Ecological Economics

Papers
(The median citation count of Ecological Economics is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board457
BOOK REVIEWS308
God did not save the kings: Environmental consequences of the 1982 Falklands War236
Financial capital as a shaper of households' adaptive capabilities to flood risk in northern Bangladesh175
Optimal pricing of protected areas under multiple sites demand models144
Critical realism, methodological pluralism, and ecological economics139
The risks of the wrong climate policy for developing countries: Scenarios for South Africa115
Reducing fossil fuel dependency in smallholding farming in l'Horta de València, Spain: A socio-metabolic approach113
A Prospect Theory-based experimental vignette methodology for exploring rebound effects and rebound-damping interventions107
Buzzword or breakthrough beyond growth? The mainstreaming of the Wellbeing Economy104
Assessing U.S. consumers' carbon footprints reveals outsized impact of the top 1%97
Damage costs from invasive species exceed management expenditure in nations experiencing lower economic activity97
Energy matters: Mitigating the impacts of future land expansion will require managing energy and extractive footprints97
Does recalling energy efficiency measures reduce subsequent climate-friendly behavior? An experimental study of moral licensing rebound effects95
Developing policy packages for low-carbon passenger transport: A mixed methods analysis of trade-offs and synergies86
Improving the validity and credibility of the sociocultural valuation of ecosystem services in Amman, Jordan86
Integrating recreational ecosystem service valuations into Israel's Water economy84
Will adoption occur if a practice is win-win for profit and the environment? An application to a rancher's grazing practice choices81
Citizens' preferences and valuation of urban nature: Insights from two choice experiments76
The effect of deliberate ignorance and choice procedure on pro-environmental decisions73
Carbon inequality in global trade: Evidence from the mismatch between embodied carbon emissions and value added72
Sufficiency: A systematic literature review72
Biological control of a parasite: The efficacy of cleaner fish in salmon farming71
China's current carbon inequality is predominantly determined by capital disparity65
Towards a sustainable mobility lifestyle: Exploring the flight to rail shift through model-based behavioural change scenarios61
Carbon rotation ages and the offset measurement conundrum: An extended review61
Volatility-reducing biodiversity conservation under strategic interactions59
Potential outcomes and impacts of organic group certification in Italy: An evaluative case study59
Valuing beyond economics: A pluralistic evaluation framework for participatory policymaking58
Biotechnology or bioeconomy: Six of one and half a dozen of the other?57
Resilience rankings and trajectories of world's countries56
Are natural disasters stumbling blocks to carbon inequality mitigation? A global perspective56
BOOK REVIEWS55
The universal commons: An economic theory of ecosystem ownership55
Editorial Board55
The effects of the containers and packaging recycling law on the domestic recycling of plastic waste: Evidence from Japan55
Linking marine habitats and economic values: A spatial scaling methodology for valuing societal benefits53
Can payments-for-ecosystem-services change social norms?53
The economics of microbiodiversity52
The value of information in water quality monitoring and management52
Estimating the relationship between EROI and profitability of oil sands mining, 1997–201652
Exploring economy-wide sustainable conditions for EU bio-chemical activities49
The role of physical constraints on production49
Impact of livelihood strategies and capitals on rangeland sustainability and nomads' poverty: A counterfactual analysis in Southwest Iran49
Quantifying the importance of farmers' behavioral factors in ex-ante assessments of policies supporting sustainable farming practices47
Climate change and species decline: Distinct sources of European consumer concern supporting more sustainable diets47
Less and more: Conceptualising degrowth transformations47
The economic values of global forest ecosystem services: A meta-analysis46
Closing the loop at the local scale: Investigating the drivers of and barriers to the implementation of the circular economy in cities and regions46
Do ecological protection approaches affect total factor productivity change of cropland production in Sweden?46
Does corporate environmentalism affect corporate insolvency risk? The role of market power and competitive intensity46
The limits to degrowth: Economic and climatic consequences of pessimist assumptions on decoupling46
When health-related claims impact environmental demand: Results of experimental auctions with Bordeaux wine consumers45
Definitions of the circular economy: Circularity matters45
How does environmental regulation promote green technology innovation? Evidence from China's total emission control policy44
Can carbon tariffs based on domestic embedded carbon emissions reduce more carbon leakages?43
Editorial Board43
Stochastic growth and regime shift risk in renewable resource management43
The unequal exchange of air pollution and economic benefits embodied in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei's consumption42
Preferences for drought risk adaptation support in Kenya: Evidence from a discrete choice experiment and three decision-making theories42
Too good to be true: The inverted U-shaped relationship between home-country digitalization and environmental performance41
Unpacking the urban virtual water of the Global South: Lessons from 181 cities41
Me trying to talk about sustainability: Exploring the psychological and social implications of environmental threats through user-generated content41
Water, air pollution and carbon footprints of conspicuous/luxury consumption in India41
Land manager preferences for outcome-based payments for environmental services in oak savannahs41
Consumers' willingness to pay for an animal welfare food label40
International expansion of renewable energy capacities: The role of innovation and choice of policy instruments40
Editorial Board40
Navigating sustainable futures: The role of terminal and instrumental values40
A methodological framework for understanding shared social values in deliberative valuation39
On physical and social-cost-based CO2 equivalents for transient albedo-induced forcing39
Achieving landscape patterns for biodiversity conservation through payments for ecosystem services – Evidence from a field experiment in Indonesia38
Living well with the foundational economy: Assessing the spatial accessibility of foundational infrastructures in Vienna and the relationship to socio-economic status38
Global inequalities in countries' demand for raw materials: Twenty years of expansion and insufficient convergence37
Biases and nudges in the circular economy: A review37
Degrowth-oriented organisational value creation: A systematic literature review of case studies37
Degrowth in a settler state: climate-just economic transitions and Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples in Canada37
Social comparison feedback in decision-making context: Environmental externality levels and psychological traits matter37
Inherently unstable? Scaling, mission drift, and the comparative performance of community-based platforms in the sharing economy36
Ship-owner response to carbon taxes: Industry and environmental implications35
Editorial Board35
Particulate matter and COVID-19 excess deaths: Decomposing long-term exposure and short-term effects35
Insurance value of biodiversity in the Anthropocene is the full resilience value35
Environmental resource extraction and poverty: Comparative evidence from rural Thailand and Vietnam34
BOOK REVIEWS34
Editorial Board34
Do forest conservation policies undermine the soybean sector in the Brazilian Amazon? Evidence from the priority listing of municipalities34
Editorial Board34
Property value effects of the Hemlock wooly adelgid infestation in New England, U.S.A.33
Does sustainability-promoting policy making reduce our welfare?33
The social cost of adopting a plant-based diet33
A discrete-time bioeconomic model of free-roaming cat management: A case study in Knox County, Tennessee33
Grassland conservation supports migratory birds and produces economic benefits for the commercial beekeeping industry in the U.S. Great Plains33
Climate change and reindeer herding – A bioeconomic model on the impact of climate change on harvesting profits for Saami reindeer herders in Norway and Sweden32
Genetically engineered varieties and applied pesticide toxicity in U.S. maize and soybeans: Heterogeneous and evolving impacts32
The effect of the economic cycles on material requirements: Analysing the dematerialization in developed countries32
Temporary PES do not crowd out and may crowd in lab-in-the-field forest conservation in Colombia32
Promoting agricultural technologies with positive environmental effects: Evidence on tree planting in Indonesia32
Global and Local Spatial Spill-Overs: What Matters Most for the Diffusion of Organic Agriculture in Australia?32
Criminal enforcement and environmental performance: Evidence from China32
The impact of information asymmetry on animal welfare-friendly consumption: Evidence from milk market in Japan32
Framing effects in expert assessments of optimal GDP development31
Integrating modelling-based and stakeholder-focused scenario approaches to close the planning gap and accelerate low-carbon transitions31
Energy footprints and the international trade network: A new dataset. Is the European Union doing it better?31
Ecological unequal exchange between Turkey and the European Union: An assessment from value added perspective31
Co-benefits of a flexitarian diet for air quality and human health in Europe31
SSP economic growth projections: Major changes of key drivers in integrated assessment modelling30
Evaluating policy packages for a low-carbon transition – Principles and applications30
Raising awareness of climate change: Nature, activists, politicians?30
The effect of flood mitigation spending on flood damage: Accounting for dynamic feedback30
Linking the diversity of ecologisation models to farmers' digital use profiles30
Clean air as an experience good in urban China30
The impact of timber regulations on timber and timber product trade29
Ambient air pollution-related environmental inequality and environmental dissimilarity in Helsinki Metropolitan Area, Finland29
The Sustainable Development Goals as new business norms: A survey experiment on stakeholder preferences29
How social movements contribute to staying within the global carbon budget: Evidence from a qualitative meta-analysis of case studies29
Editorial Board28
The accumulation and substitution effects of multi-nation certified organic and protected eco-origin food labels in China28
Editorial Board28
Prosocial and financial incentives for biodiversity conservation: A field experiment using a smartphone app28
Willingness to pay for sustainable and legal firewood in Tasmania28
Editorial Board28
What are the banks doing in managing climate risk? Empirical evidence from a position map28
Climate change and its impact on home insurance uptake in Australia27
The natural assurance value of nature-based solutions: A layered institutional analysis of socio ecological systems for long term climate resilient transformation27
First-degree price discrimination water bank to reduce reacquisition costs and enhance economic efficiency in agricultural water buyback27
Tropical mixed-species plantations can outperform monocultures in terms of carbon sequestration and economic return27
Multinational dynamic steel cycle analysis reveals sequential decoupling between material use and economic growth27
Saving the world voluntarily: Experimental evidence of gain-loss framing on voluntary pro-environmental behavior27
Mediation and moderation roles of resilience capacity in the shock–food-security nexus in northern Ghana27
Institutional Barriers to Sustainable Forest Management: Evidence from an Experimental Study in Tajikistan26
Has Central Government Environmental Protection Interview Improved Air Quality in China?26
Water as driver of economic capacity: Introducing a physical economic model26
Measuring the economic value of urban river restoration26
What determines consumers' use of eco-labels? Taking a close look at label trust26
Forest adaptation strategies to reconcile timber production and carbon sequestration objectives under multiple risks of extreme drought and windstorm events26
Understanding determinants of the intention to buy rhino horn in Vietnam through the Theory of Planned Behaviour and the Theory of Interpersonal Behaviour26
The income inequality-CO2 emissions nexus: Transmission mechanisms26
Carbon pricing of basic materials: Incentives and risks for the value chain and consumers26
Relative environmental impacts and monetary cost of food categories: Functional unit matters26
How to estimate whether preferential trade agreements contribute to international environmental impact shifting. A new methodology and empirical illustration for Switzerland25
Confronting the dilemma of growth. A response to25
Do people think they have enough? A subjective income sufficiency assessment25
GEM: A short “Growth-vs-Environment” Module for survey research25
Willingness to reduce travel consumption to support a low-carbon transition beyond COVID-1925
The environmental benefits of grassroots cooperatives in agriculture24
Footprint analysis and the incidence of emission taxes: Corrigendum24
Bird feeding and biodiversity: The decline of the Willow Tit24
Toxic pollution and poverty: Economic impacts of lead (Pb) exposure on household welfare in Zambia24
Temperature and life satisfaction: Evidence from Chinese older adults24
Demand drivers and changes in food-related emissions in the UK: A decomposition approach24
Rising inequality: A material perspective on the Great Recession in the European Union24
Bioeconomic markets based on the use of native species (NS) in Brazil24
How to design publicly acceptable road pricing? Experimental insights from Switzerland24
How do nature governance rules affect compliance decisions? An experimental analysis24
Innovative fire policy in the Amazon: A statistical Hicks-Kaldor analysis24
Community reconstruction of biocultural landscapes. Application in the Kokonuko Indigenous Territory23
Heterogeneity, spillovers and eco-efficiency of European industries under different pollutants’ scenarios. Is there a definite direction?23
The governance of agricultural lands in marginal areas: A conceptual framework23
Vietnam's Payments for Forest Ecosystem Services scheme's puzzling role in protecting longstanding forests as deforestation rates rise23
Targeting socioeconomic transformations to achieve global sustainability23
Challenging the ecological economics of water: Social and political perspectives23
Harnessing natural attenuation to reduce CAFOs nitrate emissions: An integrated modeling approach23
Editorial Board23
Indigenous people's perceptions of benefits and costs of China's second phase of the grain for green program and the influencing factors23
Pay the polluter or polluter pays? A preliminary assessment of public preferences for water quality policy23
Property values and cyanobacterial algal blooms: Evidence from satellite monitoring of Inland Lakes23
Community-level economic impacts of a change in TAC for Alaska fisheries: A multi-regional framework assessment23
BOOK REVIEWS23
Deepgrowth: Self-transformation towards harmonious being23
Procedural climate justice: Conceptualizing a polycentric solution to a global problem22
An energy-based macroeconomic model validated by global historical series since 182022
Rising from the ashes: Transitioning towards carbon neutrality through the pathways of circular economy agglomeration22
Ratcheting up private standards by exploiting coopetition: The curious case of RSPO’s adoption of zero-deforestation criteria22
Is there a trade-off between human well-being and ecological footprint in European countries?22
Reframing vulnerability and resilience to climate change through the lens of capability generation22
Carbon footprint tracking apps: The spillover effects of feedback and goal-activating appeals22
Carbon footprint information, prices, and restaurant wine choices by customers: A natural field experiment22
Durability standards and clothing libraries for strengthening sustainable clothing markets22
Valuing Recreation in Italy's Protected Areas Using Spatial Big Data22
Vulnerability and spatial competition: The case of fisheries and offshore wind projects22
Assessing the regime-switching role of risk mitigation measures on agricultural vulnerability: A threshold analysis22
Knowledge spillovers between clean and dirty technologies: Evidence from the patent citation network22
The command paradox: Unraveling the impact of command-and-control water conservation policies on water-use technical efficiency21
Offsetting schemes and ecological taxes for wind power production21
An assessment of the distributional impacts of autonomous adaptation to climate change from European agriculture21
Can monetized carbon information increase pro-environmental behavior? Experimental evidence21
The impact of tropical cyclones on income inequality in the U.S.: An empirical analysis21
A Global Survey of Scientific Consensus and Controversy on Instruments of Climate Policy21
Editorial Board21
Optimal post-border surveillance against invasive pests to protect a valuable nature reserve and island asset21
Why and when do reserves estimates in mining change and innovations take place?21
Carbon Giants: Exploring the Top 100 Industrial CO2 Emitters in the EU21
Coordinating on good and bad outcomes in threshold games – Evidence from an artefactual field experiment in Cambodia21
Internet use, natural resource extraction and poverty reduction in rural Thailand21
Consequences of ecological aggregation in general equilibrium analysis of perturbed ecosystems21
Can phone text messages promote the use of integrated pest management? A study of vegetable farmers in Cambodia21
Two currencies – Rethinking energy and the economy21
Connected we stand: Lead firm ownership ties in the global petrochemical industry20
Leveraging participation in apparel global supply chains through green industrialization strategies: Implications for low-income countries20
From participation to commitment in silvopastoral programmes: Insights from Chiapas, Mexico20
Assessing the economic impacts of forest certification in Spain: A longitudinal study20
After the storm: Environmental tragedy and sustainable mobility20
Algae-Based Two-Stage Supply Chain with Co-Products20
Beyond institutional bricolage: An ‘intertwining approach’ to understanding the transition towards agroecology in Peru20
Macroeconomic impacts of water allocation under droughts. Accounting for global supply chains in a multiregional context20
Snowmaking's slippery slope: The effect of mountain reservoirs on water demand19
Global value chains participation and trade-induced carbon inequality: A comparative analysis of developed and developing economies19
Pests, wind and fire: A multi-hazard risk review for natural disturbances in forests19
Predicting uptake of a malignant catarrhal fever vaccine by pastoralists in northern Tanzania: Opportunities for improving livelihoods and ecosystem health19
Is social capital a driver of the green transition in the European Union?19
Does drought increase carbon emissions? Evidence from Southwestern China19
Assessing the heterogeneity of public acceptability for mangrove restoration through a choice experiment19
Modelling the embodied carbon cost of UK domestic building construction: Today to 205019
Changes in household recycling behavior: Evidence from panel data19
There are plenty more (sustainable) fish in the sea: A discrete choice experiment on discarded species in Italy19
Re-investigating the shared responsibility for trade-embodied carbon emissions19
Wait and see? Public preferences for the temporal effectiveness of coastal protection19
Nudges and compensation: Evaluating experimental evidence on controlling rice straw burning19
Payment for environmental services to reduce deforestation: Do the positive effects last?19
Charismatic species, matching, and demographics in conservation donations: An experimental investigation19
Changing the understanding of crop production: Integrating ecosystem services into the production function18
Editorial Board18
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Is green growth possible and even desirable in a spaceship economy?18
Recreation in coastal environments: Estimating the non-market value of fishing harbors18
Obituary: Clement Allan Tisdell (1939–2022) – An ecological economist in mind, heart and soul18
Motivational levers for the preservation of an intergenerational common resource: An experiment18
Water markets and water rebounds: China's water rights trading policy18
Editorial Board18
Sustainable commodity governance and the global south18
The marginal abatement cost function with secondary waste markets18
Valuing coastal fisheries and seagrasses: A case study of estuarine resources on Florida's Nature Coast18
Improving acceptance of natural capital accounting in land use decision making: Barriers and opportunities18
Opposite ethical views converge under the threat of catastrophic climate change18
Do you perceive interdependencies among human activities related to water? Drivers and effects on preferences for participation and regulation18
Investment, insurance and weather shocks: Evidence from Cambodia18
Are greenspaces too green? Landscape preferences and water use in urban parks17
In memoriam: Herman Daly (1938–2022)17
Broadening ecological footprint and biocapacity research: A co-developed research agenda with Canadian stakeholders17
Flagship species and certification types affect consumer preferences for wildlife-friendly rice labels17
Collaborative governance as a means of navigating the uncertainties of sustainability transformations: The case of Finnish food packaging17
Tracing carbon footprints to intermediate industries in the United Kingdom17
Shared and environmentally just responsibility for global biodiversity loss17
How the energy procurement switching strategies (driven by the Russia-Ukraine conflict) impact the global sustainability? The global sustainability dashboard17
Accounting for trade in derived products when estimating European Union's role in driving deforestation17
Risk averse policies foster bio-economic sustainability in mixed fisheries17
Natural hazard risk and life satisfaction – Empirical evidence for hurricanes17
Perceptions of Ecosystem Services and Bonds with Nature: The Case of Fish-Farming Ponds in France17
A comprehensive socio-economic assessment of EU climate policy pathways16
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