Ecological Economics

Papers
(The median citation count of Ecological Economics is 5. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
The impact of fintech innovation on green growth in China: Mediating effect of green finance318
Central bank mandates, sustainability objectives and the promotion of green finance251
Global patterns of ecologically unequal exchange: Implications for sustainability in the 21st century232
Sustainable consumption behavior of Europeans: The influence of environmental knowledge and risk perception on environmental concern and behavioral intention189
Food access in crisis: Food security and COVID-19186
Circular economy, degrowth and green growth as pathways for research on sustainable development goals: A global analysis and future agenda177
A Green New Deal without growth?168
Integrating the green economy, circular economy and bioeconomy in a strategic sustainability framework158
Green recovery in the mature manufacturing industry: The role of the green-circular premium and sustainability certification in innovative efforts146
Finance, climate-change and radical uncertainty: Towards a precautionary approach to financial policy126
One-vote veto: The threshold effect of environmental pollution in China's economic promotion tournament117
The importance of species diversity for human well-being in Europe114
Public Attention to Environmental Issues and Stock Market Returns106
How does the use of industrial robots affect the ecological footprint? International evidence103
Kicking the Habit: What Makes and Breaks Farmers' Intentions to Reduce Pesticide Use?98
Justice in nature-based solutions: Research and pathways94
Corruption pays off: How environmental regulations promote corporate innovation in a developing country84
The economic values of global forest ecosystem services: A meta-analysis83
Sufficiency: A systematic literature review82
Beyond ecosystem services and nature's contributions: Is it time to leave utilitarian environmentalism behind?82
Carbon inequality in global trade: Evidence from the mismatch between embodied carbon emissions and value added77
The dual effects of heterogeneous environmental regulation on the technological innovation of Chinese steel enterprises—Based on a high-dimensional fixed effects model75
Wellbeing economy: An effective paradigm to mainstream post-growth policies?73
Stay or Leave? The Role of Air Pollution in Urban Migration Choices73
Social tipping processes towards climate action: A conceptual framework70
Wage distortion and green technological progress: A directed technological progress perspective66
Too good to be true: The inverted U-shaped relationship between home-country digitalization and environmental performance65
Using Q-methodology in environmental sustainability research: A bibliometric analysis and systematic review64
The tournament of Chinese environmental protection: Strong or weak competition?64
Air pollution in an urban world: A global view on density, cities and emissions63
Driving the circular economy through public environmental and energy R&D: Evidence from SMEs in the European Union61
The Circular Economy and human needs satisfaction: Promising the radical, delivering the familiar60
Supporting carbon taxes: The role of fairness59
Talk renewables, walk coal: The paradox of India's energy transition59
The effects of green nudges on consumer valuation of bio-based plastic packaging58
An appraisal of interlinkages between macro-economic indicators of economic well-being and the sustainable development goals58
Quantity or quality: Environmental legislation and corporate green innovations56
The role of trust in citizen acceptance of climate policy: Comparing perceptions of government competence, integrity and value similarity55
The effects of framing on environmental decisions: A systematic literature review53
Does circular economy mitigate the extraction of natural resources? Empirical evidence based on analysis of 28 European economies over the past decade52
Valuing the ecosystem service benefits from kelp forest restoration: A choice experiment from Norway52
Welfare systems without economic growth: A review of the challenges and next steps for the field51
Sustainable practices and product quality: Is there value in eco-label certification? The case of wine50
Using an extended theory of planned behaviour to explain willingness towards voluntary carbon offsetting among Chinese consumers50
The role of non-cognitive skills in farmers' adoption of climate change mitigation measures49
The income inequality-CO2 emissions nexus: Transmission mechanisms49
On thin ice – The Arctic commodity extraction frontier and environmental conflicts47
Definitions of the circular economy: Circularity matters46
The impacts of household structure transitions on household carbon emissions in China46
What determines consumers' use of eco-labels? Taking a close look at label trust45
Emergence of New Economics Energy Transition Models: A Review45
Digitalization, positioning in global value chain and carbon emissions embodied in exports: Evidence from global manufacturing production-based emissions44
Plastic pollution and economic growth: The influence of corruption and lack of education44
Sustainable welfare: How do universal basic income and universal basic services compare?44
Perceptions of Climate Variability and Soil Fertility Management Choices Among Smallholder Farmers in Northern Ghana43
Effects of Bribery on Firms' Environmental Innovation Adoption in Vietnam: Mediating Roles of Firms' Bargaining Power and Credit and Institutional Constraints43
Ecological compensation: How much and where?43
The Transition to a Sustainable Prosperity-A Stock-Flow-Consistent Ecological Macroeconomic Model for Canada43
Stocks, flows, services and practices: Nexus approaches to sustainable social metabolism42
Linkages between agricultural policies, productivity and environmental sustainability42
The association between the carbon footprint and the socio-economic characteristics of Belgian households41
Is digital transformation the Deus ex Machina towards sustainability transition of the European SMEs?41
Do economic preferences predict pro-environmental behaviour?41
A Socio-economic Indicator for EoL Strategies for Bio-based Products40
Winners and losers: the distributional impacts of a carbon tax in Brazil40
The role of demographic and economic drivers on the environment in traditional and standardized STIRPAT analysis40
Frontrunners and laggards: How fast are the EU member states progressing towards the sustainable development goals?39
The value of responsibly farmed fish: A hedonic price study of ASC-certified whitefish39
Does agricultural trade reduce pressure on land ecosystems? Decomposing drivers of the embodied human appropriation of net primary production38
Bridging barriers in sustainability research: Α review from sustainability science to life cycle sustainability assessment37
Contingent valuation estimates for environmental goods: Validity and reliability37
Improving the regional deployment of carbon mitigation efforts by incorporating air-quality co-benefits: A multi-provincial analysis of China36
How social movements contribute to staying within the global carbon budget: Evidence from a qualitative meta-analysis of case studies36
Benefits of Increasing Information Accuracy in Variable Rate Technologies36
It takes two to dance: Institutional dynamics and climate-related financial policies36
Commons grabbing and agribusiness: Violence, resistance and social mobilization35
The adoption of pesticide-free wheat production and farmers' perceptions of its environmental and health effects35
Expenditure elasticity and income elasticity of GHG emissions: A survey of literature on household carbon footprint35
Factors affecting the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices: Findings from panel data for Vietnam35
How to remove microplastics in wastewater? A cost-effectiveness analysis35
Financial profitability of diversified farming systems: A global meta-analysis35
The lifetime cost of driving a car34
The value of value theory for ecological economics34
Untangling the underlying drivers of the use of single-use food packaging34
A home for all within planetary boundaries: Pathways for meeting England's housing needs without transgressing national climate and biodiversity goals33
Land tenure, soil conservation, and farm performance: An eco-efficiency analysis of Austrian crop farms33
Has Central Government Environmental Protection Interview Improved Air Quality in China?33
Air pollution and happiness: Evidence from the coldest capital in the world32
How much does it take? Willingness to switch to meat substitutes32
Economic losses from natural disturbances in Norway spruce forests – A quantification using Monte-Carlo simulations32
Other-regarding preferences and pro-environmental behaviour: An interdisciplinary review of experimental studies32
Worker wellbeing and productivity in advanced economies: Re-examining the link32
The embodied flow of built-up land in China's interregional trade and its implications for regional carbon balance31
Market failure, tradable discharge permit, and pollution reduction: Evidence from industrial firms in China31
Internet use, natural resource extraction and poverty reduction in rural Thailand31
Challenges and innovations in the economic evaluation of the risks of climate change30
Practicing policy mobility of payment for ecosystem services through assemblage and performativity: Lessons from China's Xin'an River Basin Eco-compensation Pilot30
Young people' s willingness to pay for environmental protection30
Do we need a ‘circular society’? Competing narratives of the circular economy in the French food sector30
Developing policy packages for low-carbon passenger transport: A mixed methods analysis of trade-offs and synergies30
Integrating coordination mechanisms in the sustainability assessment of agri-food chains: From a structured literature review to a comprehensive framework30
Climate concern and policy acceptance before and after COVID-1930
Trends in national biodiversity footprints of land use29
Economics without ecology: How the SDGs fail to align socioeconomic development with environmental sustainability29
Exploring social-ecological impacts on trade-offs and synergies among ecosystem services29
Characterizing the Danish energy prosumer: Who buys solar PV systems and why do they buy them?29
Patterns and determinants of carbon emission flows along the Belt and Road from 2005 to 203029
Implementation context and science-policy interfaces: Implications for the economic valuation of ecosystem services29
No clue about bioplastics28
Policy-oriented versus market-induced: Factors influencing crop diversity across China28
The impact of international rare earth trade competition on global value chain upgrading from the industrial chain perspective28
From landscape practices to ecosystem services: Landscape valuation in Indigenous contexts28
The role of preferences for pro-environmental behaviour among urban middle class households in Peru28
Lump-sum vs. energy-efficiency subsidy recycling of carbon tax revenue in the residential sector: A French assessment27
Ecological trap in tourism-urbanization: Simulating the stagnation and restoration of urbanization from the perspective of government incentives27
Us before me: A group level approach to the circular economy27
How to achieve emission reduction without hindering economic growth? The role of judicial quality27
Implications of declining household economies of scale on electricity consumption and sustainability in China27
Accounting matters: Revisiting claims of decoupling and genuine green growth in Nordic countries27
Quantifying Loss of Benefits from Poor Governance of Climate Change Adaptation Projects: A Discrete Choice Experiment with Farmers in Kenya27
Green behavior, green self-image, and subjective well-being: Separating affective and cognitive relationships27
What theories of value (could) underpin our circular futures?27
Are investors aware of climate-related transition risks? Evidence from mutual fund flows27
Revisiting the economic valuation of agricultural losses due to large-scale changes in pollinator populations27
Toward the carbon neutrality: Forest carbon sinks and its spatial spillover effect in China27
The heat is on: A framework for measuring financial stress under disruptive energy transition scenarios26
State-civil society relations in Gramsci, Poulantzas and Bourdieu: Strategic implications for the degrowth movement26
Is it a green or brown job? A Taxonomy of Sustainable Employment26
Hope for the future and willingness to pay for sustainable energy26
Barriers and opportunities in developing and implementing a Green GDP26
Evaluating the economics of park-tourism from the ground-up: Leakage, multiplier effects, and the enabling environment at South Luangwa National Park, Zambia26
Community social capital and status: The social dilemma of food waste26
The impacts of climate induced disasters on the economy: Winners and losers in Sri Lanka26
Doing more with less: Provisioning systems and the transformation of the stock-flow-service nexus26
Estimating the costs and benefits of protecting a coastal amenity from climate change-related hazards: Nature based solutions via oyster reef restoration versus grey infrastructure25
Neoliberalism and climate change: How the free-market myth has prevented climate action25
Distributed degrowth technology: Challenges for blockchain beyond the green economy25
The environmental and financial performance of green energy investments: European evidence25
Does information matter? Transparency and demand for accountability in Ghana's natural resource revenue management25
Solar collective self-consumption: Economic analysis of a policy mix25
Carbon footprint information, prices, and restaurant wine choices by customers: A natural field experiment25
Environmental impacts of productivity-led working time reduction25
One size does not fit all: A tale of polycentric development and land degradation in Italy24
Sustainable commodity governance and the global south24
Distributional impacts of soil erosion on agricultural productivity and welfare in Malawi24
Toward circular economy: The impact of policy instruments on circular economy innovation for European small medium enterprises24
Smart city strategies – A driver for the localization of the sustainable development goals?24
Less and more: Conceptualising degrowth transformations24
Unequal ecological exchange in the era of global value chains: The case of Latin America24
Is the digital economy an effective tool for decreasing energy vulnerability? A global case24
The circular economy and the optimal recycling rate: A macroeconomic approach24
Household acceptability of energy efficiency policies in the European Union: Policy characteristics trade-offs and the role of trust in government and environmental identity24
Trade-off decisions in ecosystem management for poverty alleviation23
The economic and environmental effects of seasonality of tourism: A look at solid waste23
Managing spatial sustainability trade-offs: The case of wind power23
The relation between fishing subsidies and CO2 emissions in the fisheries sector23
Improving acceptance of natural capital accounting in land use decision making: Barriers and opportunities23
Energy poor need more energy, but do they need more carbon? Evaluation of people's basic carbon needs23
Informing groundwater policies in semi-arid agricultural production regions under stochastic climate scenario impacts23
Economic growth, environmental constraints and convergence23
Study on the distribution of PM emission rights in various provinces of China based on a new efficiency and equity two-objective DEA model23
Nature Based Solutions for Climate Adaptation - Paying Farmers for Flood Control23
Modelling energy transition risk: The impact of declining energy return on investment (EROI)23
What structural change is needed for a post-growth economy: A framework of analysis and empirical evidence23
Social desirability bias in the environmental economic valuation: An inferred valuation approach23
Co-benefits of a flexitarian diet for air quality and human health in Europe23
Shared and environmentally just responsibility for global biodiversity loss23
Sources of greenhouse gas emission reductions in OECD countries: Composition or technique effects23
Impact of oil palm expansion on the provision of private and community goods in rural Indonesia23
Willingness to reduce travel consumption to support a low-carbon transition beyond COVID-1922
Sand futures: Post-growth alternatives for mineral aggregate consumption and distribution in the global south22
Willingness to pay for environmental protection and the importance of pollutant industries in the regional economy. Evidence from Italy22
Reducing consumption of electricity: A field experiment in Monaco with boosts and goal setting22
Determinants of fossil fuel divestment in European pension funds22
Equity and effectiveness of Australian small-scale solar schemes22
Guiding cities under increased droughts: The limits to sustainable urban futures22
Welfare regimes as enablers of just energy transitions: Revisiting and testing the hypothesis of synergy for Europe21
Waxing power, waning pollution: The effect of COVID-19 on Russian environmental policymaking21
Evaluating the Evaluated Socioeconomic Impacts of China's Sloping Land Conversion Program21
Modelling the embodied carbon cost of UK domestic building construction: Today to 205021
The price of risk in residential solar investments21
When the circular economy diverges: The co-evolution of biogas business models and material circuits in Finland21
The Amazon bioeconomy: Beyond the use of forest products21
Unfolding differences in the distribution of coastal marine ecosystem services values among developed and developing countries21
Have environmental preferences and willingness to pay remained stable before and during the global Covid-19 shock?21
Born to transform? German bioeconomy policy and research projects for transformations towards sustainability21
Ecological Economics Beyond Markets21
The Sustainable Development Goals as new business norms: A survey experiment on stakeholder preferences20
Social outcomes of energy use in the United Kingdom: Household energy footprints and their links to well-being20
Towards the development of economic damage functions for weather and climate extremes20
Unlocking the unsustainable rice-wheat system of Indian Punjab: Assessing alternatives to crop-residue burning from a systems perspective20
Socio-cultural valuation of whale ecosystem services in Skjálfandi Bay, Iceland20
Revisiting money and labor for valuing environmental goods and services in developing countries20
Property values and cyanobacterial algal blooms: Evidence from satellite monitoring of Inland Lakes20
Education and pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours: A nonparametric regression discontinuity analysis of a major schooling reform in England and Wales20
Is burden responsibility more effective? A value-added method for tracing worldwide carbon emissions20
Leveraging participation in apparel global supply chains through green industrialization strategies: Implications for low-income countries20
Would energy poverty affect the wellbeing of senior citizens? Evidence from China20
Tracing Austria's biomass consumption to source countries: A product-level comparison between bioenergy, food and material20
The economic, environmental and social performance of European certified food20
Intentional degrowth and its unintended consequences: Uneven journeys towards post-growth transformations19
Productivity, biodiversity trade-offs, and farm income in an agroforestry versus an arable system19
Free associations of citizens and scientists with economic and green growth: A computational-linguistics analysis19
Full speed ahead or floating around? Dynamics of selected circular bioeconomies in Europe19
Population growth and climate change: A dynamic integrated climate-economy-demography model19
On the role of social equity in payments for ecosystem services in Latin America: A practitioner perspective19
Social innovation for biodiversity: A literature review and research challenges19
Enhancing spatial coordination in payment for ecosystem services schemes with non-pecuniary preferences19
Anticipating moral hazard undermines climate mitigation in an experimental geoengineering game19
Pluralistic discounting recognizing different capital contributions: An example estimating the net present value of global ecosystem services19
Ecosystem indicators for measuring industrial symbiosis19
How does environmental regulation promote green technology innovation? Evidence from China's total emission control policy19
Less is more: The implicit sustainability content of the human development index18
Emissions inequality: Disparities in income, expenditure, and the carbon footprint in Austria18
Policy options for funding carbon capture in regional industrial clusters: What are the impacts and trade-offs involved in compensating industry competitiveness loss?18
Development opportunities, forest use transition, and farmers' income differentiation: The impacts of Giant panda reserves in China18
Accountability and sustainability transitions18
Incentivizing the future adoption of best management practices on agricultural land to protect water resources: The role of past participation and experiences18
How much infrastructure is required to support decent mobility for all? An exploratory assessment18
A regional resource curse? A synthetic-control approach to oil extraction in Basilicata, Italy18
Conservation Costs Drive Enrolment in Agglomeration Bonus Scheme18
The power of wind: The global wind energy industry's successes and failures18
The Impact of Snowstorms, Droughts and Locust Outbreaks on Livestock Production in Inner Mongolia: Anticipation and Adaptation to Environmental Shocks18
Moving towards a sustainable circular bio-economy in the agriculture sector of a developing country18
Credibility beyond compliance: Uncertified smallholders in sustainable food systems18
Environmental justice and green innovation: A quasi-natural experiment based on the establishment of environmental courts in China18
How to stimulate environmentally friendly consumption: Evidence from a nationwide social experiment in Japan to promote eco-friendly coffee18
The unequal exchange of air pollution and economic benefits embodied in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei's consumption18
Review of Handbook of Green Finance18
Economic valuation of non-material contributions to people provided by avian scavengers: Harmonizing conservation and wildlife-based tourism18
Adapting the governance of social–ecological systems to behavioural dynamics: An agent-based model for water quality management using the theory of planned behaviour18
Heterogeneity, spillovers and eco-efficiency of European industries under different pollutants’ scenarios. Is there a definite direction?18
Preferences for coastal and marine conservation in Vietnam: Accounting for differences in individual choice set formation18
Permanence of PES and the role of social context in the Regional Integrated Silvo-pastoral Ecosystem Management Project in Costa Rica18
Agricultural landscape certification as a market-driven tool to reward the provisioning of cultural ecosystem services17
Group discussions on how to implement a participatory process in climate adaptation planning: a case study in Malaysia17
Farm households' perception of weather change and flood adaptations in northern Pakistan17
Do cultural capital and social capital matter for economic performance? An empirical investigation of tribal agriculture in New Caledonia17
How can Stakeholder Capitalism contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals? A Cross-network Literature Analysis17
A new accounting framework for assessing forest footprint of nations17
Carbon pricing of basic materials: Incentives and risks for the value chain and consumers17
Revealing the dominant discourses of stakeholders towards natural resource management in Port Resolution, Vanuatu, using Q-method17
Certainty pays off: The public's value of environmental monitoring17
A comprehensive socio-economic assessment of EU climate policy pathways17
Circular economy, operational eco-efficiency, and sufficiency. An integrated view17
Twenty-five years of social multi-criteria evaluation (SMCE) in the search for sustainability: Analysis of case studies17
Linking the diversity of ecologisation models to farmers' digital use profiles17
Towards a science of deep transformations: Initiating a dialogue between degrowth and critical realism17
International expansion of renewable energy capacities: The role of innovation and choice of policy instruments17
Does corporate environmentalism affect corporate insolvency risk? The role of market power and competitive intensity17
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