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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Governing pathological markets: Microbes, banana export markets, and speculative farming practices	55
The permissible and the perverse: Indian geographies of interspecies sex	46
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	28
BIG U(nicorn)?: The nature of nature in coastal resilience planning	27
Debating animal agriculture in contemporary India: Ethics, politics, ecologies	27
Ruderal involutions: An uneven vegetal geography of Coimbatore	24
Mobile kinship: Exploring more-than-human entanglements in the context of climate-related planned relocation	21
Bodies in Landscapes: Entanglements of trout and waters in South Africa	21
Wildlife as an affective multiplicity: Approaching Deleuzo–Guattarian pack-animals	21
Chennai flyways: birds, biodiversity, and ecological decay	20
Contested estuary ontologies: The conflict over the fairway adaptation of the Elbe River, Germany	20
Dealing with sentient surplus: A moral economy of greyhound rehoming	20
Digital hives, nonhuman work and the real subsumption of nature: Fixing pollination in capitalist agriculture	19
Value-rent-finance in Spain's solar transition	18
The White Amur and the WasteShark: Hungry machines and circumventive remediations of waste	17
Critical environmental justice and the Wasteocene: Oppression and resistance in an Italian prison during the Covid-19 pandemic	17
Environmental justice for whom? Citizen participation and brownfield redevelopment in downtown Birmingham, Alabama	17
Farm borders and biosecurity bordering: Securing livestock identities in Aotearoa New Zealand	16
Beyond AI as an environmental pharmakon: Principles for reopening the problem-space of machine learning's carbon footprint	16
Planning use values or values-based planning? “Rolling with” neoliberal flood risk governance in Vancouver, Canada	15
The material politics of living in close proximity to our wastewaters: A case of decentralisation in the Netherlands	15
Oysteropolis: Animals in coastal gentrification	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

Territories of hope: A human geography of agrarian politics in Brazil	13
Scrutinising commodity hype in imaginaries of the Swedish green steel transition	13
Contested flows: An ethnographic contribution to narratives of groundwater over abstraction in the central Jordanian highlands	13
The bioeconomy, carbon sinks, and depoliticization in Finnish forest politics	12
All dried up: The materiality of drought in Ladismith, South Africa	12
CORRIGENDUM to The social life of mangroves: Neoliberal development and mangrove conservation in the changing landscape of Kutch	12
Producing conservation territories: Transforming páramos in Ecuador	12
Critically assembling water quality ethics beyond thresholds, hierarchies and best practices	11
Enacting the blue economy in the Western Indian Ocean: A ‘collaborative blue economy governmentality’	11
Expertise, trading zones and the planning system: A case study of an energy-from-biomass plant	11
Theme issue introduction: The species turn in Indian identity politics	10
Don’t waste the crisis: The COVID-19 Anthropause as an experiment for rethinking human–environment relations	10
On the fire line and on strike: Collective action by incarcerated firefighters 1971–2	10
Caring for water in Northern Peru: On fragile infrastructures and the diverse work involved in irrigation	10
Resonant relations: eco-lalia, political ec(h)ology and autistic ways of worlding	10
Organised abandonment in Lebanon's Litani River Basin	9
The socio-ecological contradictions of land degradation and coastal agriculture in south India	9
Buying nature to save it? From neoliberal failure to markets-at-hand	9
Disentangling Waterworlds: The role of ‘agential cuts’ and ‘method assemblages’ in ontological politics – an example from Loweswater, the English Lake District	9
Corrigendum to “Breeding distrust: The biopolitics of chronic wasting disease in white-tailed deer”	9
Race, citizenship, and belonging in the pursuit of water and climate justice in California	9
Placing animals in the Plantationocene: The plantation after/lives of nutria in Eastern Germany	9
Emotional subjectivities and the trajectory of a Peruvian mining conflict	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
Folk art, storytelling, and space: Collective memory and pesticide exposure	8
Just water transitions at the end of sugar in Maui, Hawai‘i	8
State, scarcity, and survival: A minor history of people and place in the Lower Bari Doab, Punjab	8
Material subjects: Wetland enclosure and the making of a speculative peasantry in peri-urban Vientiane	8
Holding water for the city: Emergent geographies of storage and the urbanization of nature	8
Everyday politics of care and exclusion: Conceptualising agency in rural south India	7
Making global oceans governance in/visible with Smart Earth: The case of Global Fishing Watch	7
Decolonising spaces of knowledge production: Mpala research centre in Laikipia County, Kenya	7
Energopower, statecraft and political legitimacy	7
Conservation violence: Paradoxes of “making live” and “letting die” in anti-poaching practices	7
The garden territory: Politics, aesthetics and the invention of green infrastructure in post-war Belgium	7
Where land meets sea: Islands, erosion and the thing-power of hard coastal protection structures	7
The coyote in the cloud	7
Pathways, targets and temporalities: Analysing English agriculture's net zero futures	7
Unruly Mountains: Hydropower assemblages and geological surprises in the Indian Himalayas	7
Making the mos(s)t of nature? Cleantech, smart nature-based solutions, and the ‘rendering investable’ of urban moss	7
The socioenvironmental state and urban transitions: Eco-urbanism in China and the UK	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
Domestic technonatures: A research agenda on smart gardens and indoor food production	7
The greening of human rights in Iran: Lake Orumiyeh, human rights, and environmental justice	6
Smart energopower: Energy, work and waste within a UK smart grid trial	6
Pluralising the materiality of water: More-than-water, lively waters, water with, and the agency of hydro-social assemblages	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

Building resilience or reinforcing vulnerability? The enduring allure of hard infrastructure as adaptation	6
Uncertainty talk for bio-digital technologies: Expert conceptions of uncertainties in genomic selection for forestry	6
Bankrolling biodiversity: The politics of philanthropic conservation finance in Chile	6
Seascape shadows: Life in the ruins of the edible bird's nest harvest in northern Palawan, the Philippines	6
Reindeer, rockets and space infrastructures: Enacting oligoptic-satellitarian environments in Northern Sweden	6
Perpetual planning: Expertise, uncertainty, and the politics of delay in Colombia's Guayuriba river-basin	6
Restoration as world-making and repair: A pragmatist agenda	6
Landscape plasticity and its erasure	6
The politics of spatial memory and the Barrio : Narratives of climate-led adaptation and dispossession	5
Analysis of ocean ontologies in three frameworks: A study of law of the sea discourse	5
Nature and the extended city: Wasteland governmentality, the sacred, and anti-wasteland politics in the Aravalli region	5
Storytelling dreams and life: Traveling across worlds in the Amazon of Ecuador	5
Connecting across difference in environmental governance: Beyond rights, recognition, and participation	5
Geographies of Hope-in-Praxis: Collaboratively decolonizing relations and regenerating relational spaces	5
Expelled from the garden? Understanding the dynamics of green gentrification in Vancouver, British Columbia	5
Everyday youth climate politics and performances of climate citizenship in Aotearoa New Zealand	5
Hydro-heritage for healing? Examining the gendered experience of water in post-conflict Swat, Pakistan	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
Decolonizing conservation? Indigenous resurgence and buffalo restoration in the American West	5
Reclaimed ecotones in the climate change era:A long-durée framing of urban expansion in Mumbai, Amsterdam, New York, and Tokyo	5
Solar power for some? Energy transition injustices in Kerala, India	5
Conserving inequality: How private conservation and property developers ‘fix’ spatial injustice in South Africa	5
Towards a transformative approach to just rural transitions: Landscape restoration in the Scottish highlands	5
Care and its discontents: Commodification, coercive cooperation, and resistance in Copenhagen Zoo	5