OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environmental Politics is 8. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Multispecies justice: theories, challenges, and a research agenda for environmental politics	110
The future of ‘environmental’ policy in the Anthropocene: time for a paradigm shift	83
Climate changed urban futures: environmental politics in the anthropocene city	68
The limits of the loops: critical environmental politics and the Circular Economy	56
Greening states and societies: from transitions to great transformations	56
New directions in environmental justice studies: examining the state and violence	53
Jobs vs. climate justice? Contentious narratives of labor and climate movements in the coal transition in Germany	52
Nationalist ideology, rightwing populism, and public views about climate change in Europe	52
Early oil industry disinformation on global warming	44
The evolution of climate governance in China: drivers, features, and effectiveness	44
Weaponizing economics: Big Oil, economic consultants, and climate policy delay	35
Policy implementation styles and local governments: the case of climate change adaptation	35
More-than-human solidarity and multispecies justice in the climate crisis	32
Transforming ecological modernization ‘from within’ or perpetuating it? The circular economy as EU environmental policy narrative	31
The fantasy of carbon offsetting	30
Making matter great again? Ecofeminism, new materialism and the everyday turn in environmental politics	29
Green nationalism. Climate action and environmentalism in left nationalist parties	28
From populism to climate scepticism: the role of institutional trust and attitudes towards science	27
Does youth participation increase the democratic legitimacy of UNFCCC-orchestrated global climate change governance?	26
Narrating plastics governance: policy narratives in the European plastics strategy	25
‘Ecobordering’: casting immigration control as environmental protection	24
From targets to inspections: the issue of fairness in China’s environmental policy implementation	24
Varieties of climate governance: the emergence and functioning of climate institutions	24
Untangling the radical imaginaries of the Indignados’ movement: commons, autonomy and ecologism	23
Climate institutions in Brazil: three decades of building and dismantling climate capacity	21

Who owns marine biodiversity? Contesting the world order through the ‘common heritage of humankind’ principle	21
Populism as an act of storytelling: analyzing the climate change narratives of Donald Trump and Greta Thunberg as populist truth-tellers	20
The limits of opportunism: the uneven emergence of climate institutions in India	20
When do environmental NGOs work? A test of the conditional effectiveness of environmental advocacy	19
The Future of Environmental Peace and Conflict Research	19
Right-wing populist parties and environmental politics: insights from the Austrian Freedom Party’s support for the glyphosate ban	19
What If: multispecies justice as the expression of utopian desire	19
Intersectionality & Climate Justice: A call for synergy in climate change scholarship	18
Contested environmentalism: the politics of waste in China and Russia	18
Discourses on transformational change and paradigm shift in the Green Climate Fund: the divide over financialization and country ownership	18
An ambitious and climate-focused Commission agenda for post COVID-19 EU	17
Imaginary lock-ins in climate change politics: the challenge to envision a fossil-free future	17
Politicizing climate change in times of populism: an introduction	17
Quality of government and the relationship between environmental concern and pro-environmental behavior: a cross-national study	17
Survey research in environmental politics: why it is important and what the challenges are	16
The knowledge politics of climate change loss and damage across scales of governance	15
The manifestation of the green agenda: a comparative analysis of parliamentary debates	15
Multi-species justice: a view from the rights of nature movement	15
Climate change and right-wing populism in the United States	15
Postapocalyptic narratives in climate activism: their place and impact in five European cities	15
Swimming against the current: Australian climate institutions and the politics of polarisation	15
The unbearable lightness of climate populism	14
European Union’s proxy accountability for tropical deforestation	14
Germany’s Federal Climate Change Act	14
The Dangers of Mainstreaming Solar Geoengineering: A critique of the National Academies Report	14
Multilevel business power in environmental politics: the avocado boom and water scarcity in Chile	14
A hard Act to follow? The evolution and performance of UK climate governance	14
The dismantling of renewable energy policy in Italy	13
Philanthropic foundations as agents of environmental governance: a research agenda	13
Contentious governance around climate change measures in the Netherlands	13
Scepticisms and beyond? A comprehensive portrait of climate change communication by the far right in the European Parliament	13
The development of climate institutions in the United States	12
Climate justice in more-than-human worlds	12
Environmental justice implications and conceptual advancements: community experiences of proposed shale gas exploration in the UK	12
Institutionalising decarbonisation in South Africa: navigating climate mitigation and socio-economic transformation	12
Raising the bar: on the type, size and timeline of a ‘successful’ decoupling	12
Imagination and critique in environmental politics	12
Self-reinforcing and self-undermining feedbacks in subnational climate policy implementation	12
Advocating inaction: a historical analysis of the Global Climate Coalition	12
Patterns of European bioeconomy policy. Insights from a cross-case study of three policy areas	11
Attitudes towards climate change aid and climate refugees in New Zealand: an exploration of policy support and ideological barriers	11
The centre-periphery divide and attitudes towards climate change measures among Western Europeans	11
Wind energy counter-conducts in Germany: understanding a new wave of socio-environmental grassroots protest	11
Digitalizing forest landscape restoration: a social and political analysis of emerging technological practices	10
Same, same but different? How democratically elected right-wing populists shape climate change policymaking	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
Proxy-led accountability for natural resource extraction in rentier states	10
‘Heart of steel’: how trade unions lobby the European Union over emissions trading	10
‘Time to Wake Up’: Climate change advocacy in a polarized Congress, 1996-2015	9
Energy and domination: contesting the fossil myth of fuel expansion	9

From symbolism to substance: what the renewal of the Danish climate change act tells us about the driving forces behind policy change	9
Whose policy is it anyway? Public support for clean energy policy depends on the message and the messenger	9
Climate policy expertise in times of populism – knowledge strategies of the AfD regarding Germany’s climate package	9
What’s different about the environment? Environmental INGOs in comparative perspective	9
Indigenous-led grassroots engagements with oil pipelines in the U.S. and Russia: the NoDAPL and Komi movements	9
New York City as ‘fortress of solitude’ after Hurricane Sandy: a relational sociology of extreme weather’s relationship to climate politics	9
Making the circular economy online: a hyperlink analysis of the articulation of nutrient recycling in Finland	8
Isolationism and the equal per capita view	8
The environmental politics of reproductive choices in the age of climate change	8
Implementing the EU renewable energy directive in Norway: from Tailwind to Headwind	8
End of the line: environmental justice, energy justice, and opposition to power lines	8
Retrogradism in context. Varieties of right-wing populist climate politics	8
Reconciling climate change leadership with resource nationalism and regional vulnerabilities: a case-study of Kazakhstan	8