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Total rents from natural resources: Framework and preliminary estimates for Switzerland 自然资源的总租金：瑞士的框架和初步估计

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-10-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108821

Felix Schläpfer

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Household consumption pattern and CO2 emissions: The age and generational effects 家庭消费模式与二氧化碳排放：年龄和代际效应

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-10-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108820

Hui Wang , Menghan Wang , Danyang Zhang , Peng Zhou

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Water, land, materials, and emissions for providing decent living standards around the world 水、土地、材料和排放，为全世界提供体面的生活水平

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-10-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108819

Johan Andrés Vélez-Henao , Jan Streeck , Jarmo Kikstra , Stefan Pauliuk

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Does ecological zoning spur household welfare and resilience? A quasi-natural experiment in China 生态分区能促进家庭福利和恢复力吗？一个在中国进行的准自然实验

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-10-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108825

Han Li , Hao Xia

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Food choice with increased visibility – A field experiment at an environmental economics conference 增加能见度的食物选择——环境经济学会议上的一项实地实验

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-10-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108816

Astrid Dannenberg , Giorgio Dini , Alessandro Tavoni , Eva Weingärtner

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Reimagining growth futures: Overcoming the false binary between green growth and degrowth 重塑增长未来：克服绿色增长和去增长之间的错误二元对立

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-10-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108823

Jacob Hasselbalch , Mathias Larsen

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Bridging climate and social equity: Progressive carbon tax simulations for Belgium 弥合气候和社会公平：比利时累进碳税模拟

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-10-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108803

Floore Bursens , Silvia De Poli , Sofia Maier , Gerlinde Verbist

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Outsourcing decarbonization? How trade shaped France’s carbon footprint (2000–14) 外包脱碳吗?贸易如何影响法国的碳足迹（2000 - 2014）

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-10-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108814

Pierre Cotterlaz , Christophe Gouel

{"title":"Outsourcing decarbonization? How trade shaped France’s carbon footprint (2000–14)","authors":"Pierre Cotterlaz , Christophe Gouel","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108814","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108814","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates the evolution of France’s carbon footprint from 2000 to 2014, with a particular focus on the role of international trade. During this period, France’s territorial emissions decreased by 18%, yet its consumption-based footprint declined by only 5%. This divergence reflects an increase in emissions embedded in imports, which grew from 45% to 54% of the total. To analyze these dynamics, we develop a novel structural decomposition framework that disentangles the contributions of scale, composition, and technique effects from a consumption perspective. Our approach extends existing methods by explicitly distinguishing between domestic and foreign influences, and by separately analyzing trade openness and the geographic reallocation of imports. The results highlight the dominance of the technique effect in reducing emissions (<span><math><mrow><mo>−</mo><mn>28</mn><mtext>%</mtext></mrow></math></span>), driven primarily by efficiency improvements abroad rather than domestic progress. By contrast, the geographic composition effect substantially increased emissions (+18%), particularly before 2008, when France’s import sourcing shifted toward more carbon-intensive trading partners such as China. France’s situation is emblematic of economies that have already achieved relatively low domestic emissions—through nuclear energy and de-industrialization—and have thus become increasingly dependent on foreign improvements for further reductions. This reliance raises concerns about the externalization of mitigation outcomes and underscores the limits of climate strategies focused solely on territorial emissions. Our findings call for stronger coordination between trade and climate policies to ensure that future decarbonization pathways remain consistent with global mitigation objectives.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51021,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Economics","volume":"240 ","pages":"Article 108814"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145269055","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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Can natural capital help national-level policy-makers to embed sustainability considerations? Insights from Scotland 自然资本能否帮助国家层面的决策者纳入可持续性考虑？来自苏格兰的启示

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-10-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108815

Kerry Waylen, Ishaan Patil , Esther Carmen

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Biodiversity finance: What has been achieved and where is it heading 生物多样性金融：已经取得的成就和发展方向

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-10-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108713

John Willis

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