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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Entangled, unraveled, and reconfigured: Human–animal relations among ethnic minority farmers and water buffalo in the northern uplands of Vietnam	60
Living with invasive weeds? Reflections on migrant and decolonial ecologies and multispecies co-existence with vilified plants	39
WATERS-AS-TERRITORIES: A feminist situated perspective to understand current hydrosocial struggles in Chiloé (and beyond)	37
Ecotopian imaginations, urban densities and the dispersal of affect in new cities in Southeast Asia	30
Insuring the reef: Governance and risk for a public trust resource in a changing climate	29
Shifting sands and ecological uncertainties: An urban political ecology of dredging in Mombasa	29
Understanding lived experiences of climate change adaptation processes: Diversification subjectivities among Maasai pastoralists in southern Kenya	29
A ‘City in Nature’ and its porcine interlopers: Confronting the edges of urban ecological order	26
The eco-munitionary subject: Conservation with and of firearms	24
Governing pathological markets: Microbes, banana export markets, and speculative farming practices	23
BIG U(nicorn)?: The nature of nature in coastal resilience planning	21
Ruderal involutions: An uneven vegetal geography of Coimbatore	21
Wildlife as an affective multiplicity: Approaching Deleuzo–Guattarian pack-animals	20
Bodies in Landscapes: Entanglements of trout and waters in South Africa	20
Mobile kinship: Exploring more-than-human entanglements in the context of climate-related planned relocation	20
Chennai flyways: birds, biodiversity, and ecological decay	19
Contested estuary ontologies: The conflict over the fairway adaptation of the Elbe River, Germany	18
The White Amur and the WasteShark: Hungry machines and circumventive remediations of waste	18
Value-rent-finance in Spain's solar transition	17
Digital hives, nonhuman work and the real subsumption of nature: Fixing pollination in capitalist agriculture	17
Environmental justice for whom? Citizen participation and brownfield redevelopment in downtown Birmingham, Alabama	16
Critical environmental justice and the Wasteocene: Oppression and resistance in an Italian prison during the Covid-19 pandemic	16
All dried up: The materiality of drought in Ladismith, South Africa	15
Territories of hope: A human geography of agrarian politics in Brazil	15
The material politics of living in close proximity to our wastewaters: A case of decentralisation in the Netherlands	15

Destabilizing the science of soils: Geoscientists as spokespersons for land subsidence in Semarang, Indonesia	14
Planning use values or values-based planning? “Rolling with” neoliberal flood risk governance in Vancouver, Canada	14
Scrutinising commodity hype in imaginaries of the Swedish green steel transition	14
Conservation-by-alienation: Koliwadi forest estrangement in Maharashtra, India	13
Contested flows: An ethnographic contribution to narratives of groundwater over abstraction in the central Jordanian highlands	13
Destroy to create: Geopolitical ecologies and gendered dispossessions of solar development in Ghana	13
Fallowing the fields, feeding the fabs: Territorial restructuring and the political-industrial ecology of high-tech Taiwan	13
Beyond AI as an environmental pharmakon: Principles for reopening the problem-space of machine learning's carbon footprint	13
Producing conservation territories: Transforming páramos in Ecuador	12
Toward autonomous abolition ecologies: Lessons from Stop Cop City at the end of liberal democracy	12
Farm borders and biosecurity bordering: Securing livestock identities in Aotearoa New Zealand	12
Brazilian concentration camps for drought refugees 1915/1932	12
Building a future in place: Bridging abolition ecology and critical development studies	11
Resonant relations: eco-lalia, political ec(h)ology and autistic ways of worlding	11
CORRIGENDUM to The social life of mangroves: Neoliberal development and mangrove conservation in the changing landscape of Kutch	11
Organised abandonment in Lebanon's Litani River Basin	10
Don’t waste the crisis: The COVID-19 Anthropause as an experiment for rethinking human–environment relations	10
Critically assembling water quality ethics beyond thresholds, hierarchies and best practices	10
Race, citizenship, and belonging in the pursuit of water and climate justice in California	10
Emotional subjectivities and the trajectory of a Peruvian mining conflict	9
Enacting the blue economy in the Western Indian Ocean: A ‘collaborative blue economy governmentality’	9
Casual killing in the home: Ecological citizenship and the micro-geopolitics of mosquito cohabitation	9
Making global oceans governance in/visible with Smart Earth: The case of Global Fishing Watch	9
On the fire line and on strike: Collective action by incarcerated firefighters 1971–2	9
Expertise, trading zones and the planning system: A case study of an energy-from-biomass plant	9
Where land meets sea: Islands, erosion and the thing-power of hard coastal protection structures	9
Disentangling Waterworlds: The role of ‘agential cuts’ and ‘method assemblages’ in ontological politics – an example from Loweswater, the English Lake District	9
Theme issue introduction: The species turn in Indian identity politics	9
Just water transitions at the end of sugar in Maui, Hawai‘i	9
Land system resilience amidst the ravages of war: Insights from Tigray (Northern Ethiopia)	8
The socioenvironmental state and urban transitions: Eco-urbanism in China and the UK	8
The toil for soil: Earthing agricultural care in the Western Himalaya	8
Folk art, storytelling, and space: Collective memory and pesticide exposure	8
Reduce, remove, avoid? Making a market for peatland carbon credits in the UK	8
Feminist political ecologies of extraction: Spirits, bodies, and embodied small-scale mining practices in Ghana	8
Material subjects: Wetland enclosure and the making of a speculative peasantry in peri-urban Vientiane	8
Buying nature to save it? From neoliberal failure to markets-at-hand	8
The coyote in the cloud	8
Socializing with contaminated wastelands: Pluralistic toxic worldings at the Pine Street Barge Canal Brownfield in Burlington, Vermont	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
Corrigendum to “Breeding distrust: The biopolitics of chronic wasting disease in white-tailed deer”	8
Domestic technonatures: A research agenda on smart gardens and indoor food production	7
Reimagining the governance of water from the ground up: On the ‘worlding-practices’ of grassroots movements building alternative ‘water worlds’	7
Operationalizing and navigating ambiguity – Land-making and fisherfolk negotiations in the land-water frontier of Karachi	7
Placing animals in the Plantationocene: The plantation after/lives of nutria in Eastern Germany	7
The garden territory: Politics, aesthetics and the invention of green infrastructure in post-war Belgium	7
Conservation violence: Paradoxes of “making live” and “letting die” in anti-poaching practices	7
The wilderness fetish: The mystification of nature conservation in the age of capital	7
“Making do”: Religious segregation and everyday water struggles	7

Making the mos(s)t of nature? Cleantech, smart nature-based solutions, and the ‘rendering investable’ of urban moss	7
Decolonising spaces of knowledge production: Mpala research centre in Laikipia County, Kenya	7
Reindeer, rockets and space infrastructures: Enacting oligoptic-satellitarian environments in Northern Sweden	7
Farming with care: Naming, protecting, and sustaining Black farm practices in the US South	6
Phule's ecology: Cultivating anti-caste natures	6
Expulsion by suffocation: Soybean plantations, toxicity, and land grabbing in the Brazilian Amazon	6
Everyday politics of care and exclusion: Conceptualising agency in rural south India	6
Gardens as multispecies public spaces in Georgian modernity	6
Everyday youth climate politics and performances of climate citizenship in Aotearoa New Zealand	6
Climate change resettlement and inhabitation: Spatialising cultures of colonial pasts and alternative futures in the Global South	6
Engineering immunity? Biotechnical governance and the experimental failures of Project Wolbachia in Singapore	6
Thirsty Forests and Expansive Droughts : The environmental impacts of data centers in Latin America	6
Towards a transformative approach to just rural transitions: Landscape restoration in the Scottish highlands	6
Hydro-heritage for healing? Examining the gendered experience of water in post-conflict Swat, Pakistan	6
Building resilience or reinforcing vulnerability? The enduring allure of hard infrastructure as adaptation	6
Energopower, statecraft and political legitimacy	6
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
Nature and the extended city: Wasteland governmentality, the sacred, and anti-wasteland politics in the Aravalli region	6
‘We are not the ones to blame’: Stakeholders’ conflicting rationalities in wetlands management in Ghana	5
Why now? Questioning the confidence in eco-political experimentation in civil society	5
Activism and non-activism: The politics of claiming environmental justice in Vietnam	5
Conversion, coordination and care: Unpacking housing-featured urban renaturing in Taichung	5
The politics of spatial memory and the Barrio : Narratives of climate-led adaptation and dispossession	5
Hidden forces: Geopolitical ecology, climate apartheid, and the military-industrial complex in Massachusetts	5
Uncertainty talk for bio-digital technologies: Expert conceptions of uncertainties in genomic selection for forestry	5
Perpetual planning: Expertise, uncertainty, and the politics of delay in Colombia's Guayuriba river-basin	5
Bankrolling biodiversity: The politics of philanthropic conservation finance in Chile	5
Strange birds of a feather: Israeli common myna, between invasiveness and belonging	5
The environmental consumer subject: Multispecies relationality in neoliberal environmental governance	5
Pluralising the materiality of water: More-than-water, lively waters, water with, and the agency of hydro-social assemblages	5
Speculative sovereignty and militarized ecologies: Flower bombs and political trees in Kashmir	5
Storytelling dreams and life: Traveling across worlds in the Amazon of Ecuador	5
Restoration as world-making and repair: A pragmatist agenda	5
Geographies of Hope-in-Praxis: Collaboratively decolonizing relations and regenerating relational spaces	5
Judicialization as contestation: Ecocide, the small island states, and the international politics of environmental justice	5
Analysis of ocean ontologies in three frameworks: A study of law of the sea discourse	5
Microbial shepherding: The creation of culture(s) at the more-than-artisan scale	5