Ecological Economics

1989 - 2026

Current editor(s): C. J. Cleveland

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Volume 241, issue C, 2026

Greening prosperity stripes across the globe

Alexander Mihailov

Innovations and Dilemmas in Global Forest Governance - The Tortuous Pathway toward a Deforestation-free World: Introduction to the Special Issue

Roldan Muradian and Peter May

Identifying leverage points in the social housing system: Housing associations on the path towards degrowth?

Anna Pagani, Al Walker, Alex Macmillan, Arfenia Nita, Michael Davies and Nici Zimmermann

Unpacking the side effects of social norm nudges

Julien Picard and Sanchayan Banerjee

Reducing food waste by killing wolves? A continuing failure to integrate climate and biodiversity agendas in food policies

Amaranta Herrero and Fern Wickson

Differentiated vs. homogeneous payments for biodiversity conservation — Microeconomic theory and systematic literature review

Sophie Harzer and Martin F. Quaas

Plastic waste imports & coastal litter: Evidence from citizen science data

Rebecca L.C. Taylor, Hebe Williams and Shan Zhang

Tailored information and the public support for carbon pricing in Germany

Antonia Schwarz, Anna Stünzi, Kathrin Kaestner, Michael Pahle and Stephan Sommer

Decommodifying cacao: matchmaking between producers and buyers of fine flavour cacao from Peru

Evert Thomas, Gesabel Villar, Diego Zavaleta, Viviana Ceccarelli, Fredy Yovera, Trent Blare, Marleni Ramirez, Christoph Oberlack and Rachel Atkinson

The double dividend: Fact or fiction? Evidence from the European Union

Vít Ješina and Markéta Arltová

Plant diversity to cope with increased drought risk in grasslands

Nicolas Alou, Sergei Schaub, Matthias Suter, Andreas Lüscher and Robert Finger

The hidden social costs of climate change: Evidence on weather shocks, children’s mobility and rural economic welfare in Uganda

Manuela Coromaldi, D’Amato, Alessio and Loredana Mirra

“Local Heroes”: Construction firms pioneering circular innovation

Elisa Chioatto, Alessandro Montanaro and Massimiliano Mazzanti

Climate change mitigation and green energy investment: A stock-flow consistent model

Gustavo Pereira Serra and Ettore Gallo

How does local policy attention reshape environmental justice?

Qiang Li and Lin Zhang

Heterogeneity of artisanal fishers’ perception of marine protected areas. The case of the Tuscan Archipelago (Mediterranean Sea)

Antonio Di Cintio, Sara Mohamed Santamaria, Miquel Ortega, Federico Niccolini and Fabio Bulleri

Climate extreme events and climate change are enforced by extortionate freeriders overloading those who mitigate – An economic experiment

Manfred Milinski and Stefania Innocenti

When government does too well? Perceived environmental governance performance and citizens' green consumption

Lei Zhang, Sisi Chen, Hangyan Tong and Quande Qin

Low carbon transition's macroeconomic impacts in Latin America

Guilherme Magacho, Marco Brancher and Luca Tausch

Waste delinking: A pathway to degrowth?

Sara Karimzadeh

Behavioural ecological economics - Positioning the field and introducing the special issue

Nives Della Valle, Tiziano Distefano, Leonardo Boncinelli, Ann-Kathrin Blankenberg and Tommaso Luzzati

Rising temperatures and physical pain: Evidence from over 2 million U.S. residents

Cheng Keat Tang, Nattavudh Powdthavee and Lucía Macchia

Normal for whom? Exploring socioeconomic variation in a travel cost analysis of urban shoreline fishing

Camille Antinori, Tobias Börger, Philip King and Matthew Peterson

Who suffers the heat? Partial adaptation and persistent inequalities in France

Camille Salesse

Harmful temperatures and consumption expenditure: Evidence from Nigerian households

Jubril Animashaun, Lotanna E. Emediegwu, Okiemua T. Okoror and Nneka E. Osadolor

Regional aspects of climate change beliefs in the U.S

Radhika Lahiri, Chamupathy Samaratunga and Annastiina Silvennoinen

Determinants of willingness to bear the costs for environmental protection: Insights from cross-country survey data

Toker Doganoglu, Lukasz Grzybowski and Joanna Rachubik

The economic impact of Sargassum: Evidence from the Mexican coast

Maja Schling, Roberto Guerrero Compeán, Nicolás Pazos, Allison Bailey, Katie Arkema and Mary Ruckelshaus

Volume 240, issue C, 2026

Biodiversity finance: What has been achieved and where is it heading

John Willis

The information value of energy labels: Evidence from the Dutch residential housing market

Lennart Stangenberg, Sjors van Wickeren and Lu Zhang

MuSIASEM nexus analysis in post-industrial societies: Import dependence in Andorra

J.J. Larrabeiti-Rodríguez, Oriol Travesset-Baro, Mario Giampietro and Raúl Velasco-Fernández

Spatial scale effects on environmental donations: Evidence from a revised dictator game experiment with real payments

Iarina Corniciuc, Lorenzo Lotti, Silvia Ferrini and Silvia Ceausu

Not on my plate! Challenges to promote meat substitutes

Henrik Andersson and Benjamin Ouvrard

Boosting peer influence for the climate? – Intervening friendship networks with serious games to promote food knowledge and reduce meat consumption

Anja Köbrich Leon and Janosch Schobin

Introduction to the special issue: ‘Biodiversity and finance: Risk, disclosure and double materiality’

Chunying Guo, Matthew Agarwala, Mark Freeman, Ben Groom and Emily McKenzie

Carbon tax earmarking in a conservative state: Choice experiment evidence from Utah

Katelyn Tenney and Therese Cavlovic

Incorporating blue carbon into climate change mitigation policies: Multi-level governance challenges for carbon credits and NDCs

Megha K. Purushotham and Benjamin S. Thompson

Long-term trends in resource consumption in Latin America: Integrating the MEFA and STIRPAT approaches

Javier Lozano-Morra, Iñaki Iriarte-Goñi and Ana Serrano

An optimized shared responsibility accounting framework: unveiling the big black shadows behind small emitters in global value chains

Xiyuan Li, Ran Wang, Yang Zhou, Yunfeng Yan, Jinjun Xue and Zhongxiu Zhao

Bridging climate and social equity: Progressive carbon tax simulations for Belgium

Floore Bursens, Silvia De Poli, Sofia Maier and Gerlinde Verbist

Nudging grid-friendly electric vehicle charging: Different shades of social framing and the power of individual factors

Junianna Zatsarnaja, Katharina Reiter, Alwine Mohnen and Trond Nordfjærn

The effectiveness of unilateral fishing ban in contested waters: Evidence from the South China Sea

Yifei Quan

The impact of policy design on opposition to restrictive climate policies

Oskar Lindgren, Sverker C. Jagers and Daniel Lindvall

Outsourcing decarbonization? How trade shaped France’s carbon footprint (2000–14)

Pierre Cotterlaz and Christophe Gouel

Can natural capital help national-level policy-makers to embed sustainability considerations? Insights from Scotland

Kerry Waylen, Ishaan Patil and Esther Carmen

Food choice with increased visibility – A field experiment at an environmental economics conference

Astrid Dannenberg, Giorgio Dini, Alessandro Tavoni and Eva Weingärtner

Squaring the circle of the circular economy. The need to properly account for scarcity to guide mineral resource management

Cati Torres, Alicia Valero, Antonio Valero and José Manuel Naredo

Water, land, materials, and emissions for providing decent living standards around the world

Johan Andrés Vélez-Henao, Jan Streeck, Jarmo Kikstra and Stefan Pauliuk

Household consumption pattern and CO2 emissions: The age and generational effects

Hui Wang, Menghan Wang, Danyang Zhang and Peng Zhou

Total rents from natural resources: Framework and preliminary estimates for Switzerland

Felix Schläpfer

Cost-neutral food tax reforms for healthier and more sustainable diets

Jörgen Larsson, Edvin Månsson, Elin Röös, Sarah Säll, Emma Patterson, Liselotte Schäfer Elinder, Jonas Nässén and Emma Ejelöv

Reimagining growth futures: Overcoming the false binary between green growth and degrowth

Jacob Hasselbalch and Mathias Larsen

Agent-based insight into eco-choices: Simulating the fast fashion shift

Daria Soboleva and Angel Sánchez

Does ecological zoning spur household welfare and resilience? A quasi-natural experiment in China

Han Li and Hao Xia

Unpacking the green box: Endogenous preferences and environmental policy stringency in European Countries

Donatella Gatti, Gaye-Del Lo and Francisco Serranito

A new index reveals a widening gap between growth and sustainable wellbeing in China

Xi Ji, Xianling Long, Xuanyuan Luo and Robert Costanza

Recent global value chain reconfiguration: drivers and consequences on EU carbon footprint

Ángela García-Alaminos, María-Ángeles Cadarso, Luis A. López and María-Ángeles Tobarra

The social costs of capitalism: Evaluating socio-ecological arguments for post-capitalist calculation

Sebastian Berger

Degrowth and postgrowth: A systematic literature review of growth-critical science

Arho Toikka, Toni Ruuska, Laua Wiman and Pasi Heikkurinen

More-than-capitalist economies: Insights from community supported agriculture, tiny houses and hitchhiking in Denmark

Line Kryger Aagaard

Pluralism and integration? A systematic review of ecological economics methodological foundations

Max-Friedemann Kretschmer, John-Oliver Engler, Henrik von Wehrden, Julius Rathgens and Joe A. Ament

The grey shades of green jobs: Unpacking the occupational approach to green employment

Davide Villani, Enrique Fernández-Macías, Ignacio González-Vázquez and Vesna Oshafi

The hidden carbon costs of aging: How household dependency burden shapes emissions in China

Xueyang Wang, Wenling Liu, Yulin Zhu, Yuedong Xiao and Yiqun Lv

The influence of geomagnetic flux on global crop yields and income

Evan Wigton-Jones

The European Union deforestation regulation: The impact on Argentina

Pablo de la Vega

Can objective information update subjective beliefs on sustainable farming? Evidence from a randomized experiment with Japanese rice farmers

Ryosuke Inoue and Kentaro Kawasaki

Unequal exchange of labour and global justice: Principles for a fair international distribution of work

Lukas Godé, Arild Vatn and Erik Gómez-Baggethun

Knowledge exchange and catch variability in small-scale fisheries: Insights from the Solomon Islands

Shoichi Kiyama, Kofi Otumawu-Apreku, Satoshi Yamazaki and Keisaku Higashida

Fixed capital and growth imperatives: Is commercial aviation trapped in a treadmill?

Henri Chevalier and Eric Pineault

Resource regimes and the success of local renewable energy projects

François-Xavier Viallon, Francesco Sarti, Pierre-Henri Bombenger, Frédéric Varone, Josef Philipp Trein, Marie-Joëlle Kodjovi, Jérôme Dubois, Yann Fournis and Pierre-Olivier Pineau

Has “Ecological Economics” betrayed its roots? Revealing its state, internal tensions and evolution through a multi-level and multi-scale bibliometric assessment

G. Corsi, R. Guarino, E. Muñoz-Ulecia, U. Grande, E. Buonocore, A. Sapio and P.P. Franzese