Ecological Economics

1989 - 2026

Current editor(s): C. J. Cleveland

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Volume 250, issue C, 2026

Human climate niche, habitability range, and economic growth

Jean-François Gajewski, Paul-Oliver Klein and Fatima Ezzahrae Tahri

Farmers’ preferences and attitudes in conversion to organic farming: A lab-in-the-field experiment

Tuan Nguyen-Anh, Phu Nguyen-Van and Nguyen To-The

Willingness to pay for birdsong

Anthony Higney, Charlotte Gerling, Claire Buchan, Simon Butler, Liam Crowther, Melissa Marselle, Eleanor Ratcliffe, Konrad Uebel and Nick Hanley

From utopian impulse to urban engagement: The role of doughnut economics in shaping residents' participation in smart cities

Frédéric Basso, Norbert Lebrument and Corinne Rochette

How justice shapes local support for grassland conservation program: A mixed-methods research

Ruxin Zhang and Zhuohui Ye

From domestic collapse to global dispersion: Post-Fukushima carbon redistribution

Tong Su

Limited and unintended effects of climate, health, and animal welfare labels

Amelie Griesoph, Thomas Schreiner, Christine Merk, Stefan Hoffmann, Katrin Rehdanz and Ulrich Schmidt

Beyond resilience: Domestic and cross-border economic impacts and co-benefits of regional climate change adaptation

Dimitrios Stamopoulos, Petros Dimas, Ioannis Sebos and Dionysis Assimacopoulos

The costs of social and environmental degradation in affluent economies

Giulia Slater and Francesco Sarracino

Scenario discovery for a just low-carbon transition

Nicola Campigotto, Marco Catola, André Cieplinski, D’Alessandro, Simone, Tiziano Distefano, Pietro Guarnieri and Till Heydenreich

Wealth taxes for an eco-social transition: How different tax designs align with post-growth goals

Thomas Webb, Arthur Apostel, Milena Büchs and Richard Bärnthaler

Water justice: Empirical analysis of U.S. patterns and regional heterogeneity

Zoey Reed-Spitzer and Bonnie G. Colby

Modeling for post-growth: Backcasting radical futures

Thibaut Feix and Nadia Maïzi

Eating nature: Revealing the ecological cost of food trade through a global biodiversity-risk footprint

Stella Lauro, Silvana Dalmazzone, Giorgio Vacchiano and Marco M. Bagliani

The UK’s middle-income dietary trap: High emissions, low nutrition

Yunhuan Gao, Pablo Piñero, Eduardo Aguilera, Martin Bruckner, Alberto Sanz Cobeña, He He and Christian Reynolds

The false certainties of climate policy: Rethinking risk and cooperation in an uncertain future

John-Oliver Engler, Florian Ulrich Jehn, Astrid Kause, Henrik von Wehrden, Jana Zscheischler and Johann Majer

Energy, surplus and the economic process

Giorgos Kallis, Claudio Cattaneo, Angelos Varvarousis, Marula Tsagkari, Marta Conde, Giacomo D'Alisa, Ksenija Hanaček, Borja Nogué-Algueró, Filka Sekulova and Aljoša Slameršak

Pro-social versus pro-self motivations for green roof adoption: Evidence from a discrete choice experiment

Georges Farina, Peter J. Robinson, W.J. Wouter Botzen and Pieter Van Beukering

Land-use optimization to support cost-effective landscape transformation policies for wildfire mitigation

Rui Serôdio Simões, Paulo Flores Ribeiro, Marta Mesquita, Isabel Martins, João Morais Mourato and José Lima Santos

Hydropower dams, deforestation, and land use change: Evidence from Brazil

Chiara Falco and Valentina Raimondi

Commoning mobilizations and institutional outcomes in Indian forests from colonial to postcolonial periods

Fiona Gladstone and Arun Agrawal

Does the framing of environmental ethics matter for the effectiveness of environmental education? Evidence from field experiments in elementary schools

Akinori Kitsuki, Yoichiro Miki, Chiyoko Nagatani, Kazuhiro Nomoto, Toshio Sadakuni, Shigeharu Terui, Satoru Uchida, Asuka Yamamoto and Yuichiro Fujioka

Exploring the range of approaches for recruitment, facilitation, and qualitative methods in deliberative valuation: Evidence from 66 case studies

Chloe A. Jackson, Ryan S.D. Calder, Amir M. Gazar, Richard B. Howarth and Georgia Mavrommati

Socio-metabolic class conflicts in the Anthropocene

Ilona M. Otto and Toni Schuster

Climate change skepticism and farmers' responses to CO2e taxation

Kahsay Haile Zemo and Mette Termansen

Tax-financed green policies and income inequality in an agent-based model

Lucca Gustafson Rodrigues, Gilberto Lima and Pedro Romero Marques

Valuing improvements in native fish populations from river restoration projects: Evidence from a choice experiment in the Murray-Darling Basin in Australia

John Rolfe, Megan Star, Nicole Flint, Rodrigo Zilleruelo, Jeremy De Valck, Darshana Rajapaksa, Azad Rahman, Matthew Gordos and Boyd Blackwell

Food system actors perspectives on Swedish agricultural preparedness -a Q-methodology study

Hanna Eneroth, Helena Hansson, Amanda Wood, Iman Raj Chongtham, Georg Carlsson and Elin Röös

Weighing growth uncertainty and regime shift risk in a resource extraction game

Bruno Nkuiya

From scarcity to strategy: Designing hay markets to mitigate feed shortages and income shocks

Julia Kunkel, Jonathan Haag, Robert Finger, Sergei Schaub, Jürgen Groeneveld, Christian Klassert and Birgit Müller

How managed lake-level fluctuations affect waterfront property values: Evidence from a regulated lake system

Ganesh Thapa

Technology as the material ‘how’ of socio-ecological (re)production: Reflections on Wassily Leontief's ‘technological structure of the economy’

Miriam Boyer, Carlos López-Morales and Mathis Favre

Welfare implications of no net loss policies with heterogeneous cultural ecosystem services

Cathrine Hagem

The appearance of democracy: How conditional payments reshape behavior among local leaders

Ivo Steimanis, Esther Blanco and Björn Vollan

Corrigendum to ‘The distributional impact of climate policy stringency in the European Union, Ecological Economics 249 (2026) [109118]’

Syeda Aimen Abbas and Thomas Kopp

Decoupling transition patterns in the global economy: A multi-regional structural decomposition analysis

Waka Nishifuji and Shigemi Kagawa

Between resistance and readiness: Segment-specific reactions to consumption reduction

Charlotte Baar, Saskia Flachs, Petra Riefler and Oliver B. Büttner

Toward low-carbon diets: Exploring the role of climate perceptions and household mitigation practices in reducing meat consumption

Lan Tran and Ye Su

Biodiversity benefits of the climate adaptation policy: Evidence from millions birdwatching records in China

Hantian Sheng, Canfei He and Wenbo Hu

Volume 249, issue C, 2026

The impact of climate on Indian households' living costs

Yuhang Qu, David J. Maddison, Robert J.R. Elliott and Eric Strobl

Why would you move to a polluted area? Green compromise in Coastal Sydney and Illawarra

Marta Conde and Isabelle Anguelovski

Spatial-temporal impacts of climate change on coral reef recreation values in the main Hawaiian Islands

Ashley Lowe Mackenzie, Anders Dugstad, Carlo Fezzi, Lansing Perng and Kirsten L.L. Oleson

Humanity does not play DICE: A sensitivity analysis of technical progress

Antoine Ronsain, Alexandre Gondran and Estelle Malavolti

Is the garden green? The paradox of consumer motivations for gardening and substrate preferences

Holger Braun, Terese Venus, Benedikt Rilling and Carsten Herbes

Corrigendum to ‘Organisational attitudes and preferences towards forest carbon offsets in Spain's Carbon Footprint Registry’ [Ecological Economics 246 (2026) 109015]

Brenda Morales and Paola Ovando

Corrigendum to “A sustainable basket of vegetable oils for the European Union: Conservation trade-offs among consumption alternatives in the context of the EU deforestation regulation” [Ecological Economics (247) 2026, 109056]

Giovanni Bausano, Mauro Masiero, Paul Rougieux, Candan Eylül Kilsedar, Davide Pettenella, Selene Patani, Sarah Mubareka and Mirco Migliavacca

Limits to growth revisited: System dynamics simulations of global economic developments and distributional implications in the 21st century

Arthur Lauer and Luis Llases

Post-growth and the North-South divide: A stock-flow consistent scenario analysis

Dario Leoni, Andrew Jackson and Tim Jackson

The inequality-emission dilemma: Predistribution vs. redistribution

Tobias Angel, Alexandre Berthe, Valeria Costantini and D’Angeli, Mariagrazia

Ecological macroeconomics meets community-led modelling: localising ecological macroeconomics through participatory system dynamics

Katrina Szetey, Enayat A. Moallemi and Brett A. Bryan

Effective establishment of circularity is key to achieving net zero

Karl W. Steininger, Raphaela Maier, Laura Wallenko, Roland Mestel, Johanna Vogel, Nicolas Alaux, Michael Kueschnig, Stefan Nabernegg, Alexander Passer, Matthias Salomon, Wolfgang Streicher and Alice Tosatto

From beliefs to outcomes: How human conceptions of nature shape environmental trajectories

Laura Recuero Virto, Chloe Pryce, Frederic Ducarme and Denis Couvet

Income inequality and the trade-off between socio-economic and ecological goals

Svenja Flechtner and Martin Middelanis

Municipal solid waste generation in Norway: A panel analysis investigating the waste Kuznets curve

Kim Rainer Mattson, Julia Sborz, Elisa Henning and Juudit Ottelin

Democratically planned degrowth: Modeling for rapid climate crisis mitigation

Cosku Mihci and Stephanie Attar

A holistic assessment of farmers' intention to adopt agroecological practices – The case of Swiss grassland

Andreia Arbenz, Gabriele Mack, Jeanine Ammann and Niklas Möhring

What drives the spatiotemporal evolution of land use conflicts? Evidence of threshold effects from 19 Chinese urban agglomerations

Zhihao Tao, Qiuxuan Xu, Hualin Chen and Youzhi An

Anticipating rebound effects in the steel industry: Pathways, mechanisms, and mitigation for effective decarbonisation

Ram Venkataraman Guru, Benjamin H. Lowe, Meletios Bimpizas-Pinis, Tim Else, Pierluigi Zerbino, Davide Aloini, Ana Teresa Lima, Husam Sameer and Andrea Genovese

Unpacking households' environmental footprint: Comparing price and quantity effects in Flemish food consumption

Michiel Pauwels, Kaat Verbist, Maarten Christis, An Vercalsteren, Luc Alaerts and Karel Van Acker

Trade integration, institutions, and environmental quality in Africa: Network-based approach

Tekilu Choramo, Jemal Abafita, Yerali Gandica and Luis E.C. Rocha

Starting points of agroecological transitions in Africa: Why and how farm structure matter

Pierre Girard, Sara Mercandalli, David Berre, Nadine Andrieu, Rachel Bezner Kerr, Richard Coe, Benoît Dedieu, Sidney Madsen, Eric Scopel, Woinishet Asnake, Wolde Mekuria, Catherine Dembele, Aymen Frija, Yohana Haule, Christine Magaju, Dejene Kassahun Mengistu, Boko Michel Orounladji and Sitrakiniaina Raharimalala

The distributional impact of climate policy stringency in the European Union

Syeda Aimen Abbas and Thomas Kopp

Assessing the chronic physical risks of climate change for the financial sector: A case study from Mexico's central Bank

Francisco Estrada, Miguel A. Altamirano del Carmen, Oscar Calderón-Bustamante, Rodrigo Muñoz-Sánchez, Alejandra Salazar, Luis O.L. Escobar-Farfán, Wouter Botzen, Serafín Martínez-Jaramillo and Stefano Battiston

Resilience of pastoralist livelihoods in dry grazing systems under different preferences

Faan Langelaan, Frank van Langevelde and Florian Wagener

Cost-effective payments for forest biodiversity restoration: When to pay for actions vs outcomes

Charlotte Marie Süring and Joseph William Bull

Indonesia's marine load capacity curve: The role of economic growth and financial development in overfishing

Kemal Eyuboglu and Umut Uzar

Who stays, who leaves? Recreational fishing responses to harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie

Yining Wu, Brent L. Sohngen and Stuart A. Ludsin

Ecological and economic impacts of ocean deoxygenation on Pacific halibut fisheries: A multidisciplinary assessment of projected losses

Hongsik Kim, Louise Teh, Ilyass Dahmouni, Lubna Alam, Ibrahim Issifu and U. Rashid Sumaila

Corrigendum to “Environmental insurance and resilience in the age of natural disasters” [Ecological Economics 239 (2026) 108777]

Simone Borghesi, Ilaria Colivicchi, Gianluca Iannucci and Alessandro Tampieri

Who benefits from green fiscal flows? Unpacking the inequality effects of vertical and horizontal ecological fiscal transfers

Cai Jin and Tan Li

Extreme heat, supply chain spillovers, and firm performance

Congcong Liu and Yan Song

Environmental justice for circular supply chains: A research agenda

Brais Suárez-Eiroa, Maddalena Ripa, Andrea Genovese, Meletios Bimpizas-Pinis and Mario Pansera