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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Life against states of emergency: revitalizing treaty relations from Attawapiskat	156
Petrochemical planet. Multiscalar battles of industrial transformation	81
Educating for the anthropocene: schooling and activism in the face of slow violence	54
What makes Guatemalan citizens green?	41
Obstructing change: political inertia and the maintenance of climate inaction in Australia	38
“We grow earth”: performing eco-agrarian citizenship at the semi-periphery of Europe	38
Towards ‘just access’: a critical framework for analyzing migrant labor governance in the green transition	37
Voters do not punish their government for climate policies under favorable conditions	34
An EV-fix for Indonesia: the green development-resource nationalist nexus	34
Internal climate leadership in municipal organizations. How paradoxical and transformational leadership of higher-level management shape climate leadership of lower-level managers	33
Crowdsourcing infrastructures of green everyday life: how sustainable sharing, swapping and gardening initiatives in Vienna tackle the lack of transformative agency in eco-politics	32
From (De)regulation to industrialization? Chilean lithium policy in comparative perspective	31
Negotiating just transitions: power and interest dynamics in insurgent sustainability coalitions	31
Defending the climate cause within the state: the ministry of ecology and the drafting of France’s national low-carbon strategy (2017–2020)	30
Environmental activism and authoritarianism in Myanmar: interrogating assemblages across three political epochs	29
Everywhere you vote, you always take the weather with you: the effects of local temperature anomalies on Green party voting	26
Fluid hope in a climate emergency: Lessons from an English citizens’ jury	26
Understanding the rights of nature: a critical introduction	26
Where to aim with multispecies climate justice? A critical realist account	24
Earth system boundaries and Earth system justice: sharing the ecospace	23
The central bank lacuna in green state transformation	23
Reading contemporary environmental justice: narratives from Kerala	22
The Dao of Civilization: A Letter to China	22
Law’s quick fix? Ecocide, social transformation and the pitfalls of criminalisation	19
Net zero by 2050: the case for green industrial policy	18

Kindling green hate through eco- and demographic anxiety	18
The desire for environmental justice: psychoanalysis and the political power of enjoyment	18
The global criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest – a repertoire of repression	17
Geo-themed and geo-centric thought: reflections on the onto-epistemological basis of critical thought’s geologic turn	17
When Fracking Comes to Town: governance, planning, and economic impacts of the US Shale Boom	17
Beyond Europeanization: political ecology and environmentalism in Central and Eastern Europe	16
A dynamic institutional analysis of China’s engagement with Africa’s renewable energy market	16
Closing the implementation gap in urban climate policy: Mexico’s public transit buildup	16
Actors, legitimacy, and governance challenges facing negative emissions and solar geoengineering technologies	16
Mobilising care in the polycrisis: framing eco-social activism in Hungary, Czechia, and Poland	16
Persuading the public: nationalist propaganda and support for costly environmental policies in China	15
Hard to say goodbye: South Korea, Japan, and China as the last lenders for coal	15
In praise of floods: the untamed river and the life it brings	15
Rethinking party environmentalism: the environmental politics expert survey	15
Climate populism: the limits of the ideational and discursive approaches	14
Ecocidal impunity? Wars and the profitability of the chemical corporation in the global south	14
Exploring the politics of degrowth – first evidence from two cases of repair policies in Austria and Sweden	14
Multi-layered differentiation in the climate regime: the gradual path from Rio to Paris	13
Regulatory capture related to environmental risks: a systematic review on empirical research	13
Mass animal starvation and the global development paradigm: toward multispecies food sovereignty as global wellbeing	13
Australian third sector actors’ theories of change for climate justice: real and apparent barriers and obscured root causes	13
It’s not just climate: rethinking ‘climate emotions’ in the age of burnout capitalism	13
Geoengineering discourse confronting climate change: the move from margins to mainstream in science, news media, and politics	13
The pivotal generation: why we have a moral responsibility to slow climate change right now	13
China’s Green Belt and Road Initiative: transnational environmental governance and causal pathways of orchestration	13
Geoengineering, climate change and ecological security	13
Climate Migration - critical perspectives for law, policy and research	12
Subjects of intergenerational justice: indigenous philosophy, the environment and relationships	12
The impact of corruption on climate change mitigation: a review article	12
Like diamonds in the sky? Public perceptions, governance, and information framing of solar geoengineering activities in Mexico, the United Kingdom, and the United States	12
Certifying China: the rise and limits of transnational sustainability governance in emerging economies	12
States and nature: the effects of climate change on security	12
Environmental apocalypse and space: the lost dimension of the end of the world	11
Pulling together or pulling apart? Understanding the heterogenous collective action frames of local climate activists through a Q methodology study	11
Making and breaking promises: must a country harmonize its climate pledges and policies?	11
Feeling climate change: how emotions govern our responses to the climate emergency	11
Stories we live by and may die by: ideologies in newspaper reports of pipeline vandalism	11
Big dilemmas, little time: intergenerational climate justice and public support for deep decarbonisation	11
Hide and brag: the strategic use of media in China’s war on air pollution	11
Mainstream parties and climate policy development: what role for intra-party politics?	10
A framework for classifying climate change questions used in public opinion surveys	10
“What we can do is contribute to EU goals”: Latvia’s strategic narrative challenges in pursuing climate neutrality	10
Doubling down on DAPL: the contentious politics of pipeline governance in Illinois	10
Review of Acknowledging indigenous knowledge: voices of tropical forest people	10
Fugitive Politics: The Struggle For Ecological Sanity	10
The national knowledge politics of monitoring and evaluating adaptation to climate change: processes of repair, theatrical performance and legitimacy	10
Prefiguring multispecies justice: how communities are challenging and transfiguring care, labour, and belonging in the midst of climate catastrophe	10
Power lines: the human costs of american energy in transition	10
What’s capitalism – generational differentiation in the climate movement	9
Why do Australians prefer some climate migrants over others?	9

Clinging to power: status threat and attitudes toward the renewable energy transition	9
A climate fit for capitalism: ordoliberalism’s political ecology and German environmental politics	9
Care-centered politics – from the home to the planet	8
Mnemonic ecologies: memory and nature conservation along the former Iron Curtain	8
The self-work of planetary justice	8
Green Is the New Bad: Libertarian Populism and the Edgar Friendly Style of Climate Denial	8
The renaissance of carbon capture and storage in Germany and the politics of conditionality	8
Climate-just behavior: foundations and transformational approaches	8
A tale of two coals: the politics of time in coal phase out	8
Radical incrementalism: hydropolitics and environmental discourses in Laos	8
All we want is the earth: land, labour and movements beyond environmentalism	8
Differences within global movements: insights from FFF climate protests in Western and Eastern Europe	7
Governing through the nationally determined contribution (NDC): five functions to steer states’ climate conduct	7
Sustainable development and the environment in EU and Japanese free trade agreements: embedding anthropocentric narratives	7
The multilevel governance of polarised climate politics: how a pioneer city navigates a dynamic political context	7
Values-based environmental justice: conflicts and promises in mining territories	7
Pope Francis and the environment, act 2. Time for decisive climate action	7
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
Citizens united and state environmental policy, regulations, and outcomes	6
Anti-environmentalism as conservative coalition maintenance: an automated text analysis of National Review	6
Capitalism at the roots: the crisis of representative democracy through the eyes of Belgian climate activists	6
A turning point in global biodiversity governance?	6
A Strategic Nature: Public Relations and the Politics of American Environmentalism	6
Resolving the climate crisis	6
Cosmopolitics in action: bridging the human-non-human divide in everyday environmental conflicts	6
Extreme weather and climate policy	6
Power & temporality in pursuing transformative planetary justice	6