OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environmental Politics is 6. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The new environmental economics: sustainability and justice	75
Petrochemical planet. Multiscalar battles of industrial transformation	64
Voters do not punish their government for climate policies under favorable conditions	60
The 2020 US Election and its climate consequences	56
The survival of the weakest: the echo of the Rio Summit principles in environmental treaties	53
Children, citizenship and environment: #SchoolStrike edition	45
Educating for the anthropocene: schooling and activism in the face of slow violence	44
Life against states of emergency: revitalizing treaty relations from Attawapiskat	42
André Gorz: A Life	40
A climate fit for capitalism: ordoliberalism’s political ecology and German environmental politics	37
Democratic Norms of Earth System Governance: Deliberative Politics in the Anthropocene	35
Fugitive Politics: The Struggle For Ecological Sanity	34
Rock \| water \| life: ecology and humanities for a Decolonial South Africa	33
Why do sustainable materialism initiatives rise and fall over time? Insights from the case of cooperative energy projects in Denmark and France	33
When multilevel water management meets regional government: the differential impacts on administrative integration	33
Defending the climate cause within the state: the ministry of ecology and the drafting of France’s national low-carbon strategy (2017–2020)	32
Forces of Reproduction: Notes for a Counter-Hegemonic Anthropocene	32
Reassessing the economy–environment tradeoff: do industry sectors, green jobs opportunities, and regulatory threats affect environmental concerns?	31
The Law of Ecocide: a flawed strategy in the context of international investment law	31
A tale of two coals: the politics of time in coal phase out	30
Why populism may facilitate non-state actors’ access to international environmental institutions	29
Indigenous knowledge and disaster risk reduction: insight towards perception, response, adaptation and sustainability	24
Clean air at what cost? The rise of Blunt Force Regulation in China	23
Weaponizing economics: Big Oil, economic consultants, and climate policy delay	22
Planetary justice reconsidered: developing response-abilities in planetary relations	22

Unveiling Moroccan perspectives on the EU-Morocco Green Partnership: assessing its potential for a sustainable future for Morocco	22
Appealing to Independents: information on negative externalities increases support for environmental corrective taxes	22
The temporal cleavage: the case of populist retrotopia vs. climate emergency	21
Negotiating just transitions: power and interest dynamics in insurgent sustainability coalitions	20
“We grow earth”: performing eco-agrarian citizenship at the semi-periphery of Europe	20
Implementing community-based forest management in the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: a strategic action fields perspective	20
Local energy transition in Russia: a multi-actor perspective on the case of Yakutia	20
Unpacking the process: how agenda-setting theory explains the case of creating large scale marine protected areas in Brazil	20
The discursive sources of environmental progress and its limits: biodiversity politics in France	19
Who owns marine biodiversity? Contesting the world order through the ‘common heritage of humankind’ principle	17
Climate change governance and Indigenous Peoples participation: an analysis from the Chilean case	16
Reading the room: developing a practical justice politics of regional energy transition	16
Polish Catholic environmentalism as the counterculture movement	16
Sustainability spectacle and ‘post-oil’ greening initiatives	16
‘Ecobordering’: casting immigration control as environmental protection	15
Framing of environmental issues in voluntary sport organizations	15
Active, dutiful and pragmatic: practicing green citizenship in urban China	15
Climate change governance by central banks in an era of interlocking crises	14
Assessing the impact of the securitization narrative on climate change adaptation in Nigeria	14
Varieties of climate governance: the emergence and functioning of climate institutions	14
Correction	14
Beneath the insuperable barrier: accumulation, state managers and climate policy in Britain	14
An EV-fix for Indonesia: the green development-resource nationalist nexus	12
Crowdsourcing infrastructures of green everyday life: how sustainable sharing, swapping and gardening initiatives in Vienna tackle the lack of transformative agency in eco-politics	12
Why do Australians prefer some climate migrants over others?	12
Intersectionality & Climate Justice: A call for synergy in climate change scholarship	12
Time, transition, and planetary decolonial justice as invention	11
Climate policy expertise in times of populism – knowledge strategies of the AfD regarding Germany’s climate package	11
Careful knowing as an aspect of environmental justice	11
Advocating inaction: a historical analysis of the Global Climate Coalition	11
All we want is the earth: land, labour and movements beyond environmentalism	10
Anti-environmentalism and the natural ‘wages of whiteness’	10
Taking it seriously: commitments to the environment in South-South preferential trade agreements	10
The central bank lacuna in green state transformation	10
Why path dependence leads to a fossilized Alberta: regionalism and the climate transition in Canada	10
Contesting eco-modernist hegemony in Denmark? Green reform nexus and transformative climate advocacy in an established environmental state	10
Klimat. Russia in the age of climate change	9
The Dangers of Mainstreaming Solar Geoengineering: A critique of the National Academies Report	9
Tainted trust: air pollution and political trust in China	9
Marx in the anthropocene: towards the idea of degrowth communism,	9
The Nutmeg’s Curse: parables for a planet in crisis	9
Rising seas, rising concerns: how climate change vulnerability shapes opinions towards policy	8
Global governance of the environment, indigenous peoples and the rights of nature	8
The matter with subjects of justice	8
The role of networked governance for local climate policy output. Evidence from Europe	8
Care-centered politics – from the home to the planet	8
Energy fables: challenging ideas in the energy sector	8
A Blue New Deal: why we need a new politics for the Ocean	8
Thinking like a climate: governing a city in times of environmental change	8
Urgencies and imperatives for revolutionary (environmental) transitions: from degrowth and postdevelopment towards the pluriverse?	7

Understanding barriers to linking heterogeneous emissions trading schemes: evidence from and lessons for Northeast Asia	7
Mnemonic ecologies: memory and nature conservation along the former Iron Curtain	7
A feminist climate policy? Examining Canada’s climate commitments	6
The discursive politics of marginalisation: an intersectional analysis of European just transition plans	6
Toward Dangerous US Unilateralism on Solar Geoengineering	6
The Bangladesh Environmental Humanities Reader	6
The centre-periphery divide and attitudes towards climate change measures among Western Europeans	6
The path down to green liberalism	6
The extractive embrace: shifting expectations of conservation and extraction in the Guiana Shield	6
Politicising energy transitions: the political economy of reducing dependence on coal in South Africa’s minerals energy complex	6
Constructing climate change rentierism in Jordan	6
Further Reflections on the National Academies Report on Solar Geoengineering: A Response to Stephens et al	6