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Green jobs and green economic development in Kigali's construction value chain: Evidence from a firm survey 基加利建筑业价值链中的绿色就业和绿色经济发展：来自公司调查的证据

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2026.108944

Babette Never , Alexander Stoecker , Aime Tsinda , Eric Mujanama , Roger Mugisha

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Embodied universalism: An Aristotelian perspective for evaluating the good life 具身普遍主义：亚里士多德评价美好生活的观点

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2026.108946

Cécile Ezvan , Fiona Ottaviani

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Radical ecological economics: A paradigm from the global south 激进生态经济学：来自全球南方的范例

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2026.108939

David Barkin , Erika Carcaño , Claudia Camacho , Alejandra Sánchez

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Opinions of EU citizens about climate policy in their own words 欧盟公民对气候政策的看法

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2026.108968

Ivan Savin , Jeroen van den Bergh

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Can foreign aid mitigate the effects of climate variability in agriculture? Evidence from the low-and middle-income countries 外国援助能否减轻气候变化对农业的影响？来自中低收入国家的证据

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2026.108953

Rajabrata Banerjee , Vandana Arya , Saikat Sinha Roy

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Extraction and dematerialization in Latin America, 1970–2023 1970-2023年拉丁美洲的提取和非物质化

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2026.108947

Fander Falconí , Rafael Burbano , Pedro Cango , Ruthy Intriago

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Global public opinion on tradeoffs between environmental protection and economic growth 全球公众对环境保护与经济增长之间权衡的看法

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2026.108955

Jukka Kilgus , Trisha R. Shrum

{"title":"Global public opinion on tradeoffs between environmental protection and economic growth","authors":"Jukka Kilgus , Trisha R. Shrum","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2026.108955","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2026.108955","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Studies have shown that many people prioritize environmental protection over some levels of economic growth, even when tradeoffs exist. However, to date, most research on these tradeoffs has primarily been conducted in the Global North and has lacked cross-country comparisons. We elevate this research to a global level by analyzing data from the World Values Survey across 92 countries, focusing on how people's prioritization relates to demographic and socio-economic factors. Our results confirm previous findings that a majority of the global population favors environmental protection over economic growth (57.99%), especially in high-income countries in Western Europe, the Americas, and Oceania, as well as in Southeast Asia. Across the global average and in many countries, stronger support for the environment is found among more educated people, those leaning politically to the left, females, and younger individuals. Income does not have a significant effect on the global scale. However, and this is where our study offers new insights, the analyzed demographic and socio-economic factors have fundamentally different effects on prioritization within individual country samples. Especially in non-Western countries, the often-expected predictors for environmental support do not behave as anticipated. While our results cannot be interpreted as direct public support for post-growth systems change, they indicate that diverse groups of people, distinct across countries, support placing less emphasis on economic growth and more on the environment. Politicians and world leaders need to consider this when deciding on future political priorities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51021,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Economics","volume":"244 ","pages":"Article 108955"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146161053","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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Interpreting the willingness and ability of rural producers to engage in conservation efforts in the Chaco forest of Argentina 解释农村生产者参与阿根廷查科森林保护工作的意愿和能力

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2026.108965

Cristina C. Nuñez Godoy , Gisela S. Córdoba , Federico Colombo Speroni , Leonidas O. Girardin

{"title":"Interpreting the willingness and ability of rural producers to engage in conservation efforts in the Chaco forest of Argentina","authors":"Cristina C. Nuñez Godoy , Gisela S. Córdoba , Federico Colombo Speroni , Leonidas O. Girardin","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2026.108965","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2026.108965","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Forests, while crucial ecosystems for ecosystem services provision, face challenges such as deforestation and degradation, resulting in adverse social and ecological consequences. The Gran Chaco, a deforestation hotspot and vast dry forest in South America urgently demands landholder engagement in forest conservation. Innovative solutions, such as sustainable management practices are essential for long-term forest conservation and landholders' well-being. Landholders hold responsibility for extensive forested areas, and little is known about their diverse motivations and capabilities to engage in conservation within sustainable management practices. We used the Qmethod to investigate landholders' decision to allocate an exclusive area for conservation within their farmlands. Our results revealed four perspectives on their decision-making process: (a) Chaco forest appreciation and farmland residency, (b) farmland infrastructure and social support, (c) local roots and residence stability, and (d) external rewards. Understanding landholders' decision-making process might aids policymakers in designing effective forest conservation policies and promoting sustainable practices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51021,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Economics","volume":"244 ","pages":"Article 108965"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146152993","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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Unintended carbon cost of automation technology in transforming economies: The role of capital dependence and structure change 转型经济中自动化技术的意外碳成本：资本依赖和结构变化的作用

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2026.108951

Shangze Dai , Xinde James Ji

{"title":"Unintended carbon cost of automation technology in transforming economies: The role of capital dependence and structure change","authors":"Shangze Dai , Xinde James Ji","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2026.108951","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2026.108951","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Automation technologies enhance production efficiency, offering potential for sustainable development. Yet, by deepening economic dependence on inherently emission-intensive capital investment, automation may inadvertently increase carbon emissions in economies with transforming industrial and production structure. We investigate this hypothesis first through a conceptual framework incorporating heterogeneous production and industrial components. We then test this using panel data from China's second-level administrative (prefecture) units from 2007 to 2021, estimating both short-run and medium-run effects using fixed-effects and long-difference estimators. Results suggest that automation technology, measured by per capita patents, is associated with increased carbon intensity. This positive effect persists over the short- to medium-term, indicating limited mitigation through structural adaptation. This persistence highlights the inertia of emission structures even amid technological progress. The impact is larger in western and industrial regions, reflecting regional disparities in industrial composition and adaptive capacity. We further examine four mediating channels that reflect capital dependence—relative marginal productivity of capital, capital misallocation, per capita capital stock, and temporary migration—and further conduct sectoral regressions to capture heterogeneity across industrial structures. Together, these analyses reveal that capital dependence and structural change to be important channels through which the automation‑carbon intensity relationship manifests, which reveals complex environmental trade-offs from automation. Overall, the findings provide new evidence that automation may generate unintended environmental costs, calling for policy coordination between industrial upgrading and decarbonization strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51021,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Economics","volume":"244 ","pages":"Article 108951"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146135186","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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Fishery management for food and nutrition security in Peru under a changing climate 气候变化下秘鲁的粮食和营养安全渔业管理

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2026.108941

Biao Huang , Ricardo Oliveros-Ramos , Marie-Catherine Riekhof , Renato Salvatteci

{"title":"Fishery management for food and nutrition security in Peru under a changing climate","authors":"Biao Huang , Ricardo Oliveros-Ramos , Marie-Catherine Riekhof , Renato Salvatteci","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2026.108941","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2026.108941","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Humboldt Current System off Peru is one of the most productive marine ecosystems in the world, and its seafood products contain high-quality protein and essential micronutrients. Yet, malnutrition is still a staggering burden for Peru. We suggest and explore fishery management aiming to increase nutrient availability for the local population as a possible solution. We empirically estimated a four fish species model with consideration of climate change and constructed a nutrient-based optimization model. This enabled us to evaluate fishery management strategies, their production potential for a number of nutrients (omega-3 fatty acids, protein, and iron) and to compare them with Peru's national nutrient requirements. We found that if anchovy is harvested exclusively for export as fishmeal and fish oil, the other three species cannot provide adequate nutrient supply to meet even one-third of Peru's national requirements. The gap between the supply from these three fisheries and the national requirements for these three nutrients is equivalent to 0.087, 1.6, and 2.93 million tons of anchovy, respectively. Including the anchovy harvest in the nutrient supply from the fisheries suffices for national nutrient security purposes. It can, however, lead to significant economic losses for the fishmeal and fish oil industries, thus highlighting the trade-offs in fishery management. Our analysis identifies options for aligning fishery management with national health policies in developing countries where nutrition intake is insufficient to achieve sustainable development goals.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51021,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Economics","volume":"244 ","pages":"Article 108941"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146135182","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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