Ecological Economics

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Volume 187, issue C, 2021

Biophysical variability and politico-economic singularity: Responses of livestock numbers in South Mongolian nomadic pastoralism

John-Oliver Engler, Karsten Wesche, Petra Kaczensky, Prabesh Dhakal, Oyundari Chuluunkhuyag and Henrik von Wehrden

Energy poor need more energy, but do they need more carbon? Evaluation of people's basic carbon needs

Shinichiro Okushima

Can U.S. import regulations reduce IUU fishing and improve production practices in aquaculture?

Yingkai Fang and Frank Asche

Air pollution and happiness: Evidence from the coldest capital in the world

Chimedregzen Sanduijav, Susana Ferreira, Mateusz Filipski and Yukiko Hashida

Do we need a ‘circular society’? Competing narratives of the circular economy in the French food sector

Sina Leipold, Kaja Weldner and Marius Hohl

How do different compensation schemes and loss experience affect insurance decisions? Experimental evidence from two independent and heterogeneous samples

Daniel Osberghaus and Christiane Reif

Economic valuation of non-material contributions to people provided by avian scavengers: Harmonizing conservation and wildlife-based tourism

Ruth García-Jiménez, Zebensui Morales-Reyes, Juan M. Pérez-García and Antoni Margalida

Me trying to talk about sustainability: Exploring the psychological and social implications of environmental threats through user-generated content

Leila Elgaaied-Gambier and Timo Mandler

The relationship between climate conditions and consumption of bottled water: A potential link between climate change and plastic pollution

Oscar Zapata

Beyond institutional bricolage: An ‘intertwining approach’ to understanding the transition towards agroecology in Peru

Marco De La Cruz S. and Joost Dessein

GEM: A short “Growth-vs-Environment” Module for survey research

Ivan Savin, Stefan Drews and Jeroen van den Bergh

Doing more with less: Provisioning systems and the transformation of the stock-flow-service nexus

Christina Plank, Stefan Liehr, Diana Hummel, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Helmut Haberl and Christoph Görg

Accounting matters: Revisiting claims of decoupling and genuine green growth in Nordic countries

Joachim Peter Tilsted, Anders Bjørn, Guillaume Majeau-Bettez and Jens Friis Lund

Trade-off decisions in ecosystem management for poverty alleviation

Marije Schaafsma, Felix Eigenbrod, Alexandros Gasparatos, Nicole Gross-Camp, Craig Hutton, Fiona Nunan, Kate Schreckenberg and Kerry Turner

Forest power: The impact of community forest management on female empowerment

Corinne Bocci and Khushbu Mishra

Energy matters: Mitigating the impacts of future land expansion will require managing energy and extractive footprints

Justin A. Johnson, Christina M. Kennedy, James R. Oakleaf, Sharon Baruch-Mordo, Stephen Polasky and Joseph Kiesecker

Potential outcomes and impacts of organic group certification in Italy: An evaluative case study

Francesco Solfanelli, Emel Ozturk, Patrizia Pugliese and Raffaele Zanoli

Volume 186, issue C, 2021

On the relationship between constitutional environmental human rights and sustainable development outcomes

Christopher Jeffords

The natural assurance value of nature-based solutions: A layered institutional analysis of socio ecological systems for long term climate resilient transformation

Elena López Gunn, Marta Rica, Pedro Zorrilla-Miras, Laura Vay, Beatriz Mayor, Alessandro Pagano, Monica Altamirano and Rafaelle Giordano

Wildness, infinity and freedom

Matthew F. Child

Smallholder farmer preferences for diversifying farming with cover crops of sustainable farm management: A discrete choice experiment in Northwest China

Yixin Nong, Changbin Yin, Xiaoyan Yi, Jing Ren and Hsiaoping Chien

Carbon footprint information, prices, and restaurant wine choices by customers: A natural field experiment

Claudio Soregaroli, Elena Claire Ricci, Stefanella Stranieri, Rodolfo Nayga, Ettore Capri and Elena Castellari

Sustainable commodity governance and the global south

Hamish van der Ven, Yixian Sun and Benjamin Cashore

Conservation Costs Drive Enrolment in Agglomeration Bonus Scheme

Robert Huber, Astrid Zabel, Mirjam Schleiffer, Willemijn Vroege, Julia M. Brändle and Robert Finger

The association between the carbon footprint and the socio-economic characteristics of Belgian households

Petra Zsuzsa Lévay, Josefine Vanhille, Tim Goedemé and Gerlinde Verbist

Welfare systems without economic growth: A review of the challenges and next steps for the field

Christine Corlet Walker, Angela Druckman and Tim Jackson

Valuing urban green amenities with an inequality lens

Per M. Stromberg, Erik Öhrner, Erik Brockwell and Zhaoyang Liu

Effects of household-level attributes and agricultural land-use on deforestation patterns along a forest transition gradient in the Miombo landscapes, Zambia

Moses Kazungu, Rubén Ferrer Velasco, Eliza Zhunusova, Melvin Lippe, Gillian Kabwe, Davison J. Gumbo and Sven Günter

Environmental regulation and bail outs under weak state capacity: Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon11The authors gratefully acknowledge Antonio Ambrózio, Juliano Assunção, Arthur Bragança, Filipe Campante, André Chagas, Francisco Costa, Bard Harstad, Julie Subervie and Carlos Eduardo Young for insightful comments. We also thank seminar participants at the 41st Brazilian Econometric Society Meeting, 7th Economics of Low-Carbon Markets Workshop, the 5th CEDE Seminar, the 18th LAGV Conference, UFF, UERJ and CEE - Montpellier. The authors did not receive any financial support. The views expressed here are those of the authors alone and do not necessarily reflect those of the Brazilian Development Bank

André Albuquerque Sant'Anna and Lucas Costa

Community-level economic impacts of a change in TAC for Alaska fisheries: A multi-regional framework assessment

Chang K. Seung, Edward C. Waters and Steven J. Barbeaux

How to stimulate environmentally friendly consumption: Evidence from a nationwide social experiment in Japan to promote eco-friendly coffee

Ryo Takahashi

Mixing fossil- and bio-polymers for internalisation of environmental damage: An evidence-based model-theoretical economic analysis

Daniel Friedrich

Volume 185, issue C, 2021

The Effect of Gain-loss Framing on Climate Policy Preferences

Lea S. Svenningsen and Bo Thorsen

Modelling energy transition risk: The impact of declining energy return on investment (EROI)

Andrew Jackson and Tim Jackson

On consumer impact from Xylella fastidiosa subspecies pauca

Kevin Schneider, Monique Mourits, Wopke van der Werf and Alfons Oude Lansink

When the circular economy diverges: The co-evolution of biogas business models and material circuits in Finland

Helena Valve, David Lazarevic and Niko Humalisto

How climate-friendly behavior relates to moral identity and identity-protective cognition: Evidence from the European social surveys

Heinz Welsch

Permanence of PES and the role of social context in the Regional Integrated Silvo-pastoral Ecosystem Management Project in Costa Rica

Sebastian Rasch, Tobias Wünscher, Francisco Casasola, Muhammad Ibrahim and Hugo Storm

Managing spatial sustainability trade-offs: The case of wind power

Paul Lehmann, Kathrin Ammermann, Erik Gawel, Charlotte Geiger, Jennifer Hauck, Jörg Heilmann, Jan-Niklas Meier, Jens Ponitka, Sven Schicketanz, Boris Stemmer, Philip Tafarte, Daniela Thrän and Elisabeth Wolfram

Economic activity and distribution of an invasive species: Evidence from night-time lights satellite imagery data

George Marbuah, Ing-Marie Gren, Brendan G. Mckie and Laëtitia Buisson

Beyond ecosystem services and nature's contributions: Is it time to leave utilitarian environmentalism behind?

Roldan Muradian and Erik Gómez-Baggethun

Market knowledge as a driver of sustainable use of common-pool resources: A lab-in-the-field study among pastoralists in Ethiopia

Desalegn A. Gugissa, Paul T.M. Ingenbleek and Hans C.M. van Trijp

Land trust investments in land protection may increase philanthropic giving to conservation

Arne A. Pinnschmidt, Marjanke A. Hoogstra-Klein, Rachel Fovargue, Diane Le Bouille, Maria Fisher, Jamal Harris and Paul R. Armsworth

A regional resource curse? A synthetic-control approach to oil extraction in Basilicata, Italy

Lorenzo Pellegrini, Luca Tasciotti and Andrea Spartaco

Effects of Bribery on Firms' Environmental Innovation Adoption in Vietnam: Mediating Roles of Firms' Bargaining Power and Credit and Institutional Constraints

Le Thanh Ha, Pham Xuan Nam and To Trung Thanh

The impacts of climate induced disasters on the economy: Winners and losers in Sri Lanka

Sajeevani Weerasekara, Clevo Wilson, Boon Lee, Viet-Ngu Hoang, Shunsuke Managi and Darshana Rajapaksa

Computing stochastic Pareto frontiers between economic and environmental goals for a semi-arid agricultural production region in Austria

Katrin Karner, Erwin Schmid, Uwe A. Schneider and Hermine Mitter

Less is more: The implicit sustainability content of the human development index

Jacob Assa

Economic losses from natural disturbances in Norway spruce forests – A quantification using Monte-Carlo simulations

Thomas Knoke, Elizabeth Gosling, Dominik Thom, Claudia Chreptun, Anja Rammig and Rupert Seidl

Benefits of Increasing Information Accuracy in Variable Rate Technologies

Karin Späti, Robert Huber and Robert Finger

Opening the organisational black box to grasp the difficulties of agroecological transition. An empirical analysis of tensions in agroecological production cooperatives

Lou Plateau, Laurence Roudart, Marek Hudon and Kevin Maréchal

Circular economy, degrowth and green growth as pathways for research on sustainable development goals: A global analysis and future agenda

Luis Jesús Belmonte-Ureña, José Antonio Plaza-Úbeda, Diego Vazquez-Brust and Natalia Yakovleva

Ecological trap in tourism-urbanization: Simulating the stagnation and restoration of urbanization from the perspective of government incentives

Shidong Liu, Yuhuan Geng, Jianjun Zhang, Xiufen Kang, Xuelian Shi and Jie Zhang

Accountability and sustainability transitions

Siddharth Sareen and Steven A. Wolf

The relation between fishing subsidies and CO2 emissions in the fisheries sector

Fábio Luiz Vargas Machado, Vinícius Halmenschlager, Patrízia Raggi Abdallah, Gibran da Silva Teixeira and Ussif Rashid Sumaila

Accounting for externalities in cross-sectional economic models of climate change impacts

Michele Moretti, Janka Vanschoenwinkel and Steven Van Passel

Trends in national biodiversity footprints of land use

Eivind Lekve Bjelle, Koen Kuipers, Francesca Verones and Richard Wood

Untangling the underlying drivers of the use of single-use food packaging

Sabrina Chakori, Ammar Abdul Aziz, Carl Smith and Paul Dargusch

Using an extended theory of planned behaviour to explain willingness towards voluntary carbon offsetting among Chinese consumers

Yujie Tao, Maosheng Duan and Zhe Deng

One-vote veto: The threshold effect of environmental pollution in China's economic promotion tournament

Pengcheng Tang, Qisheng Jiang and Lili Mi