OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environmental Politics is 6. 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.)

Article	Citations
“We grow earth”: performing eco-agrarian citizenship at the semi-periphery of Europe	79
Life against states of emergency: revitalizing treaty relations from Attawapiskat	66
Educating for the anthropocene: schooling and activism in the face of slow violence	62
Voters do not punish their government for climate policies under favorable conditions	60
Petrochemical planet. Multiscalar battles of industrial transformation	57
Negotiating just transitions: power and interest dynamics in insurgent sustainability coalitions	47
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 nexus	41
Crowdsourcing infrastructures of green everyday life: how sustainable sharing, swapping and gardening initiatives in Vienna tackle the lack of transformative agency in eco-politics	38
Weaponizing economics: Big Oil, economic consultants, and climate policy delay	37
The centre-periphery divide and attitudes towards climate change measures among Western Europeans	36
Concerned and willing to pay? Comparing policymaker and citizen attitudes towards climate change	34
The central bank lacuna in green state transformation	34
Scepticisms and beyond? A comprehensive portrait of climate change communication by the far right in the European Parliament	34
Understanding the rights of nature: a critical introduction	32
Net zero by 2050: the case for green industrial policy	31
Earth system boundaries and Earth system justice: sharing the ecospace	31
Law’s quick fix? Ecocide, social transformation and the pitfalls of criminalisation	26
The Dao of Civilization: A Letter to China	25
Reading contemporary environmental justice: narratives from Kerala	23
Grassroots environmentalism	23
When Fracking Comes to Town: governance, planning, and economic impacts of the US Shale Boom	22
Multi-layered differentiation in the climate regime: the gradual path from Rio to Paris	22
What is environmental politics?	22
A dynamic institutional analysis of China’s engagement with Africa’s renewable energy market	21

Extractive industry disasters and community responses: a typology of vulnerable subjects	21
Beyond Europeanization: political ecology and environmentalism in Central and Eastern Europe	21
Persuading the public: nationalist propaganda and support for costly environmental policies in China	21
Introduction: What’s the value of multispecies justice?	20
Actors, legitimacy, and governance challenges facing negative emissions and solar geoengineering technologies	20
The unbearable lightness of climate populism	20
From populism to climate scepticism: the role of institutional trust and attitudes towards science	19
Geoengineering discourse confronting climate change: the move from margins to mainstream in science, news media, and politics	17
Hard to say goodbye: South Korea, Japan, and China as the last lenders for coal	17
Climate action and populism of the left in Ecuador	16
Certifying China: the rise and limits of transnational sustainability governance in emerging economies	16
End of the line: environmental justice, energy justice, and opposition to power lines	16
The pivotal generation: why we have a moral responsibility to slow climate change right now	15
Australian third sector actors’ theories of change for climate justice: real and apparent barriers and obscured root causes	15
Regulatory capture related to environmental risks: a systematic review on empirical research	15
Responsibilities for just transition to low-carbon societies: a role-based framework	14
Geoengineering, climate change and ecological security	14
Subjects of intergenerational justice: indigenous philosophy, the environment and relationships	12
Imaginary lock-ins in climate change politics: the challenge to envision a fossil-free future	12
Climate Migration - critical perspectives for law, policy and research	12
China’s Green Belt and Road Initiative: transnational environmental governance and causal pathways of orchestration	12
Prefiguring multispecies justice: how communities are challenging and transfiguring care, labour, and belonging in the midst of climate catastrophe	12
A framework for classifying climate change questions used in public opinion surveys	11
Implementing the EU renewable energy directive in Norway: from Tailwind to Headwind	11
Feeling climate change: how emotions govern our responses to the climate emergency	11
Pulling together or pulling apart? Understanding the heterogenous collective action frames of local climate activists through a Q methodology study	11
From influencing to engagement: a framing model for climate communication in polarised settings	11
States and nature: the effects of climate change on security	11
To drill or not to drill: determinants of geothermal energy project siting in Japan	11
Environmental apocalypse and space: the lost dimension of the end of the world	11
Making and breaking promises: must a country harmonize its climate pledges and policies?	11
Climate institutions in Brazil: three decades of building and dismantling climate capacity	10
Doubling down on DAPL: the contentious politics of pipeline governance in Illinois	10
Forces of Reproduction: Notes for a Counter-Hegemonic Anthropocene	9
Postapocalyptic narratives in climate activism: their place and impact in five European cities	9
Germany’s Federal Climate Change Act	9
Hide and brag: the strategic use of media in China’s war on air pollution	9
Environmental justice implications and conceptual advancements: community experiences of proposed shale gas exploration in the UK	9
Like diamonds in the sky? Public perceptions, governance, and information framing of solar geoengineering activities in Mexico, the United Kingdom, and the United States	9
Why do Australians prefer some climate migrants over others?	8
The self-work of planetary justice	8
A tale of two coals: the politics of time in coal phase out	8
Pope Francis and the environment, act 2. Time for decisive climate action	8
Fugitive Politics: The Struggle For Ecological Sanity	8
A climate fit for capitalism: ordoliberalism’s political ecology and German environmental politics	8
Climate-just behavior: foundations and transformational approaches	8
Radical incrementalism: hydropolitics and environmental discourses in Laos	7
Mnemonic ecologies: memory and nature conservation along the former Iron Curtain	7
Care-centered politics – from the home to the planet	7
Sustainable development and the environment in EU and Japanese free trade agreements: embedding anthropocentric narratives	7

Extreme weather and climate policy	7
Power & temporality in pursuing transformative planetary justice	7
All we want is the earth: land, labour and movements beyond environmentalism	7
The path down to green liberalism	7
Further Reflections on the National Academies Report on Solar Geoengineering: A Response to Stephens et al	6
Consenting publics: fair nuclear waste repository siting?	6
Grand transitions: how the modern world was made	6
Citizens united and state environmental policy, regulations, and outcomes	6
Process skeptical populist framing of climate change in right-leaning media	6
The Role of International Engagement in Greening China’s Belt and Road Initiative	6
Governing through the nationally determined contribution (NDC): five functions to steer states’ climate conduct	6
Color-blind racial ideology and beliefs about environmental inequality among local US government officials	6