Ecological Economics

1989 - 2025

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Volume 234, issue C, 2025

Corporate governance and ecological investments. The case of French industry

Simon Nadel and Magali Savès

Global inequalities in countries' demand for raw materials: Twenty years of expansion and insufficient convergence

Juan Antonio Duro, Noemí Ramirez, Hanspeter Wieland, Dominik Wiedenhofer and Helmut Haberl

Public policy for management of forest pests within an ownership mosaic

Andrew R. Tilman and Robert G. Haight

Improving biodiversity resilience requires both public and private finance: A life-cycle analysis of biodiversity finance

Jesper Beverdam, Klaus Hubacek, Bert Scholtens and Frans Sijtsma

Allocating conservation resources between uncertain future states of nature

Neil Perry and Sriram Shankar

Relative environmental impacts and monetary cost of food categories: Functional unit matters

Florent Vieux, Matthieu Maillot, Corinne Marmonier, Anthony Rouault, Marlène Perignon and Nicole Darmon

Volume 233, issue C, 2025

Raising environmental awareness with augmented reality

Giuseppe Attanasi, Barbara Buljat Raymond, Agnès Festré and Andrea Guido

Mitigating climate vulnerability: the crop diversification effect

Marin Ferry and Jeanne de Montalembert

Input taxes in agriculture: Experiences and perspectives for European agriculture

Robert Finger and Anders Branth Pedersen

Contextual behavioral informed nudges to stimulate waste prevention and recycling. A framework and a research agenda

Amedeo Argentiero, Massimo Cesareo, Vincenzo Fasone, Giulio Pedrini and Giovambattista Presti

Salience and information avoidance in voluntary carbon offsetting decisions: Evidence from online experiments

Nicola Campigotto, Chiara Gioia and Matteo Ploner

What you don't know, can't hurt you: Avoiding donation requests for environmental causes

Valeria Fanghella, Lisette Ibanez and John Thøgersen

Biases and nudges in the circular economy: A review

Luca Congiu, Enrico Botta and Mariangela Zoli

Critical realism, methodological pluralism, and ecological economics

Richard B. Norgaard

Assessing carbon emissions along global supply chains from technology perspective: A network production decomposition analysis

Hui Wang, Shasha Yu, Yafei Yang, Meiyue Wang and Peng Zhou

The power of hydropeaking: Trade-offs between flexible hydropower and river ecosystem services in Europe

Terese E. Venus, Oreoluwa Ola, Maria Alp, Nico Bätz, Maria Dolores Bejarano, Isabel Boavida, Maria Cristina Bruno, Roser Casas-Mulet, Mauro Carolli, Gabriele Chiogna, Marie-Pierre Gosselin, Jo H. Halleraker, Markus Noack, Diego Tonolla, Davide Vanzo and Daniel S. Hayes

Over-capitalization in fisheries with irreversible investment and factor substitution

Kira Lancker

Carbon taxes in Europe do not hurt the poor: Evidence from existing taxation schemes

Michal Brzezinski and Monika Kaczan

Snowmaking's slippery slope: The effect of mountain reservoirs on water demand

Jonathan Cognard, Lucas Berard-Chenu, Yves Schaeffer and Hugues François

Regional employment implications of deploying CO2 transport and storage to decarbonise the UK's industry clusters

Christian Calvillo, Antonios Katris, Julia Race, Hannah Corbett and Karen Turner

Reducing the environmental impact of food consumption through fiscal policies: The case of Spain

María-José Gutiérrez, Belén Inguanzo and Susan Orbe

Assessing the nexus between industrialization and inclusive green growth in Africa. The critical role of energy efficiency

Brice Kamguia, Sosson Tadadjeu, Hermann Ndoya and Ronald Djeunankan

Public support for climate policies and its ideological predictors across countries of the Global North and Global South

Christian Bretter and Felix Schulz

Optimal pricing of protected areas under multiple sites demand models

Felipe Vásquez-Lavín, Mauricio Leiva and Nelyda Campos-Requena

Does a sense of intergenerational commitments modify farmers' preferences for conservation tillage? Evidence from the choice experiment in Moldova

Łukasz Kryszak, Bazyli Czyżewski, Agnieszka Sapa and Eugenia Lucasenco

Pay the polluter or polluter pays? A preliminary assessment of public preferences for water quality policy

Seojeong Oh and Benjamin M. Gramig

Volume 232, issue C, 2025

Coordinating on good and bad outcomes in threshold games – Evidence from an artefactual field experiment in Cambodia

Esther Schuch, Tum Nhim and Andries Richter

Do economists think about climate change and inequality? Semantic analysis and topic modeling of top five economics journals

Hassan El Tinay and Juliet B. Schor

Degrowth in a settler state: climate-just economic transitions and Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples in Canada

Kelly Gingrich, Lina Brand-Correa, Elaine Howarth and Anna Stratton

Living well with the foundational economy: Assessing the spatial accessibility of foundational infrastructures in Vienna and the relationship to socio-economic status

Tobias Riepl, Anke Schaffartzik, Simon Grabow and Selim Banabak

The skill requirements of the circular economy

Duygu Buyukyazici and Francesco Quatraro

Compact and livable? Identifying and managing the relationships between intensive land use and urban livability: Evidence from 337 cities in China

Guanghui Jiang, Wenqin Ji, Yaya Tian, Yu Luo and Wenqiu Ma

Environmental resource extraction and poverty: Comparative evidence from rural Thailand and Vietnam

Eva Seewald, Alexander Oetjen and Trung Thanh Nguyen

Pollinator declines, international trade and global food security: Reassessing the global economic and nutritional impacts

Arndt Feuerbacher

Assessing pathways for pursuing coherence between local implementation of emerging alternative economic approaches and international investment law

Ted Gleason

Beyond the EKC: Economic development and environmental degradation in the US

Mihai Mutascu

Decoupling pessimism and the dilemma of growth. A reply to Jackson et al. (2024)

Rikard H. Warlenius

Volume 231, issue C, 2025

Climate change, loss of agricultural output and the macroeconomy: The case of Tunisia

Sakir Devrim Yilmaz, Sawsen Ben-Nasr, Achilleas Mantes, Nihed Ben-Khalifa and Issam Daghari

Does polycentric climate governance drive the circular economy? Evidence from subnational spending and dematerialization of production in the EU

Francisco Mango and Rose Vincent

Public support for more ambitious climate policies: Empirical evidence from Germany

Sebastian Goerg, Andreas Pondorfer and Valentina Stöhr

The shadow of tropical agriculture: Energy transition of Colombian trade-driven agriculture in the 20th century

A. Urrego-Mesa, J. Infante-Amate and E. Tello

Closing the loop at the local scale: Investigating the drivers of and barriers to the implementation of the circular economy in cities and regions

Sébastien Bourdin and Nicolas Jacquet

The intention-behavior gap in climate change adaptation: Evidence from longitudinal survey data

Daniel Osberghaus, W.J. Wouter Botzen and Martin Kesternich

The role of behavioural factors in accepting agri-environmental contracts – Evidence from a Q-method and thematic analysis in Germany

Carina Ober, Carolin Canessa, Fabian Frick and Johannes Sauer

Towards an ecological metaphor for regenerative circular economies

Filippos K. Zisopoulos, Brian D. Fath, Bruno Meirelles de Oliveira, Susana Toboso-Chavero, Hugo D'Assenza-David, Vitor Miranda de Souza, Hao Huang, Şerban Scrieciu, O. Grant Clark, Dominik Noll, Simron Singh, Alexandros Stefanakis, Graham Boyd, Daan Schraven and Martin de Jong

Understanding agricultural market dynamics in times of crisis: The dynamic agent-based network model Agrimate

Kilian Kuhla, Patryk Kubiczek and Christian Otto

Who pays for the ‘pandemic era’ of rising infectious disease in animal production? Emerging questions and dilemmas for states, society, and academia

Rebecca Leigh Rutt, Niels Vasconcellos Nielsen and Henning Otte Hansen

Analysing the expansion of the circular economy in the European Union: How important is the regional context?

Marta García-Velasco Garzás and María J. Ruiz-Fuensanta

The benefits of less: The effect of sufficiency gain framing on sufficiency behavior

Manuel Suter, Simon Rabaa and Andrea Essl

Volume 230, issue C, 2025

A natural resource curse: The unintended effects of gold mining on malaria

Jeffrey Pagel

Charismatic species, matching, and demographics in conservation donations: An experimental investigation

Catherine Chambers, Paul Chambers and David Johnson

Consensus and contestation: Reflections on the development of an indicator framework for a just transition to a circular economy

Ben Purvis, Tommaso Calzolari and Andrea Genovese

Stakeholder perceptions of the Norwegian salmon farming industry and its future challenges

Juliana Figueira Haugen and Jon Olaf Olaussen

Multiple hazards and residential rents in Switzerland: Who pays the price of extreme natural events?

F.J. Blok and Franz Fuerst

Equal exposure, unequal effects of climate change: Gendered impacts on food consumption and nutrition in rural Bangladesh

Jaweriah Hazrana, Pratap S. Birthal and Ashok K. Mishra

Dialectics and evolutionary materialism: Expanding methodological pluralism in ecological economics

Lisi Krall and John M. Gowdy

The rise and fall of neoliberalism: Evidences from an ecological and regulationist analysis of France (1960–2020)

Alban Pellegris and Victor Court

Energy rebound effect in China: Measurement based on a variable coefficient production function

Ruipeng Tan, Zixuan Zhang, Kerui Du and Boqiang Lin

Labour-saving heuristics in green patents: A natural language processing analysis

Tommaso Rughi, Jacopo Staccioli and Maria Enrica Virgillito

Towards a sustainable mobility lifestyle: Exploring the flight to rail shift through model-based behavioural change scenarios

David Álvarez-Antelo, Paola López-Muñoz, Luis Llases and Arthur Lauer

Economic valuation of groundwater over-exploitation in the Maghreb

Abderraouf Zaatra, Georgios Kleftodimos, Mélanie Requier-Desjardins and Hatem Belhouchette

Is social capital a driver of the green transition in the European Union?

Jesús Peiró-Palomino, Lisa Gianmoena, Andres Picazo-Tadeo and Vicente Rios

The risk-based environmental footprints and sustainability deficits of nations

Jianjian He, Pengyan Zhang and Xi Lu

What drives the success of online platforms for industrial symbiosis? An agent-based model

Melissa Mollica, Luca Fraccascia and Alberto Nastasi

The effect of the beef zero deforestation commitment in the Brazilian Amazon: A spatial panel data analysis

Diogo Vallim and Alexandre Leichsenring

Sharing CO2 abatement costs in the iron and steel sector: A shared responsibility input-output approach

Seiya Imada

Feedback and cooperation: An Experiment in sorting behavior

Noémi Berlin, Mamadou Gueye and Stéphanie Monjon

Prosocial and financial incentives for biodiversity conservation: A field experiment using a smartphone app

Shusaku Sasaki, Takahiro Kubo and Shodai Kitano

Macroeconomic, sectoral and financial dynamics in energy transitions: A stock-flow consistent, input-output approach

Andrew Jackson and Tim Jackson

The green transition dilemma: The impossible (?) quest for prosperity of South American economies

Sebastian Valdecantos

Conservation auctions for landscape-scale environmental management: Does spatial configuration matter for economic and ecological outcomes?

Chi Nguyen, Uwe Latacz-Lohmann, Nick Hanley and Sayed Iftekhar

Meeting housing needs within planetary boundaries: A UK case study

Stefan Horn, Ian Gough, Charlotte Rogers and Rebecca Tunstall

Defining a safe and just operating space for the Norwegian economy

Thomas Røkås and Erik Gómez-Baggethun

The environmental benefits of grassroots cooperatives in agriculture

Simon Cornée, Damien Rousselière and Véronique Thelen

Development and test of a dual-pathway model of personal and community factors driving new energy technology adoption - The case of V2G in three European countries

Nora Baumgartner, Daniel Sloot, Anne Günther and Ulf J.J. Hahnel

China's current carbon inequality is predominantly determined by capital disparity

Peipei Tian, Haoyu Ma, Zeyi Zhang, Yang Yu and Dan Li

Is resource endowment a trigger for conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa? Unveiling the moderating role of income inequality

Olumide O. Olaoye, Mulatu F. Zerihun and Mamdouh Abdulaziz Saleh Al-Faryan

Valuing coastal fisheries and seagrasses: A case study of estuarine resources on Florida's Nature Coast

Olesya M. Savchenko, Robert Botta, Roberto Koeneke, Jana Hilsenroth, Kelly A. Grogan, Holden E. Harris and Christa D. Court

Exploring the multifaceted relationship between environmental attitudes and political voting

D’Ecclesiis, Enrico A.R., Eugenio Levi and Fabrizio Patriarca

Decoupling economic growth from energy use: The role of energy intensity in an endogenous growth model

Tobias Bergmann and Matthias Kalkuhl

Are national climate change mitigation pledges shaped by citizens' mitigation preferences? Evidence from globally representative data

Heinz Welsch

Post-growth economics as a guide for systemic change: Theoretical and methodological foundations

Elena Hofferberth

The environment–economic growth trade-off: does support for environmental protection depend on its economic consequences?

Andrew McNeil and Lucy Barnes

Motivational levers for the preservation of an intergenerational common resource: An experiment

Ivan Ajdukovic, Eli Spiegelman and Angela Sutan

From pastures to plates: The thorny path to achieving deforestation-free cattle from Brazil to European consumers

Matías Vaccarezza Sevilla, Gino Pedreira Lucchese, Torsten Krause and Gisele Garcia Alarcon

Cultural ecosystem services and opportunities for inclusive and effective nature-based solutions

Simona Panaro, Izabela Delabre and Fiona Marshall

Changing the understanding of crop production: Integrating ecosystem services into the production function

Anne Sophie Dietrich, Valeria Carini, Giulia Vico, Riccardo Bommarco and Helena Hansson

Reducing red-soil runoff from farmland provides heterogeneous economic benefits through coastal ecosystems

Kota Mameno, Takahiro Kubo, Takahiro Tsuge and Hiroya Yamano

Corrigendum to “China's global leadership aspirations and domestic support for climate policy” [Ecological Economics Volume 227 (2025) 108440]

Chen Xiang and Terry van Gevelt

When petroleum revenue transparency policy meets citizen engagement reality: Survey evidence from Indonesia

Christa Brunnschweiler, Päivi Lujala, Primi Putri, Sabrina Scherzer and Indah Wardhani

Carbon rotation ages and the offset measurement conundrum: An extended review

Gerrit van Kooten

Divergent outcomes of large-scale land transactions in Ethiopia: A quantitative comparative analysis

Chuan Liao and Arun Agrawal

Why degrowth should be disentangled from the wellbeing economy

Hubert Buch-Hansen

Age structure impacts on household carbon emissions: Based on a social interaction perspective

Yaqi Hu, Yingzi Chen, Yutong Li and Wanwan Yang

The command paradox: Unraveling the impact of command-and-control water conservation policies on water-use technical efficiency

Jing Xin, Hui Zhou, Hongqiang Yang and Jichuan Sheng

Action against invasive species: Knowledge, effect and behavioural drivers of fall armyworm management

Martin Paul Tabe-Ojong and Yong Sebastian Nyam

Citizen engagement in the energy transition: Assessing the impact of regional energy initiatives on energy behaviors in German households

Alessandro De Palma, Marco Faillo and Roberto Gabriele

Celso Furtado: An ecological economist?

Alexandre Macchione Saes