Ecological Economics

Papers
(The TQCC of Ecological Economics is 16. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board187
Cost-efficient allocation of ship measures and harvest of aquatic invasive species – An application to invasive crabs on the west coast of Sweden171
BOOK REVIEWS166
Optimal pricing of protected areas under multiple sites demand models152
Critical realism, methodological pluralism, and ecological economics151
Integrating recreational ecosystem service valuations into Israel's Water economy115
The risks of the wrong climate policy for developing countries: Scenarios for South Africa112
The effect of deliberate ignorance and choice procedure on pro-environmental decisions111
Reducing fossil fuel dependency in smallholding farming in l'Horta de València, Spain: A socio-metabolic approach110
Will adoption occur if a practice is win-win for profit and the environment? An application to a rancher's grazing practice choices104
Environmental and economic effects of pay-as-you-throw waste taxation: An assessment based on difference-in-differences models88
Buzzword or breakthrough beyond growth? The mainstreaming of the Wellbeing Economy85
Reimagining growth futures: Overcoming the false binary between green growth and degrowth81
China's current carbon inequality is predominantly determined by capital disparity76
God did not save the kings: Environmental consequences of the 1982 Falklands War73
Carbon rotation ages and the offset measurement conundrum: An extended review72
Does recalling energy efficiency measures reduce subsequent climate-friendly behavior? An experimental study of moral licensing rebound effects71
Assessing U.S. consumers' carbon footprints reveals outsized impact of the top 1%71
Biological control of a parasite: The efficacy of cleaner fish in salmon farming71
Unveiling how financial markets could intensify climate change risks70
Fixed capital and growth imperatives: Is commercial aviation trapped in a treadmill?70
Limits to degrowth? Exploring patterns of support for and resistance against degrowth policies70
Citizens' preferences and valuation of urban nature: Insights from two choice experiments67
Towards a sustainable mobility lifestyle: Exploring the flight to rail shift through model-based behavioural change scenarios67
Damage costs from invasive species exceed management expenditure in nations experiencing lower economic activity66
Reducing food waste by killing wolves? A continuing failure to integrate climate and biodiversity agendas in food policies65
The economics of microbiodiversity65
Biotechnology or bioeconomy: Six of one and half a dozen of the other?64
Outsourcing decarbonization? How trade shaped France’s carbon footprint (2000–14)63
Can payments-for-ecosystem-services change social norms?62
Are natural disasters stumbling blocks to carbon inequality mitigation? A global perspective62
Linking marine habitats and economic values: A spatial scaling methodology for valuing societal benefits61
Editorial Board61
Book reviews61
The universal commons: An economic theory of ecosystem ownership61
Estimating the relationship between EROI and profitability of oil sands mining, 1997–201661
The role of physical constraints on production59
The economic impact of Sargassum: Evidence from the Mexican coast57
Informational nudges or incentives? A field experiment on vegetarian choices.57
Exploring economy-wide sustainable conditions for EU bio-chemical activities57
Can carbon tariffs based on domestic embedded carbon emissions reduce more carbon leakages?57
Impact of livelihood strategies and capitals on rangeland sustainability and nomads' poverty: A counterfactual analysis in Southwest Iran56
Can natural capital help national-level policy-makers to embed sustainability considerations? Insights from Scotland55
Does ecological zoning spur household welfare and resilience? A quasi-natural experiment in China55
BOOK REVIEWS54
Less and more: Conceptualising degrowth transformations53
Populism and support of onshore wind energy: Explaining different perspectives from the left and right53
The effects of the containers and packaging recycling law on the domestic recycling of plastic waste: Evidence from Japan49
The value of information in water quality monitoring and management49
Degrowth: What's in it for the labour movement?48
The limits to degrowth: Economic and climatic consequences of pessimist assumptions on decoupling48
Closing the loop at the local scale: Investigating the drivers of and barriers to the implementation of the circular economy in cities and regions47
Model-based analysis of the agglomeration bonus for the conservation of twelve meadow bird species in an agricultural landscape47
Do ecological protection approaches affect total factor productivity change of cropland production in Sweden?47
How does environmental regulation promote green technology innovation? Evidence from China's total emission control policy46
Quantifying the importance of farmers' behavioral factors in ex-ante assessments of policies supporting sustainable farming practices46
Editorial Board45
Insurance value of biodiversity in the Anthropocene is the full resilience value45
When health-related claims impact environmental demand: Results of experimental auctions with Bordeaux wine consumers45
Definitions of the circular economy: Circularity matters45
Preferences for drought risk adaptation support in Kenya: Evidence from a discrete choice experiment and three decision-making theories44
Biases and nudges in the circular economy: A review44
Water, air pollution and carbon footprints of conspicuous/luxury consumption in India44
Social comparison feedback in decision-making context: Environmental externality levels and psychological traits matter44
Global inequalities in countries' demand for raw materials: Twenty years of expansion and insufficient convergence43
Living well with the foundational economy: Assessing the spatial accessibility of foundational infrastructures in Vienna and the relationship to socio-economic status43
Unpacking the urban virtual water of the Global South: Lessons from 181 cities43
Land manager preferences for outcome-based payments for environmental services in oak savannahs43
Determinants and effects of green bond issuance: Environmental awareness, ecological budget, biodiversity, oil and lithium42
Frontier technology adoption and inclusive green growth in the EU: A double-edged sword?42
International expansion of renewable energy capacities: The role of innovation and choice of policy instruments42
Ship-owner response to carbon taxes: Industry and environmental implications42
Transitioning to a sustainable economy: A preliminary degrowth macroeconomic model41
Stochastic growth and regime shift risk in renewable resource management41
Navigating sustainable futures: The role of terminal and instrumental values41
Degrowth-oriented organisational value creation: A systematic literature review of case studies40
Degrowth in a settler state: climate-just economic transitions and Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples in Canada40
Framing effects in expert assessments of optimal GDP development39
Editorial Board39
Inherently unstable? Scaling, mission drift, and the comparative performance of community-based platforms in the sharing economy39
The evolution of the EU electronics market and its impact on direct material consumption: Lessons from the past39
Consumers' willingness to pay for an animal welfare food label39
Editorial Board38
Global and Local Spatial Spill-Overs: What Matters Most for the Diffusion of Organic Agriculture in Australia?38
Environmental resource extraction and poverty: Comparative evidence from rural Thailand and Vietnam38
Climate change and reindeer herding – A bioeconomic model on the impact of climate change on harvesting profits for Saami reindeer herders in Norway and Sweden38
Energy footprints and the international trade network: A new dataset. Is the European Union doing it better?38
Editorial Board38
Promoting agricultural technologies with positive environmental effects: Evidence on tree planting in Indonesia38
A discrete-time bioeconomic model of free-roaming cat management: A case study in Knox County, Tennessee37
Efficient and sustainable management of shared fisheries in Thailand: Self-governance or regulation?37
Plastic waste imports & coastal litter: Evidence from citizen science data37
Criminal enforcement and environmental performance: Evidence from China37
The social cost of adopting a plant-based diet37
The effect of the economic cycles on material requirements: Analysing the dematerialization in developed countries36
Beyond the chain: Lead firm strategies and sustainability governance in the global coffee sector36
Water, land, materials, and emissions for providing decent living standards around the world35
Plant diversity to cope with increased drought risk in grasslands35
Ambient air pollution-related environmental inequality and environmental dissimilarity in Helsinki Metropolitan Area, Finland35
Pattern evolution and dynamic formation mechanism of global scrap copper trade network: Based on temporal exponential random graph model34
Tourism degrowth perspectives, drivers and policies. A systematic review34
Genetically engineered varieties and applied pesticide toxicity in U.S. maize and soybeans: Heterogeneous and evolving impacts34
Voluntary management of fisheries under the threat of uncertain legislation34
Decommodifying cacao: matchmaking between producers and buyers of fine flavour cacao from Peru34
Do forest conservation policies undermine the soybean sector in the Brazilian Amazon? Evidence from the priority listing of municipalities34
Evaluating policy packages for a low-carbon transition – Principles and applications34
Green jobs and green economic development in Kigali's construction value chain: Evidence from a firm survey34
Prosocial and financial incentives for biodiversity conservation: A field experiment using a smartphone app33
The impact of timber regulations on timber and timber product trade33
What are the banks doing in managing climate risk? Empirical evidence from a position map33
Determinants of willingness to bear the costs for environmental protection: Insights from cross-country survey data33
Accepting and implementing transport pricing policies for climate: A review of evidence and research gaps33
Temporary PES do not crowd out and may crowd in lab-in-the-field forest conservation in Colombia33
SSP economic growth projections: Major changes of key drivers in integrated assessment modelling33
Integrating modelling-based and stakeholder-focused scenario approaches to close the planning gap and accelerate low-carbon transitions32
First-degree price discrimination water bank to reduce reacquisition costs and enhance economic efficiency in agricultural water buyback32
The accumulation and substitution effects of multi-nation certified organic and protected eco-origin food labels in China32
Raising awareness of climate change: Nature, activists, politicians?32
Temperature and life satisfaction: Evidence from Chinese older adults31
Editorial Board31
Forest adaptation strategies to reconcile timber production and carbon sequestration objectives under multiple risks of extreme drought and windstorm events30
The ecological and economic impacts of national park pilot projects in China30
Biodiversity finance: What has been achieved and where is it heading30
Do people think they have enough? A subjective income sufficiency assessment30
Saving the world voluntarily: Experimental evidence of gain-loss framing on voluntary pro-environmental behavior30
Interpreting the willingness and ability of rural producers to engage in conservation efforts in the Chaco forest of Argentina30
Evaluating transformative policies in complex land-use systems29
The role of co-benefits in motivating climate change mitigation – Experimental evidence29
Income and health outcomes in Sub-Saharan African countries: The role of environmental quality29
Climate change and its impact on home insurance uptake in Australia29
How to estimate whether preferential trade agreements contribute to international environmental impact shifting. A new methodology and empirical illustration for Switzerland29
Water as driver of economic capacity: Introducing a physical economic model29
Tropical mixed-species plantations can outperform monocultures in terms of carbon sequestration and economic return28
Has Central Government Environmental Protection Interview Improved Air Quality in China?28
Confronting the dilemma of growth. A response to28
The environmental benefits of grassroots cooperatives in agriculture28
Toxic pollution and poverty: Economic impacts of lead (Pb) exposure on household welfare in Zambia28
How to design publicly acceptable road pricing? Experimental insights from Switzerland28
Multinational dynamic steel cycle analysis reveals sequential decoupling between material use and economic growth28
Bioeconomic markets based on the use of native species (NS) in Brazil28
Mediation and moderation roles of resilience capacity in the shock–food-security nexus in northern Ghana28
Relative environmental impacts and monetary cost of food categories: Functional unit matters28
Community reconstruction of biocultural landscapes. Application in the Kokonuko Indigenous Territory27
Biodiversity loss from land occupation: A prefecture- and county-level assessment of biodiversity footprints in China27
Pay the polluter or polluter pays? A preliminary assessment of public preferences for water quality policy27
The information value of energy labels: Evidence from the Dutch residential housing market27
BOOK REVIEWS27
The governance of agricultural lands in marginal areas: A conceptual framework27
Harnessing natural attenuation to reduce CAFOs nitrate emissions: An integrated modeling approach27
Recycling matters – The role of secondary production in metal markets27
Footprint analysis and the incidence of emission taxes: Corrigendum27
Editorial Board27
Attitudes to restoring an extinct keystone species27
Assessing the regime-switching role of risk mitigation measures on agricultural vulnerability: A threshold analysis26
Deepgrowth: Self-transformation towards harmonious being26
Rising inequality: A material perspective on the Great Recession in the European Union26
Pro-environmental behavior and environmentalist movements: Evidence from the identification with Fridays for Future26
Bird feeding and biodiversity: The decline of the Willow Tit26
How do nature governance rules affect compliance decisions? An experimental analysis26
The command paradox: Unraveling the impact of command-and-control water conservation policies on water-use technical efficiency26
Subsidies against Nature: A multidimensional framework for biodiversity-aligned national budgets26
Vietnam's Payments for Forest Ecosystem Services scheme's puzzling role in protecting longstanding forests as deforestation rates rise26
Carbon footprint tracking apps: The spillover effects of feedback and goal-activating appeals25
Knowledge spillovers between clean and dirty technologies: Evidence from the patent citation network25
Property values and cyanobacterial algal blooms: Evidence from satellite monitoring of Inland Lakes25
Is innovation good for the environment? A macro-level analysis25
Procedural climate justice: Conceptualizing a polycentric solution to a global problem25
Ratcheting up private standards by exploiting coopetition: The curious case of RSPO’s adoption of zero-deforestation criteria24
Rising from the ashes: Transitioning towards carbon neutrality through the pathways of circular economy agglomeration24
Reframing vulnerability and resilience to climate change through the lens of capability generation24
Targeting socioeconomic transformations to achieve global sustainability24
Valuing Recreation in Italy's Protected Areas Using Spatial Big Data24
Global public opinion on tradeoffs between environmental protection and economic growth24
A Global Survey of Scientific Consensus and Controversy on Instruments of Climate Policy24
Editorial Board23
Algae-Based Two-Stage Supply Chain with Co-Products23
Corrigendum to ‘Integrating post-growth economics into transformative adaptation: Property relations, capital, and democratic planning’ [Ecological Economics (2026) Volume 242 108895]23
Two currencies – Rethinking energy and the economy23
Macroeconomic impacts of water allocation under droughts. Accounting for global supply chains in a multiregional context23
The impact of tropical cyclones on income inequality in the U.S.: An empirical analysis23
Is there a trade-off between human well-being and ecological footprint in European countries?23
From participation to commitment in silvopastoral programmes: Insights from Chiapas, Mexico23
Motivational levers for the preservation of an intergenerational common resource: An experiment23
Why and when do reserves estimates in mining change and innovations take place?23
Indigenous people's perceptions of benefits and costs of China's second phase of the grain for green program and the influencing factors23
Changes in household recycling behavior: Evidence from panel data23
Charismatic species, matching, and demographics in conservation donations: An experimental investigation23
An assessment of the distributional impacts of autonomous adaptation to climate change from European agriculture23
Coordinating on good and bad outcomes in threshold games – Evidence from an artefactual field experiment in Cambodia23
Carbon Giants: Exploring the Top 100 Industrial CO2 Emitters in the EU22
Landscape features on farms: Evidence on factors influencing their quantity and ecological value22
After the storm: Environmental tragedy and sustainable mobility22
Snowmaking's slippery slope: The effect of mountain reservoirs on water demand22
Is social capital a driver of the green transition in the European Union?22
Optimal post-border surveillance against invasive pests to protect a valuable nature reserve and island asset22
The impact of policy design on opposition to restrictive climate policies22
Modelling the embodied carbon cost of UK domestic building construction: Today to 205022
Climate neutrality scenarios: How they deal with economic growth, employment and social acceptance22
Does drought increase carbon emissions? Evidence from Southwestern China22
Consequences of ecological aggregation in general equilibrium analysis of perturbed ecosystems22
Nudges and compensation: Evaluating experimental evidence on controlling rice straw burning22
Valuing coastal fisheries and seagrasses: A case study of estuarine resources on Florida's Nature Coast22
Can phone text messages promote the use of integrated pest management? A study of vegetable farmers in Cambodia22
Reconceptualizing the role of socioeconomic material stocks in the leverage points framework to enable transformative change22
Can monetized carbon information increase pro-environmental behavior? Experimental evidence22
Offsetting schemes and ecological taxes for wind power production21
The effectiveness of unilateral fishing ban in contested waters: Evidence from the South China Sea21
Improving acceptance of natural capital accounting in land use decision making: Barriers and opportunities21
The effects of emotions on stated preferences for environmental change: A re-examination21
Editorial Board21
Wait and see? Public preferences for the temporal effectiveness of coastal protection21
Re-investigating the shared responsibility for trade-embodied carbon emissions21
Pests, wind and fire: A multi-hazard risk review for natural disturbances in forests21
Changing the understanding of crop production: Integrating ecosystem services into the production function21
Broadening ecological footprint and biocapacity research: A co-developed research agenda with Canadian stakeholders21
Analysis of the multidimensional energy poverty in Italy using the partially ordered set21
Assessing the economic impacts of forest certification in Spain: A longitudinal study21
Payment for environmental services to reduce deforestation: Do the positive effects last?21
Global value chains participation and trade-induced carbon inequality: A comparative analysis of developed and developing economies21
Connected we stand: Lead firm ownership ties in the global petrochemical industry21
Editorial Board21
Assessing the heterogeneity of public acceptability for mangrove restoration through a choice experiment21
Opposite ethical views converge under the threat of catastrophic climate change20
Domestic and foreign decoupling of economic growth and water consumption and its driving factors in the Brazilian economy20
Smallholders' preferred attributes in a subsidy program for replanting overaged oil palm plantations in Indonesia20
Do you perceive interdependencies among human activities related to water? Drivers and effects on preferences for participation and regulation20
Green coops: Drivers of innovation for circular strategies among Italian cooperatives20
Obituary: Clement Allan Tisdell (1939–2022) – An ecological economist in mind, heart and soul20
Ecological design of a production plant20
Understanding citizen investment in renewable energy communities20
Did crop diversity criterion from CAP green payments affect both economic and environmental farm performances? Quasi-experimental evidence from France20
Water markets and water rebounds: China's water rights trading policy19
Are greenspaces too green? Landscape preferences and water use in urban parks19
Perceptions of Ecosystem Services and Bonds with Nature: The Case of Fish-Farming Ponds in France19
Natural forces matter: A note on Simon N. Patten's critique of John B. Clark's theory of distribution19
How the energy procurement switching strategies (driven by the Russia-Ukraine conflict) impact the global sustainability? The global sustainability dashboard19
Is green growth possible and even desirable in a spaceship economy?19
The marginal abatement cost function with secondary waste markets19
Toward the carbon neutrality: Forest carbon sinks and its spatial spillover effect in China19
Celso Furtado: An ecological economist?19
Resilience and malleability: New directions for socio-metabolic research in times of multiple crises19
Environmental offsetting: What drives the choice of offset mechanism in the US Wetland Mitigation Program?19
Stringency of family firms and owner-managers in the transition to low-carbon emissions19
Are national climate change mitigation pledges shaped by citizens' mitigation preferences? Evidence from globally representative data19
Tipping the decision of offshore wind farm decommissioning – The causal effects of biodiversity illustrations and information on the social acceptance19
In memoriam: Herman Daly (1938–2022)19
Fair effort-sharing for climate change mitigation: A normative approach19
Financial profitability of diversified farming systems: A global meta-analysis18
Are wildfire risk mitigators more prepared to evacuate? Insights from communities in the Western United States18
Habitat considerations in optimal fisheries recovery18
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