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Decoupling economic growth from energy use: The role of energy intensity in an endogenous growth model 经济增长与能源使用的脱钩：能源强度在内生增长模型中的作用

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108519

Tobias Bergmann , Matthias Kalkuhl

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Exploring the multifaceted relationship between environmental attitudes and political voting 探索环境态度与政治投票之间的多方面关系

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108518

Enrico A.R. D’Ecclesiis , Eugenio Levi , Fabrizio Patriarca

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Are national climate change mitigation pledges shaped by citizens' mitigation preferences? Evidence from globally representative data 国家气候变化减缓承诺是否受到公民减排偏好的影响？来自全球代表性数据的证据

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108520

Heinz Welsch

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Valuing coastal fisheries and seagrasses: A case study of estuarine resources on Florida's Nature Coast 评估沿海渔业和海草：佛罗里达州自然海岸河口资源的案例研究

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108517

Olesya M. Savchenko , Robert Botta , Roberto Koeneke , Jana Hilsenroth , Kelly A. Grogan , Holden E. Harris , Christa D. Court

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Is resource endowment a trigger for conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa? Unveiling the moderating role of income inequality 资源禀赋是撒哈拉以南非洲冲突的导火索吗？揭示收入不平等的调节作用

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108516

Olumide O. Olaoye , Mulatu F. Zerihun , Mamdouh Abdulaziz Saleh Al-Faryan

{"title":"Is resource endowment a trigger for conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa? Unveiling the moderating role of income inequality","authors":"Olumide O. Olaoye , Mulatu F. Zerihun , Mamdouh Abdulaziz Saleh Al-Faryan","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108516","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108516","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The literature on the effect of natural resources on conflicts is far from being conclusive. Recent evidence suggests that the relationship between natural resources and violent conflicts may be influenced by income inequality. That is, inequitable distribution of economic and natural resources increases the incentives for resource-rich countries to engage in conflicts. The main contribution of this study to the growing body of research on natural resources and conflicts is that it provides empirical evidence on the moderating role of income inequality in natural resources—conflict nexus in SSA. The study adopts the ordinary least square (OLS), the two-step system GMM and Driscoll and Kraay covariance estimator. The result shows that natural resources do not have any direct effect on conflicts. However, the interaction of income inequality and natural resources increases conflicts in SSA. The result also shows that quality of government, domestic investment, regime durability, and education are important determinants of conflicts in SSA. Lastly, the result shows that tax revenue has a negative and statistically significant effect on conflicts. The research and policy implications are discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51021,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Economics","volume":"230 ","pages":"Article 108516"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142967831","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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Macroeconomic, sectoral and financial dynamics in energy transitions: A stock-flow consistent, input-output approach 能源转型中的宏观经济、部门和金融动态：库存流动一致的投入产出方法

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108507

Andrew Jackson, Tim Jackson

{"title":"Macroeconomic, sectoral and financial dynamics in energy transitions: A stock-flow consistent, input-output approach","authors":"Andrew Jackson, Tim Jackson","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108507","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108507","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper develops a stock-flow consistent, input-output (SFC-IO) model that is able to simulate a number of the risks and opportunities associated with different types of transitions to net zero. In particular, the model is able to capture transition related impacts stemming from changes in: i) green investment; ii) energy return on energy invested (EROI); and iii) financial transition risks. We use this model to simulate a number of different types of energy transitions (i.e. orderly versus disorderly, anticipated versus unanticipated) to better understand the potential links and feedback effects between these different transition features and how they might generate non-linear dynamics along the transition pathway.</div><div>Novel or semi novel aspects of the model include: i) multiple firm sectors and goods types; ii) the integration of a dynamic input-output model into the SFC model; iii) the use of an almost ideal demand system; iv) firms that produce distinct capital vintages which have defined lifespans and endogenously determined levels of labour productivity and material goods inputs; v) endogenous markups which are set to generate a target profit rate on each individual capital vintage (and cover interest payments, retained earnings and loan repayments); vi) the tracking of individual loans (which are linked to distinct capital vintages), loan repayments, and loan defaults; vii) the exit and bankruptcy of the fossil fuel sector during the transition process.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51021,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Economics","volume":"230 ","pages":"Article 108507"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142967832","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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The effect of the beef zero deforestation commitment in the Brazilian Amazon: A spatial panel data analysis 巴西亚马逊地区牛肉零毁林承诺的影响：空间面板数据分析

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108503

Diogo Vallim , Alexandre Leichsenring

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The environmental benefits of grassroots cooperatives in agriculture 基层农业合作社的环境效益

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108513

Simon Cornée , Damien Rousselière , Véronique Thelen

{"title":"The environmental benefits of grassroots cooperatives in agriculture","authors":"Simon Cornée , Damien Rousselière , Véronique Thelen","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108513","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108513","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper analyses the environmental benefits of grassroots cooperation in agriculture. Specifically, it focuses on the French context, which is characterised by a heavy reliance on pesticides and by strong inter-farmer interactions structured within farm machinery sharing cooperatives (CUMAs). We theorise that these social interactions are strategically complementary in the sense that the agroecological practices of farmers involved in the CUMA network, in a given spatial unit, are influenced by the presence and actions of CUMA members in their vicinity. At the extensive margin, increased peer-to-peer interactions, driven by a higher density of CUMA members, foster sociotechnical exchanges conducive to reducing pesticide use. At the intensive margin, if members individually make greater use of their CUMA, they collectively gain access to technologically advanced machinery assets, which leads to a reduction in pesticide use through improvements in technical efficiency. Our econometric analysis, based on a dataset provided by the National Federation of CUMAs covering 5793 individual cooperatives, fully supports the extensive-margin mechanism. The intensive-margin mechanism, however, is only observed for greater use of agroecological equipment by CUMA members, suggesting a rebound effect when it comes to conventional equipment. Overall, these results point to the idea of a ‘hidden agroecological transition.’</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51021,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Economics","volume":"230 ","pages":"Article 108513"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142925070","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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China's current carbon inequality is predominantly determined by capital disparity

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108515

Peipei Tian , Haoyu Ma , Zeyi Zhang , Yang Yu , Dan Li

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Prosocial and financial incentives for biodiversity conservation: A field experiment using a smartphone app 保护生物多样性的社会和经济激励措施：使用智能手机应用程序的实地实验

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108506

Shusaku Sasaki , Takahiro Kubo , Shodai Kitano

{"title":"Prosocial and financial incentives for biodiversity conservation: A field experiment using a smartphone app","authors":"Shusaku Sasaki , Takahiro Kubo , Shodai Kitano","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108506","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108506","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Ascertaining the number, type, and location of plant, insect, and animal species is essential for biodiversity conservation. However, it is difficult to comprehensively monitor the situation using only expert-led surveys, and therefore information voluntarily provided by citizens is helpful in determining species distribution. To effectively encourage citizens to share data, this study proposed a prosocial incentive that rewards providing species information with donations for endangered species conservation activities. We conducted a field experiment with users (<em>N</em> = 830) of a widely used Japanese smartphone app “biome” where they post species photos and measured the incentive's effect on their posting behavior. In addition, we measured the effect of a financial incentive that provides monetary rewards for posting species photos and compared the two incentives' effects. The analyses revealed that while the prosocial incentive did not increase the number of posts on average, it could influence the content of the posts, increasing the proportion of posts on rare species. In contrast, the financial incentive significantly increased the total number of posts and, in particular, the number of posts on less rare and invasive species. Our results indicate that the prosocial and financial incentives could stimulate different motivations and encourage different posting behaviors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51021,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Economics","volume":"230 ","pages":"Article 108506"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142925045","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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