Ecological Economics

Papers
(The TQCC of Ecological Economics is 15. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board180
Cost-efficient allocation of ship measures and harvest of aquatic invasive species – An application to invasive crabs on the west coast of Sweden159
BOOK REVIEWS154
Optimal pricing of protected areas under multiple sites demand models141
Critical realism, methodological pluralism, and ecological economics137
Integrating recreational ecosystem service valuations into Israel's Water economy135
The risks of the wrong climate policy for developing countries: Scenarios for South Africa111
Carbon rotation ages and the offset measurement conundrum: An extended review105
God did not save the kings: Environmental consequences of the 1982 Falklands War103
Does recalling energy efficiency measures reduce subsequent climate-friendly behavior? An experimental study of moral licensing rebound effects97
The effect of deliberate ignorance and choice procedure on pro-environmental decisions95
Towards a sustainable mobility lifestyle: Exploring the flight to rail shift through model-based behavioural change scenarios81
Reimagining growth futures: Overcoming the false binary between green growth and degrowth77
Fixed capital and growth imperatives: Is commercial aviation trapped in a treadmill?76
China's current carbon inequality is predominantly determined by capital disparity72
Biological control of a parasite: The efficacy of cleaner fish in salmon farming69
Buzzword or breakthrough beyond growth? The mainstreaming of the Wellbeing Economy68
Unveiling how financial markets could intensify climate change risks68
Limits to degrowth? Exploring patterns of support for and resistance against degrowth policies68
Assessing U.S. consumers' carbon footprints reveals outsized impact of the top 1%66
Citizens' preferences and valuation of urban nature: Insights from two choice experiments65
Damage costs from invasive species exceed management expenditure in nations experiencing lower economic activity65
Reducing fossil fuel dependency in smallholding farming in l'Horta de València, Spain: A socio-metabolic approach64
Will adoption occur if a practice is win-win for profit and the environment? An application to a rancher's grazing practice choices64
The economics of microbiodiversity63
Can carbon tariffs based on domestic embedded carbon emissions reduce more carbon leakages?62
The value of information in water quality monitoring and management62
Reducing food waste by killing wolves? A continuing failure to integrate climate and biodiversity agendas in food policies61
Does ecological zoning spur household welfare and resilience? A quasi-natural experiment in China60
Degrowth: What's in it for the labour movement?60
Model-based analysis of the agglomeration bonus for the conservation of twelve meadow bird species in an agricultural landscape59
Outsourcing decarbonization? How trade shaped France’s carbon footprint (2000–14)59
Can payments-for-ecosystem-services change social norms?59
Biotechnology or bioeconomy: Six of one and half a dozen of the other?59
Populism and support of onshore wind energy: Explaining different perspectives from the left and right58
When health-related claims impact environmental demand: Results of experimental auctions with Bordeaux wine consumers58
Are natural disasters stumbling blocks to carbon inequality mitigation? A global perspective58
Less and more: Conceptualising degrowth transformations58
The universal commons: An economic theory of ecosystem ownership55
BOOK REVIEWS55
Editorial Board55
Definitions of the circular economy: Circularity matters54
Impact of livelihood strategies and capitals on rangeland sustainability and nomads' poverty: A counterfactual analysis in Southwest Iran54
Informational nudges or incentives? A field experiment on vegetarian choices.54
Estimating the relationship between EROI and profitability of oil sands mining, 1997–201653
The role of physical constraints on production52
The effects of the containers and packaging recycling law on the domestic recycling of plastic waste: Evidence from Japan51
Can natural capital help national-level policy-makers to embed sustainability considerations? Insights from Scotland51
Valuing beyond economics: A pluralistic evaluation framework for participatory policymaking50
The economic impact of Sargassum: Evidence from the Mexican coast48
Do ecological protection approaches affect total factor productivity change of cropland production in Sweden?47
Book reviews46
The limits to degrowth: Economic and climatic consequences of pessimist assumptions on decoupling45
Linking marine habitats and economic values: A spatial scaling methodology for valuing societal benefits45
Exploring economy-wide sustainable conditions for EU bio-chemical activities44
Closing the loop at the local scale: Investigating the drivers of and barriers to the implementation of the circular economy in cities and regions44
How does environmental regulation promote green technology innovation? Evidence from China's total emission control policy43
Ship-owner response to carbon taxes: Industry and environmental implications43
Quantifying the importance of farmers' behavioral factors in ex-ante assessments of policies supporting sustainable farming practices43
Insurance value of biodiversity in the Anthropocene is the full resilience value43
Preferences for drought risk adaptation support in Kenya: Evidence from a discrete choice experiment and three decision-making theories43
Social comparison feedback in decision-making context: Environmental externality levels and psychological traits matter42
Degrowth in a settler state: climate-just economic transitions and Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples in Canada42
Editorial Board42
Determinants and effects of green bond issuance: Environmental awareness, ecological budget, biodiversity, oil and lithium42
Water, air pollution and carbon footprints of conspicuous/luxury consumption in India41
Navigating sustainable futures: The role of terminal and instrumental values40
Too good to be true: The inverted U-shaped relationship between home-country digitalization and environmental performance39
Frontier technology adoption and inclusive green growth in the EU: A double-edged sword?39
Stochastic growth and regime shift risk in renewable resource management39
Consumers' willingness to pay for an animal welfare food label39
Land manager preferences for outcome-based payments for environmental services in oak savannahs38
Degrowth-oriented organisational value creation: A systematic literature review of case studies38
Inherently unstable? Scaling, mission drift, and the comparative performance of community-based platforms in the sharing economy38
Transitioning to a sustainable economy: A preliminary degrowth macroeconomic model38
Biases and nudges in the circular economy: A review38
International expansion of renewable energy capacities: The role of innovation and choice of policy instruments38
Living well with the foundational economy: Assessing the spatial accessibility of foundational infrastructures in Vienna and the relationship to socio-economic status38
Global inequalities in countries' demand for raw materials: Twenty years of expansion and insufficient convergence38
Unpacking the urban virtual water of the Global South: Lessons from 181 cities38
Voluntary management of fisheries under the threat of uncertain legislation37
Editorial Board37
Framing effects in expert assessments of optimal GDP development37
The evolution of the EU electronics market and its impact on direct material consumption: Lessons from the past37
Decommodifying cacao: matchmaking between producers and buyers of fine flavour cacao from Peru37
Evaluating policy packages for a low-carbon transition – Principles and applications36
Editorial Board36
Accepting and implementing transport pricing policies for climate: A review of evidence and research gaps36
Editorial Board36
SSP economic growth projections: Major changes of key drivers in integrated assessment modelling36
Grassland conservation supports migratory birds and produces economic benefits for the commercial beekeeping industry in the U.S. Great Plains36
Environmental resource extraction and poverty: Comparative evidence from rural Thailand and Vietnam35
Do forest conservation policies undermine the soybean sector in the Brazilian Amazon? Evidence from the priority listing of municipalities35
The accumulation and substitution effects of multi-nation certified organic and protected eco-origin food labels in China35
Genetically engineered varieties and applied pesticide toxicity in U.S. maize and soybeans: Heterogeneous and evolving impacts34
Global and Local Spatial Spill-Overs: What Matters Most for the Diffusion of Organic Agriculture in Australia?34
Prosocial and financial incentives for biodiversity conservation: A field experiment using a smartphone app34
Energy footprints and the international trade network: A new dataset. Is the European Union doing it better?34
Pattern evolution and dynamic formation mechanism of global scrap copper trade network: Based on temporal exponential random graph model33
Plant diversity to cope with increased drought risk in grasslands33
Water, land, materials, and emissions for providing decent living standards around the world33
Ambient air pollution-related environmental inequality and environmental dissimilarity in Helsinki Metropolitan Area, Finland33
Determinants of willingness to bear the costs for environmental protection: Insights from cross-country survey data33
Integrating modelling-based and stakeholder-focused scenario approaches to close the planning gap and accelerate low-carbon transitions33
The effect of the economic cycles on material requirements: Analysing the dematerialization in developed countries33
Green jobs and green economic development in Kigali's construction value chain: Evidence from a firm survey33
The social cost of adopting a plant-based diet32
Climate change and reindeer herding – A bioeconomic model on the impact of climate change on harvesting profits for Saami reindeer herders in Norway and Sweden32
Plastic waste imports & coastal litter: Evidence from citizen science data32
A discrete-time bioeconomic model of free-roaming cat management: A case study in Knox County, Tennessee32
Promoting agricultural technologies with positive environmental effects: Evidence on tree planting in Indonesia32
Temporary PES do not crowd out and may crowd in lab-in-the-field forest conservation in Colombia32
Raising awareness of climate change: Nature, activists, politicians?32
The impact of timber regulations on timber and timber product trade31
Criminal enforcement and environmental performance: Evidence from China31
Linking the diversity of ecologisation models to farmers' digital use profiles31
What are the banks doing in managing climate risk? Empirical evidence from a position map31
Do people think they have enough? A subjective income sufficiency assessment30
Biodiversity loss from land occupation: A prefecture- and county-level assessment of biodiversity footprints in China30
Editorial Board30
Editorial Board30
Relative environmental impacts and monetary cost of food categories: Functional unit matters30
Water as driver of economic capacity: Introducing a physical economic model30
First-degree price discrimination water bank to reduce reacquisition costs and enhance economic efficiency in agricultural water buyback30
Interpreting the willingness and ability of rural producers to engage in conservation efforts in the Chaco forest of Argentina29
The ecological and economic impacts of national park pilot projects in China29
Tropical mixed-species plantations can outperform monocultures in terms of carbon sequestration and economic return29
Forest adaptation strategies to reconcile timber production and carbon sequestration objectives under multiple risks of extreme drought and windstorm events28
Toxic pollution and poverty: Economic impacts of lead (Pb) exposure on household welfare in Zambia28
Income and health outcomes in Sub-Saharan African countries: The role of environmental quality28
Saving the world voluntarily: Experimental evidence of gain-loss framing on voluntary pro-environmental behavior28
Biodiversity finance: What has been achieved and where is it heading28
Confronting the dilemma of growth. A response to28
Bioeconomic markets based on the use of native species (NS) in Brazil28
Evaluating transformative policies in complex land-use systems27
The environmental benefits of grassroots cooperatives in agriculture27
Multinational dynamic steel cycle analysis reveals sequential decoupling between material use and economic growth27
Footprint analysis and the incidence of emission taxes: Corrigendum27
Mediation and moderation roles of resilience capacity in the shock–food-security nexus in northern Ghana27
The role of co-benefits in motivating climate change mitigation – Experimental evidence27
Has Central Government Environmental Protection Interview Improved Air Quality in China?27
Climate change and its impact on home insurance uptake in Australia27
The governance of agricultural lands in marginal areas: A conceptual framework27
How to estimate whether preferential trade agreements contribute to international environmental impact shifting. A new methodology and empirical illustration for Switzerland27
How to design publicly acceptable road pricing? Experimental insights from Switzerland27
Temperature and life satisfaction: Evidence from Chinese older adults27
Editorial Board27
Pay the polluter or polluter pays? A preliminary assessment of public preferences for water quality policy26
BOOK REVIEWS26
Assessing the regime-switching role of risk mitigation measures on agricultural vulnerability: A threshold analysis26
Is innovation good for the environment? A macro-level analysis26
Pro-environmental behavior and environmentalist movements: Evidence from the identification with Fridays for Future26
Harnessing natural attenuation to reduce CAFOs nitrate emissions: An integrated modeling approach26
The command paradox: Unraveling the impact of command-and-control water conservation policies on water-use technical efficiency26
Rising from the ashes: Transitioning towards carbon neutrality through the pathways of circular economy agglomeration26
Is there a trade-off between human well-being and ecological footprint in European countries?26
Deepgrowth: Self-transformation towards harmonious being26
The information value of energy labels: Evidence from the Dutch residential housing market26
Bird feeding and biodiversity: The decline of the Willow Tit26
Ratcheting up private standards by exploiting coopetition: The curious case of RSPO’s adoption of zero-deforestation criteria26
Subsidies against Nature: A multidimensional framework for biodiversity-aligned national budgets26
Vulnerability and spatial competition: The case of fisheries and offshore wind projects25
Indigenous people's perceptions of benefits and costs of China's second phase of the grain for green program and the influencing factors25
A Global Survey of Scientific Consensus and Controversy on Instruments of Climate Policy25
Community reconstruction of biocultural landscapes. Application in the Kokonuko Indigenous Territory25
Targeting socioeconomic transformations to achieve global sustainability25
Attitudes to restoring an extinct keystone species25
Global public opinion on tradeoffs between environmental protection and economic growth25
Procedural climate justice: Conceptualizing a polycentric solution to a global problem24
Internet use, natural resource extraction and poverty reduction in rural Thailand24
Carbon footprint tracking apps: The spillover effects of feedback and goal-activating appeals24
Valuing Recreation in Italy's Protected Areas Using Spatial Big Data24
Property values and cyanobacterial algal blooms: Evidence from satellite monitoring of Inland Lakes24
Rising inequality: A material perspective on the Great Recession in the European Union24
Climate neutrality scenarios: How they deal with economic growth, employment and social acceptance23
How do nature governance rules affect compliance decisions? An experimental analysis23
Reframing vulnerability and resilience to climate change through the lens of capability generation23
Charismatic species, matching, and demographics in conservation donations: An experimental investigation23
Vietnam's Payments for Forest Ecosystem Services scheme's puzzling role in protecting longstanding forests as deforestation rates rise23
The effectiveness of unilateral fishing ban in contested waters: Evidence from the South China Sea23
Consequences of ecological aggregation in general equilibrium analysis of perturbed ecosystems23
Editorial Board23
Knowledge spillovers between clean and dirty technologies: Evidence from the patent citation network23
Pests, wind and fire: A multi-hazard risk review for natural disturbances in forests22
Global value chains participation and trade-induced carbon inequality: A comparative analysis of developed and developing economies22
After the storm: Environmental tragedy and sustainable mobility22
Wait and see? Public preferences for the temporal effectiveness of coastal protection22
Can monetized carbon information increase pro-environmental behavior? Experimental evidence22
Offsetting schemes and ecological taxes for wind power production22
Is social capital a driver of the green transition in the European Union?22
An assessment of the distributional impacts of autonomous adaptation to climate change from European agriculture22
The impact of tropical cyclones on income inequality in the U.S.: An empirical analysis22
Two currencies – Rethinking energy and the economy22
Does drought increase carbon emissions? Evidence from Southwestern China22
Reconceptualizing the role of socioeconomic material stocks in the leverage points framework to enable transformative change22
Carbon Giants: Exploring the Top 100 Industrial CO2 Emitters in the EU22
Motivational levers for the preservation of an intergenerational common resource: An experiment22
There are plenty more (sustainable) fish in the sea: A discrete choice experiment on discarded species in Italy21
Changing the understanding of crop production: Integrating ecosystem services into the production function21
Algae-Based Two-Stage Supply Chain with Co-Products21
Valuing coastal fisheries and seagrasses: A case study of estuarine resources on Florida's Nature Coast21
Connected we stand: Lead firm ownership ties in the global petrochemical industry21
Macroeconomic impacts of water allocation under droughts. Accounting for global supply chains in a multiregional context21
Analysis of the multidimensional energy poverty in Italy using the partially ordered set21
Payment for environmental services to reduce deforestation: Do the positive effects last?21
Coordinating on good and bad outcomes in threshold games – Evidence from an artefactual field experiment in Cambodia21
Why and when do reserves estimates in mining change and innovations take place?21
Optimal post-border surveillance against invasive pests to protect a valuable nature reserve and island asset21
Assessing the heterogeneity of public acceptability for mangrove restoration through a choice experiment21
From participation to commitment in silvopastoral programmes: Insights from Chiapas, Mexico21
Changes in household recycling behavior: Evidence from panel data21
Nudges and compensation: Evaluating experimental evidence on controlling rice straw burning20
Broadening ecological footprint and biocapacity research: A co-developed research agenda with Canadian stakeholders20
Opposite ethical views converge under the threat of catastrophic climate change20
Ecological design of a production plant20
Re-investigating the shared responsibility for trade-embodied carbon emissions20
Assessing the economic impacts of forest certification in Spain: A longitudinal study20
The effects of emotions on stated preferences for environmental change: A re-examination20
Editorial Board20
Do you perceive interdependencies among human activities related to water? Drivers and effects on preferences for participation and regulation20
Understanding citizen investment in renewable energy communities20
Snowmaking's slippery slope: The effect of mountain reservoirs on water demand20
The impact of policy design on opposition to restrictive climate policies20
Improving acceptance of natural capital accounting in land use decision making: Barriers and opportunities20
Landscape features on farms: Evidence on factors influencing their quantity and ecological value20
Editorial Board20
Domestic and foreign decoupling of economic growth and water consumption and its driving factors in the Brazilian economy20
Environmental offsetting: What drives the choice of offset mechanism in the US Wetland Mitigation Program?20
Modelling the embodied carbon cost of UK domestic building construction: Today to 205020
Can phone text messages promote the use of integrated pest management? A study of vegetable farmers in Cambodia20
Did crop diversity criterion from CAP green payments affect both economic and environmental farm performances? Quasi-experimental evidence from France19
Are national climate change mitigation pledges shaped by citizens' mitigation preferences? Evidence from globally representative data19
Are greenspaces too green? Landscape preferences and water use in urban parks19
Is digital transformation the Deus ex Machina towards sustainability transition of the European SMEs?19
The marginal abatement cost function with secondary waste markets19
Convenient solutions, inconvenient truths – Why supermarkets will not drive food system transformation19
Labour-saving heuristics in green patents: A natural language processing analysis19
Natural forces matter: A note on Simon N. Patten's critique of John B. Clark's theory of distribution19
Collaborative governance as a means of navigating the uncertainties of sustainability transformations: The case of Finnish food packaging19
Celso Furtado: An ecological economist?19
In memoriam: Herman Daly (1938–2022)19
A comprehensive socio-economic assessment of EU climate policy pathways19
Is green growth possible and even desirable in a spaceship economy?18
Estimating opportunity costs for energy-efficiency renovations: Case study in Germany18
15 years of degrowth research: A systematic review18
Green coops: Drivers of innovation for circular strategies among Italian cooperatives18
Trends in private sector engagement with biodiversity: EU listed companies' disclosure and indicators18
Obituary: Clement Allan Tisdell (1939–2022) – An ecological economist in mind, heart and soul18
Supporting the small market gardening sector in France: Comparison of two policy options18
Payments for environmental services and coffee production in Colombia: Technical efficiency across the world heritage status borders18
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