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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Life against states of emergency: revitalizing treaty relations from Attawapiskat109
“We grow earth”: performing eco-agrarian citizenship at the semi-periphery of Europe63
Voters do not punish their government for climate policies under favorable conditions58
Petrochemical planet. Multiscalar battles of industrial transformation52
Negotiating just transitions: power and interest dynamics in insurgent sustainability coalitions47
Crowdsourcing infrastructures of green everyday life: how sustainable sharing, swapping and gardening initiatives in Vienna tackle the lack of transformative agency in eco-politics47
Internal climate leadership in municipal organizations. How paradoxical and transformational leadership of higher-level management shape climate leadership of lower-level managers46
From (De)regulation to industrialization? Chilean lithium policy in comparative perspective45
Educating for the anthropocene: schooling and activism in the face of slow violence39
An EV-fix for Indonesia: the green development-resource nationalist nexus35
Defending the climate cause within the state: the ministry of ecology and the drafting of France’s national low-carbon strategy (2017–2020)32
Fluid hope in a climate emergency: Lessons from an English citizens’ jury30
Understanding the rights of nature: a critical introduction29
The central bank lacuna in green state transformation26
Where to aim with multispecies climate justice? A critical realist account26
Everywhere you vote, you always take the weather with you: the effects of local temperature anomalies on Green party voting25
Earth system boundaries and Earth system justice: sharing the ecospace25
Scepticisms and beyond? A comprehensive portrait of climate change communication by the far right in the European Parliament23
The Dao of Civilization: A Letter to China23
The centre-periphery divide and attitudes towards climate change measures among Western Europeans23
Reading contemporary environmental justice: narratives from Kerala23
Law’s quick fix? Ecocide, social transformation and the pitfalls of criminalisation21
Kindling green hate through eco- and demographic anxiety21
When Fracking Comes to Town: governance, planning, and economic impacts of the US Shale Boom20
Persuading the public: nationalist propaganda and support for costly environmental policies in China20
Net zero by 2050: the case for green industrial policy20
In praise of floods: the untamed river and the life it brings20
Ecocidal impunity? Wars and the profitability of the chemical corporation in the global south19
Exploring the politics of degrowth – first evidence from two cases of repair policies in Austria and Sweden18
Beyond Europeanization: political ecology and environmentalism in Central and Eastern Europe18
A dynamic institutional analysis of China’s engagement with Africa’s renewable energy market17
Hard to say goodbye: South Korea, Japan, and China as the last lenders for coal15
Multi-layered differentiation in the climate regime: the gradual path from Rio to Paris15
Actors, legitimacy, and governance challenges facing negative emissions and solar geoengineering technologies14
Climate populism: the limits of the ideational and discursive approaches14
Introduction: What’s the value of multispecies justice?14
Closing the implementation gap in urban climate policy: Mexico’s public transit buildup14
The unbearable lightness of climate populism14
Geo-themed and geo-centric thought: reflections on the onto-epistemological basis of critical thought’s geologic turn14
The pivotal generation: why we have a moral responsibility to slow climate change right now13
Certifying China: the rise and limits of transnational sustainability governance in emerging economies13
Geoengineering, climate change and ecological security12
Climate action and populism of the left in Ecuador12
It’s not just climate: rethinking ‘climate emotions’ in the age of burnout capitalism12
Australian third sector actors’ theories of change for climate justice: real and apparent barriers and obscured root causes12
China’s Green Belt and Road Initiative: transnational environmental governance and causal pathways of orchestration11
Geoengineering discourse confronting climate change: the move from margins to mainstream in science, news media, and politics11
Regulatory capture related to environmental risks: a systematic review on empirical research11
Climate Migration - critical perspectives for law, policy and research10
Mainstream parties and climate policy development: what role for intra-party politics?10
Implementing the EU renewable energy directive in Norway: from Tailwind to Headwind10
Subjects of intergenerational justice: indigenous philosophy, the environment and relationships10
Making and breaking promises: must a country harmonize its climate pledges and policies?10
A framework for classifying climate change questions used in public opinion surveys10
Responsibilities for just transition to low-carbon societies: a role-based framework10
States and nature: the effects of climate change on security10
Feeling climate change: how emotions govern our responses to the climate emergency10
Stories we live by and may die by: ideologies in newspaper reports of pipeline vandalism10
From influencing to engagement: a framing model for climate communication in polarised settings9
Like diamonds in the sky? Public perceptions, governance, and information framing of solar geoengineering activities in Mexico, the United Kingdom, and the United States9
Hide and brag: the strategic use of media in China’s war on air pollution9
Doubling down on DAPL: the contentious politics of pipeline governance in Illinois9
Pulling together or pulling apart? Understanding the heterogenous collective action frames of local climate activists through a Q methodology study9
Environmental apocalypse and space: the lost dimension of the end of the world9
Prefiguring multispecies justice: how communities are challenging and transfiguring care, labour, and belonging in the midst of climate catastrophe9
A climate fit for capitalism: ordoliberalism’s political ecology and German environmental politics8
A tale of two coals: the politics of time in coal phase out8
Why do Australians prefer some climate migrants over others?8
Forces of Reproduction: Notes for a Counter-Hegemonic Anthropocene8
Fugitive Politics: The Struggle For Ecological Sanity8
Pope Francis and the environment, act 2. Time for decisive climate action8
The multilevel governance of polarised climate politics: how a pioneer city navigates a dynamic political context7
A turning point in global biodiversity governance?7
Further Reflections on the National Academies Report on Solar Geoengineering: A Response to Stephens et al7
Care-centered politics – from the home to the planet7
Extreme weather and climate policy7
Power & temporality in pursuing transformative planetary justice7
The Role of International Engagement in Greening China’s Belt and Road Initiative6
Climate-just behavior: foundations and transformational approaches6
Mnemonic ecologies: memory and nature conservation along the former Iron Curtain6
All we want is the earth: land, labour and movements beyond environmentalism6
The self-work of planetary justice6
Radical incrementalism: hydropolitics and environmental discourses in Laos6
Governing through the nationally determined contribution (NDC): five functions to steer states’ climate conduct5
Sustainable development and the environment in EU and Japanese free trade agreements: embedding anthropocentric narratives5
Distributive justice discourses, time and futures: a social media discourse analysis of the loss and damages debate5
Consenting publics: fair nuclear waste repository siting?5
Explaining the energy mix in China’s electricity projects under the belt and road initiative5
Policymaker environmental communication in the wake of natural disasters5
Capitalism at the roots: the crisis of representative democracy through the eyes of Belgian climate activists5
A Strategic Nature: Public Relations and the Politics of American Environmentalism5
Citizens united and state environmental policy, regulations, and outcomes5
Grand transitions: how the modern world was made5
Resolving the climate crisis5
Color-blind racial ideology and beliefs about environmental inequality among local US government officials5
Climate change mitigation and the European Union: a Lacanian exploration of desire and enjoyment4
Contested discourses of a circular plastics economy in Europe: prioritizing material, economy, or society?4
Pollution is colonialism4
Whose system, what change? A critical political economy approach to the UK climate movement4
Building capabilities for Earth system governance4
The political economy of supply-side climate policy in the UK4
Climate action versus environmental protection? How far-right and environmentalist messengers shape public attitudes towards renewable energy infrastructure in forests4
Climate Change and Biodiversity Governance in the Amazon: At the Edge of Ecological Collapse?4
Incremental progress or dangerous incrementalism? The case of tire wear pollution in global environmental governance4
Political economies of energy transition: wind and solar power in Brazil and South Africa4
America’s energy gamble: people, economy and planet4
Critical environmental justice in contemporary scholarship and movements: consensus and plurality of the discourse4
Supply-side policies in coal transitions and country vulnerabilities: a systematic literature review4
Process skeptical populist framing of climate change in right-leaning media4
The environmental state in a political context: explaining institutional change in Georgia and Armenia4
Which Amazon problem? Problem-constructions and transnationalism in Brazilian presidential discourse since 19853
The challenge of ratcheting up climate ambitions: Implementing the ‘experimentalist‘ EU energy and climate governance regulation3
Public opinion foundations of the clean energy transition3
Climate policymaking in an autocracy: the case of Russia’s law on GHG emissions3
Climate obstruction: how Denial, delay and inaction are heating the planet3
Three waves of resource nationalism: a history of Quebec’s extractive path dependency3
Understanding and explaining populist radical right parties’ commitment to animal welfare in Western Europe3
China’s approach to global fisheries: power in the governance of anti-illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing3
The performative state: public scrutiny and environmental governance in China3
A climate policy revolution: what the science of complexity reveals about saving our planet3
Climate whataboutism and rightwing populism: how emissions blame-shifting translates nationalist attitudes into climate policy opposition3
Sustainable educational leadership and the climate crisis: knowledge, power, and positive futures3
National climate change acts: the emergence, form and nature of national framework climate legislation3
Unveiling Moroccan perspectives on the EU-Morocco Green Partnership: assessing its potential for a sustainable future for Morocco3
Command and control or market-based instruments? Public support for policies to address vehicular pollution in Beijing and New Delhi3
Post-Apocalyptic environmentalism. The green movement in times of catastrophe3
NIMBYs, shills and liars: ancient woodland, high-speed rail and the legibility of justifications3
Ecocide: kill the corporation before it kills us3
Does global integration foster environmental mobilization? The effect of global norms on environmental movement participation3
Beneath the insuperable barrier: accumulation, state managers and climate policy in Britain3
The aesthetics of climate misinformation: computational multimodal framing analysis with BERTopic and CLIP3
Political polarization and the energy policy paradox: assessing the impact of South Korea’s nuclear power phase-out policy3
Not really concerned? Populist radical right voters and climate change2
The Care Economy2
Appealing to Independents: information on negative externalities increases support for environmental corrective taxes2
Local energy transition in Russia: a multi-actor perspective on the case of Yakutia2
Correction2
Disasters and divisions: how partisanship shapes policymaker responses to natural disasters2
How nationalist rhetoric drives polarization over climate change in the US2
How politicians and the population attribute responsibility for climate change mitigation: no indication of a ‘governance trap’ in Norway2
Reading the room: developing a practical justice politics of regional energy transition2
The temporal cleavage: the case of populist retrotopia vs. climate emergency2
Careful knowing as an aspect of environmental justice2
Why path dependence leads to a fossilized Alberta: regionalism and the climate transition in Canada2
Energy fables: challenging ideas in the energy sector2
Encounters with the posthuman and the environment2
The matter with subjects of justice2
Race in the Anthropocene: coloniality, disavowal and the Black2
Indigenous knowledge and disaster risk reduction: insight towards perception, response, adaptation and sustainability2
Capping oil emissions and the mass politics of Canadian sectoral climate policy2
A Blue New Deal: why we need a new politics for the Ocean2
Indigenous and traditional communities’ ways of knowing and being in planetary justice2
Global governance of the environment, indigenous peoples and the rights of nature2
‘The Green New Deal’ as partisan cue: Evidence from a survey experiment in the rural U.S.1
The new environmental economics: sustainability and justice1
Phase-out clubs: an effective tool for global climate governance?1
Rock | water | life: ecology and humanities for a Decolonial South Africa1
Planetary justice: a systematic analysis of an emerging discourse1
Two cheers for collapse? On the uses and abuses of the societal collapse thesis for imagining Anthropocene futures1
Internet usage, environmental knowledge, and the surge of air pollution concern in China1
Ecological Democracy: Caring for the Earth in the Anthropocene1
Somewhere I belong: the field of new climate activists and the Czech environmental movement1
From climate crisis to energy crisis: foster public support for renewable energy transition through framing1
Climate security reversed: the implications of alternative security policies for global warming1
Between evidence first and political fight – understanding dynamics of (de-)politicization in US climate movements’ future narratives1
‘With great power comes great responsibility’: climate change and the politics of simulation of the oil industry1
Fossil fuel divestment and public climate change policy preferences: an experimental test in three countries1
A critical defence of the crime of ecocide1
Polish Catholic environmentalism as the counterculture movement1
Searching for a recipe for success: environmental citizen petitions under free trade agreements1
From international organizations to local governments: how foreign environmental aid reaches subnational beneficiaries in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico1
Failing forward: the rise and fall of Neoliberal conservation1
The economy-environment tradeoff: are individual environmental priorities decoupled from national economic conditions?1
Resilience of the EU ETS to contextual disturbance: the case of EU enlargement and its impact on ETS policymaking dynamics1
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 change doesn’t win you a climate election: party competition in the 2021 Norwegian general election1
Beyond disobedience: ethical frontiers and political strategies in the climate crisis1
Constructing climate change rentierism in Jordan1
Pipeline populism: grassroots environmentalism in the twenty-first century1
Decolonial ecology: thinking from the Caribbean world1
Advocating inaction: a historical analysis of the Global Climate Coalition1
Reassessing the economy–environment tradeoff: do industry sectors, green jobs opportunities, and regulatory threats affect environmental concerns?1
Extinction Rebellion’s disobedient environmental citizenism1
Organising responses to climate change: the politics of mitigation, adaptation and suffering1
Democratic Norms of Earth System Governance: Deliberative Politics in the Anthropocene1
A just transition for all: workers and communities for a carbon-free future1
Conditional environmentalism of right-wing populism in power: ideology and/or opportunities?1
Review of the Handbook of Critical Environmental Politics1
Climate cooperation in the shadow of solar geoengineering: an experimental investigation of the moral hazard conjecture1
Plastic politics: industry stakeholders and the navigation of plastic control policy in India1
Environmental governance of China’s Belt and Road Initiative1
Catastrophes, confrontations, and constraints: how disasters shape the dynamics of armed conflict1
Ecological apologies: reckoning with grief, guilt, and multispecies justice1
Change in global environmental politics: temporal focal points and the reform of international institutions1
Spiral-scaling climate action: lessons from and for the academic flying less movement1
The discursive sources of environmental progress and its limits: biodiversity politics in France1
No other planet: Utopian visions for a climate-changed world1
Decolonial praxis for postponing the end of the world: an epistemological reflection on the criminalization of ecocide1
André Gorz: A Life1
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