OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environmental Politics is 5. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Life against states of emergency: revitalizing treaty relations from Attawapiskat	107
“We grow earth”: performing eco-agrarian citizenship at the semi-periphery of Europe	62
Voters do not punish their government for climate policies under favorable conditions	57
Petrochemical planet. Multiscalar battles of industrial transformation	50
Crowdsourcing infrastructures of green everyday life: how sustainable sharing, swapping and gardening initiatives in Vienna tackle the lack of transformative agency in eco-politics	47
Internal climate leadership in municipal organizations. How paradoxical and transformational leadership of higher-level management shape climate leadership of lower-level managers	45
From (De)regulation to industrialization? Chilean lithium policy in comparative perspective	44
Educating for the anthropocene: schooling and activism in the face of slow violence	43
Defending the climate cause within the state: the ministry of ecology and the drafting of France’s national low-carbon strategy (2017–2020)	43
Negotiating just transitions: power and interest dynamics in insurgent sustainability coalitions	36
An EV-fix for Indonesia: the green development-resource nationalist nexus	33
Understanding the rights of nature: a critical introduction	29
Fluid hope in a climate emergency: Lessons from an English citizens’ jury	29
Earth system boundaries and Earth system justice: sharing the ecospace	28
The centre-periphery divide and attitudes towards climate change measures among Western Europeans	25
Reading contemporary environmental justice: narratives from Kerala	25
The central bank lacuna in green state transformation	25
Scepticisms and beyond? A comprehensive portrait of climate change communication by the far right in the European Parliament	25
Law’s quick fix? Ecocide, social transformation and the pitfalls of criminalisation	23
Net zero by 2050: the case for green industrial policy	23
Kindling green hate through eco- and demographic anxiety	23
When Fracking Comes to Town: governance, planning, and economic impacts of the US Shale Boom	23
The Dao of Civilization: A Letter to China	23
In praise of floods: the untamed river and the life it brings	21
A dynamic institutional analysis of China’s engagement with Africa’s renewable energy market	21

Persuading the public: nationalist propaganda and support for costly environmental policies in China	20
Ecocidal impunity? Wars and the profitability of the chemical corporation in the global south	19
Closing the implementation gap in urban climate policy: Mexico’s public transit buildup	18
Multi-layered differentiation in the climate regime: the gradual path from Rio to Paris	18
What is environmental politics?	18
Exploring the politics of degrowth – first evidence from two cases of repair policies in Austria and Sweden	18
Beyond Europeanization: political ecology and environmentalism in Central and Eastern Europe	18
The unbearable lightness of climate populism	17
Actors, legitimacy, and governance challenges facing negative emissions and solar geoengineering technologies	17
Introduction: What’s the value of multispecies justice?	15
China’s Green Belt and Road Initiative: transnational environmental governance and causal pathways of orchestration	14
Hard to say goodbye: South Korea, Japan, and China as the last lenders for coal	14
The pivotal generation: why we have a moral responsibility to slow climate change right now	14
Certifying China: the rise and limits of transnational sustainability governance in emerging economies	14
Australian third sector actors’ theories of change for climate justice: real and apparent barriers and obscured root causes	13
Climate action and populism of the left in Ecuador	13
Geoengineering, climate change and ecological security	13
It’s not just climate: rethinking ‘climate emotions’ in the age of burnout capitalism	13
Regulatory capture related to environmental risks: a systematic review on empirical research	12
Responsibilities for just transition to low-carbon societies: a role-based framework	12
Climate Migration - critical perspectives for law, policy and research	12
Geoengineering discourse confronting climate change: the move from margins to mainstream in science, news media, and politics	12
Subjects of intergenerational justice: indigenous philosophy, the environment and relationships	11
Prefiguring multispecies justice: how communities are challenging and transfiguring care, labour, and belonging in the midst of climate catastrophe	11
Mainstream parties and climate policy development: what role for intra-party politics?	10
From influencing to engagement: a framing model for climate communication in polarised settings	10
States and nature: the effects of climate change on security	10
Environmental apocalypse and space: the lost dimension of the end of the world	10
Stories we live by and may die by: ideologies in newspaper reports of pipeline vandalism	10
Feeling climate change: how emotions govern our responses to the climate emergency	10
Pulling together or pulling apart? Understanding the heterogenous collective action frames of local climate activists through a Q methodology study	9
Doubling down on DAPL: the contentious politics of pipeline governance in Illinois	9
Like diamonds in the sky? Public perceptions, governance, and information framing of solar geoengineering activities in Mexico, the United Kingdom, and the United States	9
Making and breaking promises: must a country harmonize its climate pledges and policies?	9
Hide and brag: the strategic use of media in China’s war on air pollution	9
Environmental justice implications and conceptual advancements: community experiences of proposed shale gas exploration in the UK	9
A framework for classifying climate change questions used in public opinion surveys	9
Implementing the EU renewable energy directive in Norway: from Tailwind to Headwind	9
Forces of Reproduction: Notes for a Counter-Hegemonic Anthropocene	9
Fugitive Politics: The Struggle For Ecological Sanity	8
Why do Australians prefer some climate migrants over others?	8
Power & temporality in pursuing transformative planetary justice	8
A climate fit for capitalism: ordoliberalism’s political ecology and German environmental politics	8
Care-centered politics – from the home to the planet	8
A tale of two coals: the politics of time in coal phase out	8
Pope Francis and the environment, act 2. Time for decisive climate action	8
Further Reflections on the National Academies Report on Solar Geoengineering: A Response to Stephens et al	8
The multilevel governance of polarised climate politics: how a pioneer city navigates a dynamic political context	7
Mnemonic ecologies: memory and nature conservation along the former Iron Curtain	7
The Role of International Engagement in Greening China’s Belt and Road Initiative	7

Climate-just behavior: foundations and transformational approaches	7
A turning point in global biodiversity governance?	7
The self-work of planetary justice	7
Extreme weather and climate policy	6
Radical incrementalism: hydropolitics and environmental discourses in Laos	6
Sustainable development and the environment in EU and Japanese free trade agreements: embedding anthropocentric narratives	6
Policymaker environmental communication in the wake of natural disasters	5
Explaining the energy mix in China’s electricity projects under the belt and road initiative	5
Citizens united and state environmental policy, regulations, and outcomes	5
Color-blind racial ideology and beliefs about environmental inequality among local US government officials	5
Grand transitions: how the modern world was made	5
All we want is the earth: land, labour and movements beyond environmentalism	5
Capitalism at the roots: the crisis of representative democracy through the eyes of Belgian climate activists	5
Populism as an act of storytelling: analyzing the climate change narratives of Donald Trump and Greta Thunberg as populist truth-tellers	5
Governing through the nationally determined contribution (NDC): five functions to steer states’ climate conduct	5
Consenting publics: fair nuclear waste repository siting?	5
A Strategic Nature: Public Relations and the Politics of American Environmentalism	5