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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Life against states of emergency: revitalizing treaty relations from Attawapiskat	138
Petrochemical planet. Multiscalar battles of industrial transformation	82
From (De)regulation to industrialization? Chilean lithium policy in comparative perspective	76
Internal climate leadership in municipal organizations. How paradoxical and transformational leadership of higher-level management shape climate leadership of lower-level managers	62
Obstructing change: political inertia and the maintenance of climate inaction in Australia	52
An EV-fix for Indonesia: the green development-resource nationalist nexus	46
Educating for the anthropocene: schooling and activism in the face of slow violence	38
What makes Guatemalan citizens green?	37
“We grow earth”: performing eco-agrarian citizenship at the semi-periphery of Europe	33
Crowdsourcing infrastructures of green everyday life: how sustainable sharing, swapping and gardening initiatives in Vienna tackle the lack of transformative agency in eco-politics	33
Voters do not punish their government for climate policies under favorable conditions	32
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 coalitions	30
Environmental activism and authoritarianism in Myanmar: interrogating assemblages across three political epochs	28
Understanding the rights of nature: a critical introduction	28
Towards ‘just access’: a critical framework for analyzing migrant labor governance in the green transition	28
Everywhere you vote, you always take the weather with you: the effects of local temperature anomalies on Green party voting	28
The centre-periphery divide and attitudes towards climate change measures among Western Europeans	27
The central bank lacuna in green state transformation	26
Fluid hope in a climate emergency: Lessons from an English citizens’ jury	25
Where to aim with multispecies climate justice? A critical realist account	24
Earth system boundaries and Earth system justice: sharing the ecospace	23
Reading contemporary environmental justice: narratives from Kerala	22
The Dao of Civilization: A Letter to China	22
Law’s quick fix? Ecocide, social transformation and the pitfalls of criminalisation	21

Kindling green hate through eco- and demographic anxiety	20
Net zero by 2050: the case for green industrial policy	20
When Fracking Comes to Town: governance, planning, and economic impacts of the US Shale Boom	18
The global criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest – a repertoire of repression	18
In praise of floods: the untamed river and the life it brings	17
Ecocidal impunity? Wars and the profitability of the chemical corporation in the global south	16
Hard to say goodbye: South Korea, Japan, and China as the last lenders for coal	15
Closing the implementation gap in urban climate policy: Mexico’s public transit buildup	15
Climate populism: the limits of the ideational and discursive approaches	15
Multi-layered differentiation in the climate regime: the gradual path from Rio to Paris	14
Actors, legitimacy, and governance challenges facing negative emissions and solar geoengineering technologies	14
Geo-themed and geo-centric thought: reflections on the onto-epistemological basis of critical thought’s geologic turn	14
Beyond Europeanization: political ecology and environmentalism in Central and Eastern Europe	14
Exploring the politics of degrowth – first evidence from two cases of repair policies in Austria and Sweden	14
Persuading the public: nationalist propaganda and support for costly environmental policies in China	14
The pivotal generation: why we have a moral responsibility to slow climate change right now	13
The unbearable lightness of climate populism	13
It’s not just climate: rethinking ‘climate emotions’ in the age of burnout capitalism	13
Certifying China: the rise and limits of transnational sustainability governance in emerging economies	13
Regulatory capture related to environmental risks: a systematic review on empirical research	13
A dynamic institutional analysis of China’s engagement with Africa’s renewable energy market	13
The impact of corruption on climate change mitigation: a review article	12
Climate action and populism of the left in Ecuador	12
China’s Green Belt and Road Initiative: transnational environmental governance and causal pathways of orchestration	12
Geoengineering discourse confronting climate change: the move from margins to mainstream in science, news media, and politics	12
Geoengineering, climate change and ecological security	12
Mass animal starvation and the global development paradigm: toward multispecies food sovereignty as global wellbeing	12
Stories we live by and may die by: ideologies in newspaper reports of pipeline vandalism	11
Subjects of intergenerational justice: indigenous philosophy, the environment and relationships	11
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 research	11
Feeling climate change: how emotions govern our responses to the climate emergency	11
States and nature: the effects of climate change on security	11
Australian third sector actors’ theories of change for climate justice: real and apparent barriers and obscured root causes	11
Pulling together or pulling apart? Understanding the heterogenous collective action frames of local climate activists through a Q methodology study	10
Big dilemmas, little time: intergenerational climate justice and public support for deep decarbonisation	10
Implementing the EU renewable energy directive in Norway: from Tailwind to Headwind	10
Prefiguring multispecies justice: how communities are challenging and transfiguring care, labour, and belonging in the midst of climate catastrophe	10
Doubling down on DAPL: the contentious politics of pipeline governance in Illinois	10
Like diamonds in the sky? Public perceptions, governance, and information framing of solar geoengineering activities in Mexico, the United Kingdom, and the United States	10
Review of Acknowledging indigenous knowledge: voices of tropical forest people	9
Forces of Reproduction: Notes for a Counter-Hegemonic Anthropocene	9
A framework for classifying climate change questions used in public opinion surveys	9
What’s capitalism – generational differentiation in the climate movement	9
Clinging to power: status threat and attitudes toward the renewable energy transition	9
Hide and brag: the strategic use of media in China’s war on air pollution	9
Power lines: the human costs of american energy in transition	9
Fugitive Politics: The Struggle For Ecological Sanity	9
Environmental apocalypse and space: the lost dimension of the end of the world	9

Governing through the nationally determined contribution (NDC): five functions to steer states’ climate conduct	8
Care-centered politics – from the home to the planet	8
Why do Australians prefer some climate migrants over others?	8
Pope Francis and the environment, act 2. Time for decisive climate action	8
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 neutrality	8
A climate fit for capitalism: ordoliberalism’s political ecology and German environmental politics	8
Extreme weather and climate policy	8
A tale of two coals: the politics of time in coal phase out	8
Radical incrementalism: hydropolitics and environmental discourses in Laos	7
Differences within global movements: insights from FFF climate protests in Western and Eastern Europe	7
Climate-just behavior: foundations and transformational approaches	7
Sustainable development and the environment in EU and Japanese free trade agreements: embedding anthropocentric narratives	7
Mnemonic ecologies: memory and nature conservation along the former Iron Curtain	7
All we want is the earth: land, labour and movements beyond environmentalism	7
The self-work of planetary justice	7
Citizens united and state environmental policy, regulations, and outcomes	6
Power & temporality in pursuing transformative planetary justice	6
The multilevel governance of polarised climate politics: how a pioneer city navigates a dynamic political context	6
Grand transitions: how the modern world was made	6
The Role of International Engagement in Greening China’s Belt and Road Initiative	6
Cosmopolitics in action: bridging the human-non-human divide in everyday environmental conflicts	5
A Strategic Nature: Public Relations and the Politics of American Environmentalism	5
Capitalism at the roots: the crisis of representative democracy through the eyes of Belgian climate activists	5
Consenting publics: fair nuclear waste repository siting?	5
Resolving the climate crisis	5
Anti-environmentalism as conservative coalition maintenance: an automated text analysis of National Review	5
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 media	5
Whose system, what change? A critical political economy approach to the UK climate movement	5
Color-blind racial ideology and beliefs about environmental inequality among local US government officials	5
Distributive justice discourses, time and futures: a social media discourse analysis of the loss and damages debate	5