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The risk-based environmental footprints and sustainability deficits of nations

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2024-12-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108501

Jianjian He , Pengyan Zhang , Xi Lu

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A natural resource curse: The unintended effects of gold mining on malaria 自然资源的诅咒：金矿开采对疟疾的意外影响

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2024-12-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108469

Jeffrey Pagel

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Is social capital a driver of the green transition in the European Union? 社会资本是欧盟绿色转型的驱动力吗？

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2024-12-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108500

Jesús Peiró-Palomino , Lisa Gianmoena , Andrés J. Picazo-Tadeo , Vicente Rios

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Conservation auctions for landscape-scale environmental management: Does spatial configuration matter for economic and ecological outcomes? 景观尺度环境管理的保护拍卖：空间配置对经济和生态结果有影响吗？

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2024-12-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108509

Chi Nguyen , Uwe Latacz-Lohmann , Nick Hanley , Sayed Iftekhar

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The rise and fall of neoliberalism: Evidences from an ecological and regulationist analysis of France (1960–2020) 新自由主义的兴衰：来自法国生态与管制主义分析的证据（1960-2020）

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2024-12-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108488

Alban Pellegris , Victor Court

{"title":"The rise and fall of neoliberalism: Evidences from an ecological and regulationist analysis of France (1960–2020)","authors":"Alban Pellegris , Victor Court","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108488","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108488","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article explores the critical role of energy in shaping capitalist modes of development, and their entry into crisis, in France between 1960 and 2020. This analysis challenges traditional views that regard energy primarily as an exogenous shock and instead posits energy as a fundamental metabolic constraint in capitalist accumulation regimes. To demonstrate this, we integrate energy flows into the analysis of capitalists' regimes by crossing two bodies of knowledge: ecological economics and regulation theory. We enrich regulation theory with three key ecological macroeconomics indicators: thermodynamic efficiency, exosomatic metabolic rate and the weight of energy expenditures. Using descriptive statistics, we show that the weight of energy expenditures is the most significant variable: it must be contained if the rate of profit is to be maintained and if capital accumulation is to continue. Neoliberalism responded to the metabolic exhaustion of Fordism but eventually encountered its own limits in managing energy constraints. Neoliberal recipes for reconfiguring the metabolism have generated major imbalances likely to call into question the reproduction of this regime (financial crises, trade imbalances). We conclude that neoliberalism's structural crisis is rooted in the exhaustion of past energy management strategies, opening the door to the emergence of post-liberal capitalism.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51021,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Economics","volume":"230 ","pages":"Article 108488"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142869927","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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Economic valuation of groundwater over-exploitation in the Maghreb 马格里布地下水过度开采的经济估值

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2024-12-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108499

Abderraouf Zaatra , Georgios Kleftodimos , Mélanie Requier-Desjardins , Hatem Belhouchette

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Towards a sustainable mobility lifestyle: Exploring the flight to rail shift through model-based behavioural change scenarios 走向可持续的移动生活方式：通过基于模型的行为改变场景探索从飞机到铁路的转变

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2024-12-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108498

David Álvarez-Antelo , Paola López-Muñoz , Luis Llases , Arthur Lauer

{"title":"Towards a sustainable mobility lifestyle: Exploring the flight to rail shift through model-based behavioural change scenarios","authors":"David Álvarez-Antelo , Paola López-Muñoz , Luis Llases , Arthur Lauer","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108498","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108498","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite the importance of behavioural changes for transitioning to low-carbon societies, quantitative modelling has mainly focused on technological changes, overlooking the complex social dynamics of lifestyle shifts. In this study, we build a coupled system dynamics model linking a passenger transport model with an exploratory endogenous behavioural change model. We use this model and a scenario discovery methodology based on Monte Carlo simulations and multivariate sensitivity analysis to explore pathways for climate mitigation in the transport sector by shifting from flights to trains. Our model reveals several scenarios for mitigation, each requiring different policy combinations and social efforts. We found that personal environmental values significantly impact the speed of behavioural change and its contribution to emissions reduction by 2050, though policy incentives such as educational and economic policies could also help in their absence. Based on four pathways with distinct exogenous drivers, we present four storylines illustrating possible social contexts for a shift from air to train transport: <em>Smart Policy Mix (1)</em>, <em>Fast Adaptation (2)</em>, <em>Luck in Misfortune (3)</em>, and <em>Overcoming the Value-Action Gap (4)</em>. The scenarios reveal different situations for achieving mitigation objectives, varying in efficiency, desirability, and feasibility, while also exposing sociopolitical trade-offs. Our work contributes to the field of social and exploratory modelling, offering new insights into the social dynamics of sustainability transformations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51021,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Economics","volume":"230 ","pages":"Article 108498"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142869925","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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Multiple hazards and residential rents in Switzerland: Who pays the price of extreme natural events? 瑞士的多重灾害和住宅租金：极端自然事件的代价由谁来买单？

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2024-12-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108485

F.J. Blok, F. Fuerst

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Energy rebound effect in China: Measurement based on a variable coefficient production function

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2024-12-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108496

Ruipeng Tan , Zixuan Zhang , Kerui Du , Boqiang Lin

{"title":"Energy rebound effect in China: Measurement based on a variable coefficient production function","authors":"Ruipeng Tan , Zixuan Zhang , Kerui Du , Boqiang Lin","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108496","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108496","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The presence of the energy rebound effect (ERE) creates significant challenges in realizing the goals of energy-saving policies. Current literature measuring ERE based on production function faces two limitations. First, energy intensity is used as the indicator of energy efficiency, but reductions in energy intensity do not necessarily trigger ERE. Second, the assumption that input elasticities remain constant across regions and periods is unrealistic. To make up these defects, we propose a model using total-factor energy productivity as an indicator of energy-augmenting technology and develop a framework to measure ERE driven by advancements in energy-augmenting technology. Moreover, we employ a variable coefficient production function to measure the contribution of energy augmenting technology progress to output growth and further ERE. The findings demonstrate that, firstly, various inputs exhibit significant temporal and regional disparities in output elasticities. Second, the ERE is estimated to be 27.21 % on average in China, while a fixed-coefficient Cobb-Douglas model overestimates the ERE at 30.43 %. Third, regional and temporal disparities are evident in the ERE. Based on these conclusions, pertinent implications are put forward to inform the policymakers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51021,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Economics","volume":"230 ","pages":"Article 108496"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143159378","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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Labour-saving heuristics in green patents: A natural language processing analysis 绿色专利中的省力启发式：自然语言处理分析

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2024-12-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108497

Tommaso Rughi , Jacopo Staccioli , Maria Enrica Virgillito

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