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Can eco-labels tune a supply chain? The case of MSC-certified haddock from Norway Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-05-17 Geir Sogn-Grundvåg, Julia Bronnmann, Ingrid Kristine Pettersen, Frank Asche, Ove Johansen
It is well established in the literature that fish products with the ecolabel of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) obtain price premiums in food retailing compared to non-labeled substitutes. However, premiums vary substantially between species, with the expensive Atlantic cod commanding much higher MSC premiums than low-value species like Alaska pollock, indicating that the most affluent consumers
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Degrowth: What's in it for the labour movement? Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-05-17 Zac Edwards
Degrowth has gained attention in recent years as a paradigm for environmental activism and policy. While degrowth is often associated with prefigurative politics, there is emerging interest among degrowth proponents in contentious mass politics and engagement with other social movements. Debate has thus emerged over what kinds of social forces might be mobilised in pursuit of a degrowth transition
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An aggregate price for energy services: Useful exergy as an intermediate flow in a two-sector model of the economy Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-05-17 João Santos, Tânia Sousa, André Serrenho, Tiago Domingos
Understanding the role of energy in economic growth has been particularly successful when measuring it as useful exergy with, however, the major shortcoming of treating this (intermediate) flow as a primary factor of production. Here, we solve this issue by conceptualizing the economy with an extended energy macro sector (E-Sector) encompassing all primary-to-final-to-useful exergy conversions, supplying
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Towards greater circularity in the hydrogen technology value chain Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-05-16 Marie Axt, Brian Baldassarre, Julian Kirchherr
The global transition to a carbon-neutral economy presents significant challenges, particularly in the deployment of renewable energy and storage technologies. A key aspect of this transition is the production and use of green hydrogen. This depends on the deployment of electrolysers and fuel cells, requiring critical raw materials in their manufacturing processes. In the European Union (EU), these
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Review of “Territories of Life. Exploring Vitality of Governance for Conserved and Protected Areas” by Borrini-Feyerabend, G. and Jaeger, T. Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-05-16 Joan Martinez-Alier
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Analysis of the multidimensional energy poverty in Italy using the partially ordered set Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-05-15 Chiara Grazini
Adequate warmth, cooling, lighting, and electrical device use are indispensable in upholding suitable living standards, health, and social inclusion. The energy crisis that followed the COVID-19 pandemic and exacerbated by rising energy prices due to the Russian-Ukrainian war has pushed energy poverty to the forefront of the EU political agenda. Although it is largely contingent upon the availability
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Valuing wild salmon and steelhead recovery in Oregon’s most urbanized watershed Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-05-15 Michael Papenfus, Matt A. Weber
We estimate public benefits associated with conserving wild Spring Chinook salmon and Winter Steelhead in Oregon’s Willamette Basin, both listed as Threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Using a choice experiment survey, we examine Oregonians’ willingness-to-pay (WTP) through higher taxes to support different recovered fish populations at various recovery timelines. Results indicate substantial
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Noisy biodiversity: The impact of ESG biodiversity ratings on asset prices Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-05-14 Wei Xin, Lewis Grant, Ben Groom, Chendi Zhang
The biodiversity components of ESG ratings are analysed to understand whether this disclosure mechanism can affect investment decisions, improve outcomes for biodiversity or lead to better management of nature-based risks. We analyse the relationship between stock returns and firms' biodiversity ratings and how biodiversity ratings are related to firm characteristics. We conclude that biodiversity
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Community sawmills can save forests: Forest regrowth and avoided deforestation due to vertical integration of wood production in Mexican community forests Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-05-14 Daniela A. Miteva, Edward A. Ellis, Peter W. Ellis, Erin O. Sills, Bronson W. Griscom, Dawn Rodriguez-Ward, Colette Naples, Claire Uematsu
Integrated conservation and development efforts in low- and middle-income countries have emphasized the devolution of forest management to local communities. This approach is posited to benefit both communities and conservation, but those benefits may depend on community capacity to capture value added, e.g., by processing forest products. In Mexico, most forests are under community management, but
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Pattern evolution and dynamic formation mechanism of global scrap copper trade network: Based on temporal exponential random graph model Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-05-10 Yunting Li, Yue Pu
Against the backdrop of environmental pollution, resource depletion and imbalance between supply and demand, the scrap copper trade market has become increasingly active. This paper adopts the complex network analysis method to not only explore the pattern evolution of the global scrap copper trade, but also innovatively use the temporal exponential random graph model to analyze the dynamic formation
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Model-based analysis of the agglomeration bonus for the conservation of twelve meadow bird species in an agricultural landscape Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-05-10 Martin Drechsler, Astrid Sturm
The agglomeration bonus has been proposed as an effective and cost-effective instrument for inducing the spatial aggregation of conservation measures. It consists of a spatially homogenous base payment (like most existing payment schemes) plus a bonus for each adjacent land parcel that is conserved, too. While the agglomeration bonus has been investigated in numerous theoretical studies, very few applied
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Designing contracts for the bioenergy industry: The role of swift relational contracting Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-05-08 Stefano Pascucci, Anna Grandori, Massimiliano Borrello, Luigi Cembalo
The bioenergy industry is a core component of the EU approach to reduce its dependency on non-renewable resources while attempting to support biomass producers and farmers in rural areas. However, bioenergy activities also pose governance challenges associated with intensified inter-organizational collaborations and network relations between farmers, bio-industries and other supply chain actors. Often
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Economic assessment of increasing tree cover in Kenya: The cost of maintaining forest contiguity Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-05-08 Paul Bostyn, Thierry Brunelle
As strategies to increase forest cover become more widespread as part of countries' environmental commitments, assessing the trade-offs between economic and environmental aspects of forestry activities is an increasingly pressing issue. This article addresses this question by assessing the cost-effectiveness of increasing forest cover under different land use management strategies that differ in their
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Subsidies against Nature: A multidimensional framework for biodiversity-aligned national budgets Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-05-07 Morgane Gonon, Améline Vallet, Vincent Deschamps, Amélie Le Mieux, Aurélien Oosterlinck, Hélène Soubelet, Louise Dupuis, Harold Levrel
Governments provide more than USD 800 billion annually in environmentally harmful subsidies at the global level despite international commitments. This paper introduces a novel and replicable framework for identifying biodiversity-harmful subsidies within national budgets. Our multidimensional approach is based on the five drivers of biodiversity loss: land use change, resource exploitation, climate
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Eco-paradox USA: The relationships between economic growth and environmental concern generally, and by different income groups Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-05-03 Marina Requena-i-Mora, Dan Brockington, Forrest Fleischman
Environmental values are commonly explained through three theories: post-materialism suggests affluence enables environmental concern, materialism argues environmental harm drives concern, while disconnection theory posits economic growth creates both concern and degradation. We test these frameworks at two levels. First, using aggregate U.S. time-series data (1990–2021), and Vector Autoregression
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Landscape features on farms: Evidence on factors influencing their quantity and ecological value Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-05-03 Antonia Kaiser, Yanbing Wang, Noëlle Klein, Gabriele Mack, Christian Ritzel
Intensive agriculture and increasingly homogeneous agricultural landscapes are major drivers of biodiversity loss. The implementation of landscape features (e.g. hedges, trees, and field margins) as part of ecological focus areas on farms is a promising approach. This study aims to fill the gaps in understanding the influence of factors related to farmers' willingness and ability on their implementation
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Extreme weather events, home damage, and the eroding locus of control Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-05-02 Ha Trong Nguyen, Francis Mitrou
The catastrophic consequences of natural disasters on social and economic systems are extensively documented, yet their influence on individuals' sense of control over their life outcomes remains unexplored. This study pioneers an investigation into the causal effects of natural disaster-related home damage on the locus of control. Utilizing Australian longitudinal data, we implement an individual
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Urban heat islands and income inequalities: Evidence from French cities Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-04-30 Céline Grislain-Letrémy, Julie Sixou, Aurélie Sotura
During heatwaves in cities, urban heat islands (UHI) can occur that unequally affect different neighborhoods due to variations in their structures, the quality of their buildings, vegetation, and human activity. Some populations are particularly vulnerable, such as older adults, young children, and low-income households, all of whom have fewer options when exposed to an UHI. For the first time, in
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The role of sufficiency measures in a decarbonizing Europe Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-04-29 Nicolò Golinucci, Matteo Vincenzo Rocco, Matteo Giacomo Prina, Filippo Beltrami, Lorenzo Rinaldi, Erwin M. Schau, Wolfram Sparber
Europe's ambitious climate goals highlight the importance of combining energy policies with technological decarbonization; however, these efforts alone may not achieve the necessary emissions reductions. Existing models for low-carbon transitions often focus on technological interventions, without fully integrating the decarbonization potential of behavioural shifts towards sufficient consumption.
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The industrial decarbonization paradigm: Carbon lock-in or path renewal in the United Kingdom? Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-04-25 Kyle S. Herman, Jeremy K. Hall, Benjamin K. Sovacool, Marfuga Iskandarova
Since 2017, industrial policies in the United Kingdom have prioritized revitalizing industrial clusters through subsidies for low-carbon technologies and infrastructure. This study introduces the Industrial Decarbonization Paradigm (IDP) to examine dominant technological designs, policy-driven technological channeling, industrial regimes, and the persistence of path dependence across three major industrial
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The assessment of nature-related risks: From ecosystem services vulnerability to economic exposure and financial disclosures Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-04-23 Alessandra La Notte, Alexandra Marques, Marco Petracco, Maria Luisa Paracchini, Mayra Zurbaran-Nucci, Ioanna Grammatikopoulou, Marialuisa Tamborra
Nature-related risks can lead to financial losses. The connection between ecosystems and socioeconomic systems is complex and multifaceted. Ecosystem services are the ecological processes that serve human needs. The degree to which a specific ecological process fails to meet specific human needs could be a useful metric able to ground the cascade of risks to which companies, governments, financial
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Selective carbon credits: Market preferences and ecosystem restoration in Senegal Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-04-23 Morgane Gonon, Rémi Prudhomme, Marieme Ba, Penda Diop, Tamsir Mbaye, Harold Levrel, Adrien Comte
The voluntary carbon market is presented as a solution to fund land and ecosystem restoration in developing economies. While the empirical literature has focused on assessing its ecological effectiveness, limited attention has been given to how this market interacts with other funding streams within national contexts. Delineating the types of projects that the voluntary carbon market can effectively
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Tell me what you cook and I'll tell you who you are. A study of the influence of the representations and identities of aspiring chefs on their intentions to reduce meat in favour of plant-based dishes Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-04-22 Arnaud Lamy, Sandrine Costa, Lucie Sirieix, Ophélie Mugel, Maxime Michaud
Faced with increasing recommendations for a more plant-based diet, the catering sector is particularly affected. This study investigates how future chefs' representations and identities (professional or otherwise) influence their intentions to offer less meat-based and more plant-based menus, either by reducing meat in dishes or replacing meat-based dishes with vegetarian options. Theories of representations
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Discrete choice experiment estimates on the value of soil health attributes in Central Texas Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-04-18 Michael A. Black, Mona Ahmadiani, Dianna K. Bagnall, Cristine L.S. Morgan, Macson Ogieriakhi, Richard T. Woodward
When farmers adopt conservation tillage, they are making a management change that is expected to improve manageable characteristics of soil health. The current literature on the value of soil health, however, primarily focuses on the value of inherent soil characteristics. In this paper we close the gap in the literature by estimating the value of improvements in soil health. Using a sample of farmers
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Natural forces matter: A note on Simon N. Patten's critique of John B. Clark's theory of distribution Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-04-16 Luca Fiorito, Massimiliano Vatiero
This note analyses Simon N. Patten's criticism of John B. Clark's marginal productivity theory of distribution for its neglect (among other things) of the role of environmental factors in determining economic value in markets. Whereas Clark's theory centered on the distribution between labor and capital income, with land earnings understood as a sub-part of interest, Patten intended to retain the classics'
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The evolution of the EU electronics market and its impact on direct material consumption: Lessons from the past Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-04-12 Marco Compagnoni, Erica Santini
The direct material consumption of technological systems is connected to three challenges: the overall metabolism of the technological system; the growing material complexity of technologies; their reliance on critical or geologically scarce materials. These challenges are often examined in isolation, overlooking their interrelated nature. We propose a systematic, multi-level perspective, leveraging
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Pro-environmental behavior and environmentalist movements: Evidence from the identification with Fridays for Future Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-04-11 Daniela Flörchinger, Manuel Frondel, Stephan Sommer, Mark A. Andor
This paper empirically tests the impact of pro-environmental identity on environmental behavior by priming study participants with their previously stated attitude towards the environmentalist movement Fridays for Future. On the basis of a large-scale survey experiment including the incentivized choice between a voucher for a flight or a train ride, we find evidence that respondents who receive such
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The trade-off between middle class and ecological footprint: Empirical cross-country analysis Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-04-10 Zhiyuan Ren, Yuhan Zhu
While it may be attractive to pursue win-win outcomes or positive synergies between environmental quality and human welfare, it does not necessarily mean that these goals are mutually reinforcing. With improved material standards, a large number of middle-class individuals with higher consumption demand and purchasing power are challenging ecological sustainability through frequent and high-intensity
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Estimating opportunity costs for energy-efficiency renovations: Case study in Germany Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-04-09 Ray Galvin, Paul Galvin
Since energy consumption in residential buildings produces 26 % of CO2 emissions worldwide, there is an urgent need to improve the energy efficiency of older buildings. This is expensive, and a component often poorly estimated is opportunity costs: the losses a building owner incurs by investing in an energy-efficiency upgrade rather than in a more profitable project. Some recent studies assume opportunity
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Beyond conservation of natural capital: Rethinking sustainability in the Anthropocene Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-04-09 Birger Priddat, Oliver Schlaudt
In the context of economic policy advice, the common understanding of sustainability focuses on the preservation of natural capital. In the Anthropocene, which is characterised by anthropogenically induced, abrupt and/or long-term, often irreducible ecosystem dynamics and a co-evolution of technology and environment, this understanding reaches its limits. We therefore propose three modifications: shifting
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Pervasive racial and ethnic disparities in the U.S. petrochemical workforce Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-04-09 Kimberly Terrell, Gianna St. Julien, Michael Ash
The burden of petrochemical pollution on communities of Color is well established, but the corresponding distribution of economic benefits is unclear. We evaluated employment equity in chemical manufacturing (NAICS 325) and petroleum/coal products manufacturing (NAICS 324) among U.S. states and core-based statistical areas (CBSAs) relative to racial education gaps, using data from the Equal Employment
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On non-reformist reforms and partial political settlements in degrowth strategy Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-04-09 Giuseppe Feola
One of the most urgent and challenging open questions for degrowth scholarship and practice concerns how to pursue a degrowth social-ecological transformation within the existing structures in the real world. However, the marked emphasis on democratic planning for non-reformist reforms in a degrowth strategy (i) underestimates the lack of favourable conditions for democratic planning (i.e., political
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Climate adaptation, perceived resilience, and household wellbeing: Comparative evidence from Kenya and Zambia Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-04-09 Haseeb Ahmed, Juan Sebastian Correa, Nicholas J. Sitko
The growing frequency and severity of extreme weather events has spawned a rapid increase in policies and programs designed to enhance the resilience of small-scale producers through the promotion of climate-adaptive agricultural practices. However, gaps exist in the conceptualization and measurement of farm-households' resilience in face of climatic stress. Furthermore, comparative evidence to understand
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Socio-economic and volume effects of a circular value chain for clothing Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-04-03 Julie Metta, Kris Bachus, Sandra Rousseau
We investigate the socio-economic effects of further activating the circular value chain for clothing on the labour market in the Netherlands. We develop a value chain model to evaluate the direct gross effects of changes in production, consumption, and end-of-life activities and map the value chain, limited to the part of the clothing value chain that takes place within the geographical borders of
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Cost-efficient allocation of ship measures and harvest of aquatic invasive species – An application to invasive crabs on the west coast of Sweden Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-04-03 Ing-Marie Gren, Lars Arneborg, Sandra-Esther Brunnabend, Sam Fredriksson, Lena Granhag, Björn Källström
The purpose of this study was to identify cost-efficient combinations of control measures (harvest of established invaders) and prevention measures (ballast water treatment and antifouling to prevent invaders) to achieve targets for the maximum population sizes of two invasive crabs, the Asian shore crab (Hemigrapsus sanguineus) and brush-clawed shore crab (Hemigrapsus takanoi), in interconnected water
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Relative environmental impacts and monetary cost of food categories: Functional unit matters Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-29 Florent Vieux, Matthieu Maillot, Corinne Marmonier, Anthony Rouault, Marlène Perignon, Nicole Darmon
The aim of this study was to explore how the choice of a functional unit (FU) influences the environmental and economic rankings of food categories. For each adult in the latest French national dietary survey (n = 2121), we built a dataset providing the energy and nutritional content, environmental impacts (14 metrics) and monetary cost of 20 food categories as consumed. The cost and environmental
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Allocating conservation resources between uncertain future states of nature Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-28 Neil Perry, Sriram Shankar
When uncertainty prevails, conservation decision makers allocate funds, inputs and resources between future states of nature to hedge their bets. Decision makers explicitly or implicitly substitute biodiversity in one future state of nature for biodiversity in another. However, the decision making frameworks common in conservation biology do not model, explain or justify such behavior. Frameworks such
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Corporate governance and ecological investments. The case of French industry Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-28 Simon Nadel, Magali Savès
This study examines the links between corporate governance and ecological investment decisions, focusing on arrangements aimed at democratizing decision-making: integration of new actors in decision-making processes, the development of ecological competencies within the firm, and the introduction of sustainability criteria into its management. Our study is based on an original database of 1788 establishments
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Global inequalities in countries' demand for raw materials: Twenty years of expansion and insufficient convergence Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-25 Juan Antonio Duro, Noemí Ramirez, Hanspeter Wieland, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Helmut Haberl
Understanding global patterns of resource use and their underlying drivers is crucial for environmental sustainability. Because production and consumption are globally highly interconnected, dynamic, and unequally distributed, examinations of changes in cross-country differences in resource use can shed light on questions of development, equity, and responsibility for environmental pressures.
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Improving biodiversity resilience requires both public and private finance: A life-cycle analysis of biodiversity finance Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-24 Jesper Beverdam, Klaus Hubacek, Bert Scholtens, Frans Sijtsma
There is a substantial ‘biodiversity financing gap’: each year, only about one sixth of the funding required for biodiversity conservation is actually provided. Most biodiversity financing is from public sources; less than one fifth is from private ones. However, the potential of private financing is huge and could help fill the biodiversity financing gap. We study how this might be achieved by using
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Reducing the environmental impact of food consumption through fiscal policies: The case of Spain Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-24 María-José Gutiérrez, Belén Inguanzo, Susan Orbe
This study examines the environmental impacts of human food consumption from an economic policy perspective, investigating how fiscal policy can mitigate the environmental footprints associated with this consumption. Focusing on carbon emissions (CF), water use (WF), and food loss and waste (FLW), the analysis uses Spain as a case study to estimate price elasticities of footprints (how footprints respond
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Pay the polluter or polluter pays? A preliminary assessment of public preferences for water quality policy Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-23 Seojeong Oh, Benjamin M. Gramig
US agencies have long used the pay-the-polluter (PTP) approach in which government pays agricultural polluters to adopt conservation practices on a voluntary basis to address nutrient pollution. However, limited fiscal resources and continued poor water quality have led to calls for a new paradigm, the polluter-pays-principle (PPP), in which agricultural polluters must clean up their nutrient emissions
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Public policy for management of forest pests within an ownership mosaic Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-22 Andrew R. Tilman, Robert G. Haight
Urban forests provide ecosystem services that are public goods with local (shade) to global (carbon sequestration) benefits and occur on both public and private lands. Thus, incentives for private tree owners to invest in tree care may fall short of those of a public forest manager aiming to optimize ecosystem service benefits for society. The management of a forest pest provides a salient focus area
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Does a sense of intergenerational commitments modify farmers' preferences for conservation tillage? Evidence from the choice experiment in Moldova Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-21 Łukasz Kryszak, Bazyli Czyżewski, Agnieszka Sapa, Eugenia Lucasenco
The expansion of conservation tillage helps to improve soil health in countries affected by the soil erosion, such as the Republic of Moldova. The main objective of this paper was to investigate Moldovan farmers' preferences for the hypothetical policy scheme designed to promote conservation tillage in the framework of a discrete choice experiment. The heterogeneity of farmers' preferences was explained
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Optimal pricing of protected areas under multiple sites demand models Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-21 Felipe Vásquez-Lavín, Mauricio Leiva, Nelyda Campos-Requena
This study extends Alpízar's (2006) price discrimination model for protected areas in nature-based tourism from a continuous demand to a discrete choice model. The original model provided a discrimination price solution for national and foreign visitors to a single site choice, limiting the model's application. Meanwhile, our extended model recognizes multiple recreational site options, each with a
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Regional employment implications of deploying CO2 transport and storage to decarbonise the UK's industry clusters Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-20 Christian Calvillo, Antonios Katris, Julia Race, Hannah Corbett, Karen Turner
The decarbonisation of UK industrial clusters via CCUS can support jobs and gross value-added (GVA). However, worker and skills shortages have been identified as a common challenge across UK clusters, and the net zero space, with average wage rates increasing as different sectors compete for a limited pool of labour. This paper employs multi-sector economy-wide CGE scenario simulations and linked regional
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Salience and information avoidance in voluntary carbon offsetting decisions: Evidence from online experiments Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-18 Nicola Campigotto, Chiara Gioia, Matteo Ploner
This paper investigates the behavioural drivers of voluntary carbon offsets, which allow individuals to reduce their emissions by funding environmental and energy projects. Despite the growth of the voluntary carbon market, the factors influencing these decisions remain under-researched. This study uses two incentivized online experiments to examine the role of information salience and information
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Carbon taxes in Europe do not hurt the poor: Evidence from existing taxation schemes Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-17 Michal Brzezinski, Monika Kaczan
This study investigates the distributional impacts of carbon taxes, traditionally examined through simulation studies on the regressivity of hypothetical tax scenarios. However, the dynamic influence of actually implemented carbon taxes on consumption/income poverty and inequality in a cross-country setting has been less scrutinised. This paper assesses the effect of carbon taxes introduced in the
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Snowmaking's slippery slope: The effect of mountain reservoirs on water demand Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-14 Jonathan Cognard, Lucas Berard-Chenu, Yves Schaeffer, Hugues François
Snowmaking is the primary adaptation of winter tourism to climate change and requires increased water use in winter. However, water withdrawals during this period coincide with the mountain low-flow period, which can potentially cause conflicts with other human uses and ecosystems. To address concerns about water availability, the number of reservoirs is increasing. Ski lift operators promote these
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Over-capitalization in fisheries with irreversible investment and factor substitution Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-14 Kira Lancker
A major problem for common pool resource regulation, such as fisheries management, is over-capitalization following investment irreversibility. Understanding theoretical implications of capital as an irreversible investment input better could help to avoid over-capitalization. This article analyzes the case where irreversibly invested capital can be substituted by flexibly adaptable inputs such as
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Assessing the nexus between industrialization and inclusive green growth in Africa. The critical role of energy efficiency Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-13 Brice Kamguia, Sosson Tadadjeu, Hermann Ndoya, Ronald Djeunankan
The literature on the effects of industrialization shows that it boosts productivity, creates jobs, enhances workforce skills, and contributes to social stability. However, its effects on inclusive green growth are quite rare in the literature. This study endeavors to fill this research gap by proposing one of the first empirical analyses, linking industrialization and inclusive green growth in a sample
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Mitigating climate vulnerability: the crop diversification effect Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-12 Marin Ferry, Jeanne de Montalembert
Can adaptation strategies mitigate the impact of drought episodes on household food insecurity? Using longitudinal data on Malagasy rural households from 2011 to 2014 and a two-way fixed-effects model with an instrumental variable method to address endogeneity issues, this study demonstrates that crop diversification significantly reduces household food insecurity and provides mitigating benefits.
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The power of hydropeaking: Trade-offs between flexible hydropower and river ecosystem services in Europe Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-11 Terese E. Venus, Oreoluwa Ola, Maria Alp, Nico Bätz, Maria Dolores Bejarano, Isabel Boavida, Maria Cristina Bruno, Roser Casas-Mulet, Mauro Carolli, Gabriele Chiogna, Marie-Pierre Gosselin, Jo H. Halleraker, Markus Noack, Diego Tonolla, Davide Vanzo, Daniel S. Hayes
The operational practice of “hydropeaking” allows hydropower plants to cover peaks and deficits in energy demand, but it also impacts river ecosystems. The assessment of hydropeaking impacts plays an important role in safeguarding ecosystem services, but is challenging due to the relative importance of impacts at different sites. To compare impacts in hydropeaking rivers, we elicit expert judgment
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Biases and nudges in the circular economy: A review Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-11 Luca Congiu, Enrico Botta, Mariangela Zoli
The circular economy transition requires consumers to make efforts in their waste disposal behaviors by increasing waste sorting, repairing and reusing products, and reducing the amount of waste produced. The literature has identified several barriers to consumers’ adoption of these practices. In this article, we posit that such barriers can be ultimately linked to well-known decisional biases and
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Assessing carbon emissions along global supply chains from technology perspective: A network production decomposition analysis Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-10 Hui Wang, Shasha Yu, Yafei Yang, Meiyue Wang, Peng Zhou
Global supply chains (GSCs) have boosted economic development while reshaping CO2 emissions patterns worldwide. Reducing emissions along GSCs is important to business operation and climate governance. As the productive and emission performances of production entities are largely determined by technology, assessing GSC emissions from a technology perspective is fundamental to GSC emissions management
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Input taxes in agriculture: Experiences and perspectives for European agriculture Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-09 Robert Finger, Anders Branth Pedersen
Taxes on agricultural inputs such as fertilizers and pesticides are often discussed, but there are large knowledge gaps as existing evidence on the functioning, experiences and limitations is outdated and scattered. We fill this gap by synthesizing knowledge on agricultural input taxes and focusing on their potential for European policy. We show that there is great potential for input taxes to improve
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Contextual behavioral informed nudges to stimulate waste prevention and recycling. A framework and a research agenda Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-09 Amedeo Argentiero, Massimo Cesareo, Vincenzo Fasone, Giulio Pedrini, Giovambattista Presti
Waste prevention and recycling have gained a focal position in the research agendas of scholars and policy makers. By drawing links between economics and psychology, Behavioral Economics (BE) offers a useful framework to stimulate benign individual decisions and choices in this field, by stressing the role of human factors in shaping them. Two distinct approaches can be identified, differing in how
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Raising environmental awareness with augmented reality Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-07 Giuseppe Attanasi, Barbara Buljat Raymond, Agnès Festré, Andrea Guido
Individuals are often poorly informed about the environmental consequences of their actions. Informational campaigns are a widely used policy tool to address imperfect information. However, previous research suggests that simply providing information may be ineffective and fail to engage individuals. We investigate whether augmented reality (AR) can reduce psychological distance and promote pro-environmental
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Critical realism, methodological pluralism, and ecological economics Ecol. Econ. (IF 6.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-06 Richard B. Norgaard
Critical realism is an especially inappropriate philosophical basis for ecological economics since it has developed entirely within the social sciences, relies on transcendentalism as a way of understanding reality, and ignores natural realities and the role of technology. The philosophy of methodological pluralism continues to inform and represent ecological economics well.