Ecological Economics

1989 - 2027

Current editor(s): C. J. Cleveland

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Volume 251, issue C, 2027

Exogenous social norms shift fisheries compliance under inadequate enforcement: Insights from a novel experiment

Stuart T. Jones, Joshua Cinner, Vera te Velde, Chris Wilcox and Brock Bergseth

Cost-effectiveness of centralized versus decentralized decision-making in agri-environment schemes for biodiversity conservation: Insights from an ecological-economic model

Caterina De Petris, Martin Drechsler and Frank Wätzold

Private wealth ownership and emissions

Marla Feldwisch, Miriam Rehm and Bruno Brinkmeier

The role of sufficiency in aligning European sovereignty and sustainability in the lithium value chain

Pauline Bucciarelli and D’Herbemont, Vincent

Sustainable and inclusive wellbeing governance: Reinventing democracy after the crisis

Robert Costanza, Roberto De Vogli, Sandrine Dixson-Decléve, Lorenzo Fioramonti, Enrico Giovannini, Ida Kubiszewski, Hunter Lovins, Jacqueline McGlade, Lars Fogh Mortensen, Kate E. Pickett, Kristín Vala Ragnarsdóttir, Stewart Wallis and Richard Wilkinson

Indiscriminate barriers: The trade effects of due diligence policies in global timber markets

Valentin Mathieu and Clément Nedoncelle

The macroeconomic and biophysical impacts of decarbonization and circular economy strategies. A scenario analysis for Austria

Ina Meyer, Sommer Mark, Baumgart André, Eisenmenger Nina, Virag Doris, Kratena Kurt and Haas Willi

Residential relocation decisions under sea level rise and incentives from insurance: A discrete choice experiment study of France

Moongyeom Kim, Sem Duijndam, Jeroen C.J.H. Aerts, Jens de Bruijn, Veronica Lupi and W.J. Wouter Botzen

Willingness-to-pay for bacteriophage-treated rainbow trout: A comparative study of Denmark and Germany

Miho Maezono, Julia Bronnmann, Rasmus Nielsen and Max Nielsen

The case for a green financial transaction tax

Gunther Capelle-Blancard

Does insurance protection mitigate the inequality effects of natural disasters? A panel threshold analysis

Warunya Chaitarin, Vijit Praphong and Chatchai Khiewngamdee

Climate hazards meet housing affordability: Linking environmental risks to real estate markets across the globe

Carlos Giraldo, Iader Giraldo, Jose Gomez-Gonzalez and Jorge M. Uribe

Environmental values, climate awareness and willingness to pay for green savings: The direct and moderating effect of perceived greenwashing

Maxime Merli and Tristan Roger

How risk preferences and perceived yield distributions affect farmer adaptation to climate change

Natalie R. Loduca and Scott M. Swinton

On the macroeconomic dynamics of the circular economy: A stock-flow consistent model

Marcelo Villena and Claudia Pabón-Pereira

Cognitive-cultural biodiversity amidst environmental uncertainties: A coevolutionary proposal

Richard B. Norgaard and Jalel Sager

An adaptive, resilient, regenerative life-based economy? Using structure-mapping theory to enhance the conceptual clarity of bio-inspired economic models

Christos Makriyannis

The green credentials of benefit corporations and sociétés à mission: Property rights and the prevention of greenwashing

Alejandro Agafonow, Marybel Perez and Ana Cristina O. Siqueira

Operationalizing ocean equity in a multi-use marine protected area: Management practice and stakeholder perspectives from the Marine Nature Park of Iroise, France

Pierre Scemama, Diana Burbano, Marie Guingot, Océane Darmandieu and Frédérique Alban

The ecological externalities of climate governance: Evidence that solar land use harms bird biodiversity

Xi Ji, Jie Lin, Pengfei Liu and Xiaoxue Zong

Green debt for nature-based solutions: aligning municipal budgeting and banking practices

Axelle Vincent, Tara Op de Beeck, Heleen Van Hecke, Tine Compernolle, Jan Cools and Tom Coppens

Enhancing flood impact assessment accuracy: A comparison of IRIO-Flood predictions using HAZUS- and insurance claims-based business interruption estimates

Jlenia Di Noia, Alessandro Caiani, Luigi Cesarini, Marcello Arosio and Mario Martina

Farmers' preferences for the design of an agglomeration bonus in the context of peatland restoration

Nils L. Langanke, Michael H. Grunenberg and Uwe Latacz-Lohmann

Ecosystem restoration and rural incomes: Evidence from China's Shan-Shui Initiative

Hanxiao Xu, Tongze Liu, Zhiyang Shen, Fawaz Baddar ALHussan and Michael Vardanyan

Environmental conditions and the conversion of economic and relational resources into subjective well-being in China

Mengdie Ruan

Can women's participation in decision making promote sustainable fisheries management? Evidence from a choice experiment with fishermen and their wives

Krishanthan Gnanapragasam, Shyama Ratnasiri and Christopher Fleming

How will we use our time in a future of sustainable wellbeing?

Seán Fearon, Ben Gallant, Angela Druckman, Simon Mair and Lirong Liu

From climate vulnerability to elite capture: the hidden pathways linking inequality to climate adaptation readiness

Cong Minh Huynh and Nam Hoai Tran

Distributional properties of cost allocation rules in multi-family energy retrofits: Evidence from 4 million apartments

Jakub Sokołowski and Stefan Bouzarovski

Decoupling economic growth from environmental degradation: a global analysis of land, water, and emissions

Maksym Chepeliev, Ebad Ebadi, Richard Damania, Farzad Taheripour, Esha Dilip Zaveri and Jason Daniel Russ

Material footprint accounting: addressing its scientific limitations

Mathis Wackernagel

Individual adaptation to extreme heat and the interpretation of risk perceptions: Evidence from counterfactual beliefs

Masahide Watanabe

Beyond generation: Clean energy accommodation and health-related defensive expenditure among Chinese households

Jing-Yue Liu, Xiang-Jie Liu and Yue-Jun Zhang

Work “as if people mattered”: Reassessing the contribution of E. F. Schumacher

Franck Bailly and Benjamin Dubrion

Between toolkit and theory: A critical review of social metabolism

Manuel González de Molina, Juan Infante-Amate and Víctor M. Toledo

Participation builds trust, not framing: insights from a national energy-transition experiment

Kevin Goes, Louison Thépaut, Niek Mouter, Emile Chappin and Sjoerd Kluiving

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