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Decoupling pessimism and the dilemma of growth. A reply to Jackson et al. (2024)

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-03-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108580

Rikard H. Warlenius

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Do economists think about climate change and inequality? Semantic analysis and topic modeling of top five economics journals

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108548

Hassan El Tinay, Juliet B. Schor

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Pollinator declines, international trade and global food security: Reassessing the global economic and nutritional impacts

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-02-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108565

Arndt Feuerbacher

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The skill requirements of the circular economy

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-02-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108559

Duygu Buyukyazici , Francesco Quatraro

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The benefits of less: The effect of sufficiency gain framing on sufficiency behavior

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-02-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108561

Manuel Suter , Simon Rabaa , Andrea Essl

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Environmental resource extraction and poverty: Comparative evidence from rural Thailand and Vietnam

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-02-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108564

Eva Seewald, Alexander Oetjen, Trung Thanh Nguyen

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Compact and livable? Identifying and managing the relationships between intensive land use and urban livability: Evidence from 337 cities in China

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-02-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108562

Guanghui Jiang , Wenqin Ji , Yaya Tian , Yu Luo , Wenqiu Ma

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Living well with the foundational economy: Assessing the spatial accessibility of foundational infrastructures in Vienna and the relationship to socio-economic status

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-02-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108558

Tobias Riepl , Anke Schaffartzik , Simon Grabow , Selim Banabak

{"title":"Living well with the foundational economy: Assessing the spatial accessibility of foundational infrastructures in Vienna and the relationship to socio-economic status","authors":"Tobias Riepl , Anke Schaffartzik , Simon Grabow , Selim Banabak","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108558","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108558","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Foundational infrastructures play a vital role for providing a good life for all within planetary boundaries. In this article, we employ a spatial understanding of accessibility to assess the access to five foundational infrastructures (healthcare, care, education, culture, nature) for Vienna's 250 census districts. Based on government statistics and OpenStreetMap data, we develop the Foundational Accessibility Indicator and study how accessibility intersects with spatially explicit socio-economic variables, as covered by the Social Status Index. We find strong spatial disparities with regard to the accessibility of foundational infrastructures in Vienna, with high access for most infrastructures in the city center and partially the west, but poor access in the south and east of the city. There is a significant, positive, moderate correlation between the average access to foundational infrastructures and socio-economic status in Vienna, meaning that people of higher status tend to enjoy higher access than people with lower status. In the discussion, we contextualize our results, critically reflect our approach and draw implications for retrofitting foundational infrastructures. We conclude by highlighting the broader implications of our findings for accessibility research for living well within planetary limits.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51021,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Economics","volume":"232 ","pages":"Article 108558"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143463520","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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Coordinating on good and bad outcomes in threshold games – Evidence from an artefactual field experiment in Cambodia

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-02-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108547

Esther Schuch , Tum Nhim , Andries Richter

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Analysing the expansion of the circular economy in the European Union: How important is the regional context?

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-02-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108560

Marta García-Velasco Garzás , María J. Ruiz-Fuensanta

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