Ecological Economics

Papers
(The median citation count of Ecological Economics is 4. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Biodiversity loss and financial stability as a new frontier for central banks: An exploration for France343
Editorial Board260
Blended academic insights for biodiversity and conservation finance218
The circular economy and the optimal recycling rate: A macroeconomic approach197
Renewable energy and well-being in remote Indigenous communities of Canada: A panel analysis186
Sustainable practices in cocoa production. The role of certification schemes and farmer cooperatives167
An assessment of the distributional impacts of autonomous adaptation to climate change from European agriculture156
Overhauling multinationals for the Anthropocene: How a rogue subsidiary offers a blueprint for sustainable development134
Connected we stand: Lead firm ownership ties in the global petrochemical industry129
Footprint analysis and the incidence of emission taxes123
The environmental effectiveness of water quality trading: Evidence from emissions trading programs in China113
Offsetting schemes and ecological taxes for wind power production106
Are farmers willing to accept compensation from tourism revenue for elephant crop damage and coexistence support? Evidence from Sri Lanka106
Revisiting decision-making assumptions to improve deforestation predictions: Evidence from the Amazon102
Data and Transparency Key for China's Pollution Clean-up96
Revealing preferences for urban biodiversity as an environmental good88
Editorial Board85
What if Brazilians reduce their beef consumption?84
Optimal post-border surveillance against invasive pests to protect a valuable nature reserve and island asset83
Nudges and compensation: Evaluating experimental evidence on controlling rice straw burning80
Is it a green or brown job? A Taxonomy of Sustainable Employment76
Sustainability indicators for the integrated assessment of coastal small-scale fisheries in the Brazilian Amazon75
Global value chains participation and trade-induced carbon inequality: A comparative analysis of developed and developing economies73
Do Farmers Participating in Short Food Supply Chains Use Less Pesticides? Evidence from France69
Toward circular economy: The impact of policy instruments on circular economy innovation for European small medium enterprises68
Better or different? A reflection on the suitability of indicator methods for a just transition to a circular economy68
Doing more with less: Provisioning systems and the transformation of the stock-flow-service nexus66
Payments for ecosystem services programs, institutional bricolage, and common pool resource management: Evidence from village collective-managed irrigation systems in China64
Beyond institutional bricolage: An ‘intertwining approach’ to understanding the transition towards agroecology in Peru63
The value of responsibly farmed fish: A hedonic price study of ASC-certified whitefish63
Designing policy packages for a climate-neutral industry: A case study from the Netherlands61
Cross-sectoral externalities related to natural resources and ecosystem services61
Full speed ahead or floating around? Dynamics of selected circular bioeconomies in Europe61
Program design and heterogeneous treatment effects of payments for environmental services59
Farm performance and input self-sufficiency increases with functional crop diversity on Swedish farms59
Rethinking work for a just and sustainable future58
Faster, harder, greener? Empirical evidence on the role of the individual Pace of Life for productivity and pro-environmental behavior54
Is environmental regulation keeping e-waste under control? Evidence from e-waste exports in the European Union51
Anti-corruption and corporate pollution mitigation: Evidence from China51
Accounting for externalities in cross-sectional economic models of climate change impacts50
Effects of the number of alternatives in public good discrete choice experiments50
Implicit incentives in green public procurement: Good intentions versus rigid regulations49
Reducing fossil fuel dependency in smallholding farming in l'Horta de València, Spain: A socio-metabolic approach49
Assessing global agri-food system exceedance of national cropland limits for linking responsible consumption and production under SDG 1249
Household acceptability of energy efficiency policies in the European Union: Policy characteristics trade-offs and the role of trust in government and environmental identity49
Effects of the debate on glyphosate's carcinogenic risk on pesticide producers' share prices45
Can phone text messages promote the use of integrated pest management? A study of vegetable farmers in Cambodia45
The rise and fall of La Graufesenque: The fate of development based on a non-renewable resource44
Green mobility and well-being44
A crowd-sourced valuation of recreational ecosystem services using mobile signal data applied to a restored wetland in China44
Income and expenditure elasticity of household carbon footprints. Some methodological considerations44
Stocks, flows, services and practices: Nexus approaches to sustainable social metabolism44
How can Stakeholder Capitalism contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals? A Cross-network Literature Analysis43
Improving the validity and credibility of the sociocultural valuation of ecosystem services in Amman, Jordan42
How to choose? A bioeconomic model for optimizing river barrier mitigation actions42
A hedonic study of New England dam removals40
Low agricultural potential exacerbates the effect of temperature on civil conflicts40
A Prospect Theory-based experimental vignette methodology for exploring rebound effects and rebound-damping interventions40
Substitution of social sustainability concerns under the Covid-19 pandemic40
Editorial Board39
Unity through disunity: Strengths, values, and tensions in the disciplinary discourse of ecological economics39
Editorial Board39
Editorial Board37
Coping with increasing tides: Evolving agglomeration dynamics and technological change under exacerbating hazards37
How to reconcile actual climate change mitigation with prosperity? A proposal37
The Role of Catch Portfolios in Characterizing Species' Economic Linkages and Fishers' Responses to Climate Change Impacts37
Inequality beyond income quantiles: Distributional effects of climate mitigation policies36
The Impact of Health Status and Experienced Disutility on Air Quality Valuation36
Is this land for sale? The effects of drought on land ownership in Uganda36
Consequences of ecological aggregation in general equilibrium analysis of perturbed ecosystems35
Capabilities, Ecosystem Services, and Strong Sustainability through SMCE: The Case of Haren (Belgium)35
Multidimensional welfare indices and the IPCC 6th Assessment Report scenarios35
Unequal ecological exchange in the era of global value chains: The case of Latin America35
Why and when do reserves estimates in mining change and innovations take place?35
(Un)flatten the curve: A simple model of sink capacity35
Editorial Board34
Insurance Value of Ecosystems: An Introduction34
Self-selection bias in estimating the determinants of landowners' Re-enrollment decisions in forest incentive programs34
Mixing fossil- and bio-polymers for internalisation of environmental damage: An evidence-based model-theoretical economic analysis33
Book Review33
On the relationship between constitutional environmental human rights and sustainable development outcomes33
The impact of academic information supply and familiarity on preferences for ecosystem services33
BOOK REVIEWS32
Editorial Board32
Assessing the effects of increasing surface seawater temperature on black pearl production in French Polynesia: A bioeconomic simulation32
The effect of deliberate ignorance and choice procedure on pro-environmental decisions31
Tree cover and property values in the United States: A national meta-analysis31
Editorial Board31
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Policy trade-offs in introducing a CO2 transport and storage industry to service the UK's regional manufacturing clusters30
The consequences of misrepresenting feedbacks in coupled human and environmental models30
Can monetized carbon information increase pro-environmental behavior? Experimental evidence30
Will adoption occur if a practice is win-win for profit and the environment? An application to a rancher's grazing practice choices30
What drives the designation of protected areas? Accounting for spatial dependence using a composite marginal likelihood approach30
The determinants of non-residential real estate values with special reference to environmental local amenities30
Changes in household recycling behavior: Evidence from panel data30
Wait and see? Public preferences for the temporal effectiveness of coastal protection29
Two wrongs don't make a right: A multi-step decomposition of latent dimensions of sustainable development and desertification risk in Italy29
Policies to reduce local participation in illegal hunting: The case of Kafue National Park in Zambia29
Two currencies – Rethinking energy and the economy29
Polluting for (higher) profits: Does an economic gain influence moral judgment of environmental wrongdoings?28
Developing policy packages for low-carbon passenger transport: A mixed methods analysis of trade-offs and synergies28
From participation to commitment in silvopastoral programmes: Insights from Chiapas, Mexico28
The double fence: Overlapping institutions and deforestation in the Colombian Amazon28
Growth dependency in the welfare state – An analysis of drivers in the UK's adult social care sector and proposals for change28
Macroeconomic impacts of water allocation under droughts. Accounting for global supply chains in a multiregional context28
“Accelerating institutional funding of low-carbon investment: The potential for an investment emissions intensity tax”28
Improving the genuine progress indicator to measure comparable net welfare: U.S. and California, 1995–201727
Orbital debris and the market for satellites27
Social outcomes of energy use in the United Kingdom: Household energy footprints and their links to well-being27
Citizens' preferences and valuation of urban nature: Insights from two choice experiments27
How do governance arrangements matter in the circular economy? Lessons from five methanation projects based on the social-ecological system framework27
Accountability and sustainability transitions27
Guiding cities under increased droughts: The limits to sustainable urban futures27
Pests, wind and fire: A multi-hazard risk review for natural disturbances in forests26
Assessing the heterogeneity of public acceptability for mangrove restoration through a choice experiment26
Rationalizing ex situ collection of reproductive materials for endangered livestock breed conservation26
Energy matters: Mitigating the impacts of future land expansion will require managing energy and extractive footprints26
Nature-based recreation in Germany: Insights into volume and economic significance26
The Transitional Gains Trap in Grandfathered Individual Transferable Quota Fisheries26
Conserving rhinos by legal trade: Insights from a choice experiment with rhino horn consumers26
Assessing U.S. consumers' carbon footprints reveals outsized impact of the top 1%26
Can a European wealth tax close the green investment gap?25
There are plenty more (sustainable) fish in the sea: A discrete choice experiment on discarded species in Italy25
A procedure for globally institutionalizing a ‘beyond-GDP’ metric25
Increasing social risk and markets demand lead to a more selective fishing across the Pantanal wetland25
The nonlinear dependence of income inequality and carbon emissions: Potentials for a sustainable future25
Predicting uptake of a malignant catarrhal fever vaccine by pastoralists in northern Tanzania: Opportunities for improving livelihoods and ecosystem health25
Floods, flood policies and changes in welfare and inequality: Evidence from Germany25
Natural habitat vs human in competition for breathing space: Need for restructuring clean energy infrastructure25
Management of common pool resources in a nation-wide experiment25
Chileans' willingness to pay for protected areas24
Investigating acceptance of marine tourism levies, to cover the opportunity costs of conservation for coastal communities24
Damage costs from invasive species exceed management expenditure in nations experiencing lower economic activity24
The Intersection of Biophysical Economics and Political Economy24
It takes two to dance: Institutional dynamics and climate-related financial policies24
Effects of household-level attributes and agricultural land-use on deforestation patterns along a forest transition gradient in the Miombo landscapes, Zambia24
Does drought increase carbon emissions? Evidence from Southwestern China24
Comparing advice on climate policy between academic experts and ChatGPT24
Unfolding differences in the distribution of coastal marine ecosystem services values among developed and developing countries24
Climate change education through the lens of behavioral economics: A systematic review of studies on observed behavior and social norms24
God did not save the kings: Environmental consequences of the 1982 Falklands War24
Policy and political challenges for a better world: The United States and China pathways towards the 2030 Agenda24
The foundational economy-as-an-organism assumption of ecological economics: Is it scientifically useful?24
Financial capital as a shaper of households' adaptive capabilities to flood risk in northern Bangladesh24
Payment for environmental services to reduce deforestation: Do the positive effects last?23
Monoculture, crop rotation policy, and fire23
Implications of shrinking household sizes for meeting the 1.5 °C climate targets23
Experimental evidence on minority participation and the design of community-based natural resource management programs23
The risks of the wrong climate policy for developing countries: Scenarios for South Africa23
Circular economy, operational eco-efficiency, and sufficiency. An integrated view23
Trends in national biodiversity footprints of land use23
The implementation of green transformation through clusters23
The relationship between willingness to pay and carbon footprint knowledge: Are individuals willing to pay more to offset their carbon footprint if they learn about its size and distance to the 1.5 °C23
The impact of tropical cyclones on income inequality in the U.S.: An empirical analysis23
Re-investigating the shared responsibility for trade-embodied carbon emissions23
Leveraging participation in apparel global supply chains through green industrialization strategies: Implications for low-income countries22
The energy transition and export diversification in oil-dependent countries: The role of structural factors22
Factors affecting the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices: Findings from panel data for Vietnam22
Do social norms trump rational choice in voluntary climate change mitigation? Multi-country evidence of social tipping points22
Potentials, subsidies and tradeoffs of cellulosic ethanol in the European Union22
Modelling energy transition risk: The impact of declining energy return on investment (EROI)22
Does recalling energy efficiency measures reduce subsequent climate-friendly behavior? An experimental study of moral licensing rebound effects21
Participation, income growth and poverty alleviation in payments for ecosystem services: The case of China's Wolong Nature Reserve21
Supporting carbon taxes: The role of fairness21
Improving acceptance of natural capital accounting in land use decision making: Barriers and opportunities21
Analyzing constraints in the water-energy-food nexus: The case of eucalyptus plantation in Ethiopia21
Modelling the embodied carbon cost of UK domestic building construction: Today to 205021
Climate policy in an unequal world: Assessing the cost of risk on vulnerable households21
Directors' and officers' liability insurance, environmental regulation and firms' envi ronmental responsibility21
The role of hybrid governance in supporting deforestation-free trade21
Assessing the economic impacts of forest certification in Spain: A longitudinal study21
How do tourism sustainability and nature affinity affect social engagement propensity? The central roles of nature conservation attitude and personal tourist experience21
Sufficiency: A systematic literature review20
Carbon inequality in global trade: Evidence from the mismatch between embodied carbon emissions and value added20
Child Sustainable Human Development Index (CSHDI): Monitoring progress for the future generation20
Algae-Based Two-Stage Supply Chain with Co-Products20
Conversion to organic farming: Does it change the economic and environmental performance of fruit farms?20
On the relationship between individual carbon literacy and carbon footprint components20
How to achieve emission reduction without hindering economic growth? The role of judicial quality20
Integrating the green economy, circular economy and bioeconomy in a strategic sustainability framework20
Modelling the circular economy: Introducing a supply chain equilibrium approach20
Impact of industrial intelligence on green total factor productivity: The indispensability of the environmental system20
Climate change impacts on Mediterranean fisheries: A sensitivity and vulnerability analysis for main commercial species20
Are rural residents willing to trade-off higher noise for lower air pollution? Evidence from revealed preferences20
Accounting for price responses in economic evaluation of climate impacts for a fishery20
A novel nature-based risk index: Application to acute risks and their financial materiality on corporate bonds19
Adapting the governance of social–ecological systems to behavioural dynamics: An agent-based model for water quality management using the theory of planned behaviour19
The diverse impacts of democracy on greenhouse gas emissions19
Varieties of Anticapitalism: A systematic study of transformation strategies in alternative economic discourses19
A home for all within planetary boundaries: Pathways for meeting England's housing needs without transgressing national climate and biodiversity goals19
Extreme Weather, agricultural insurance and farmer's climate adaptation technologies adoption in China19
Would energy poverty affect the wellbeing of senior citizens? Evidence from China19
Decentralized voluntary agreements do not reduce emissions in a climate change experiment19
Biological control of a parasite: The efficacy of cleaner fish in salmon farming19
Conceptualising the environmental dimension of left-behind places19
The welfare properties of climate targets19
Carbon Giants: Exploring the Top 100 Industrial CO2 Emitters in the EU19
Integrating recreational ecosystem service valuations into Israel's Water economy19
Buzzword or breakthrough beyond growth? The mainstreaming of the Wellbeing Economy19
The value of information in water quality monitoring and management18
Comparative analysis of Rights of Nature (RoN) case studies worldwide: Features of emergence and design18
Comparing Australian public and farmer views on agricultural land use and management practices for sustainability18
BOOK REVIEWS18
Managing the distributional effects of climate policies: A narrow path to a just transition18
Prisoners of a more intricate dilemma: EU policies implicitly push for downcycling plastics, impeding efforts to attain net-zero emissions18
Turtle Economic Value: The non-use value of marine turtles in the Asia-Pacific region18
Editorial Board18
The impact of income-driven changes in global consumption patterns on Kyoto Gas emissions during the twenty-first century18
Engaging high-income earners in climate action: Policy insights from survey experiments18
Gender equality and sustainable development: A cross-country study on women's contribution to the adoption of the climate-smart agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa18
Renewing the Subterranean Energy Regime? How Petroculture Obscures the Materiality of Deep Geothermal Energy Technology in Sweden18
Recreation in coastal environments: Estimating the non-market value of fishing harbors18
Computing stochastic Pareto frontiers between economic and environmental goals for a semi-arid agricultural production region in Austria18
After the storm: Environmental tragedy and sustainable mobility18
The Role of Voluntary Environmental Policies Towards Achieving Circularity18
On the nexus between material and ideological determinants of climate policy support18
Evaluation and determinants of satisfaction with the urban-rural interface area liveability toward “15-min city”: A case study in Henan Province, China17
Travel-cost method for assessing the monetary value of recreational services in the Ömerli Catchment17
Value asymmetries in Norwegian forest governance: The role of institutions and power dynamics17
Pro-environmental behavior and subjective well-being: Culture has a role to play17
Does corporate environmentalism affect corporate insolvency risk? The role of market power and competitive intensity17
Sustaining local commons in the face of uncertain ecological thresholds: Evidence from a framed field experiment with Colombian small-scale fishers17
Winners and losers: the distributional impacts of a carbon tax in Brazil17
Cooperation and sales revenue of fisheries: Evidence from France17
Social Movements and Commons: In Theory and in Practice17
Do forests provide watershed services for farmers in the humid tropics? Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon17
Sources of greenhouse gas emission reductions in OECD countries: Composition or technique effects17
The role of preferences for pro-environmental behaviour among urban middle class households in Peru17
Reducing poverty in the UK to mitigate energy poverty by the 10% and LIHC indicators: What tax changes are needed, and what are the consequences for CO2 emissions?17
A one-off wealth tax for Belgium: Revenue potential, distributional impact, and environmental effects17
Is the digital economy an effective tool for decreasing energy vulnerability? A global case16
Global employment and skill level requirements for ‘Post-Carbon Europe’16
Changing the world with words? Euphemisms in climate change issues16
The globalization of Mediterranean agriculture: A long-term view of the impact on water consumption16
The economics of microbiodiversity16
How much does it take? Willingness to switch to meat substitutes16
Assessing the distributional impacts of ambitious carbon pricing in China's agricultural sector16
Smart city strategies – A driver for the localization of the sustainable development goals?16
Climate change and species decline: Distinct sources of European consumer concern supporting more sustainable diets16
Are greenspaces too green? Landscape preferences and water use in urban parks16
How do environmental policies affect capital market reactions? Evidence from China's construction waste treatment policy16
Housing wealth and household carbon emissions: The role of homeownership in China16
Centralized water management under lobbying: Economic analysis of desalination in Israel16
Between farms and forks: Food industry perspectives on the future of EU food labelling16
Definitions of the circular economy: Circularity matters16
A historical perspective of landscape appropriation and land use transitions in the Colombian South Pacific16
The relation between fishing subsidies and CO2 emissions in the fisheries sector16
Social tipping processes towards climate action: A conceptual framework16
Can carbon tariffs based on domestic embedded carbon emissions reduce more carbon leakages?16
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