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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Extractivist States: Contesting and Negotiating the “Commodities Consensus” in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Across Latin America	74
International Ozone Negotiations and the Green Spiral	63
Erratum	40
Domestic Provision of Global Public Goods: How Other Countries’ Behavior Affects Public Support for Climate Policy	32
Plastic Unlimited: How Corporations Are Fueling the Ecological Crisis and What We Can Do About It by Alice Mah	30
Invasive Species in Post-2020 Global Environmental Politics	29
Supply-Side Climate Policies in Major Oil-Producing Countries: Norway’s and Canada’s Struggles to Align Climate Leadership with Fossil Fuel Extraction	29
The International Politics of Carbon Dioxide Removal: Pathways to Cooperative Global Governance	25
Exclusive Apart, Inclusive as a System: Polycentricity in Climate City Networks	24
Conflicting Sovereignties: Global Conservation, Protected Areas, and Indigenous Nations in the Peruvian Amazon	20
Tactical Opposition: Obstructing Loss and Damage Finance in the United Nations Climate Negotiations	16
From Progress to Delay: The Quest for Data in the Negotiations on Greenhouse Gases in the International Maritime Organization	14
Expert Authority Politics in the Marine Biodiversity Complex	14
Transnational Governing at the Climate–Biodiversity Frontier: Employing a Governmentality Perspective	12
The Influence of Alternative Development Finance on the World Bank’s Safeguards Regime	12
Carbon Emission Performance and Regime Type: The Role of Inequality	12
Beyond Climate Breakdown: Envisioning New Stories of Radical Hope by Peter Friederici	12
Making Industrial Policy Work for Decarbonization	11
Polycentric Climate Governance: The State, Local Action, Democratic Preferences, and Power—Emerging Insights and a Research Agenda	11
Toward a Super-COP? Timing, Temporality, and Rethinking World Climate Governance	10
The Untold Story of the World’s Leading Environmental Institution: UNEP at Fifty by Maria Ivanova	9
Growing Apart: China and India at the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol	9
Pipeline Politics and the Future of Environmental Justice Struggles in North America	9
Is It Just About Sustainability? Politics at Home and the Trade Impacts of Voluntary Standards Abroad	8
Bucking the Trend: Civil Society and the Strengthening of Environmental Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean	8

Promises and Pitfalls of Polycentric Federalism: The Case of Solar Power in India	8
Marine Biodiversity Negotiations During COVID-19: A New Role for Digital Diplomacy?	8
Continuity and Change in Norm Translations After the Paris Agreement: From First to Second Nationally Determined Contributions	7
Toward a Typology of Environmental Cooperation in Postconflict Settings: The Case of Jordan and Israel	7
Challenging the Narrative of Inclusion: Feminist Decolonial Perspectives on Climate Governance	7
Rethinking the Climate–Conflict Nexus: A Human–Environmental–Climate Security Approach	7
Introduction	7
Plastic Politics of Delay: How Political Corporate Social Responsibility Discourses Produce and Reinforce Inequality in Plastic Waste Governance	7
Disaster Making in the Capitalocene	7
Lithium’s Northern Buzz: Extractivism, Energy Transitions, and Resource Frontiers in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec	6
Gender Distribution of Leadership Positions in Global Environmental Politics	6
The Effects of Political Knowledge Use by Developing Country Negotiators in Loss and Damage Negotiations	6
Introduction	6
Sustainable Energy for All? Assessing Global Distributive Justice in the Green Climate Fund’s Energy Finance	6
The Longue Durée of International Environmental Norm Change: Global Environmental Politics Meets the English School of International Relations	6
Private Governance and Public Authority: Regulating Sustainability in a Global Economy by Stefan Renckens	5
It All Hinges on China: Environmental Governance in the Twenty-First Century	5
The Political Economy of Protected Area Designations: Commercial Interests in Conservation Policy	5
Participating in Polycentric Climate Governance: The Partnership Choices of Latin American NGOs	5
Phasing Out Fossil Fuels: Determinants of Production Cuts and Implications for an International Agreement	5
Accountability as Constructive Dialogue: Can NGOs Persuade States to Conserve Biodiversity?	5
Climate Governance Antagonisms: Policy Stability and Repoliticization	5
The Enemy Within? Green Industrial Policy and Stranded Assets in China’s Power Sector	4
The Failure of CBDR in Global Environmental Politics	4
The Empirical Realities of Polycentric Climate Governance: Introduction to the Special Issue	4
Deploying an Ethnographic Sensibility to Understand Climate Change Governance: Hanging Out, Around, In, and Back	4
Understanding the Politics and Governance of Climate Change Loss and Damage	4
Zooming In on Agreement-Making: Tracing the BBNJ Negotiations with the MARIPOLDATAbase	4
How Does Polycentric Engagement Relate to Countries’ NDC Ambition and Mitigation Policy Effort?	4
Value Judgments at the Heart of Green Transformation: The Leverage of Pension Fund Investors	4
Reply: The Persistent Absence of Empirical Evidence for Free-Riding in Global Climate Politics	4
Effective Advocacy: Lessons from East Asia’s Environmentalists by Mary Alice Haddad	4
Cold Rush: The Astonishing True Story of the New Quest for the Polar North	3
Mercury Stories: Understanding Sustainability Through a Volatile Element	3
Exploring the Role of Businesses in Polycentric Climate Governance with Large-N Data Sets	3
Global Environmental Politics: The Transformative Role of Emerging Economies by Johannes Urpelainen	3
Transparency in Environmental and Resource Governance: Theories of Change for the EITI	3
Institutional Structure, National Power, and Knowledge in the International Governance of Fisheries	3
Green Industrial Policy and the Global Transformation of Climate Politics	3
Engineering Vulnerability: In Pursuit of Climate Adaptation by Sarah E. Vaughn	3
Institutional Adaptation in Slow Motion: Zooming In on Desertification Governance	3
Organizational Autonomy Beyond the Secretariat: Lessons from the Green Climate Fund	2
Building Environmental Peace: The UN Environment Programme and Knowledge Creation for Environmental Peacebuilding	2
Energy and the Complexity of International Order	2
The Climate-Changing Context of Inflation: Fossilflation, Climateflation, and the Environmental Politics of Green Central Banks	2
What Does Loss and Damage Mean at the Country Level? A Global Mapping Through Nationally Determined Contributions	2
Orchestrating Global Climate Governance Through Data: The UNFCCC Secretariat and the Global Climate Action Platform	2
The Politics of Rights of Nature: Strategies for Building a More Sustainable Future by Craig M. Kauffman and Pamela L. Martin	2
Judicializing Environmental Governance? The Case of Transnational Corporate Accountability	2
Is Democracy the Answer to Intractable Climate Change?	2

De-risking Decarbonization: Accelerating Fossil Fuel Retirement by Shifting Costs to Future Winners	2
Leveraging “Enabling Power” Through Awarding in Global Climate Governance: Catalytic Impacts of UNFCCC’s Global Climate Action Award	2
Introduction	2
Surging Biojustice Environmentalism from Below: Hope for Ending the Earth System Emergency?	2
The Politics of Environmental Consensus: The Case of the World Commission on Dams	1
From Apocalypse to Empowerment: Reframing Climate Action	1
Nationalist Backlash Against Foreign Climate Shaming	1
Massive Institutional Structures in Global Governance	1
Accelerating Climate Action: The Politics of Nonstate Actor Engagement in the Paris Regime	1
Keeping Promises? Democracies’ Ability to Harmonize Their International and National Climate Commitments	1
Resilience and Nonideal Justice in Climate Loss and Damage Governance	1
Greening China’s Belt and Road Initiative: From Norm Localization to Norm Subsidiarity?	1
The Potential of Co-benefits to Spur Subnational Carbon Pricing in North America: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis	1
The Politics of Youth Representation at Climate Change Conferences: Who Speaks, Who Is Spoken of, and Who Listens?	1
Realpolitik in the Anthropocene: Resilience, Neoclassical Realism, and the Paris Agreement	1
The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt by Jennifer L. Derr	1
The Contamination of the Earth: A History of Pollutions in the Industrial Age	1
Agency in Earth System Governance edited by Michele M. Betsill, Tabitha M. Benney, and Andrea K. Gerlak	1
The Homogenization of Urban Climate Action Discourses	1
A Just Energy Transition: Getting Decarbonisation Right in a Time of Crisis by Ed Atkins	1
Plastic Partnerships: How Corporations Are Hedging Against the UN Global Plastics Treaty	1
Environmental Terrorism Twenty Years On	1