Environmental Politics

Papers
(The median citation count of Environmental Politics is 1. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Life against states of emergency: revitalizing treaty relations from Attawapiskat156
Petrochemical planet. Multiscalar battles of industrial transformation81
Educating for the anthropocene: schooling and activism in the face of slow violence54
What makes Guatemalan citizens green?41
“We grow earth”: performing eco-agrarian citizenship at the semi-periphery of Europe38
Obstructing change: political inertia and the maintenance of climate inaction in Australia38
Towards ‘just access’: a critical framework for analyzing migrant labor governance in the green transition37
An EV-fix for Indonesia: the green development-resource nationalist nexus34
Voters do not punish their government for climate policies under favorable conditions34
Internal climate leadership in municipal organizations. How paradoxical and transformational leadership of higher-level management shape climate leadership of lower-level managers33
Crowdsourcing infrastructures of green everyday life: how sustainable sharing, swapping and gardening initiatives in Vienna tackle the lack of transformative agency in eco-politics32
From (De)regulation to industrialization? Chilean lithium policy in comparative perspective31
Negotiating just transitions: power and interest dynamics in insurgent sustainability coalitions31
Defending the climate cause within the state: the ministry of ecology and the drafting of France’s national low-carbon strategy (2017–2020)30
Environmental activism and authoritarianism in Myanmar: interrogating assemblages across three political epochs29
Understanding the rights of nature: a critical introduction26
Everywhere you vote, you always take the weather with you: the effects of local temperature anomalies on Green party voting26
Fluid hope in a climate emergency: Lessons from an English citizens’ jury26
Where to aim with multispecies climate justice? A critical realist account24
The central bank lacuna in green state transformation23
Earth system boundaries and Earth system justice: sharing the ecospace23
The Dao of Civilization: A Letter to China22
Reading contemporary environmental justice: narratives from Kerala22
Law’s quick fix? Ecocide, social transformation and the pitfalls of criminalisation19
The desire for environmental justice: psychoanalysis and the political power of enjoyment18
Net zero by 2050: the case for green industrial policy18
Kindling green hate through eco- and demographic anxiety18
When Fracking Comes to Town: governance, planning, and economic impacts of the US Shale Boom17
The global criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest – a repertoire of repression17
Geo-themed and geo-centric thought: reflections on the onto-epistemological basis of critical thought’s geologic turn17
Actors, legitimacy, and governance challenges facing negative emissions and solar geoengineering technologies16
Mobilising care in the polycrisis: framing eco-social activism in Hungary, Czechia, and Poland16
Beyond Europeanization: political ecology and environmentalism in Central and Eastern Europe16
A dynamic institutional analysis of China’s engagement with Africa’s renewable energy market16
Closing the implementation gap in urban climate policy: Mexico’s public transit buildup16
Rethinking party environmentalism: the environmental politics expert survey15
Persuading the public: nationalist propaganda and support for costly environmental policies in China15
Hard to say goodbye: South Korea, Japan, and China as the last lenders for coal15
In praise of floods: the untamed river and the life it brings15
Exploring the politics of degrowth – first evidence from two cases of repair policies in Austria and Sweden14
Climate populism: the limits of the ideational and discursive approaches14
Ecocidal impunity? Wars and the profitability of the chemical corporation in the global south14
China’s Green Belt and Road Initiative: transnational environmental governance and causal pathways of orchestration13
Geoengineering, climate change and ecological security13
Multi-layered differentiation in the climate regime: the gradual path from Rio to Paris13
Regulatory capture related to environmental risks: a systematic review on empirical research13
Mass animal starvation and the global development paradigm: toward multispecies food sovereignty as global wellbeing13
Australian third sector actors’ theories of change for climate justice: real and apparent barriers and obscured root causes13
It’s not just climate: rethinking ‘climate emotions’ in the age of burnout capitalism13
Geoengineering discourse confronting climate change: the move from margins to mainstream in science, news media, and politics13
The pivotal generation: why we have a moral responsibility to slow climate change right now13
Certifying China: the rise and limits of transnational sustainability governance in emerging economies12
States and nature: the effects of climate change on security12
Climate Migration - critical perspectives for law, policy and research12
Subjects of intergenerational justice: indigenous philosophy, the environment and relationships12
The impact of corruption on climate change mitigation: a review article12
Like diamonds in the sky? Public perceptions, governance, and information framing of solar geoengineering activities in Mexico, the United Kingdom, and the United States12
Stories we live by and may die by: ideologies in newspaper reports of pipeline vandalism11
Big dilemmas, little time: intergenerational climate justice and public support for deep decarbonisation11
Hide and brag: the strategic use of media in China’s war on air pollution11
Environmental apocalypse and space: the lost dimension of the end of the world11
Pulling together or pulling apart? Understanding the heterogenous collective action frames of local climate activists through a Q methodology study11
Making and breaking promises: must a country harmonize its climate pledges and policies?11
Feeling climate change: how emotions govern our responses to the climate emergency11
The national knowledge politics of monitoring and evaluating adaptation to climate change: processes of repair, theatrical performance and legitimacy10
Prefiguring multispecies justice: how communities are challenging and transfiguring care, labour, and belonging in the midst of climate catastrophe10
Power lines: the human costs of american energy in transition10
Mainstream parties and climate policy development: what role for intra-party politics?10
A framework for classifying climate change questions used in public opinion surveys10
“What we can do is contribute to EU goals”: Latvia’s strategic narrative challenges in pursuing climate neutrality10
Doubling down on DAPL: the contentious politics of pipeline governance in Illinois10
Review of Acknowledging indigenous knowledge: voices of tropical forest people10
Fugitive Politics: The Struggle For Ecological Sanity10
What’s capitalism – generational differentiation in the climate movement9
Why do Australians prefer some climate migrants over others?9
Clinging to power: status threat and attitudes toward the renewable energy transition9
A climate fit for capitalism: ordoliberalism’s political ecology and German environmental politics9
A tale of two coals: the politics of time in coal phase out8
Radical incrementalism: hydropolitics and environmental discourses in Laos8
All we want is the earth: land, labour and movements beyond environmentalism8
Care-centered politics – from the home to the planet8
Mnemonic ecologies: memory and nature conservation along the former Iron Curtain8
The self-work of planetary justice8
Green Is the New Bad: Libertarian Populism and the Edgar Friendly Style of Climate Denial8
The renaissance of carbon capture and storage in Germany and the politics of conditionality8
Climate-just behavior: foundations and transformational approaches8
Governing through the nationally determined contribution (NDC): five functions to steer states’ climate conduct7
Pope Francis and the environment, act 2. Time for decisive climate action7
Sustainable development and the environment in EU and Japanese free trade agreements: embedding anthropocentric narratives7
Values-based environmental justice: conflicts and promises in mining territories7
The multilevel governance of polarised climate politics: how a pioneer city navigates a dynamic political context7
Differences within global movements: insights from FFF climate protests in Western and Eastern Europe7
The Role of International Engagement in Greening China’s Belt and Road Initiative6
Citizens united and state environmental policy, regulations, and outcomes6
Anti-environmentalism as conservative coalition maintenance: an automated text analysis of National Review6
Capitalism at the roots: the crisis of representative democracy through the eyes of Belgian climate activists6
A turning point in global biodiversity governance?6
A Strategic Nature: Public Relations and the Politics of American Environmentalism6
Resolving the climate crisis6
Cosmopolitics in action: bridging the human-non-human divide in everyday environmental conflicts6
Extreme weather and climate policy6
Power & temporality in pursuing transformative planetary justice6
Process skeptical populist framing of climate change in right-leaning media6
More and more and more: an all-consuming history of energy5
Color-blind racial ideology and beliefs about environmental inequality among local US government officials5
Building capabilities for Earth system governance5
America’s energy gamble: people, economy and planet5
The politics and governance of phase-out: a framework for empirical research5
From rejection to reliance on carbon capture and storage in Denmark: a case of mitigation deterrence?5
Consenting publics: fair nuclear waste repository siting?5
Incremental progress or dangerous incrementalism? The case of tire wear pollution in global environmental governance5
Climate Change and Biodiversity Governance in the Amazon: At the Edge of Ecological Collapse?5
Distributive justice discourses, time and futures: a social media discourse analysis of the loss and damages debate5
Whose system, what change? A critical political economy approach to the UK climate movement5
Policymaker environmental communication in the wake of natural disasters5
Climate change mitigation and the European Union: a Lacanian exploration of desire and enjoyment5
The political economy of supply-side climate policy in the UK5
Youth climate activism in shrinking spaces: how Uganda’s activists navigate red lines4
Public opinion foundations of the clean energy transition4
The challenge of ratcheting up climate ambitions: Implementing the ‘experimentalist‘ EU energy and climate governance regulation4
Critical environmental justice in contemporary scholarship and movements: consensus and plurality of the discourse4
The environmental state in a political context: explaining institutional change in Georgia and Armenia4
Does global integration foster environmental mobilization? The effect of global norms on environmental movement participation4
The performative state: public scrutiny and environmental governance in China4
Command and control or market-based instruments? Public support for policies to address vehicular pollution in Beijing and New Delhi4
From seas to oceans: assessing the Latin American states’ contribution towards a regime complexification4
Supply-side policies in coal transitions and country vulnerabilities: a systematic literature review4
Fossil fuel reliance and public support for climate change mitigation: evidence from 105 countries4
Contested discourses of a circular plastics economy in Europe: prioritizing material, economy, or society?4
Climate action versus environmental protection? How far-right and environmentalist messengers shape public attitudes towards renewable energy infrastructure in forests4
National climate change acts: the emergence, form and nature of national framework climate legislation4
Understanding and explaining populist radical right parties’ commitment to animal welfare in Western Europe4
Climate policymaking in an autocracy: the case of Russia’s law on GHG emissions4
Party polarization, disappearing regions, and nationalized environmental politics: evidence from US Congress4
Mapping organized interests across arenas in Australian climate policy4
NIMBYs, shills and liars: ancient woodland, high-speed rail and the legibility of justifications4
Post-Apocalyptic environmentalism. The green movement in times of catastrophe4
Climate obstruction: how Denial, delay and inaction are heating the planet3
From miners to markets: discursive struggle in Romania’s coal phase-out3
Correction3
Race in the Anthropocene: coloniality, disavowal and the Black Horizon3
Appealing to Independents: information on negative externalities increases support for environmental corrective taxes3
Unveiling Moroccan perspectives on the EU-Morocco Green Partnership: assessing its potential for a sustainable future for Morocco3
The Care Economy3
Climate whataboutism and rightwing populism: how emissions blame-shifting translates nationalist attitudes into climate policy opposition3
Sustainable educational leadership and the climate crisis: knowledge, power, and positive futures3
Three waves of resource nationalism: a history of Quebec’s extractive path dependency3
Beneath the insuperable barrier: accumulation, state managers and climate policy in Britain3
Careful knowing as an aspect of environmental justice3
A Blue New Deal: why we need a new politics for the Ocean3
Just transitions under pressure: from early visions to new proposals and trajectories in the Global South3
Political polarization and the energy policy paradox: assessing the impact of South Korea’s nuclear power phase-out policy3
Capping oil emissions and the mass politics of Canadian sectoral climate policy3
Polarizing figures in polarized times: presidential involvement and public opinion on climate policy3
Reading the room: developing a practical justice politics of regional energy transition3
The aesthetics of climate misinformation: computational multimodal framing analysis with BERTopic and CLIP3
How politicians and the population attribute responsibility for climate change mitigation: no indication of a ‘governance trap’ in Norway3
Indigenous knowledge and disaster risk reduction: insight towards perception, response, adaptation and sustainability3
Which Amazon problem? Problem-constructions and transnationalism in Brazilian presidential discourse since 19853
Climate security reversed: the implications of alternative security policies for global warming2
Review of Machin and Wissenburg (2025) (eds.), Handbook of environmental political theory in the Anthropocene and Burke and Fishel (2025), 2
Organising responses to climate change: the politics of mitigation, adaptation and suffering2
Extinction Rebellion’s disobedient environmental citizenism2
Fossil fuel divestment and public climate change policy preferences: an experimental test in three countries2
Catastrophes, confrontations, and constraints: how disasters shape the dynamics of armed conflict2
Somewhere I belong: the field of new climate activists and the Czech environmental movement2
Internet usage, environmental knowledge, and the surge of air pollution concern in China2
Constructing climate change rentierism in Jordan2
Global governance of the environment, indigenous peoples and the rights of nature2
Encounters with the posthuman and the environment2
Climate change doesn’t win you a climate election: party competition in the 2021 Norwegian general election2
Decolonial praxis for postponing the end of the world: an epistemological reflection on the criminalization of ecocide2
Phase-out clubs: an effective tool for global climate governance?2
Failing forward: the rise and fall of Neoliberal conservation2
Review of the Handbook of Critical Environmental Politics2
A just transition for all: workers and communities for a carbon-free future2
The matter with subjects of justice2
Not really concerned? Populist radical right voters and climate change2
Penal environmentalism2
Searching for a recipe for success: environmental citizen petitions under free trade agreements2
Cultivating hope: caring for a precarious emotion in the Ultima Generazione movement2
A critical defence of the crime of ecocide2
Indigenous and traditional communities’ ways of knowing and being in planetary justice2
Planetary justice: a systematic analysis of an emerging discourse2
Disasters and divisions: how partisanship shapes policymaker responses to natural disasters2
How nationalist rhetoric drives polarization over climate change in the US2
Why path dependence leads to a fossilized Alberta: regionalism and the climate transition in Canada2
An environmental education: how the education realignment polarized Congress on the environment1
Navigating the polycrisis: mapping the futures of capitalism and the earth1
From international organizations to local governments: how foreign environmental aid reaches subnational beneficiaries in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico1
Explaining differences in party reactions to the Fridays for Future-movement – a qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) of parties in three European countries1
Waste as a Critique1
Democratic Norms of Earth System Governance: Deliberative Politics in the Anthropocene1
Climate obstruction in unlikely contexts: de-thematization, scare frames, and strategic differentiation in Germany1
André Gorz: A Life1
Ecological Democracy: Caring for the Earth in the Anthropocene1
Book Review: Loss and Damage in Climate Politics1
‘With great power comes great responsibility’: climate change and the politics of simulation of the oil industry1
Environmental governance of China’s Belt and Road Initiative1
Navigating desires beyond growth: the critical role of fantasy in degrowth’s environmental politics and prefigurative ethics1
Decolonial ecology: thinking from the Caribbean world1
The economy-environment tradeoff: are individual environmental priorities decoupled from national economic conditions?1
States of transition: from governing the environment to transforming society1
Partnerships of developmental pragmatism: greenwashing the BRI in Southeast Asia1
EU climate policy in turbulent times: understanding the response to the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine1
Climate justice in India1
Who cares about gender? A comparison of parties’ commitment to gender equality in the UN climate regime1
What is planetary justice?1
The long heat: climate politics when it’s too late1
Energy transformation in parliamentary debates: shifting from technologies to climate strategy in Finland1
From climate crisis to energy crisis: foster public support for renewable energy transition through framing1
Reassessing the economy–environment tradeoff: do industry sectors, green jobs opportunities, and regulatory threats affect environmental concerns?1
Does right-wing populism undermine public support for environmental policies in Europe?1
Governing climate migration: the right to a livable space1
A feminist climate policy? Examining Canada’s climate commitments1
Two cheers for collapse? On the uses and abuses of the societal collapse thesis for imagining Anthropocene futures1
Deliberative Governance for Sustainable Development. An Innovative Solution for Environment, Economy and Society1
Change in global environmental politics: temporal focal points and the reform of international institutions1
Between evidence first and political fight – understanding dynamics of (de-)politicization in US climate movements’ future narratives1
Rock | water | life: ecology and humanities for a Decolonial South Africa1
When legitimacy backfires: symbolic policy signals and strategic green compliance in China’s multi-level governance1
“Nodding through” instead of decision-making: power in participatory governance of the coal phase-out in Lusatia, Germany1
Pipeline populism: grassroots environmentalism in the twenty-first century1
Green Republicanism and the ‘crises of democracy’1
Ecological apologies: reckoning with grief, guilt, and multispecies justice1
On the contested compliance of CBDRRC and the erosion of trust1
Conditional environmentalism of right-wing populism in power: ideology and/or opportunities?1
Polish Catholic environmentalism as the counterculture movement1
Spiral-scaling climate action: lessons from and for the academic flying less movement1
Beyond disobedience: ethical frontiers and political strategies in the climate crisis1
Anti-environmentalism and the natural ‘wages of whiteness’1
Climate policy in an era of disruption: the impact of COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine on the United States, Russia, Canada and the European Union1
The role of networked governance for local climate policy output. Evidence from Europe1
How are environmental non-governmental organizations setting the agenda on artificial intelligence governance?1
No other planet: Utopian visions for a climate-changed world1
The new environmental economics: sustainability and justice1
The missing link: democracy, education, and carbon emissions1
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