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 2021-01-01 to 2025-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
The new environmental economics: sustainability and justice82
Sustainability spectacle and ‘post-oil’ greening initiatives80
Petrochemical planet. Multiscalar battles of industrial transformation Petrochemical planet. Multiscalar battles of industrial transformation , by Alice Mah, Durham and 77
The 2020 US Election and its climate consequences56
Voters do not punish their government for climate policies under favorable conditions53
The survival of the weakest: the echo of the Rio Summit principles in environmental treaties49
“We grow earth”: performing eco-agrarian citizenship at the semi-periphery of Europe46
Life against states of emergency: revitalizing treaty relations from Attawapiskat44
Educating for the anthropocene: schooling and activism in the face of slow violence44
André Gorz: A Life42
A climate fit for capitalism: ordoliberalism’s political ecology and German environmental politics41
Fugitive Politics: The Struggle For Ecological Sanity36
Democratic Norms of Earth System Governance: Deliberative Politics in the Anthropocene36
When multilevel water management meets regional government: the differential impacts on administrative integration35
Why do sustainable materialism initiatives rise and fall over time? Insights from the case of cooperative energy projects in Denmark and France32
Rock | water | life: ecology and humanities for a Decolonial South Africa31
Local energy transition in Russia: a multi-actor perspective on the case of Yakutia30
Forces of Reproduction: Notes for a Counter-Hegemonic Anthropocene29
Reassessing the economy–environment tradeoff: do industry sectors, green jobs opportunities, and regulatory threats affect environmental concerns?28
Beneath the insuperable barrier: accumulation, state managers and climate policy in Britain28
Children, citizenship and environment: #SchoolStrike edition28
Defending the climate cause within the state: the ministry of ecology and the drafting of France’s national low-carbon strategy (2017–2020)28
Implementing community-based forest management in the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: a strategic action fields perspective27
Tied to a star: the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand and the 2020 election25
Who owns marine biodiversity? Contesting the world order through the ‘common heritage of humankind’ principle23
The manifestation of the green agenda: a comparative analysis of parliamentary debates23
Why populism may facilitate non-state actors’ access to international environmental institutions22
Clean air at what cost? The rise of Blunt Force Regulation in China21
Indigenous knowledge and disaster risk reduction: insight towards perception, response, adaptation and sustainability21
Time, transition, and planetary decolonial justice as invention20
Planetary justice reconsidered: developing response-abilities in planetary relations20
Appealing to Independents: information on negative externalities increases support for environmental corrective taxes19
Varieties of climate governance: the emergence and functioning of climate institutions18
Reading the room: developing a practical justice politics of regional energy transition18
Crowdsourcing infrastructures of green everyday life: how sustainable sharing, swapping and gardening initiatives in Vienna tackle the lack of transformative agency in eco-politics17
The temporal cleavage: the case of populist retrotopia vs. climate emergency17
Weaponizing economics: Big Oil, economic consultants, and climate policy delay17
‘At the heart of human politics’: agency and responsibility in the contemporary climate novel17
Advocating inaction: a historical analysis of the Global Climate Coalition16
Careful knowing as an aspect of environmental justice16
Negotiating just transitions: power and interest dynamics in insurgent sustainability coalitions16
Unpacking the process: how agenda-setting theory explains the case of creating large scale marine protected areas in Brazil16
Climate change governance and Indigenous Peoples participation: an analysis from the Chilean case15
Early oil industry disinformation on global warming15
The discursive sources of environmental progress and its limits: biodiversity politics in France15
Active, dutiful and pragmatic: practicing green citizenship in urban China15
Climate policy expertise in times of populism – knowledge strategies of the AfD regarding Germany’s climate package15
Polish Catholic environmentalism as the counterculture movement15
Taking it seriously: commitments to the environment in South-South preferential trade agreements14
Intersectionality & Climate Justice: A call for synergy in climate change scholarship14
Assessing the impact of the securitization narrative on climate change adaptation in Nigeria14
‘Ecobordering’: casting immigration control as environmental protection14
Framing of environmental issues in voluntary sport organizations13
Correction13
An EV-fix for Indonesia: the green development-resource nationalist nexus13
Unveiling Moroccan perspectives on the EU-Morocco Green Partnership: assessing its potential for a sustainable future for Morocco12
Patterns of European bioeconomy policy. Insights from a cross-case study of three policy areas12
The international governance of gene drive organisms11
Klimat. Russia in the age of climate change11
The Nutmeg’s Curse: parables for a planet in crisis11
Combatting climate change in the Pacific. The role of regional organizations11
A hard Act to follow? The evolution and performance of UK climate governance11
Towards more sustainable global supply chains? Company compliance with new human rights and environmental due diligence laws10
China goes green: coercive environmentalism for a troubled planet10
Navigating desires beyond growth: the critical role of fantasy in degrowth’s environmental politics and prefigurative ethics10
Energy fables: challenging ideas in the energy sector10
Care-centered politics – from the home to the planet9
Thinking like a climate: governing a city in times of environmental change9
Pope Francis and the environment, act 2. Time for decisive climate action9
Global governance of the environment, indigenous peoples and the rights of nature9
Who’s afraid of more ambitious climate policy? How distributional implications shape policy support and compensatory preferences9
Constructing climate change rentierism in Jordan9
A Blue New Deal: why we need a new politics for the Ocean9
Anti-environmentalism and the natural ‘wages of whiteness’9
A feminist climate policy? Examining Canada’s climate commitments8
Philanthropic foundations as agents of environmental governance: a research agenda8
Understanding the rights of nature: a critical introduction8
Understanding barriers to linking heterogeneous emissions trading schemes: evidence from and lessons for Northeast Asia8
Extreme weather and climate policy8
The path down to green liberalism7
Radical incrementalism: hydropolitics and environmental discourses in Laos7
Tainted trust: air pollution and political trust in China7
The Bangladesh Environmental Humanities Reader7
Why path dependence leads to a fossilized Alberta: regionalism and the climate transition in Canada6
The role of the Sovereign state in 21stcentury environmental disasters6
Cultivating quiescence in risk communities: coal ash contamination and cancer in two cities6
Further Reflections on the National Academies Report on Solar Geoengineering: A Response to Stephens et al6
The Role of International Engagement in Greening China’s Belt and Road Initiative6
Concerned and willing to pay? Comparing policymaker and citizen attitudes towards climate change6
The extractive embrace: shifting expectations of conservation and extraction in the Guiana Shield6
Toward Dangerous US Unilateralism on Solar Geoengineering6
Scepticisms and beyond? A comprehensive portrait of climate change communication by the far right in the European Parliament6
The Dangers of Mainstreaming Solar Geoengineering: A critique of the National Academies Report6
How politicians and the population attribute responsibility for climate change mitigation: no indication of a ‘governance trap’ in Norway6
Governing through the nationally determined contribution (NDC): five functions to steer states’ climate conduct5
Marx in the anthropocene: towards the idea of degrowth communism,5
Transforming ecological modernization ‘from within’ or perpetuating it? The circular economy as EU environmental policy narrative5
Exploring environmental justice in France: evidence, movements, and ideas5
All we want is the earth: land, labour and movements beyond environmentalism5
Urgencies and imperatives for revolutionary (environmental) transitions: from degrowth and postdevelopment towards the pluriverse?5
Sustainable development and the environment in EU and Japanese free trade agreements: embedding anthropocentric narratives5
The central bank lacuna in green state transformation5
Proxy-led accountability for natural resource extraction in rentier states5
The matter with subjects of justice4
The self-work of planetary justice4
Indigenous and traditional communities’ ways of knowing and being in planetary justice4
The anthropocene: a multidisciplinary approach4
Grand transitions: how the modern world was made4
Climate-just behavior: foundations and transformational approaches4
Earth system boundaries and Earth system justice: sharing the ecospace4
The centre-periphery divide and attitudes towards climate change measures among Western Europeans4
Persuasive innovators for environmental policy: green business influence through technology-based arguing4
Mnemonic ecologies: memory and nature conservation along the former Iron Curtain4
Power and politics across species boundaries: towards Multispecies Justice in Riverine Hydrosocial Territories4
Power & temporality in pursuing transformative planetary justice4
Politicising energy transitions: the political economy of reducing dependence on coal in South Africa’s minerals energy complex4
Resilience of the EU ETS to contextual disturbance: the case of EU enlargement and its impact on ETS policymaking dynamics4
Sustainable materialism: environmental movements and the politics of everyday life4
Climate justice in India3
Solar geoengineering research on the U.S. policy agenda: when might its time come?3
Color-blind racial ideology and beliefs about environmental inequality among local US government officials3
Net zero by 2050: the case for green industrial policy3
The relationship between ecology and economy in German public opinion, 1984–20193
Reading contemporary environmental justice: narratives from Kerala3
Beneficial relations between species & the moral responsibility of wondering3
Review of the Handbook of Critical Environmental Politics Review of the Handbook of Critical Environmental Politics 3
When does the structural power of business fade? assessing business privileged access at global climate negotiations3
Explaining differences in party reactions to the Fridays for Future-movement – a qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) of parties in three European countries3
Climate security reversed: the implications of alternative security policies for global warming3
Supporting environmental protection in good and bad economic circumstances3
Consenting publics: fair nuclear waste repository siting?3
Whose system, what change? A critical political economy approach to the UK climate movement3
Exploring the influence of agricultural actors on water quality policy: the role of discourse and framing3
Affective politics of air pollution: atmospheres and activism in the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Region3
Taiwan’s Green Parties: Alternative Politics in Taiwan3
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it: how the public’s economic confidence in the fossil fuel industry reduces support for a clean energy transition3
A novel way of being together? On the depoliticising effects of attributing rights to nature3
The politics of climate change adaptation in Brazil: framings and policy outcomes for the rural sector2
“The crisis justified the urgency, but now we have to go back to the rule of law”: Urban mobility governance during Covid-192
Environmentally harmful discourses of modernity: a semiotic analysis of Turkish television car commercials2
Process skeptical populist framing of climate change in right-leaning media2
Energy transformation in parliamentary debates: shifting from technologies to climate strategy in Finland2
Internet usage, environmental knowledge, and the surge of air pollution concern in China2
Capitalism at the roots: the crisis of representative democracy through the eyes of Belgian climate activists2
Trajectories in environmental politics2
Of parliament and presentism: electoral representation and future generations in Germany2
Plastic politics: industry stakeholders and the navigation of plastic control policy in India2
Climate justice in more-than-human worlds2
Citizens united and state environmental policy, regulations, and outcomes2
Can’t buy me love: billionaire entrepreneurs’ legitimation strategies in transnational climate governance2
Deliberative Governance for Sustainable Development. An Innovative Solution for Environment, Economy and Society2
Catastrophes, confrontations, and constraints: how disasters shape the dynamics of armed conflict2
Time and space for social-ecological transformation: care-full commoning in and beyond the ecofeminist city2
Back to the grassroots? The shrinking space of environmental activism in illiberal Hungary2
Backfire: the settler-colonial logic and legacy of Smokey Bear2
Swimming against the current: Australian climate institutions and the politics of polarisation2
Populism as an act of storytelling: analyzing the climate change narratives of Donald Trump and Greta Thunberg as populist truth-tellers2
Climate changed urban futures: environmental politics in the anthropocene city2
Considering subnational support of climate change policy in the United States and the implications of symbolic policy acts2
Political ecologies of green-collar crime: understanding illegal trades in European wildlife2
Fuel for revolt – moral arguments as delegitimation practices in Swedish fuel protests2
The Dao of Civilization: A Letter to China2
A Strategic Nature: Public Relations and the Politics of American Environmentalism2
Explaining the energy mix in China’s electricity projects under the belt and road initiative2
Green Republicanism and the ‘crises of democracy’2
Rehabilitating Ranger uranium mine:scientific uncertainty, deep futures and the production of ignorance2
The limits of opportunism: the uneven emergence of climate institutions in India1
Walking a thin line: a reputational account of green central banking1
Techno-optimism versus techno-reality: an analysis of internationally funded technological solutions against illegal unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing in Ghana an1
Authors’ response1
America’s energy gamble: people, economy and planet1
Climate change and political theory Climate change and political theory , by Catriona McKinnon, Cambridge and New Jersey, Polity, 2022, viii + 209 pp., index, USD $23.951
The politics of 21st century environmental disasters1
Climate Change and Biodiversity Governance in the Amazon: At the Edge of Ecological Collapse?1
Climate change and the nation state: the realist case1
Actors, legitimacy, and governance challenges facing negative emissions and solar geoengineering technologies1
The rise of ecofascism: climate change and the far right1
Climate change doesn’t win you a climate election: party competition in the 2021 Norwegian general election1
Planetary justice: a systematic analysis of an emerging discourse1
Resolving the climate crisis1
What is environmental politics?1
When Fracking Comes to Town: governance, planning, and economic impacts of the US Shale Boom1
Extractive industry disasters and community responses: a typology of vulnerable subjects1
Environmental movements and politics of the Asian Anthropocene1
Between Europeanisation and politicisation: wolf policy and politics in Germany1
Editor’s note1
Political economies of energy transition: wind and solar power in Brazil and South Africa1
The untold story of the world’s leading environmental institution: UNEP at fifty1
Sweet deal, bitter landscape: gender politics and liminality in Tanzania’s new enclosures1
What is planetary justice?1
Activism without hope? Four varieties of postapocalyptic environmentalism1
Greening through trade: how American trade policy is linked to environmental protection abroad1
Correction1
Predicting the U.S. environmental protection agency’s criminal enforcement outcomes, 1983–20191
The environmental state in a political context: explaining institutional change in Georgia and Armenia1
Grassroots environmentalism1
Multi-layered differentiation in the climate regime: the gradual path from Rio to Paris1
From populism to climate scepticism: the role of institutional trust and attitudes towards science1
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