Showing papers in "Ecological Economics in 2018"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define the concept of circular economy from the perspective of WCED sustainable development and sustainability science, and conduct a critical analysis of the concept from a perspective of environmental sustainability, identifying six challenges, for example those of thermodynamics and system boundaries, that need to be resolved for CE to contribute to global net sustainability.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the first large-N-study on circular economy barriers in the EU (208 survey respondents, 47 expert interviews) and find that cultural barriers, particularly a lack of consumer interest and awareness as well as a hesitant company culture, are considered the main barriers by businesses and policy-makers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the eco-innovation pathway towards a circular economy, and try to coordinate available but fragmented findings regarding how "transformative innovation" can foster this transition while removing obstacles to sustainability.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of climate change on financial stability and the financial and global warming implications of a green QE program were analyzed using a stock-flow-fund ecological macroeconomic model.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the factors that influence farmers' decision-making in adopting climate change adaptation strategies and how these adaptations impact on farm yields and found that the adaptation strategies employed by farmers significantly increase rice yields.

TL;DR: In this article, a systematic review of the existing empirical evidence on non-price interventions targeting energy conservation behavior of private households is presented, where four nudge-like interventions referred to as social comparison, commitment devices, goal setting, and labeling are analyzed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of continuous and discontinuous urban expansion as a driver of high-quality soil consumption has been investigated in 66 southern European metropolitan regions in Portugal, Spanish, French, Italian and Greek cities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship between disaster risk, poverty, and the associated vulnerability of households and communities in Sri Lanka and found that low income households that depend fully on natural resources for their livelihood are exposed to more frequent disasters and most vulnerable to financial losses incurred through floods and droughts.

TL;DR: In this article, a hierarchical cluster analysis based on a sample of 52 food sharing cases was carried out, and the authors suggest that food bank seems to be replicated online in the same way in the online context (the sharing for charity) but changes towards a more profit oriented approach (the "sharing for money" model).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed the EIRIN flow-of-funds behavioural model to simulate the introduction of green fiscal policies and green sovereign bonds, and display their effects on firms' investments in the brown and green sector, on unemployment, on the credit and bonds market.

TL;DR: Based on existing measures, indicators for both circularity and longevity that focus on the contribution that organisations and other resource users make to the sustainability of resource use are developed and further developed.

TL;DR: The 2015 Paris Agreement adopted the goal of limiting the rise in global mean temperature to 1.5 to 2°C above pre-industrial levels as discussed by the authors, and carbon pricing can play a key role in meeting this objective.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how performing a variety of pro-environmental behaviors (PEBs) predicted life satisfaction and found that more frequent engagement in PEBs was associated with higher life satisfaction.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Dystopian Schumpeter meeting Keynes (DSK) model is used to model climate damages at individual level as stochastic shocks hitting workers' labour productivity, energy efficiency, capital stock and inventories of firms.

TL;DR: In this paper, a formal definition of blue water grabbing based on biophysical conditions (water scarcity) and ethical implications (human right to food) is proposed, where blue water grabs are appropriations of irrigation (i.e., blue) water in regions affected by undernourishment and where agricultural production is constrained by blue water availability.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the role of consumer trust in consumer intention to buy products with integrated pest management standards, based on face-to-face interviews in a large European city.

TL;DR: This study estimates production frontiers empirically, and compares the ES relationships insights gained this way with those inferred from correlation approaches, and concludes that production frontier was the most sensitive method for detecting ES relationships.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the macroeconomic consequences of the continued expansion of particular forms of intensive, modern agriculture, with a focus on how the loss of biodiversity affects food production, and show that even small effects of agricultural expansion on productivity via biodiversity loss might be sufficient to warrant a moratorium on further land conversion.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare financial performance of investment portfolios with and without fossil fuel company stocks over the period 1927-2016 and find that fossil fuel divestment does not seem to impair portfolio performance.

TL;DR: A survey of the existing evidence revealed that this price discount lies anywhere between − −75.5% to a + 61.0% price premium as mentioned in this paper, and this finding is however likely to be caused by a high correlation between omitted coastal amenities and flood risk.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated how to foster a sustainability transition of the energy system towards an economically and ecologically sustainable growth path by using an enriched version of the Eurace model.

TL;DR: The authors analyzed the relationship between firms' Corporate Social Responsibility activities and their economic performance, taking into account seven macro-categories of corporate social responsibility (CSR), six market-based and accounting-based performance indicators and by disaggregating for the firms' sector of activity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the density effect of cities saves some greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Germany, but singularisation of households, higher incomes and greater consumption opportunities in cities work in the opposite direction.

TL;DR: It is proposed that provisioning and regulating services are transitioning out of boundary object status, moving into a more standardized state, and it is anticipated that cultural services may continue to behave as boundary objects if collaborators maintain them as such.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that most studies on the sustainability of these certifications take the objectives of voluntary standard-setting and certifying arrangements as the reference point, thereby implicitly accepting a problem definition that is not necessarily aligned with the needs, interests and preferences of the smallholder producers in a developing context.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of air pollution and green coverage on people's subjective well-being (SWB) in China using self-reported life satisfaction (LS) from survey data combined with the city-level air quality index (AQI) and Green coverage data.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify four prerequisites for socioeconomic paradigm shifts: deep crisis, an alternative political project, a comprehensive coalition of social forces promoting the project in political struggles, and broad-based consent.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper identified ES bundles (ESBs), which closely link ES trade-offs and synergies, provide a comprehensive approach to explore the relationship between natural ecosystems and human well-being.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a methodology based on financial networks, which allows for analyzing the transmission throughout the economy of positive or negative shocks induced by the introduction of specific climate policies.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore if, and how individual mindfulness is correlated with climate adaptation at different scales, and find that individual mindfulness coincides with higher motivation to take climate adaptation actions or to support them, especially actions that are other-focused or support pro-environmental behaviour.