeests: The technological mediation of spaces for humans and wildlife in the Serengeti since 1950	8
For multispecies autoethnography	7
Debating animal agriculture in contemporary India: Ethics, politics, ecologies	7
Alternative energy capital of the world? Fix, risk, and solar energy in Los Angeles’ urban periphery	7
Solar power for some? Energy transition injustices in Kerala, India	7
Towards enriched narrative political ecologies	7
The destructive work of restoration: Fishing communities facing territorialization in Turag river	7
Shrimp in labs: Biosecurity and hydro-social life	6
Wastewater and wishful thinking: Treatment plants to “revive” the Santiago River in Mexico	6
Invasive Plant Relations in a Global Pandemic: Caring for a “Problematic Pesto”	6
Geographies of Hope-in-Praxis: Collaboratively decolonizing relations and regenerating relational spaces	6
Political ecology and the Foucault effect: A need to diversify disciplinary approaches to ecological management?	6
Sustainability and impossible worlds	6
Care and its discontents: Commodification, coercive cooperation, and resistance in Copenhagen Zoo	6
Obliqueness as a feminist mode of analysing waterscapes: Learning to think with overflows	6
Politicizing disaster governance: Can a board game stimulate discussions around disasters as matters of concern?	6
Situating climate change adaptation within plural worlds: The role of Indigenous and local knowledge in Pentecost Island, Vanuatu	6
Weathering energy geographies: Engineering meteorology in the North Atlantic	6
Fathoming postnatural oceans: Towards a low trophic theory in the practices of feminist posthumanities	6
The business of saving cheetahs: Cheetah ecology and the diverse politics at work in human wildlife conflict (HWC) interventions in Namibia	6
How to govern a sustainable supply chain: Standards, standardizers, and the political ecology of (in)advertence	6
Actually existing intersectionality: The place-based and embodied politics of animal and human rights activism	5
Dealing with sentient surplus: A moral economy of greyhound rehoming	5
Towards the arboreal side-effects of marronage: Black geographies and ecologies of the Jamaican forest	5
Contested estuary ontologies: The conflict over the fairway adaptation of the Elbe River, Germany	5
Mining the air: Political ecologies of the circular carbon economy	5

Tourism dreams in rubble: Mass demolition and the reconfiguration of growth coalitions within China's ecological civilization	5
Chennai flyways: birds, biodiversity, and ecological decay	5
The ‘brother layer problem’: Routine killing, biotechnology and the pursuit of ‘ethical sustainability’ in industrial poultry	5
‘Without white people, the animals will go!’: COVID-19 and the struggle for the future of South African conservation	5
Reclaimed ecotones in the climate change era:A long-durée framing of urban expansion in Mumbai, Amsterdam, New York, and Tokyo	5
The multiple environmentalities of conservation mapping in Patagonia-Aysén	5
The emotional life of rupture at Cambodia's Lower Sesan 2 hydropower dam	5
Decolonizing conservation? Indigenous resurgence and buffalo restoration in the American West	5
Relational Displacement and the Colonial Legacies of Copper Mining in the Kalahari Copperbelt Region of Botswana	5
Powering racial capitalism: Electricity, rate-making, and the uneven energy geographies of Atlanta	5
Unequal geographies of urban mining: E-waste management in London, Sao Paulo and Accra	5
The White Amur and the WasteShark: Hungry machines and circumventive remediations of waste	5
Milking economies: Multispecies entanglements in the infant formula industry	5
Critical environmental justice and the Wasteocene: Oppression and resistance in an Italian prison during the Covid-19 pandemic	4
Environmental justice for whom? Citizen participation and brownfield redevelopment in downtown Birmingham, Alabama	4
Connecting across difference in environmental governance: Beyond rights, recognition, and participation	4
Lively water infrastructure: Constructed wetlands in more-than-human waterscapes	4
The role of hydrosocial heritages produced by hydrosocial territories in understanding environmental conflicts: The case of Sélune dam removals (France)	4
Technopolitics of future-making: The ambiguous role of energy communities in shaping energy system change	4
Elements of power: Material-political entanglements in Australia's fossil fuel hegemony	4
Grass versus trees: A proxy debate for deeper anxieties about competing stream worlds	4
Against the promethean: Energy throughput and the far-right politics of degrowth	4
The Political Ecology of Death: Chinese Religion and The Affective Tensions of Secularised Burial Rituals in Singapore	4
Erratum to “Negotiating power from the margins: Encountering everyday experiences and contestations to REDD+in Southern Tanzania”	4
Urban maintenance as compromise: Coming to terms with the multispecies city	4
From railroad imperialism to neoliberal reprimarization: Lessons from regime-shifts in the Global Soybean Complex	4
The wild workforce: Enlisting non-human labor in invasive species management	4
Tiger atmospheres and co-belonging in mangrove worlds	4
Fresh meat: Women's motivations to hunt and how they challenge hunting structures	4
Relocating the imaginary nation through nature: The performance politics of Arbor Day in postwar Taiwan	4
A multiplicity ofprek(s): Enacting a socionatural mosaic in the Cambodian upper Mekong delta	4
From reduction to regeneration: Environmental justice and ecological unity in the IRA era	4
Sewers and sewage treatment in Mumbai: Temporality, difference, competing universals and infrastructural entanglements	4