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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board201
Cost-efficient allocation of ship measures and harvest of aquatic invasive species – An application to invasive crabs on the west coast of Sweden178
BOOK REVIEWS156
Citizens' preferences and valuation of urban nature: Insights from two choice experiments152
China's current carbon inequality is predominantly determined by capital disparity148
Biological control of a parasite: The efficacy of cleaner fish in salmon farming138
Carbon inequality in global trade: Evidence from the mismatch between embodied carbon emissions and value added132
Sufficiency: A systematic literature review130
Damage costs from invasive species exceed management expenditure in nations experiencing lower economic activity117
Will adoption occur if a practice is win-win for profit and the environment? An application to a rancher's grazing practice choices110
Assessing U.S. consumers' carbon footprints reveals outsized impact of the top 1%103
Optimal pricing of protected areas under multiple sites demand models97
Critical realism, methodological pluralism, and ecological economics94
Unveiling how financial markets could intensify climate change risks92
Reimagining growth futures: Overcoming the false binary between green growth and degrowth81
Towards a sustainable mobility lifestyle: Exploring the flight to rail shift through model-based behavioural change scenarios78
God did not save the kings: Environmental consequences of the 1982 Falklands War75
Does recalling energy efficiency measures reduce subsequent climate-friendly behavior? An experimental study of moral licensing rebound effects71
Integrating recreational ecosystem service valuations into Israel's Water economy68
Reducing fossil fuel dependency in smallholding farming in l'Horta de València, Spain: A socio-metabolic approach68
Buzzword or breakthrough beyond growth? The mainstreaming of the Wellbeing Economy66
Carbon rotation ages and the offset measurement conundrum: An extended review66
Limits to degrowth? Exploring patterns of support for and resistance against degrowth policies66
The effect of deliberate ignorance and choice procedure on pro-environmental decisions65
The risks of the wrong climate policy for developing countries: Scenarios for South Africa64
Financial capital as a shaper of households' adaptive capabilities to flood risk in northern Bangladesh62
Fixed capital and growth imperatives: Is commercial aviation trapped in a treadmill?61
The value of information in water quality monitoring and management60
Estimating the relationship between EROI and profitability of oil sands mining, 1997–201659
The economic impact of Sargassum: Evidence from the Mexican coast59
Valuing beyond economics: A pluralistic evaluation framework for participatory policymaking59
When health-related claims impact environmental demand: Results of experimental auctions with Bordeaux wine consumers59
The role of physical constraints on production59
The universal commons: An economic theory of ecosystem ownership58
Editorial Board58
Populism and support of onshore wind energy: Explaining different perspectives from the left and right58
Reducing food waste by killing wolves? A continuing failure to integrate climate and biodiversity agendas in food policies58
BOOK REVIEWS58
Can carbon tariffs based on domestic embedded carbon emissions reduce more carbon leakages?57
Are natural disasters stumbling blocks to carbon inequality mitigation? A global perspective57
Book reviews57
Quantifying the importance of farmers' behavioral factors in ex-ante assessments of policies supporting sustainable farming practices56
Exploring economy-wide sustainable conditions for EU bio-chemical activities54
Biotechnology or bioeconomy: Six of one and half a dozen of the other?54
Degrowth: What's in it for the labour movement?54
Outsourcing decarbonization? How trade shaped France’s carbon footprint (2000–14)53
Does ecological zoning spur household welfare and resilience? A quasi-natural experiment in China53
The economics of microbiodiversity52
Resilience rankings and trajectories of world's countries52
Linking marine habitats and economic values: A spatial scaling methodology for valuing societal benefits51
Do ecological protection approaches affect total factor productivity change of cropland production in Sweden?51
Model-based analysis of the agglomeration bonus for the conservation of twelve meadow bird species in an agricultural landscape51
The effects of the containers and packaging recycling law on the domestic recycling of plastic waste: Evidence from Japan48
Can natural capital help national-level policy-makers to embed sustainability considerations? Insights from Scotland48
The limits to degrowth: Economic and climatic consequences of pessimist assumptions on decoupling47
Closing the loop at the local scale: Investigating the drivers of and barriers to the implementation of the circular economy in cities and regions47
How does environmental regulation promote green technology innovation? Evidence from China's total emission control policy45
Informational nudges or incentives? A field experiment on vegetarian choices.45
Impact of livelihood strategies and capitals on rangeland sustainability and nomads' poverty: A counterfactual analysis in Southwest Iran44
Can payments-for-ecosystem-services change social norms?44
Definitions of the circular economy: Circularity matters43
Less and more: Conceptualising degrowth transformations43
Stochastic growth and regime shift risk in renewable resource management42
Biases and nudges in the circular economy: A review42
Land manager preferences for outcome-based payments for environmental services in oak savannahs41
Insurance value of biodiversity in the Anthropocene is the full resilience value41
Preferences for drought risk adaptation support in Kenya: Evidence from a discrete choice experiment and three decision-making theories40
Determinants and effects of green bond issuance: Environmental awareness, ecological budget, biodiversity, oil and lithium40
Ship-owner response to carbon taxes: Industry and environmental implications40
Editorial Board40
The unequal exchange of air pollution and economic benefits embodied in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei's consumption39
Global inequalities in countries' demand for raw materials: Twenty years of expansion and insufficient convergence39
Navigating sustainable futures: The role of terminal and instrumental values39
Water, air pollution and carbon footprints of conspicuous/luxury consumption in India39
Social comparison feedback in decision-making context: Environmental externality levels and psychological traits matter39
Inherently unstable? Scaling, mission drift, and the comparative performance of community-based platforms in the sharing economy39
Degrowth in a settler state: climate-just economic transitions and Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples in Canada39
Transitioning to a sustainable economy: A preliminary degrowth macroeconomic model38
Living well with the foundational economy: Assessing the spatial accessibility of foundational infrastructures in Vienna and the relationship to socio-economic status38
Consumers' willingness to pay for an animal welfare food label38
Degrowth-oriented organisational value creation: A systematic literature review of case studies38
International expansion of renewable energy capacities: The role of innovation and choice of policy instruments38
Unpacking the urban virtual water of the Global South: Lessons from 181 cities37
Too good to be true: The inverted U-shaped relationship between home-country digitalization and environmental performance37
Editorial Board36
Plant diversity to cope with increased drought risk in grasslands36
Framing effects in expert assessments of optimal GDP development36
Promoting agricultural technologies with positive environmental effects: Evidence on tree planting in Indonesia36
Decommodifying cacao: matchmaking between producers and buyers of fine flavour cacao from Peru36
The evolution of the EU electronics market and its impact on direct material consumption: Lessons from the past36
Voluntary management of fisheries under the threat of uncertain legislation36
The social cost of adopting a plant-based diet36
Accepting and implementing transport pricing policies for climate: A review of evidence and research gaps35
Editorial Board35
Grassland conservation supports migratory birds and produces economic benefits for the commercial beekeeping industry in the U.S. Great Plains35
A discrete-time bioeconomic model of free-roaming cat management: A case study in Knox County, Tennessee35
Editorial Board34
Evaluating policy packages for a low-carbon transition – Principles and applications34
Environmental resource extraction and poverty: Comparative evidence from rural Thailand and Vietnam34
Plastic waste imports & coastal litter: Evidence from citizen science data34
What are the banks doing in managing climate risk? Empirical evidence from a position map34
SSP economic growth projections: Major changes of key drivers in integrated assessment modelling34
The accumulation and substitution effects of multi-nation certified organic and protected eco-origin food labels in China34
Prosocial and financial incentives for biodiversity conservation: A field experiment using a smartphone app33
The impact of timber regulations on timber and timber product trade33
Do forest conservation policies undermine the soybean sector in the Brazilian Amazon? Evidence from the priority listing of municipalities33
Energy footprints and the international trade network: A new dataset. Is the European Union doing it better?33
Climate change and reindeer herding – A bioeconomic model on the impact of climate change on harvesting profits for Saami reindeer herders in Norway and Sweden33
Genetically engineered varieties and applied pesticide toxicity in U.S. maize and soybeans: Heterogeneous and evolving impacts33
Global and Local Spatial Spill-Overs: What Matters Most for the Diffusion of Organic Agriculture in Australia?33
Raising awareness of climate change: Nature, activists, politicians?33
Pattern evolution and dynamic formation mechanism of global scrap copper trade network: Based on temporal exponential random graph model32
Criminal enforcement and environmental performance: Evidence from China32
Ambient air pollution-related environmental inequality and environmental dissimilarity in Helsinki Metropolitan Area, Finland32
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 Colombia31
Water, land, materials, and emissions for providing decent living standards around the world31
Determinants of willingness to bear the costs for environmental protection: Insights from cross-country survey data31
Editorial Board31
Integrating modelling-based and stakeholder-focused scenario approaches to close the planning gap and accelerate low-carbon transitions31
Linking the diversity of ecologisation models to farmers' digital use profiles31
How social movements contribute to staying within the global carbon budget: Evidence from a qualitative meta-analysis of case studies31
First-degree price discrimination water bank to reduce reacquisition costs and enhance economic efficiency in agricultural water buyback30
How to design publicly acceptable road pricing? Experimental insights from Switzerland30
Climate change and its impact on home insurance uptake in Australia30
Relative environmental impacts and monetary cost of food categories: Functional unit matters30
Tropical mixed-species plantations can outperform monocultures in terms of carbon sequestration and economic return29
Do people think they have enough? A subjective income sufficiency assessment29
Biodiversity loss from land occupation: A prefecture- and county-level assessment of biodiversity footprints in China29
The ecological and economic impacts of national park pilot projects in China29
Water as driver of economic capacity: Introducing a physical economic model29
Saving the world voluntarily: Experimental evidence of gain-loss framing on voluntary pro-environmental behavior28
Confronting the dilemma of growth. A response to28
Temperature and life satisfaction: Evidence from Chinese older adults28
Forest adaptation strategies to reconcile timber production and carbon sequestration objectives under multiple risks of extreme drought and windstorm events28
The role of co-benefits in motivating climate change mitigation – Experimental evidence28
Biodiversity finance: What has been achieved and where is it heading28
How to estimate whether preferential trade agreements contribute to international environmental impact shifting. A new methodology and empirical illustration for Switzerland27
The income inequality-CO2 emissions nexus: Transmission mechanisms27
Willingness to pay for sustainable and legal firewood in Tasmania27
Toxic pollution and poverty: Economic impacts of lead (Pb) exposure on household welfare in Zambia27
Bioeconomic markets based on the use of native species (NS) in Brazil27
Evaluating transformative policies in complex land-use systems27
Mediation and moderation roles of resilience capacity in the shock–food-security nexus in northern Ghana27
The environmental benefits of grassroots cooperatives in agriculture27
Understanding determinants of the intention to buy rhino horn in Vietnam through the Theory of Planned Behaviour and the Theory of Interpersonal Behaviour27
Editorial Board27
Multinational dynamic steel cycle analysis reveals sequential decoupling between material use and economic growth27
Income and health outcomes in Sub-Saharan African countries: The role of environmental quality27
Has Central Government Environmental Protection Interview Improved Air Quality in China?27
Footprint analysis and the incidence of emission taxes: Corrigendum27
Editorial Board26
Carbon footprint tracking apps: The spillover effects of feedback and goal-activating appeals26
The governance of agricultural lands in marginal areas: A conceptual framework26
BOOK REVIEWS26
Heterogeneity, spillovers and eco-efficiency of European industries under different pollutants’ scenarios. Is there a definite direction?25
Subsidies against Nature: A multidimensional framework for biodiversity-aligned national budgets25
Deepgrowth: Self-transformation towards harmonious being25
The information value of energy labels: Evidence from the Dutch residential housing market25
The command paradox: Unraveling the impact of command-and-control water conservation policies on water-use technical efficiency25
Internet use, natural resource extraction and poverty reduction in rural Thailand25
Pay the polluter or polluter pays? A preliminary assessment of public preferences for water quality policy25
Pro-environmental behavior and environmentalist movements: Evidence from the identification with Fridays for Future25
Assessing the regime-switching role of risk mitigation measures on agricultural vulnerability: A threshold analysis25
Bird feeding and biodiversity: The decline of the Willow Tit25
Harnessing natural attenuation to reduce CAFOs nitrate emissions: An integrated modeling approach25
How do nature governance rules affect compliance decisions? An experimental analysis25
Reframing vulnerability and resilience to climate change through the lens of capability generation24
Rising from the ashes: Transitioning towards carbon neutrality through the pathways of circular economy agglomeration24
Is innovation good for the environment? A macro-level analysis24
Knowledge spillovers between clean and dirty technologies: Evidence from the patent citation network24
Vulnerability and spatial competition: The case of fisheries and offshore wind projects24
Rising inequality: A material perspective on the Great Recession in the European Union24
Is there a trade-off between human well-being and ecological footprint in European countries?24
Attitudes to restoring an extinct keystone species24
Procedural climate justice: Conceptualizing a polycentric solution to a global problem24
Ratcheting up private standards by exploiting coopetition: The curious case of RSPO’s adoption of zero-deforestation criteria24
Property values and cyanobacterial algal blooms: Evidence from satellite monitoring of Inland Lakes24
Community reconstruction of biocultural landscapes. Application in the Kokonuko Indigenous Territory24
Indigenous people's perceptions of benefits and costs of China's second phase of the grain for green program and the influencing factors24
The effectiveness of unilateral fishing ban in contested waters: Evidence from the South China Sea23
Valuing Recreation in Italy's Protected Areas Using Spatial Big Data23
A Global Survey of Scientific Consensus and Controversy on Instruments of Climate Policy23
Climate neutrality scenarios: How they deal with economic growth, employment and social acceptance23
Targeting socioeconomic transformations to achieve global sustainability23
Assessing the economic impacts of forest certification in Spain: A longitudinal study23
Charismatic species, matching, and demographics in conservation donations: An experimental investigation23
Vietnam's Payments for Forest Ecosystem Services scheme's puzzling role in protecting longstanding forests as deforestation rates rise23
Editorial Board23
Consequences of ecological aggregation in general equilibrium analysis of perturbed ecosystems22
Wait and see? Public preferences for the temporal effectiveness of coastal protection22
Can phone text messages promote the use of integrated pest management? A study of vegetable farmers in Cambodia22
Reconceptualizing the role of socioeconomic material stocks in the leverage points framework to enable transformative change22
Landscape features on farms: Evidence on factors influencing their quantity and ecological value22
Can monetized carbon information increase pro-environmental behavior? Experimental evidence22
Carbon Giants: Exploring the Top 100 Industrial CO2 Emitters in the EU22
Two currencies – Rethinking energy and the economy22
The impact of tropical cyclones on income inequality in the U.S.: An empirical analysis22
Motivational levers for the preservation of an intergenerational common resource: An experiment22
Is social capital a driver of the green transition in the European Union?22
Pests, wind and fire: A multi-hazard risk review for natural disturbances in forests22
There are plenty more (sustainable) fish in the sea: A discrete choice experiment on discarded species in Italy21
Offsetting schemes and ecological taxes for wind power production21
Assessing the heterogeneity of public acceptability for mangrove restoration through a choice experiment21
Why and when do reserves estimates in mining change and innovations take place?21
Re-investigating the shared responsibility for trade-embodied carbon emissions21
After the storm: Environmental tragedy and sustainable mobility21
Nudges and compensation: Evaluating experimental evidence on controlling rice straw burning21
Algae-Based Two-Stage Supply Chain with Co-Products21
Analysis of the multidimensional energy poverty in Italy using the partially ordered set21
Macroeconomic impacts of water allocation under droughts. Accounting for global supply chains in a multiregional context21
Does drought increase carbon emissions? Evidence from Southwestern China21
An assessment of the distributional impacts of autonomous adaptation to climate change from European agriculture21
Modelling the embodied carbon cost of UK domestic building construction: Today to 205021
Changing the understanding of crop production: Integrating ecosystem services into the production function21
Payment for environmental services to reduce deforestation: Do the positive effects last?21
Valuing coastal fisheries and seagrasses: A case study of estuarine resources on Florida's Nature Coast20
Connected we stand: Lead firm ownership ties in the global petrochemical industry20
Optimal post-border surveillance against invasive pests to protect a valuable nature reserve and island asset20
Recreation in coastal environments: Estimating the non-market value of fishing harbors20
Editorial Board20
The effects of emotions on stated preferences for environmental change: A re-examination20
From participation to commitment in silvopastoral programmes: Insights from Chiapas, Mexico20
Coordinating on good and bad outcomes in threshold games – Evidence from an artefactual field experiment in Cambodia20
Snowmaking's slippery slope: The effect of mountain reservoirs on water demand20
Improving acceptance of natural capital accounting in land use decision making: Barriers and opportunities20
Environmental offsetting: What drives the choice of offset mechanism in the US Wetland Mitigation Program?20
Editorial Board20
Global value chains participation and trade-induced carbon inequality: A comparative analysis of developed and developing economies20
Changes in household recycling behavior: Evidence from panel data20
The impact of policy design on opposition to restrictive climate policies20
Obituary: Clement Allan Tisdell (1939–2022) – An ecological economist in mind, heart and soul20
Broadening ecological footprint and biocapacity research: A co-developed research agenda with Canadian stakeholders20
Opposite ethical views converge under the threat of catastrophic climate change20
Flagship species and certification types affect consumer preferences for wildlife-friendly rice labels19
15 years of degrowth research: A systematic review19
Collaborative governance as a means of navigating the uncertainties of sustainability transformations: The case of Finnish food packaging19
Did crop diversity criterion from CAP green payments affect both economic and environmental farm performances? Quasi-experimental evidence from France19
Toward the carbon neutrality: Forest carbon sinks and its spatial spillover effect in China19
Do you perceive interdependencies among human activities related to water? Drivers and effects on preferences for participation and regulation19
Ecological design of a production plant19
Financial profitability of diversified farming systems: A global meta-analysis19
Convenient solutions, inconvenient truths – Why supermarkets will not drive food system transformation19
Understanding citizen investment in renewable energy communities19
Domestic and foreign decoupling of economic growth and water consumption and its driving factors in the Brazilian economy19
Smallholders' preferred attributes in a subsidy program for replanting overaged oil palm plantations in Indonesia19
A comprehensive socio-economic assessment of EU climate policy pathways19
Labour-saving heuristics in green patents: A natural language processing analysis19
Tipping the decision of offshore wind farm decommissioning – The causal effects of biodiversity illustrations and information on the social acceptance18
Is digital transformation the Deus ex Machina towards sustainability transition of the European SMEs?18
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