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A climate fit for capitalism: ordoliberalism’s political ecology and German environmental politics Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) 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 5.147) 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 5.147) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Hunter Vaughan
Published in Environmental Politics (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Defensive issue linkage: exploring the origins of environmental content in trade agreements Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) 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 5.147) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Maria Jernnäs
Published in Environmental Politics (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Polish Catholic environmentalism as the counterculture movement Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) 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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Correction Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) Pub Date : 2024-02-14
Published in Environmental Politics (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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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 5.147) 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 5.147) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Annisa Nabilatul Khaira, Munif Arif Ranti
Published in Environmental Politics (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Failing forward: the rise and fall of Neoliberal conservation Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) 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 5.147) 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 5.147) 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 5.147) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Ghulam Rabani, Binod Mishra
Published in Environmental Politics (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Walking a thin line: a reputational account of green central banking Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Hielke Van Doorslaer, Mattias Vermeiren, Mathieu Blondeel
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 5.147) 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 5.147) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Diana K. Elhard
Published in Environmental Politics (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Understanding and explaining populist radical right parties’ commitment to animal welfare in Western Europe Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) 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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Process skeptical populist framing of climate change in right-leaning media Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) Pub Date : 2023-12-25 Janel Jett, Leigh Raymond, Erin P. Hennes
Scholars have noted the compatibility of right-wing populism—centering on belief in an antagonistic relationship between ‘the people’ and ‘the elite’ – with climate change skepticism. In this paper...
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Indigenous and traditional communities’ ways of knowing and being in planetary justice Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) 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...
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“We grow earth”: performing eco-agrarian citizenship at the semi-periphery of Europe Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) Pub Date : 2023-12-23 Anastasia Oprea, Irina Velicu, Hestia-Ioana Delibas, Sérgio Pedro
Peasant studies have long demonstrated the historical contribution of peasants to the stewardship of earth’s commons. We enter the debate on ecological citizenship through a concern for environment...
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Post-Apocalyptic Environmentalism. The Green Movement in Times of Catastrophe Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Hannah Saldert
Published in Environmental Politics (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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All we want is the earth: land, labour and movements beyond environmentalism Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Brendan Davidson
Published in Environmental Politics (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Exploring environmental justice in France: evidence, movements, and ideas Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Brendan Coolsaet, Valérie Deldrève
This article explores the distinctiveness of French and francophone approaches to environmental justice. While off to a slow start, environmental justice research has received increased attention i...
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The central bank lacuna in green state transformation Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Dan Bailey, James Jackson
The scholarship on green state transformation has harnessed debates on the empirical and ideal transformations of the state in the Anthropocene, but central banks have thus far been elided from ana...
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How politicians and the population attribute responsibility for climate change mitigation: no indication of a ‘governance trap’ in Norway Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Runa Falck
Previous research claims that ‘the most significant risk’ to achieving climate change mitigation goals is the ‘governance trap’, whereby governments and the public attribute responsibility for acti...
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Sustainable development and the environment in EU and Japanese free trade agreements: embedding anthropocentric narratives Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Julie Gilson
New generation’ free trade agreements now include ‘Trade and Sustainable Development’ (TSD) chapters designed to improve environmental provisions within overall trading arrangements. The wide-rangi...
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Pipeline populism: grassroots environmentalism in the twenty-first century Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Deborah Barros Leal Farias
Published in Environmental Politics (Vol. 32, No. 7, 2023)
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Women and climate change: examining discourses from the global north Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Joanna Flavell
Published in Environmental Politics (Vol. 33, No. 2, 2024)
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Proud fathers and fossil fuels: gendered identities and climate obstruction Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 A Letourneau, D. Davidson, C. Karsgaard, D. Ivanova
While the disproportionate power of corporate and state fossil fuel interests to influence energy and climate policy is now well known, questions remain about the groups that enthusiastically consu...
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Life against states of emergency: revitalizing treaty relations from Attawapiskat Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Hannah Ascough
Published in Environmental Politics (Vol. 33, No. 2, 2024)
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André Gorz: A Life Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Robert Gottlieb
Published in Environmental Politics (Vol. 33, No. 2, 2024)
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Working sunset to sunrise: union strategies in three California climate transitions Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) Pub Date : 2023-10-15 Keith Brower Brown, Sara Holiday Nelson
We evaluate the conditions and consequences of union strategies in three industrial transitions in California, all driven by its globally influential climate policies: in construction (solar power ...
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Nationally determined contributions (NDCs) as a governance instrument – accounting for politics, negotiation progress, and related mechanisms under the Paris Agreement Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Timo Leiter
Published in Environmental Politics (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Climate change and political theory Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Cristóbal Bellolio
Published in Environmental Politics (Vol. 32, No. 7, 2023)
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An environmental education: how the education realignment polarized Congress on the environment Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Joel B. Kersting
ABSTRACT As the international community attempts to unite to combat climate change, American party politics could hardly be more divided on this issue. This paper offers an additional explanation for how US congressional politics on environmental policy has polarized: the ongoing education realignment in American party politics. As the Democratic Party increasingly relies on college-educated voters
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Who’s afraid of more ambitious climate policy? How distributional implications shape policy support and compensatory preferences Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Lena Maria Schaffer
ABSTRACT Nation states need to strengthen domestic climate policies to address global climate change. As more ambitious climate policy shapes the material interests of different societal groups, distributional conflict about who wins and loses will likely intensify over the coming years. I use the recent complete revision of the Swiss CO2 law as an example of a change towards more ambitious climate
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“The crisis justified the urgency, but now we have to go back to the rule of law”: Urban mobility governance during Covid-19 Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) Pub Date : 2023-08-12 Franziska X. Meinherz, Livia Fritz
ABSTRACT During COVID-19, many cities built pop-up infrastructure for cyclists and pedestrians. We analyse the experiences of Geneva and Lyon through a qualitative approach based on document analysis and interviews with institutional and societal actors. We explore what contributed to the development of pop-up infrastructure during COVID-19, and how these interventions were shaped by and affected policy-making
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Conditional environmentalism of right-wing populism in power: ideology and/or opportunities? Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Manuela Caiani, Balša Lubarda
ABSTRACT This study focuses on right-wing populists (RWP) in power and their discourses and policy preferences on environmental issues. Through a content and frame analysis of electoral manifestos, party communication and semi-structured, in-depth interviews with party representatives, this paper examines whether ideological or contextual factors (political opportunities) determine RWP positioning
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The survival of the weakest: the echo of the Rio Summit principles in environmental treaties Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Jean-Frédéric Morin, Jen Allan, Sikina Jinnah
ABSTRACT This article examines the influence of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, known as the Rio Summit, on the design of subsequent international environmental agreements (IEAs). In particular, it investigates the extent to which the principles outlined in the Rio Declaration were integrated into IEAs concluded in the following years. We focus our investigation on
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Review of the Handbook of Critical Environmental Politics Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Heather Alberro
Published in Environmental Politics (Vol. 32, No. 7, 2023)
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What matter matters as a matter of justice? Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Christine J. Winter, David Schlosberg
ABSTRACT With planet-wide environmental unravelling ideas of multispecies and planetary justice are gaining multidisciplinary attention. They frame a set of ethical, moral and political obligations to life-on-Earth. While it is clear it is humans who bear the duties and obligations of justice, who or what is the subject of justice-beyond-human varies widely: Some limit the subject to sentient animals
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Earth system boundaries and Earth system justice: sharing the ecospace Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Joyeeta Gupta, Klaudia Prodani, Xuemi Bai, Lauren Gifford, Tim M. Lenton, Ilona Otto, Laura Pereira, Crelis Rammelt, Joeri Scholtens, Joan David Tàbara
ABSTRACT The literature on planetary and Earth system boundaries calls on humans to live within those boundaries. Sharing such limited ecospace raises questions of justice. Global environmental assessments and scholarship are increasingly paying attention to justice issues, yet inadequately define how to share the limited ecospace. Against this background we ask: how can global environmental assessments’
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Green republicanism and the ‘Crises of Democracy’ Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Andy Scerri
ABSTRACT ‘Green’ republicans link environmentalism with democracy by casting both as contributions to virtuous world-making. Such virtuous acts aim to realize freedom by contesting domination. In the context of the erosion of democratic and environmentalist achievements since the 1970s, however, a focus on the world-unmaking virtue of obstruction is warranted. ‘Democratic’ republicans urge this. They
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Activism without hope? Four varieties of postapocalyptic environmentalism Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Carl Cassegård
ABSTRACT Hope has long been seen as essential to motivate social movement activism. However, as seen in the transition movement and collapsology networks, a ‘postapocalyptic’ environmentalism that views catastrophe as ongoing or unavoidable is gaining ground, reflecting an increasing awareness that environmental catastrophes are already here or have become inevitable. If hope can no longer mean hope
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Towards more sustainable global supply chains? Company compliance with new human rights and environmental due diligence laws Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Almut Schilling-Vacaflor, Maria-Therese Gustafsson
ABSTRACT Binding regulations have, recently, emerged in the Global North with the aim of holding companies accountable for environmental and/or human rights impacts throughout their supply chains. This article develops and applies an analytical framework to analyze corporate accountability dynamics in global trade, with a focus on the French Duty of Vigilance (DV) law. We analyze how companies in the
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Which Amazon Problem? Problem-constructions and Transnationalism in Brazilian Presidential Discourse since 1985 Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Livio Silva-Muller, Henrique Sposito
ABSTRACT The Amazon is a complex object of policy that comprises environmental, economic, social, and sovereignty concerns. Despite this complexity, governments are often portrayed as having a single understanding of the region as a political problem. In this article, we investigate how the Amazon has been constructed as a problem in 6240 Brazilian presidential speeches since 1985 using supervised
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Citizens United and State environmental policy, regulations, and outcomes Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Micah Farver
ABSTRACT The impact of corporate political spending on environmental policy has drawn numerous attention from researchers and policymakers. However, few studies have analyzed the empirical effect of corporate spending on environmental policy in aggregate. In this study, I analyze the impact of corporate independent spending bans on state environmental policy, utilizing the repeal of such bans in 23
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Climate justice in India Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) Pub Date : 2023-05-27 Ajmal Khan A. T.
Published in Environmental Politics (Vol. 32, No. 6, 2023)
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Climate obstruction: how Denial, delay and inaction are heating the planet Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) Pub Date : 2023-05-27 Hauke Dannemann
Published in Environmental Politics (Vol. 32, No. 6, 2023)
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No other planet: Utopian visions for a climate-changed world Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Joe P. L. Davidson
Published in Environmental Politics (Vol. 32, No. 5, 2023)
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Actors, legitimacy, and governance challenges facing negative emissions and solar geoengineering technologies Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Benjamin K. Sovacool, Chad M. Baum, Roberto Cantoni, Sean Low
Institutional theory, behavioral science, sociology and even political science all emphasize the importance of actors in achieving social change. Despite this salience, the actors involved in resea...
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Rock | water | life: ecology and humanities for a Decolonial South Africa Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Synne Movik
Published in Environmental Politics (Vol. 32, No. 5, 2023)
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National climate change acts: the emergence, form and nature of national framework climate legislation Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Zhu Li, Ya-Ru Zhu
Published in Environmental Politics (Vol. 32, No. 5, 2023)
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America’s energy gamble: people, economy and planet Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Geoffrey Henderson
Published in Environmental Politics (Vol. 32, No. 5, 2023)
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A novel way of being together? On the depoliticising effects of attributing rights to nature Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Agnese Bellina
The recent trend of attributing rights to nature arguably introduces a novel way of ordering the relationship between humans and nonhumans. But to what extent does it challenge the political, legal...
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Organising responses to climate change: the politics of mitigation, adaptation and suffering Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 David L. Levy
Published in Environmental Politics (Vol. 32, No. 5, 2023)
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Supporting environmental protection in good and bad economic circumstances Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Tobias Böhmelt, Muzhou Zhang
This article explores the scope conditions of the effect of individual political orientation on environmental beliefs, focusing on personal economic circumstances. Distinguishing between willingnes...
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The necessity of a transformational approach to just transition: defence worker views on decarbonisation, diversification and sustainability Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Karen Bell, Vivian Price, Keith McLoughlin, Erik Kojola
This paper highlights the perspectives of defence workers regarding a Just Transition of their industry, one of the most environmentally harmful sectors in terms of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, ...
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The Politics of Rights of Nature. Strategies for Building a More Sustainable World Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Mihnea Tănăsescu
Published in Environmental Politics (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The pivotal generation: why we have a moral responsibility to slow climate change right now Environmental Politics (IF 5.147) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Francisco Garcia-Gibson
Published in Environmental Politics (Vol. 32, No. 5, 2023)