OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environment and Planning E-Nature and Space is 5. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Governing pathological markets: Microbes, banana export markets, and speculative farming practices	54
The permissible and the perverse: Indian geographies of interspecies sex	45
The eco-munitionary subject: Conservation with and of firearms	34
Entangled, unraveled, and reconfigured: Human–animal relations among ethnic minority farmers and water buffalo in the northern uplands of Vietnam	26
Debating animal agriculture in contemporary India: Ethics, politics, ecologies	25
Wildlife as an affective multiplicity: Approaching Deleuzo–Guattarian pack-animals	23
Ruderal involutions: An uneven vegetal geography of Coimbatore	22
BIG U(nicorn)?: The nature of nature in coastal resilience planning	21
Chennai flyways: birds, biodiversity, and ecological decay	20
Dealing with sentient surplus: A moral economy of greyhound rehoming	20
Contested estuary ontologies: The conflict over the fairway adaptation of the Elbe River, Germany	20
The White Amur and the WasteShark: Hungry machines and circumventive remediations of waste	19
Digital hives, nonhuman work and the real subsumption of nature: Fixing pollination in capitalist agriculture	19
Environmental justice for whom? Citizen participation and brownfield redevelopment in downtown Birmingham, Alabama	19
Value-rent-finance in Spain's solar transition	17
Critical environmental justice and the Wasteocene: Oppression and resistance in an Italian prison during the Covid-19 pandemic	17
Beyond AI as an environmental pharmakon: Principles for reopening the problem-space of machine learning's carbon footprint	16
Farm borders and biosecurity bordering: Securing livestock identities in Aotearoa New Zealand	16
The material politics of living in close proximity to our wastewaters: A case of decentralisation in the Netherlands	15
Territories of hope: A human geography of agrarian politics in Brazil	15
Oysteropolis: Animals in coastal gentrification	15
Preparing the grounds for emancipation. Explaining commoning as an emancipatory mechanism through dialectical social theory	14
Destabilizing the science of soils: Geoscientists as spokespersons for land subsidence in Semarang, Indonesia	13
Contested flows: An ethnographic contribution to narratives of groundwater over abstraction in the central Jordanian highlands	12
The bioeconomy, carbon sinks, and depoliticization in Finnish forest politics	12

CORRIGENDUM to The social life of mangroves: Neoliberal development and mangrove conservation in the changing landscape of Kutch	12
Planning use values or values-based planning? “Rolling with” neoliberal flood risk governance in Vancouver, Canada	12
Producing conservation territories: Transforming páramos in Ecuador	12
All dried up: The materiality of drought in Ladismith, South Africa	12
Scrutinising commodity hype in imaginaries of the Swedish green steel transition	12
Expertise, trading zones and the planning system: A case study of an energy-from-biomass plant	11
Resonant relations: eco-lalia, political ec(h)ology and autistic ways of worlding	11
Enacting the blue economy in the Western Indian Ocean: A ‘collaborative blue economy governmentality’	11
Critically assembling water quality ethics beyond thresholds, hierarchies and best practices	11
Don’t waste the crisis: The COVID-19 Anthropause as an experiment for rethinking human–environment relations	11
Theme issue introduction: The species turn in Indian identity politics	10
On the fire line and on strike: Collective action by incarcerated firefighters 1971–2	10
Race, citizenship, and belonging in the pursuit of water and climate justice in California	10
Making global oceans governance in/visible with Smart Earth: The case of Global Fishing Watch	10
Caring for water in Northern Peru: On fragile infrastructures and the diverse work involved in irrigation	10
Organised abandonment in Lebanon's Litani River Basin	10
Corrigendum to “Breeding distrust: The biopolitics of chronic wasting disease in white-tailed deer”	9
Placing animals in the Plantationocene: The plantation after/lives of nutria in Eastern Germany	9
Buying nature to save it? From neoliberal failure to markets-at-hand	9
The socio-ecological contradictions of land degradation and coastal agriculture in south India	9
Disentangling Waterworlds: The role of ‘agential cuts’ and ‘method assemblages’ in ontological politics – an example from Loweswater, the English Lake District	9
State, scarcity, and survival: A minor history of people and place in the Lower Bari Doab, Punjab	9
Folk art, storytelling, and space: Collective memory and pesticide exposure	8
Climate change in Norway: Destabilized social imaginaries of welfare, growth, and nature in a rich oil state	8
In pursuit of diverse energy futures: The political economy of electricity in Senegal	8
Material subjects: Wetland enclosure and the making of a speculative peasantry in peri-urban Vientiane	8
Just water transitions at the end of sugar in Maui, Hawai‘i	8
Emotional subjectivities and the trajectory of a Peruvian mining conflict	8
Where land meets sea: Islands, erosion and the thing-power of hard coastal protection structures	8
The socioenvironmental state and urban transitions: Eco-urbanism in China and the UK	8
Holding water for the city: Emergent geographies of storage and the urbanization of nature	7
Decolonising spaces of knowledge production: Mpala research centre in Laikipia County, Kenya	7
The garden territory: Politics, aesthetics and the invention of green infrastructure in post-war Belgium	7
Making the mos(s)t of nature? Cleantech, smart nature-based solutions, and the ‘rendering investable’ of urban moss	7
Domestic technonatures: A research agenda on smart gardens and indoor food production	7
The coyote in the cloud	7
Pathways, targets and temporalities: Analysing English agriculture's net zero futures	7
Energy transition, rural transformation and local land-use planning: Insights from Ontario, Canada	7
Reindeer, rockets and space infrastructures: Enacting oligoptic-satellitarian environments in Northern Sweden	7
Unruly Mountains: Hydropower assemblages and geological surprises in the Indian Himalayas	7
“Making do”: Religious segregation and everyday water struggles	7
Reimagining the governance of water from the ground up: On the ‘worlding-practices’ of grassroots movements building alternative ‘water worlds’	7
Energopower, statecraft and political legitimacy	7
Conservation violence: Paradoxes of “making live” and “letting die” in anti-poaching practices	7
Smart energopower: Energy, work and waste within a UK smart grid trial	6
Why now? Questioning the confidence in eco-political experimentation in civil society	6
Activism and non-activism: The politics of claiming environmental justice in Vietnam	6
Agrarian Marxism, Animal Geographies, and non-human labor in Democratic Kampuchea	6
Everyday politics of care and exclusion: Conceptualising agency in rural south India	6
Uncertainty talk for bio-digital technologies: Expert conceptions of uncertainties in genomic selection for forestry	6

Seascape shadows: Life in the ruins of the edible bird's nest harvest in northern Palawan, the Philippines	6
Hydro-heritage for healing? Examining the gendered experience of water in post-conflict Swat, Pakistan	6
Storytelling dreams and life: Traveling across worlds in the Amazon of Ecuador	6
The greening of human rights in Iran: Lake Orumiyeh, human rights, and environmental justice	6
Perpetual planning: Expertise, uncertainty, and the politics of delay in Colombia's Guayuriba river-basin	6
Landscape plasticity and its erasure	6
Analysis of ocean ontologies in three frameworks: A study of law of the sea discourse	6
Nature and the extended city: Wasteland governmentality, the sacred, and anti-wasteland politics in the Aravalli region	5
Conserving inequality: How private conservation and property developers ‘fix’ spatial injustice in South Africa	5
Everyday youth climate politics and performances of climate citizenship in Aotearoa New Zealand	5
Care and its discontents: Commodification, coercive cooperation, and resistance in Copenhagen Zoo	5
Decolonizing conservation? Indigenous resurgence and buffalo restoration in the American West	5
Connecting across difference in environmental governance: Beyond rights, recognition, and participation	5
Pluralising the materiality of water: More-than-water, lively waters, water with, and the agency of hydro-social assemblages	5
Bankrolling biodiversity: The politics of philanthropic conservation finance in Chile	5
Reclaimed ecotones in the climate change era:A long-durée framing of urban expansion in Mumbai, Amsterdam, New York, and Tokyo	5
The politics of spatial memory and the Barrio : Narratives of climate-led adaptation and dispossession	5
Expelled from the garden? Understanding the dynamics of green gentrification in Vancouver, British Columbia	5
Restoration as world-making and repair: A pragmatist agenda	5
Solar power for some? Energy transition injustices in Kerala, India	5
Extending the boundaries of ‘urban society’: The urban political ecologies and pathologies of Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa	5
The ‘brother layer problem’: Routine killing, biotechnology and the pursuit of ‘ethical sustainability’ in industrial poultry	5
Geographies of Hope-in-Praxis: Collaboratively decolonizing relations and regenerating relational spaces	5
River and drain: Ambiguity in the waterways of Accra	5