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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
The risks of the wrong climate policy for developing countries: Scenarios for South Africa509
Will adoption occur if a practice is win-win for profit and the environment? An application to a rancher's grazing practice choices191
A Prospect Theory-based experimental vignette methodology for exploring rebound effects and rebound-damping interventions173
Editorial Board165
Cost-efficient allocation of ship measures and harvest of aquatic invasive species – An application to invasive crabs on the west coast of Sweden137
BOOK REVIEWS130
Integrating recreational ecosystem service valuations into Israel's Water economy127
Optimal pricing of protected areas under multiple sites demand models122
Critical realism, methodological pluralism, and ecological economics116
Citizens' preferences and valuation of urban nature: Insights from two choice experiments113
Towards a sustainable mobility lifestyle: Exploring the flight to rail shift through model-based behavioural change scenarios108
Assessing U.S. consumers' carbon footprints reveals outsized impact of the top 1%105
Unveiling how financial markets could intensify climate change risks104
Limits to degrowth? Exploring patterns of support for and resistance against degrowth policies102
God did not save the kings: Environmental consequences of the 1982 Falklands War91
Does recalling energy efficiency measures reduce subsequent climate-friendly behavior? An experimental study of moral licensing rebound effects87
Buzzword or breakthrough beyond growth? The mainstreaming of the Wellbeing Economy83
Biological control of a parasite: The efficacy of cleaner fish in salmon farming76
The effect of deliberate ignorance and choice procedure on pro-environmental decisions74
Financial capital as a shaper of households' adaptive capabilities to flood risk in northern Bangladesh68
Reducing fossil fuel dependency in smallholding farming in l'Horta de València, Spain: A socio-metabolic approach68
Damage costs from invasive species exceed management expenditure in nations experiencing lower economic activity66
China's current carbon inequality is predominantly determined by capital disparity65
Carbon rotation ages and the offset measurement conundrum: An extended review64
Sufficiency: A systematic literature review62
Carbon inequality in global trade: Evidence from the mismatch between embodied carbon emissions and value added61
Developing policy packages for low-carbon passenger transport: A mixed methods analysis of trade-offs and synergies61
Linking marine habitats and economic values: A spatial scaling methodology for valuing societal benefits60
The effects of the containers and packaging recycling law on the domestic recycling of plastic waste: Evidence from Japan60
Can payments-for-ecosystem-services change social norms?59
When health-related claims impact environmental demand: Results of experimental auctions with Bordeaux wine consumers58
Quantifying the importance of farmers' behavioral factors in ex-ante assessments of policies supporting sustainable farming practices57
Biotechnology or bioeconomy: Six of one and half a dozen of the other?57
Do ecological protection approaches affect total factor productivity change of cropland production in Sweden?54
Degrowth: What's in it for the labour movement?52
Model-based analysis of the agglomeration bonus for the conservation of twelve meadow bird species in an agricultural landscape52
Are natural disasters stumbling blocks to carbon inequality mitigation? A global perspective52
Impact of livelihood strategies and capitals on rangeland sustainability and nomads' poverty: A counterfactual analysis in Southwest Iran52
The value of information in water quality monitoring and management51
Editorial Board51
Estimating the relationship between EROI and profitability of oil sands mining, 1997–201651
Valuing beyond economics: A pluralistic evaluation framework for participatory policymaking51
Populism and support of onshore wind energy: Explaining different perspectives from the left and right51
The universal commons: An economic theory of ecosystem ownership51
The economics of microbiodiversity50
BOOK REVIEWS50
The role of physical constraints on production49
Resilience rankings and trajectories of world's countries49
Less and more: Conceptualising degrowth transformations48
Can carbon tariffs based on domestic embedded carbon emissions reduce more carbon leakages?48
How does environmental regulation promote green technology innovation? Evidence from China's total emission control policy47
Exploring economy-wide sustainable conditions for EU bio-chemical activities47
Definitions of the circular economy: Circularity matters47
The limits to degrowth: Economic and climatic consequences of pessimist assumptions on decoupling46
Closing the loop at the local scale: Investigating the drivers of and barriers to the implementation of the circular economy in cities and regions46
Editorial Board46
Particulate matter and COVID-19 excess deaths: Decomposing long-term exposure and short-term effects45
Stochastic growth and regime shift risk in renewable resource management45
Biases and nudges in the circular economy: A review44
Achieving landscape patterns for biodiversity conservation through payments for ecosystem services – Evidence from a field experiment in Indonesia44
Editorial Board44
The unequal exchange of air pollution and economic benefits embodied in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei's consumption43
Unpacking the urban virtual water of the Global South: Lessons from 181 cities43
Determinants and effects of green bond issuance: Environmental awareness, ecological budget, biodiversity, oil and lithium42
Transitioning to a sustainable economy: A preliminary degrowth macroeconomic model42
Global inequalities in countries' demand for raw materials: Twenty years of expansion and insufficient convergence42
Social comparison feedback in decision-making context: Environmental externality levels and psychological traits matter41
International expansion of renewable energy capacities: The role of innovation and choice of policy instruments41
Water, air pollution and carbon footprints of conspicuous/luxury consumption in India41
Consumers' willingness to pay for an animal welfare food label40
Preferences for drought risk adaptation support in Kenya: Evidence from a discrete choice experiment and three decision-making theories39
Ship-owner response to carbon taxes: Industry and environmental implications39
Inherently unstable? Scaling, mission drift, and the comparative performance of community-based platforms in the sharing economy39
Navigating sustainable futures: The role of terminal and instrumental values39
Degrowth-oriented organisational value creation: A systematic literature review of case studies39
Insurance value of biodiversity in the Anthropocene is the full resilience value39
Living well with the foundational economy: Assessing the spatial accessibility of foundational infrastructures in Vienna and the relationship to socio-economic status38
Land manager preferences for outcome-based payments for environmental services in oak savannahs38
Degrowth in a settler state: climate-just economic transitions and Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples in Canada37
Evaluating policy packages for a low-carbon transition – Principles and applications37
The effect of the economic cycles on material requirements: Analysing the dematerialization in developed countries37
Voluntary management of fisheries under the threat of uncertain legislation37
The evolution of the EU electronics market and its impact on direct material consumption: Lessons from the past37
Integrating modelling-based and stakeholder-focused scenario approaches to close the planning gap and accelerate low-carbon transitions37
Too good to be true: The inverted U-shaped relationship between home-country digitalization and environmental performance37
Ecological unequal exchange between Turkey and the European Union: An assessment from value added perspective37
Promoting agricultural technologies with positive environmental effects: Evidence on tree planting in Indonesia36
Editorial Board36
Editorial Board35
Genetically engineered varieties and applied pesticide toxicity in U.S. maize and soybeans: Heterogeneous and evolving impacts35
A discrete-time bioeconomic model of free-roaming cat management: A case study in Knox County, Tennessee35
Accepting and implementing transport pricing policies for climate: A review of evidence and research gaps35
Energy footprints and the international trade network: A new dataset. Is the European Union doing it better?35
Property value effects of the Hemlock wooly adelgid infestation in New England, U.S.A.35
What are the banks doing in managing climate risk? Empirical evidence from a position map34
The impact of information asymmetry on animal welfare-friendly consumption: Evidence from milk market in Japan34
Pattern evolution and dynamic formation mechanism of global scrap copper trade network: Based on temporal exponential random graph model34
Clean air as an experience good in urban China34
Linking the diversity of ecologisation models to farmers' digital use profiles34
Raising awareness of climate change: Nature, activists, politicians?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
Do forest conservation policies undermine the soybean sector in the Brazilian Amazon? Evidence from the priority listing of municipalities33
Ambient air pollution-related environmental inequality and environmental dissimilarity in Helsinki Metropolitan Area, Finland33
The social cost of adopting a plant-based diet33
The accumulation and substitution effects of multi-nation certified organic and protected eco-origin food labels in China33
Framing effects in expert assessments of optimal GDP development33
The impact of timber regulations on timber and timber product trade32
Criminal enforcement and environmental performance: Evidence from China32
How social movements contribute to staying within the global carbon budget: Evidence from a qualitative meta-analysis of case studies32
Global and Local Spatial Spill-Overs: What Matters Most for the Diffusion of Organic Agriculture in Australia?32
Prosocial and financial incentives for biodiversity conservation: A field experiment using a smartphone app32
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 modelling31
Temporary PES do not crowd out and may crowd in lab-in-the-field forest conservation in Colombia31
The effect of flood mitigation spending on flood damage: Accounting for dynamic feedback31
Grassland conservation supports migratory birds and produces economic benefits for the commercial beekeeping industry in the U.S. Great Plains31
Toxic pollution and poverty: Economic impacts of lead (Pb) exposure on household welfare in Zambia30
Editorial Board30
Water as driver of economic capacity: Introducing a physical economic model30
Relative environmental impacts and monetary cost of food categories: Functional unit matters30
The Sustainable Development Goals as new business norms: A survey experiment on stakeholder preferences30
Institutional Barriers to Sustainable Forest Management: Evidence from an Experimental Study in Tajikistan30
Temperature and life satisfaction: Evidence from Chinese older adults30
Environmental resource extraction and poverty: Comparative evidence from rural Thailand and Vietnam30
Saving the world voluntarily: Experimental evidence of gain-loss framing on voluntary pro-environmental behavior30
Bioeconomic markets based on the use of native species (NS) in Brazil30
Do people think they have enough? A subjective income sufficiency assessment29
How to estimate whether preferential trade agreements contribute to international environmental impact shifting. A new methodology and empirical illustration for Switzerland29
Willingness to reduce travel consumption to support a low-carbon transition beyond COVID-1929
First-degree price discrimination water bank to reduce reacquisition costs and enhance economic efficiency in agricultural water buyback29
The environmental benefits of grassroots cooperatives in agriculture29
Tropical mixed-species plantations can outperform monocultures in terms of carbon sequestration and economic return29
Editorial Board29
Evaluating transformative policies in complex land-use systems29
Willingness to pay for sustainable and legal firewood in Tasmania29
Mediation and moderation roles of resilience capacity in the shock–food-security nexus in northern Ghana28
The role of co-benefits in motivating climate change mitigation – Experimental evidence28
How to design publicly acceptable road pricing? Experimental insights from Switzerland28
Confronting the dilemma of growth. A response to27
Biodiversity loss from land occupation: A prefecture- and county-level assessment of biodiversity footprints in China27
Climate change and its impact on home insurance uptake in Australia27
Footprint analysis and the incidence of emission taxes: Corrigendum27
Understanding determinants of the intention to buy rhino horn in Vietnam through the Theory of Planned Behaviour and the Theory of Interpersonal Behaviour27
The income inequality-CO2 emissions nexus: Transmission mechanisms27
Editorial Board27
Multinational dynamic steel cycle analysis reveals sequential decoupling between material use and economic growth27
Forest adaptation strategies to reconcile timber production and carbon sequestration objectives under multiple risks of extreme drought and windstorm events27
Has Central Government Environmental Protection Interview Improved Air Quality in China?27
Bird feeding and biodiversity: The decline of the Willow Tit26
How do nature governance rules affect compliance decisions? An experimental analysis26
Editorial Board26
The governance of agricultural lands in marginal areas: A conceptual framework26
BOOK REVIEWS25
Is innovation good for the environment? A macro-level analysis25
Subsidies against Nature: A multidimensional framework for biodiversity-aligned national budgets25
An energy-based macroeconomic model validated by global historical series since 182025
Rising inequality: A material perspective on the Great Recession in the European Union25
The command paradox: Unraveling the impact of command-and-control water conservation policies on water-use technical efficiency25
Innovative fire policy in the Amazon: A statistical Hicks-Kaldor analysis25
Heterogeneity, spillovers and eco-efficiency of European industries under different pollutants’ scenarios. Is there a definite direction?25
Deepgrowth: Self-transformation towards harmonious being25
Carbon footprint tracking apps: The spillover effects of feedback and goal-activating appeals25
Assessing the regime-switching role of risk mitigation measures on agricultural vulnerability: A threshold analysis25
Community reconstruction of biocultural landscapes. Application in the Kokonuko Indigenous Territory25
Harnessing natural attenuation to reduce CAFOs nitrate emissions: An integrated modeling approach25
Procedural climate justice: Conceptualizing a polycentric solution to a global problem24
Durability standards and clothing libraries for strengthening sustainable clothing markets24
Vietnam's Payments for Forest Ecosystem Services scheme's puzzling role in protecting longstanding forests as deforestation rates rise24
Pro-environmental behavior and environmentalist movements: Evidence from the identification with Fridays for Future24
Indigenous people's perceptions of benefits and costs of China's second phase of the grain for green program and the influencing factors24
Is there a trade-off between human well-being and ecological footprint in European countries?24
Pay the polluter or polluter pays? A preliminary assessment of public preferences for water quality policy24
Rising from the ashes: Transitioning towards carbon neutrality through the pathways of circular economy agglomeration24
Knowledge spillovers between clean and dirty technologies: Evidence from the patent citation network24
Targeting socioeconomic transformations to achieve global sustainability23
Valuing Recreation in Italy's Protected Areas Using Spatial Big Data23
Editorial Board23
Internet use, natural resource extraction and poverty reduction in rural Thailand23
Reframing vulnerability and resilience to climate change through the lens of capability generation23
A Global Survey of Scientific Consensus and Controversy on Instruments of Climate Policy23
An assessment of the distributional impacts of autonomous adaptation to climate change from European agriculture23
Property values and cyanobacterial algal blooms: Evidence from satellite monitoring of Inland Lakes23
Vulnerability and spatial competition: The case of fisheries and offshore wind projects23
Ratcheting up private standards by exploiting coopetition: The curious case of RSPO’s adoption of zero-deforestation criteria23
Two currencies – Rethinking energy and the economy23
Valuing coastal fisheries and seagrasses: A case study of estuarine resources on Florida's Nature Coast23
Leveraging participation in apparel global supply chains through green industrialization strategies: Implications for low-income countries22
Carbon Giants: Exploring the Top 100 Industrial CO2 Emitters in the EU22
Connected we stand: Lead firm ownership ties in the global petrochemical industry22
Charismatic species, matching, and demographics in conservation donations: An experimental investigation22
Why and when do reserves estimates in mining change and innovations take place?22
Can phone text messages promote the use of integrated pest management? A study of vegetable farmers in Cambodia22
Improving acceptance of natural capital accounting in land use decision making: Barriers and opportunities21
Does drought increase carbon emissions? Evidence from Southwestern China21
Macroeconomic impacts of water allocation under droughts. Accounting for global supply chains in a multiregional context21
Assessing the heterogeneity of public acceptability for mangrove restoration through a choice experiment21
Climate neutrality scenarios: How they deal with economic growth, employment and social acceptance21
Modelling the embodied carbon cost of UK domestic building construction: Today to 205021
Reconceptualizing the role of socioeconomic material stocks in the leverage points framework to enable transformative change21
Changing the understanding of crop production: Integrating ecosystem services into the production function20
Algae-Based Two-Stage Supply Chain with Co-Products20
Is social capital a driver of the green transition in the European Union?20
Landscape features on farms: Evidence on factors influencing their quantity and ecological value20
Snowmaking's slippery slope: The effect of mountain reservoirs on water demand20
Wait and see? Public preferences for the temporal effectiveness of coastal protection20
Assessing the economic impacts of forest certification in Spain: A longitudinal study20
Payment for environmental services to reduce deforestation: Do the positive effects last?20
Nudges and compensation: Evaluating experimental evidence on controlling rice straw burning20
Consequences of ecological aggregation in general equilibrium analysis of perturbed ecosystems20
Analysis of the multidimensional energy poverty in Italy using the partially ordered set20
Motivational levers for the preservation of an intergenerational common resource: An experiment20
Global value chains participation and trade-induced carbon inequality: A comparative analysis of developed and developing economies20
There are plenty more (sustainable) fish in the sea: A discrete choice experiment on discarded species in Italy20
The impact of tropical cyclones on income inequality in the U.S.: An empirical analysis20
Pests, wind and fire: A multi-hazard risk review for natural disturbances in forests20
Can monetized carbon information increase pro-environmental behavior? Experimental evidence20
Optimal post-border surveillance against invasive pests to protect a valuable nature reserve and island asset20
Offsetting schemes and ecological taxes for wind power production20
From participation to commitment in silvopastoral programmes: Insights from Chiapas, Mexico20
After the storm: Environmental tragedy and sustainable mobility20
Coordinating on good and bad outcomes in threshold games – Evidence from an artefactual field experiment in Cambodia19
Are national climate change mitigation pledges shaped by citizens' mitigation preferences? Evidence from globally representative data19
Do you perceive interdependencies among human activities related to water? Drivers and effects on preferences for participation and regulation19
Obituary: Clement Allan Tisdell (1939–2022) – An ecological economist in mind, heart and soul19
Changes in household recycling behavior: Evidence from panel data19
Celso Furtado: An ecological economist?19
Accounting for trade in derived products when estimating European Union's role in driving deforestation19
Environmental offsetting: What drives the choice of offset mechanism in the US Wetland Mitigation Program?19
The effects of emotions on stated preferences for environmental change: A re-examination19
Re-investigating the shared responsibility for trade-embodied carbon emissions19
Tracing carbon footprints to intermediate industries in the United Kingdom19
Green coops: Drivers of innovation for circular strategies among Italian cooperatives19
The marginal abatement cost function with secondary waste markets19
Ecological design of a production plant19
Natural forces matter: A note on Simon N. Patten's critique of John B. Clark's theory of distribution19
Water markets and water rebounds: China's water rights trading policy18
Perceptions of Ecosystem Services and Bonds with Nature: The Case of Fish-Farming Ponds in France18
Broadening ecological footprint and biocapacity research: A co-developed research agenda with Canadian stakeholders18
A comprehensive socio-economic assessment of EU climate policy pathways18
In memoriam: Herman Daly (1938–2022)18
15 years of degrowth research: A systematic review18
Noisy biodiversity: The impact of ESG biodiversity ratings on asset prices18
Smallholders' preferred attributes in a subsidy program for replanting overaged oil palm plantations in Indonesia18
Collaborative governance as a means of navigating the uncertainties of sustainability transformations: The case of Finnish food packaging18
Understanding citizen investment in renewable energy communities18
Editorial Board18
Toward the carbon neutrality: Forest carbon sinks and its spatial spillover effect in China18
Labour-saving heuristics in green patents: A natural language processing analysis18
Convenient solutions, inconvenient truths – Why supermarkets will not drive food system transformation18
Shared and environmentally just responsibility for global biodiversity loss18
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