Ecological Economics

1989 - 2026

Current editor(s): C. J. Cleveland

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Volume 240, issue C, 2026

Biodiversity finance: What has been achieved and where is it heading

John Willis

The information value of energy labels: Evidence from the Dutch residential housing market

Lennart Stangenberg, Sjors van Wickeren and Lu Zhang

MuSIASEM nexus analysis in post-industrial societies: Import dependence in Andorra

J.J. Larrabeiti-Rodríguez, Oriol Travesset-Baro, Mario Giampietro and Raúl Velasco-Fernández

Spatial scale effects on environmental donations: Evidence from a revised dictator game experiment with real payments

Iarina Corniciuc, Lorenzo Lotti, Silvia Ferrini and Silvia Ceausu

Not on my plate! Challenges to promote meat substitutes

Henrik Andersson and Benjamin Ouvrard

Boosting peer influence for the climate? – Intervening friendship networks with serious games to promote food knowledge and reduce meat consumption

Anja Köbrich Leon and Janosch Schobin

Introduction to the special issue: ‘Biodiversity and finance: Risk, disclosure and double materiality’

Chunying Guo, Matthew Agarwala, Mark Freeman, Ben Groom and Emily McKenzie

Carbon tax earmarking in a conservative state: Choice experiment evidence from Utah

Katelyn Tenney and Therese Cavlovic

Incorporating blue carbon into climate change mitigation policies: Multi-level governance challenges for carbon credits and NDCs

Megha K. Purushotham and Benjamin S. Thompson

Long-term trends in resource consumption in Latin America: Integrating the MEFA and STIRPAT approaches

Javier Lozano-Morra, Iñaki Iriarte-Goñi and Ana Serrano

An optimized shared responsibility accounting framework: unveiling the big black shadows behind small emitters in global value chains

Xiyuan Li, Ran Wang, Yang Zhou, Yunfeng Yan, Jinjun Xue and Zhongxiu Zhao

Bridging climate and social equity: Progressive carbon tax simulations for Belgium

Floore Bursens, Silvia De Poli, Sofia Maier and Gerlinde Verbist

Nudging grid-friendly electric vehicle charging: Different shades of social framing and the power of individual factors

Junianna Zatsarnaja, Katharina Reiter, Alwine Mohnen and Trond Nordfjærn

The effectiveness of unilateral fishing ban in contested waters: Evidence from the South China Sea

Yifei Quan

The impact of policy design on opposition to restrictive climate policies

Oskar Lindgren, Sverker C. Jagers and Daniel Lindvall

Outsourcing decarbonization? How trade shaped France’s carbon footprint (2000–14)

Pierre Cotterlaz and Christophe Gouel

Can natural capital help national-level policy-makers to embed sustainability considerations? Insights from Scotland

Kerry Waylen, Ishaan Patil and Esther Carmen

Food choice with increased visibility – A field experiment at an environmental economics conference

Astrid Dannenberg, Giorgio Dini, Alessandro Tavoni and Eva Weingärtner

Squaring the circle of the circular economy. The need to properly account for scarcity to guide mineral resource management

Cati Torres, Alicia Valero, Antonio Valero and José Manuel Naredo

Water, land, materials, and emissions for providing decent living standards around the world

Johan Andrés Vélez-Henao, Jan Streeck, Jarmo Kikstra and Stefan Pauliuk

Household consumption pattern and CO2 emissions: The age and generational effects

Hui Wang, Menghan Wang, Danyang Zhang and Peng Zhou

Total rents from natural resources: Framework and preliminary estimates for Switzerland

Felix Schläpfer

Cost-neutral food tax reforms for healthier and more sustainable diets

Jörgen Larsson, Edvin Månsson, Elin Röös, Sarah Säll, Emma Patterson, Liselotte Schäfer Elinder, Jonas Nässén and Emma Ejelöv

Reimagining growth futures: Overcoming the false binary between green growth and degrowth

Jacob Hasselbalch and Mathias Larsen

Agent-based insight into eco-choices: Simulating the fast fashion shift

Daria Soboleva and Angel Sánchez

Does ecological zoning spur household welfare and resilience? A quasi-natural experiment in China

Han Li and Hao Xia

Unpacking the green box: Endogenous preferences and environmental policy stringency in European Countries

Donatella Gatti, Gaye-Del Lo and Francisco Serranito

A new index reveals a widening gap between growth and sustainable wellbeing in China

Xi Ji, Xianling Long, Xuanyuan Luo and Robert Costanza

Recent global value chain reconfiguration: drivers and consequences on EU carbon footprint

Ángela García-Alaminos, María-Ángeles Cadarso, Luis A. López and María-Ángeles Tobarra

The social costs of capitalism: Evaluating socio-ecological arguments for post-capitalist calculation

Sebastian Berger

Degrowth and postgrowth: A systematic literature review of growth-critical science

Arho Toikka, Toni Ruuska, Laua Wiman and Pasi Heikkurinen

More-than-capitalist economies: Insights from community supported agriculture, tiny houses and hitchhiking in Denmark

Line Kryger Aagaard

Pluralism and integration? A systematic review of ecological economics methodological foundations

Max-Friedemann Kretschmer, John-Oliver Engler, Henrik von Wehrden, Julius Rathgens and Joe A. Ament

The grey shades of green jobs: Unpacking the occupational approach to green employment

Davide Villani, Enrique Fernández-Macías, Ignacio González-Vázquez and Vesna Oshafi

The hidden carbon costs of aging: How household dependency burden shapes emissions in China

Xueyang Wang, Wenling Liu, Yulin Zhu, Yuedong Xiao and Yiqun Lv

The influence of geomagnetic flux on global crop yields and income

Evan Wigton-Jones

The European Union deforestation regulation: The impact on Argentina

Pablo de la Vega

Can objective information update subjective beliefs on sustainable farming? Evidence from a randomized experiment with Japanese rice farmers

Ryosuke Inoue and Kentaro Kawasaki

Unequal exchange of labour and global justice: Principles for a fair international distribution of work

Lukas Godé, Arild Vatn and Erik Gómez-Baggethun

Knowledge exchange and catch variability in small-scale fisheries: Insights from the Solomon Islands

Shoichi Kiyama, Kofi Otumawu-Apreku, Satoshi Yamazaki and Keisaku Higashida

Fixed capital and growth imperatives: Is commercial aviation trapped in a treadmill?

Henri Chevalier and Eric Pineault

Resource regimes and the success of local renewable energy projects

François-Xavier Viallon, Francesco Sarti, Pierre-Henri Bombenger, Frédéric Varone, Josef Philipp Trein, Marie-Joëlle Kodjovi, Jérôme Dubois, Yann Fournis and Pierre-Olivier Pineau

Has “Ecological Economics” betrayed its roots? Revealing its state, internal tensions and evolution through a multi-level and multi-scale bibliometric assessment

G. Corsi, R. Guarino, E. Muñoz-Ulecia, U. Grande, E. Buonocore, A. Sapio and P.P. Franzese

Volume 239, issue C, 2026

Going green for Eco or Ego? A meta-analysis of the comparative effects of environmental appeals and personal appeals on pro-environmental outcomes

Xushan Sheng, Xiaoling Zhang, Yali Huang and Xinyue Zhou

Populism and support of onshore wind energy: Explaining different perspectives from the left and right

Valeria Fanghella, Joachim Schleich and Carine Sebi

Hunters, hikers, ticks, and deer: Can deer management help mitigate Lyme disease?

Stephen C. Newbold, Srutakirti Mukherjee and Heidi Albers

The impacts of palm oil expansion on deforestation and economic activity in the eastern Amazon

Pedro Henrique Batista de Barros and Ariaster Baumgratz Chimeli

A new measure of climate transition risk based on distance to a global emission factor frontier

Benjamin N. Dennis and Talan B. İsçan

Small steps in the right direction: Preferences of small-scale farmers for sustainable cattle systems in Guaviare, Colombian Amazon

Catalina Posada-Borrero, Driss Ezzine-de-Blas, Emmanuelle Lavaine and Sébastien Roussel

From twin transition to twice the burden? Digitalisation, energy demand, and economic growth

Jérôme Hambye-Verbrugghen, Stefano Bianchini, Paul E. Brockway, Emmanuel Aramendia, Matthew K. Heun and Zeke Marshall

The welfare gains from diversified environmental policies

Ben Blachly, Charles Sims and Travis Warziniack

Striking a balance: Exploring preferences and trade-offs associated with mining in Arctic Norway

Rieke S. Kohn, Gorm Kipperberg and Margrethe Aanesen

Unlocking the economic potential of recycling waste fishing nets for textile reproduction

Pei-Chiun Li, Fu-Wei Tsao, Hsiu-Ching Shih, Hwong-wen Ma and Nai-Hua Hou

Determinants and effects of green bond issuance: Environmental awareness, ecological budget, biodiversity, oil and lithium

Matthias Horn, Amal Dabbous, Andreas Oehler and Florian Göbel

Exploring urban household carbon inequality in terms of ecological and economic contributions: Empirical evidence based on nighttime light data

Yiwen Zhao and Yi Yang

Environmental offsetting: What drives the choice of offset mechanism in the US Wetland Mitigation Program?

João Vaz, Jessica Coria and Ville Inkinen

Climate storylines to build resilience for European public and private risk finance instruments against remote events

Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler, Jan Brusselaers, Qinhan Zhu, Max Tesselaar and Alessio Ciullo

Financing climate-resilient infrastructure through long-term green bond

Jianxin Guo, Xianchun Tan, Yonglong Cheng and Xiangyin Chen

Fragmentation and complexity as obstacles to the beyond GDP transition

Juan Pablo Ríos-Ocampo, Giovanni Cunico and Michael Shayne Gary

Reconceptualizing the role of socioeconomic material stocks in the leverage points framework to enable transformative change

Willi Haas, David James Abson, Helmut Haberl, Nathalie Spittler, Dominik Wiedenhofer and Christian Dorninger

Labour dynamics, harvest cost and sharing behaviour in an Inuit mixed economy: How to adapt to a changing socio-ecological system?

S. Schott, J.M. Chapman, J. Qitsualik and B. Puqiqnak

Saving for a rainy day: The impact of storms on saving rates

Edouard Mensah and Mateusz Filipski

The dynamic global aluminium use across production systems to consumption systems

Zijie Ma, Qiumeng Zhong, Alvaro Calzadilla and Matthew Winning

The social welfare value of the global food system

Simon Dietz, Benjamin Bodirsky, Michael Crawford, Ravi Kanbur, Debbora Leip, Steven Lord, Hermann Lotze-Campen and Alexander Popp

Voluntary management of fisheries under the threat of uncertain legislation

Hubert Stahn

Unveiling how financial markets could intensify climate change risks

Juan Laborda, Cristina Suárez, Alejandro Fernández, Haoran Wang, Emilio Cerdá, Liana Ricci and Sonia Quiroga

Climate neutrality scenarios: How they deal with economic growth, employment and social acceptance

Sarah Lange and Steffen Lange

Mapping visions of a just transition: A Q survey of Belgian stakeholders

Fransolet Aurore, Hudon Marek, La Gioia Adriano and Sandrine Meyer

Different methods, different values: Policy implications of alternative valuation methods

Bonnie Keeler, Joshua Clement, Terin Mayer, Ryan Noe and Nate Vikeras

Environmental insurance and resilience in the age of natural disasters

Simone Borghesi, Ilaria Colivicchi, Gianluca Iannucci and Alessandro Tampieri

Labour productivity gains or offshoring? Implications for post-growth proposals on the future of work

Lukas Godé, Simon Mair and Erik Gómez-Baggethun

Environment vs. economic growth: Do environmental preferences translate into support for Green parties?

Vladimir Otrachshenko and Olga Popova

Willingness to pay for antibiotic pollution control

Elina Lampi, Fredrik Carlsson, Gunnar Jacobsson, Thomas Sterner and D.G. Joakim Larsson

Valuing coastal wetland restoration in Australia with discrete choice experiments

John Rolfe, Paul Carnell, Sabiha Marine, Kym Whiteoak, Rodrigo Zilleruelo and Melissa Wartman

Climate shocks and banking sector stability: Evidence from El Niño southern oscillation

O. Damette, M. Fajeau and C. Mathonnat

The role of co-benefits in motivating climate change mitigation – Experimental evidence

Christoph Feldhaus, Marvin Gleue, Andreas Löschel and Peter Werner

Mission accomplished? A post-assessment of EU ETS impact on power sector emissions reduction

Ethan Eslahi, Anna Creti and María-Eugenia Sanin

From innovation to exnovation: insights from post-growth food enterprises in Australia

Sabrina Chakori, Nicola J. Grigg, Katharina Biely, Jennifer B. Hinton, Gaël Plumecocq, Russell Richards and Ben Robra

Evasive invasive species: Bioeconomic modelling of adaptive wild pigs

Katherine R. Barkley, Seong D. Yun, Kalyn T. Coatney and Stephanie A. Shwiff

Economic valuation of landscaping for wildlife habitat

Justine Nwanakwere, Stephanie Brockmann, Kelly Giraud and Ju-Chin Huang

Measuring the poverty effects of a carbon tax on mobility – But how?

Daniel Rueb

Pricing GHG emissions in agriculture: Accounting for trade and fairness for effective climate policy

Mattia Ricci, Ignacio Perez Dominguez, Stijn Van Houtven, Jordan Hristov and Toon Vandyck

Hydro-economic equilibrium with climatic variability in interconnected local economies

Benedetto Rocchi, Renato Paniccià and Gino Sturla

Formation of biodiversity restoration payment acceptance: A review from socio-psychological and experimental economic perspectives

Mimi Salminah, Adam Loch, Thomas A.A. Prowse and Patrick J. O'Connor

Tipping the decision of offshore wind farm decommissioning – The causal effects of biodiversity illustrations and information on the social acceptance

Liv Stranddorf, Jacob Ladenburg and Matteo Zuch