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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board467
BOOK REVIEWS315
God did not save the kings: Environmental consequences of the 1982 Falklands War246
Cost-efficient allocation of ship measures and harvest of aquatic invasive species – An application to invasive crabs on the west coast of Sweden179
Financial capital as a shaper of households' adaptive capabilities to flood risk in northern Bangladesh144
Optimal pricing of protected areas under multiple sites demand models140
Critical realism, methodological pluralism, and ecological economics123
The risks of the wrong climate policy for developing countries: Scenarios for South Africa118
A Prospect Theory-based experimental vignette methodology for exploring rebound effects and rebound-damping interventions112
Buzzword or breakthrough beyond growth? The mainstreaming of the Wellbeing Economy109
Energy matters: Mitigating the impacts of future land expansion will require managing energy and extractive footprints101
Improving the validity and credibility of the sociocultural valuation of ecosystem services in Amman, Jordan100
Will adoption occur if a practice is win-win for profit and the environment? An application to a rancher's grazing practice choices98
Integrating recreational ecosystem service valuations into Israel's Water economy98
Carbon rotation ages and the offset measurement conundrum: An extended review92
Towards a sustainable mobility lifestyle: Exploring the flight to rail shift through model-based behavioural change scenarios91
The effect of deliberate ignorance and choice procedure on pro-environmental decisions88
Reducing fossil fuel dependency in smallholding farming in l'Horta de València, Spain: A socio-metabolic approach87
Developing policy packages for low-carbon passenger transport: A mixed methods analysis of trade-offs and synergies84
Does recalling energy efficiency measures reduce subsequent climate-friendly behavior? An experimental study of moral licensing rebound effects77
Citizens' preferences and valuation of urban nature: Insights from two choice experiments76
Damage costs from invasive species exceed management expenditure in nations experiencing lower economic activity75
Sufficiency: A systematic literature review69
China's current carbon inequality is predominantly determined by capital disparity64
Biological control of a parasite: The efficacy of cleaner fish in salmon farming63
Carbon inequality in global trade: Evidence from the mismatch between embodied carbon emissions and value added61
Assessing U.S. consumers' carbon footprints reveals outsized impact of the top 1%60
Volatility-reducing biodiversity conservation under strategic interactions60
Valuing beyond economics: A pluralistic evaluation framework for participatory policymaking59
Biotechnology or bioeconomy: Six of one and half a dozen of the other?59
Resilience rankings and trajectories of world's countries56
Climate change and species decline: Distinct sources of European consumer concern supporting more sustainable diets56
Do ecological protection approaches affect total factor productivity change of cropland production in Sweden?55
Are natural disasters stumbling blocks to carbon inequality mitigation? A global perspective55
The universal commons: An economic theory of ecosystem ownership55
When health-related claims impact environmental demand: Results of experimental auctions with Bordeaux wine consumers54
Impact of livelihood strategies and capitals on rangeland sustainability and nomads' poverty: A counterfactual analysis in Southwest Iran54
Linking marine habitats and economic values: A spatial scaling methodology for valuing societal benefits53
BOOK REVIEWS53
Editorial Board53
Can payments-for-ecosystem-services change social norms?52
Quantifying the importance of farmers' behavioral factors in ex-ante assessments of policies supporting sustainable farming practices51
Estimating the relationship between EROI and profitability of oil sands mining, 1997–201651
The limits to degrowth: Economic and climatic consequences of pessimist assumptions on decoupling50
The role of physical constraints on production50
Does corporate environmentalism affect corporate insolvency risk? The role of market power and competitive intensity49
Exploring economy-wide sustainable conditions for EU bio-chemical activities49
The economics of microbiodiversity48
Less and more: Conceptualising degrowth transformations47
Can carbon tariffs based on domestic embedded carbon emissions reduce more carbon leakages?47
Closing the loop at the local scale: Investigating the drivers of and barriers to the implementation of the circular economy in cities and regions47
The economic values of global forest ecosystem services: A meta-analysis47
Definitions of the circular economy: Circularity matters45
The effects of the containers and packaging recycling law on the domestic recycling of plastic waste: Evidence from Japan45
Potential outcomes and impacts of organic group certification in Italy: An evaluative case study44
How does environmental regulation promote green technology innovation? Evidence from China's total emission control policy43
Unpacking the urban virtual water of the Global South: Lessons from 181 cities43
Editorial Board43
The value of information in water quality monitoring and management43
Global inequalities in countries' demand for raw materials: Twenty years of expansion and insufficient convergence43
On physical and social-cost-based CO2 equivalents for transient albedo-induced forcing42
Stochastic growth and regime shift risk in renewable resource management42
Editorial Board42
A methodological framework for understanding shared social values in deliberative valuation42
Preferences for drought risk adaptation support in Kenya: Evidence from a discrete choice experiment and three decision-making theories42
Particulate matter and COVID-19 excess deaths: Decomposing long-term exposure and short-term effects41
Inherently unstable? Scaling, mission drift, and the comparative performance of community-based platforms in the sharing economy41
Biases and nudges in the circular economy: A review41
Ship-owner response to carbon taxes: Industry and environmental implications41
Achieving landscape patterns for biodiversity conservation through payments for ecosystem services – Evidence from a field experiment in Indonesia41
Degrowth in a settler state: climate-just economic transitions and Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples in Canada41
Me trying to talk about sustainability: Exploring the psychological and social implications of environmental threats through user-generated content40
Social comparison feedback in decision-making context: Environmental externality levels and psychological traits matter39
Insurance value of biodiversity in the Anthropocene is the full resilience value39
Water, air pollution and carbon footprints of conspicuous/luxury consumption in India38
Land manager preferences for outcome-based payments for environmental services in oak savannahs38
Too good to be true: The inverted U-shaped relationship between home-country digitalization and environmental performance37
The unequal exchange of air pollution and economic benefits embodied in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei's consumption37
Living well with the foundational economy: Assessing the spatial accessibility of foundational infrastructures in Vienna and the relationship to socio-economic status37
Consumers' willingness to pay for an animal welfare food label37
International expansion of renewable energy capacities: The role of innovation and choice of policy instruments37
Degrowth-oriented organisational value creation: A systematic literature review of case studies36
Editorial Board36
Navigating sustainable futures: The role of terminal and instrumental values36
Environmental resource extraction and poverty: Comparative evidence from rural Thailand and Vietnam35
BOOK REVIEWS35
Editorial Board35
Do forest conservation policies undermine the soybean sector in the Brazilian Amazon? Evidence from the priority listing of municipalities35
Editorial Board35
Does sustainability-promoting policy making reduce our welfare?34
Property value effects of the Hemlock wooly adelgid infestation in New England, U.S.A.34
A discrete-time bioeconomic model of free-roaming cat management: A case study in Knox County, Tennessee34
Grassland conservation supports migratory birds and produces economic benefits for the commercial beekeeping industry in the U.S. Great Plains34
The impact of information asymmetry on animal welfare-friendly consumption: Evidence from milk market in Japan33
Global and Local Spatial Spill-Overs: What Matters Most for the Diffusion of Organic Agriculture in Australia?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
The effect of the economic cycles on material requirements: Analysing the dematerialization in developed countries33
Prosocial and financial incentives for biodiversity conservation: A field experiment using a smartphone app32
Genetically engineered varieties and applied pesticide toxicity in U.S. maize and soybeans: Heterogeneous and evolving impacts32
Framing effects in expert assessments of optimal GDP development32
Co-benefits of a flexitarian diet for air quality and human health in Europe32
The evolution of the EU electronics market and its impact on direct material consumption: Lessons from the past32
Promoting agricultural technologies with positive environmental effects: Evidence on tree planting in Indonesia32
Evaluating policy packages for a low-carbon transition – Principles and applications31
Clean air as an experience good in urban China31
Ecological unequal exchange between Turkey and the European Union: An assessment from value added perspective31
Integrating modelling-based and stakeholder-focused scenario approaches to close the planning gap and accelerate low-carbon transitions31
Energy footprints and the international trade network: A new dataset. Is the European Union doing it better?30
The Sustainable Development Goals as new business norms: A survey experiment on stakeholder preferences30
Temporary PES do not crowd out and may crowd in lab-in-the-field forest conservation in Colombia30
How social movements contribute to staying within the global carbon budget: Evidence from a qualitative meta-analysis of case studies30
The accumulation and substitution effects of multi-nation certified organic and protected eco-origin food labels in China29
The social cost of adopting a plant-based diet29
Ambient air pollution-related environmental inequality and environmental dissimilarity in Helsinki Metropolitan Area, Finland29
The impact of timber regulations on timber and timber product trade29
Linking the diversity of ecologisation models to farmers' digital use profiles29
Raising awareness of climate change: Nature, activists, politicians?29
What are the banks doing in managing climate risk? Empirical evidence from a position map29
The effect of flood mitigation spending on flood damage: Accounting for dynamic feedback29
Criminal enforcement and environmental performance: Evidence from China29
Editorial Board28
Climate change and its impact on home insurance uptake in Australia28
SSP economic growth projections: Major changes of key drivers in integrated assessment modelling28
Editorial Board28
Saving the world voluntarily: Experimental evidence of gain-loss framing on voluntary pro-environmental behavior28
Editorial Board28
First-degree price discrimination water bank to reduce reacquisition costs and enhance economic efficiency in agricultural water buyback28
Institutional Barriers to Sustainable Forest Management: Evidence from an Experimental Study in Tajikistan27
Water as driver of economic capacity: Introducing a physical economic model27
Forest adaptation strategies to reconcile timber production and carbon sequestration objectives under multiple risks of extreme drought and windstorm events27
Carbon pricing of basic materials: Incentives and risks for the value chain and consumers27
Measuring the economic value of urban river restoration26
GEM: A short “Growth-vs-Environment” Module for survey research26
Willingness to pay for sustainable and legal firewood in Tasmania26
What determines consumers' use of eco-labels? Taking a close look at label trust26
Tropical mixed-species plantations can outperform monocultures in terms of carbon sequestration and economic return26
Mediation and moderation roles of resilience capacity in the shock–food-security nexus in northern Ghana26
Relative environmental impacts and monetary cost of food categories: Functional unit matters26
The income inequality-CO2 emissions nexus: Transmission mechanisms25
Understanding determinants of the intention to buy rhino horn in Vietnam through the Theory of Planned Behaviour and the Theory of Interpersonal Behaviour25
Toxic pollution and poverty: Economic impacts of lead (Pb) exposure on household welfare in Zambia25
How to estimate whether preferential trade agreements contribute to international environmental impact shifting. A new methodology and empirical illustration for Switzerland25
The environmental benefits of grassroots cooperatives in agriculture25
Multinational dynamic steel cycle analysis reveals sequential decoupling between material use and economic growth25
Willingness to reduce travel consumption to support a low-carbon transition beyond COVID-1925
Bioeconomic markets based on the use of native species (NS) in Brazil25
Do people think they have enough? A subjective income sufficiency assessment25
Has Central Government Environmental Protection Interview Improved Air Quality in China?25
How to design publicly acceptable road pricing? Experimental insights from Switzerland25
Temperature and life satisfaction: Evidence from Chinese older adults25
Confronting the dilemma of growth. A response to25
Subsidies against Nature: A multidimensional framework for biodiversity-aligned national budgets24
Vietnam's Payments for Forest Ecosystem Services scheme's puzzling role in protecting longstanding forests as deforestation rates rise24
Footprint analysis and the incidence of emission taxes: Corrigendum24
How do nature governance rules affect compliance decisions? An experimental analysis24
Demand drivers and changes in food-related emissions in the UK: A decomposition approach24
Rising from the ashes: Transitioning towards carbon neutrality through the pathways of circular economy agglomeration24
Indigenous people's perceptions of benefits and costs of China's second phase of the grain for green program and the influencing factors24
Editorial Board24
Innovative fire policy in the Amazon: A statistical Hicks-Kaldor analysis24
BOOK REVIEWS24
Vulnerability and spatial competition: The case of fisheries and offshore wind projects24
The command paradox: Unraveling the impact of command-and-control water conservation policies on water-use technical efficiency24
Rising inequality: A material perspective on the Great Recession in the European Union24
Bird feeding and biodiversity: The decline of the Willow Tit24
Harnessing natural attenuation to reduce CAFOs nitrate emissions: An integrated modeling approach23
Pay the polluter or polluter pays? A preliminary assessment of public preferences for water quality policy23
Knowledge spillovers between clean and dirty technologies: Evidence from the patent citation network23
Internet use, natural resource extraction and poverty reduction in rural Thailand23
Deepgrowth: Self-transformation towards harmonious being23
Community reconstruction of biocultural landscapes. Application in the Kokonuko Indigenous Territory23
The governance of agricultural lands in marginal areas: A conceptual framework23
Heterogeneity, spillovers and eco-efficiency of European industries under different pollutants’ scenarios. Is there a definite direction?23
Targeting socioeconomic transformations to achieve global sustainability23
An energy-based macroeconomic model validated by global historical series since 182023
Carbon footprint tracking apps: The spillover effects of feedback and goal-activating appeals23
Reframing vulnerability and resilience to climate change through the lens of capability generation22
Can phone text messages promote the use of integrated pest management? A study of vegetable farmers in Cambodia22
Durability standards and clothing libraries for strengthening sustainable clothing markets22
Property values and cyanobacterial algal blooms: Evidence from satellite monitoring of Inland Lakes22
Ratcheting up private standards by exploiting coopetition: The curious case of RSPO’s adoption of zero-deforestation criteria22
Editorial Board22
A Global Survey of Scientific Consensus and Controversy on Instruments of Climate Policy22
Pro-environmental behavior and environmentalist movements: Evidence from the identification with Fridays for Future22
Challenging the ecological economics of water: Social and political perspectives22
Procedural climate justice: Conceptualizing a polycentric solution to a global problem22
Coordinating on good and bad outcomes in threshold games – Evidence from an artefactual field experiment in Cambodia22
Assessing the regime-switching role of risk mitigation measures on agricultural vulnerability: A threshold analysis22
Valuing Recreation in Italy's Protected Areas Using Spatial Big Data22
Is there a trade-off between human well-being and ecological footprint in European countries?22
Changing the understanding of crop production: Integrating ecosystem services into the production function21
Consequences of ecological aggregation in general equilibrium analysis of perturbed ecosystems21
Two currencies – Rethinking energy and the economy21
Landscape features on farms: Evidence on factors influencing their quantity and ecological value21
Charismatic species, matching, and demographics in conservation donations: An experimental investigation21
Valuing coastal fisheries and seagrasses: A case study of estuarine resources on Florida's Nature Coast21
An assessment of the distributional impacts of autonomous adaptation to climate change from European agriculture21
Why and when do reserves estimates in mining change and innovations take place?21
Can monetized carbon information increase pro-environmental behavior? Experimental evidence21
Motivational levers for the preservation of an intergenerational common resource: An experiment21
Is social capital a driver of the green transition in the European Union?21
Optimal post-border surveillance against invasive pests to protect a valuable nature reserve and island asset21
Carbon Giants: Exploring the Top 100 Industrial CO2 Emitters in the EU21
Leveraging participation in apparel global supply chains through green industrialization strategies: Implications for low-income countries20
Macroeconomic impacts of water allocation under droughts. Accounting for global supply chains in a multiregional context20
Beyond institutional bricolage: An ‘intertwining approach’ to understanding the transition towards agroecology in Peru20
Algae-Based Two-Stage Supply Chain with Co-Products20
Does drought increase carbon emissions? Evidence from Southwestern China20
From participation to commitment in silvopastoral programmes: Insights from Chiapas, Mexico20
Nudges and compensation: Evaluating experimental evidence on controlling rice straw burning20
Wait and see? Public preferences for the temporal effectiveness of coastal protection20
Assessing the economic impacts of forest certification in Spain: A longitudinal study20
There are plenty more (sustainable) fish in the sea: A discrete choice experiment on discarded species in Italy20
Payment for environmental services to reduce deforestation: Do the positive effects last?19
The impact of tropical cyclones on income inequality in the U.S.: An empirical analysis19
Offsetting schemes and ecological taxes for wind power production19
Changes in household recycling behavior: Evidence from panel data19
Global value chains participation and trade-induced carbon inequality: A comparative analysis of developed and developing economies19
Opposite ethical views converge under the threat of catastrophic climate change19
Assessing the heterogeneity of public acceptability for mangrove restoration through a choice experiment19
Modelling the embodied carbon cost of UK domestic building construction: Today to 205019
Connected we stand: Lead firm ownership ties in the global petrochemical industry19
Snowmaking's slippery slope: The effect of mountain reservoirs on water demand19
Editorial Board19
After the storm: Environmental tragedy and sustainable mobility19
Pests, wind and fire: A multi-hazard risk review for natural disturbances in forests19
Predicting uptake of a malignant catarrhal fever vaccine by pastoralists in northern Tanzania: Opportunities for improving livelihoods and ecosystem health19
Re-investigating the shared responsibility for trade-embodied carbon emissions19
Improving acceptance of natural capital accounting in land use decision making: Barriers and opportunities19
Obituary: Clement Allan Tisdell (1939–2022) – An ecological economist in mind, heart and soul19
Are greenspaces too green? Landscape preferences and water use in urban parks18
Editorial Board18
Accounting for trade in derived products when estimating European Union's role in driving deforestation18
Perceptions of Ecosystem Services and Bonds with Nature: The Case of Fish-Farming Ponds in France18
Collaborative governance as a means of navigating the uncertainties of sustainability transformations: The case of Finnish food packaging18
Editorial Board18
Recreation in coastal environments: Estimating the non-market value of fishing harbors18
Investment, insurance and weather shocks: Evidence from Cambodia18
Risk averse policies foster bio-economic sustainability in mixed fisheries18
In memoriam: Herman Daly (1938–2022)18
Do you perceive interdependencies among human activities related to water? Drivers and effects on preferences for participation and regulation18
The marginal abatement cost function with secondary waste markets18
Compliance and cooperation in global value chains: The effects of the better cotton initiative in Pakistan and India18
Tracing carbon footprints to intermediate industries in the United Kingdom18
Natural forces matter: A note on Simon N. Patten's critique of John B. Clark's theory of distribution18
Smallholders' preferred attributes in a subsidy program for replanting overaged oil palm plantations in Indonesia17
The relationship between climate conditions and consumption of bottled water: A potential link between climate change and plastic pollution17
Celso Furtado: An ecological economist?17
Green coops: Drivers of innovation for circular strategies among Italian cooperatives17
Are national climate change mitigation pledges shaped by citizens' mitigation preferences? Evidence from globally representative data17
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