OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Environmental Agreements-Politics Law and Economics 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
Unrepresentedness, climate concern and voting behavior: understanding youth voter turnout in European elections	28
The distributional effects of the EU’s and China’s climate diplomacy in Central Asia	28
Examining multifaceted constraints to just transitioning agenda in Africa: integrating sustainable social and economic perspectives into policy framework	25
A perspective on the significance of reporting climate change adaptation information to the united nations framework convention on climate change	25
Can democracy accelerate sustainability transformations? Policy coherence for participatory co-existence	23
Evaluation of the UNFCCC Technology Mechanism’s contribution to an international climate policy framework	21
Legal analysis of the CITES convention in terms of Turkish administrative and judicial processes	18
The forest policy outputs of regional regimes: a qualitative comparative analysis on the effects of formalization, hegemony and issue-focus around the globe	18
How best to incorporate conjunctive water management into international water law: legal amendment, instrument coupling, or new protocol adoption?	15
Sustainable development an oxymoron?	15
Carbon emission, solid waste management, and electricity generation: a legal and empirical perspective for renewable energy in Nigeria	15
Progression requirements applicable to state action on climate change mitigation under Nationally Determined Contributions	14
Adaptation in the UNFCCC: how the G77 & China shaped the agenda	14
Reflecting on twenty years of international agreements concerning water governance: insights and key learning	14
Beyond leading by example: enhanced EU-LAC climate cooperation—the case of Brazil, Chile and Mexico	13
CHANS-Law: preventing the next pandemic through the integration of social and environmental law	13
Retraction Note to: Economic and legal regulation of the use and development of renewable energy sources	12
Correction: Analysis of fairness and ambition considerations in nationally determined contributions	12
Allocating climate adaptation finance revisited: examining three ethical arguments for allocating adaptation finance on the basis of democracy	12
Multistakeholder governance through epistemic authority: exploring the role of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition in the global climate regime	11
The SDGs as integrating force in global governance? Challenges and opportunities	11
Inspiration from the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework for SDG 15	11
Pension funds and sustainable investment: challenges and opportunities (Pension research Council Series), edited by P. Brett Hammond, Raimond Maurer, and Olivia S. Mitchell, new york: Oxford universit	11
Bridges over troubled waters: Climate clubs, alliances, and partnerships as safeguards for effective international cooperation?	10
“Climate Bailout”: a new tool for central banks to limit the financial risk resulting from climate change	10

The sustainable development goals: governing by goals, targets and indicators	10
Not all risks are equal: a risk governance framework for assessing the water SDG	10
Correction: Beyond leading by example: enhanced EU-LAC climate cooperation—the case of Brazil, Chile and Mexico	9
Green public procurement on EU directive 2014/24: adoption effects of mandatory and voluntary transposition	9
Strengthening reflexive governance to achieve the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs	9
Citizen preferences for climate policy implementation: the role of multistakeholder partnerships	8
Exploring the links between climate transparency and mitigation policy through a reflexive capacity lens: case studies of Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, and Mexico	8
Democratizing environmental treaty development: the Escazú experience	7
The split ladder of policy problems, participation, and politicization: constitutional water change in Ecuador and Chile	7
Genetic resources are, above all, information: perspectives from law, biology and economics	7
Lessons learnt from international environmental agreements for the Stockholm + 50 Conference: celebrating 20 Years of INEA	7
Consensus decision-making in CCAMLR: Achilles’ heel or fundamental to its success?	7
Edith Brown Weiss: Establishing Norms in a Kaleidoscopic World	7
How does the UNFCCC enable multi-level learning for the governance of adaptation?	7
Investment treaties and the replacement of stranded investment	7
Forest management in Türkiye: economic pressures, legal frameworks, and ecological consequences	6
The Columbia River Treaty’s adaptive capacity for fish conservation	6
Retraction Note: Development of corporate investment funds as a tool to achieve the goals of international treaties in the field of climate change	6
Arctic wetlands, an evaluation of progress towards implementation of the Ramsar convention on wetlands: 1978–2022	5
Making waves or ripples? The influence of the European Green Deal on the revised IMO GHG strategy	5
Embracing policy paradoxes: EU’s Just Transition Fund and the aim “to leave no one behind”	5
Climate neutrality through green growth? Addressing possible tensions between the European green deal and the precautionary principle	5
Intermediaries and complexity: assessing emissions-based governance in the European Union’s EU-ETS	5
Evaluating legal mechanisms for combating plastic pollution in the Arctic ocean: challenges and future directions	5
Pathways of scientific input into intergovernmental negotiations: a new agreement on marine biodiversity	5
Correction: The environmental and economic effects of international cooperation on restricting fossil fuel supply	4
Economic challenges from carbon intensity reduction and energy transition: oil demand shocks, business profitability and market structures	4
Book review of affirmative action for economically weaker sections and upper-castes in Indian constitutional law context, judicial discourse, and critique, by Asang Wankhede, Routledge, 2023, New York	4
The potential of CO2 emission reduction via replacing cement with recyclable wastes in the construction industry sector: the perspective of Iran’s international commitments	4
Inclusive development, leaving no one behind, justice and the sustainable development goals	3
Agency dynamics of International Environmental Agreements: actors, contexts, and drivers	3
Bridging the divide: EIAs 2.0 as a legal and policy innovation for synergistic climate action in the UAE	3
Reconciling the Incongruence between the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity and the GATT/WTO Rules	3
WTO negotiations and repurposing agriculture subsidies for a sustainable future	3
Rethinking UNCLOS dispute mechanisms: jurisdiction, sovereignty, and reform pathways through case law insights	3
Wendy Godek and Gabriela Kütting, Reconsidering Global Environmental Governance: Coloniality, Extractivism, and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice. London: Routledge, 2025. 268 pp., £130 (hardback),	3
Indigenous peoples as trustees of forests: a bio-socio-cultural approach to international law	3
Strengthening the Paris Agreement through trade? The potential and limitations of EU preferential trade agreements for climate governance	3
The influence of domestic politics on the transboundary water interactions in the Eastern Nile	3
Unanimity or standing aside? Reinterpreting consensus in United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiations	3
Rethinking polycentricity: on the North–South imbalances in transnational climate change governance	3
Pension funds and fossil fuel phase-out: historical developments and limitations of pension climate strategies	3
Achieving SDG 14 in an equitable and just way	3
Yixian Sun: Certifying China: the rise and limits of transnational sustainability governance in emerging economies	3
Doomed to fail? A call to reform global climate governance and greenhouse gas inventories	2
What next for supply-side policy in the south: emerging lessons from Ecuador’s Yasuní initiative	2
Carbon border adjustment: a unilateral solution to the multilateral problem?	2
The green investment principles: from a nodal governance perspective	2
A WTO compatible climate club that solves the free-rider problem in global climate policy	2
An analysis of the convention on the protection of the Black Sea against pollution (the Bucharest Convention) from the perspective of Turkish contract law	2

Integrating cultural heritage into climate displacement law: the Carteret islanders case	2
Does ICAO’s climate change mitigation policy based on international agreements reflect global environmental justice?	2
A critical assessment of the International Seabed Authority’s implementation of the Common Heritage of Mankind principle from the perspective of benefit-sharing regime	2
Europe’s nature governance revolution: harnessing the shadow of heterarchy	2
Changing marine imaginaries during COVID-19 and the ocean science decade: a study on political fantasies	2
What determines the success of NGO-Initiated climate litigation in China?—A comparative study of two China cases	2
Beyond intergovernmental cooperation: domestic politics of transboundary air pollution in Korea and Singapore	2