OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Global Environmental Politics is 2. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Extractivist States: Contesting and Negotiating the “Commodities Consensus” in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Across Latin America	105
Erratum	74
Plastic Unlimited: How Corporations Are Fueling the Ecological Crisis and What We Can Do About It by Alice Mah	52
Rights of Nature and World Order: Reimagining Socioecological Futures	43
Domestic Provision of Global Public Goods: How Other Countries’ Behavior Affects Public Support for Climate Policy	37
Supply-Side Climate Policies in Major Oil-Producing Countries: Norway’s and Canada’s Struggles to Align Climate Leadership with Fossil Fuel Extraction	31
Invasive Species in Post-2020 Global Environmental Politics	23
Exclusive Apart, Inclusive as a System: Polycentricity in Climate City Networks	20
Patent or Planet? Rethinking IP for Just Climate Tech Transition in the Global South	20
Conflicting Sovereignties: Global Conservation, Protected Areas, and Indigenous Nations in the Peruvian Amazon	19
The International Politics of Carbon Dioxide Removal: Pathways to Cooperative Global Governance	18
The Influence of Alternative Development Finance on the World Bank’s Safeguards Regime	18
From Progress to Delay: The Quest for Data in the Negotiations on Greenhouse Gases in the International Maritime Organization	17
Expert Authority Politics in the Marine Biodiversity Complex	17
Tactical Opposition: Obstructing Loss and Damage Finance in the United Nations Climate Negotiations	17
Beyond Climate Breakdown: Envisioning New Stories of Radical Hope by Peter Friederici	16
Mountain Battery: The Alps, Water, and Power in the Fossil Fuel Age by Marc Landry	16
Carbon Emission Performance and Regime Type: The Role of Inequality	15
The Untold Story of the World’s Leading Environmental Institution: UNEP at Fifty by Maria Ivanova	15
Transnational Governing at the Climate–Biodiversity Frontier: Employing a Governmentality Perspective	15
Polycentric Climate Governance: The State, Local Action, Democratic Preferences, and Power—Emerging Insights and a Research Agenda	15
Pipeline Politics and the Future of Environmental Justice Struggles in North America	14
Toward a Super-COP? Timing, Temporality, and Rethinking World Climate Governance	14
Is It Just About Sustainability? Politics at Home and the Trade Impacts of Voluntary Standards Abroad	13
Promises and Pitfalls of Polycentric Federalism: The Case of Solar Power in India	13

Introduction	12
Bucking the Trend: Civil Society and the Strengthening of Environmental Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean	12
Growing Apart: China and India at the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol	12
Disaster Making in the Capitalocene	11
Plastic Politics of Delay: How Political Corporate Social Responsibility Discourses Produce and Reinforce Inequality in Plastic Waste Governance	11
Challenging the Narrative of Inclusion: Feminist Decolonial Perspectives on Climate Governance	11
Toward a Typology of Environmental Cooperation in Postconflict Settings: The Case of Jordan and Israel	11
Introduction	9
Continuity and Change in Norm Translations After the Paris Agreement: From First to Second Nationally Determined Contributions	9
Gender Distribution of Leadership Positions in Global Environmental Politics	9
The Effects of Political Knowledge Use by Developing Country Negotiators in Loss and Damage Negotiations	8
Civil Society Strikes Back: How Global South Coalitions Are Shaping Corporate Accountability in the Age of Mandatory Due Diligence	8
Lithium’s Northern Buzz: Extractivism, Energy Transitions, and Resource Frontiers in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec	8
Sustainable Energy for All? Assessing Global Distributive Justice in the Green Climate Fund’s Energy Finance	8
The Longue Durée of International Environmental Norm Change: Global Environmental Politics Meets the English School of International Relations	8
The Political Economy of Protected Area Designations: Commercial Interests in Conservation Policy	7
Private Governance and Public Authority: Regulating Sustainability in a Global Economy by Stefan Renckens	7
Accountability as Constructive Dialogue: Can NGOs Persuade States to Conserve Biodiversity?	7
Phasing Out Fossil Fuels: Determinants of Production Cuts and Implications for an International Agreement	7
Climate Governance Antagonisms: Policy Stability and Repoliticization	7
Amazonia Center of the World: Telling Stories of Socioenvironmentalism as Struggles for a Planet of Many Worlds	7
The Empirical Realities of Polycentric Climate Governance: Introduction to the Special Issue	6
Reply: The Persistent Absence of Empirical Evidence for Free-Riding in Global Climate Politics	6
Understanding the Politics and Governance of Climate Change Loss and Damage	6
Supporting the Next Generation of Global Environmental Politics Research: A Call to Dialogue and Action	6
The Missing Ingredients for a Polycentric Governance System of Orbital Debris	6
Effective Advocacy: Lessons from East Asia’s Environmentalists by Mary Alice Haddad	6
How Does Polycentric Engagement Relate to Countries’ NDC Ambition and Mitigation Policy Effort?	6
Blue (Un)certainties: Mitigization of the Deep-Sea Mining Policy Process in the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge, Norway	6
Participating in Polycentric Climate Governance: The Partnership Choices of Latin American NGOs	6
The Infrastructural South: Techno-Environments of the Third Wave of Urbanization by Jonathan Silver	6
Exploring the Role of Businesses in Polycentric Climate Governance with Large-N Data Sets	5
Zooming In on Agreement-Making: Tracing the BBNJ Negotiations with the MARIPOLDATAbase	5
Climate Change, Vulnerability, and the Propensity for Climate Migration: Evidence from Guatemala	5
The Failure of CBDR in Global Environmental Politics	5
Global Environmental Politics: The Transformative Role of Emerging Economies by Johannes Urpelainen	4
Reconsidering ICSID in the Context of Global Just Transitions	4
Executive Climate Change Attention: Toward an Indicator of Comparative Climate Change Attention	4
Mercury Stories: Understanding Sustainability Through a Volatile Element	4
Institutional Adaptation in Slow Motion: Zooming In on Desertification Governance	4
Engineering Vulnerability: In Pursuit of Climate Adaptation by Sarah E. Vaughn	4
Organizational Autonomy Beyond the Secretariat: Lessons from the Green Climate Fund	4
Leveraging “Enabling Power” Through Awarding in Global Climate Governance: Catalytic Impacts of UNFCCC’s Global Climate Action Award	4
Deploying an Ethnographic Sensibility to Understand Climate Change Governance: Hanging Out, Around, In, and Back	4
Institutional Structure, National Power, and Knowledge in the International Governance of Fisheries	4
Surging Eco-Anxiety: Consequences for Global Environmental Politics	4
Is Democracy the Answer to Intractable Climate Change?	4
What Does Loss and Damage Mean at the Country Level? A Global Mapping Through Nationally Determined Contributions	4
De-risking Decarbonization: Accelerating Fossil Fuel Retirement by Shifting Costs to Future Winners	3
The Climate-Changing Context of Inflation: Fossilflation, Climateflation, and the Environmental Politics of Green Central Banks	3

Orchestrating Global Climate Governance Through Data: The UNFCCC Secretariat and the Global Climate Action Platform	3
Navigating Sub-Saharan African Just and Low-Carbon Transitions: Integrated Governance Approaches in Kenya and South Africa	3
Introduction	3
Surging Biojustice Environmentalism from Below: Hope for Ending the Earth System Emergency?	3
The Politics of Rights of Nature: Strategies for Building a More Sustainable Future by Craig M. Kauffman and Pamela L. Martin	3
Keeping Promises? Democracies’ Ability to Harmonize Their International and National Climate Commitments	2
Accelerating Climate Action: The Politics of Nonstate Actor Engagement in the Paris Regime	2
From Apocalypse to Empowerment: Reframing Climate Action	2
Realpolitik in the Anthropocene: Resilience, Neoclassical Realism, and the Paris Agreement	2
The Politics of Environmental Consensus: The Case of the World Commission on Dams	2
Resilience and Nonideal Justice in Climate Loss and Damage Governance	2
Plastic Partnerships: How Corporations Are Hedging Against the UN Global Plastics Treaty	2
Agency in Earth System Governance edited by Michele M. Betsill, Tabitha M. Benney, and Andrea K. Gerlak	2
The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt by Jennifer L. Derr	2
Introduction to the Special Issue: The North–South Politics of Global Just Transitions	2
Environmental Terrorism Twenty Years On	2
Judicializing Environmental Governance? The Case of Transnational Corporate Accountability	2
The Politics of Youth Representation at Climate Change Conferences: Who Speaks, Who Is Spoken of, and Who Listens?	2
Erratum	2
The Potential of Co-benefits to Spur Subnational Carbon Pricing in North America: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis	2