OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environmental Politics is 9. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Multispecies justice: theories, challenges, and a research agenda for environmental politics	125
The future of ‘environmental’ policy in the Anthropocene: time for a paradigm shift	93
Climate changed urban futures: environmental politics in the anthropocene city	75
Nationalist ideology, rightwing populism, and public views about climate change in Europe	66
Greening states and societies: from transitions to great transformations	64
Jobs vs. climate justice? Contentious narratives of labor and climate movements in the coal transition in Germany	61
The limits of the loops: critical environmental politics and the Circular Economy	60
New directions in environmental justice studies: examining the state and violence	57
The evolution of climate governance in China: drivers, features, and effectiveness	51
Early oil industry disinformation on global warming	48
Transforming ecological modernization ‘from within’ or perpetuating it? The circular economy as EU environmental policy narrative	41
Weaponizing economics: Big Oil, economic consultants, and climate policy delay	40
Policy implementation styles and local governments: the case of climate change adaptation	40
The fantasy of carbon offsetting	37
More-than-human solidarity and multispecies justice in the climate crisis	37
Green nationalism. Climate action and environmentalism in left nationalist parties	35
From populism to climate scepticism: the role of institutional trust and attitudes towards science	34
Making matter great again? Ecofeminism, new materialism and the everyday turn in environmental politics	30
Varieties of climate governance: the emergence and functioning of climate institutions	29
Narrating plastics governance: policy narratives in the European plastics strategy	28
‘Ecobordering’: casting immigration control as environmental protection	27
Climate institutions in Brazil: three decades of building and dismantling climate capacity	27
Does youth participation increase the democratic legitimacy of UNFCCC-orchestrated global climate change governance?	27
Who owns marine biodiversity? Contesting the world order through the ‘common heritage of humankind’ principle	26
The Future of Environmental Peace and Conflict Research	25

From targets to inspections: the issue of fairness in China’s environmental policy implementation	25
Intersectionality & Climate Justice: A call for synergy in climate change scholarship	25
Imaginary lock-ins in climate change politics: the challenge to envision a fossil-free future	24
Populism as an act of storytelling: analyzing the climate change narratives of Donald Trump and Greta Thunberg as populist truth-tellers	24
The unbearable lightness of climate populism	23
Politicizing climate change in times of populism: an introduction	23
What If: multispecies justice as the expression of utopian desire	22
The limits of opportunism: the uneven emergence of climate institutions in India	22
Quality of government and the relationship between environmental concern and pro-environmental behavior: a cross-national study	20
Philanthropic foundations as agents of environmental governance: a research agenda	19
Right-wing populist parties and environmental politics: insights from the Austrian Freedom Party’s support for the glyphosate ban	19
Survey research in environmental politics: why it is important and what the challenges are	18
Contested environmentalism: the politics of waste in China and Russia	18
Climate change and right-wing populism in the United States	18
Multilevel business power in environmental politics: the avocado boom and water scarcity in Chile	18
Scepticisms and beyond? A comprehensive portrait of climate change communication by the far right in the European Parliament	17
Multi-species justice: a view from the rights of nature movement	17
Swimming against the current: Australian climate institutions and the politics of polarisation	17
Postapocalyptic narratives in climate activism: their place and impact in five European cities	16
Advocating inaction: a historical analysis of the Global Climate Coalition	16
The knowledge politics of climate change loss and damage across scales of governance	16
The development of climate institutions in the United States	16
A hard Act to follow? The evolution and performance of UK climate governance	16
Environmental justice implications and conceptual advancements: community experiences of proposed shale gas exploration in the UK	15
European Union’s proxy accountability for tropical deforestation	15
Self-reinforcing and self-undermining feedbacks in subnational climate policy implementation	15
The manifestation of the green agenda: a comparative analysis of parliamentary debates	15
The Dangers of Mainstreaming Solar Geoengineering: A critique of the National Academies Report	15
The dismantling of renewable energy policy in Italy	14
Same, same but different? How democratically elected right-wing populists shape climate change policymaking	14
Germany’s Federal Climate Change Act	14
Contentious governance around climate change measures in the Netherlands	14
Command and control or market-based instruments? Public support for policies to address vehicular pollution in Beijing and New Delhi	13
Attitudes towards climate change aid and climate refugees in New Zealand: an exploration of policy support and ideological barriers	13
Climate justice in more-than-human worlds	13
Imagination and critique in environmental politics	13
Institutionalising decarbonisation in South Africa: navigating climate mitigation and socio-economic transformation	13
The centre-periphery divide and attitudes towards climate change measures among Western Europeans	13
Climate cooperation in the shadow of solar geoengineering: an experimental investigation of the moral hazard conjecture	13
The environmental politics of reproductive choices in the age of climate change	13
Wind energy counter-conducts in Germany: understanding a new wave of socio-environmental grassroots protest	12
From influencing to engagement: a framing model for climate communication in polarised settings	11
Back to the grassroots? The shrinking space of environmental activism in illiberal Hungary	11
Climate policy expertise in times of populism – knowledge strategies of the AfD regarding Germany’s climate package	11
Digitalizing forest landscape restoration: a social and political analysis of emerging technological practices	11
Patterns of European bioeconomy policy. Insights from a cross-case study of three policy areas	11
Whose policy is it anyway? Public support for clean energy policy depends on the message and the messenger	11
Energy and domination: contesting the fossil myth of fuel expansion	11
Retrogradism in context. Varieties of right-wing populist climate politics	10
Indigenous-led grassroots engagements with oil pipelines in the U.S. and Russia: the NoDAPL and Komi movements	10

‘Heart of steel’: how trade unions lobby the European Union over emissions trading	10
Proxy-led accountability for natural resource extraction in rentier states	10
‘Time to Wake Up’: Climate change advocacy in a polarized Congress, 1996-2015	10
‘Anything Westminster can do we can do better’: the Scottish climate change act and placing a sub-state nation on the international stage	10
New York City as ‘fortress of solitude’ after Hurricane Sandy: a relational sociology of extreme weather’s relationship to climate politics	10
What’s different about the environment? Environmental INGOs in comparative perspective	9
Making the circular economy online: a hyperlink analysis of the articulation of nutrient recycling in Finland	9
The politics of climate change adaptation in Brazil: framings and policy outcomes for the rural sector	9
Implementing the EU renewable energy directive in Norway: from Tailwind to Headwind	9
Isolationism and the equal per capita view	9
Towards more sustainable global supply chains? Company compliance with new human rights and environmental due diligence laws	9
Anti-environmentalism and proto-authoritarian populism in Brazil: Bolsonaro and the defence of global agri-business	9
From symbolism to substance: what the renewal of the Danish climate change act tells us about the driving forces behind policy change	9
Reconciling climate change leadership with resource nationalism and regional vulnerabilities: a case-study of Kazakhstan	9