OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environmental Politics is 5. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Life against states of emergency: revitalizing treaty relations from Attawapiskat	109
“We grow earth”: performing eco-agrarian citizenship at the semi-periphery of Europe	63
Voters do not punish their government for climate policies under favorable conditions	58
Petrochemical planet. Multiscalar battles of industrial transformation	52
Crowdsourcing infrastructures of green everyday life: how sustainable sharing, swapping and gardening initiatives in Vienna tackle the lack of transformative agency in eco-politics	47
Negotiating just transitions: power and interest dynamics in insurgent sustainability coalitions	47
Internal climate leadership in municipal organizations. How paradoxical and transformational leadership of higher-level management shape climate leadership of lower-level managers	46
From (De)regulation to industrialization? Chilean lithium policy in comparative perspective	45
Educating for the anthropocene: schooling and activism in the face of slow violence	39
An EV-fix for Indonesia: the green development-resource nationalist nexus	35
Defending the climate cause within the state: the ministry of ecology and the drafting of France’s national low-carbon strategy (2017–2020)	32
Fluid hope in a climate emergency: Lessons from an English citizens’ jury	30
Understanding the rights of nature: a critical introduction	29
Where to aim with multispecies climate justice? A critical realist account	26
The central bank lacuna in green state transformation	26
Earth system boundaries and Earth system justice: sharing the ecospace	25
Everywhere you vote, you always take the weather with you: the effects of local temperature anomalies on Green party voting	25
Reading contemporary environmental justice: narratives from Kerala	23
Scepticisms and beyond? A comprehensive portrait of climate change communication by the far right in the European Parliament	23
The Dao of Civilization: A Letter to China	23
The centre-periphery divide and attitudes towards climate change measures among Western Europeans	23
Kindling green hate through eco- and demographic anxiety	21
Law’s quick fix? Ecocide, social transformation and the pitfalls of criminalisation	21
In praise of floods: the untamed river and the life it brings	20
When Fracking Comes to Town: governance, planning, and economic impacts of the US Shale Boom	20

Persuading the public: nationalist propaganda and support for costly environmental policies in China	20
Net zero by 2050: the case for green industrial policy	20
Ecocidal impunity? Wars and the profitability of the chemical corporation in the global south	19
Beyond Europeanization: political ecology and environmentalism in Central and Eastern Europe	18
Exploring the politics of degrowth – first evidence from two cases of repair policies in Austria and Sweden	18
A dynamic institutional analysis of China’s engagement with Africa’s renewable energy market	17
Multi-layered differentiation in the climate regime: the gradual path from Rio to Paris	15
Hard to say goodbye: South Korea, Japan, and China as the last lenders for coal	15
The unbearable lightness of climate populism	14
Geo-themed and geo-centric thought: reflections on the onto-epistemological basis of critical thought’s geologic turn	14
Actors, legitimacy, and governance challenges facing negative emissions and solar geoengineering technologies	14
Climate populism: the limits of the ideational and discursive approaches	14
Introduction: What’s the value of multispecies justice?	14
Closing the implementation gap in urban climate policy: Mexico’s public transit buildup	14
The pivotal generation: why we have a moral responsibility to slow climate change right now	13
Certifying China: the rise and limits of transnational sustainability governance in emerging economies	13
Australian third sector actors’ theories of change for climate justice: real and apparent barriers and obscured root causes	12
Geoengineering, climate change and ecological security	12
Climate action and populism of the left in Ecuador	12
It’s not just climate: rethinking ‘climate emotions’ in the age of burnout capitalism	12
Regulatory capture related to environmental risks: a systematic review on empirical research	11
China’s Green Belt and Road Initiative: transnational environmental governance and causal pathways of orchestration	11
Geoengineering discourse confronting climate change: the move from margins to mainstream in science, news media, and politics	11
Responsibilities for just transition to low-carbon societies: a role-based framework	10
States and nature: the effects of climate change on security	10
Feeling climate change: how emotions govern our responses to the climate emergency	10
Stories we live by and may die by: ideologies in newspaper reports of pipeline vandalism	10
Climate Migration - critical perspectives for law, policy and research	10
Mainstream parties and climate policy development: what role for intra-party politics?	10
Implementing the EU renewable energy directive in Norway: from Tailwind to Headwind	10
Subjects of intergenerational justice: indigenous philosophy, the environment and relationships	10
Making and breaking promises: must a country harmonize its climate pledges and policies?	10
A framework for classifying climate change questions used in public opinion surveys	10
Environmental apocalypse and space: the lost dimension of the end of the world	9
Prefiguring multispecies justice: how communities are challenging and transfiguring care, labour, and belonging in the midst of climate catastrophe	9
From influencing to engagement: a framing model for climate communication in polarised settings	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
Hide and brag: the strategic use of media in China’s war on air pollution	9
Doubling down on DAPL: the contentious politics of pipeline governance in Illinois	9
Pulling together or pulling apart? Understanding the heterogenous collective action frames of local climate activists through a Q methodology study	9
Fugitive Politics: The Struggle For Ecological Sanity	8
Pope Francis and the environment, act 2. Time for decisive climate action	8
A climate fit for capitalism: ordoliberalism’s political ecology and German environmental politics	8
A tale of two coals: the politics of time in coal phase out	8
Why do Australians prefer some climate migrants over others?	8
Forces of Reproduction: Notes for a Counter-Hegemonic Anthropocene	8
Care-centered politics – from the home to the planet	7
Extreme weather and climate policy	7
Power & temporality in pursuing transformative planetary justice	7
The multilevel governance of polarised climate politics: how a pioneer city navigates a dynamic political context	7

A turning point in global biodiversity governance?	7
Further Reflections on the National Academies Report on Solar Geoengineering: A Response to Stephens et al	7
The self-work of planetary justice	6
Radical incrementalism: hydropolitics and environmental discourses in Laos	6
The Role of International Engagement in Greening China’s Belt and Road Initiative	6
Climate-just behavior: foundations and transformational approaches	6
Mnemonic ecologies: memory and nature conservation along the former Iron Curtain	6
All we want is the earth: land, labour and movements beyond environmentalism	6
Governing through the nationally determined contribution (NDC): five functions to steer states’ climate conduct	5
Resolving the climate crisis	5
Sustainable development and the environment in EU and Japanese free trade agreements: embedding anthropocentric narratives	5
Color-blind racial ideology and beliefs about environmental inequality among local US government officials	5
Consenting publics: fair nuclear waste repository siting?	5
Distributive justice discourses, time and futures: a social media discourse analysis of the loss and damages debate	5
Explaining the energy mix in China’s electricity projects under the belt and road initiative	5
A Strategic Nature: Public Relations and the Politics of American Environmentalism	5
Policymaker environmental communication in the wake of natural disasters	5
Citizens united and state environmental policy, regulations, and outcomes	5
Capitalism at the roots: the crisis of representative democracy through the eyes of Belgian climate activists	5
Grand transitions: how the modern world was made	5