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{"title":"Extreme Weather, agricultural insurance and farmer's climate adaptation technologies adoption in China","authors":"Hui Mao ,&nbsp;Zhenkai Sun ,&nbsp;Anyuan Chai ,&nbsp;Lan Fang ,&nbsp;Chaoqian Shi","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108456","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108456","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We explore how farmers adjust their climate adaptation behaviors and participation in agricultural insurance in response to extreme weather events. A random effects model is constructed to clarify the relationships between extreme weather events, agricultural insurance and climate adaptation technologies (CAT). Using survey data from 622 farmers in China, Probit models and instrumental variable analysis show that extreme weather events significantly increase farmers' adoption of CAT and their participation in agricultural insurance. Furthermore, agricultural insurance significantly promotes farmers' adoption of CAT. Agricultural insurance influences the adoption of CAT through both substitutive and complementary effects, the complementary effects are more pronounced. Therefore, we recommended the continued promotion of CAT and agricultural insurance to strengthen farmers' resilience to extreme weather events.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51021,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Economics","volume":"228 ","pages":"Article 108456"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142703336","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}

{"title":"Environmental responsibility and exposure of finance: Combining environmentally-extended input-output and balance sheet approaches","authors":"Paul Hadji-Lazaro","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108466","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108466","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Finance both contributes to environmental degradation and is vulnerable to environmental degradation. This article sets the methodological groundwork for assessing both concerns in an integrated macroaccounting framework. It presents how the combination of environmentally extended Input-Output analysis and balance sheet methods and data can be used to evaluate the contribution of finance to environmental degradation (responsibility) and the vulnerability of finance to environmental risks (exposure). In doing so, the article contributes to the development of a disaggregated ecological macroeconomics integrating monetary and biophysical flows and stocks.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51021,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Economics","volume":"228 ","pages":"Article 108466"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142694101","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}

{"title":"Global land-use implications of preference shifts towards regional feed and sustainable diets in Germany and the European Union","authors":"Florian Freund,&nbsp;Sakson Soisontes,&nbsp;Verena Laquai,&nbsp;Martin Banse","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108455","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108455","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In Germany and other EU countries, preferences for regional and GMO-free feed can increasingly be observed. Many industries like to brand their dairy, eggs and meat products as produced with regional and GMO-free feed. This – among others – has resulted in decreasing soybean and soybean meal imports from Latin America and the USA over the last couple of years, which are often genetically modified. This pattern is likely to be reinforced in the future. According to a recent Delphi panel, 36 % of German soya imports could realistically be replaced with local GMO-free alternatives in 2030. We show that such a shift in the structure of international protein feed markets has implications for global land use patterns using an economic simulation model. An inward orientation by shortening the feed supply chains will likely increase the pressure on global land use. While land use in Brazil could decrease when soya imports are further reduced, land use in other parts of the world could increase. This is because when restricting oilseed imports from outside the EU's single market, the EU and Germany now have to partially fill in the gap of oilseed imports by producing them locally. This, however, comes at the cost of lower wheat production in Germany and the EU and hence, wheat production is shifting elsewhere to meet the demand. As production has shifted from higher to lower yield regions, global land use for agriculture will likely increase. Our analysis shows that unilateral actions in Germany would have little effect on global land use expansions of 880 km². If, however, the EU mirrors the German preferences for regional and GMO-free feed, the situation will be different. In this case, the global land use change could increase by up to 13,800 km². A shift to regional and GMO-free protein feed can indeed be counter-effective in reducing land and environmental pressure. We show that concomitant and comparably small dietary changes with lower amounts of animal-sourced foods would be enough to counterbalance the adverse land use implications.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51021,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Economics","volume":"228 ","pages":"Article 108455"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142694102","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}

{"title":"Effect simulation and local adaptation of multi-agent collaborative governance in marine eco-economic systems: Evidence from China","authors":"Lehua Gao ,&nbsp;Kun Gao ,&nbsp;Wenwen Sun ,&nbsp;Yue Zhang ,&nbsp;Runping Zhang ,&nbsp;Longxuan Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108451","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108451","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The government's unitary management of marine eco-economic systems has several drawbacks, underscoring the urgency of exploring the effectiveness and feasibility of a multi-agent collaborative governance model. In this study, we developed a simulation model based on statistical and survey data to examine the effectiveness of multi-agent collaborative governance in marine eco-economic systems. Using the data simulation function of system dynamics (SD) Vensim PLE, we verified the input parameters, income variables, behavior probability, and governance outcomes for five types of stakeholders in marine governance, finding that: (1) In a multi-agent the governance framework, arbitrarily increasing the participation probability of one stakeholder type tends to lead to the involvement of two or more types. This leads to the establishment of a compact multi-agent collaborative governance model, significantly enhancing both participation and fairness of governance compared to the traditional government-centric model. (2) Regardless of which parameter is optimized, the multi-agent collaborative governance model can improve the performance of marine eco-economic systems. This governance model is more conducive to the coordinated, healthy, and sustainable development of marine eco-economic system. (3) By calculating the degree of alignment between stakeholders (central government, local government, sea-related producers, sea-related consumers, and coastal communities) across 11 coastal provinces and cities in China, this study identified one or more types of multi-agent collaborative governance models, proving the feasibility of this approach. (4) While collaborative governance models led by five different entities have their unique advantages and disadvantages, further strengthening relationships and cooperation among these stakeholders is essential for advancing the maturity and effectiveness of the multi-agent governance model.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51021,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Economics","volume":"228 ","pages":"Article 108451"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142659364","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}

{"title":"Carbon Giants: Exploring the Top 100 Industrial CO2 Emitters in the EU","authors":"Xenia Miklin,&nbsp;Thomas Neier,&nbsp;Simon Sturn,&nbsp;Klara Zwickl","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108419","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108419","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We analyze emissions and associated damages from the top 100 industrial CO₂ emitters in the EU using data from the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register, the EU Transaction Log, population grids, and regional information. These top emitters account for 19% of total EU CO₂ emissions, 39% of industrial CO₂ emissions, as well as a third of industrial SO<span><math><msub><mrow></mrow><mrow><mi>x</mi></mrow></msub></math></span> and NO<span><math><msub><mrow></mrow><mrow><mi>x</mi></mrow></msub></math></span> emissions, and a significant share of industrial PM₁₀ emissions. In 2017, monetized damages of hazardous co-pollutants range from 20 to 67 billion Euros, and combined co-pollutant and climate damages amount to between 92 and 260 billion Euros. The top 100 alone would exhaust the EU’s carbon budget in a few decades. The joint climate and co-pollutant damages of a significant number of the top 100 exceed the economic value generated by the entire industry sector in their respective regions, indicating substantial underregulation. Yet the top 100 received free EU Emissions Trading System permits for 27% of their carbon emissions. Many top emitters are located in densely populated regions, with 3.1% of EU’s population living within 10 kilometers of a Carbon Giant. Our analysis reveals the critical importance of addressing major emitters in research and policymaking.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51021,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Economics","volume":"228 ","pages":"Article 108419"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142643103","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}

{"title":"Public support for degrowth policies and sufficiency behaviours in the United States: A discrete choice experiment","authors":"Dallas O'Dell ,&nbsp;Davide Contu ,&nbsp;Ganga Shreedhar","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108446","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108446","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Research on degrowth and its policy proposals has rapidly expanded, despite lacking empirical evidence on public perceptions. One conceptual proposition for affluent populations is that lifestyle changes, such as undertaking sufficiency-oriented behaviours, may engender degrowth policy support. Our research empirically investigated U.S. public support for degrowth policies, its relation to sufficiency behaviours, and whether a degrowth framing influenced policy support. In a pre-registered, online discrete choice experiment (<em>N</em> = 1012), we elicited perceptions of four commonly advocated degrowth policies - work time reductions, downscaling fossil fuel production, universal basic services, and advertising restrictions. Analyses revealed significant support for some specification of each alternative policy, especially fossil fuel caps and universal healthcare. We also found a significant positive association between sufficiency engagement and supporting fossil fuel restrictions. However, latent class analysis suggested that the link between behaviour and policy support was less consistent for socially oriented policies, and that those who supported such policies did not engage in sufficiency most frequently. Degrowth framing only significantly influenced preferences for universal healthcare. These findings suggest an appetite for advancing eco-social policies in the United States but point to a nuanced relationship between sufficiency lifestyles and degrowth policy support.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51021,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Economics","volume":"228 ","pages":"Article 108446"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142643098","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}

{"title":"Social comparison nudges: What actually happens when we are told what others do?","authors":"Yann Raineau ,&nbsp;Éric Giraud-Héraud ,&nbsp;Sébastien Lecocq","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108436","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108436","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Social comparison nudges, known to bring about behavioral change, rely on providing information to agents about other agents' decisions or expectations regarding specific actions. Although the procedure consists in transmitting true information, it classically implies a reduction of the transmitted reality: the information provided about others is an average, a proportion, a percentile. What would happen if, instead, full information were shared on what all others do (as nudged agents might legitimately expect), and what would this tell us about how nudges actually work? We assume that cognitive biases occur unintentionally when the information provided is incomplete. By mobilizing Akerlof's (1997) model of social distance, accurately describing polarization effects in social decision-making, we show how the nudge-information conveyed can then act as a decoy: effective in triggering behavioral change, but giving rise to renewed ethical considerations. We illustrate our conjectures with a randomized controlled trial in the context of pesticide use in agriculture in which winegrowers receiving full information about their co-workers' performances are compared with growers receiving the more conventional average performance. After showing that the two differ in their understanding of what others do, we show in the field that the latter nudge induces change unmet by the former.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51021,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Economics","volume":"228 ","pages":"Article 108436"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142643099","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}

{"title":"Breaking the bag habit: Testing interventions to reduce plastic bag demand","authors":"Armenak Antinyan ,&nbsp;Luca Corazzini","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108454","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108454","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In a natural field experiment conducted in a big grocery chain in Armenia, we test the impact of demand-side behavioral (an environmental nudge) and conventional (financial bonus scheme) policies to curb the purchase of single-use plastic bags. We find that both interventions are effective to reduce the demand for single-use plastic bags. Furthermore, the financial bonus scheme is more powerful than the environmental nudge. However, the financial bonus scheme backfires in the sense that it reduces the visits to the grocery chain resulting in less money spent by an average customer unlike the environmental nudge. We also study, whether customers use the reusable bags received for free and how to motivate them to do so. The findings suggest a strong correlation between reusable bag usage and shopping frequency. While many customers use the bag only once, the more frequent the shopping behavior the higher the usage of the reusable bags. Lastly, financial incentives matter for reusable bag usage.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51021,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Economics","volume":"228 ","pages":"Article 108454"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142643100","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}

{"title":"Public policies on circular economy: A systematic review","authors":"Riccardo Losa","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108452","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108452","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Circular economy (CE) can drive our society towards sustainable development. An adequate policy landscape is considered among the most effective ways to encourage firms to adopt circularity. However, there is little clarity as to the most effective public policies to push companies towards implementing this concept. This is particularly challenging in the European Union, where these policies are fragmented and inconsistent. This paper aims at addressing this issue by performing a systematic literature review of 54 publications. These were analyzed to identify the policy measures that scholars consider relevant in supporting firms in the adoption of CE. I also highlight the gaps in the current policy scenario that need further investigation. This methodological approach can help future researchers to bring more clarity and coherence to public policies on circularity, and the issue of the fragmentation that characterizes them can be overcome.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51021,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Economics","volume":"228 ","pages":"Article 108452"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142643101","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}

{"title":"GVC participation and carbon emissions – A network analysis","authors":"Matthew Smith ,&nbsp;Dimitris Christopoulos","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108450","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108450","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper draws on network analysis to examine the impact of Global Value Chain (GVC) embeddedness on carbon emissions from 2000 to 2014. A country network of value added is constructed, and a Temporal Network Autocorrelation Model (TNAM) is applied to examine the impact of network position in the GVC and emissions of network partners on the CO₂ emissions of a country. The paper finds weak evidence of a positive impact of GVC participation on CO₂ emissions. This paper does not find support for the EKC hypothesis. Additionally, the analysis examines the impact of the economic complexity level of a country on emissions and finds no significant relationship.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51021,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Economics","volume":"228 ","pages":"Article 108450"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142643133","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}