OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Global Environmental Politics is 1. 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
Prisoners of the Wrong Dilemma: Why Distributive Conflict, Not Collective Action, Characterizes the Politics of Climate Change	105
Precision Technologies for Agriculture: Digital Farming, Gene-Edited Crops, and the Politics of Sustainability	100
Future-Proofing Capitalism: The Paradox of the Circular Economy for Plastics	66
Catalytic Cooperation	50
Policy Characteristics, Electoral Cycles, and the Partisan Politics of Climate Change	37
Political Economy Determinants of Carbon Pricing	35
Green Industrial Policy and the Global Transformation of Climate Politics	33
Intergovernmental Expert Consensus in the Making: The Case of the Summary for Policy Makers of the IPCC 2014 Synthesis Report	32
Marine Biodiversity Negotiations During COVID-19: A New Role for Digital Diplomacy?	26
The Security–Sustainability Nexus: Lithium Onshoring in the Global North	24
Brokering Climate Action: The UNFCCC Secretariat Between Parties and Nonparty Stakeholders	22
Pathways to an International Agreement to Leave Fossil Fuels in the Ground	22
Which Way Forward in Measuring the Quality of Life? A Critical Analysis of Sustainability and Well-Being Indicator Sets	19
Political Perspectives on Geoengineering: Navigating Problem Definition and Institutional Fit	18
Varieties of Crises: Comparing the Politics of COVID-19 and Climate Change	18
Populism and Environmental Performance	17
Big Oil and Climate Regulation: Business as Usual or a Changing Business?	16
Climate Governance Antagonisms: Policy Stability and Repoliticization	14
Large-Scale Carbon Dioxide Removal: The Problem of Phasedown	14
Participatory Designs and Epistemic Authority in Knowledge Platforms for Sustainability	14
The Practical Fit of Concepts: Ecosystem Services and the Value of Nature	14
The Potential and Limits of Environmental Disclosure Regulation: A Global Value Chain Perspective Applied to Tanker Shipping	14
Nature 4.0: Assisted Evolution, De-extinction, and Ecological Restoration Technologies	13
Indigenous Peoples and Multiscalar Environmental Governance: The Opening and Closure of Participatory Spaces	13
Experiments in EU Climate Governance: The Unfulfilled Potential of the Covenant of Mayors	12

Capitalism and Earth System Governance: An Ecological Marxist Approach	12
The Supply Side of Climate Policies: Keeping Unburnable Fossil Fuels in the Ground	12
Making Industrial Policy Work for Decarbonization	12
Governing New Biotechnologies for Biodiversity Conservation: Gene Drives, International Law, and Emerging Politics	12
Who Are the Engineers? Solar Geoengineering Research and Justice	12
Following the Leaders? How to Restore Progress in Global Climate Governance	12
The International Politics of Carbon Dioxide Removal: Pathways to Cooperative Global Governance	11
Silver Lining to Extreme Weather Events? Democracy and Climate Change Mitigation	11
Judicializing Environmental Governance? The Case of Transnational Corporate Accountability	10
Nationalist Backlash Against Foreign Climate Shaming	10
Climate Change, Sea Level Rise, and Maritime Baselines: Responding to the Plight of Low-Lying Atoll States	9
Beliefs About Consequences from Climate Action Under Weak Climate Institutions: Sectors, Home Bias, and International Embeddedness	8
Shadows of Divestment: The Complications of Diverting Fossil Fuel Finance	8
Counting Carbon or Counting Coal? Anchoring Climate Governance in Fossil Fuel–Based Accountability Frameworks	8
How Do Right-Wing Populist Parties Influence Climate and Renewable Energy Policies? Evidence from OECD Countries	8
Making Representations: The SDG Process and Major Groups’ Images of the Future	8
Political Institutions and Supply-Side Climate Politics: Lessons from Coal Ports in Canada and the United States	7
Environmental Impacts and Public Opinion About International Trade: Experimental Evidence from Six OECD Countries	7
Green Industrial Policy After Paris: Renewable Energy Policy Measures and Climate Goals	6
The Elusive Governance of Climate Change: Nationally Determined Contributions as Commitments and Negotiating Positions	6
Taking Technology Seriously: Introduction to the Special Issue on New Technologies and Global Environmental Politics	5
It’s a Performance, Not an Orchestra! Rethinking Soft Coordination in Global Climate Governance	5
Massive Institutional Structures in Global Governance	5
Small NGOs and Agenda-Setting in Global Conservation Governance: The Case of Pangolin Conservation	5
Design Trade-Offs Under Power Asymmetry: COPs and Flexibility Clauses	5
Phasing Out Fossil Fuels: Determinants of Production Cuts and Implications for an International Agreement	5
Backlash to Climate Policy	4
Tactical Opposition: Obstructing Loss and Damage Finance in the United Nations Climate Negotiations	4
Transparency in Environmental and Resource Governance: Theories of Change for the EITI	4
The Enemy Within? Green Industrial Policy and Stranded Assets in China’s Power Sector	4
Differentiation in Environmental Treaty Making: Measuring Provisions and How They Reshape the Depth–Participation Dilemma	4
Building Environmental Peace: The UN Environment Programme and Knowledge Creation for Environmental Peacebuilding	4
Build Back Better? Effects of Crisis on Climate Change Adaptation Through Solar Power in Japan and the United States	4
Rethinking the Climate–Conflict Nexus: A Human–Environmental–Climate Security Approach	4
Carbon Emission Performance and Regime Type: The Role of Inequality	4
Steering and Influence in Transnational Climate Governance: Nonstate Engagement in Solar Geoengineering Research	4
Business for Climate: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Policy Support from Transnational Companies	4
Why Are Fossil Fuels So Entrenched?	3
Orchestrating Global Climate Governance Through Data: The UNFCCC Secretariat and the Global Climate Action Platform	3
The Challenges of Coal Phaseout: Coal Plant Development and Foreign Finance in Indonesia and Vietnam	3
Nature Conservation, Extractivist Conflicts, and Indigenous Rights in the Americas	3
Transnational Private Environmental Rule Makers as Interest Organizations: Evidence from the European Union	3
Using Earnings Calls to Understand the Political Behavior of Major Polluters	3
Transnational Governance and the Urban Politics of Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change	3
Unburnable Fossil Fuels and Climate Finance: Compensation for Rights Holders	3
Supply-Side Climate Policies in Major Oil-Producing Countries: Norway’s and Canada’s Struggles to Align Climate Leadership with Fossil Fuel Extraction	3
Valuing Nature to Save It? The Centrality of Valuation in the New Spirit of Conservation	3
De-risking Decarbonization: Accelerating Fossil Fuel Retirement by Shifting Costs to Future Winners	3
From Progress to Delay: The Quest for Data in the Negotiations on Greenhouse Gases in the International Maritime Organization	3
Greening China’s Belt and Road Initiative: From Norm Localization to Norm Subsidiarity?	3

Energy and the Complexity of International Order	2
Value Judgments at the Heart of Green Transformation: The Leverage of Pension Fund Investors	2
Under What Conditions Will the Paris Process Produce a Cycle of Increasing Ambition Sufficient to Reach the 2°C Goal?	2
The Influence of Alternative Development Finance on the World Bank’s Safeguards Regime	2
Sustainable Energy for All? Assessing Global Distributive Justice in the Green Climate Fund’s Energy Finance	2
Multilateral Climate Finance Coordination: Politics and Depoliticization in Practice	2
The Paris Agreement as Analogy in Global Environmental Politics	2
International Ozone Negotiations and the Green Spiral	2
The Failure of CBDR in Global Environmental Politics	1
Introduction	1
Security and Conservation: The Politics of the Illegal Wildlife Trade by Rosaleen Duffy	1
The Homogenization of Urban Climate Action Discourses	1
Governing Climate Change: Polycentricity in Action? By Andrew Jordan, Dave Huitema, Harro van Asselt, and Johanna Foster, editors. 2018. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.	1
Planetary Disasters: Wildness and the Perennial Struggle for Control	1
Fishing Across Disciplines	1
Comment: Global Climate Policy and Collective Action	1
Race, Ethnicity, and the Case for Intersectional Water Security	1
Embracing the Darkness: Methods for Tackling Uncertainty and Complexity in Environmental Disaster Risks	1
Market Masquerades? Corporate Climate Initiative Effects on Firm-Level Climate Performance	1
Degrowth, Air Travel, and Global Environmental Governance: Scaffolding a Multilateral Agreement for a Smaller and More Sustainable Aviation Sector	1
Introduction	1
Ecomodernism: Technology, Politics and the Climate Crisis. By Jonathon Symons. 2019. Cambridge, MA: Polity Press.	1
Institutional Adaptation in Slow Motion: Zooming In on Desertification Governance	1
Disaster Making in the Capitalocene	1
Keeping Promises? Democracies’ Ability to Harmonize Their International and National Climate Commitments	1
Transnational Governing at the Climate–Biodiversity Frontier: Employing a Governmentality Perspective	1
Deploying an Ethnographic Sensibility to Understand Climate Change Governance: Hanging Out, Around, In, and Back	1
Accountability as Constructive Dialogue: Can NGOs Persuade States to Conserve Biodiversity?	1
Green Financial and Regulatory Policies: Why Are Some Central Banks Moving Faster than Others?	1
Public–Private Inquiries: Institutional Intermediaries and the Transparency Nexus in Global Resource Development	1
Exclusive Apart, Inclusive as a System: Polycentricity in Climate City Networks	1