Lisa Vanhala

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 803 citations indexed

About

Lisa Vanhala is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Law and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Lisa Vanhala has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 803 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 15 papers in Law and 10 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Lisa Vanhala's work include Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (9 papers), Judicial and Constitutional Studies (7 papers) and Environmental law and policy (7 papers). Lisa Vanhala is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (9 papers), Judicial and Constitutional Studies (7 papers) and Environmental law and policy (7 papers). Lisa Vanhala collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Italy. Lisa Vanhala's co-authors include Joana Setzer, Elisa Calliari, Olivia Serdeczny, R. Daniel Kelemen, Andreas Hofmann, Lisa Conant, Chris Hilson, Jaroslav Myšiak, Adelle Thomas and Emily Boyd and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Climate Change, Global Environmental Change and Climatic Change.

In The Last Decade

Lisa Vanhala

35 papers receiving 696 citations

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Legal Opportunity Structures and the Paradox of Legal Mobilization by the Environmental Movement in the UK

2012 120 citations Lisa Vanhala Law & Society Review profile →

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Keebet von Benda-Beckmann Germany

Franz von Benda‐Beckmann Germany

Derick Fay United States

Rachel E. Stern United States

Damien Short United Kingdom

Anna‐Maria Marshall United States

Paul Wapner United States

Jacklyn Cock South Africa

Burns H. Weston United States

Axel Gosseries Belgium

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lisa Vanhala

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Puig, Daniel, W. Neil Adger, Jon Barnett, Lisa Vanhala, & Emily Boyd. (2025). Improving the effectiveness of climate change adaptation measures. Climatic Change. 178(1). 5 indexed citations

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Vanhala, Lisa, Elisa Calliari, & Adelle Thomas. (2023). Understanding the Politics and Governance of Climate Change Loss and Damage. Global Environmental Politics. 23(3). 1–11. 5 indexed citations

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Vanhala, Lisa. (2023). Putting the constructive ambiguity of climate change loss and damage into practice: The early work of the UNFCCC WIM ExCom. Review of European Comparative & International Environmental Law. 32(3). 428–438. 4 indexed citations

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Calliari, Elisa & Lisa Vanhala. (2022). The ‘national turn’ in climate change loss and damage governance research: constructing the L&D policy landscape in Tuvalu. Climate Policy. 22(2). 184–197. 8 indexed citations

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Calliari, Elisa, et al.. (2022). Evaluating progress on loss and damage: an assessment of the Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism under the UNFCCC. Climate Policy. 22(9-10). 1199–1212. 8 indexed citations

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Vanhala, Lisa, et al.. (2020). The knowledge politics of climate change loss and damage across scales of governance. Environmental Politics. 30(1-2). 141–160. 19 indexed citations

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Calliari, Elisa, Jaroslav Myšiak, & Lisa Vanhala. (2020). A digital climate summit to maintain Paris Agreement ambition. Nature Climate Change. 10(6). 480–480. 12 indexed citations

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Calliari, Elisa, Olivia Serdeczny, & Lisa Vanhala. (2020). Making sense of the politics in the climate change loss & damage debate. Global Environmental Change. 64. 102133–102133. 40 indexed citations

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Vanhala, Lisa. (2020). Coproducing the Endangered Polar Bear: Science, Climate Change, and Legal Mobilization. Law & Policy. 42(2). 105–124. 9 indexed citations

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Vanhala, Lisa, et al.. (2018). Using the Law for Social Change: A Landscape Review. ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam). 1 indexed citations

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Vanhala, Lisa. (2017). Process Tracing in the Study of Environmental Politics. Global Environmental Politics. 17(4). 88–105. 15 indexed citations

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Vanhala, Lisa. (2017). Shaping the Structure of Legal Opportunities: Environmental NGOs Bringing International Environmental Procedural Rights Back Home. Law & Policy. 40(1). 110–127. 22 indexed citations

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Vanhala, Lisa. (2016). Legal Mobilization under Neo-corporatist Governance. 4(1). 103–130. 13 indexed citations

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Vanhala, Lisa. (2015). The Diffusion of Disability Rights in Europe. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 1 indexed citations

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Vanhala, Lisa. (2012). Legal Opportunity Structures and the Paradox of Legal Mobilization by the Environmental Movement in the UK. Law & Society Review. 46(3). 523–556. 120 indexed citations breakdown →

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Vanhala, Lisa. (2011). Social Movements Lashing Back: Law, Social Change and Socio-legal Backlash in Canada. UCL Discovery (University College London).

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Kelemen, R. Daniel & Lisa Vanhala. (2010). The Shift to the Rights Model of Disability in the EU and Canada. Regional & Federal Studies. 20(1). 1–18. 23 indexed citations

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Vanhala, Lisa. (2010). Making Rights a Reality?. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 40 indexed citations

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Vanhala, Lisa. (2009). Anti-discrimination policy actors and their use of litigation strategies: the influence of identity politics. Journal of European Public Policy. 16(5). 738–754. 39 indexed citations

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Vanhala, Lisa. (2006). Fighting discrimination through litigation in the UK: the social model of disability and the EU anti‐discrimination directive. Disability & Society. 21(5). 551–565. 20 indexed citations

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