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Left–right political orientation fails to explain environmental attitudes of Europeans outside Western Europe: exploring the moderating role of party positions and issue salience Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Mariusz Baranowski, Robert A. Huber, Piotr Jabkowski, Julia Szulecka
While conventional wisdom holds that right-wing individuals tend to present more negative attitudes toward environmental protection, McCright and colleagues find no clear relationship between polit...
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The economy-environment tradeoff: are individual environmental priorities decoupled from national economic conditions? Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 Sanna Lundquist
This paper explores the relationship between individual environmental priorities and national economic conditions, addressing the commonly held belief that individuals prioritize economic concerns ...
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Does global integration foster environmental mobilization? The effect of global norms on environmental movement participation Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-21 Dafni Kalatzi Pantera
How does global integration affect environmental activism? I develop a theoretical argument which highlights that global integration’s effect is conditional on political ideology. Countries’ integr...
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On the contested compliance of CBDRRC and the erosion of trust Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 Raúl Salas Reyes
Trust is necessary to ensure international cooperation between nation-states who negotiate responses to address the causes and effects of climate change. There is reason to believe that an erosion ...
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Labour strategies in the German automotive industry: limits and potentials of conversion from a Gramscian perspective Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-12 A. Katharina Keil
The automotive industry’s transition toward electric vehicles is a key challenge for organised labour in the sector. In this context, shifting production towards socially and ecologically useful pr...
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Defending the climate cause within the state: the ministry of ecology and the drafting of France’s national low-carbon strategy (2017–2020) Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 François-Mathieu Poupeau
National climate policies have generated a considerable body of research in academic literature. Focusing on the little-studied case of France, this article examines the way in which, in this count...
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Pulling together or pulling apart? Understanding the heterogenous collective action frames of local climate activists through a Q methodology study Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-04 Stephen Hall, Ian Smith
The potential for green community groups to respond effectively to climate change depends on the heterogeneity of preferences of individual member activists. Using a Q-methodology study of two grou...
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Equal per capita carbon dividends and the waste objection Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Fausto Corvino
Recycling carbon revenues as Equal Per Capita Carbon Dividends (ECDs) is thought to neutralise the two main objections to carbon pricing, namely that it is regressive and that it hinders the poor f...
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Correction Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-22
Published in Environmental Politics (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Reassessing the economy–environment tradeoff: do industry sectors, green jobs opportunities, and regulatory threats affect environmental concerns? Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-27 Todd Lu
Economic effects on environmental concerns assess macroeconomic pressures or microeconomic status differences but overlook environmental and labor scholarly attention to industry contexts. I test w...
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Voters do not punish their government for climate policies under favorable conditions Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Sofia Henriks, Niklas Harring, Nils Droste
This article investigates the impact of climate policies on electoral support for governing parties in Sweden through mixed methods combining a sentiment analysis of news articles and regression di...
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Why do sustainable materialism initiatives rise and fall over time? Insights from the case of cooperative energy projects in Denmark and France Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Pierre Wokuri
Community supported agriculture, ecovillages, and renewable energy cooperatives are all instances of sustainable materialism initiatives. Currently, a wealth of research assesses their prefigurativ...
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Subjects of intergenerational justice: indigenous philosophy, the environment and relationships Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Mary E. Witlacil
Published in Environmental Politics (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Beyond disobedience: ethical frontiers and political strategies in the climate crisis Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Gong Chen, Chengmeng Zhang
Published in Environmental Politics (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Net zero by 2050: the case for green industrial policy Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-07 Bruno Arcand, James Meadowcroft
How does the goal of achieving net zero emissions by 2050 influence our understanding of green industrial policy? While industrial policy has moved to the forefront of climate debates, the literatu...
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Petrochemical planet. Multiscalar battles of industrial transformation Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-07 Clarence Hatton-Proulx
Published in Environmental Politics (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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How scientific and partisan media shape support for research on stratospheric aerosol injection Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-05 Toby Bolsen, Risa Palm, Justin T. Kingsland
Stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) is a controversial technique that has been suggested as a means of temporarily halting global warming. A study conducted on 441 individuals in the US in Novemb...
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On being an “oil and gas worker”: dominant discourse, self-representation, and Canada’s energy future Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Alana Lajoie-O’Malley
Political wrangling over the future of oil and gas in the context of climate change dominates national debates about Canada’s energy future. These debates frequently rhetorically center around the ...
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Review Essay on Climate Migration - Critical Perspectives for Law, Policy and Research and The Great Displacement - Climate Change and the Next American Migration Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Atmaja Gohain Baruah
Published in Environmental Politics (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Planetary justice: a systematic analysis of an emerging discourse [8403] Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Agni Kalfagianni, Stefan Pedersen, Dimitris Stevis
Justice concerns have been central to contemporary social and ecological debates for decades but have only recently made inroads into the Earth system centric discourses on the Anthropocene and pla...
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Navigating desires beyond growth: the critical role of fantasy in degrowth’s environmental politics and prefigurative ethics Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-29 Joshua Hurtado Hurtado, Jason Glynos
As a critical environmental political project, the degrowth movement contests the hegemony of economic growth. Much scholarship has sought to unpack degrowth’s proposals to reduce matter and energy...
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Radical incrementalism: hydropolitics and environmental discourses in Laos Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-27 Niak Sian Koh, Grace Y. Wong, Thomas Hahn
The Nam Theun 2 dam is an influential case of applying safeguards to mitigate social and environmental impacts from hydropower, being used as a model for large dams globally. However, these safegua...
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The sustainable state: a meta-governance framework Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Basil Bornemann, Marius Christen, Paul Burger
While there are established concepts of the green or environmental state, no clear idea exists of what constitutes a sustainable state and by what standards to evaluate such a state. This article a...
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Indigenous knowledge and disaster risk reduction: insight towards perception, response, adaptation and sustainability Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-23 Feng Kong
Published in Environmental Politics (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The environmental state in a political context: explaining institutional change in Georgia and Armenia Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Ellie Martus
The institutions of the environmental state are of fundamental importance to addressing environmental problems in the face of growing global crises. Yet limited attention has been given to these in...
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Critical environmental justice in contemporary scholarship and movements: consensus and plurality of the discourse Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-12 David Schlosberg, Lauren Rickards, Rebecca Pearse, Hannah Della Bosca, Oli Moraes
Critical environmental justice (EJ) scholars, focused on the role of race, gender, capital, colonization, and power as key to environmental injustice, argue that EJ thinking and practice should mov...
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Beneath the insuperable barrier: accumulation, state managers and climate policy in Britain Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Thomas Da Costa Vieira
This article presents the first archival case study of the drivers of UK climate policy and the creation of the UNFCCC. I contribute to the literature on the green state and green capitalism, first...
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Backfire: the settler-colonial logic and legacy of Smokey Bear Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Kirsten Vinyeta, J. M. Bacon
Since the 1940s, the United States Forest Service’s (USFS) national fire suppression efforts have been bolstered by a public-facing ad campaign led by the Ad Council, most notably through the iconi...
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Planetary justice reconsidered: developing response-abilities in planetary relations Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Milja Kurki
This contribution puts forward a relational and posthumanist engagement with the idea of planetary justice. The planetary from this perspective should be conceived not to re-enforce, but rather to ...
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Reading the room: developing a practical justice politics of regional energy transition Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Sean Marshall, Rebecca Pearse
This study looks at the case of industrial energy transition campaigning by a traditional conservation group in a regional city that hosts coal- fired power and emissions-intensive industry. We ask...
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Searching for a recipe for success: environmental citizen petitions under free trade agreements Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-28 Noémie Laurens
Submissions on enforcement matters (SEMs) allow civil society members to assert that one party to a free trade agreement (FTA) is failing to enforce its domestic environmental laws. Submissions tha...
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The politics of deforestation and REDD+ in Indonesia: global climate change mitigation Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-28 Anisa Sulistiani, Erwin Syahputra Rambe
Published in Environmental Politics (Vol. 33, No. 6, 2024)
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Power and politics across species boundaries: towards Multispecies Justice in Riverine Hydrosocial Territories Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Carlota Houart, Jaime Hoogesteger, Rutgerd Boelens
Rivers have attracted increasing attention as politically contested entities. Existing literature on hydrosocial territories sheds light on how power relations and cultural-political hierarchies pe...
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A Strategic Nature: Public Relations and the Politics of American Environmentalism Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Alaina Kinol
Published in Environmental Politics (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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An EV-fix for Indonesia: the green development-resource nationalist nexus Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Trissia Wijaya, Lian Sinclair
The global energy transition is disrupting old industries needing to decarbonise. Meanwhile, resource-rich countries stand to benefit from the rush for ‘energy-transition minerals’. Here, instituti...
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Power & temporality in pursuing transformative planetary justice Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Stacia Ryder, Erik Kojola, David Pellow
Planetary justice discourse has emerged as a new approach for earth system governance which centers justice concerns within a particular temporal epoch, the so-called ‘Anthropocene.’ Here, we exami...
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Between evidence first and political fight – understanding dynamics of (de-)politicization in US climate movements’ future narratives Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Christopher N. Pavenstädt, Simone Rödder
Fridays for Future, Extinction Rebellion and Sunrise Movement are among the new climate movements that have come into the public spotlight since 2019. While their successes in agenda-setting are un...
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The matter with subjects of justice Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Joshua C. Gellers
Although the non-human turn in justice theory remains in its infancy, several projects have emerged, including Earth system justice, multispecies justice, and planetary justice. Crucially, candidat...
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Unveiling Moroccan perspectives on the EU-Morocco Green Partnership: assessing its potential for a sustainable future for Morocco Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-24 Tereza Němečková, Mohamed Jaouad Malzi
In October 2022, the EU and Morocco signed an unprecedented Green Partnership on Energy, Climate, and the Environment. The new deal aims to advance the external dimension of the European Green Deal...
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Fuel for revolt – moral arguments as delegitimation practices in Swedish fuel protests Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-24 Jens Portinson Hylander, Eric Brandstedt, Ellen Lycke, Vasna Ramasar, Henner Busch
This article examines the role of moral arguments in the delegitimation of transition policies. Previous research has highlighted attitudes and arguments that explain resistance against transition ...
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Catastrophes, confrontations, and constraints: how disasters shape the dynamics of armed conflict Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-24 Kristina Petrova
Published in Environmental Politics (Vol. 33, No. 5, 2024)
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Contesting aeromobility, constructing alternatives: the prefigurative politics of staying on the ground Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Sara Ullström
The concept of prefiguration has gained attention within environmental politics as a way to describe how everyday activism can enable transformation of unsustainable consumption practices, particul...
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A climate fit for capitalism: ordoliberalism’s political ecology and German environmental politics Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 William Callison, Tatjana Söding
This article critically examines contemporary German environmental politics through its connections with ordoliberalism. Ordoliberalism is a branch of neoliberalism that prescribes a strong state t...
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Slow environmental justice: the Cuninico oil spill and the legal struggle against oil pollution in Peruvian Amazonia Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Hernán Manrique López, José Carlos Orihuela
This paper analyzes a case of environmental activism after one of the largest oil spills in Peruvian Amazonia, the 2014 Cuninico oil spill. A relatively more independent judiciary, environmental le...
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Educating for the anthropocene: schooling and activism in the face of slow violence Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Hunter Vaughan
Published in Environmental Politics (Vol. 33, No. 5, 2024)
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Defensive issue linkage: exploring the origins of environmental content in trade agreements Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Christina L. Toenshoff
The political linkages between trade and environmental policy have rapidly increased since 1990. In this paper, I suggest a novel mechanism behind this phenomenon – ‘defensive issue linkage.’ As th...
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The nationally determined contribution (NDC) as a governing instrument: a critical engagement Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Maria Jernnäs
Published in Environmental Politics (Vol. 33, No. 3, 2024)
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Correction Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-14
Published in Environmental Politics (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Polish Catholic environmentalism as the counterculture movement Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Dobrosława Wiktor-Mach, Konrad Pędziwiatr
The increasing participation of faith leaders in environmental debates has led to the renewed interest in the ‘greening of religions’. This paper examines the frames employed by religious actors to...
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Alternative Action Organisations before and after austerity: the rise of informal networks and solidarity economy initiatives in Greece Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Angelos Loukakis
Austerity-stricken Greece has been characterised by the dramatic rise of thousands of formal and informal initiatives and organisations, alongside the development of organised solidarity actions. D...
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Dismantling green colonialism: energy and climate justice in the Arab region Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Annisa Nabilatul Khaira, Munif Arif Ranti
Published in Environmental Politics (Vol. 33, No. 4, 2024)
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Failing forward: the rise and fall of Neoliberal conservation Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Sylvain Maechler
Published in Environmental Politics (Vol. 33, No. 1, 2024)
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Democratic Norms of Earth System Governance: Deliberative Politics in the Anthropocene Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Frederik Pfeiffer
Published in Environmental Politics (Vol. 33, No. 1, 2024)
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Deliberative Governance for Sustainable Development. An Innovative Solution for Environment, Economy and Society Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Manuel Arias-Maldonado
Published in Environmental Politics (Vol. 33, No. 1, 2024)
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Reading contemporary environmental justice: narratives from Kerala Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Ghulam Rabani, Binod Mishra
Published in Environmental Politics (Vol. 33, No. 4, 2024)
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Walking a thin line: a reputational account of green central banking Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Mathieu Blondeel, Hielke Van Doorslaer, Mattias Vermeiren
In this article, we provide a comparative case study analysis of the differentiated climate change engagement of the Bank of England (BoE), European Central Bank (ECB) and Federal Reserve (Fed). Dr...
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Like diamonds in the sky? Public perceptions, governance, and information framing of solar geoengineering activities in Mexico, the United Kingdom, and the United States Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Chad M. Baum, Livia Fritz, Sean Low, Benjamin K. Sovacool
Solar geoengineering (also known as solar radiation modification) is garnering more attention (and controversy) among media and policymakers in response to the impacts of climate change. Such debat...
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In quest of a shared planet: negotiating climate from the global south Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Diana K. Elhard
Published in Environmental Politics (Vol. 33, No. 4, 2024)
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Understanding and explaining populist radical right parties’ commitment to animal welfare in Western Europe Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Jakob Schwörer, Belén Fernández-García
Populist radical right parties (PRRP) are considered to be supportive of domestic environmental protection. In this context, scholars stress the importance of animal welfare, arguing that nativist ...
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Indigenous and traditional communities’ ways of knowing and being in planetary justice Environmental Politics (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-24 Cristina Yumie Aoki Inoue, Thais Lemos Ribeiro, Veronica Korber Gonçalves, Larissa Basso, Paula Franco Moreira
This article contributes to the recent discussion on planetary justice by analyzing two environmental justice struggles around mining projects that impact indigenous peoples and traditional communi...