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Effect simulation and local adaptation of multi-agent collaborative governance in marine eco-economic systems: Evidence from China 海洋生态经济系统中多代理协作治理的效果模拟和局部适应：来自中国的证据

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2024-11-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108451

Lehua Gao , Kun Gao , Wenwen Sun , Yue Zhang , Runping Zhang , Longxuan Zhang

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Carbon Giants: Exploring the Top 100 Industrial CO2 Emitters in the EU 碳巨人：探索欧盟工业二氧化碳排放前 100 强

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2024-11-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108419

Xenia Miklin, Thomas Neier, Simon Sturn, Klara Zwickl

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Public support for degrowth policies and sufficiency behaviours in the United States: A discrete choice experiment 美国公众对经济增长政策和自给自足行为的支持：离散选择实验

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2024-11-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108446

Dallas O'Dell , Davide Contu , Ganga Shreedhar

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Social comparison nudges: What actually happens when we are told what others do? 社会比较暗示：当我们被告知他人的所作所为时，究竟会发生什么？

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2024-11-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108436

Yann Raineau , Éric Giraud-Héraud , Sébastien Lecocq

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Breaking the bag habit: Testing interventions to reduce plastic bag demand 打破使用塑料袋的习惯：测试减少塑料袋需求的干预措施

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2024-11-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108454

Armenak Antinyan , Luca Corazzini

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Public policies on circular economy: A systematic review 循环经济公共政策：系统回顾

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2024-11-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108452

Riccardo Losa

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GVC participation and carbon emissions – A network analysis 参与全球价值链与碳排放--网络分析

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2024-11-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108450

Matthew Smith , Dimitris Christopoulos

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Cosmological limits to growth, affective abundance, and Rights of Nature: Insights from Buen Vivir/sumak kawsay for the cultural politics of degrowth 增长的宇宙极限、情感丰富和自然权利：从 "美好生活"/"苏马克-卡瓦塞 "中获得的对 "脱增长 "文化政治的启示

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2024-11-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108442

Katharina Richter

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Climate change and the farmer-Pastoralist's violent conflict: Experimental evidence from Nigeria 气候变化与农牧民暴力冲突：尼日利亚的实验证据

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2024-11-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108449

Uchenna Efobi , Oluwabunmi Adejumo , Jiyoung Kim

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Community reconstruction of biocultural landscapes. Application in the Kokonuko Indigenous Territory 生物文化景观的社区重建。在科科努科土著领地的应用

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2024-11-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108447

Marta Montaño , Olga Sanabria , Oswaldo Quilindo , Alexander Urrego-Mesa , Enric Tello , Joan Marull

{"title":"Community reconstruction of biocultural landscapes. Application in the Kokonuko Indigenous Territory","authors":"Marta Montaño , Olga Sanabria , Oswaldo Quilindo , Alexander Urrego-Mesa , Enric Tello , Joan Marull","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108447","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108447","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>To reverse the socioecological impacts derived from the Green Revolution in the indigenous territory of Puracé (Colombia), an agroecological transition proposal elaborated by the Kokonuko community through participative action research is presented with a respectful approach to the indigenous knowledge of this community and their <em>Cabildo</em>. Reversing the detrimental consequences of industrial agriculture requires reducing dependence on non-renewable energy inputs and their replacement with nature-based solutions based on biocultural heritage of the community. This study compares traditional agricultural management based on ethnobotanical characterization, biophysical energy analysis, and landscape evaluation, describing the different agricultural systems that compose the basis of the proposal for this agroecological transition carried out with the Kokonuko people. The results show that traditional management from socially integrated polyculture of some pilot farms is multifunctional, high agro-diverse, food-sovereignty and traditional medicine oriented. Besides, it has a high energy efficiency compared to industrial monoculture management more related to agrochemicals and direct production to the market. The performance of traditional management in the indigenous territory, previously optimized in pilot farms, would facilitate the reconstruction of biocultural landscapes, strengthen indigenous governance, and recover traditional multifunctionality that assured food sovereignty of the community that was the depository of indigenous knowledge. The conservation of seeds by the community is essential to generate a global transformative change towards sustainability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51021,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Economics","volume":"228 ","pages":"Article 108447"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142659363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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