OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Environmental Agreements-Politics Law and Economics is 3. 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
Towards a European Green Deal: The evolution of EU climate and energy policy mixes	84
What goes around, comes around? Access and allocation problems in Global North–South waste trade	40
From the circular economy to the sustainable development goals in the European Union: an empirical comparison	35
China’s climate and energy policy: at a turning point?	35
The Sustainable Development Goals viewed through Gross National Happiness, Ubuntu, and Buen Vivir	30
Global warming problem faced by the international community: international legal aspect	26
Future proofing the principle of no significant harm	24
Green building in China	21
Access and allocation in earth system governance: lessons learnt in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals	18
The global governance of water, energy, and food nexus: allocation and access for competing demands	18
New alliances in global environmental governance: how intergovernmental treaty secretariats interact with non-state actors to address transboundary environmental problems	16
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Prospects of legal regulation in the field of electronic waste management in the context of a circular economy	16
The inter-relationship between no harm, equitable and reasonable utilisation and cooperation under international water law	15
Response of the Arab world to climate change challenges and the Paris agreement	15
Access and allocation: the role of large shareholders and investors in leaving fossil fuels underground	14
Climate mitigation policies and actions: access and allocation issues	14
Explicit targets and cooperation: regional fisheries management organizations and the sustainable development goals	14
The Paris agreement and key actors’ domestic climate policy mixes: comparative patterns	12
The current state of development of the no significant harm principle: How far have we come?	12
The “top-down” Kyoto Protocol? Exploring caricature and misrepresentation in literature on global climate change governance	11
The United States: conditions for accelerating decarbonisation in a politically divided country	11
The risk of carbon leakage in global climate agreements	11
The effectiveness of soft law in international environmental regimes: participation and compliance in the Hyogo Framework for Action	11
Institutional interplay in global environmental governance: lessons learned and future research	10
Access and allocation in global biodiversity governance: a review	9

Access and allocation in climate change adaptation	9
The role of international regimes and courts in clarifying prevention of harm in freshwater and marine environmental protection	8
Carbon emission, solid waste management, and electricity generation: a legal and empirical perspective for renewable energy in Nigeria	8
Environmental education and awareness: the present and future key to the sustainable management of Ramsar convention sites in Kenya	8
Lessons learnt in global biodiversity governance	8
Reciprocity in practice: the hydropolitics of equitable and reasonable utilization in the Lancang-Mekong basin	8
National political pressure groups and the stability of international environmental agreements	7
The role of international case law in implementing the obligation not to cause significant harm	7
Impact assessment of a mandatory operational goal-based short-term measure to reduce GHG emissions from ships: the LDC/SIDS case study	7
Hybrid transnational advocacy networks in environmental protection: banning the use of cyanide in European gold mining	7
Evolving together: transboundary water governance in the Colorado River Basin	7
Equity, justice and the SDGs: lessons learnt from two decades of INEA scholarship	7
Problems of the effectiveness of the implementation of international agreements in the field of waste management: the study of the experience of Kazakhstan in the context of the applicability of Europ	7
Evaluating EU responsiveness to the evolution of the international regime complex on climate change	7
John Rawls and compliance to climate change agreements: insights from a laboratory experiment	7
The effectiveness of the Bern Convention on wildlife legislation and judicial decisions in Turkey	6
Examining host-State counterclaims for environmental damage in investor-State dispute settlement from human rights and transnational public policy perspectives	6
Domestic and international climate policies: complementarity or disparity?	6
Lessons learnt from two decades of international environmental agreements: law	6
Consensus decision-making in CCAMLR: Achilles’ heel or fundamental to its success?	5
Achieving the ambitious targets of the Paris Agreement: the role of key actors	5
The SDGs as integrating force in global governance? Challenges and opportunities	5
The duty to take appropriate measures to prevent significant transboundary harm and private companies: insights from transboundary hydropower projects	5
Access and allocation in food governance, a decadal view 2008–2018	5
Transforming our world? Discursive representation in the negotiations on the Sustainable Development Goals	5
Limits to learning: the struggle to adapt to unintended effects of international payment for environmental services programmes	5
The no significant harm principle and the human right to water	5
Beyond delegation size: developing country negotiating capacity and NGO ‘support’ in international climate negotiations	5
Prior notification of planned measures: A response to the no-harm dilemma?	5
The principle of no significant harm in the Central Asian context	5
Reflecting on twenty years of international agreements concerning water governance: insights and key learning	4
Access and allocation: rights to water, sanitation and hygiene	4
Editorial Access and Allocation in Earth System Governance	4
The principle of no significant harm in international water law	4
An adaptation-mitigation game: does adaptation promote participation in international environmental agreements?	4
The politics of multilateral environmental agreements lessons from 20 years of INEA	4
Determinants of successful delivery by non-state actors: an exploratory study	4
The evolution and challenges in China’s implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity: a new analytical framework	4
Population growth, family planning and the Paris Agreement: an assessment of the nationally determined contributions (NDCs)	4
Europe’s nature governance revolution: harnessing the shadow of heterarchy	3
Lessons learnt from international environmental agreements for the Stockholm + 50 Conference: celebrating 20 Years of INEA	3
Multi-stakeholder partnerships for the SDGs: is the “next generation” fit for purpose?	3
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Economic and legal regulation of the use and development of renewable energy sources	3
From ‘mad cow’ crisis to synthetic biology: challenges to EU regulation of GMOs beyond the European context	3
The sustainable development goals: governing by goals, targets and indicators	3
Enhancing the achievement of the SDGs: lessons learned at the half-way point of the 2030 Agenda	3
Achieving SDG 14 in an equitable and just way	3
Agency dynamics of International Environmental Agreements: actors, contexts, and drivers	3
Global climate governance: rising trend of translateral cooperation	3
International aid, trade and investment and access and allocation	3

Modelling and analysing the relationship between innovation and the European Regulations on hazardous waste shipments	3
Protection of prior and late developers of transboundary water resources in international treaty practices: a review of 416 international water agreements	3
Understanding international non-state and subnational actors for biodiversity and their possible contributions to the post-2020 CBD global biodiversity framework: insights from six international coope	3
Not all risks are equal: a risk governance framework for assessing the water SDG	3
20 Years of global climate change governance research: taking stock and moving forward	3