OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environmental Politics is 7. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The future of ‘environmental’ policy in the Anthropocene: time for a paradigm shift	96
Climate changed urban futures: environmental politics in the anthropocene city	82
Nationalist ideology, rightwing populism, and public views about climate change in Europe	80
Jobs vs. climate justice? Contentious narratives of labor and climate movements in the coal transition in Germany	72
The evolution of climate governance in China: drivers, features, and effectiveness	56
Early oil industry disinformation on global warming	53
Transforming ecological modernization ‘from within’ or perpetuating it? The circular economy as EU environmental policy narrative	45
The fantasy of carbon offsetting	44
Weaponizing economics: Big Oil, economic consultants, and climate policy delay	44
From populism to climate scepticism: the role of institutional trust and attitudes towards science	41
More-than-human solidarity and multispecies justice in the climate crisis	40
Varieties of climate governance: the emergence and functioning of climate institutions	38
Green nationalism. Climate action and environmentalism in left nationalist parties	36
Intersectionality & Climate Justice: A call for synergy in climate change scholarship	34
Making matter great again? Ecofeminism, new materialism and the everyday turn in environmental politics	33
‘Ecobordering’: casting immigration control as environmental protection	33
Climate institutions in Brazil: three decades of building and dismantling climate capacity	31
Narrating plastics governance: policy narratives in the European plastics strategy	31
The Future of Environmental Peace and Conflict Research	29
Politicizing climate change in times of populism: an introduction	28
Imaginary lock-ins in climate change politics: the challenge to envision a fossil-free future	28
Does youth participation increase the democratic legitimacy of UNFCCC-orchestrated global climate change governance?	28
Populism as an act of storytelling: analyzing the climate change narratives of Donald Trump and Greta Thunberg as populist truth-tellers	28
Who owns marine biodiversity? Contesting the world order through the ‘common heritage of humankind’ principle	27
The unbearable lightness of climate populism	25

The limits of opportunism: the uneven emergence of climate institutions in India	24
Advocating inaction: a historical analysis of the Global Climate Coalition	23
What If: multispecies justice as the expression of utopian desire	22
Scepticisms and beyond? A comprehensive portrait of climate change communication by the far right in the European Parliament	21
Climate change and right-wing populism in the United States	20
Philanthropic foundations as agents of environmental governance: a research agenda	20
Multilevel business power in environmental politics: the avocado boom and water scarcity in Chile	19
A hard Act to follow? The evolution and performance of UK climate governance	19
Multi-species justice: a view from the rights of nature movement	19
The dismantling of renewable energy policy in Italy	18
Swimming against the current: Australian climate institutions and the politics of polarisation	18
The knowledge politics of climate change loss and damage across scales of governance	17
The development of climate institutions in the United States	17
The centre-periphery divide and attitudes towards climate change measures among Western Europeans	17
Same, same but different? How democratically elected right-wing populists shape climate change policymaking	17
The Dangers of Mainstreaming Solar Geoengineering: A critique of the National Academies Report	17
The manifestation of the green agenda: a comparative analysis of parliamentary debates	16
Postapocalyptic narratives in climate activism: their place and impact in five European cities	16
Command and control or market-based instruments? Public support for policies to address vehicular pollution in Beijing and New Delhi	16
Germany’s Federal Climate Change Act	15
Climate justice in more-than-human worlds	15
From influencing to engagement: a framing model for climate communication in polarised settings	15
Imagination and critique in environmental politics	15
Environmental justice implications and conceptual advancements: community experiences of proposed shale gas exploration in the UK	15
The environmental politics of reproductive choices in the age of climate change	15
Attitudes towards climate change aid and climate refugees in New Zealand: an exploration of policy support and ideological barriers	14
Climate policy expertise in times of populism – knowledge strategies of the AfD regarding Germany’s climate package	14
Institutionalising decarbonisation in South Africa: navigating climate mitigation and socio-economic transformation	14
Climate cooperation in the shadow of solar geoengineering: an experimental investigation of the moral hazard conjecture	14
Patterns of European bioeconomy policy. Insights from a cross-case study of three policy areas	14
Whose policy is it anyway? Public support for clean energy policy depends on the message and the messenger	13
Back to the grassroots? The shrinking space of environmental activism in illiberal Hungary	13
‘Heart of steel’: how trade unions lobby the European Union over emissions trading	13
Geoengineering, climate change and ecological security	12
Reconciling climate change leadership with resource nationalism and regional vulnerabilities: a case-study of Kazakhstan	12
Digitalizing forest landscape restoration: a social and political analysis of emerging technological practices	12
Earth system boundaries and Earth system justice: sharing the ecospace	11
Retrogradism in context. Varieties of right-wing populist climate politics	11
Proxy-led accountability for natural resource extraction in rentier states	11
What matter matters as a matter of justice?	11
‘Anything Westminster can do we can do better’: the Scottish climate change act and placing a sub-state nation on the international stage	11
Anti-environmentalism and proto-authoritarian populism in Brazil: Bolsonaro and the defence of global agri-business	11
Implementing the EU renewable energy directive in Norway: from Tailwind to Headwind	10
Towards more sustainable global supply chains? Company compliance with new human rights and environmental due diligence laws	10
Indigenous-led grassroots engagements with oil pipelines in the U.S. and Russia: the NoDAPL and Komi movements	10
From symbolism to substance: what the renewal of the Danish climate change act tells us about the driving forces behind policy change	10
The politics of climate change adaptation in Brazil: framings and policy outcomes for the rural sector	10
Governing through the nationally determined contribution (NDC): five functions to steer states’ climate conduct	9
Unpacking the process: how agenda-setting theory explains the case of creating large scale marine protected areas in Brazil	9
Responsibilities for just transition to low-carbon societies: a role-based framework	9

‘At the heart of human politics’: agency and responsibility in the contemporary climate novel	9
Sustainability spectacle and ‘post-oil’ greening initiatives	9
Explaining differences in party reactions to the Fridays for Future-movement – a qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) of parties in three European countries	9
The temporal cleavage: the case of populist retrotopia vs. climate emergency	9
End of the line: environmental justice, energy justice, and opposition to power lines	8
The role of the Sovereign state in 21^stcentury environmental disasters	8
Spiral-scaling climate action: lessons from and for the academic flying less movement	8
Extractive industry disasters and community responses: a typology of vulnerable subjects	8
Towards eco-social politics: a case study of transformative strategies to overcome forms-of-life crises	7
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it: how the public’s economic confidence in the fossil fuel industry reduces support for a clean energy transition	7
Who’s afraid of more ambitious climate policy? How distributional implications shape policy support and compensatory preferences	7