Ecological Economics

1989 - 2026

Current editor(s): C. J. Cleveland

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Volume 247, issue C, 2026

Adverse selection and severe design constraints in PES: A choice experiment in a deforestation hotspot of the Brazilian Cerrado

Pedro Gasparinetti, Sven Wunder, Leonardo Bakker and Fernanda D. Gomes

Incentive and framing effects on collaboration norms: Experimental evidence from participatory rangeland management in Kenya

Colter Hoffman, Travis J. Lybbert, Jackson Idi Mdoe and Muthoni Nganga

Private and public appeals in promoting impure public goods: Evidence from a field experiment with farmers

Tongzhe Li and Siyu Wang

Natural resource accounting for urban ecosystem: A case study in Central China based on the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting

Hao Zhang, Yanwen Wang, Rui Qi, Chao He, Mingmei Yang, Yuanyuan Cai and Guohui Chai

Guiding private afforestation to raise public goods provision: Understanding farmers' multi-dimensional preferences for trees in India

Danny Tobin, Alexander Pfaff, Jeffrey R. Vincent, Anubhav Vanamamalai and Krithi K. Karanth

Eliciting 10% of semi-natural habitats on farmland for biodiversity: Recommendations for cost-effective policy

Živa Alif, Sophie Thoyer, Raphaële Preget and Tanja Šumrada

Lost highway: Segmented and precarious employment of migrants in the green transition

Fabio Landini, Davide Lunardon, Riccardo Rinaldi and Luigi Tredicine

When green turns costly: The fiscal fallout of EU waste management funds in Italian municipalities

Anna Laura Baraldi, Claudia Cantabene, Alessandro De Iudicibus, Giovanni Fosco and Iacopo Grassi

Who gets credit for reduced deforestation? Evaluating additionality in subnational jurisdictional REDD+ under national policy reforms in Indonesia

Colas Chervier, Sandy Nofyanza, Thales A.P. West and Erin O. Sills

“Having enough” is not enough: The value of “wanting more” in subjective sufficiency measures

Damaris Castro and Brent Bleys

Firm heterogeneity and regional economic recovery from environmental shocks

Joos Akkerman, Servaas Storm and Tatiana Filatova

Water security and human development: The role of size, footprint and governance

Thomas Bolognesi, Giulia Marti and Gregory Giuliani

Europe’s industrial footprint: Unveiling environmental impacts

Marta Alvaro-Taus and John Curtis

Socioeconomic factors influencing companies' siting in pollution havens from an environmental justice perspective in the context of South Korea

Chang Hwan Lee, Jae Hyeok Shim and Yong Un Ban

A typology of European farmers' viewpoints on soil management and an investigation of their context-dependency

Heidi Leonhardt, Michael Braito, Nicole Bütikofer, Morten Graversgaard, Marion Hacek, Jenny Höckert, Ernesto Lunar-Koch, Christina Lundström, Mariella Schreiber and Mette Tiselius

Will circular economy actions deliver what is promised? A comparative analysis using static and dynamic environmentally extended input-output simulation models

Mari Heikkinen, Hannu Savolainen, Hannu Huuki and Santtu Karhinen

An international plan for sustainable development

Adrien Fabre, Rabah Arezki, Dipak Dasgupta, Bin Hu, Partha Sen and Frederick van der Ploeg

Impacts of international and interprovincial trade on red list species of vertebrate in China

Changbo Wang, Wendie Wang, Xilong Yan, Mingyue Pang, Lixiao Zhang, Ze Wang, Jinliang Liu, Jing Han and Meili Feng

Economic inequality is linked to citizens viewing individuals as more responsible for climate change mitigation than governments

Christoph Klebl, Jolanda Jetten and Kelly Kirkland

Artificial intelligence and the regulation of the social metabolism. On the interaction between AI and the biosphere

Simon Schaupp

Are fishing decisions flexible? Participation, species target, and landing location choices in the U.S. west coast coastal pelagic species fishery

Felipe J. Quezada-Escalona, Desiree Tommasi, Isaac C. Kaplan, Barbara Muhling and Stephen M. Stohs

Nature-based solutions or green taxes? Riparian buffers prevent eutrophication more effectively than taxes on fertilizers

Guillermo Sena, Francisco Alpízar, Magdalena Borges, Miguel Carriquiry and Milena Holmgren

Bioeconomic optimization of surveillance for detecting and eradicating quarantine forest pests and pathogens

Benno Andreas Augustinus, Rebecca Suzanne Epanchin-Niell, Valentin Queloz and Eckehard Gustav Brockerhoff

A sustainable basket of vegetable oils for the European Union: Conservation trade-offs among consumption alternatives in the context of the EU deforestation regulation

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

Volume 246, issue C, 2026

Sustainable development and the mining industry: The Mexican case

S. Bacouel-Jentjens, G. Levieuge, J. Riascos and C. Turcu

Labor market risk shapes individuals’ environmental attitudes and policy preferences

Valentina González-Rostani, Liam F. Beiser-McGrath and Michaël Aklin

Tourism degrowth perspectives, drivers and policies. A systematic review

Francisco M. Osorio-Molina, Rocío Muñoz-Benito and David Pérez-Neira

Environmental and economic effects of pay-as-you-throw waste taxation: An assessment based on difference-in-differences models

Marco Compagnoni and Jane Torbert

Stringency of family firms and owner-managers in the transition to low-carbon emissions

Morten Bennedsen, John Doukas and Halit Gonenc

Transportation infrastructure and biodiversity: Evaluating the ecological cost of transport networks

Junjie Zhu

Macro-financial risks, income distribution and socio-ecological transition in climate-energy models

Mattia Leoni

Quantifying the doughnut economy: A conceptual framework using multi-regional input-output modeling

Caroline Gebara, Kajwan Rasul, Alexis Laurent and Edgar Hertwich

Path to reducing pesticide input: Is agricultural production outsourcing effective?

Xingyi Zuo, Houjian Li, Cheng Wang, Andi Cao and Haoyu Wen

Does sustainable fishing eco-label increase ex-vessel fish prices? Evidence from a French tuna fishery

François-Charles Wolff and Yohan Renard

Assessing the climate impact of retail payment services

Fumi Harahap, Anissa Nurdiawati, Niklas Arvidsson and Frauke Urban

Organisational attitudes and preferences towards forest carbon offsets in Spain's Carbon Footprint Registry

Brenda Morales and Paola Ovando

The public's puzzling reluctance to detect and mitigate exposure to perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)

Diya Ganguly, Samuel Lockhart Priestley, Kent D. Messer and Marco Palma

Default portion-size nudge and meat consumption: Effects on compensation behavior, guest satisfaction, and plate waste

Isabel Schäufele-Elbers, Guenter Schamel and Lukas Brunner

Efficient and sustainable management of shared fisheries in Thailand: Self-governance or regulation?

Rawadee Jarungrattanapong and Therese Lindahl

The carbon cost of rising incomes: Evidence from a middle-income country

Enrique Gilles, Darwin Cortés and Fabio Monsalve

Volume 245, issue C, 2026

GDP alternatives revisited: A systematic review and thematic analysis of barriers to the adoption of alternative measures of economic progress

Tania Smith Taylor and Sabine O'Hara

Beyond the chain: Lead firm strategies and sustainability governance in the global coffee sector

Jeff Neilson and Estelle Biénabe

Corrigendum to ‘Integrating post-growth economics into transformative adaptation: Property relations, capital, and democratic planning’ [Ecological Economics (2026) Volume 242 108895]

Oussama Chaabouni and Richard Bärnthaler

Managing shade trees, balancing trade-offs: Effects of shade-tree density on economic performance of Brazilian cocoa agroforests

Steffi Dekegel, Diego Laviolette, Kristel De Vleeschouwer, Leonardo Oliveira, Jorge Chiapetti, Alessandro Santos Da Conceição and Goedele Van den Broeck

Assessing the unequal distribution between social benefits and costs across countries along global supply chains

Danyang Zhang, Hui Wang, Christina Prell, Jin Yan, Yanxian Li, Peng Zhou, Yuli Shan and Klaus Hubacek

Recycling matters – The role of secondary production in metal markets

Michael Straub-Mück, Amelie Schischke and Andreas W. Rathgeber

Multilevel drivers of smallholder farmers' coping strategies to climate variability: Insights from Assam, India

Jigyasa Sandilya and Kishor Goswami

What influences the effectiveness of forest conservation interventions in tropical regions? A systematic review

Cauê D. Carrilho, Colas Chervier and Erin O. Sills

The exchange value of ecosystem services from multi-site recreation

Emma Donnelly and Richard T. Melstrom

Fair effort-sharing for climate change mitigation: A normative approach

Emma Jagu Schippers and David Lowing

Assessing the impact of climate policy uncertainty on lobbying: An empirical analysis of European countries

Grazia Errichiello, Cristian Barra, Patrizio Giganti and Pasquale Marcello Falcone