Environmental Politics

Papers
(The median citation count of 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Life against states of emergency: revitalizing treaty relations from Attawapiskat138
Petrochemical planet. Multiscalar battles of industrial transformation82
From (De)regulation to industrialization? Chilean lithium policy in comparative perspective76
Internal climate leadership in municipal organizations. How paradoxical and transformational leadership of higher-level management shape climate leadership of lower-level managers62
Obstructing change: political inertia and the maintenance of climate inaction in Australia52
An EV-fix for Indonesia: the green development-resource nationalist nexus46
Educating for the anthropocene: schooling and activism in the face of slow violence38
What makes Guatemalan citizens green?37
Crowdsourcing infrastructures of green everyday life: how sustainable sharing, swapping and gardening initiatives in Vienna tackle the lack of transformative agency in eco-politics33
“We grow earth”: performing eco-agrarian citizenship at the semi-periphery of Europe33
Voters do not punish their government for climate policies under favorable conditions32
Defending the climate cause within the state: the ministry of ecology and the drafting of France’s national low-carbon strategy (2017–2020)31
Negotiating just transitions: power and interest dynamics in insurgent sustainability coalitions30
Understanding the rights of nature: a critical introduction28
Towards ‘just access’: a critical framework for analyzing migrant labor governance in the green transition28
Everywhere you vote, you always take the weather with you: the effects of local temperature anomalies on Green party voting28
Environmental activism and authoritarianism in Myanmar: interrogating assemblages across three political epochs28
The centre-periphery divide and attitudes towards climate change measures among Western Europeans27
The central bank lacuna in green state transformation26
Fluid hope in a climate emergency: Lessons from an English citizens’ jury25
Where to aim with multispecies climate justice? A critical realist account24
Earth system boundaries and Earth system justice: sharing the ecospace23
Reading contemporary environmental justice: narratives from Kerala22
The Dao of Civilization: A Letter to China22
Law’s quick fix? Ecocide, social transformation and the pitfalls of criminalisation21
Kindling green hate through eco- and demographic anxiety20
Net zero by 2050: the case for green industrial policy20
When Fracking Comes to Town: governance, planning, and economic impacts of the US Shale Boom18
The global criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest – a repertoire of repression18
In praise of floods: the untamed river and the life it brings17
Ecocidal impunity? Wars and the profitability of the chemical corporation in the global south16
Hard to say goodbye: South Korea, Japan, and China as the last lenders for coal15
Closing the implementation gap in urban climate policy: Mexico’s public transit buildup15
Climate populism: the limits of the ideational and discursive approaches15
Actors, legitimacy, and governance challenges facing negative emissions and solar geoengineering technologies14
Geo-themed and geo-centric thought: reflections on the onto-epistemological basis of critical thought’s geologic turn14
Beyond Europeanization: political ecology and environmentalism in Central and Eastern Europe14
Exploring the politics of degrowth – first evidence from two cases of repair policies in Austria and Sweden14
Persuading the public: nationalist propaganda and support for costly environmental policies in China14
Multi-layered differentiation in the climate regime: the gradual path from Rio to Paris14
It’s not just climate: rethinking ‘climate emotions’ in the age of burnout capitalism13
Certifying China: the rise and limits of transnational sustainability governance in emerging economies13
Regulatory capture related to environmental risks: a systematic review on empirical research13
A dynamic institutional analysis of China’s engagement with Africa’s renewable energy market13
The pivotal generation: why we have a moral responsibility to slow climate change right now13
The unbearable lightness of climate populism13
Climate action and populism of the left in Ecuador12
China’s Green Belt and Road Initiative: transnational environmental governance and causal pathways of orchestration12
Geoengineering discourse confronting climate change: the move from margins to mainstream in science, news media, and politics12
Geoengineering, climate change and ecological security12
Mass animal starvation and the global development paradigm: toward multispecies food sovereignty as global wellbeing12
The impact of corruption on climate change mitigation: a review article12
Stories we live by and may die by: ideologies in newspaper reports of pipeline vandalism11
Subjects of intergenerational justice: indigenous philosophy, the environment and relationships11
Making and breaking promises: must a country harmonize its climate pledges and policies?11
Mainstream parties and climate policy development: what role for intra-party politics?11
Climate Migration - critical perspectives for law, policy and research11
Feeling climate change: how emotions govern our responses to the climate emergency11
States and nature: the effects of climate change on security11
Australian third sector actors’ theories of change for climate justice: real and apparent barriers and obscured root causes11
Pulling together or pulling apart? Understanding the heterogenous collective action frames of local climate activists through a Q methodology study10
Big dilemmas, little time: intergenerational climate justice and public support for deep decarbonisation10
Implementing the EU renewable energy directive in Norway: from Tailwind to Headwind10
Prefiguring multispecies justice: how communities are challenging and transfiguring care, labour, and belonging in the midst of climate catastrophe10
Doubling down on DAPL: the contentious politics of pipeline governance in Illinois10
Like diamonds in the sky? Public perceptions, governance, and information framing of solar geoengineering activities in Mexico, the United Kingdom, and the United States10
A framework for classifying climate change questions used in public opinion surveys9
What’s capitalism – generational differentiation in the climate movement9
Clinging to power: status threat and attitudes toward the renewable energy transition9
Hide and brag: the strategic use of media in China’s war on air pollution9
Power lines: the human costs of american energy in transition9
Fugitive Politics: The Struggle For Ecological Sanity9
Environmental apocalypse and space: the lost dimension of the end of the world9
Review of Acknowledging indigenous knowledge: voices of tropical forest people9
Forces of Reproduction: Notes for a Counter-Hegemonic Anthropocene9
Why do Australians prefer some climate migrants over others?8
Pope Francis and the environment, act 2. Time for decisive climate action8
A turning point in global biodiversity governance?8
“What we can do is contribute to EU goals”: Latvia’s strategic narrative challenges in pursuing climate neutrality8
A climate fit for capitalism: ordoliberalism’s political ecology and German environmental politics8
Extreme weather and climate policy8
A tale of two coals: the politics of time in coal phase out8
Governing through the nationally determined contribution (NDC): five functions to steer states’ climate conduct8
Care-centered politics – from the home to the planet8
Differences within global movements: insights from FFF climate protests in Western and Eastern Europe7
Mnemonic ecologies: memory and nature conservation along the former Iron Curtain7
Sustainable development and the environment in EU and Japanese free trade agreements: embedding anthropocentric narratives7
Radical incrementalism: hydropolitics and environmental discourses in Laos7
All we want is the earth: land, labour and movements beyond environmentalism7
The self-work of planetary justice7
Climate-just behavior: foundations and transformational approaches7
Grand transitions: how the modern world was made6
The Role of International Engagement in Greening China’s Belt and Road Initiative6
Citizens united and state environmental policy, regulations, and outcomes6
Power & temporality in pursuing transformative planetary justice6
The multilevel governance of polarised climate politics: how a pioneer city navigates a dynamic political context6
Whose system, what change? A critical political economy approach to the UK climate movement5
Color-blind racial ideology and beliefs about environmental inequality among local US government officials5
Distributive justice discourses, time and futures: a social media discourse analysis of the loss and damages debate5
Cosmopolitics in action: bridging the human-non-human divide in everyday environmental conflicts5
A Strategic Nature: Public Relations and the Politics of American Environmentalism5
Capitalism at the roots: the crisis of representative democracy through the eyes of Belgian climate activists5
Consenting publics: fair nuclear waste repository siting?5
Resolving the climate crisis5
Anti-environmentalism as conservative coalition maintenance: an automated text analysis of National Review5
From rejection to reliance on carbon capture and storage in Denmark: a case of mitigation deterrence?5
Process skeptical populist framing of climate change in right-leaning media5
Incremental progress or dangerous incrementalism? The case of tire wear pollution in global environmental governance4
Policymaker environmental communication in the wake of natural disasters4
Party polarization, disappearing regions, and nationalized environmental politics: evidence from US Congress4
Climate action versus environmental protection? How far-right and environmentalist messengers shape public attitudes towards renewable energy infrastructure in forests4
A climate policy revolution: what the science of complexity reveals about saving our planet4
Does global integration foster environmental mobilization? The effect of global norms on environmental movement participation4
Climate Change and Biodiversity Governance in the Amazon: At the Edge of Ecological Collapse?4
The environmental state in a political context: explaining institutional change in Georgia and Armenia4
America’s energy gamble: people, economy and planet4
Critical environmental justice in contemporary scholarship and movements: consensus and plurality of the discourse4
NIMBYs, shills and liars: ancient woodland, high-speed rail and the legibility of justifications4
Climate policymaking in an autocracy: the case of Russia’s law on GHG emissions4
Mapping organized interests across arenas in Australian climate policy4
Climate change mitigation and the European Union: a Lacanian exploration of desire and enjoyment4
Explaining the energy mix in China’s electricity projects under the belt and road initiative4
Building capabilities for Earth system governance4
Pollution is colonialism4
The challenge of ratcheting up climate ambitions: Implementing the ‘experimentalist‘ EU energy and climate governance regulation4
The political economy of supply-side climate policy in the UK4
Climate whataboutism and rightwing populism: how emissions blame-shifting translates nationalist attitudes into climate policy opposition3
China’s approach to global fisheries: power in the governance of anti-illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing3
Correction3
Careful knowing as an aspect of environmental justice3
Climate obstruction: how Denial, delay and inaction are heating the planet3
Public opinion foundations of the clean energy transition3
National climate change acts: the emergence, form and nature of national framework climate legislation3
Youth climate activism in shrinking spaces: how Uganda’s activists navigate red lines3
From miners to markets: discursive struggle in Romania’s coal phase-out3
Unveiling Moroccan perspectives on the EU-Morocco Green Partnership: assessing its potential for a sustainable future for Morocco3
The Care Economy3
Command and control or market-based instruments? Public support for policies to address vehicular pollution in Beijing and New Delhi3
Supply-side policies in coal transitions and country vulnerabilities: a systematic literature review3
Post-Apocalyptic environmentalism. The green movement in times of catastrophe3
Political polarization and the energy policy paradox: assessing the impact of South Korea’s nuclear power phase-out policy3
The performative state: public scrutiny and environmental governance in China3
Sustainable educational leadership and the climate crisis: knowledge, power, and positive futures3
Capping oil emissions and the mass politics of Canadian sectoral climate policy3
Beneath the insuperable barrier: accumulation, state managers and climate policy in Britain3
From seas to oceans: assessing the Latin American states’ contribution towards a regime complexification3
Contested discourses of a circular plastics economy in Europe: prioritizing material, economy, or society?3
Which Amazon problem? Problem-constructions and transnationalism in Brazilian presidential discourse since 19853
Understanding and explaining populist radical right parties’ commitment to animal welfare in Western Europe3
Indigenous knowledge and disaster risk reduction: insight towards perception, response, adaptation and sustainability2
Three waves of resource nationalism: a history of Quebec’s extractive path dependency2
Why path dependence leads to a fossilized Alberta: regionalism and the climate transition in Canada2
Indigenous and traditional communities’ ways of knowing and being in planetary justice2
Cultivating hope: caring for a precarious emotion in the Ultima Generazione movement2
Catastrophes, confrontations, and constraints: how disasters shape the dynamics of armed conflict2
Disasters and divisions: how partisanship shapes policymaker responses to natural disasters2
Review of Machin and Wissenburg (2025) (eds.), Handbook of environmental political theory in the Anthropocene and Burke and Fishel (2025), 2
The matter with subjects of justice2
Reading the room: developing a practical justice politics of regional energy transition2
Constructing climate change rentierism in Jordan2
Race in the Anthropocene: coloniality, disavowal and the Black Horizon2
Somewhere I belong: the field of new climate activists and the Czech environmental movement2
Climate security reversed: the implications of alternative security policies for global warming2
Review of the Handbook of Critical Environmental Politics2
Internet usage, environmental knowledge, and the surge of air pollution concern in China2
Not really concerned? Populist radical right voters and climate change2
A Blue New Deal: why we need a new politics for the Ocean2
Appealing to Independents: information on negative externalities increases support for environmental corrective taxes2
The aesthetics of climate misinformation: computational multimodal framing analysis with BERTopic and CLIP2
Encounters with the posthuman and the environment2
Penal environmentalism2
Planetary justice: a systematic analysis of an emerging discourse2
How politicians and the population attribute responsibility for climate change mitigation: no indication of a ‘governance trap’ in Norway2
How nationalist rhetoric drives polarization over climate change in the US2
Global governance of the environment, indigenous peoples and the rights of nature2
Searching for a recipe for success: environmental citizen petitions under free trade agreements1
Climate obstruction in unlikely contexts: de-thematization, scare frames, and strategic differentiation in Germany1
Energy transformation in parliamentary debates: shifting from technologies to climate strategy in Finland1
Anti-environmentalism and the natural ‘wages of whiteness’1
How are environmental non-governmental organizations setting the agenda on artificial intelligence governance?1
‘With great power comes great responsibility’: climate change and the politics of simulation of the oil industry1
Two cheers for collapse? On the uses and abuses of the societal collapse thesis for imagining Anthropocene futures1
Navigating desires beyond growth: the critical role of fantasy in degrowth’s environmental politics and prefigurative ethics1
Change in global environmental politics: temporal focal points and the reform of international institutions1
Conditional environmentalism of right-wing populism in power: ideology and/or opportunities?1
Fossil fuel divestment and public climate change policy preferences: an experimental test in three countries1
Ecological apologies: reckoning with grief, guilt, and multispecies justice1
Extinction Rebellion’s disobedient environmental citizenism1
States of transition: from governing the environment to transforming society1
Phase-out clubs: an effective tool for global climate governance?1
Climate change doesn’t win you a climate election: party competition in the 2021 Norwegian general election1
Who cares about gender? A comparison of parties’ commitment to gender equality in the UN climate regime1
Climate justice in India1
Deliberative Governance for Sustainable Development. An Innovative Solution for Environment, Economy and Society1
Decolonial ecology: thinking from the Caribbean world1
A feminist climate policy? Examining Canada’s climate commitments1
Spiral-scaling climate action: lessons from and for the academic flying less movement1
André Gorz: A Life1
From international organizations to local governments: how foreign environmental aid reaches subnational beneficiaries in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico1
Democratic Norms of Earth System Governance: Deliberative Politics in the Anthropocene1
Climate policy in an era of disruption: the impact of COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine on the United States, Russia, Canada and the European Union1
Climate cooperation in the shadow of solar geoengineering: an experimental investigation of the moral hazard conjecture1
Organising responses to climate change: the politics of mitigation, adaptation and suffering1
From climate crisis to energy crisis: foster public support for renewable energy transition through framing1
A just transition for all: workers and communities for a carbon-free future1
Rock | water | life: ecology and humanities for a Decolonial South Africa1
Decolonial praxis for postponing the end of the world: an epistemological reflection on the criminalization of ecocide1
Pipeline populism: grassroots environmentalism in the twenty-first century1
Environmental governance of China’s Belt and Road Initiative1
“Nodding through” instead of decision-making: power in participatory governance of the coal phase-out in Lusatia, Germany1
The role of networked governance for local climate policy output. Evidence from Europe1
Beyond disobedience: ethical frontiers and political strategies in the climate crisis1
Reassessing the economy–environment tradeoff: do industry sectors, green jobs opportunities, and regulatory threats affect environmental concerns?1
Between evidence first and political fight – understanding dynamics of (de-)politicization in US climate movements’ future narratives1
Polish Catholic environmentalism as the counterculture movement1
Ecological Democracy: Caring for the Earth in the Anthropocene1
The new environmental economics: sustainability and justice1
No other planet: Utopian visions for a climate-changed world1
Waste as a Critique1
A critical defence of the crime of ecocide1
The economy-environment tradeoff: are individual environmental priorities decoupled from national economic conditions?1
‘The Green New Deal’ as partisan cue: Evidence from a survey experiment in the rural U.S.1
Failing forward: the rise and fall of Neoliberal conservation1
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