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

IF 6.6 2区经济学

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?

IF 6.6 2区经济学

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

IF 6.6 2区经济学

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

IF 6.6 2区经济学

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

IF 6.6 2区经济学

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

{"title":"From pastures to plates: The thorny path to achieving deforestation-free cattle from Brazil to European consumers","authors":"Matías Vaccarezza Sevilla , Gino Pedreira Lucchese , Torsten Krause , Gisele Garcia Alarcon","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108524","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108524","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The EU regulation on Deforestation-Free Products (EUDR) enacted in 2023 aims to reduce deforestation connected to commodities imported to the EU, including cattle products. In Brazil, the EUDR pressures the local cattle supply chain towards more sustainable production. However, the potential effects of the EUDR on reducing deforestation in this sector are unclear and require scrutiny. Drawing on the concept of Telecoupling, we investigate the challenges and potential impacts of implementing the EUDR in the Brazilian cattle supply chain. We interviewed 19 Brazilian stakeholders representing the private sector, NGOs, investigative journals, banks, and governmental institutions through semi-structured questionnaires complemented with secondary data analysis. Our findings reveal the extent to which historical challenges, such as the lack of law enforcement and low productivity persist, and the possible spillover effects, including market and production leakages. Additionally, the study shows how the EUDR may lead to potential negative impacts for small-scale ranchers. We highlight the need to implement a transparent and integrated public birth-to-slaughter traceability system for cattle in Brazil to guarantee the EUDR's effectiveness. If European and Brazilian governments, cattle producers, and meatpacking companies are not able to address these issues, EUDR's objective to reduce deforestation will be difficult to achieve.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51021,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Economics","volume":"230 ","pages":"Article 108524"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142989202","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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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

IF 6.6 2区经济学

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

IF 6.6 2区经济学

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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