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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
“We grow earth”: performing eco-agrarian citizenship at the semi-periphery of Europe79
Life against states of emergency: revitalizing treaty relations from Attawapiskat66
Educating for the anthropocene: schooling and activism in the face of slow violence62
Voters do not punish their government for climate policies under favorable conditions60
Petrochemical planet. Multiscalar battles of industrial transformation57
Negotiating just transitions: power and interest dynamics in insurgent sustainability coalitions47
Defending the climate cause within the state: the ministry of ecology and the drafting of France’s national low-carbon strategy (2017–2020)46
An EV-fix for Indonesia: the green development-resource nationalist nexus41
Crowdsourcing infrastructures of green everyday life: how sustainable sharing, swapping and gardening initiatives in Vienna tackle the lack of transformative agency in eco-politics38
Weaponizing economics: Big Oil, economic consultants, and climate policy delay37
The centre-periphery divide and attitudes towards climate change measures among Western Europeans36
Scepticisms and beyond? A comprehensive portrait of climate change communication by the far right in the European Parliament34
Concerned and willing to pay? Comparing policymaker and citizen attitudes towards climate change34
The central bank lacuna in green state transformation34
Understanding the rights of nature: a critical introduction32
Earth system boundaries and Earth system justice: sharing the ecospace31
Net zero by 2050: the case for green industrial policy31
Law’s quick fix? Ecocide, social transformation and the pitfalls of criminalisation26
The Dao of Civilization: A Letter to China25
Reading contemporary environmental justice: narratives from Kerala23
Grassroots environmentalism23
What is environmental politics?22
When Fracking Comes to Town: governance, planning, and economic impacts of the US Shale Boom22
Multi-layered differentiation in the climate regime: the gradual path from Rio to Paris22
Beyond Europeanization: political ecology and environmentalism in Central and Eastern Europe21
Persuading the public: nationalist propaganda and support for costly environmental policies in China21
A dynamic institutional analysis of China’s engagement with Africa’s renewable energy market21
Extractive industry disasters and community responses: a typology of vulnerable subjects21
Actors, legitimacy, and governance challenges facing negative emissions and solar geoengineering technologies20
The unbearable lightness of climate populism20
Introduction: What’s the value of multispecies justice?20
From populism to climate scepticism: the role of institutional trust and attitudes towards science19
Geoengineering discourse confronting climate change: the move from margins to mainstream in science, news media, and politics17
Hard to say goodbye: South Korea, Japan, and China as the last lenders for coal17
Certifying China: the rise and limits of transnational sustainability governance in emerging economies16
End of the line: environmental justice, energy justice, and opposition to power lines16
Climate action and populism of the left in Ecuador16
Australian third sector actors’ theories of change for climate justice: real and apparent barriers and obscured root causes15
Regulatory capture related to environmental risks: a systematic review on empirical research15
The pivotal generation: why we have a moral responsibility to slow climate change right now15
Geoengineering, climate change and ecological security14
Responsibilities for just transition to low-carbon societies: a role-based framework14
China’s Green Belt and Road Initiative: transnational environmental governance and causal pathways of orchestration12
Prefiguring multispecies justice: how communities are challenging and transfiguring care, labour, and belonging in the midst of climate catastrophe12
Subjects of intergenerational justice: indigenous philosophy, the environment and relationships12
Imaginary lock-ins in climate change politics: the challenge to envision a fossil-free future12
Climate Migration - critical perspectives for law, policy and research12
To drill or not to drill: determinants of geothermal energy project siting in Japan11
Environmental apocalypse and space: the lost dimension of the end of the world11
Making and breaking promises: must a country harmonize its climate pledges and policies?11
A framework for classifying climate change questions used in public opinion surveys11
Implementing the EU renewable energy directive in Norway: from Tailwind to Headwind11
Feeling climate change: how emotions govern our responses to the climate emergency11
Pulling together or pulling apart? Understanding the heterogenous collective action frames of local climate activists through a Q methodology study11
From influencing to engagement: a framing model for climate communication in polarised settings11
States and nature: the effects of climate change on security11
Doubling down on DAPL: the contentious politics of pipeline governance in Illinois10
Climate institutions in Brazil: three decades of building and dismantling climate capacity10
Hide and brag: the strategic use of media in China’s war on air pollution9
Environmental justice implications and conceptual advancements: community experiences of proposed shale gas exploration in the UK9
Like diamonds in the sky? Public perceptions, governance, and information framing of solar geoengineering activities in Mexico, the United Kingdom, and the United States9
Forces of Reproduction: Notes for a Counter-Hegemonic Anthropocene9
Postapocalyptic narratives in climate activism: their place and impact in five European cities9
Germany’s Federal Climate Change Act9
A tale of two coals: the politics of time in coal phase out8
Pope Francis and the environment, act 2. Time for decisive climate action8
Fugitive Politics: The Struggle For Ecological Sanity8
A climate fit for capitalism: ordoliberalism’s political ecology and German environmental politics8
Climate-just behavior: foundations and transformational approaches8
Why do Australians prefer some climate migrants over others?8
The self-work of planetary justice8
Extreme weather and climate policy7
Power & temporality in pursuing transformative planetary justice7
All we want is the earth: land, labour and movements beyond environmentalism7
The path down to green liberalism7
Radical incrementalism: hydropolitics and environmental discourses in Laos7
Mnemonic ecologies: memory and nature conservation along the former Iron Curtain7
Care-centered politics – from the home to the planet7
Sustainable development and the environment in EU and Japanese free trade agreements: embedding anthropocentric narratives7
The Role of International Engagement in Greening China’s Belt and Road Initiative6
Governing through the nationally determined contribution (NDC): five functions to steer states’ climate conduct6
Color-blind racial ideology and beliefs about environmental inequality among local US government officials6
Further Reflections on the National Academies Report on Solar Geoengineering: A Response to Stephens et al6
Consenting publics: fair nuclear waste repository siting?6
Grand transitions: how the modern world was made6
Citizens united and state environmental policy, regulations, and outcomes6
Process skeptical populist framing of climate change in right-leaning media6
Distributive justice discourses, time and futures: a social media discourse analysis of the loss and damages debate5
A Strategic Nature: Public Relations and the Politics of American Environmentalism5
Populism as an act of storytelling: analyzing the climate change narratives of Donald Trump and Greta Thunberg as populist truth-tellers5
Incremental progress or dangerous incrementalism? The case of tire wear pollution in global environmental governance5
Building capabilities for Earth system governance5
Capitalism at the roots: the crisis of representative democracy through the eyes of Belgian climate activists5
Explaining the energy mix in China’s electricity projects under the belt and road initiative5
The environmental state in a political context: explaining institutional change in Georgia and Armenia5
America’s energy gamble: people, economy and planet5
Political economies of energy transition: wind and solar power in Brazil and South Africa5
Whose system, what change? A critical political economy approach to the UK climate movement5
Resolving the climate crisis5
Climate Change and Biodiversity Governance in the Amazon: At the Edge of Ecological Collapse?5
Whose policy is it anyway? Public support for clean energy policy depends on the message and the messenger5
Pollution is colonialism4
The challenge of ratcheting up climate ambitions: Implementing the ‘experimentalist‘ EU energy and climate governance regulation4
A climate policy revolution: what the science of complexity reveals about saving our planet4
Does global integration foster environmental mobilization? The effect of global norms on environmental movement participation4
Contested discourses of a circular plastics economy in Europe: prioritizing material, economy, or society?4
Ecocide: kill the corporation before it kills us4
Climate policymaking in an autocracy: the case of Russia’s law on GHG emissions4
Post-Apocalyptic environmentalism. The green movement in times of catastrophe4
Critical environmental justice in contemporary scholarship and movements: consensus and plurality of the discourse4
Political polarization and the energy policy paradox: assessing the impact of South Korea’s nuclear power phase-out policy3
Climate obstruction: how Denial, delay and inaction are heating the planet3
China’s approach to global fisheries: power in the governance of anti-illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing3
Sustainable educational leadership and the climate crisis: knowledge, power, and positive futures3
Command and control or market-based instruments? Public support for policies to address vehicular pollution in Beijing and New Delhi3
National climate change acts: the emergence, form and nature of national framework climate legislation3
Climate whataboutism and rightwing populism: how emissions blame-shifting translates nationalist attitudes into climate policy opposition3
Correction3
Local energy transition in Russia: a multi-actor perspective on the case of Yakutia3
Unveiling Moroccan perspectives on the EU-Morocco Green Partnership: assessing its potential for a sustainable future for Morocco3
The formation of feed-in tariffs and the emergence of wind power in Finnish routine corporatism: favoring the economics of large-scale energy production3
The performative state: public scrutiny and environmental governance in China3
Which Amazon problem? Problem-constructions and transnationalism in Brazilian presidential discourse since 19853
Understanding and explaining populist radical right parties’ commitment to animal welfare in Western Europe3
Appealing to Independents: information on negative externalities increases support for environmental corrective taxes3
Taking it seriously: commitments to the environment in South-South preferential trade agreements2
Indigenous and traditional communities’ ways of knowing and being in planetary justice2
Climate change doesn’t win you a climate election: party competition in the 2021 Norwegian general election2
Planetary justice: a systematic analysis of an emerging discourse2
Rehabilitating Ranger uranium mine:scientific uncertainty, deep futures and the production of ignorance2
Why path dependence leads to a fossilized Alberta: regionalism and the climate transition in Canada2
Energy fables: challenging ideas in the energy sector2
Reading the room: developing a practical justice politics of regional energy transition2
Indigenous knowledge and disaster risk reduction: insight towards perception, response, adaptation and sustainability2
The international governance of gene drive organisms2
The limits of opportunism: the uneven emergence of climate institutions in India2
Climate security reversed: the implications of alternative security policies for global warming2
Review of the Handbook of Critical Environmental Politics2
Somewhere I belong: the field of new climate activists and the Czech environmental movement2
The matter with subjects of justice2
A Blue New Deal: why we need a new politics for the Ocean2
The temporal cleavage: the case of populist retrotopia vs. climate emergency2
How politicians and the population attribute responsibility for climate change mitigation: no indication of a ‘governance trap’ in Norway2
Resilience of the EU ETS to contextual disturbance: the case of EU enlargement and its impact on ETS policymaking dynamics2
Constructing climate change rentierism in Jordan2
Plastic politics: industry stakeholders and the navigation of plastic control policy in India2
Catastrophes, confrontations, and constraints: how disasters shape the dynamics of armed conflict2
Global governance of the environment, indigenous peoples and the rights of nature2
Beneath the insuperable barrier: accumulation, state managers and climate policy in Britain2
Careful knowing as an aspect of environmental justice2
Extinction Rebellion’s disobedient environmental citizenism1
Internet usage, environmental knowledge, and the surge of air pollution concern in China1
Between evidence first and political fight – understanding dynamics of (de-)politicization in US climate movements’ future narratives1
Climate cooperation in the shadow of solar geoengineering: an experimental investigation of the moral hazard conjecture1
Manufacturing ignorance: think tanks, climate change and the animal-based diet1
André Gorz: A Life1
Change in global environmental politics: temporal focal points and the reform of international institutions1
Two cheers for collapse? On the uses and abuses of the societal collapse thesis for imagining Anthropocene futures1
Decolonial ecology: thinking from the Caribbean world1
Phase-out clubs: an effective tool for global climate governance?1
Fossil fuel divestment and public climate change policy preferences: an experimental test in three countries1
No other planet: Utopian visions for a climate-changed world1
Retrogradism in context. Varieties of right-wing populist climate politics1
From international organizations to local governments: how foreign environmental aid reaches subnational beneficiaries in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico1
The development of climate institutions in the United States1
Searching for a recipe for success: environmental citizen petitions under free trade agreements1
The economy-environment tradeoff: are individual environmental priorities decoupled from national economic conditions?1
Spiral-scaling climate action: lessons from and for the academic flying less movement1
A critical defence of the crime of ecocide1
‘The Green New Deal’ as partisan cue: Evidence from a survey experiment in the rural U.S.1
Failing forward: the rise and fall of Neoliberal conservation1
A just transition for all: workers and communities for a carbon-free future1
Environmental governance of China’s Belt and Road Initiative1
Conditional environmentalism of right-wing populism in power: ideology and/or opportunities?1
From symbolism to substance: what the renewal of the Danish climate change act tells us about the driving forces behind policy change1
Organising responses to climate change: the politics of mitigation, adaptation and suffering1
Beyond disobedience: ethical frontiers and political strategies in the climate crisis1
Pipeline populism: grassroots environmentalism in the twenty-first century1
Decolonial praxis for postponing the end of the world: an epistemological reflection on the criminalization of ecocide1
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