Showing papers in "Ecological Economics in 2011"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors defend the proposal of sustainable degrowth, arguing that resource and CO2 limits render further growth of the economy unsustainable, and propose a full ensemble of environmental and redistributive policies, such as a basic income, reduction of working hours, environmental and consumption taxes and controls on advertising.

TL;DR: In this article, the impact of urbanization on CO2 emissions in developing countries from 1975 to 2003 is analyzed. And the authors show an inverted-U shaped relationship between urbanization and CO 2 emissions, which is in accordance with the higher environmental impact observed in less developed regions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the environmental effects of a free-floating car-sharing system operating in Ulm, Germany, which allows users to take and leave vehicles at any point within the city limits.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the innovation effects of environmental policy instruments in four literatures: theoretical models on incentives for eco-innovation, econometric studies based on observed data, survey analysis based on stated information and technology case studies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors made a global assessment of the green, blue and grey water footprint of rice, using a higher spatial resolution and local data on actual irrigation, and estimated the national water footprint using international trade and domestic production data.

TL;DR: In this paper, a co-evolutionary framework for analysing a transition to a sustainable low-carbon economy is proposed, based on the coevolution of ecosystems, technologies, institutions, business strategies and user practices within a multi-level micro-meso-macro perspective.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of external policy tools and internal firm specific factors for stimulating three different types of eco-innovations that range on a spectrum of lower to higher technological and environmental impacts: End-of-Pipeline Pollution Control Technologies, Integrated Cleaner Production Technologies and Environmental R&D.

TL;DR: In this article, a policy package is proposed which consists of six elements, some of which relate to concerns raised by degrowth supporters, including focusing ex ante on public policy, which ultimately is more likely to obtain the necessary democratic political support than an ex ante, explicit degrowth strategy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reflect on the reasons for the recent boom in MRIO compilation, summarise the current state of development and discuss future options for MRIO analysis and propose systemic and institutional changes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the difference in impacts between the European status quo and three simulated diet baskets, i.e., a pattern according to universal dietary recommendations, the same pattern with reduced meat consumption, and a 'Mediterranean' pattern, were estimated using the CAPRI partial equilibrium model.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors suggest that understanding the legitimacy of private governance initiatives requires a multi-dimensional approach based on three aspects: legality, moral justifications, and consent/acceptance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the occurrence of a decoupling between the growth rates in economic activity and CO2 emissions from energy consumption in Brazil from 2004 to 2009 and found that the carbon intensity and energy mix are the main determinants of emissions reduction in Brazil between 2004 and 2009.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conceptualize accountability and legitimacy in earth system governance, and place these issues within the larger context of earth system transformation, which, they argue, poses special challenges to the pursuit of accountability.

TL;DR: The authors provided written reviews of several studies purporting to estimate the economic impact of gas extraction from deep underground shale rock formations, concluding that the economic impacts estimated in these reports are very likely overstated.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the impact of the European Emission Trading System (EU ETS) on research, development and demonstration (RD&D), adoption, and organizational change.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of moral and social concerns in farmers' decision to adopt integrated crop protection (IP) and organic farming (OF) was investigated empirically, and a survey questionnaire was sent to 1286 fruit-growers and vegetable producers located in the French areas of Alpes de Haute Provence, Hautes-Alpes and Vaucluse.

TL;DR: A multi-criteria framework based on fuzzy entropy and fuzzy multi-attribute utility (FMAUT) is proposed in order to evaluate and compare the company performances in terms of sustainable supply chain.

TL;DR: In this article, a choice experiment was conducted concerning 444 Danish farmers' preferences for subsidy schemes for pesticide-free buffer zones, and a random parameter logit framework was used to capture heterogeneity among farmers.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use the idea of a deliberative system to analyse, evaluate, and provide prescriptions for the global governance of climate change, using the performance and history of states to identify the elements that a well functioning ecological democracy should strive for.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effects of environmental performance on financial performance using the data of Japanese manufacturing firms from 2004 to 2008 and found that greenhouse gas reduction leads to an increase in financial performance in the whole sample and clean industries, although it does not have significant effects on financial performances in dirty industries.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted a household survey of coffee producers in Nicaragua and found that certified smallholder coffee producers are more often found below the absolute poverty line than conventional producers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employ the Malmquist-Luenberger (ML) productivity index to evaluate China's growth in total factor productivity (TFP), incorporating undesirable outputs, during the period from 1989 to 2008.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the individual effects on adoption between the groups by the use of multinomial logit analysis and find that early adopters were the youngest to adopt organic farming and their decisions were less profit related compared to other groups.

TL;DR: In this article, a stepwise distribution of emissions embodied in trade (SWD-EET) method is proposed to reveal how the emissions in trade are absorbed by a country's final demands through a series of allocation steps.

TL;DR: In this paper, a nationally representative survey conducted in the summer of 2010 of 430 individuals living in Ireland, derived dependent variables (based on a factor analysis of respondents mean ratings of 47 landscape images) representing five different landscape categories.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the income from non-timber forest products and the dependency on these of different socio-economic groups in Northern Benin using survey data from 230 households of two villages.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a method that allows to clearly link consumption patterns to the origin of primary products, which can help to provide information about consumption related, distant environmental impacts.

TL;DR: It is shown that two existing valuation methods, previously thought to be unrelated, are each a special case of a more general equation, and a new method is presented, termed attributable net income, for valuing insect pollination of crops.

TL;DR: This article found no evidence of social desirability bias in the interview setting or satisficing (shortcutting the response process) in the Internet survey and the share of “don't knows, zeros and protest responses to the WTP question with a payment card is very similar between modes and equality of mean WTP cannot be rejected.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the effect of environmental regulation on investment in manufacturing, focusing on European data of manufacturing industries between 1998 and 2007 and estimating the differential impact of environmental stringency on four types of investment: gross investment in tangible goods, new buildings, in machinery, and in productive investment.