Ecological Economics

Papers
(The TQCC of Ecological Economics is 15. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Limits to degrowth? Exploring patterns of support for and resistance against degrowth policies493
Carbon rotation ages and the offset measurement conundrum: An extended review358
Cost-efficient allocation of ship measures and harvest of aquatic invasive species – An application to invasive crabs on the west coast of Sweden182
Buzzword or breakthrough beyond growth? The mainstreaming of the Wellbeing Economy157
BOOK REVIEWS155
Developing policy packages for low-carbon passenger transport: A mixed methods analysis of trade-offs and synergies129
Integrating recreational ecosystem service valuations into Israel's Water economy129
China's current carbon inequality is predominantly determined by capital disparity122
Biological control of a parasite: The efficacy of cleaner fish in salmon farming118
Optimal pricing of protected areas under multiple sites demand models114
Critical realism, methodological pluralism, and ecological economics110
Citizens' preferences and valuation of urban nature: Insights from two choice experiments104
The risks of the wrong climate policy for developing countries: Scenarios for South Africa100
Will adoption occur if a practice is win-win for profit and the environment? An application to a rancher's grazing practice choices98
A Prospect Theory-based experimental vignette methodology for exploring rebound effects and rebound-damping interventions97
God did not save the kings: Environmental consequences of the 1982 Falklands War96
Editorial Board93
Damage costs from invasive species exceed management expenditure in nations experiencing lower economic activity90
Towards a sustainable mobility lifestyle: Exploring the flight to rail shift through model-based behavioural change scenarios85
Does recalling energy efficiency measures reduce subsequent climate-friendly behavior? An experimental study of moral licensing rebound effects83
Improving the validity and credibility of the sociocultural valuation of ecosystem services in Amman, Jordan74
The effect of deliberate ignorance and choice procedure on pro-environmental decisions72
Reducing fossil fuel dependency in smallholding farming in l'Horta de València, Spain: A socio-metabolic approach68
Financial capital as a shaper of households' adaptive capabilities to flood risk in northern Bangladesh67
Sufficiency: A systematic literature review66
Carbon inequality in global trade: Evidence from the mismatch between embodied carbon emissions and value added64
Assessing U.S. consumers' carbon footprints reveals outsized impact of the top 1%63
Model-based analysis of the agglomeration bonus for the conservation of twelve meadow bird species in an agricultural landscape62
Linking marine habitats and economic values: A spatial scaling methodology for valuing societal benefits62
Biotechnology or bioeconomy: Six of one and half a dozen of the other?61
Degrowth: What's in it for the labour movement?61
Resilience rankings and trajectories of world's countries60
The value of information in water quality monitoring and management59
The limits to degrowth: Economic and climatic consequences of pessimist assumptions on decoupling59
BOOK REVIEWS58
Are natural disasters stumbling blocks to carbon inequality mitigation? A global perspective58
Quantifying the importance of farmers' behavioral factors in ex-ante assessments of policies supporting sustainable farming practices57
Estimating the relationship between EROI and profitability of oil sands mining, 1997–201657
Can carbon tariffs based on domestic embedded carbon emissions reduce more carbon leakages?57
Volatility-reducing biodiversity conservation under strategic interactions55
Exploring economy-wide sustainable conditions for EU bio-chemical activities53
Valuing beyond economics: A pluralistic evaluation framework for participatory policymaking53
Editorial Board52
The universal commons: An economic theory of ecosystem ownership52
The role of physical constraints on production51
Does corporate environmentalism affect corporate insolvency risk? The role of market power and competitive intensity50
When health-related claims impact environmental demand: Results of experimental auctions with Bordeaux wine consumers49
The economic values of global forest ecosystem services: A meta-analysis49
The effects of the containers and packaging recycling law on the domestic recycling of plastic waste: Evidence from Japan49
The economics of microbiodiversity49
Can payments-for-ecosystem-services change social norms?49
Definitions of the circular economy: Circularity matters49
Do ecological protection approaches affect total factor productivity change of cropland production in Sweden?49
Impact of livelihood strategies and capitals on rangeland sustainability and nomads' poverty: A counterfactual analysis in Southwest Iran48
Closing the loop at the local scale: Investigating the drivers of and barriers to the implementation of the circular economy in cities and regions47
Less and more: Conceptualising degrowth transformations47
Global inequalities in countries' demand for raw materials: Twenty years of expansion and insufficient convergence46
How does environmental regulation promote green technology innovation? Evidence from China's total emission control policy46
A methodological framework for understanding shared social values in deliberative valuation46
Editorial Board45
Unpacking the urban virtual water of the Global South: Lessons from 181 cities45
Particulate matter and COVID-19 excess deaths: Decomposing long-term exposure and short-term effects45
On physical and social-cost-based CO2 equivalents for transient albedo-induced forcing45
Stochastic growth and regime shift risk in renewable resource management44
Social comparison feedback in decision-making context: Environmental externality levels and psychological traits matter44
Land manager preferences for outcome-based payments for environmental services in oak savannahs42
Editorial Board42
Inherently unstable? Scaling, mission drift, and the comparative performance of community-based platforms in the sharing economy42
Water, air pollution and carbon footprints of conspicuous/luxury consumption in India42
Insurance value of biodiversity in the Anthropocene is the full resilience value41
Degrowth in a settler state: climate-just economic transitions and Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples in Canada41
Consumers' willingness to pay for an animal welfare food label41
Biases and nudges in the circular economy: A review40
Living well with the foundational economy: Assessing the spatial accessibility of foundational infrastructures in Vienna and the relationship to socio-economic status39
Ship-owner response to carbon taxes: Industry and environmental implications39
Degrowth-oriented organisational value creation: A systematic literature review of case studies39
Navigating sustainable futures: The role of terminal and instrumental values39
Achieving landscape patterns for biodiversity conservation through payments for ecosystem services – Evidence from a field experiment in Indonesia38
The unequal exchange of air pollution and economic benefits embodied in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei's consumption38
International expansion of renewable energy capacities: The role of innovation and choice of policy instruments38
Too good to be true: The inverted U-shaped relationship between home-country digitalization and environmental performance38
The effect of the economic cycles on material requirements: Analysing the dematerialization in developed countries38
Transitioning to a sustainable economy: A preliminary degrowth macroeconomic model38
Preferences for drought risk adaptation support in Kenya: Evidence from a discrete choice experiment and three decision-making theories38
Do forest conservation policies undermine the soybean sector in the Brazilian Amazon? Evidence from the priority listing of municipalities38
Integrating modelling-based and stakeholder-focused scenario approaches to close the planning gap and accelerate low-carbon transitions37
Environmental resource extraction and poverty: Comparative evidence from rural Thailand and Vietnam37
Editorial Board37
Framing effects in expert assessments of optimal GDP development37
Pattern evolution and dynamic formation mechanism of global scrap copper trade network: Based on temporal exponential random graph model36
The impact of timber regulations on timber and timber product trade35
Ambient air pollution-related environmental inequality and environmental dissimilarity in Helsinki Metropolitan Area, Finland35
Prosocial and financial incentives for biodiversity conservation: A field experiment using a smartphone app35
Raising awareness of climate change: Nature, activists, politicians?34
The social cost of adopting a plant-based diet34
The evolution of the EU electronics market and its impact on direct material consumption: Lessons from the past34
Clean air as an experience good in urban China34
Climate change and reindeer herding – A bioeconomic model on the impact of climate change on harvesting profits for Saami reindeer herders in Norway and Sweden34
How social movements contribute to staying within the global carbon budget: Evidence from a qualitative meta-analysis of case studies34
The Sustainable Development Goals as new business norms: A survey experiment on stakeholder preferences33
BOOK REVIEWS33
Evaluating policy packages for a low-carbon transition – Principles and applications33
Grassland conservation supports migratory birds and produces economic benefits for the commercial beekeeping industry in the U.S. Great Plains33
Property value effects of the Hemlock wooly adelgid infestation in New England, U.S.A.32
Promoting agricultural technologies with positive environmental effects: Evidence on tree planting in Indonesia32
Linking the diversity of ecologisation models to farmers' digital use profiles32
Editorial Board32
Genetically engineered varieties and applied pesticide toxicity in U.S. maize and soybeans: Heterogeneous and evolving impacts32
The accumulation and substitution effects of multi-nation certified organic and protected eco-origin food labels in China31
Criminal enforcement and environmental performance: Evidence from China31
A discrete-time bioeconomic model of free-roaming cat management: A case study in Knox County, Tennessee31
Editorial Board31
Energy footprints and the international trade network: A new dataset. Is the European Union doing it better?31
The effect of flood mitigation spending on flood damage: Accounting for dynamic feedback31
What are the banks doing in managing climate risk? Empirical evidence from a position map30
Toxic pollution and poverty: Economic impacts of lead (Pb) exposure on household welfare in Zambia30
Climate change and its impact on home insurance uptake in Australia30
The impact of information asymmetry on animal welfare-friendly consumption: Evidence from milk market in Japan30
Global and Local Spatial Spill-Overs: What Matters Most for the Diffusion of Organic Agriculture in Australia?30
SSP economic growth projections: Major changes of key drivers in integrated assessment modelling30
Understanding determinants of the intention to buy rhino horn in Vietnam through the Theory of Planned Behaviour and the Theory of Interpersonal Behaviour30
Temporary PES do not crowd out and may crowd in lab-in-the-field forest conservation in Colombia30
Ecological unequal exchange between Turkey and the European Union: An assessment from value added perspective30
The environmental benefits of grassroots cooperatives in agriculture30
Willingness to reduce travel consumption to support a low-carbon transition beyond COVID-1930
Co-benefits of a flexitarian diet for air quality and human health in Europe30
What determines consumers' use of eco-labels? Taking a close look at label trust29
Has Central Government Environmental Protection Interview Improved Air Quality in China?29
Confronting the dilemma of growth. A response to29
Biodiversity loss from land occupation: A prefecture- and county-level assessment of biodiversity footprints in China29
The income inequality-CO2 emissions nexus: Transmission mechanisms28
Relative environmental impacts and monetary cost of food categories: Functional unit matters28
Tropical mixed-species plantations can outperform monocultures in terms of carbon sequestration and economic return28
Mediation and moderation roles of resilience capacity in the shock–food-security nexus in northern Ghana28
Institutional Barriers to Sustainable Forest Management: Evidence from an Experimental Study in Tajikistan28
Carbon pricing of basic materials: Incentives and risks for the value chain and consumers28
Willingness to pay for sustainable and legal firewood in Tasmania27
Water as driver of economic capacity: Introducing a physical economic model27
Editorial Board27
Forest adaptation strategies to reconcile timber production and carbon sequestration objectives under multiple risks of extreme drought and windstorm events27
Editorial Board27
Is innovation good for the environment? A macro-level analysis26
Saving the world voluntarily: Experimental evidence of gain-loss framing on voluntary pro-environmental behavior26
Do people think they have enough? A subjective income sufficiency assessment26
How to estimate whether preferential trade agreements contribute to international environmental impact shifting. A new methodology and empirical illustration for Switzerland26
Footprint analysis and the incidence of emission taxes: Corrigendum26
Measuring the economic value of urban river restoration26
Multinational dynamic steel cycle analysis reveals sequential decoupling between material use and economic growth26
First-degree price discrimination water bank to reduce reacquisition costs and enhance economic efficiency in agricultural water buyback26
How to design publicly acceptable road pricing? Experimental insights from Switzerland26
Temperature and life satisfaction: Evidence from Chinese older adults26
Bioeconomic markets based on the use of native species (NS) in Brazil26
Editorial Board26
The command paradox: Unraveling the impact of command-and-control water conservation policies on water-use technical efficiency25
Assessing the regime-switching role of risk mitigation measures on agricultural vulnerability: A threshold analysis25
Deepgrowth: Self-transformation towards harmonious being25
Internet use, natural resource extraction and poverty reduction in rural Thailand25
Heterogeneity, spillovers and eco-efficiency of European industries under different pollutants’ scenarios. Is there a definite direction?25
Harnessing natural attenuation to reduce CAFOs nitrate emissions: An integrated modeling approach25
Valuing Recreation in Italy's Protected Areas Using Spatial Big Data25
Knowledge spillovers between clean and dirty technologies: Evidence from the patent citation network25
Indigenous people's perceptions of benefits and costs of China's second phase of the grain for green program and the influencing factors25
Innovative fire policy in the Amazon: A statistical Hicks-Kaldor analysis25
Rising inequality: A material perspective on the Great Recession in the European Union25
Pay the polluter or polluter pays? A preliminary assessment of public preferences for water quality policy25
Challenging the ecological economics of water: Social and political perspectives25
Community reconstruction of biocultural landscapes. Application in the Kokonuko Indigenous Territory25
Carbon footprint tracking apps: The spillover effects of feedback and goal-activating appeals25
Rising from the ashes: Transitioning towards carbon neutrality through the pathways of circular economy agglomeration25
The governance of agricultural lands in marginal areas: A conceptual framework24
Editorial Board24
A Global Survey of Scientific Consensus and Controversy on Instruments of Climate Policy24
An energy-based macroeconomic model validated by global historical series since 182024
Targeting socioeconomic transformations to achieve global sustainability24
Durability standards and clothing libraries for strengthening sustainable clothing markets24
Bird feeding and biodiversity: The decline of the Willow Tit24
BOOK REVIEWS24
Property values and cyanobacterial algal blooms: Evidence from satellite monitoring of Inland Lakes23
Offsetting schemes and ecological taxes for wind power production23
Vulnerability and spatial competition: The case of fisheries and offshore wind projects23
Procedural climate justice: Conceptualizing a polycentric solution to a global problem23
Is there a trade-off between human well-being and ecological footprint in European countries?23
Editorial Board23
Two currencies – Rethinking energy and the economy23
Pro-environmental behavior and environmentalist movements: Evidence from the identification with Fridays for Future23
How do nature governance rules affect compliance decisions? An experimental analysis23
Subsidies against Nature: A multidimensional framework for biodiversity-aligned national budgets23
An assessment of the distributional impacts of autonomous adaptation to climate change from European agriculture23
Reframing vulnerability and resilience to climate change through the lens of capability generation23
Ratcheting up private standards by exploiting coopetition: The curious case of RSPO’s adoption of zero-deforestation criteria23
Vietnam's Payments for Forest Ecosystem Services scheme's puzzling role in protecting longstanding forests as deforestation rates rise23
Is social capital a driver of the green transition in the European Union?22
Coordinating on good and bad outcomes in threshold games – Evidence from an artefactual field experiment in Cambodia22
Does drought increase carbon emissions? Evidence from Southwestern China22
Motivational levers for the preservation of an intergenerational common resource: An experiment22
Charismatic species, matching, and demographics in conservation donations: An experimental investigation22
Assessing the economic impacts of forest certification in Spain: A longitudinal study22
Predicting uptake of a malignant catarrhal fever vaccine by pastoralists in northern Tanzania: Opportunities for improving livelihoods and ecosystem health22
Valuing coastal fisheries and seagrasses: A case study of estuarine resources on Florida's Nature Coast22
Improving acceptance of natural capital accounting in land use decision making: Barriers and opportunities22
The impact of tropical cyclones on income inequality in the U.S.: An empirical analysis22
Analysis of the multidimensional energy poverty in Italy using the partially ordered set22
There are plenty more (sustainable) fish in the sea: A discrete choice experiment on discarded species in Italy21
Changes in household recycling behavior: Evidence from panel data21
Payment for environmental services to reduce deforestation: Do the positive effects last?21
Snowmaking's slippery slope: The effect of mountain reservoirs on water demand21
Can monetized carbon information increase pro-environmental behavior? Experimental evidence21
Global value chains participation and trade-induced carbon inequality: A comparative analysis of developed and developing economies21
Carbon Giants: Exploring the Top 100 Industrial CO2 Emitters in the EU21
Consequences of ecological aggregation in general equilibrium analysis of perturbed ecosystems21
Nudges and compensation: Evaluating experimental evidence on controlling rice straw burning21
Assessing the heterogeneity of public acceptability for mangrove restoration through a choice experiment20
Connected we stand: Lead firm ownership ties in the global petrochemical industry20
From participation to commitment in silvopastoral programmes: Insights from Chiapas, Mexico20
Algae-Based Two-Stage Supply Chain with Co-Products20
Pests, wind and fire: A multi-hazard risk review for natural disturbances in forests20
Macroeconomic impacts of water allocation under droughts. Accounting for global supply chains in a multiregional context20
Leveraging participation in apparel global supply chains through green industrialization strategies: Implications for low-income countries20
After the storm: Environmental tragedy and sustainable mobility20
Changing the understanding of crop production: Integrating ecosystem services into the production function20
Wait and see? Public preferences for the temporal effectiveness of coastal protection20
Can phone text messages promote the use of integrated pest management? A study of vegetable farmers in Cambodia20
Landscape features on farms: Evidence on factors influencing their quantity and ecological value20
Modelling the embodied carbon cost of UK domestic building construction: Today to 205020
Why and when do reserves estimates in mining change and innovations take place?19
Ecological design of a production plant19
Are greenspaces too green? Landscape preferences and water use in urban parks19
Natural hazard risk and life satisfaction – Empirical evidence for hurricanes19
Opposite ethical views converge under the threat of catastrophic climate change19
Re-investigating the shared responsibility for trade-embodied carbon emissions19
Obituary: Clement Allan Tisdell (1939–2022) – An ecological economist in mind, heart and soul19
Editorial Board19
Editorial Board19
Compliance and cooperation in global value chains: The effects of the better cotton initiative in Pakistan and India19
Editorial Board19
Optimal post-border surveillance against invasive pests to protect a valuable nature reserve and island asset19
How the energy procurement switching strategies (driven by the Russia-Ukraine conflict) impact the global sustainability? The global sustainability dashboard19
Risk averse policies foster bio-economic sustainability in mixed fisheries19
In memoriam: Herman Daly (1938–2022)19
Are national climate change mitigation pledges shaped by citizens' mitigation preferences? Evidence from globally representative data18
Natural forces matter: A note on Simon N. Patten's critique of John B. Clark's theory of distribution18
Understanding citizen investment in renewable energy communities18
Celso Furtado: An ecological economist?18
Did crop diversity criterion from CAP green payments affect both economic and environmental farm performances? Quasi-experimental evidence from France18
Domestic and foreign decoupling of economic growth and water consumption and its driving factors in the Brazilian economy18
Green coops: Drivers of innovation for circular strategies among Italian cooperatives18
The marginal abatement cost function with secondary waste markets18
Water markets and water rebounds: China's water rights trading policy18
Collaborative governance as a means of navigating the uncertainties of sustainability transformations: The case of Finnish food packaging18
Accounting for trade in derived products when estimating European Union's role in driving deforestation18
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