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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
“We grow earth”: performing eco-agrarian citizenship at the semi-periphery of Europe	96
Life against states of emergency: revitalizing treaty relations from Attawapiskat	92
Voters do not punish their government for climate policies under favorable conditions	83
Petrochemical planet. Multiscalar battles of industrial transformation	68
Crowdsourcing infrastructures of green everyday life: how sustainable sharing, swapping and gardening initiatives in Vienna tackle the lack of transformative agency in eco-politics	59
Educating for the anthropocene: schooling and activism in the face of slow violence	53
Defending the climate cause within the state: the ministry of ecology and the drafting of France’s national low-carbon strategy (2017–2020)	48
Internal climate leadership in municipal organizations. How paradoxical and transformational leadership of higher-level management shape climate leadership of lower-level managers	43
Negotiating just transitions: power and interest dynamics in insurgent sustainability coalitions	42
An EV-fix for Indonesia: the green development-resource nationalist nexus	41
Understanding the rights of nature: a critical introduction	40
Fluid hope in a climate emergency: Lessons from an English citizens’ jury	37
The central bank lacuna in green state transformation	35
Earth system boundaries and Earth system justice: sharing the ecospace	29
Scepticisms and beyond? A comprehensive portrait of climate change communication by the far right in the European Parliament	27
Concerned and willing to pay? Comparing policymaker and citizen attitudes towards climate change	27
The centre-periphery divide and attitudes towards climate change measures among Western Europeans	26
Reading contemporary environmental justice: narratives from Kerala	25
Net zero by 2050: the case for green industrial policy	24
Law’s quick fix? Ecocide, social transformation and the pitfalls of criminalisation	24
The Dao of Civilization: A Letter to China	24
Kindling green hate through eco- and demographic anxiety	23
When Fracking Comes to Town: governance, planning, and economic impacts of the US Shale Boom	23
Persuading the public: nationalist propaganda and support for costly environmental policies in China	23
Extractive industry disasters and community responses: a typology of vulnerable subjects	22

Hard to say goodbye: South Korea, Japan, and China as the last lenders for coal	21
Actors, legitimacy, and governance challenges facing negative emissions and solar geoengineering technologies	21
A dynamic institutional analysis of China’s engagement with Africa’s renewable energy market	21
Ecocidal impunity? Wars and the profitability of the chemical corporation in the global south	21
Beyond Europeanization: political ecology and environmentalism in Central and Eastern Europe	20
Multi-layered differentiation in the climate regime: the gradual path from Rio to Paris	18
What is environmental politics?	18
Closing the implementation gap in urban climate policy: Mexico’s public transit buildup	18
Grassroots environmentalism	18
Introduction: What’s the value of multispecies justice?	17
The unbearable lightness of climate populism	17
Responsibilities for just transition to low-carbon societies: a role-based framework	16
Geoengineering discourse confronting climate change: the move from margins to mainstream in science, news media, and politics	16
From populism to climate scepticism: the role of institutional trust and attitudes towards science	16
China’s Green Belt and Road Initiative: transnational environmental governance and causal pathways of orchestration	15
The pivotal generation: why we have a moral responsibility to slow climate change right now	14
Certifying China: the rise and limits of transnational sustainability governance in emerging economies	14
Regulatory capture related to environmental risks: a systematic review on empirical research	14
It’s not just climate: rethinking ‘climate emotions’ in the age of burnout capitalism	13
Australian third sector actors’ theories of change for climate justice: real and apparent barriers and obscured root causes	13
Geoengineering, climate change and ecological security	12
Prefiguring multispecies justice: how communities are challenging and transfiguring care, labour, and belonging in the midst of climate catastrophe	12
Climate action and populism of the left in Ecuador	12
Implementing the EU renewable energy directive in Norway: from Tailwind to Headwind	11
Subjects of intergenerational justice: indigenous philosophy, the environment and relationships	11
States and nature: the effects of climate change on security	11
Climate Migration - critical perspectives for law, policy and research	11
Postapocalyptic narratives in climate activism: their place and impact in five European cities	10
Environmental apocalypse and space: the lost dimension of the end of the world	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
Pulling together or pulling apart? Understanding the heterogenous collective action frames of local climate activists through a Q methodology study	10
Feeling climate change: how emotions govern our responses to the climate emergency	9
Mainstream parties and climate policy development: what role for intra-party politics?	9
Doubling down on DAPL: the contentious politics of pipeline governance in Illinois	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
From influencing to engagement: a framing model for climate communication in polarised settings	9
Stories we live by and may die by: ideologies in newspaper reports of pipeline vandalism	9
Hide and brag: the strategic use of media in China’s war on air pollution	8
Environmental justice implications and conceptual advancements: community experiences of proposed shale gas exploration in the UK	8
Pope Francis and the environment, act 2. Time for decisive climate action	8
Forces of Reproduction: Notes for a Counter-Hegemonic Anthropocene	8
A climate fit for capitalism: ordoliberalism’s political ecology and German environmental politics	8
Why do Australians prefer some climate migrants over others?	8
Germany’s Federal Climate Change Act	8
Fugitive Politics: The Struggle For Ecological Sanity	8
A tale of two coals: the politics of time in coal phase out	8
Sustainable development and the environment in EU and Japanese free trade agreements: embedding anthropocentric narratives	7
Extreme weather and climate policy	7
All we want is the earth: land, labour and movements beyond environmentalism	7

The multilevel governance of polarised climate politics: how a pioneer city navigates a dynamic political context	7
The self-work of planetary justice	7
Care-centered politics – from the home to the planet	7
Climate-just behavior: foundations and transformational approaches	7
Governing through the nationally determined contribution (NDC): five functions to steer states’ climate conduct	7
Power & temporality in pursuing transformative planetary justice	7
Radical incrementalism: hydropolitics and environmental discourses in Laos	7
Further Reflections on the National Academies Report on Solar Geoengineering: A Response to Stephens et al	7
Mnemonic ecologies: memory and nature conservation along the former Iron Curtain	7
Citizens united and state environmental policy, regulations, and outcomes	6
Capitalism at the roots: the crisis of representative democracy through the eyes of Belgian climate activists	6
Color-blind racial ideology and beliefs about environmental inequality among local US government officials	6
The Role of International Engagement in Greening China’s Belt and Road Initiative	6
Resolving the climate crisis	6
Consenting publics: fair nuclear waste repository siting?	6
Whose system, what change? A critical political economy approach to the UK climate movement	6