Ecological Economics

Papers
(The TQCC of Ecological Economics is 13. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
An assessment of the distributional impacts of autonomous adaptation to climate change from European agriculture405
Decoupling economic growth from energy use: The role of energy intensity in an endogenous growth model305
Motivational levers for the preservation of an intergenerational common resource: An experiment255
Changing the understanding of crop production: Integrating ecosystem services into the production function227
Carbon rotation ages and the offset measurement conundrum: An extended review209
Divergent outcomes of large-scale land transactions in Ethiopia: A quantitative comparative analysis168
Editorial Board157
Do Farmers Participating in Short Food Supply Chains Use Less Pesticides? Evidence from France145
Revealing preferences for urban biodiversity as an environmental good122
How do tourism sustainability and nature affinity affect social engagement propensity? The central roles of nature conservation attitude and personal tourist experience115
Improving acceptance of natural capital accounting in land use decision making: Barriers and opportunities108
Re-investigating the shared responsibility for trade-embodied carbon emissions104
Adapting the governance of social–ecological systems to behavioural dynamics: An agent-based model for water quality management using the theory of planned behaviour95
The value of responsibly farmed fish: A hedonic price study of ASC-certified whitefish95
Beyond institutional bricolage: An ‘intertwining approach’ to understanding the transition towards agroecology in Peru95
Would energy poverty affect the wellbeing of senior citizens? Evidence from China90
Impact of industrial intelligence on green total factor productivity: The indispensability of the environmental system85
Anti-corruption and corporate pollution mitigation: Evidence from China84
There are plenty more (sustainable) fish in the sea: A discrete choice experiment on discarded species in Italy81
Farm performance and input self-sufficiency increases with functional crop diversity on Swedish farms78
Is environmental regulation keeping e-waste under control? Evidence from e-waste exports in the European Union78
Damage costs from invasive species exceed management expenditure in nations experiencing lower economic activity78
Tree cover and property values in the United States: A national meta-analysis76
Rethinking work for a just and sustainable future73
Faster, harder, greener? Empirical evidence on the role of the individual Pace of Life for productivity and pro-environmental behavior70
Better or different? A reflection on the suitability of indicator methods for a just transition to a circular economy66
Can phone text messages promote the use of integrated pest management? A study of vegetable farmers in Cambodia66
Toward circular economy: The impact of policy instruments on circular economy innovation for European small medium enterprises65
Carbon inequality in global trade: Evidence from the mismatch between embodied carbon emissions and value added63
Effects of the number of alternatives in public good discrete choice experiments62
From participation to commitment in silvopastoral programmes: Insights from Chiapas, Mexico61
Accountability and sustainability transitions61
Assessing global agri-food system exceedance of national cropland limits for linking responsible consumption and production under SDG 1259
The role of hybrid governance in supporting deforestation-free trade58
China's current carbon inequality is predominantly determined by capital disparity56
Charismatic species, matching, and demographics in conservation donations: An experimental investigation56
Feedback and cooperation: An Experiment in sorting behavior55
Valuing coastal fisheries and seagrasses: A case study of estuarine resources on Florida's Nature Coast55
The rise and fall of La Graufesenque: The fate of development based on a non-renewable resource54
A hedonic study of New England dam removals54
Low agricultural potential exacerbates the effect of temperature on civil conflicts51
Unity through disunity: Strengths, values, and tensions in the disciplinary discourse of ecological economics49
Editorial Board49
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How to reconcile actual climate change mitigation with prosperity? A proposal48
The Role of Catch Portfolios in Characterizing Species' Economic Linkages and Fishers' Responses to Climate Change Impacts48
Inequality beyond income quantiles: Distributional effects of climate mitigation policies48
(Un)flatten the curve: A simple model of sink capacity48
Is this land for sale? The effects of drought on land ownership in Uganda48
Why and when do reserves estimates in mining change and innovations take place?48
BOOK REVIEWS47
Book Review47
Editorial Board47
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The consequences of misrepresenting feedbacks in coupled human and environmental models45
Will adoption occur if a practice is win-win for profit and the environment? An application to a rancher's grazing practice choices45
Policy trade-offs in introducing a CO2 transport and storage industry to service the UK's regional manufacturing clusters44
Changes in household recycling behavior: Evidence from panel data43
Can monetized carbon information increase pro-environmental behavior? Experimental evidence43
Policies to reduce local participation in illegal hunting: The case of Kafue National Park in Zambia43
Wait and see? Public preferences for the temporal effectiveness of coastal protection42
Two currencies – Rethinking energy and the economy41
Two wrongs don't make a right: A multi-step decomposition of latent dimensions of sustainable development and desertification risk in Italy41
Offsetting schemes and ecological taxes for wind power production40
Are farmers willing to accept compensation from tourism revenue for elephant crop damage and coexistence support? Evidence from Sri Lanka40
Footprint analysis and the incidence of emission taxes40
Polluting for (higher) profits: Does an economic gain influence moral judgment of environmental wrongdoings?40
The environmental effectiveness of water quality trading: Evidence from emissions trading programs in China40
Directors' and officers' liability insurance, environmental regulation and firms' envi ronmental responsibility39
Improving the validity and credibility of the sociocultural valuation of ecosystem services in Amman, Jordan39
The impact of tropical cyclones on income inequality in the U.S.: An empirical analysis39
Editorial Board39
Improving the genuine progress indicator to measure comparable net welfare: U.S. and California, 1995–201738
Insurance Value of Ecosystems: An Introduction38
Is it a green or brown job? A Taxonomy of Sustainable Employment38
How do governance arrangements matter in the circular economy? Lessons from five methanation projects based on the social-ecological system framework38
Experimental evidence on minority participation and the design of community-based natural resource management programs38
Growth dependency in the welfare state – An analysis of drivers in the UK's adult social care sector and proposals for change38
Chileans' willingness to pay for protected areas37
Natural habitat vs human in competition for breathing space: Need for restructuring clean energy infrastructure37
Increasing social risk and markets demand lead to a more selective fishing across the Pantanal wetland37
Can a European wealth tax close the green investment gap?37
Financial capital as a shaper of households' adaptive capabilities to flood risk in northern Bangladesh36
Does drought increase carbon emissions? Evidence from Southwestern China36
The foundational economy-as-an-organism assumption of ecological economics: Is it scientifically useful?36
God did not save the kings: Environmental consequences of the 1982 Falklands War36
Payment for environmental services to reduce deforestation: Do the positive effects last?35
The implementation of green transformation through clusters35
Implications of shrinking household sizes for meeting the 1.5 °C climate targets34
The risks of the wrong climate policy for developing countries: Scenarios for South Africa34
Nudges and compensation: Evaluating experimental evidence on controlling rice straw burning34
Sustainable practices in cocoa production. The role of certification schemes and farmer cooperatives34
Trends in national biodiversity footprints of land use33
Do social norms trump rational choice in voluntary climate change mitigation? Multi-country evidence of social tipping points33
Potentials, subsidies and tradeoffs of cellulosic ethanol in the European Union33
Participation, income growth and poverty alleviation in payments for ecosystem services: The case of China's Wolong Nature Reserve33
The effect of deliberate ignorance and choice procedure on pro-environmental decisions32
Does recalling energy efficiency measures reduce subsequent climate-friendly behavior? An experimental study of moral licensing rebound effects32
Coping with increasing tides: Evolving agglomeration dynamics and technological change under exacerbating hazards31
Optimal post-border surveillance against invasive pests to protect a valuable nature reserve and island asset31
Management of common pool resources in a nation-wide experiment31
How can Stakeholder Capitalism contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals? A Cross-network Literature Analysis31
Algae-Based Two-Stage Supply Chain with Co-Products31
What drives the designation of protected areas? Accounting for spatial dependence using a composite marginal likelihood approach30
Macroeconomic impacts of water allocation under droughts. Accounting for global supply chains in a multiregional context30
Climate change impacts on Mediterranean fisheries: A sensitivity and vulnerability analysis for main commercial species30
Conversion to organic farming: Does it change the economic and environmental performance of fruit farms?30
Citizens' preferences and valuation of urban nature: Insights from two choice experiments30
Income and expenditure elasticity of household carbon footprints. Some methodological considerations30
“Accelerating institutional funding of low-carbon investment: The potential for an investment emissions intensity tax”30
Social outcomes of energy use in the United Kingdom: Household energy footprints and their links to well-being30
Assessing the heterogeneity of public acceptability for mangrove restoration through a choice experiment29
Multidimensional welfare indices and the IPCC 6th Assessment Report scenarios29
The Impact of Health Status and Experienced Disutility on Air Quality Valuation29
What if Brazilians reduce their beef consumption?29
Reducing fossil fuel dependency in smallholding farming in l'Horta de València, Spain: A socio-metabolic approach29
Blended academic insights for biodiversity and conservation finance29
Carbon Giants: Exploring the Top 100 Industrial CO2 Emitters in the EU28
Comparing advice on climate policy between academic experts and ChatGPT28
Prisoners of a more intricate dilemma: EU policies implicitly push for downcycling plastics, impeding efforts to attain net-zero emissions28
Engaging high-income earners in climate action: Policy insights from survey experiments28
The impact of income-driven changes in global consumption patterns on Kyoto Gas emissions during the twenty-first century28
Revisiting decision-making assumptions to improve deforestation predictions: Evidence from the Amazon28
Towards a sustainable mobility lifestyle: Exploring the flight to rail shift through model-based behavioural change scenarios28
Decentralized voluntary agreements do not reduce emissions in a climate change experiment28
Climate change education through the lens of behavioral economics: A systematic review of studies on observed behavior and social norms28
Extreme Weather, agricultural insurance and farmer's climate adaptation technologies adoption in China27
The welfare properties of climate targets27
Payments for ecosystem services programs, institutional bricolage, and common pool resource management: Evidence from village collective-managed irrigation systems in China27
Economic valuation of groundwater over-exploitation in the Maghreb27
Leveraging participation in apparel global supply chains through green industrialization strategies: Implications for low-income countries27
Energy rebound effect in China: Measurement based on a variable coefficient production function27
Is social capital a driver of the green transition in the European Union?27
Capabilities, Ecosystem Services, and Strong Sustainability through SMCE: The Case of Haren (Belgium)27
A crowd-sourced valuation of recreational ecosystem services using mobile signal data applied to a restored wetland in China26
Accounting for externalities in cross-sectional economic models of climate change impacts26
Mixing fossil- and bio-polymers for internalisation of environmental damage: An evidence-based model-theoretical economic analysis26
Program design and heterogeneous treatment effects of payments for environmental services26
Doing more with less: Provisioning systems and the transformation of the stock-flow-service nexus26
Energy matters: Mitigating the impacts of future land expansion will require managing energy and extractive footprints26
Data and Transparency Key for China's Pollution Clean-up26
Substitution of social sustainability concerns under the Covid-19 pandemic26
The impact of academic information supply and familiarity on preferences for ecosystem services26
Predicting uptake of a malignant catarrhal fever vaccine by pastoralists in northern Tanzania: Opportunities for improving livelihoods and ecosystem health26
Self-selection bias in estimating the determinants of landowners' Re-enrollment decisions in forest incentive programs26
A Prospect Theory-based experimental vignette methodology for exploring rebound effects and rebound-damping interventions25
A procedure for globally institutionalizing a ‘beyond-GDP’ metric25
Climate policy in an unequal world: Assessing the cost of risk on vulnerable households25
The Intersection of Biophysical Economics and Political Economy25
Green mobility and well-being25
Conserving rhinos by legal trade: Insights from a choice experiment with rhino horn consumers25
Consequences of ecological aggregation in general equilibrium analysis of perturbed ecosystems24
Modelling the circular economy: Introducing a supply chain equilibrium approach24
Integrating recreational ecosystem service valuations into Israel's Water economy24
Are rural residents willing to trade-off higher noise for lower air pollution? Evidence from revealed preferences24
The nonlinear dependence of income inequality and carbon emissions: Potentials for a sustainable future24
Conceptualising the environmental dimension of left-behind places24
The Transitional Gains Trap in Grandfathered Individual Transferable Quota Fisheries24
A novel nature-based risk index: Application to acute risks and their financial materiality on corporate bonds24
The double fence: Overlapping institutions and deforestation in the Colombian Amazon23
Buzzword or breakthrough beyond growth? The mainstreaming of the Wellbeing Economy23
Varieties of Anticapitalism: A systematic study of transformation strategies in alternative economic discourses23
Assessing the economic impacts of forest certification in Spain: A longitudinal study23
BOOK REVIEWS23
Effects of household-level attributes and agricultural land-use on deforestation patterns along a forest transition gradient in the Miombo landscapes, Zambia23
The determinants of non-residential real estate values with special reference to environmental local amenities23
After the storm: Environmental tragedy and sustainable mobility23
Global value chains participation and trade-induced carbon inequality: A comparative analysis of developed and developing economies22
Unfolding differences in the distribution of coastal marine ecosystem services values among developed and developing countries22
Guiding cities under increased droughts: The limits to sustainable urban futures22
Biodiversity loss and financial stability as a new frontier for central banks: An exploration for France22
Designing policy packages for a climate-neutral industry: A case study from the Netherlands22
The circular economy and the optimal recycling rate: A macroeconomic approach22
Monoculture, crop rotation policy, and fire22
Child Sustainable Human Development Index (CSHDI): Monitoring progress for the future generation22
Renewable energy and well-being in remote Indigenous communities of Canada: A panel analysis22
It takes two to dance: Institutional dynamics and climate-related financial policies21
Connected we stand: Lead firm ownership ties in the global petrochemical industry21
Overhauling multinationals for the Anthropocene: How a rogue subsidiary offers a blueprint for sustainable development21
Policy and political challenges for a better world: The United States and China pathways towards the 2030 Agenda21
The diverse impacts of democracy on greenhouse gas emissions21
Pests, wind and fire: A multi-hazard risk review for natural disturbances in forests21
Orbital debris and the market for satellites21
Implicit incentives in green public procurement: Good intentions versus rigid regulations21
Cross-sectoral externalities related to natural resources and ecosystem services21
Supporting carbon taxes: The role of fairness21
The relationship between willingness to pay and carbon footprint knowledge: Are individuals willing to pay more to offset their carbon footprint if they learn about its size and distance to the 1.5 °C21
Developing policy packages for low-carbon passenger transport: A mixed methods analysis of trade-offs and synergies21
Nature-based recreation in Germany: Insights into volume and economic significance21
Factors affecting the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices: Findings from panel data for Vietnam21
Investigating acceptance of marine tourism levies, to cover the opportunity costs of conservation for coastal communities21
On the relationship between constitutional environmental human rights and sustainable development outcomes21
Circular economy, operational eco-efficiency, and sufficiency. An integrated view21
Stocks, flows, services and practices: Nexus approaches to sustainable social metabolism20
Household acceptability of energy efficiency policies in the European Union: Policy characteristics trade-offs and the role of trust in government and environmental identity20
How to achieve emission reduction without hindering economic growth? The role of judicial quality20
Sufficiency: A systematic literature review20
Biological control of a parasite: The efficacy of cleaner fish in salmon farming20
Assessing U.S. consumers' carbon footprints reveals outsized impact of the top 1%20
On the relationship between individual carbon literacy and carbon footprint components20
Modelling the embodied carbon cost of UK domestic building construction: Today to 205020
Full speed ahead or floating around? Dynamics of selected circular bioeconomies in Europe20
A home for all within planetary boundaries: Pathways for meeting England's housing needs without transgressing national climate and biodiversity goals20
Integrating the green economy, circular economy and bioeconomy in a strategic sustainability framework19
Policy management of the Italian small pelagic fishery in the Adriatic Sea: A dynamic maximum economic yield approach19
Modelling energy transition risk: The impact of declining energy return on investment (EROI)19
Not seeing the accounts for the forest: A systematic literature review of ecosystem accounting for forest resource management purposes19
Accounting for trade in derived products when estimating European Union's role in driving deforestation19
Testing the sensitivity of stated environmental preferences to variations in choice architecture19
Effects of the debate on glyphosate's carcinogenic risk on pesticide producers' share prices19
Path dependencies and institutional traps in water governance – Evidence from Cambodia19
Towards a critical understanding of work in ecological economics: A postwork perspective19
How the energy procurement switching strategies (driven by the Russia-Ukraine conflict) impact the global sustainability? The global sustainability dashboard19
The energy transition and export diversification in oil-dependent countries: The role of structural factors19
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Sites side by side: Can an agglomeration bonus with an adjacency rule connect agri-environmental sites?19
Housing wealth and household carbon emissions: The role of homeownership in China19
Obituary: Clement Allan Tisdell (1939–2022) – An ecological economist in mind, heart and soul18
Climate change and migration decisions: A choice experiment from the Mekong Delta, Vietnam18
Comparative analysis of Rights of Nature (RoN) case studies worldwide: Features of emergence and design18
Linking marine habitats and economic values: A spatial scaling methodology for valuing societal benefits18
Do ecological protection approaches affect total factor productivity change of cropland production in Sweden?18
Recreation in coastal environments: Estimating the non-market value of fishing harbors18
Quantifying the importance of farmers' behavioral factors in ex-ante assessments of policies supporting sustainable farming practices18
Possible carbon circular pathway exploration for oil transition under the consideration of energy supply constraint and uncertainty18
Centralized water management under lobbying: Economic analysis of desalination in Israel18
Extending the Genuine Savings estimates with natural capital and poverty at the regional and national level in Italy17
New officials, fresh outlooks on policy uncertainty: Leadership turnover in environmental protection bureaus and additional corporate environmental reporting17
Editorial Board17
Can carbon tariffs based on domestic embedded carbon emissions reduce more carbon leakages?17
Competing with clean air: Pollution disclosure and college desirability17
The complex relationships between non-food agriculture and the sustainable bioeconomy: The French case17
Biotechnology or bioeconomy: Six of one and half a dozen of the other?17
Carbon loss and inequality exacerbated by embodied land redistribution in international trade17
Editorial Board17
The effects of the containers and packaging recycling law on the domestic recycling of plastic waste: Evidence from Japan17
The marginal abatement cost function with secondary waste markets17
The role of physical constraints on production16
A new composite indicator to assess and monitor performance and drawbacks of the implementation of Aichi Biodiversity Targets16
Risk averse policies foster bio-economic sustainability in mixed fisheries16
Monitoring food-related material flows with the use of economy-wide material system analysis16
The role of ideology in grassroots innovation: An application of the arenas of development framework to organic in Europe16
Macroeconomic, sectoral and financial dynamics in energy transitions: A stock-flow consistent, input-output approach16
Tracing carbon footprints to intermediate industries in the United Kingdom16
Productivity, biodiversity trade-offs, and farm income in an agroforestry versus an arable system16
When health-related claims impact environmental demand: Results of experimental auctions with Bordeaux wine consumers16
Obituary: John Proops (1947–2024) – A Pioneer of ecological economics16
Climate change and species decline: Distinct sources of European consumer concern supporting more sustainable diets16
The lack of property rights can make natural disasters worse: The case of small-scale fisheries in Chile16
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