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Salience and information avoidance in voluntary carbon offsetting decisions: Evidence from online experiments

IF 6.6 2区经济学

Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-03-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108577

Nicola Campigotto, Chiara Gioia, Matteo Ploner

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Public support for climate policies and its ideological predictors across countries of the Global North and Global South

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-03-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108603

Christian Bretter , Felix Schulz

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Carbon taxes in Europe do not hurt the poor: Evidence from existing taxation schemes

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-03-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108585

Michal Brzezinski, Monika Kaczan

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Snowmaking's slippery slope: The effect of mountain reservoirs on water demand

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-03-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108586

Jonathan Cognard , Lucas Berard-Chenu , Yves Schaeffer , Hugues François

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Over-capitalization in fisheries with irreversible investment and factor substitution 渔业过度资本化与不可逆转的投资和要素替代

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-03-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108584

Kira Lancker

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Assessing the nexus between industrialization and inclusive green growth in Africa. The critical role of energy efficiency

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-03-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108601

Brice Kamguia , Sosson Tadadjeu , Hermann Ndoya , Ronald Djeunankan

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Mitigating climate vulnerability: the crop diversification effect

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-03-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108568

Marin Ferry , Jeanne de Montalembert

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Biases and nudges in the circular economy: A review

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-03-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108579

Luca Congiu , Enrico Botta , Mariangela Zoli

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The power of hydropeaking: Trade-offs between flexible hydropower and river ecosystem services in Europe

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-03-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108583

Terese E. Venus , Oreoluwa Ola , Maria Alp , Nico Bätz , Maria Dolores Bejarano , Isabel Boavida , Maria Cristina Bruno , Roser Casas-Mulet , Mauro Carolli , Gabriele Chiogna , Marie-Pierre Gosselin , Jo H. Halleraker , Markus Noack , Diego Tonolla , Davide Vanzo , Daniel S. Hayes

{"title":"The power of hydropeaking: Trade-offs between flexible hydropower and river ecosystem services in Europe","authors":"Terese E. Venus , Oreoluwa Ola , Maria Alp , Nico Bätz , Maria Dolores Bejarano , Isabel Boavida , Maria Cristina Bruno , Roser Casas-Mulet , Mauro Carolli , Gabriele Chiogna , Marie-Pierre Gosselin , Jo H. Halleraker , Markus Noack , Diego Tonolla , Davide Vanzo , Daniel S. Hayes","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108583","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108583","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The operational practice of “hydropeaking” allows hydropower plants to cover peaks and deficits in energy demand, but it also impacts river ecosystems. The assessment of hydropeaking impacts plays an important role in safeguarding ecosystem services, but is challenging due to the relative importance of impacts at different sites. To compare impacts in hydropeaking rivers, we elicit expert judgment on the relative impacts of hydropeaking on river ecosystem services. Using the best-worst scaling (BWS) method, we compare the impact on the three categories of river ecosystem services (provisioning, regulating and cultural). Our respondents include 98 hydropower experts. Our analysis accounted for individual heterogeneity to assess how perceptions vary across regions, attitudes and representative river characteristics. We find trade-offs between provisioning and regulating services at the regional and local levels, which represents a key issue in dealing with climate change and ecosystem degradation. The best-affected services were water for power generation, raw materials, water for industrial activities and water for irrigation. The worst-affected services were fisheries and aquaculture, maintenance of population and habitat, and wild animals. Our results have implications for the safeguarding of river ecosystem services and the design of regulatory and incentive schemes for mitigation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51021,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Economics","volume":"233 ","pages":"Article 108583"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143591909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Assessing carbon emissions along global supply chains from technology perspective: A network production decomposition analysis

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-03-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108582

Hui Wang , Shasha Yu , Yafei Yang , Meiyue Wang , Peng Zhou

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