Ecological Economics

1989 - 2026

Current editor(s): C. J. Cleveland

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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

Volume 244, issue C, 2026

Radical ecological economics: A paradigm from the global south

David Barkin, Erika Carcaño, Claudia Camacho and Alejandra Sánchez

Fishery management for food and nutrition security in Peru under a changing climate

Biao Huang, Ricardo Oliveros-Ramos, Marie-Catherine Riekhof and Renato Salvatteci

The can challenge: Understanding the best ways to incentivise recycling through a diffusion approach

Michael Brock, Lucia M. Murgia, Stefania Sitzia and Jiwei Zheng

How do citizens envision democratic participation for sustainable futures? A reflection on co-created innovations

Inês Campos, Doris Fuchs, Petteri Repo, Vanessa Buth, Kiat Ng, João Limão, Erica Löfström, David Lamas and Christian Klöckner

Green jobs and green economic development in Kigali's construction value chain: Evidence from a firm survey

Babette Never, Alexander Stoecker, Aime Tsinda, Eric Mujanama and Roger Mugisha

Bridging beyond GDP and degrowth: Identifying measurements that are fit for future

Felix van Hoften, Nicky Pouw and Crelis Rammelt

Embodied universalism: An Aristotelian perspective for evaluating the good life

Cécile Ezvan and Fiona Ottaviani

Extraction and dematerialization in Latin America, 1970–2023

Fander Falconí, Rafael Burbano, Pedro Cango and Ruthy Intriago

The Afnan Equilibrium: A Coupled Welfare Model for Balancing Technology, Resilience, and Externalities

Shaikh Afnan Birahim

Frontier technology adoption and inclusive green growth in the EU: A double-edged sword?

Isaac K. Ofori, Louise Veling and John Cullen

Who is transitioning to green? Introducing a text-based indicator to measure green skill transferability

Benedikt Seisl

Unintended carbon cost of automation technology in transforming economies: The role of capital dependence and structure change

Shangze Dai and Xinde James Ji

Can foreign aid mitigate the effects of climate variability in agriculture? Evidence from the low-and middle-income countries

Rajabrata Banerjee, Vandana Arya and Saikat Sinha Roy

Between drought and flood: How perceptions of climate extremes shape public attitudes toward climate action in Africa

Joyeuse Iragena, Alejandro Lopez-Feldman and Zélie Gankon

Global public opinion on tradeoffs between environmental protection and economic growth

Jukka Kilgus and Trisha R. Shrum

When scarcity intensifies conflict: On the role of asymmetry in common-pool resource games

Stephan Geschwind, Johann Graf Lambsdorff and Katharina Werner

Designing a reserve system with heterogeneous sites: Extending the SLOSS debate from an economic perspective

Zijin Xie and Ayumi Onuma

Interpreting the willingness and ability of rural producers to engage in conservation efforts in the Chaco forest of Argentina

Cristina C. Nuñez Godoy, Gisela S. Córdoba, Federico Colombo Speroni and Leonidas O. Girardin

Prepare the umbrella before it rains: Transmission and rescue strategy of extreme climate shocks via susceptible-infectious-recovered-susceptible model

Qian Wang, Fang Nan and Yuling Luo

Comparing apples to apples: Evidence of convergent validity between contingent valuation and discrete choice experiments

Erlend Dancke Sandorf and Ståle Navrud

Opinions of EU citizens about climate policy in their own words

Ivan Savin and Jeroen van den Bergh

How resilient is public support for carbon pricing? Longitudinal evidence from Germany

Stephan Sommer, Théo Konc and Stefan Drews

Bridging a gap: Analyzing radioactive materials within the planetary boundary framework

Fanny Böse, Julia Neugebauer, Theresa Lösel, Marie-Sophie Nickel, Alexander Wimmers and Christian von Hirschhausen

Valuing the benefits of river catchment management under changing climate in Finland

Virpi Lehtoranta, Enni Ruokamo, Sari Väisänen, Heikki Mykrä, Eerika Albrecht and Leena Kopperoinen

Avoiding unemployment in a post-growth economy

Jonathan Aldred

Shades of green behaviour under heterogeneous subjective risk and social domains

Rocco Caferra, Andrea Morone and Piergiuseppe Morone

The impact of labelling “true price” on effectiveness and consumer acceptance

Anne O. Peschel and John Thøgersen

Using carbon pricing revenues to empower low-income households with renewable energy: Distributional analysis for Tanzania

Abigail Opokua Asare and Laura Schürer

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