Climate Change Politics
Top Cited Papers
- 11 May 2013
- journal article
- Published by Annual Reviews in Annual Review of Political Science
- Vol. 16 (1), 421-448
- https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-polisci-062011-154926
Abstract
Within the past 25 years, climate change has evolved from an issue of interest primarily to some natural scientists into one of the top priorities on the global policy agenda. Research in political science and related fields offers systematic and empirically well-supported explanations for why solving the climate problem has turned out to be more difficult than originally anticipated. After reviewing this research, I focus on four areas in which we know less: (a) institutional design features that may help in mitigating or overcoming fundamental problems in the global cooperative effort; (b) factors that are driving variation in climate policies at national and subnational levels; (c) driving forces of climate policy beyond the state, in particular civil society, the science–policy interface, and public opinion; and (d) sociopolitical consequences of failing to avoid major climatic changes. The article concludes by identifying key questions at the micro, meso, and macro levels that should be addressed by ...This publication has 142 references indexed in Scilit:
- Effectiveness of international environmental regimes: Existing knowledge, cutting-edge themes, and research strategiesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2011
- Support for climate policy and societal action are linked to perceptions about scientific agreementNature Climate Change, 2011
- Climate not to blame for African civil warsProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2010
- Political Marginalization, Climate Change, and Conflict in African Sahel StatesAsian International Studies Review, 2010
- The Stern Review: A deconstructionEnergy Policy, 2009
- Assessing dangerous climate change through an update of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “reasons for concern”Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2009
- Global climate change, war, and population decline in recent human historyProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2007
- The importance of the Montreal Protocol in protecting climateProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2007
- Enforcing the Kyoto Protocol: sanctions and strategic behaviorEnergy Policy, 2005
- Politics beyond the State Environmental Activism and World Civic PoliticsWorld Politics, 1995