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Corrigendum to “China's global leadership aspirations and domestic support for climate policy” [Ecological Economics Volume 227 (2025) 108440]

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108528

Chen Xiang , Terry van Gevelt

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Divergent outcomes of large-scale land transactions in Ethiopia: A quantitative comparative analysis

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108531

Chuan Liao , Arun Agrawal

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Changing the understanding of crop production: Integrating ecosystem services into the production function

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108526

Anne Sophie Dietrich , Valeria Carini , Giulia Vico , Riccardo Bommarco , Helena Hansson

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The environment–economic growth trade-off: does support for environmental protection depend on its economic consequences?

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108522

Andrew McNeil, Lucy Barnes

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Motivational levers for the preservation of an intergenerational common resource: An experiment

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108523

Ivan Ajdukovic , Eli Spiegelman , Angela Sutan

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Why degrowth should be disentangled from the wellbeing economy

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108532

Hubert Buch-Hansen

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Reducing red-soil runoff from farmland provides heterogeneous economic benefits through coastal ecosystems

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108527

Kota Mameno , Takahiro Kubo , Takahiro Tsuge , Hiroya Yamano

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Carbon rotation ages and the offset measurement conundrum: An extended review

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108530

G. Cornelis van Kooten

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Development and test of a dual-pathway model of personal and community factors driving new energy technology adoption - The case of V2G in three European countries

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108514

Nora Baumgartner , Daniel Sloot , Anne Günther , Ulf J.J. Hahnel

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From pastures to plates: The thorny path to achieving deforestation-free cattle from Brazil to European consumers 从牧场到盘子：从巴西到欧洲消费者实现无森林砍伐的牛的荆棘之路

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108524

Matías Vaccarezza Sevilla , Gino Pedreira Lucchese , Torsten Krause , Gisele Garcia Alarcon

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