Showing papers in "Ecological Economics in 2009"

TL;DR: The concept of ecosystem services has become an important model for linking the functioning of ecosystems to human welfare Understanding this link is critical for a wide-range of decision-making contexts.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assessed the economic consequences of pollinator decline by measuring the contribution of insect pollination to the world agricultural output economic value, and the vulnerability of world agriculture in the face of the decline of pollinators.

TL;DR: This article investigated the existence and direction of Granger causality between economic growth, energy consumption, and carbon emissions in China, applying a multivariate model of economic growth and energy use, carbon emissions, capital and urban population.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an in-depth review of the most recent multi-region input-output models used for the purpose of consumption-based environmental accounting and conclude that further research is mainly needed in two areas, improving data availability and quality and improving the accuracy of MRIO modelling.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an assessment of the global use of materials since the beginning of the 20th century based on the conceptual and methodological principles of material flow accounting (MFA).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the long run Granger causality relationship between economic growth, carbon dioxide emissions and energy consumption in Turkey, controlling for gross fixed capital formation and labor.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce the practice theory approach in relation to studies of everyday life, domestic practices and consumption, and argue that this approach can be fruitful for ecological economics and other fields interested in the environmental aspects of consumption.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented a community values mapping method based on the concept of natural capital and ecosystem services and the landscape values methodology to link local perception of place to a broader measure of environmental values at the landscape level.

TL;DR: In this article, a socio-economically disaggregated framework for attributing CO2 emissions to people's high level functional needs is presented, based on a quasi-multi-regional input-output (QMRIO) model.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the water footprint of different primary energy carriers derived from biomass expressed as the amount of water consumed to produce a unit of energy (m3/GJ).

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of research contributions on forest management and planning using multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) based on an exhaustive literature survey is provided, focusing on the application aspects highlighting theoretical underpinnings and controversies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of regulation and customer benefit on EP-innovation is analyzed with logit regression and the results clearly show that both customer benefit and regulation play a key role for EP innovation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors found that groups with a high proportion of women in their executive committee (EC) showed significantly greater improvements in forest condition in both India and Nepal, and that all-women ECs in the Nepal sample had better forest regeneration and canopy growth than other groups, despite receiving much smaller and more degraded forests.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the factors influencing the European perceptions regarding the fact that "fish caught using an environmentally friendly technique may carry a special label" and show a significant connection between the desire for eco-labeling and seafood features.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of customer benefit and regulation on environmental product innovation is analyzed with logit regression and the results clearly show that both customer benefits and regulation play a key role for EP-innovation.

TL;DR: In this article, an integrated conceptual framework which takes into account the interplay between relevant variables influencing environmental technological change (i.e., factors internal and external to the firm and characteristics of the environmental technologies) and all the stages of this process, with a greater emphasis on the invention stage, was developed.

TL;DR: In this paper, a multi-dimensional framework for understanding the development and effectiveness of PES schemes, framed around the notions of institutional design, performance and interplay, is proposed.

TL;DR: In this article, the willingness of homeowners in the Netherlands to undertake measures that mitigate flood damage in exchange for benefits on hypothetical flood insurance policies is examined using surveys, and the results indicate that many homeowners are willing to make investments in mitigation.

TL;DR: The water footprint concept introduced in 2002 is an analogue of the ecological footprint concept originating from the 1990s as mentioned in this paper, where the water footprint represents the freshwater volume (cubic metres per year) required.

TL;DR: The authors explored the determinants of CO2 emissions in China using aggregate data for more than half a century and found that CO2 emission in China is negatively related to research intensity, technology transfer and the absorptive capacity of the economy to assimilate foreign technology.

TL;DR: In this paper, a meta-analysis of studies using the Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) to value threatened, endangered and rare species published in this journal by Loomis and White.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine forest income among rural dwellers in one of Malawi's most densely populated districts, Chiradzulu, and reveal that people with better access to the forest reserve have higher total income, forest income, and relative forest income.

TL;DR: The authors empirically test existing theories on the provision of public goods, in particular air quality, using data on sulfur dioxide (SO2) concentrations from the Global Environment Monitoring Projects for 107 cities in 42 countries from 1971 to 1996.

TL;DR: For example, this article found that perceived and measured air pollution levels are significantly negatively associated with the LS of the survey respondents, even when controlling for a wide range of other effects.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the impact of several economic, environmental and social determinants for the per capita demand for water in about 600 water supply areas in Germany and found that household size and the share of wells have a negative impact on per capita water demand and water use increases with age.

TL;DR: The authors found no empirical evidence of an EKC relationship between the ecological footprint (EF) and economic development, and only limited support for such a relationship among the components of the EF.

TL;DR: In this article, an updated reference of the eco-efficiency of New Zealand dairy farms is presented to analyse the implications of intensification on their eco-efficiencies in terms of milk production and land use.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper presented a decomposition analysis of energy-related CO2 emission in China for the period 1991-2006 divided into three equal time intervals, and the complete decomposition method developed by Sun is used to analyze the nature of the four factors: CO2 intensity, energy intensity, structural changes and economic activity.

TL;DR: This paper presents the strategy for a large EU-funded Integrated Project: EXIOPOL ("A New Environmental Accounting Framework Using Externality Data and Input-Output Tools for Policy Analysis"), with special attention for its part in environmentally extended (EE) input-output (IO) analysis.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on a set of issues when choosing between methods for environmental appraisal and propose a general framework for evaluating appraisal methods, which is elaborated in more detail as a basis for deciding over the choices of methods in the case of evaluating ecosystem services.