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 2021-01-01 to 2025-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The new environmental economics: sustainability and justice	82
Sustainability spectacle and ‘post-oil’ greening initiatives	80
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 consequences	56
Voters do not punish their government for climate policies under favorable conditions	53
The survival of the weakest: the echo of the Rio Summit principles in environmental treaties	49
“We grow earth”: performing eco-agrarian citizenship at the semi-periphery of Europe	46
Life against states of emergency: revitalizing treaty relations from Attawapiskat	44
Educating for the anthropocene: schooling and activism in the face of slow violence	44
André Gorz: A Life	42
A climate fit for capitalism: ordoliberalism’s political ecology and German environmental politics	41
Fugitive Politics: The Struggle For Ecological Sanity	36
Democratic Norms of Earth System Governance: Deliberative Politics in the Anthropocene	36
When multilevel water management meets regional government: the differential impacts on administrative integration	35
Why do sustainable materialism initiatives rise and fall over time? Insights from the case of cooperative energy projects in Denmark and France	32
Rock \| water \| life: ecology and humanities for a Decolonial South Africa	31
Local energy transition in Russia: a multi-actor perspective on the case of Yakutia	30
Forces of Reproduction: Notes for a Counter-Hegemonic Anthropocene	29
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 Britain	28
Children, citizenship and environment: #SchoolStrike edition	28
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 perspective	27
Tied to a star: the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand and the 2020 election	25
Who owns marine biodiversity? Contesting the world order through the ‘common heritage of humankind’ principle	23

The manifestation of the green agenda: a comparative analysis of parliamentary debates	23
Why populism may facilitate non-state actors’ access to international environmental institutions	22
Clean air at what cost? The rise of Blunt Force Regulation in China	21
Indigenous knowledge and disaster risk reduction: insight towards perception, response, adaptation and sustainability	21
Time, transition, and planetary decolonial justice as invention	20
Planetary justice reconsidered: developing response-abilities in planetary relations	20
Appealing to Independents: information on negative externalities increases support for environmental corrective taxes	19
Varieties of climate governance: the emergence and functioning of climate institutions	18
Reading the room: developing a practical justice politics of regional energy transition	18
Crowdsourcing infrastructures of green everyday life: how sustainable sharing, swapping and gardening initiatives in Vienna tackle the lack of transformative agency in eco-politics	17
The temporal cleavage: the case of populist retrotopia vs. climate emergency	17
Weaponizing economics: Big Oil, economic consultants, and climate policy delay	17
‘At the heart of human politics’: agency and responsibility in the contemporary climate novel	17
Advocating inaction: a historical analysis of the Global Climate Coalition	16
Careful knowing as an aspect of environmental justice	16
Negotiating just transitions: power and interest dynamics in insurgent sustainability coalitions	16
Unpacking the process: how agenda-setting theory explains the case of creating large scale marine protected areas in Brazil	16
Climate change governance and Indigenous Peoples participation: an analysis from the Chilean case	15
Early oil industry disinformation on global warming	15
The discursive sources of environmental progress and its limits: biodiversity politics in France	15
Active, dutiful and pragmatic: practicing green citizenship in urban China	15
Climate policy expertise in times of populism – knowledge strategies of the AfD regarding Germany’s climate package	15
Polish Catholic environmentalism as the counterculture movement	15
Taking it seriously: commitments to the environment in South-South preferential trade agreements	14
Intersectionality & Climate Justice: A call for synergy in climate change scholarship	14
Assessing the impact of the securitization narrative on climate change adaptation in Nigeria	14
‘Ecobordering’: casting immigration control as environmental protection	14
Framing of environmental issues in voluntary sport organizations	13
Correction	13
An EV-fix for Indonesia: the green development-resource nationalist nexus	13
Unveiling Moroccan perspectives on the EU-Morocco Green Partnership: assessing its potential for a sustainable future for Morocco	12
Patterns of European bioeconomy policy. Insights from a cross-case study of three policy areas	12
The international governance of gene drive organisms	11
Klimat. Russia in the age of climate change	11
The Nutmeg’s Curse: parables for a planet in crisis	11
Combatting climate change in the Pacific. The role of regional organizations	11
A hard Act to follow? The evolution and performance of UK climate governance	11
Towards more sustainable global supply chains? Company compliance with new human rights and environmental due diligence laws	10
China goes green: coercive environmentalism for a troubled planet	10
Navigating desires beyond growth: the critical role of fantasy in degrowth’s environmental politics and prefigurative ethics	10
Energy fables: challenging ideas in the energy sector	10
Care-centered politics – from the home to the planet	9
Thinking like a climate: governing a city in times of environmental change	9
Pope Francis and the environment, act 2. Time for decisive climate action	9
Global governance of the environment, indigenous peoples and the rights of nature	9
Who’s afraid of more ambitious climate policy? How distributional implications shape policy support and compensatory preferences	9
Constructing climate change rentierism in Jordan	9
A Blue New Deal: why we need a new politics for the Ocean	9
Anti-environmentalism and the natural ‘wages of whiteness’	9
A feminist climate policy? Examining Canada’s climate commitments	8

Philanthropic foundations as agents of environmental governance: a research agenda	8
Understanding the rights of nature: a critical introduction	8
Understanding barriers to linking heterogeneous emissions trading schemes: evidence from and lessons for Northeast Asia	8
Extreme weather and climate policy	8
The path down to green liberalism	7
Radical incrementalism: hydropolitics and environmental discourses in Laos	7
Tainted trust: air pollution and political trust in China	7
The Bangladesh Environmental Humanities Reader	7
Toward Dangerous US Unilateralism on Solar Geoengineering	6
The role of the Sovereign state in 21^stcentury environmental disasters	6
Scepticisms and beyond? A comprehensive portrait of climate change communication by the far right in the European Parliament	6
Cultivating quiescence in risk communities: coal ash contamination and cancer in two cities	6
How politicians and the population attribute responsibility for climate change mitigation: no indication of a ‘governance trap’ in Norway	6
Why path dependence leads to a fossilized Alberta: regionalism and the climate transition in Canada	6
Concerned and willing to pay? Comparing policymaker and citizen attitudes towards climate change	6
The extractive embrace: shifting expectations of conservation and extraction in the Guiana Shield	6
Further Reflections on the National Academies Report on Solar Geoengineering: A Response to Stephens et al	6
The Role of International Engagement in Greening China’s Belt and Road Initiative	6
The Dangers of Mainstreaming Solar Geoengineering: A critique of the National Academies Report	6