Ecological Economics

1989 - 2026

Current editor(s): C. J. Cleveland

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Volume 243, issue C, 2026

The value of cooperation for biodiversity conservation policies

Matteo Zavalloni and François Bareille

Environmental footprints of German food consumption by gender and socio-economic status

Simon Grabow, Elisabeth Laa, Jasmine MacLean, Christian Reynolds and Martin Bruckner

From spatial segregation to environmental inequalities: Mathematical and empirical evidence

M. Tivadar and Y. Schaeffer

Impact of sustainable land management on household resilience gaps: Evidence from China's marginalized farmers

Fangyi Wang and Lihua Zhou

Income and health outcomes in Sub-Saharan African countries: The role of environmental quality

Marius Ikpe, Stella Ifeoma Madueme, Joseph C. Odionye and Richard O. Ojike

Fiscal implications of public climate change adaptation: An analysis of three European countries

Eva Preinfalk, Nina Knittel, Birgit Bednar-Friedl, Gabriel Bachner, Elisa Sainz de Murieta and Max Tesselaar

Participatory democracy in question: The case of “the sea in debate”

François-Charles Wolff, Pierre-Alexandre Mahieu, Brice Trouillet, Alexia Pigeault and Nicolas Rollo

From fee to tax: Examining the ecological and economic impacts of water tax reform in China

Zhichao Li and Yu Hao

The role of climate and loan financing information on solar irrigation adoption among cocoa farmers in Ghana

Lotte C.F.E. Muller, Andrew R. Bell, Marie-Charlotte Buisson, Carlos Calvo-Hernandez, Kekeli Gbodji, Salomon Obahoundje, Giulia Zane and Marije Schaafsma

Testing the ecological hysteresis hypothesis in the world's top polluting countries: A regime-switching time series analysis (1961–2022)

Gökhan Erkal, Ömer Yalçinkaya, Ali Kemal Çelik and Serhat Çamkaya

Increased emission leakage induced by Chinese households' consumption: New insights from an extended input output subsystem analysis

William Connell, Viet-Ngu Hoang, Shahzad Alvi and Shunsuke Managi

What is required for a post-growth model?

Reo Van Eynde, Kevin J. Dillman, Jefim Vogel and Daniel W. O'Neill

Regulation theory and socioeconomic metabolism to characterize economy-wide degrowth patterns: The case of Special Period Cuba

Albert Bouffange

Work-life (im)balance: an assessment of housing and commuting energy use inequalities in Switzerland

Vivien Fisch-Romito and Julia Steinberger

Ambitious forest biodiversity conservation under scarce public funds: Introducing a deferrence mechanism to conservation auctions

Johanna Kangas, Janne S. Kotiaho and Markku Ollikainen

Beyond the environment: Sustainable consumption amid poverty and inequality. Insight from a developing economy

Duy Dang

Is growth at risk from natural disasters? Evidence from quantile local projections

Nabil Daher

Operationalizing nature recovery to market outcomes

Fabio Favoretto, Matthew J. Forrest and Octavio Aburto Oropeza

Attitudes to restoring an extinct keystone species

Victoria Eriksson, Kristina Ek, Torill Kornfeldt and Jesper Stage

The ecological and economic impacts of national park pilot projects in China

Xiaobin Zhang, Heng Luo, Xianfan Shu and Linlin Zhang

Willingness to pay, values, and attitudes: Exploring preferences for river restoration measures in Finland

Tuija Lankia, Eija Pouta and Janne Artell

Resilience and malleability: New directions for socio-metabolic research in times of multiple crises

Helmut Haberl, Stefan Giljum, Fridolin Krausmann, Anke Schaffartzik, Cornelia Staritz, Stefan Thurner, Martin Bruckner, Jan Streeck, Dominik Wiedenhofer and Shonali Pachauri

Are we overestimating the benefits of agricultural intensification by overlooking nature-based alternatives?

Jérôme Faure, Helena Hansson, Anne Sophie Dietrich and Esther Devilliers

Volume 242, issue C, 2026

Do risk, time, and social preferences predict sustainable behavior? Evidence from a qualitative synthesis and meta-analysis

Kristopher L. Nichols, Johanna M. Matt-Navarro, Maxim K. Doiron, Giovanna d'Adda, Elke U. Weber and Sara M. Constantino

Ethical trade-offs in fast fashion: Exploring social, environmental, and health dimensions in clothing consumption

Anders Boman, Mitesh Kataria, Elina Lampi and Daniel Slunge

From grand challenges to bold solutions: Investor perspectives on financing urban climate change adaptation

Stella Whittaker, Craig Johnson, Nicola Ranger and Esben Rahbek Gjerdrum Pedersen

Occupational mobility and climate adaptation: Evidence from France

Paul Stainier

Policy design for resilience? An assessment of the bioeconomy policy mix addressing the maize bio-based production system in Italy

Giorgio Varanini and Peter H. Feindt

Informational nudges or incentives? A field experiment on vegetarian choices

Alice Pizzo, Jan M. Bauer and Lucia A. Reisch

Environmental inequalities in Italy: The role of industrial agglomerations and regional pollution dispersion capacity

Alessandra Drigo

Do payments for environmental services impact forest cover? An evaluation of the reflorestar program

Isabela P. Bucher and Renato N. L. Seixas

Post-growth meets polycentric governance: Toward an interdisciplinary research program

David Soto-Oñate, Daniel Petrovics and Thomas Bauwens

Local development based on non-timber forest products: Revisiting the case of São Francisco do Iratapuru in the Brazilian Amazon

Tomas Rosenfeld, Benno Pokorny, Jacques Marcovitch and Peter Poschen

Integrating post-growth economics into transformative adaptation: Property relations, capital, and democratic planning

Oussama Chaabouni and Richard Bärnthaler

Socio-ecological inequalities in housing consumption: How income, urban form, and tenure drive carbon footprints

Federico Savini, Mira Kopp, Cody Hochstenbach, Leshem Cohen, Peter Berrill and Stefano Merciai

Toxic neighbors: E-waste dumps and the decline of social capital

Jialiang Zhu, Michael Akwasi Appiah-Kubi and Runzhe Hu

Using a dedicated adaptation financing process to close subnational adaptation finance gaps in Europe

Kit England, Paul Watkiss, Alistair Hunt, Konstantinos Dellis, Sam Barrett, Richard Taylor and Stella Whittaker

Ecological damage compensation in oil spills: A comparative analysis of monetary valuation and ecological restoration based on the 2021 A Symphony incident

Juan Liu, Jingmei Li, Jingzhu Shan and Shuqin Li

The impact of green credit guidelines on green lending and environmental outcomes: Evidence from Chinese banks

Jiaqi Li, Ja Ryong Kim and Emmanuel Adegbite

Measuring equity in environmental care: Methodology and an application to traffic-related air pollution

Antonio Abatemarco, Dell’Anno, Roberto and Elena Lagomarsino

Alienable or inalienable, and how? Individual property rights in commons governance

Xiangyu Jia, Yiran Wei, Zhiqi Zhang, Gongbu Zeren, Irene Pérez-Ibarra, Sergio Villamayor-Tomas and Wenjun Li

Green Kaldorian growth: A framework for linking manufacturing, innovation, and sustainability

Abdullah Emre Caglar, Mehmet Ulug and Shujaat Abbas

Equity in carbon pricing: Impacts on household carbon burdens across different demographics

Cheng-Hsiang Shei, John Chung-En Liu and I-Yun Lisa Hsieh

Corporate biodiversity risk exposure in China: A system-based perspective from natural capital theory using machine and deep learning algorithms

Peigong Li and Umeair Shahzad

Leveraging international trade for the ecological transition: Quantifying the drivers of planetary boundaries

Gabriel Santos Carneiro, Guilherme Riccioppo Magacho and Etienne Espagne

Debunking competition - Global ecologically unequal exchange explained by exploitation and control relations

Raffaele Guarino, Giulio Corsi and Enrique Muñoz-Ulecia

Impacts of conservation easements on perceived land tenure security

Heng Luo, Anthony Higney, Yanmei Ye, Jinghui Zhao and Nick Hanley

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 Quaas

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

Rebecca 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