Climate Backlash: Contentious Reactions to Policy Action

Project Information

BACKLASH

Grant agreement ID: 949332

DOI

10.3030/949332

EC signature date 27 October 2020

Start date 1 February 2021

End date 31 May 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 491 458,00

EU contribution

€ 1 491 458,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT
Netherlands

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (12)

Reactions to policy action: socio-political conditions of backlash to climate change policy

Author(s): James Patterson, Ksenia Anisimova, Jasmin Logg-Scarvell, Cille Kaiser
Published in: Policy Sciences, Issue 58, 2025, Page(s) 287-320, ISSN 0032-2687
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11077-025-09578-5

Unraveling the conditions for post-adoption contestation over hard climate policy in OECD countries

Author(s): Ksenia V. Anisimova, James J. Patterson
Published in: npj Climate Action, Issue 4, 2025, ISSN 2731-9814
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s44168-025-00270-1

What’s the problem? Unpacking the problem-complex of coal extraction and climate action in Whitehaven, UK

Author(s): Cille Kaiser, James Patterson
Published in: Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 2025, ISSN 2399-6544
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/23996544251326510

Negotiating discord in sustainability transformations

Author(s): James J. Patterson, Giuseppe Feola, Rakhyun E. Kim
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 121, 2024, Page(s) e2310186121, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2310186121

Public responses to hard climate policies in OECD member countries: prevalence of contention at the post-adoption stage

Author(s): Ksenia V. Anisimova, James J. Patterson
Published in: Climate Policy, Issue 25, 2025, Page(s) 673-690, ISSN 1469-3062
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2024.2409806

Roadblocks of polarization: Interpretive mechanisms of opposition to a speed limit policy on German highways

Author(s): Lotte Grünwald, James Patterson
Published in: Energy Research & Social Science, Issue 122, 2025, Page(s) 104009, ISSN 2214-6296
Publisher: Elsevier Limited
DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104009

Backlash to Climate Policy

Author(s): James J. Patterson
Published in: Global Environmental Politics, Issue 23(1), 2023, Page(s) 68–90, ISSN 1536-0091
Publisher: MIT Press
DOI: 10.1162/glep_a_00684

Embracing the politics of transformation: Policy action as “battle‐settlement events”

Author(s): James Patterson, Matthew Paterson
Published in: Review of Policy Research, 2024, ISSN 1541-132X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12627

The political effects of emergency frames in sustainability

Author(s): James Patterson, Carina Wyborn, Linda Westman, Marie Claire Brisbois, Manjana Milkoreit, Dhanasree Jayaram
Published in: Nature Sustainability, Issue 4, 2021, Page(s) 841–850, ISSN 2398-9629
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
DOI: 10.1038/s41893-021-00749-9

Commentary: Transformative Change in Governance Systems: A conceptual framework for analysing adaptive capacity and multi-level learning processes in resource governance regimes

Author(s): Pahl-Wostl, C., Patterson, J.J.
Published in: Global Environmental Change, Issue 71, 2021, Page(s) 102405, ISSN 0959-3780
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102405

Culture and identity in climate policy

Author(s): James J. Patterson
Published in: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, Issue e765, 2021, Page(s) 1-7, ISSN 1757-7799
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.765

Remaking political institutions in sustainability transitions

Author(s): James J. Patterson
Published in: Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, Issue 41, 2021, Page(s) 64-66, ISSN 2210-4224
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2021.10.011