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The power of hydropeaking: Trade-offs between flexible hydropower and river ecosystem services in Europe

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-03-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108583

Terese E. Venus , Oreoluwa Ola , Maria Alp , Nico Bätz , Maria Dolores Bejarano , Isabel Boavida , Maria Cristina Bruno , Roser Casas-Mulet , Mauro Carolli , Gabriele Chiogna , Marie-Pierre Gosselin , Jo H. Halleraker , Markus Noack , Diego Tonolla , Davide Vanzo , Daniel S. Hayes

{"title":"The power of hydropeaking: Trade-offs between flexible hydropower and river ecosystem services in Europe","authors":"Terese E. Venus , Oreoluwa Ola , Maria Alp , Nico Bätz , Maria Dolores Bejarano , Isabel Boavida , Maria Cristina Bruno , Roser Casas-Mulet , Mauro Carolli , Gabriele Chiogna , Marie-Pierre Gosselin , Jo H. Halleraker , Markus Noack , Diego Tonolla , Davide Vanzo , Daniel S. Hayes","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108583","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108583","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The operational practice of “hydropeaking” allows hydropower plants to cover peaks and deficits in energy demand, but it also impacts river ecosystems. The assessment of hydropeaking impacts plays an important role in safeguarding ecosystem services, but is challenging due to the relative importance of impacts at different sites. To compare impacts in hydropeaking rivers, we elicit expert judgment on the relative impacts of hydropeaking on river ecosystem services. Using the best-worst scaling (BWS) method, we compare the impact on the three categories of river ecosystem services (provisioning, regulating and cultural). Our respondents include 98 hydropower experts. Our analysis accounted for individual heterogeneity to assess how perceptions vary across regions, attitudes and representative river characteristics. We find trade-offs between provisioning and regulating services at the regional and local levels, which represents a key issue in dealing with climate change and ecosystem degradation. The best-affected services were water for power generation, raw materials, water for industrial activities and water for irrigation. The worst-affected services were fisheries and aquaculture, maintenance of population and habitat, and wild animals. Our results have implications for the safeguarding of river ecosystem services and the design of regulatory and incentive schemes for mitigation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51021,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Economics","volume":"233 ","pages":"Article 108583"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143591909","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}

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Assessing carbon emissions along global supply chains from technology perspective: A network production decomposition analysis

IF 6.6 2区经济学

Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-03-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108582

Hui Wang , Shasha Yu , Yafei Yang , Meiyue Wang , Peng Zhou

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Input taxes in agriculture: Experiences and perspectives for European agriculture

IF 6.6 2区经济学

Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-03-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108575

Robert Finger , Anders Branth Pedersen

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Contextual behavioral informed nudges to stimulate waste prevention and recycling. A framework and a research agenda

IF 6.6 2区经济学

Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-03-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108576

Amedeo Argentiero , Massimo Cesareo , Vincenzo Fasone , Giulio Pedrini , Giovambattista Presti

{"title":"Contextual behavioral informed nudges to stimulate waste prevention and recycling. A framework and a research agenda","authors":"Amedeo Argentiero , Massimo Cesareo , Vincenzo Fasone , Giulio Pedrini , Giovambattista Presti","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108576","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108576","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Waste prevention and recycling have gained a focal position in the research agendas of scholars and policy makers. By drawing links between economics and psychology, Behavioral Economics (BE) offers a useful framework to stimulate benign individual decisions and choices in this field, by stressing the role of human factors in shaping them. Two distinct approaches can be identified, differing in how they conceptualize the putative independent variables that govern human behavior: 1) cognitive models and 2) behavioral-oriented models. The extant experimental literature, however, has not satisfactorily developed this twofold perspective in the analysis of possible nudging strategies to encourage waste prevention and recycling. Building on this research gap, the paper highlights the limitations of the current cognitive-based framework and explores the potential for extending the application of a contextual behavioral approach within this field of study. We propose a research agenda centered on integrating contextual behavioral tools into nudging interventions, identifying two main benefits arising from such an innovative approach: (i) a wider adoption of value-based actions, (ii) a mitigation of the decay of the nudging effect in the long term. These “contextual behavioral informed nudges” could be especially effective in situations involving a trade-off between health and environmental protection.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51021,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Economics","volume":"233 ","pages":"Article 108576"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143577947","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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Raising environmental awareness with augmented reality

IF 6.6 2区经济学

Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-03-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108563

Giuseppe Attanasi , Barbara Buljat Raymond , Agnès Festré , Andrea Guido

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Assessing pathways for pursuing coherence between local implementation of emerging alternative economic approaches and international investment law

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-03-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108566

Ted Gleason

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Beyond the EKC: Economic development and environmental degradation in the US

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-03-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108567

Mihai Mutascu

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What you don't know, can't hurt you: Avoiding donation requests for environmental causes

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-03-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108578

Valeria Fanghella , Lisette Ibanez , John Thøgersen

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Critical realism, methodological pluralism, and ecological economics

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-03-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108581

Richard B. Norgaard

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Degrowth in a settler state: climate-just economic transitions and Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples in Canada

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-03-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108549

Kelly Gingrich , Lina Brand-Correa , Elaine Howarth , Anna Stratton

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