Showing papers in "Ecological Economics in 2014"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors quantify the scale and structure of virtual water trade and consumption-based water footprints at the provincial level in China based on a multi-regional input-output model.

TL;DR: This article reviewed the current state of research on ecosystem services, and examined whether the concept's original motivation has allowed it to act as an effective boundary object for the integration of the diverse knowledge related to sustainability.

TL;DR: In this paper, a human population dynamics model by adding accumulated wealth and economic inequality to a predator-prey model of humans and nature is proposed, and four equations describe the evolution of Elites, Commoners, Nature, and Wealth.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present results from an analysis of stakeholders' perceptions of ecosystem services, well-being and drivers of change in two semi-arid watersheds in south-eastern Spain.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors quantify the driving forces behind the growth of carbon dioxide emissions embodied in trade (EET), and suggest policy makers should monitor EET more carefully and take the effects of trade on emissions into consideration.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors estimate the combined direct and indirect rebound effects from various types of energy efficiency improvement and behavioural change by UK households and explore how these effects vary with total expenditure.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors synthesize available data on the importance of wild food as ecosystem service, its spatial distribution and relations between supply, demand and benefits in the European Union (EU), covering all terrestrial wild food groups.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use the resilience framework to interpret the project of transforming the German energy system into a renewable energy sources (RES)-based system, the so-called Energiewende, as a regime shift.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors suggest that promoting mindfulness practice in schools, workplaces and elsewhere could be construed as a policy that pays a double dividend in that it could contribute both to more sustainable ways of life and to greater well-being.

TL;DR: In this paper, a process analysis shows how use value attribution turns biophysical ecosystem functions into ecosystem service potentials which (except for final services) have to be mobilised to provide ecosystem services.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate two contrasting paradigms for the assessment of social values in non-monetary terms: an instrumental paradigm involving an objective assessment of the distribution, type and intensity of values that individuals assign to the current state of ecosystems and a deliberative paradigm involving the exploration of desired end states through group discussion.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate rice farmers' preferred adaptation strategies, perceived barriers, and policy implications for climate change in Bangladesh's agriculture, by employing data from 1800 Bangladeshi farm-households in eight drought-prone and groundwater-depleted districts of three climatic zones and logit models.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the impact of four main types of policy instruments in two high-emitting sectors and conclude that policy plays a key role for the development and diffusion of environmental innovation in the studied sectors.

TL;DR: The Environmentalism of the Poor was one of the first books examining in a multidisciplinary perspective three parallel environmental movements around the world as discussed by the authors, focusing on the increased visibility of struggles representing Environmental Justice and The Environmentalism Of the Poor.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used original survey data to analyze the factors influencing the decision to convert to organic agriculture and found that farmers who believe to act in accordance with their neighbors' expectations and with greater availability of information in their neighborhood network are more likely to adopt organic agriculture.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine whether individual behavior towards waste reduction is more strongly driven by extrinsic motivations such as social norms, or intrinsic motivations, such as purely altruistic preferences.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors test the steps required to transform a theoretical natural capital/ecosystem service framework for soils into an operational model, and demonstrate the importance of soil change in quantifying services, and goes beyond simply determining the status of soil natural capital.

TL;DR: In this paper, a choice experiment survey asked Scottish households for their willingness to pay for additional marine protected areas in the Scottish deep-sea and the experiment focused on the elicitation of economic values for two aspects of marine biodiversity: (i) the existence value for deep sea species and (ii) the option value of deep sea organisms as a source for future medicinal products.

TL;DR: In this paper, a map-based interview protocol was used to characterize what can be managed (ES and related activities), what matters (benefits) and why (values) in coastal communities in British Columbia.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the relationship between Finnish household types and their consumption-based carbon footprints by combining expenditure data with life-cycle greenhouse gas emission intensities derived from an environmentally extended input-output model.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the content of Buen vivir (good living) as an emergent discourse, reflecting on its genesis and contributions to the sustainability debate, as well as on incipient attempts at its institutionalization.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on farmers' perceptions of four different attributes towards 12 ecosystem services and find that farmers place a high value on the importance of all ecosystem services, whilst perceiving most of them to be moderately manageable.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored how the biophysical features of a specific area contribute towards the well-being of the people attached to it by performing open, single-question interviews with 262 respondents.

TL;DR: In this article, a meta-regression analysis is performed to further investigate the impact of different assumptions on the leakage ratio estimates, and the most robust statistical finding is that, all other parameters being constant, BCA reduces leakage ratio by 6 percentage points.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored preferences among the general public in Sweden for attributes related to the establishment of wind power farms and found that respondents are willing to pay a higher electricity fee corresponding to about 0.6 Euro cents per kWh to avoid wind farms located in the mountainous area and private ownership.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a structural equation model of happiness, as influenced by inter alia perceived risk due to (i) intensity of exposure to polluted air, and (ii) hazard of pollutants.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the economic and environmental impact of a Scottish specific carbon tax under three alternative assumptions about the use of the revenue raised by the tax: revenues raised are not recycled within Scotland; revenues are used to increase general government expenditure or to reduce Scottish income tax.

TL;DR: In this article, the defining characteristic of markets for ecosystem services is interaction through trade, and two main dimensions are identified as basis for classifying markets in ES: (i) markets with and without intermediaries, and (ii) markets for ES are created by defined liabilities like caps on emissions while other trades come about voluntarily.

TL;DR: This article analyzed 64 primary studies published in 2000-2013 on the macroeconomic impact of natural disasters by providing OLS and generalized ordered probit meta-analyses for 1858 and 1991 regressions, respectively.

TL;DR: The hybrid EE-MRIO approach provides more accurate results than the standard MRIO method since it applies data from additional sources on a more detailed level and ignores trade in services and other products as well as the upstream flows of products included in the analysis.