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Cosmological limits to growth, affective abundance, and Rights of Nature: Insights from Buen Vivir/sumak kawsay for the cultural politics of degrowth 增长的宇宙极限、情感丰富和自然权利：从 "美好生活"/"苏马克-卡瓦塞 "中获得的对 "脱增长 "文化政治的启示

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2024-11-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108442

Katharina Richter

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Climate change and the farmer-Pastoralist's violent conflict: Experimental evidence from Nigeria 气候变化与农牧民暴力冲突：尼日利亚的实验证据

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2024-11-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108449

Uchenna Efobi , Oluwabunmi Adejumo , Jiyoung Kim

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Community reconstruction of biocultural landscapes. Application in the Kokonuko Indigenous Territory 生物文化景观的社区重建。在科科努科土著领地的应用

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2024-11-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108447

Marta Montaño , Olga Sanabria , Oswaldo Quilindo , Alexander Urrego-Mesa , Enric Tello , Joan Marull

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Biodiversity disclosure in the European finance sector 欧洲金融业的生物多样性披露

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2024-11-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108430

Leyla Azizi , Christoph Scope , Anne Ladusch , Remmer Sassen

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The welfare properties of climate targets 气候目标的福利特性

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2024-11-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108424

Léo Coppens , Frank Venmans

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Extractivist valorization in industrial forestry in the Global North – Elements of an analytical framework and illustration for the cases of Finland and Alberta, Canada 全球北方工业化林业中的采掘业价值化--分析框架要素及芬兰和加拿大艾伯塔案例说明

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2024-11-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108444

Jana Rebecca Holz , Anna Saave

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Extending the Genuine Savings estimates with natural capital and poverty at the regional and national level in Italy 利用意大利地区和国家层面的自然资本和贫困问题扩展 "真正储蓄 "估算方法

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2024-11-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108433

Valentina Di Gennaro , Silvia Ferrini , Robert Kerry Turner

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Is pro-environmental effort affected by information about others’ behavior? 支持环保的努力是否会受到他人行为信息的影响？

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2024-11-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108437

Dominik Suri , Niklas Bongers , Sebastian Kube

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Animal welfare, moral consumers and the optimal regulation of animal food production 动物福利、道德消费者和动物食品生产的最优监管

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2024-11-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108434

Thomas Eichner , Marco Runkel

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Incorporating use values into ecosystem specific accounts: Recreational value generated by saltmarsh at a mixed ecosystem site 将使用价值纳入生态系统特定账户：一个混合生态系统地点的盐沼产生的娱乐价值

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Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2024-11-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108443

Geraldine Doolan, Stephen Hynes

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