Showing papers in "Ecological Economics in 2013"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors synthesize knowledge and methods to classify and value ecosystem services for urban planning and identify analytical challenges for valuation to inform urban planning in the face of high heterogeneity and fragmentation characterizing urban ecosystems.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the growth and scientific impact of transdisciplinary sustainability research, the methods used and how three key characteristics of transdisciplinarity research (process phases, knowledge types and the intensity of involvement of practitioners) are implemented.

TL;DR: In this article, the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) has been used as an economic welfare indicator for 17 countries for which GPI has been estimated over the 1950-2003 time period.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the drivers of different types of eco-innovation in European SMEs and find that those entrepreneurs who give importance to collaboration with research institutes, agencies and universities, and to the increase of market demand for green products are more active in all types of Eco-innovations.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of recent findings on urban common property systems and relevant literature is presented, where the authors discuss the potential of urban green commons (UGCs) to manage cultural and biological diversity in cities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss lessons for food security from historic and prehistoric cities and discuss the importance of food security as a key resilience facet for people living in cities, and the Chicago school of urban soc...

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use input-output analysis to include indirect virtual water flows and find that the structure of global virtual water networks changes significantly after adjusting for water scarcity, which is a growing problem in virtual water trade.

TL;DR: In this paper, a systematic analysis of the ethical implications associated with the ESS concept is presented, and the authors highlight the dangers that some uses of the concept have in obscuring certain types of value and masking unevenness in the distribution of costs and benefits that can arise in the management of ESS.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the importance of robust planning for green infrastructure in fast changing Southern African cities and explore green infrastructure through pairing insights of social-ecological resilience with perspectives on urban infrastructure transitions.

TL;DR: The authors propose a reformulation of the question into "When and how to value with money?" and "under what conditions?" and recommend four criteria for a sound choice: environmental improvement, distributive justice and equality, maintenance of plural value-articulating institutions, and confronting commodification under neo-liberalism.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between household characteristics and household CO2 emissions for areas such as home energy, transport and indirect emissions and found that these associations vary considerably across emission domains, suggesting that they may be less affected by carbon taxes on transport or total emissions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed 80 papers appearing in peer-reviewed journals from 1991 to 2012 in this application area, focusing on the developments with regard to the IDA approaches used by researchers, and the scope and focus of their studies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a multinomial endogenous switching regression model of farmers' choice of combination of sustainable agricultural practices and impacts on maize income and agrochemicals and family labor use in rural Ethiopia.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present new empirical evidence from the first international study of the scope and character of community currencies, identifying the diversity, scale, geography and development trajectory of these initiatives, discusses the implications of these findings for efforts to achieve sustainable development, and identifies future research needs, to help harness the sustainability potential of the initiatives.

TL;DR: This review combines theoretical insights from sustainable livelihoods analysis with other analytical frameworks (including the ecosystem services framework, diffusion theory, social learning, adaptive management and transitions management) to assess the vulnerability of rural livelihoods to climate change.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the value of residential ecosystems for biodiversity conservation and explore the social and ecological factors that influence wildlife-friendly gardening management in the UK city of Leeds.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of government spending on the environment using a panel of 77 countries for the time period 1980-2000 and found that government spending has a negative direct impact on per capita emissions, while the direct effect is insignificant on CO2 pollution.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the relationship between air quality and subjective well-being in Europe and found a robust negative impact of SO2 concentrations on self-reported life satisfaction.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the traditional I-O model to estimate the CO2 emissions embodied in China's exports and showed that the choice of export assumption has more impact on the decomposition results for processing exports.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the decisions of Irish farmers to convert to organic farming by applying the theory of planned behaviour to control for social influence and technical constraints, and found that policy incentives mainly based on subsidy payments may be insufficient to increase the organic sector in the presence of social and technical barriers.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the issue of distance of transportation and its' impact on consumer preferences and investigate how consumers' willingness to pay (WTP) for food varies with the distance the food traveled.

TL;DR: This article used Wordle, a web-based data visualization tool, to generate a "tag cloud" of the common elements in over one hundred previously-published definitions of sustainable development.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the role of social influence in the formation of consumer perceptions and preferences for pro-environmental technologies, using the example of battery electric vehicles (BEVs).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an analytical model of the indirect rebound effect, given a direct rebound estimate, that integrates consumer demand theory with the embodied energy of household spending from environmentally-extended input-output analysis.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an empirical investigation of socio-economic resilience to natural disasters in a tropical cyclone-prone coastal community in Bangladesh and find that the cyclone in question had negative impacts on the community, particularly in terms of income, employment and access to clean water and sanitation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose the use of the ecosystem service framework in combination with the merging of the concept of ecology in cities, mainly focusing on designing energy efficient building, sustainable logistics and providing inhabitants with healthy and functioning green urban environments.

TL;DR: In this paper, two possible adaptation scenarios to climate change for Sub-Saharan Africa are analyzed under the SRES B2 scenario, and two adaptation scenarios are analyzed with IMPACT, a partial equilibrium agricultural sector model combined with a water simulation module and with GTAP-W, a general equilibrium model including water resources.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors synthesize the growing empirical literature on transaction costs to identify pragmatic design recommendations for environmental and natural resource policies, and highlight the importance of property rights since transaction costs will be incurred to obtain or retain property rights and since the rights assignment may affect both the magnitude and distribution of costs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the studies that have tried to estimate the value of forest ecosystem services and discuss the shortcomings of existing studies, and suggest that future research should focus on the neglected ecosystem services, "disservices", assessing the role of dynamic factors and environmental catastrophes on the provision of ecosystem services.

TL;DR: The relationship with nature proposed by the ecological economics movement has the potential to be far reaching as mentioned in this paper, and the implications go far beyond pragmatic use of magic numbers to convince politicians and the public that ecology still has something relevant to say in the 21st Century.