| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Environmental governance: participatory, multi‐level – and effective? | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2009 | 726 |
| 2 | Environmental policy integration: a state of the art review | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2010 | 577 |
| 3 | Jumping off Arnstein's ladder: social learning as a new policy paradigm for climate change adaptation | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2009 | 327 |
| 4 | Understanding Policy Coherence: Analytical Framework and Examples of Sector–Environment Policy Interactions in the EU | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2012 | 295 |
| 5 | Towards a Conceptual Framework for The Study of Shifts in Modes of Environmental Governance – Experiences From The Netherlands | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2012 | 236 |
| 6 | Climate Policy Integration: a Case of Déjà Vu? | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2013 | 224 |
| 7 | Power in Sustainability Transitions: Analysing power and (dis)empowerment in transformative change towards sustainability | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2017 | 215 |
| 8 | Inclusive risk governance: concepts and application to environmental policy making | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2009 | 211 |
| 9 | Interplay of actors, scales, frameworks and regimes in the governance of biodiversity | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2009 | 179 |
| 10 | Adaptive Water Management and Policy Learning in a Changing Climate: a Formal Comparative Analysis of Eight Water Management Regimes in Europe, Africa and Asia | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2011 | 159 |
| 11 | Governing long‐term social–ecological change: what can the adaptive management and transition management approaches learn from each other? | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2009 | 139 |
| 12 | The Green Economy: Incremental Change or Transformation? | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2013 | 133 |
| 13 | Towards a Systematic Framework for the Analysis of Environmental Policy Integration | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2014 | 132 |
| 14 | A Literature Review on the Links between Environmental Regulation and Competitiveness | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2011 | 127 |
| 15 | Strategies of family farms to strengthen their resilience | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2010 | 126 |
| 16 | Selecting Policy Instruments for Better Environmental Regulation: a Critique and Future Research Agenda | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2012 | 121 |
| 17 | Examining processes or/and outcomes? Evaluation concepts in European governance of natural resources | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2009 | 119 |
| 18 | From government to governance for biodiversity: the perspective of central and Eastern European transition countries | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2009 | 105 |
| 19 | Evidence‐based policy or policy‐based evidence gathering? Biofuels, the EU and the 10% target | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2010 | 103 |
| 20 | Understanding partnerships for sustainable development analytically: the ladder of partnership activity as a methodological tool | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2011 | 99 |
| 21 | Local Environmental Enforcement Constrained by Central–Local Relations in China | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2014 | 98 |
| 22 | Legitimacy in Co‐Management: The Impact of Preexisting Structures, Social Networks and Governance Strategies | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2014 | 96 |
| 23 | Collaborative Governance for Climate Change Adaptation: Mapping citizen–municipality interactions | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2018 | 95 |
| 24 | Environmental Governance of China's Belt and Road Initiative | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2021 | 89 |
| 25 | Governance innovation for sustainability: exploring the tensions and dilemmas | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2010 | 79 |
| 26 | Forms of Participatory Modelling and its Potential for Widespread Adoption in the Water Sector | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2011 | 78 |
| 27 | Bringing polycentric systems into focus for environmental governance | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2018 | 78 |
| 28 | From citizen participation to government participation: An exploration of the roles of local governments in community initiatives for climate change adaptation in the Netherlands | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2019 | 78 |
| 29 | Trust, public participation and environmental governance in Hong Kong | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2009 | 77 |
| 30 | Policy Mixes, Policy Interplay and Low Carbon Transitions: The Case of Passenger Transport in Finland | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2014 | 75 |
| 31 | Comparative Climate Change Governance: Lessons from European Transnational Municipal Network Management Efforts | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2013 | 74 |
| 32 | Using Social Network Analysis to Monitor and Assess the Effectiveness of Knowledge Brokers at Connecting Scientists and Decision‐Makers: An Australian case study | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2017 | 74 |
| 33 | Public Participation and Environmental Justice in Biodiversity Governance in Finland, Greece, Poland and the UK | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2015 | 73 |
| 34 | Participatory futures methods: towards adaptability and resilience in climate‐vulnerable communities | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2009 | 69 |
| 35 | Collective action in a polycentric water governance system | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2018 | 68 |
| 36 | Local strategic planning processes and sustainability transitions in infrastructure sectors | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2010 | 67 |
| 37 | A semiautomated approach to analyzing polycentricity | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2018 | 67 |
| 38 | Editorial: living with environmental change: adaptation as social learning | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2009 | 66 |
| 39 | Natural hazard insurance in Europe: tailored responses to climate change are needed | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2011 | 66 |
| 40 | Policy and Governance for Sustainable Consumption at the Crossroads of Theories and Concepts | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2016 | 65 |
| 41 | The evolution of Chinese policies and governance structures on environment, energy and climate | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2010 | 64 |
| 42 | Implementation and integration of EU environmental directives. Experiences from The Netherlands | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2009 | 63 |
| 43 | European Climate Change Perceptions: Public support for mitigation and adaptation policies | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2016 | 62 |
| 44 | Social learning for solving complex problems: a promising solution or wishful thinking? A case study of multi‐actor negotiation for the integrated management and sustainable use of the Drentsche Aa area in the Netherlands | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2009 | 61 |
| 45 | Transforming urban water governance through social (triple‐loop) learning | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2019 | 60 |
| 46 | What Role for Public Participation in Implementing the EU Floods Directive? A Comparison With the Water Framework Directive, Early Evidence from Germany and a Research Agenda | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2014 | 58 |
| 47 | Accountability in Networked Governance: Learning from a case of landscape‐scale forest conservation | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2015 | 58 |
| 48 | The Role of Regional Governments in Climate Change Policy | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2011 | 56 |
| 49 | From Risk Governance to City–Citizen Collaboration: Capitalizing on individual adaptation to climate change | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2016 | 56 |
| 50 | Participation of experts and non‐experts in a sustainability assessment of mobility | Environmental Policy and Governance | 2009 | 55 |
