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Nature scenario plausibility: A dynamic Bayesian network approach 自然情景的合理性：一个动态贝叶斯网络方法

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108647

Chiara Colesanti Senni , Skand Goel

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“Non-extractivist” extractivism:The valorization process of voluntary soil carbon schemes “非采掘主义者”的采掘主义：自愿土壤碳计划的增值过程

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108690

Johannes Fehrle

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Macroeconomic models for assessing the transition towards a circular economy: A systematic review 评估向循环经济过渡的宏观经济模型：系统回顾

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108669

José Bruno R.T. Fevereiro , Andrea Genovese , Ben Purvis , Oriol Vallès Codina , Marco Veronese Passarella

{"title":"Macroeconomic models for assessing the transition towards a circular economy: A systematic review","authors":"José Bruno R.T. Fevereiro , Andrea Genovese , Ben Purvis , Oriol Vallès Codina , Marco Veronese Passarella","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108669","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108669","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Circular Economy (CE) paradigm has gained traction in both academic discourse and industrial practice. While a transition towards a CE is generally associated with more sustainable futures, less is known about its socio-economic feasibility. This article provides a systematic literature review of contributions to macroeconomic modelling which evaluate environmental and socio-economic impacts of CE interventions (classified in terms of closing supply chains, resource efficiency, residual waste management, and product lifetime extension). Differences in modelling approaches (Leontief input-output, macroeconometric input-output, and computable general equilibrium), and underlying assumptions relating to changes in final demand and technology, are found to be significant drivers of differences in the modelled outcomes of CE interventions. Through this review, various research gaps are identified, including addressing the challenges to sectoral and regional disaggregation (allowing for the modelling of international trade-offs), broader consideration of societal issues beyond GDP and employment (such as environmental, gender or transnational justice), and consideration of broader modelling dynamics (such as rebound effects, the interplay between demand and distribution, and real-financial interactions).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51021,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Economics","volume":"236 ","pages":"Article 108669"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144167492","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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Ecological economics into action: Lessons from the Barcelona City doughnut 生态经济学的实践：巴塞罗那城市甜甜圈的经验教训

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108667

Claudio Cattaneo , Mariana Morena Hanbury Lemos , Viktor Humpert , Marc Montlleo , Enric Tello , Federico Demaria

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108686

Antonia Settle , Federico Zilio , Meladel Mistica , Usha Nattala

{"title":"Climate-related disaster risk in Australia: Are risks higher for disadvantaged households?","authors":"Antonia Settle , Federico Zilio , Meladel Mistica , Usha Nattala","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108686","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108686","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As climate change generates more damaging weather-related events more often, the question of who bears intensifying disaster risk becomes increasingly pertinent. Drawing on disaster sociology, the environmental justice literature and quantitative studies of disaster impacts in real-estate markets, this paper contributes to research efforts to explore distributional questions of climate risk. We examine an actual flood event in an area of Australia that is increasingly recognised as vulnerable to rising flood risk. Our analysis combines geospatial analysis of flooding in residential areas, household-level socioeconomic data and data on house prices to identify socioeconomic patterns in the impacts of a flooding disaster that indicate broader patterns in flood risk exposure and resilience with implications for longer term dynamics of climate-related inequality. Our results show not only that risk exposure was greatest amongst the most disadvantaged communities but also that the most disadvantaged incurred substantially greater losses in comparison to equally flooded locations in wealthier areas, indicating exacerbated balance sheet losses on the part of disadvantaged households who are pushed into acute financial distress as a result of the floods. Variation in both risk exposure and impacts reflect that the costs borne as a result of climate-related disasters play out distinctly amongst different socioeconomic groups. Our analysis of key data sources undertaken at a high level of granularity contributes to much needed empirical research on the socioeconomic distribution of unfolding climate-related risks outside of heavily studied US locations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51021,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Economics","volume":"236 ","pages":"Article 108686"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144124654","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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Biodiversity loss from land occupation: A prefecture- and county-level assessment of biodiversity footprints in China 土地占用导致的生物多样性损失：中国地县生物多样性足迹评价

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108670

Xi Ji, Jie Lin, Qiuyin Ji

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An equation for global energy efficiency gains in the long-run 从长远来看，这是全球能源效率增长的方程式

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108666

Hervé Bercegol

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The DSK stock-flow consistent agent-based integrated assessment model 基于agent的DSK库存流一致性综合评估模型

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108641

Severin Reissl , Luca E. Fierro , Francesco Lamperti , Andrea Roventini

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The hidden dimension of low-carbon public transport policies: From biodiversity conservation to user preferences 低碳公共交通政策的隐藏维度：从生物多样性保护到用户偏好

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108668

Stanislas Rigal , Coralie Calvet , Léa Tardieu , Sébastien Roussel , Anne-Charlotte Vaissière

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Public perceptions of biodiversity and the value of its conservation 公众对生物多样性及其保护价值的认知

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108681

Kennet Uggeldahl , Søren Bøye Olsen , Thomas Lundhede , Jette Bredahl Jacobsen

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