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A microeconometric analysis of wildfire suppression decisions in the Western United States Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-06-25 David Rossi, Olli-Pekka Kuusela, Christopher Dunn
Full suppression strategies remain the dominant option in wildfire management, despite a large body of research demonstrating the ecological and economic benefits of allowing unplanned wildfires to burn under favorable conditions. Consequently, empirical research identifying and understanding the factors that contribute to these decisions within public land management agencies has become of critical
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Are citizens willing to accept changes in public lighting for biodiversity conservation? Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-06-24 Chloé Beaudet, Léa Tardieu, Maia David
Light pollution has significantly increased in recent years, in concert with urban sprawl. Light pollution consequences for nocturnal wildlife, human health, and energy consumption are numerous but are poorly tackled in urban policies. The regulation and mitigation of light pollution is possible, but requires an important shift in the lighting paradigm, including in public lighting often managed by
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Hot in Twitter: Assessing the emotional impacts of wildfires with sentiment analysis Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Maria L. Loureiro, Maria Alló, Pablo Coello
Social media generates a significant amount of information in terms of perceptions, emotions, and sentiments. We present an economic analysis using the information provided by Twitter messages, describing impressions and reactions to wildfires occurring in Spain and Portugal. We use natural language processing techniques to analyze this text information. We generate a hedonometer estimate on how sentiments
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How much infrastructure is required to support decent mobility for all? An exploratory assessment Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-06-23 Doris Virág, Dominik Wiedenhofer, André Baumgart, Sarah Matej, Fridolin Krausmann, Jihoon Min, Narasimha D. Rao, Helmut Haberl
Decarbonizing transport is crucial for achieving climate targets, which is challenging because mobility is growing rapidly. Personal mobility is a key societal service and basic need, but currently not available to everyone with sufficient quality and quantity. The basis for mobility and accessibility of desired destinations is infrastructure, but its build-up and maintenance require a substantial
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The effect of deliberate ignorance and choice procedure on pro-environmental decisions Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Adiel Moyal, Amos Schurr
When people are given the opportunity to avoid unpleasant information about the possible negative consequences of their self-interested behavior on others, a significant number of people tend to avoid this information. Consequently, the choice to remain ignorant to the negative implications of one's actions has been shown to substantially reduce prosocial behavior when compared to situations in which
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Valuing Recreation in Italy's Protected Areas Using Spatial Big Data Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Michael Sinclair, Andrea Ghermandi, Giovanni Signorello, Laura Giuffrida, Maria De Salvo
Protected areas offer unique opportunities for recreation, but the non-market nature of these benefits presents a significant challenge when trying to represent value in the decision-making processes. The most common techniques to value recreation are based on resource-intensive primary surveys which are difficult to perform at a large scale or in remote locations. This is true in the case of Italy
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Needs must? Fair allocation of personal carbon allowances in mobility Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-06-21 Tuuli von Wright, Janne Kaseva, Helena Kahiluoto
Personal carbon allowances have been of considerable interest in environmental research in the last decade, yet no policy implementations have been adopted, partly due to uncertainty around the political acceptability of equal allowances. We tackled this issue by surveying public perceptions of fairness in carbon allowance allocation in urban mobility. Qualitative and quantitative inquiry data of 304
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Improving acceptance of natural capital accounting in land use decision making: Barriers and opportunities Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-06-14 Aysha Fleming, Anthony P. O'Grady, Cara Stitzlein, Sue Ogilvy, Daniel Mendham, Matthew T. Harrison
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How do tourism sustainability and nature affinity affect social engagement propensity? The central roles of nature conservation attitude and personal tourist experience Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-06-13 Mbaye Fall Diallo, Fatou Diop-Sall, Erick Leroux, Marc-Antoine Vachon
Tourism sustainability has been extensively investigated in prior research. Yet, its relationships with social engagement remain unclear. The objective of this research is to investigate the direct and indirect effects of tourism sustainability and nature affinity on social engagement propensity. It relies on structural equation modeling and on three different studies across different time periods
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Do social norms trump rational choice in voluntary climate change mitigation? Multi-country evidence of social tipping points Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-06-10 Heinz Welsch
The rational choice model of voluntary public good provision predicts that an individual's contribution to climate change mitigation responds negatively to larger contributions by others whereas social norm theory maintains that one's own contribution is positively related to that of others. This paper tests the competing hypotheses empirically using representative data for about 30,000 individuals
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Is it a green or brown job? A Taxonomy of Sustainable Employment Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Katharina Bohnenberger
Greening employment is required to avoid multiple ecological crises but so far there exist different notions of what makes a job ecologically sustainable. The article portrays five theoretical perspectives and develops a framework to evaluate the environmental impact of employment in four dimensions: (1) output type: sustainable goods and services as the outputs from work, (2) occupation: green tasks
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Property values and cyanobacterial algal blooms: Evidence from satellite monitoring of Inland Lakes Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-06-06 Jiarui Zhang, Daniel J. Phaneuf, Blake A. Schaeffer
We examine how the frequency of cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (cyanoHABs) generates economic costs through the mechanism of residential property values. We assemble nearly two decades worth of nationwide data on property sales near US inland lakes along as well as satellite-derived measures of the annual frequency of cyanoHABs in over 2000 large lakes during the years 2008–2011. We combine these
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The circular economy and the optimal recycling rate: A macroeconomic approach Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-06-06 Anelí Bongers, Pablo Casas
This paper studies the economic implications of the circular economy and recycling activities from a macroeconomic perspective. The paper incorporates the circular economy into an otherwise standard neoclassical dynamic general equilibrium linear economy model, in which the production function depends on capital, labor, and raw materials. Raw materials are a composite of natural resources (the linear
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Economics without ecology: How the SDGs fail to align socioeconomic development with environmental sustainability Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-06-04 Markus Hametner
Science is increasingly warning that the Earth, as a result of human activity, is currently on a trajectory towards environmental collapse. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by UN member states in 2015 as a means to reconcile human activity with planetary boundaries, allowing humanity to thrive while safeguarding Earth's life support. The purpose of this paper is to assess whether
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Climate concern and policy acceptance before and after COVID-19 Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Stefan Drews, Ivan Savin, Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh, Sergio Villamayor-Tomás
It remains unclear how COVID-19 has affected public engagement with the climate crisis. According to the finite-pool-of-worry hypothesis, concern about climate change should have decreased after the pandemic, in turn reducing climate-policy acceptance. Here we test these and several other conjectures by using survey data from 1172 Spanish participants who responded before and after the first wave of
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Harnessing natural attenuation to reduce CAFOs nitrate emissions: An integrated modeling approach Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-06-05 Jingjing Wang
Excess manure nutrients transported off livestock farms can produce adverse environmental and health effects. Subsurface nitrate attenuation is a set of ecosystem services that livestock farms can harness to reduce their nitrate emissions. However, the capacity of the subsurface environment to attenuate nitrates is commonly either neglected or considered as exogenous to farm management and policymaking
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Economic growth as a double-edged sword: The pollution-adjusted Kaldor-Verdoorn effect Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-05-31 Guilherme de Oliveira, Gilberto Tadeu Lima
There is evidence that pollution concentration impacts negatively on labor productivity, which has implications for the well-know Kaldor-Verdoorn law. While the growth rate of labor productivity varies positively with the growth rate of output, the growth rate of pollution concentration also varies positively with the latter. An increase in pollution concentration leading to environmental degradation
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Renewal of waterways in a dense city creates value for residents Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-05-31 Maksym Polyakov, Md Sayed Iftekhar, James Fogarty, Joost Buurman
Water sensitive practices can improve water quality and city livability, but the extent to which these practices improve the welfare of residents is not well researched. We contribute to knowledge in this area using Singapore's Active, Beautiful, Clean Waters (ABC Waters) Program as a case study. The program includes the renovation and integration of drains, canals, and reservoirs with the surrounding
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Carbon footprint analysis of household consumption in greater Guadalajara reveal stark socio-spatial inequalities Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-06-02 Christian Hernández, Gibran Vita
Household consumption drives more than 65% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Nevertheless, most governments plan to meet the Paris Agreement based on production-based accounting (PBA), neglecting lifecycle emissions embodied in trade and consumption, as well as socio-spatial inequalities. This is a sub-city consumption-based accounting (CBA) analysis of Guadalajara Metropolitan Area (MAG), grounded
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Payment for CO2 sequestration affects the Faustmann rotation period in Norway more than albedo payment does Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Per Kristian Rørstad
Albedo and CO2 sequestration are the two most important climate forcing factors in forestry. After harvest the albedo in boreal forests increases which has a cooling effect. Likewise, CO2 captured in the photosynthesis reduce atmospheric CO2 and thereby have a cooling effect. These effects have value to society, and they may affect optimal management. This article investigates the effect on economical
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Coping with policy errors in an era of chronic socio-environmental crises Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-05-26 Janne I. Hukkinen, Jussi T. Eronen, Nina Janasik, Paavo Järvensivu, Roope O. Kaaronen
Since large-scale environmental disruptions have become chronic, policymakers need to consider the long-term consequences of urgent crisis decisions. We develop design principles for a decision platform addressing strategic environmental crisis management, by which we mean coordinated decisions during an environmental urgency that are sensitive to long-term path dependencies and policy errors. To enhance
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Time is money: Water quality's impact on home liquidity and property values Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Nicholas Irwin, David Wolf
Policymakers grappling with how to meet EPA water quality standards within the Chesapeake Bay must weigh the cost of water quality restoration against the benefits accrued to nearby homeowners. Missing from this analysis are the benefits homeowners receive from increased home liquidity – or how quickly a home is sold once listed. In this paper, we exploit variation in water clarity data to examine
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Solar collective self-consumption: Economic analysis of a policy mix Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Idiano D'Adamo, Massimo Gastaldi, Piergiuseppe Morone
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Crop selection as climate change adaptation: A study on Koyra Upazila of Bangladesh Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Md. Hafiz Iqbal, Ahsan Aziz
This paper explores how farmers adapt to salinity and waterlogging conditions by selecting crops. In this context, this study identifies salinity and waterlogging tolerant crops essential for the sustained livelihood of crop farmers. We developed a multinomial logit model and a cost-benefit analysis for assessing the effectiveness of farmers' selection of crops. Estimating the regression model across
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Risk-based benefit-cost analysis of ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction with considerations of co-benefits, equity, and sustainability Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-05-19 Meenakshi Chabba, Mahadev G. Bhat, Juan Pablo Sarmiento
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Do improved biomass cookstoves reduce fuelwood consumption and carbon emissions? Evidence from a field experiment in rural Ethiopia Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-05-19 Alemu Mekonnen, Abebe Beyene, Randy Bluffstone, Zenebe Gebreegziabher, Peter Martinsson, Michael Toman, Ferdinand Vieider
Using a randomized experimental design, real-time electronic stove surface temperature measurements and controlled cooking tests, we estimate fuelwood and CO2 savings from an improved cookstove (ICS) program in rural Ethiopia. Cooking uses a majority of the fuelwood in the country and therefore is a critical determinant of greenhouse gas emissions. Estimating fuelwood savings is therefore a key aspect
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How does the use of industrial robots affect the ecological footprint? International evidence Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-05-20 Yang Chen, Liang Cheng, Chien-Chiang Lee
While the use of industrial robots (UIR) promotes economic growth, it inevitably also has an impact on the ecological environment. This research explores the relationship between UIR and ecological footprint based on data of 72 countries from 1993 to 2019. First, whether based on overall or sub-industry data we confirm that UIR reduces the ecological footprint. After considering a series of robustness
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The economic value of the Glass Beach: Contingent valuation and life satisfaction approaches Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-05-17 Vladimir Otrachshenko, Elena Tyurina, Artur Nagapetyan
This paper investigates whether people value the environmental goods created as a result of the human-nature interaction. Using the novel face-to-face survey data collected in Vladivostok, the Far East of Russia, we examine the use and non-use value of a so-called Glass Beach. This beach is made of eroded glass fragments, a waste from human activities that has been recycled and processed by nature
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The impact of cooling energy needs on subjective well-being: Evidence from Japan Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-05-18 Moegi Igawa, Xiangdan Piao, Shunsuke Managi
Given the increasing energy needs for indoor cooling and the growing attention to energy poverty, it is important to understand how cooling energy needs in the hot summer season affect human well-being in relation to income level. Using Japan as a case country, this study examines how much energy consumption increases in response to higher temperatures in the summer season and how the additional energy
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Sustainability and Human Development Indicators: A Poset Analysis Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-05-17 Flavio Comim, Tadashi Hirai
The paper introduces the methodology of partially ordered sets to evaluate sustainable human development indicators. It shows its importance to the integration of human and environmental indicators, clarifying the limitations of composite indicators and emphasising the need to move towards higher levels of conceptual consistency and solid informational pluralism, incorporating richer social and environmental
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The impact of international rare earth trade competition on global value chain upgrading from the industrial chain perspective Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-05-18 Hongwei Zhang, Xinyi Wang, Jing Tang, Yaoqi Guo
Rare earth (RE) trade competition is becoming fierce, and an investigation of the global value chain (GVC) of a country's RE industry should place it in a competitive network. This article adopts the complex network method to analyse the evolution of international RE competition patterns from the perspective of the industry chain, and evaluates the impact of RE competition on GVC status using a panel
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Do plastic warning labels reduce consumers' willingness to pay for plastic egg packaging? – Evidence from a choice experiment Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-05-13 Joanna Van Asselt, Yefan Nian, Moonwon Soh, Stephen Morgan, Zhifeng Gao
Reducing single-use plastic consumption in the food and beverage industry has become increasingly important to policymakers as non-recycled plastic waste escapes into ecosystems. Plastic waste may pose direct and indirect threats to human, animal, and ecosystem health. In this paper we examine how warning labels on plastic packaging affects consumer valuation for packaged food products. Using a choice
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Farm performance and input self-sufficiency increases with functional crop diversity on Swedish farms Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-05-13 Pia Nilsson, Riccardo Bommarco, Helena Hansson, Brian Kuns, Henning Schaak
Diversified crop production is a key agroecological practice that enhances ecosystem functions and reduces reliance on costly external inputs, such as for plant protection and nutrition but might also increase labour costs and lower crop yields. We investigate if functional diversification, i.e., cultivation of crop species with contrasting ecological functions, is associated with a higher growth in
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What is a lion worth to local people – Quantifying of the costs of living alongside a top predator Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-05-13 Kim S. Jacobsen, Erlend Dancke Sandorf, Andrew J. Loveridge, Amy J. Dickman, Paul J. Johnson, Susana Mourato, Davide Contu, David W. Macdonald
The presence of large predators entails a range of costs and some benefits for the communities that live alongside them. The cost in terms of the value of livestock lost to predation is well known, but this represents only a part of the costs that people experience, as it does not account for non-market costs such as fear, avoidance behaviours and threat to human life. We quantify the total cost of
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Cooperation and sales revenue of fisheries: Evidence from France Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-05-10 Victor Vasse, François-Charles Wolff
This paper relies on a natural experiment to study the short-term consequences of a reduction of the trawler fleet on the economic situation of fisheries. In the context of the Covid pandemic, a scenario of cooperation leading to a weekly rotation of trawlers was set up for four weeks in May 2020 in the port of Le Grau-du-Roi located on the Mediterranean Sea. However, this scenario was not utilized
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The adoption of pesticide-free wheat production and farmers' perceptions of its environmental and health effects Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-05-09 Robert Finger, Niklas Möhring
The reduction of pesticide use is a prime issue on policy agendas worldwide. However, existing policies often fail to promote widespread adoption of low-pesticide or no-pesticide production practices. Therefore, in order to overcome this obstacle, it is important to understand why farmers hesitate to use more sustainable pest management. To this end, we investigate the relationship between farmers'
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A bargaining experiment under weak property rights, with implications for indigenous title claims Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-05-09 Kevin Berry, Anthony R. Delmond, Rémi Morin Chassé, John C. Strandholm, Jason F. Shogren
We explore how three parties bargain over a windfall created by a development project given negative spillover on only one party's property. We compare how weak and strong property rights affect negotiation outcomes and fairness. With strong property rights, parties secure equal payment. With weak rights, parties reimburse costs and divide surplus so the developer is simply indifferent, nothing more
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Implicit incentives in green public procurement: Good intentions versus rigid regulations Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 Elena V. Shadrina, Dmitri V. Vinogradov, Dmitry V. Kashin
Governments promote pro-environmental behavior explicitly, through regulatory provisions, or implicitly, by setting general environmental objectives without explicit requirements. Shared values and commitment to government objectives supposedly help towards greener behavior. We argue that the lack of explicit guidance counteracts, especially if green options are perceived as conflicting with strict
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Why does France not meet its pesticide reduction targets? Farmers' socio-economic trade-offs when adopting agro-ecological practices Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-05-07 Amalie Bjørnåvold, Maia David, David A. Bohan, Caroline Gibert, Jean-Marc Rousselle, Steven Van Passel
Despite substantial policy efforts made by the French government to reduce dependence on pesticides, farming practices are only changing slowly. This paper analyses the socio-economic trade-offs that 110 farmers are currently facing in the transition to agro-ecological practices. A mixed-method approach - a quantitative discrete choice experiment (DCE) and qualitative interviews - was set up to understand
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Collaborative governance as a means of navigating the uncertainties of sustainability transformations: The case of Finnish food packaging Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-05-03 Henna Sundqvist-Andberg, Maria Åkerman
The use of disposable packaging is essential to the performance of global food systems, but it has led to global environmental problems. There is a recognised need for collaborative governance, because authoritative governance alone cannot push forward the systemic sustainability transformations required to resolve these challenges. In this qualitative case study, we apply interpretive policy analysis
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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 Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-04-30 Shengyue Fan, Shuai Zha, Chenxi Zhao, Fangyuan Sizheng, Meihui Li
Proponents of distributive justice with regard to energy hold that every household has the right to affordable access to energy. However, when passively participating in clean energy reform policies, households, and especially low-income households, are often forced to use energy beyond the scope of affordability, resulting in distributive injustice. However, research on the quantitative estimation
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Neoliberalism and climate change: How the free-market myth has prevented climate action Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-04-28 Anders Fremstad, Mark Paul
Activists and scholars increasingly blame neoliberalism for the failure to sharply reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but there is insufficient research that investigates the theoretical link between neoliberalism and climate paralysis. This paper seeks to fill that gap by presenting a coherent account of how neoliberal ideology has constrained policies to address climate change in the United States
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Emissions inequality: Disparities in income, expenditure, and the carbon footprint in Austria Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Hendrik Theine, Stefan Humer, Mathias Moser, Matthias Schnetzer
The social consequences of carbon taxation are closely related to the income and expenditure patterns of private households. This paper combines the national Household Budget Survey with EXIOBASE3 emissions data to analyse the distribution of the carbon footprint and differences in the exposure to carbon taxation in Austria. The results indicate a strong variation in greenhouse gas (CO2e) emissions
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The environmental and financial performance of green energy investments: European evidence Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Maria Céu Cortez, Nuno Andrade, Florinda Silva
This paper investigates the environmental and financial performance of investments in energy firms. For this purpose, we form portfolios of green energy European stocks compared to their non-green counterparts from January 2008 to November 2020 and assess their environmental and financial performance. Within firms with environmental ratings, those that are green perform better in environmental terms
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Vulnerability and spatial competition: The case of fisheries and offshore wind projects Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Buchholzer Hélène, Frésard Marjolaine, Le Grand Christelle, Pascal Le Floc'h
Professional fishing activities are subject to spatial pressures. The cohabitation between a traditional fishing activity and development of the offshore wind energy industry raises questions about space sharing and rules of use. This paper proposes to adapt the vulnerability methodology developed to deal with global threats of climate change to this example of local, non-climatic change using the
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How do governance arrangements matter in the circular economy? Lessons from five methanation projects based on the social-ecological system framework Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Nabila Arfaoui, Christian Le Bas, Marie-France Vernier, Linh-Chi Vo
As the circular economy (CE) is a viable solution to address environmental issues, academics and policy makers aim to have a better understanding of the drivers and barriers related to its development. Nonetheless, what is still missing in this discussion is what governance arrangements at the micro level would be conducive for the CE. In other words, how actors should interact to apply, form, and
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Coevolutionary decoupling in artisanal fisher communities: A temporal perspective from Chile Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Gino Bailey, Eduard Ariza, Antònia Casellas
The relationship between the exploitation and scarcity of fishery resources is a complex phenomenon that has been broadly examined by studies on fishing sustainability, the governance of the commons and ecology. This study furthers this line of inquiry using a systemic coevolutionary approach that enables the time perspective to be used to examine the negative effects on artisanal fishing. Through
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Does Unconventional Energy Extraction Generate More Wastewater? A Lifetime Perspective Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Minhong Xu, Yilan Xu, Madhu Khanna
Unconventional energy extraction has been accompanied by a faster increase in aggregate wastewater generation compared with conventional practice. Understanding the extent to which it is due to technologies, energy production, or geological characteristics has implications for reducing the associated environmental risks. We analyze how wastewater generation patterns differ between unconventional wells
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Challenges and innovations in the economic evaluation of the risks of climate change Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-04-18 James A. Rising, Charlotte Taylor, Matthew C. Ives, Robert E.T. Ward
A large discrepancy exists between the dire impacts that most natural scientists project we could face from climate change and the modest estimates of damages calculated by mainstream economists. Economic assessments of climate change risks are intended to be comprehensive, covering the full range of physical impacts and their associated market and non-market costs, considering the greater vulnerability
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Modelling the circular economy: Introducing a supply chain equilibrium approach Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-04-18 Bart Lahcen, Johan Eyckmans, Sandra Rousseau, Yoko Dams, Jan Brusselaers
The circular economy (CE) has gained prominence in recent years in government and business policies, as well as academic research. Yet, its alleged wholesomeness is increasingly questioned and few quantitative studies include both the outer (e.g. recycling) and inner circles (e.g. reduce or reuse), respectively the ex-ante least and most efficient CE strategies. By developing a supply chain equilibrium
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Tree cover and property values in the United States: A national meta-analysis Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-04-15 Kent Kovacs, Grant West, David J. Nowak, Robert G. Haight
Our meta-analysis uses 21 hedonic property value studies and 157 unique observations to study the influence of tree cover on the value of homes in the United States. We construct elasticity estimates of the percentage change in home value for a 1% change in the percentage of tree cover around a home. Cluster weighted averages of the elasticities account for the housing market and the precision of the
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Diverse stakeholder perspectives and ecosystem services ranking: Application of the Q-methodology to Hawane Dam and Nature Reserve in Eswatini Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-04-15 Linda Siphiwo Mahlalela, Damien Jourdain, Eric Dada Mungatana, Thomas Hedemark Lundhede
This paper uses the Q methodology to identify and analyze the diverse perspectives different stakeholders held about Hawane Dam and Nature Reserve (HDNR) wetland ecosystem services (ESS), to guide conservation management actions. Using 72 representative stakeholders to sort 40 statements describing ESS into a predefined distribution and a by-person factor analysis, the results show that stakeholders
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Welfare regimes as enablers of just energy transitions: Revisiting and testing the hypothesis of synergy for Europe Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Pablo García-García, Luis Buendía, Óscar Carpintero
Welfare States are considered key tools to provide just transitions. The hypothesis of synergy states that Social-democratic regimes are in a better position to accomplish them. While synergy has been widely theorised, its empirical verification has remained less studied and provided contradictory results. The weaknesses detected in the state-of-the-art, such as the misalignment of empirical testing
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Prescriptive drought policy and water supplier compliance Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Adam Soliman
Governments often cannot use prices to induce water conservation, and the need to understand the impacts of alternate methods is growing due to increased variability in water resources. During the 2012–2016 drought in California, a period that may presage the future of water management in a warmer climate, the state attempted to manage water use through a set of mandatory restrictions that assigned
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Exploring social-ecological impacts on trade-offs and synergies among ecosystem services Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-04-12 Xiaoyu Wang, Jian Peng, Yuhang Luo, Sijing Qiu, Jianquan Dong, Zimo Zhang, Kim Vercruysse, Robert C. Grabowski, Jeroen Meersmans
An in-depth understanding of the complex patterns of ecosystem services (ESs) interactions (i.e., synergies or trade-offs) based on social-ecological conditions is an important prerequisite for achieving sustainable and multifunctional landscapes. This study aimed to explore how ESs interactions are influenced by social-ecological factors. Taking the Sutlej-Beas River Basin as a case study area, where
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Modeling rebound effects and counteracting policies for German industries Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-04-08 Lara Ahmann, Maximilian Banning, Christian Lutz
Energy efficiency programs for industry are important to reduce energy demand and GHG emissions. Rebound effects reduce intended energy savings. Against this background, various policy measures are modeled and combined for German industry to see how they can counter rebound effects. The efficiency program itself, the reinvestment requirement and carbon prices reduce energy use in industry. Higher carbon
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Do environmentally-friendly cocoa farms yield social and economic co-benefits? Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-04-08 Lina Tennhardt, Gianna Lazzarini, Rainer Weisshaidinger, Christian Schader
Downstream companies in chocolate supply chains are increasingly engaged in improving the sustainability of cocoa production, which requires a multidimensional understanding of cocoa farms' sustainability performance. However, prior research has insufficiently addressed the multiple sustainability dimensions of cocoa production or the interrelationships between dimensions. This study explores farm
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Social value of bird conservation on private forest lands in Pennsylvania, USA Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-04-02 Sadikshya Sharma, Melissa M. Kreye
Global biodiversity is in decline due to factors such as land-use change, pollution, and climate change. Birds contribute to biodiversity in several ways; one way, in particular, is by cultivating public support for habitat conservation by being a socially desirable category of wildlife. To understand the social value of bird conservation on private forest lands in Pennsylvania, a statewide web survey
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Valuing beyond economics: A pluralistic evaluation framework for participatory policymaking Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-04-02 Richard M. Gunton, Adam P. Hejnowicz, Andrew Basden, Eline N. van Asperen, Ian Christie, David R. Hanson, Sue E. Hartley
The sustainability challenges facing societies call for policies and governance systems that are attuned to the diversity of goods that support and enrich human life via ecological, technical and other kinds of systems, and to the plurality of values that people hold across diverse cultures and belief systems. A pluralistic evaluation framework (PEF) is here presented as a tool for considering diverse
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Shared and environmentally just responsibility for global biodiversity loss Ecol. Econ. (IF 5.389) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Zhongxiao Sun,Paul Behrens,Arnold Tukker,Martin Bruckner,Laura Scherer