Ecological Economics

1989 - 2025

Current editor(s): C. J. Cleveland

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Volume 197, issue C, 2022

Neoliberalism and climate change: How the free-market myth has prevented climate action

Anders Fremstad and Mark Paul

How do governance arrangements matter in the circular economy? Lessons from five methanation projects based on the social-ecological system framework

Nabila Arfaoui, Christian Le Bas, Marie-France Vernier and Linh-Chi Vo

Coevolutionary decoupling in artisanal fisher communities: A temporal perspective from Chile

Gino Bailey, Eduard Ariza and Antònia Casellas

Tree cover and property values in the United States: A national meta-analysis

Kent Kovacs, Grant West, David J. Nowak and Robert G. Haight

The environmental and financial performance of green energy investments: European evidence

Maria Céu Cortez, Nuno Andrade and Florinda Silva

Do environmentally-friendly cocoa farms yield social and economic co-benefits?

Lina Tennhardt, Gianna Lazzarini, Rainer Weisshaidinger and Christian Schader

Prescriptive drought policy and water supplier compliance

Adam Soliman

Modeling rebound effects and counteracting policies for German industries

Lara Ahmann, Maximilian Banning and Christian Lutz

Welfare regimes as enablers of just energy transitions: Revisiting and testing the hypothesis of synergy for Europe

Pablo García-García, Luis Buendia and Óscar Carpintero

Emissions inequality: Disparities in income, expenditure, and the carbon footprint in Austria

Hendrik Theine, Stefan Humer, Mathias Moser and Matthias Schnetzer

Does Unconventional Energy Extraction Generate More Wastewater? A Lifetime Perspective

Minhong Xu, Yilan Xu and Madhu Khanna

Challenges and innovations in the economic evaluation of the risks of climate change

James A. Rising, Charlotte Taylor, Matthew C. Ives and Robert E.T. Ward

Exploring social-ecological impacts on trade-offs and synergies among ecosystem services

Xiaoyu Wang, Jian Peng, Yuhang Luo, Sijing Qiu, Jianquan Dong, Zimo Zhang, Kim Vercruysse, Robert C. Grabowski and Jeroen Meersmans

Diverse stakeholder perspectives and ecosystem services ranking: Application of the Q-methodology to Hawane Dam and Nature Reserve in Eswatini

Linda Siphiwo Mahlalela, Damien Jourdain, Eric Dada Mungatana and Thomas Hedemark Lundhede

Grassland conservation supports migratory birds and produces economic benefits for the commercial beekeeping industry in the U.S. Great Plains

Clint R.V. Otto, Haochi Zheng, Torre Hovick, Max Post van der Burg and Benjamin Geaumont

Modelling the circular economy: Introducing a supply chain equilibrium approach

Bart Lahcen, Johan Eyckmans, Sandra Rousseau, Yoko Dams and Jan Brusselaers

Vulnerability and spatial competition: The case of fisheries and offshore wind projects

Buchholzer Hélène, Frésard Marjolaine, Le Grand Christelle and Pascal Le Floc'h

Collaborative governance as a means of navigating the uncertainties of sustainability transformations: The case of Finnish food packaging

Henna Sundqvist-Andberg and Maria Åkerman

Using energy vulnerability to measure distributive injustice in rural heating energy reform: A case study of natural gas replacing bulk coal for heating in Gaocheng District, Hebei Province, China

Shengyue Fan, Shuai Zha, Chenxi Zhao, Fangyuan Sizheng and Meihui Li

Volume 196, issue C, 2022

A one-off wealth tax for Belgium: Revenue potential, distributional impact, and environmental effects

Arthur Apostel and Daniel W. O'Neill

Incentivizing the future adoption of best management practices on agricultural land to protect water resources: The role of past participation and experiences

Haiyan Liu and Roy Brouwer

Path dependencies and institutional traps in water governance – Evidence from Cambodia

Tum Nhim and Andries Richter

Too good to be true: The inverted U-shaped relationship between home-country digitalization and environmental performance

Gozal Ahmadova, Blanca L. Delgado-Márquez, Luis Pedauga and Dante I. Leyva-de la Hiz

Current status and economic value of insect-pollinated dependent crops in Latin America

Marina Basualdo, Pablo Cavigliasso, Rubem Samuel de Avila, Patricia Aldea-Sánchez, Adriana Correa-Benítez, Jaime Martínez Harms, Ana Karen Ramos, Valeska Rojas-Bravo and Sheena Salvarrey

Making kin and making sense of human-animal relations in tourism

Hindertje Hoarau-Heemstra and Carol Kline

Is a fair energy transition possible? Evidence from the French low-carbon strategy

Emilien Ravigné, Frédéric Ghersi and Franck Nadaud

The influence of scarcity perception on people's pro-environmental behavior and their readiness to accept new sustainable technologies

Anne Berthold, Viktoria Cologna and Michael Siegrist

A hybrid choice modelling approach to estimate the trade-off between perceived environmental risks and economic benefits

Elisabetta Strazzera, Daniela Meleddu and Rossella Atzori

Drivers of organic farming: Lab-in-the-field evidence of the role of social comparison and information nudge in networks in Vietnam

Kene Boun My, Phu Nguyen-Van, Thi Kim Cuong Pham, Anne Stenger, Tuyen Tiet and Nguyen To-The

Moving towards a sustainable circular bio-economy in the agriculture sector of a developing country

Feroz Khan and Yousaf Ali

Climate change adaptation strategies and shrimp aquaculture: Empirical evidence from the Mekong Delta of Vietnam

Huu-Luat Do and Thong Quoc Ho

The rise and fall of La Graufesenque: The fate of development based on a non-renewable resource

Jean-Philippe Terreaux

There are plenty more (sustainable) fish in the sea: A discrete choice experiment on discarded species in Italy

F. Natali, L. Cacchiarelli and G. Branca

The effect of port development on coastal water quality: Evidence of eutrophication states in Indonesia

Muhammad Yudhistira, Indra Degree Karimah and Nadya Rahmi Maghfira

Let us expand this Western project by admitting diversity and enhancing rigor: A systematic review of empirical research on alternative economies

Adam Čajka and Josef Novotný

Internet use, natural resource extraction and poverty reduction in rural Thailand

Trung Thanh Nguyen, Thanh-Tung Nguyen and Ulrike Grote

Incorporating economics into fishery policies: Developing integrated ecological-economics harvest control rules

Renato Rosa, Tiago Costa and Rui Pedro Mota

The many sizes and characters of the Blue Economy

Marcello Graziano, Karen A. Alexander, Scott McGrane, Grant Allan and Evangelia Lema

Valuing beyond economics: A pluralistic evaluation framework for participatory policymaking

Richard M. Gunton, Adam P. Hejnowicz, Andrew Basden, Eline N. van Asperen, Ian Christie, David R. Hanson and Sue E. Hartley

Anticipating moral hazard undermines climate mitigation in an experimental geoengineering game

Talbot M. Andrews, Andrew W. Delton and Reuben Kline

Linking the diversity of ecologisation models to farmers' digital use profiles

Éléonore Schnebelin

Understanding herdsmen's rangeland rent-in behaviour under current rural land tenure system of China

Chen Qian, Liqun Shao and Haibin Chen

Social value of bird conservation on private forest lands in Pennsylvania, USA

Sadikshya Sharma and Melissa M. Kreye

(In)compatibilities in sustainable luxury signals

Victoria-Sophie Osburg, Vignesh Yoganathan, Fraser McLeay and Mbaye Fall Diallo

Participation, income growth and poverty alleviation in payments for ecosystem services: The case of China's Wolong Nature Reserve

Jichuan Sheng and Hui Wang

Volume 195, issue C, 2022

Corporate strategy in the Anthropocene: German electricity utilities and the nuclear sudden stop

Gregory Ferguson-Cradler

Agricultural trade liberalization and domestic fertilizer use: Evidence from China-ASEAN free trade agreement

Fei Nie, Jian Li, Xiang Bi and Gucheng Li

Willingness to pay for sustainable and legal firewood in Tasmania

Nizam Abdu, Elena Tinch, Clinton Levitt, Peter Volker and Darla Hatton MacDonald

The political influence of ecological economics in the European Union applied to the cap-and-trade policy11This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors. We are grateful to the reviewers for their valuable comments

Jorge Gonçalves and Manuel Luís Costa

The consequences of misrepresenting feedbacks in coupled human and environmental models

Jenny L. Apriesnig, Travis Warziniack, David Finnoff, Hongyan Zhang, Katherine D. Lee, Doran M. Mason and Edward S. Rutherford

How social movements contribute to staying within the global carbon budget: Evidence from a qualitative meta-analysis of case studies

May Aye Thiri, Sergio Villamayor-Tomás, Arnim Scheidel and Federico Demaria

Measuring sustainability: Development and application of the Inclusive Wealth Index in China

Jing-Li Fan, Kai Li, Xian Zhang, Jiawei Hu, Klaus Hubacek, Yabin Da, Xi Liang and Danyang Cheng

Supporting carbon taxes: The role of fairness

Stephan Sommer, Linus Mattauch and Michael Pahle

The income inequality-CO2 emissions nexus: Transmission mechanisms

Guanghua Wan, Chen Wang, Jinxian Wang and Xun Zhang

Understanding determinants of the intention to buy rhino horn in Vietnam through the Theory of Planned Behaviour and the Theory of Interpersonal Behaviour

Hoai Nam Dang Vu and Martin Reinhardt Nielsen

Utilization potential of alien plants in nature-based tourism sites: A case study on Agave americana (century plant) in the Ogasawara Islands

Mizuki Onozuka and Takeshi Osawa

At the crossroad between green and thirsty: Carbon emissions and water consumption of Spanish thermoelectricity generation, 1969–2019

Sara Cano-Rodríguez, Mar Rubio-Varas and Diego Sesma-Martín

Unlocking the unsustainable rice-wheat system of Indian Punjab: Assessing alternatives to crop-residue burning from a systems perspective

Andrea S. Downing, Manish Kumar, August Andersson, Amar Causevic, Örjan Gustafsson, Niraj U. Joshi, Chandra Kiran B. Krishnamurthy, Bert Scholtens and Beatrice Crona

Environmental consequences of fair competition: Evidence from China's corporate income tax merger policy

Yu Qi, Shuai Shao, Zhihua Tian, Yang Xu and Jun Yin

Born to transform? German bioeconomy policy and research projects for transformations towards sustainability

Kristina Bogner and Johannes Dahlke

Awareness days and environmental attitudes: The case of the “Earth Hour”

Yiannis Kountouris

Green mobility and well-being

Lucia Echeverria, J. Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal and José Alberto Molina

The backfire effect of sustainable social cues. New evidence on social moral licensing

Wassili Lasarov, Robert Mai and Stefan Hoffmann

Heterogeneity, spillovers and eco-efficiency of European industries under different pollutants’ scenarios. Is there a definite direction?

Eirini Stergiou and Kostantinos Kounetas

A technical critique of the Green New Deal

Ted Trainer

Experience of losses and aversion to uncertainty - experimental evidence from farmers in Mexico

Hanna Freudenreich and Oliver Musshoff

Sufficiency: A systematic literature review

Jessica Jungell-Michelsson and Pasi Heikkurinen

Financial capital as a shaper of households' adaptive capabilities to flood risk in northern Bangladesh

Md Javed Azad and Bill Pritchard

What theories of value (could) underpin our circular futures?

Benjamin H. Lowe and Andrea Genovese

Resilience rankings and trajectories of world's countries

Natanael Bolson, Maxim Yutkin, William Rees and Tadeusz Patzek

Potentials, subsidies and tradeoffs of cellulosic ethanol in the European Union

Franziska Schuenemann and Ruth Delzeit

Social preferences for water sensitive housing features in Australia

Md Sayed Iftekhar, Maksym Polyakov and Abbie Rogers

Certifications in short food supply chains in the region of Madrid. Part of the alternative?

Mario González-Azcárate, José Luis Cruz-Maceín and Isabel Bardají

Sitting in the same boat: Subjective well-being and social comparison after an extreme weather event

Svenja Fluhrer and Kati Kraehnert

Crop and income diversification for rural adaptation: Insights from Ugandan panel data

Chiara Antonelli, Manuela Coromaldi and Giacomo Pallante

Monitoring food-related material flows with the use of economy-wide material system analysis

Jan Kovanda

The unequal exchange of air pollution and economic benefits embodied in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei's consumption

Huibin Du, Huiwen Liu and Zengkai Zhang

Carbon inequality in global trade: Evidence from the mismatch between embodied carbon emissions and value added

Yihan Wang, Siqin Xiong and Xiaoming Ma