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2026

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D-Index
68
Citations
19196
World Ranking
64
National Ranking
11

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Peter Newell is affiliated with the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with significant contributions in related subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Pollution.

Their scholarly work addresses a range of crucial topics including:

  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Global Energy and Sustainability Research
  • Climate Change and Geoengineering
  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Environmental Education and Sustainability
  • Mining and Resource Management

Peter Newell has published in several academic venues with repeated contributions, notably including:

  • Energy Research & Social Science
  • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change
  • International Environmental Agreements Politics Law and Economics
  • New Political Economy
  • Global Sustainability

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Toward transformative climate justice: An emerging research agenda," 2021, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change
  • "Navigating tensions between rapid and just low-carbon transitions," 2022, Environmental Research Letters

Other papers within their research network that relate closely include:

  • "Three Decades of Climate Mitigation: Why Haven't We Bent the Global Emissions Curve?" 2021, Annual Review of Environment and Resources
  • "Equity, technological innovation and sustainable behaviour in a low-carbon future," 2022, Nature Human Behaviour
  • "Regime resistance and accommodation: Toward a neo-Gramscian perspective on energy transitions," 2021, Energy Research & Social Science

The scientist has co-authored frequently with a group of collaborators, including:

  • Freddie Daley (8 joint publications)
  • Harro van Asselt (4 joint publications)
  • Angela Carter (3 joint publications)
  • Wim Carton (2 joint publications)
  • Roz Price (2 joint publications)

Peter Newell has also contributed to book publications through Cambridge University Press, with the titles:

  • "Power Shift," 2021
  • "Changing Our Ways," 2022

Best Publications

  • The political economy of the ‘just transition’

    Peter Newell;Dustin Mulvaney

  • Governing Climate Change

    Harriet Bulkeley;Peter Newell

  • Navigating the Anthropocene: Improving Earth System Governance

    F. Biermann;F. Biermann;K. Abbott;S. Andresen;Karin Bäckstrand

  • Climate for Change

    Peter Newell

  • Climate for Change: Non-State Actors and the Global Politics of the Greenhouse

    Peter Newell

  • Changing the intellectual climate

    Noel Castree;Noel Castree;William M. Adams;John Barry;Daniel Brockington

  • Transnational Climate Change Governance

    Harriet Bulkeley;Liliana B Andonova;Michele Merrill Betsill;Daniel Compagnon

  • Citizenship, accountability and community: the limits of the CSR agenda

    Peter Newell

  • Three Decades of Climate Mitigation: Why Haven't We Bent the Global Emissions Curve?

    Isak Stoddard;Kevin Anderson;Kevin Anderson;Stuart Capstick;Wim Carton

  • Beyond csr? Business, poverty and social justice: an introduction

    Peter Newell;Jedrzej George Frynas

  • Building global democracy?: civil society and accountable global governance

    Jan Aart Scholte

  • The politics of green transformations

    Ian Scoones;Peter Newell;Melissa Leach

  • A climate for business: global warming, the state and capital

    Peter Newell;Matthew Paterson

  • The Political Economy of Energy Transitions: The Case of South Africa

    Lucy Baker;Peter Newell;Jon Phillips

  • Business Strategy and International Environmental Governance: Toward a Neo-Gramscian Synthesis

    David L. Levy;Peter J. Newell

  • The business of global environmental governance

    David L. Levy;Peter J. Newell

  • The politics of accelerating low-carbon transitions: Towards a new research agenda

    Cameron Roberts;Frank W. Geels;Matthew Lockwood;Peter Newell

  • Governing climate change transnationally: Assessing the evidence from a database of sixty initiatives

    Harriet Bulkeley;Liliana Andonova;Karin Bäckstrand;Michele Betsill

  • Why equity is fundamental in climate change policy research

    Sonja Klinsky;J. Timmons Roberts;Saleemul Huq;Chukwumerije Okereke

  • Exploring understandings of institutions and uncertainty: new directions in natural resource management

    Lyla Mehta;Melissa Leach;Peter Newell;Ian Scoones

  • Implementation Handbook for the Convention on the Rights of the Child

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  • Civil society, corporate accountability and the politics of climate change

    Peter Newell

  • The political economy of global environmental governance

    Peter Newell

  • Transforming governance and institutions for global sustainability: key insights from the Earth System Governance Project

    Frank Biermann;Frank Biermann;Kenneth Abbott;Steinar Andresen;Karin Bäckstrand

  • Bio-Hegemony: The Political Economy of Agricultural Biotechnology in Argentina

    Peter Newell

  • Toward transformative climate justice: An emerging research agenda

    Peter Newell;Shilpi Srivastava;Lars Otto Naess;Gerardo A. Torres Contreras

  • Ozone discourses: science and politics in global environmental cooperation

    Peter Newell

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew Paterson
Matthew Paterson University of Manchester
Michele M. Betsill
Michele M. Betsill University of Copenhagen
Harriet Bulkeley
Harriet Bulkeley Durham University
Wyn Grant
Wyn Grant University of Warwick
David L. Levy
David L. Levy University of Massachusetts Boston
Stacy D. VanDeveer
Stacy D. VanDeveer University of Massachusetts Boston
Frank Biermann
Frank Biermann Utrecht University
Joyeeta Gupta
Joyeeta Gupta University of Amsterdam
Emily Boyd
Emily Boyd Lund University
Diana Liverman
Diana Liverman University of Arizona

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