Ecological Economics

1989 - 2025

Current editor(s): C. J. Cleveland

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Volume 228, issue C, 2025

Carbon Giants: Exploring the Top 100 Industrial CO2 Emitters in the EU

Xenia Miklin, Thomas Neier, Simon Sturn and Klara Zwickl

The welfare properties of climate targets

Léo Coppens and Frank Venmans

A novel nature-based risk index: Application to acute risks and their financial materiality on corporate bonds

Amina Cherief, Takaya Sekine and Lauren Stagnol

Biodiversity disclosure in the European finance sector

Leyla Azizi, Christoph Scope, Anne Ladusch and Remmer Sassen

Extending the Genuine Savings estimates with natural capital and poverty at the regional and national level in Italy

Valentina Di Gennaro, Silvia Ferrini and Robert Kerry Turner

Animal welfare, moral consumers and the optimal regulation of animal food production

Thomas Eichner and Marco Runkel

The biodiversity premium

Guillaume Coqueret, Thomas Giroux and Olivier Zerbib

Social comparison nudges: What actually happens when we are told what others do?

Yann Raineau, Éric Giraud-Héraud and Sébastien Lecocq

Is pro-environmental effort affected by information about others’ behavior?

Dominik Suri, Niklas Bongers and Sebastian Kube

Social networks, environmental literacy, and farmers' clean low-carbon farming behaviors: Evidence from villages in China

Fei Lin, Jisheng Li and Chen Wu

The impact of downgrading protected areas (PAD) on biodiversity

Yufei Li, Lingling Hou and Pengfei Liu

Cosmological limits to growth, affective abundance, and Rights of Nature: Insights from Buen Vivir/sumak kawsay for the cultural politics of degrowth

Katharina Richter

Incorporating use values into ecosystem specific accounts: Recreational value generated by saltmarsh at a mixed ecosystem site

Geraldine Doolan and Stephen Hynes

Extractivist valorization in industrial forestry in the Global North – Elements of an analytical framework and illustration for the cases of Finland and Alberta, Canada

Jana Rebecca Holz and Anna Saave

The marginal abatement cost function with secondary waste markets

Nick Leary, Michael Zunino and Jeffrey Wagner

Public support for degrowth policies and sufficiency behaviours in the United States: A discrete choice experiment

Dallas O'Dell, Davide Contu and Ganga Shreedhar

Community reconstruction of biocultural landscapes. Application in the Kokonuko Indigenous Territory

Marta Montaño, Olga Sanabria, Oswaldo Quilindo, Alexander Urrego-Mesa, Enric Tello and Joan Marull

Conceptualising the environmental dimension of left-behind places

Charlotte Sophia Bez

Climate change and the farmer-Pastoralist's violent conflict: Experimental evidence from Nigeria

Uchenna Efobi, Oluwabunmi Adejumo and Jiyoung Kim

GVC participation and carbon emissions – A network analysis

Matthew Smith and Dimitris Christopoulos

Effect simulation and local adaptation of multi-agent collaborative governance in marine eco-economic systems: Evidence from China

Lehua Gao, Kun Gao, Wenwen Sun, Yue Zhang, Runping Zhang and Longxuan Zhang

Public policies on circular economy: A systematic review

Riccardo Losa

Carbon loss and inequality exacerbated by embodied land redistribution in international trade

Haishan Meng, Dewei Yang, Tian Zhou, Shuai Zhang, Min Wan, Yijia Ji, Junmei Zhang, Hang Yang and Ruifang Guo

Breaking the bag habit: Testing interventions to reduce plastic bag demand

Armenak Antinyan and Luca Corazzini

Global land-use implications of preference shifts towards regional feed and sustainable diets in Germany and the European Union

Florian Freund, Sakson Soisontes, Verena Laquai and Martin Banse

Extreme Weather, agricultural insurance and farmer's climate adaptation technologies adoption in China

Hui Mao, Zhenkai Sun, Anyuan Chai, Lan Fang and Chaoqian Shi

Environmental responsibility and exposure of finance: Combining environmentally-extended input-output and balance sheet approaches

Paul Hadji-Lazaro

Can payments-for-ecosystem-services change social norms?

Tobias Bähr, Adriana Bernal-Escobar and Meike Wollni

Volume 227, issue C, 2025

Circular economy for resource security in the European Union (EU): Case study, research framework, and future directions

Brian Baldassarre

The hidden costs of imposing minimum contributions to a global public good

Diya Abraham, Katarína Glejtková and Ondřej Krčál

Measuring beekeepers' economic value of contract enhancements in almond pollination agreements

Marieke Fenton, Brittney K. Goodrich and Jerrod Penn

Biological control of a parasite: The efficacy of cleaner fish in salmon farming

Ruth Beatriz Mezzalira Pincinato, Atle Oglend, Martin D. Smith and Frank Asche

Assessing the regime-switching role of risk mitigation measures on agricultural vulnerability: A threshold analysis

Xiaojie Wen, Philipp Mennig and Johannes Sauer

Varieties of capitalism and environmental performance

Felipe Jordán

Different strategies of crop diversification between poor and non-poor farmers: Concepts and evidence from Tanzania

Takefumi Fujimoto and Aya Suzuki

Defining just transition

Giorgos Galanis, Mauro Napoletano, Lilit Popoyan, Alessandro Sapio and Olivier Vardakoulias

What about the others? Conditional cooperation, climate change perception and ecological actions

Leonardo Becchetti, Gianluigi Conzo and Francesco Salustri

The impact of income-driven changes in global consumption patterns on Kyoto Gas emissions during the twenty-first century

Simon Bones and Richard M. Timmerman

C-frame thinking: Embedding behavioral economics into ecological economics

Leonardo Boncinelli, Luzie Dallinger and Tiziano Distefano

Raising awareness of climate change: Nature, activists, politicians?

Daryna Grechyna

Buzzword or breakthrough beyond growth? The mainstreaming of the Wellbeing Economy

Anders Hayden

A comparative review of de- and post-growth modeling studies

Arthur Lauer, Iñigo Capellán-Pérez and Nathalie Wergles

Back to the future: An experiment on ecological restoration

Virginia Cecchini Manara, Eleonora Ciscato, Pietro Guarnieri and Lorenzo Spadoni

Engaging high-income earners in climate action: Policy insights from survey experiments

Luis Mundaca and Christine Wamsler

Does scarcity induce hostility? An experimental investigation of common-pool resources

Stephan Geschwind and Johann Graf Lambsdorff

Will the EU deforestation-free products regulation (EUDR) reduce tropical forest loss? Insights from three producer countries

Roldan Muradian, Raras Cahyafitri, Tomaso Ferrando, Carolina Grottera, Luiz Jardim-Wanderley, Torsten Krause, Nanang I. Kurniawan, Lasse Loft, Tadzkia Nurshafira, Debie Prabawati-Suwito, Diaz Prasongko, Paula A. Sanchez-Garcia, Barbara Schröter and Diana Vela-Almeida

Integrating recreational ecosystem service valuations into Israel's Water economy

Aliza Fleischer, Yadin Gindin and Yacov Tsur

Are natural disasters stumbling blocks to carbon inequality mitigation? A global perspective

Kangyin Dong, Congyu Zhao, Rabindra Nepal and Kerstin K. Zander

Shared responsibility for carbon emission reduction in worldwide “steel- electric vehicle” trade within a sustainable industrial chain perspective

Yanxin Liu, Huajiao Li, Huijun Ren, Hongdian Jiang, Bo Ren, Ning Ma, Zhensong Chen, Weiqiong Zhong and Sergio Ulgiati

Supply networks of fisheries social-ecological systems: A systematic review of the network approach

Marian Rodríguez-Fuentes, José Alberto Zepeda-Domínguez, Lotta C. Kluger, Claudia María Fumero-Andreu, Germán Ponce-Díaz and Manuel J. Zetina-Rejón

If there is waste, there is a system: Understanding Victoria's circular economy transition from a systems thinking perspective

Akvan Gajanayake and Usha Iyer-Raniga

Accounting for water: A global review and indicators of best practice for improved water governance

Michael J. Vardon, Thi Ha Lien Le, Ricardo Martinez-Lagunes, Ogopotse Batlokwa Pule, Sjoerd Schenau, Steve May and R. Quentin Grafton

Linking systems to agencies in urban metabolism studies: A conceptual framework and computational analysis of research literature

Nicola Bertoldi and Daniela Perrotti

Integrated modelling of fertilizer and climate change scenario impacts on agricultural production and nitrogen losses in Austria

Elisabeth Jost, Martin Schönhart, Hermine Mitter, Ottavia Zoboli and Erwin Schmid

European funds and green public procurement

Ruben Nicolas, Vítězslav Titl and Fredo Schotanus

Uncertainty about carbon impact and the willingness to avoid CO2 emissions

Davide D. Pace, Taisuke Imai, Peter Schwardmann and Joël J. van der Weele

Towards systems-oriented behavioral ecological economics

Stefan Drews

Broadening ecological footprint and biocapacity research: A co-developed research agenda with Canadian stakeholders

Kaitlin Kish and Eric Miller

A consumption-based approach to trace the effects of income inequality on water pollution responsibility in Egypt: An internal grey water footprint perspective

Shimaa M. Wahba

Did crop diversity criterion from CAP green payments affect both economic and environmental farm performances? Quasi-experimental evidence from France

Thierno Bocar Diop and Lionel Védrine

Wealth inequality and carbon inequality

Ablam Estel Apeti, Bao We Wal Bambe, Eyah Denise Edoh and Alpha Ly

Nobody decides for all — Modeling incentives and policies for closing the material loop

Xi Sun and Karsten Neuhoff

Hybrid multi-stage steel footprinting unveils a more interdependent material foundation of the global economy

Xinyi Li, Chao Zhang, Xue Yang, Ziqian Xia, Zhi Cao, Peng Wang, Heming Wang, Tao Wang, Gang Liu and Wei-Qiang Chen

After the storm: Environmental tragedy and sustainable mobility

Rocco Caferra, Andrea Morone and Piergiuseppe Morone

Stated preferences for the colours, smells, and sounds of biodiversity

Peter M. King, Martin Dallimer, Thomas Lundhede, Gail E. Austen, Jessica C. Fisher, Katherine N. Irvine, Robert D. Fish and Zoe G. Davies

The diverse impacts of democracy on greenhouse gas emissions

Yacov Tsur

Green versus green: The case against holistic environmental permitting processes

Patrik Söderholm and Maria Pettersson

Over 6 billion liters of Canadian milk wasted since 2012

Thomas Elliot, Benjamin Goldstein and Sylvain Charlebois

Cost-effective policy instruments for biodiversity conservation under climate change – The need for flexibility

Charlotte Gerling, M. Drechsler, Johannes A. Leins, Astrid Sturm and Frank Wätzold

Natural insurance as a green alternative for farmers? Empirical evidence for semi-natural habitats and methodological bias

Jérôme Faure and Lauriane Mouysset

Impacts of population, affluence and urbanization on local air pollution and land transformation – A regional STIRPAT analysis for German districts

Johannes Lohwasser, Thomas Bolognesi and Axel Schaffer

Rising inequality: A material perspective on the Great Recession in the European Union

Anke Schaffartzik and Juan Antonio Duro

Impact of Indonesia's Forest Management Units on the reduction of forest loss and forest fires in Sulawesi

Colas Chervier, Stibniati S. Atmadja, Sandy Nofyanza, Choiriatun Nur Annisa, Fitri Nurfatriani, Rochadi Kristiningrum, Muhammad Alif K. Sahide, Ali Suhardiman and Syukur Umar

Marine ecosystem services of seagrass in physical and monetary terms: The Mediterranean Sea case study

Anna Maria Addamo, Alessandra La Notte, Silvia Ferrini and Gaetano Grilli

Changes in global trade patterns increase global inequality towards Sustainable Development Goals

Jiayu Wang, Ke Wang, Klaus Hubacek, Kuishuang Feng, Yuli Shan and Yi-Ming Wei

A pragmatist ecological economics - Normative foundations and a framework for actionable knowledge

Christopher A. Armatas and William T. Borrie

Varieties of Anticapitalism: A systematic study of transformation strategies in alternative economic discourses

Querine Kommandeur, Juliette Alenda-Demoutiez, Maria Kaufmann and Ingrid Visseren-Hamakers

Preferences for drought risk adaptation support in Kenya: Evidence from a discrete choice experiment and three decision-making theories

Teun Schrieks, Wouter Botzen, Toon Haer and Jeroen C.J.H. Aerts

Efficiency, sufficiency and consistency in sustainable development: Reassessing strategies for reaching overarching goals

Marco Rudolf and Mario Schmidt

A research framework to investigate food systems at a national scale

Noelia Parajuá, Enric Tello and Jessica Duncan

Building a local structural basis for economic change? A case study on grassroots initiatives from a ‘social provisioning’ perspective

Roman Hausmann and Anne-Kathrin Schwab

Exploring South Australian households' perceptions towards various food waste policies

By Sarah Ann Wheeler, Ying Xu and Daniel Gregg

Green coops: Drivers of innovation for circular strategies among Italian cooperatives

Asia Guerreschi and Emy Zecca

Decentralized voluntary agreements do not reduce emissions in a climate change experiment

Alessandro Del Ponte, Aidas Masiliūnas and Noah Lim

China's global leadership aspirations and domestic support for climate policy

C. Xiang and T. van Gevelt