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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Governing pathological markets: Microbes, banana export markets, and speculative farming practices	49
The eco-munitionary subject: Conservation with and of firearms	36
Bodies in Landscapes: Entanglements of trout and waters in South Africa	29
Mobile kinship: Exploring more-than-human entanglements in the context of climate-related planned relocation	28
BIG U(nicorn)?: The nature of nature in coastal resilience planning	26
A ‘City in Nature’ and its porcine interlopers: Confronting the edges of urban ecological order	25
Wildlife as an affective multiplicity: Approaching Deleuzo–Guattarian pack-animals	24
Understanding lived experiences of climate change adaptation processes: Diversification subjectivities among Maasai pastoralists in southern Kenya	22
Ecotopian imaginations, urban densities and the dispersal of affect in new cities in Southeast Asia	21
Ruderal involutions: An uneven vegetal geography of Coimbatore	20
Entangled, unraveled, and reconfigured: Human–animal relations among ethnic minority farmers and water buffalo in the northern uplands of Vietnam	20
The White Amur and the WasteShark: Hungry machines and circumventive remediations of waste	19
Environmental justice for whom? Citizen participation and brownfield redevelopment in downtown Birmingham, Alabama	19
Digital hives, nonhuman work and the real subsumption of nature: Fixing pollination in capitalist agriculture	18
Critical environmental justice and the Wasteocene: Oppression and resistance in an Italian prison during the Covid-19 pandemic	17
Value-rent-finance in Spain's solar transition	16
All dried up: The materiality of drought in Ladismith, South Africa	15
Chennai flyways: birds, biodiversity, and ecological decay	15
Farm borders and biosecurity bordering: Securing livestock identities in Aotearoa New Zealand	15
Contested estuary ontologies: The conflict over the fairway adaptation of the Elbe River, Germany	15
Brazilian concentration camps for drought refugees 1915/1932	14
The material politics of living in close proximity to our wastewaters: A case of decentralisation in the Netherlands	14
Toward autonomous abolition ecologies: Lessons from Stop Cop City at the end of liberal democracy	14
Territories of hope: A human geography of agrarian politics in Brazil	14
Producing conservation territories: Transforming páramos in Ecuador	14

Preparing the grounds for emancipation. Explaining commoning as an emancipatory mechanism through dialectical social theory	13
Destabilizing the science of soils: Geoscientists as spokespersons for land subsidence in Semarang, Indonesia	13
Beyond AI as an environmental pharmakon: Principles for reopening the problem-space of machine learning's carbon footprint	13
Contested flows: An ethnographic contribution to narratives of groundwater over abstraction in the central Jordanian highlands	12
Planning use values or values-based planning? “Rolling with” neoliberal flood risk governance in Vancouver, Canada	12
Fallowing the fields, feeding the fabs: Territorial restructuring and the political-industrial ecology of high-tech Taiwan	11
CORRIGENDUM to The social life of mangroves: Neoliberal development and mangrove conservation in the changing landscape of Kutch	11
Resonant relations: eco-lalia, political ec(h)ology and autistic ways of worlding	11
Scrutinising commodity hype in imaginaries of the Swedish green steel transition	11
Critically assembling water quality ethics beyond thresholds, hierarchies and best practices	11
On the fire line and on strike: Collective action by incarcerated firefighters 1971–2	10
Expertise, trading zones and the planning system: A case study of an energy-from-biomass plant	10
Don’t waste the crisis: The COVID-19 Anthropause as an experiment for rethinking human–environment relations	10
Organised abandonment in Lebanon's Litani River Basin	9
Race, citizenship, and belonging in the pursuit of water and climate justice in California	9
Casual killing in the home: Ecological citizenship and the micro-geopolitics of mosquito cohabitation	9
Enacting the blue economy in the Western Indian Ocean: A ‘collaborative blue economy governmentality’	9
Theme issue introduction: The species turn in Indian identity politics	9
Corrigendum to “Breeding distrust: The biopolitics of chronic wasting disease in white-tailed deer”	8
State, scarcity, and survival: A minor history of people and place in the Lower Bari Doab, Punjab	8
Climate change in Norway: Destabilized social imaginaries of welfare, growth, and nature in a rich oil state	8
Disentangling Waterworlds: The role of ‘agential cuts’ and ‘method assemblages’ in ontological politics – an example from Loweswater, the English Lake District	8
Material subjects: Wetland enclosure and the making of a speculative peasantry in peri-urban Vientiane	8
Land system resilience amidst the ravages of war: Insights from Tigray (Northern Ethiopia)	8
The socio-ecological contradictions of land degradation and coastal agriculture in south India	8
Placing animals in the Plantationocene: The plantation after/lives of nutria in Eastern Germany	8
Folk art, storytelling, and space: Collective memory and pesticide exposure	8
The coyote in the cloud	7
Buying nature to save it? From neoliberal failure to markets-at-hand	7
Making global oceans governance in/visible with Smart Earth: The case of Global Fishing Watch	7
Everyday politics of care and exclusion: Conceptualising agency in rural south India	7
Emotional subjectivities and the trajectory of a Peruvian mining conflict	7
Where land meets sea: Islands, erosion and the thing-power of hard coastal protection structures	7
The greening of human rights in Iran: Lake Orumiyeh, human rights, and environmental justice	7
Reindeer, rockets and space infrastructures: Enacting oligoptic-satellitarian environments in Northern Sweden	7
Just water transitions at the end of sugar in Maui, Hawai‘i	7
The socioenvironmental state and urban transitions: Eco-urbanism in China and the UK	7
Domestic technonatures: A research agenda on smart gardens and indoor food production	7
Building resilience or reinforcing vulnerability? The enduring allure of hard infrastructure as adaptation	7
Perpetual planning: Expertise, uncertainty, and the politics of delay in Colombia's Guayuriba river-basin	6
Engineering immunity? Biotechnical governance and the experimental failures of Project Wolbachia in Singapore	6
Conservation violence: Paradoxes of “making live” and “letting die” in anti-poaching practices	6
Smart energopower: Energy, work and waste within a UK smart grid trial	6
Uncertainty talk for bio-digital technologies: Expert conceptions of uncertainties in genomic selection for forestry	6
Making the mos(s)t of nature? Cleantech, smart nature-based solutions, and the ‘rendering investable’ of urban moss	6
Expulsion by suffocation: Soybean plantations, toxicity, and land grabbing in the Brazilian Amazon	6
“Making do”: Religious segregation and everyday water struggles	6
Decolonising spaces of knowledge production: Mpala research centre in Laikipia County, Kenya	6
Energopower, statecraft and political legitimacy	6
Reimagining the governance of water from the ground up: On the ‘worlding-practices’ of grassroots movements building alternative ‘water worlds’	6

The garden territory: Politics, aesthetics and the invention of green infrastructure in post-war Belgium	6
Analysis of ocean ontologies in three frameworks: A study of law of the sea discourse	5
Why now? Questioning the confidence in eco-political experimentation in civil society	5
Thirsty Forests and Expansive Droughts : The environmental impacts of data centers in Latin America	5
Nature and the extended city: Wasteland governmentality, the sacred, and anti-wasteland politics in the Aravalli region	5
Connecting across difference in environmental governance: Beyond rights, recognition, and participation	5
Reclaimed ecotones in the climate change era:A long-durée framing of urban expansion in Mumbai, Amsterdam, New York, and Tokyo	5
The ‘brother layer problem’: Routine killing, biotechnology and the pursuit of ‘ethical sustainability’ in industrial poultry	5
Pluralising the materiality of water: More-than-water, lively waters, water with, and the agency of hydro-social assemblages	5
Towards a transformative approach to just rural transitions: Landscape restoration in the Scottish highlands	5
‘We are not the ones to blame’: Stakeholders’ conflicting rationalities in wetlands management in Ghana	5
Geographies of Hope-in-Praxis: Collaboratively decolonizing relations and regenerating relational spaces	5
Gardens as multispecies public spaces in Georgian modernity	5
Decolonizing conservation? Indigenous resurgence and buffalo restoration in the American West	5
The politics of spatial memory and the Barrio : Narratives of climate-led adaptation and dispossession	5
Everyday youth climate politics and performances of climate citizenship in Aotearoa New Zealand	5
Bankrolling biodiversity: The politics of philanthropic conservation finance in Chile	5
Activism and non-activism: The politics of claiming environmental justice in Vietnam	5
Restoration as world-making and repair: A pragmatist agenda	5
Hydro-heritage for healing? Examining the gendered experience of water in post-conflict Swat, Pakistan	5
Storytelling dreams and life: Traveling across worlds in the Amazon of Ecuador	5
The invisible afterlives of extractivism: a queer feminist landscape perspective on Quiruvilca, Peru	5
Care and its discontents: Commodification, coercive cooperation, and resistance in Copenhagen Zoo	5
Indigenous companion planting in the great churn: Three sisters in Kalapuya ilihi	4
Imaginaries of planetary inhabitance: Polar futurism and the labors of climate science	4
Local institutional strategies and responses to climate change risks in the Indian Sundarbans: A political economic analysis	4
New political ecologies of renewable energy	4
Making development legible to capital: The promise and limits of ‘innovative’ debt financing for the Sustainable Development Goals in Indonesia	4
An uncooperative transition: Material contradictions in Chile's renewable energy boom	4
Strange birds of a feather: Israeli common myna, between invasiveness and belonging	4
Nuclear strata: Enacting clay for the deep geological disposal of nuclear waste in Switzerland	4
From “trust” to “trustworthiness”: Retheorizing dynamics of trust, distrust, and water security in North America	4
Bird feeding devices exclude unwelcome visitors. More-than-humans shaping the architecture and technology of birdfeeders in twentieth-century Finland	4
Corrigendum to Making global oceans governance in/visible with Smart Earth: The case of Global Fishing Watch	4
Multispecies storytelling in botanical worlds: The creative agencies of plants in contested ecologies	4
Rolling-stone multispecies ethnography: Intuition, intimacy, and violence in illegal animal production	4
Expelled from the garden? Understanding the dynamics of green gentrification in Vancouver, British Columbia	4
Indigenous coastal management in Papua New Guinea: Resilience and the revitalization of polepole stone fish traps on Lovongai Island	4
Judicialization as contestation: Ecocide, the small island states, and the international politics of environmental justice	4
AirPods and the earth: Digital technologies, planned obsolescence and the Capitalocene	4
Many mountain paths: Perceiving change in the management of community forests in the Hindu Kush Himalaya, Uttarakhand, India	4
Making a market in environmental credits I: Streams of value	4
Divergent environmentalisms, conflicting counter-hegemonies: Lessons from the rights of nature movement	4
Political ecologies of a university and land at Cairo's urban periphery: The American University in Cairo's suburban desert campus	4
Environmental justice and the state	4
Unabsorbed: Assemblages and spectres of contested Welsh waterscapes	4
River and drain: Ambiguity in the waterways of Accra	4
Weathering violence: Atmospheric materialities and olfactory durations of ‘skunk water’ in Palestine	4
Conversion, coordination and care: Unpacking housing-featured urban renaturing in Taichung	4
Conducting more inclusive solar geoengineering research: A feminist science framework	4
Advancing Indigenous climate justice: Māori perspectives on managed retreat and climate adaptation policy in Aotearoa New Zealand	4
Batteries not included: Navigating the contentious path development of battery recycling as a green industry in Shenzhen	4