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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Plastic Unlimited: How Corporations Are Fueling the Ecological Crisis and What We Can Do About It by Alice Mah	127
Erratum	102
Rights of Nature and World Order: Reimagining Socioecological Futures	25
Patent or Planet? Rethinking IP for Just Climate Tech Transition in the Global South	23
Tactical Opposition: Obstructing Loss and Damage Finance in the United Nations Climate Negotiations	21
Expert Authority Politics in the Marine Biodiversity Complex	21
Beyond Climate Breakdown: Envisioning New Stories of Radical Hope by Peter Friederici	21
Transnational Governing at the Climate–Biodiversity Frontier: Employing a Governmentality Perspective	20
Mountain Battery: The Alps, Water, and Power in the Fossil Fuel Age by Marc Landry	20
Polycentric Climate Governance: The State, Local Action, Democratic Preferences, and Power—Emerging Insights and a Research Agenda	20
Promises and Pitfalls of Polycentric Federalism: The Case of Solar Power in India	19
Is It Just About Sustainability? Politics at Home and the Trade Impacts of Voluntary Standards Abroad	18
Bucking the Trend: Civil Society and the Strengthening of Environmental Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean	17
Growing Apart: China and India at the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol	16
Pipeline Politics and the Future of Environmental Justice Struggles in North America	12
Toward a Super-COP? Timing, Temporality, and Rethinking World Climate Governance	11
Toward a Typology of Environmental Cooperation in Postconflict Settings: The Case of Jordan and Israel	10
Plastic Politics of Delay: How Political Corporate Social Responsibility Discourses Produce and Reinforce Inequality in Plastic Waste Governance	10
Gender Distribution of Leadership Positions in Global Environmental Politics	10
Challenging the Narrative of Inclusion: Feminist Decolonial Perspectives on Climate Governance	10
Transcalar and Intersectional Advocacy in a Super-Network: The Right to a Healthy Environment Coalition	9
Lithium’s Northern Buzz: Extractivism, Energy Transitions, and Resource Frontiers in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec	9
Civil Society Strikes Back: How Global South Coalitions Are Shaping Corporate Accountability in the Age of Mandatory Due Diligence	9
Amazonia Center of the World: Telling Stories of Socioenvironmentalism as Struggles for a Planet of Many Worlds	9
Continuity and Change in Norm Translations After the Paris Agreement: From First to Second Nationally Determined Contributions	9

The Effects of Political Knowledge Use by Developing Country Negotiators in Loss and Damage Negotiations	9
The Longue Durée of International Environmental Norm Change: Global Environmental Politics Meets the English School of International Relations	9
Keeping the Environment on the Agenda: UNEP Discourse During the COVID-19 Pandemic	8
Supporting the Next Generation of Global Environmental Politics Research: A Call to Dialogue and Action	8
Blue (Un)certainties: Mitigization of the Deep-Sea Mining Policy Process in the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge, Norway	8
Accountability as Constructive Dialogue: Can NGOs Persuade States to Conserve Biodiversity?	8
The Changing Contours of Climate Politics	8
The Political Economy of Protected Area Designations: Commercial Interests in Conservation Policy	8
How Does Polycentric Engagement Relate to Countries’ NDC Ambition and Mitigation Policy Effort?	7
Effective Advocacy: Lessons from East Asia’s Environmentalists by Mary Alice Haddad	6
Participating in Polycentric Climate Governance: The Partnership Choices of Latin American NGOs	6
The Empirical Realities of Polycentric Climate Governance: Introduction to the Special Issue	6
The Infrastructural South: Techno-Environments of the Third Wave of Urbanization by Jonathan Silver	6
The Missing Ingredients for a Polycentric Governance System of Orbital Debris	6
Climate Change, Vulnerability, and the Propensity for Climate Migration: Evidence from Guatemala	5
Understanding the Politics and Governance of Climate Change Loss and Damage	5
The Failure of CBDR in Global Environmental Politics	5
Zooming In on Agreement-Making: Tracing the BBNJ Negotiations with the MARIPOLDATAbase	5
Exploring the Role of Businesses in Polycentric Climate Governance with Large-N Data Sets	5
Reply: The Persistent Absence of Empirical Evidence for Free-Riding in Global Climate Politics	5
Institutional Adaptation in Slow Motion: Zooming In on Desertification Governance	4
Executive Climate Change Attention: Toward an Indicator of Comparative Climate Change Attention	4
Theorizing Access in Global Environmental Governance: A Critical Analysis of COP26 and the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
Navigating Sub-Saharan African Just and Low-Carbon Transitions: Integrated Governance Approaches in Kenya and South Africa	4
Reconsidering ICSID in the Context of Global Just Transitions	4
What Does Loss and Damage Mean at the Country Level? A Global Mapping Through Nationally Determined Contributions	4
Is Democracy the Answer to Intractable Climate Change?	4
Surging Biojustice Environmentalism from Below: Hope for Ending the Earth System Emergency?	4
Global Environmental Politics: The Transformative Role of Emerging Economies by Johannes Urpelainen	4
Surging Eco-Anxiety: Consequences for Global Environmental Politics	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
Agency in Earth System Governance edited by Michele M. Betsill, Tabitha M. Benney, and Andrea K. Gerlak	3
Introduction to the 25th Anniversary Special Issue: Continuity and Change in Global Environmental Politics	3
The Climate-Changing Context of Inflation: Fossilflation, Climateflation, and the Environmental Politics of Green Central Banks	3
Introduction	3
The Enduring Credibility Challenge of Long-Term Global Environmental Policy	3
Global Environmental Politics amid Geopolitical Turbulence	2
Resilience and Nonideal Justice in Climate Loss and Damage Governance	2
Erratum	2
The Politics of Environmental Consensus: The Case of the World Commission on Dams	2
Environmental Terrorism Twenty Years On	2
Realpolitik in the Anthropocene: Resilience, Neoclassical Realism, and the Paris Agreement	2
Seeing Through the Canopy: What Is the Problem of Transparency Represented to Be in Cameroon and DRC Forest Policy?	2
The Politics of Youth Representation at Climate Change Conferences: Who Speaks, Who Is Spoken of, and Who Listens?	2
From Apocalypse to Empowerment: Reframing Climate Action	2
Introduction to the Special Issue: The North–South Politics of Global Just Transitions	2
Keeping Promises? Democracies’ Ability to Harmonize Their International and National Climate Commitments	2
Plastic Partnerships: How Corporations Are Hedging Against the UN Global Plastics Treaty	2