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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
“We grow earth”: performing eco-agrarian citizenship at the semi-periphery of Europe	89
Life against states of emergency: revitalizing treaty relations from Attawapiskat	86
Voters do not punish their government for climate policies under favorable conditions	80
Petrochemical planet. Multiscalar battles of industrial transformation	66
Crowdsourcing infrastructures of green everyday life: how sustainable sharing, swapping and gardening initiatives in Vienna tackle the lack of transformative agency in eco-politics	63
Weaponizing economics: Big Oil, economic consultants, and climate policy delay	53
Educating for the anthropocene: schooling and activism in the face of slow violence	49
Negotiating just transitions: power and interest dynamics in insurgent sustainability coalitions	41
Internal climate leadership in municipal organizations. How paradoxical and transformational leadership of higher-level management shape climate leadership of lower-level managers	40
Defending the climate cause within the state: the ministry of ecology and the drafting of France’s national low-carbon strategy (2017–2020)	40
An EV-fix for Indonesia: the green development-resource nationalist nexus	38
Earth system boundaries and Earth system justice: sharing the ecospace	36
Understanding the rights of nature: a critical introduction	36
Fluid hope in a climate emergency: Lessons from an English citizens’ jury	34
The central bank lacuna in green state transformation	34
The centre-periphery divide and attitudes towards climate change measures among Western Europeans	29
Concerned and willing to pay? Comparing policymaker and citizen attitudes towards climate change	28
Scepticisms and beyond? A comprehensive portrait of climate change communication by the far right in the European Parliament	26
Reading contemporary environmental justice: narratives from Kerala	25
Net zero by 2050: the case for green industrial policy	24
Law’s quick fix? Ecocide, social transformation and the pitfalls of criminalisation	24
The Dao of Civilization: A Letter to China	24
Multi-layered differentiation in the climate regime: the gradual path from Rio to Paris	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	22

Extractive industry disasters and community responses: a typology of vulnerable subjects	22
Persuading the public: nationalist propaganda and support for costly environmental policies in China	22
A dynamic institutional analysis of China’s engagement with Africa’s renewable energy market	21
Hard to say goodbye: South Korea, Japan, and China as the last lenders for coal	21
Ecocidal impunity? Wars and the profitability of the chemical corporation in the global south	20
Actors, legitimacy, and governance challenges facing negative emissions and solar geoengineering technologies	19
Beyond Europeanization: political ecology and environmentalism in Central and Eastern Europe	18
Grassroots environmentalism	18
What is environmental politics?	18
Introduction: What’s the value of multispecies justice?	17
Closing the implementation gap in urban climate policy: Mexico’s public transit buildup	17
The unbearable lightness of climate populism	17
China’s Green Belt and Road Initiative: transnational environmental governance and causal pathways of orchestration	16
Geoengineering discourse confronting climate change: the move from margins to mainstream in science, news media, and politics	16
Responsibilities for just transition to low-carbon societies: a role-based framework	16
From populism to climate scepticism: the role of institutional trust and attitudes towards science	16
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
Regulatory capture related to environmental risks: a systematic review on empirical research	13
It’s not just climate: rethinking ‘climate emotions’ in the age of burnout capitalism	13
Prefiguring multispecies justice: how communities are challenging and transfiguring care, labour, and belonging in the midst of climate catastrophe	12
Subjects of intergenerational justice: indigenous philosophy, the environment and relationships	12
Geoengineering, climate change and ecological security	12
Climate Migration - critical perspectives for law, policy and research	12
Climate action and populism of the left in Ecuador	12
Stories we live by and may die by: ideologies in newspaper reports of pipeline vandalism	11
Implementing the EU renewable energy directive in Norway: from Tailwind to Headwind	11
Mainstream parties and climate policy development: what role for intra-party politics?	11
States and nature: the effects of climate change on security	11
Making and breaking promises: must a country harmonize its climate pledges and policies?	10
Feeling climate change: how emotions govern our responses to the climate emergency	10
Environmental justice implications and conceptual advancements: community experiences of proposed shale gas exploration in the UK	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
A framework for classifying climate change questions used in public opinion surveys	9
Environmental apocalypse and space: the lost dimension of the end of the world	9
Doubling down on DAPL: the contentious politics of pipeline governance in Illinois	9
Pulling together or pulling apart? Understanding the heterogenous collective action frames of local climate activists through a Q methodology study	9
Postapocalyptic narratives in climate activism: their place and impact in five European cities	8
Forces of Reproduction: Notes for a Counter-Hegemonic Anthropocene	8
Hide and brag: the strategic use of media in China’s war on air pollution	8
Fugitive Politics: The Struggle For Ecological Sanity	8
From influencing to engagement: a framing model for climate communication in polarised settings	8
Germany’s Federal Climate Change Act	8
Why do Australians prefer some climate migrants over others?	8
Pope Francis and the environment, act 2. Time for decisive climate action	7
The self-work of planetary justice	7
Extreme weather and climate policy	7
Care-centered politics – from the home to the planet	7
A climate fit for capitalism: ordoliberalism’s political ecology and German environmental politics	7

Power & temporality in pursuing transformative planetary justice	7
The Role of International Engagement in Greening China’s Belt and Road Initiative	7
Governing through the nationally determined contribution (NDC): five functions to steer states’ climate conduct	7
All we want is the earth: land, labour and movements beyond environmentalism	7
A tale of two coals: the politics of time in coal phase out	7
Sustainable development and the environment in EU and Japanese free trade agreements: embedding anthropocentric narratives	7
Radical incrementalism: hydropolitics and environmental discourses in Laos	7
Further Reflections on the National Academies Report on Solar Geoengineering: A Response to Stephens et al	7
Grand transitions: how the modern world was made	6
Climate-just behavior: foundations and transformational approaches	6
Distributive justice discourses, time and futures: a social media discourse analysis of the loss and damages debate	6
Consenting publics: fair nuclear waste repository siting?	6
A Strategic Nature: Public Relations and the Politics of American Environmentalism	6
Color-blind racial ideology and beliefs about environmental inequality among local US government officials	6
Citizens united and state environmental policy, regulations, and outcomes	6
Mnemonic ecologies: memory and nature conservation along the former Iron Curtain	6
Resolving the climate crisis	6
Capitalism at the roots: the crisis of representative democracy through the eyes of Belgian climate activists	6