Pub Date : 2025-03-22DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108602
Andrew R. Tilman, Robert G. Haight
Urban forests provide ecosystem services that are public goods with local (shade) to global (carbon sequestration) benefits and occur on both public and private lands. Thus, incentives for private tree owners to invest in tree care may fall short of those of a public forest manager aiming to optimize ecosystem service benefits for society. The management of a forest pest provides a salient focus area because pests threaten public goods provision and pest management generates feedback that mitigates future risks to forests. We use a game theoretic model to determine optimal pest treatment subsidies for a focal privately owned tree and use an optimization approach to guide targeted public treatment of a representative public tree. We find that optimal public subsidies for private tree treatment depend on assessed tree health and on the prevalence of the pest in the community, considerations absent from many existing programs. Next, by applying our pest treatment policies to a community-scale model of emerald ash borer forest pest dynamics, we predict ash mortality under a range of treatment scenarios over a 50-year time horizon. Our results highlight how designing policies that consider the public goods benefits of private actions can contribute to sustainable land management.
{"title":"Public policy for management of forest pests within an ownership mosaic","authors":"Andrew R. Tilman, Robert G. Haight","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108602","url":null,"abstract":"Urban forests provide ecosystem services that are public goods with local (shade) to global (carbon sequestration) benefits and occur on both public and private lands. Thus, incentives for private tree owners to invest in tree care may fall short of those of a public forest manager aiming to optimize ecosystem service benefits for society. The management of a forest pest provides a salient focus area because pests threaten public goods provision and pest management generates feedback that mitigates future risks to forests. We use a game theoretic model to determine optimal pest treatment subsidies for a focal privately owned tree and use an optimization approach to guide targeted public treatment of a representative public tree. We find that optimal public subsidies for private tree treatment depend on assessed tree health and on the prevalence of the pest in the community, considerations absent from many existing programs. Next, by applying our pest treatment policies to a community-scale model of emerald ash borer forest pest dynamics, we predict ash mortality under a range of treatment scenarios over a 50-year time horizon. Our results highlight how designing policies that consider the public goods benefits of private actions can contribute to sustainable land management.","PeriodicalId":51021,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Economics","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143675652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The expansion of conservation tillage helps to improve soil health in countries affected by the soil erosion, such as the Republic of Moldova. The main objective of this paper was to investigate Moldovan farmers' preferences for the hypothetical policy scheme designed to promote conservation tillage in the framework of a discrete choice experiment. The heterogeneity of farmers' preferences was explained using the latent concept of a sense of intergenerational commitments (IC) via a hybrid choice model. We found that farmers are reluctant to adopt more advanced forms of conservation tillage (such as zero tillage) and prefer to choose minimum tillage. They positively value financial support (both direct payments and investment subsidies), while the availability of advisory support is not the key factor. We also found that farmers with greater sense of IC have less negative attitudes towards zero tillage and put less positive value on monetary aspects. It seems that these farmers are more driven by moral obligations to society and are less dependent on external support. Policy makers should continue to develop financial incentives to promote conservation agriculture practices but they should also be aware of the important role of farmers and agricultural policy from a social justice perspective.
{"title":"Does a sense of intergenerational commitments modify farmers' preferences for conservation tillage? Evidence from the choice experiment in Moldova","authors":"Łukasz Kryszak, Bazyli Czyżewski, Agnieszka Sapa, Eugenia Lucasenco","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108606","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108606","url":null,"abstract":"The expansion of conservation tillage helps to improve soil health in countries affected by the soil erosion, such as the Republic of Moldova. The main objective of this paper was to investigate Moldovan farmers' preferences for the hypothetical policy scheme designed to promote conservation tillage in the framework of a discrete choice experiment. The heterogeneity of farmers' preferences was explained using the latent concept of a sense of intergenerational commitments (IC) via a hybrid choice model. We found that farmers are reluctant to adopt more advanced forms of conservation tillage (such as zero tillage) and prefer to choose minimum tillage. They positively value financial support (both direct payments and investment subsidies), while the availability of advisory support is not the key factor. We also found that farmers with greater sense of IC have less negative attitudes towards zero tillage and put less positive value on monetary aspects. It seems that these farmers are more driven by moral obligations to society and are less dependent on external support. Policy makers should continue to develop financial incentives to promote conservation agriculture practices but they should also be aware of the important role of farmers and agricultural policy from a social justice perspective.","PeriodicalId":51021,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Economics","volume":"101 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143675654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-03-21DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108604
Felipe Vásquez-Lavín, Mauricio Leiva, Nelyda Campos-Requena
This study extends Alpízar's (2006) price discrimination model for protected areas in nature-based tourism from a continuous demand to a discrete choice model. The original model provided a discrimination price solution for national and foreign visitors to a single site choice, limiting the model's application. Meanwhile, our extended model recognizes multiple recreational site options, each with a probability of being selected, including the likelihood of not choosing any site. We illustrate our theoretical model to evaluate the optimal pricing for national and foreign visitors using Peru's two National Protected Areas. The results indicate a significant revenue increase when both sites' entrance fees are optimized. The discrete choice approach, with its flexibility, captures substitution patterns among recreational sites, increasing the realism of the tool for policymakers and park managers. Our model can enhance sustainable nature-based tourism management by aligning discriminatory entrance fees with economic theory to ensure protected areas' long-term viability.
{"title":"Optimal pricing of protected areas under multiple sites demand models","authors":"Felipe Vásquez-Lavín, Mauricio Leiva, Nelyda Campos-Requena","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108604","url":null,"abstract":"This study extends Alpízar's (2006) price discrimination model for protected areas in nature-based tourism from a continuous demand to a discrete choice model. The original model provided a discrimination price solution for national and foreign visitors to a single site choice, limiting the model's application. Meanwhile, our extended model recognizes multiple recreational site options, each with a probability of being selected, including the likelihood of not choosing any site. We illustrate our theoretical model to evaluate the optimal pricing for national and foreign visitors using Peru's two National Protected Areas. The results indicate a significant revenue increase when both sites' entrance fees are optimized. The discrete choice approach, with its flexibility, captures substitution patterns among recreational sites, increasing the realism of the tool for policymakers and park managers. Our model can enhance sustainable nature-based tourism management by aligning discriminatory entrance fees with economic theory to ensure protected areas' long-term viability.","PeriodicalId":51021,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Economics","volume":"2020 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143675655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-03-20DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108587
Christian Calvillo, Antonios Katris, Julia Race, Hannah Corbett, Karen Turner
The decarbonisation of UK industrial clusters via CCUS can support jobs and gross value-added (GVA). However, worker and skills shortages have been identified as a common challenge across UK clusters, and the net zero space, with average wage rates increasing as different sectors compete for a limited pool of labour. This paper employs multi-sector economy-wide CGE scenario simulations and linked regional mapping to examine how constrained labour market responses can affect potential outcomes of investing and deploying the CO2 transport and storage element of CCUS networks in UK industry clusters. The analysis concentrates on the location and nature of labour demand and wage cost-driven jobs displacement. Findings suggest transitory annual peaks of over 11,000 jobs in the construction sector set against job displacement peaks of around 5200 concentrated in sectors such as retail, services and hospitality. Regional mapping suggests that southern regions may be particularly affected by displacement effects, given the concentration of service sectors set against less direct benefit from the introduction of CO2 transport and storage (T&S) sector activity. Overall, the key finding is that net economy-wide gains are constrained by congestion of investment activity even with the relatively small scale of investment in T&S capacity and associated competition for resources.
{"title":"Regional employment implications of deploying CO2 transport and storage to decarbonise the UK's industry clusters","authors":"Christian Calvillo, Antonios Katris, Julia Race, Hannah Corbett, Karen Turner","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108587","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108587","url":null,"abstract":"The decarbonisation of UK industrial clusters via CCUS can support jobs and gross value-added (GVA). However, worker and skills shortages have been identified as a common challenge across UK clusters, and the net zero space, with average wage rates increasing as different sectors compete for a limited pool of labour. This paper employs multi-sector economy-wide CGE scenario simulations and linked regional mapping to examine how constrained labour market responses can affect potential outcomes of investing and deploying the CO<ce:inf loc=\"post\">2</ce:inf> transport and storage element of CCUS networks in UK industry clusters. The analysis concentrates on the location and nature of labour demand and wage cost-driven jobs displacement. Findings suggest transitory annual peaks of over 11,000 jobs in the construction sector set against job displacement peaks of around 5200 concentrated in sectors such as retail, services and hospitality. Regional mapping suggests that southern regions may be particularly affected by displacement effects, given the concentration of service sectors set against less direct benefit from the introduction of CO<ce:inf loc=\"post\">2</ce:inf> transport and storage (T&S) sector activity. Overall, the key finding is that net economy-wide gains are constrained by congestion of investment activity even with the relatively small scale of investment in T&S capacity and associated competition for resources.","PeriodicalId":51021,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Economics","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143675657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-03-18DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108577
Nicola Campigotto, Chiara Gioia, Matteo Ploner
This paper investigates the behavioural drivers of voluntary carbon offsets, which allow individuals to reduce their emissions by funding environmental and energy projects. Despite the growth of the voluntary carbon market, the factors influencing these decisions remain under-researched. This study uses two incentivized online experiments to examine the role of information salience and information avoidance as determinants of offsetting behaviour. The results indicate that: (i) when carbon emissions are more saliently linked to consumption activities, contributions to offset programmes increase; (ii) individuals with a lower pro-environmental orientation tend to avoid information about their emissions, leading to lower contributions; and (iii) deliberate avoidance or pursuit of information can either reduce or increase contributions, respectively, compared to scenarios where information is either unavailable or provided by default.
{"title":"Salience and information avoidance in voluntary carbon offsetting decisions: Evidence from online experiments","authors":"Nicola Campigotto, Chiara Gioia, Matteo Ploner","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108577","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108577","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper investigates the behavioural drivers of voluntary carbon offsets, which allow individuals to reduce their emissions by funding environmental and energy projects. Despite the growth of the voluntary carbon market, the factors influencing these decisions remain under-researched. This study uses two incentivized online experiments to examine the role of information salience and information avoidance as determinants of offsetting behaviour. The results indicate that: (i) when carbon emissions are more saliently linked to consumption activities, contributions to offset programmes increase; (ii) individuals with a lower pro-environmental orientation tend to avoid information about their emissions, leading to lower contributions; and (iii) deliberate avoidance or pursuit of information can either reduce or increase contributions, respectively, compared to scenarios where information is either unavailable or provided by default.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51021,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Economics","volume":"233 ","pages":"Article 108577"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143645026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-03-18DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108603
Christian Bretter , Felix Schulz
Our understanding of public support for climate policies predominantly stems from studies in the Global North and a focus on isolated policy types. Here, we examine how public support for four different climate policy types and the effect of ideological explanatory variables on such support vary among countries of the Global North and Global South. We surveyed representative samples of each three Global Northern countries (Germany, UK, USA) and Global Southern countries (Brazil, China and South Africa) – among those the highest emitters on their respective continents, contributing to 49.3 % of global carbon emissions – resulting in a total sample of N = 11,964 individuals. While we found significant variations among countries, our results showed that public support across all policy types was stronger in the three Global Southern countries, compared to that of the three Global Northern countries. We also found that a positive association of trust in public institutions and a negative association of individualistic worldviews with policy support were stronger in Global Northern countries, compared to Global Southern countries, regardless of policy type. These findings suggest that ideologies play a more important role for policy support in the Global Northern countries, compared to the Global Southern countries.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-17DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108585
Michal Brzezinski, Monika Kaczan
This study investigates the distributional impacts of carbon taxes, traditionally examined through simulation studies on the regressivity of hypothetical tax scenarios. However, the dynamic influence of actually implemented carbon taxes on consumption/income poverty and inequality in a cross-country setting has been less scrutinised. This paper assesses the effect of carbon taxes introduced in the past three decades in 15 European countries on consumption shares of the lowest decile groups, poverty rates and inequality indices. The analysis shows that a $40/ton CO2 tax covering 30 % of emissions leads to a consumption share increase of up to 4 % for the bottom 20 % and 40 % of the population, a trend that persisted for five years post-implementation, particularly in nations that efficiently redistribute carbon tax revenues. This resulted in a modest reduction in consumption inequality over three years. In contrast, the impact of carbon taxes on income poverty and inequality is not statistically significant. These findings suggest that concerns about poverty and inequality due to carbon taxes can be mitigated by implementing a moderate tax combined with a strategically efficient revenue redistribution mechanism.
{"title":"Carbon taxes in Europe do not hurt the poor: Evidence from existing taxation schemes","authors":"Michal Brzezinski, Monika Kaczan","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108585","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108585","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates the distributional impacts of carbon taxes, traditionally examined through simulation studies on the regressivity of hypothetical tax scenarios. However, the dynamic influence of actually implemented carbon taxes on consumption/income poverty and inequality in a cross-country setting has been less scrutinised. This paper assesses the effect of carbon taxes introduced in the past three decades in 15 European countries on consumption shares of the lowest decile groups, poverty rates and inequality indices. The analysis shows that a $40/ton CO2 tax covering 30 % of emissions leads to a consumption share increase of up to 4 % for the bottom 20 % and 40 % of the population, a trend that persisted for five years post-implementation, particularly in nations that efficiently redistribute carbon tax revenues. This resulted in a modest reduction in consumption inequality over three years. In contrast, the impact of carbon taxes on income poverty and inequality is not statistically significant. These findings suggest that concerns about poverty and inequality due to carbon taxes can be mitigated by implementing a moderate tax combined with a strategically efficient revenue redistribution mechanism.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51021,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Economics","volume":"233 ","pages":"Article 108585"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143642193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-03-14DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108586
Jonathan Cognard , Lucas Berard-Chenu , Yves Schaeffer , Hugues François
Snowmaking is the primary adaptation of winter tourism to climate change and requires increased water use in winter. However, water withdrawals during this period coincide with the mountain low-flow period, which can potentially cause conflicts with other human uses and ecosystems. To address concerns about water availability, the number of reservoirs is increasing. Ski lift operators promote these reservoirs as environmentally beneficial under their ‘ecological engagement’ commitments, arguing that they reduce the impact of snowmaking by shifting some water withdrawals to periods outside the low-flow season. In theory, mountain reservoirs should therefore support both economic activity and environmental sustainability. Using econometric analysis of data from 35 ski resorts across nine seasons, we show that reservoirs significantly increase water withdrawals during the low-flow period. By employing maximum likelihood estimation of fixed-effects dynamic panel data models, we find that a 1 % increase in reservoir capacity leads to a 0.28 % short-term increase in low-flow withdrawals (0.4 % in the long term), ceteris paribus. These findings inform ongoing discussions to ensure that current socio-economic decisions do not lead to future water use conflicts in mountain socio-ecological systems.
{"title":"Snowmaking's slippery slope: The effect of mountain reservoirs on water demand","authors":"Jonathan Cognard , Lucas Berard-Chenu , Yves Schaeffer , Hugues François","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108586","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108586","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Snowmaking is the primary adaptation of winter tourism to climate change and requires increased water use in winter. However, water withdrawals during this period coincide with the mountain low-flow period, which can potentially cause conflicts with other human uses and ecosystems. To address concerns about water availability, the number of reservoirs is increasing. Ski lift operators promote these reservoirs as environmentally beneficial under their ‘ecological engagement’ commitments, arguing that they reduce the impact of snowmaking by shifting some water withdrawals to periods outside the low-flow season. In theory, mountain reservoirs should therefore support both economic activity and environmental sustainability. Using econometric analysis of data from 35 ski resorts across nine seasons, we show that reservoirs significantly increase water withdrawals during the low-flow period. By employing maximum likelihood estimation of fixed-effects dynamic panel data models, we find that a 1 % increase in reservoir capacity leads to a 0.28 % short-term increase in low-flow withdrawals (0.4 % in the long term), ceteris paribus. These findings inform ongoing discussions to ensure that current socio-economic decisions do not lead to future water use conflicts in mountain socio-ecological systems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51021,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Economics","volume":"233 ","pages":"Article 108586"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143620331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-03-14DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108584
Kira Lancker
A major problem for common pool resource regulation, such as fisheries management, is over-capitalization following investment irreversibility. Understanding theoretical implications of capital as an irreversible investment input better could help to avoid over-capitalization. This article analyzes the case where irreversibly invested capital can be substituted by flexibly adaptable inputs such as labor and fuel in a CES production function. Using Hamiltonian derivation and numerical simulation, I compare investment under open access and under a social planner case across different levels of factor substitutability. For reasonably large ranges of parameter values, initial over-capitalization is stronger for weaker substitution possibilities. This is caused by differential open access investment incentives, in particular due to faster initial reduction in biomass. Despite lower initial over-capitalization, better substitution possibilities may lead to a lower minimum biomass during transition, threatening biological sustainability. Policy-makers therefore should be aware of these twofold impacts.
{"title":"Over-capitalization in fisheries with irreversible investment and factor substitution","authors":"Kira Lancker","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108584","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108584","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A major problem for common pool resource regulation, such as fisheries management, is over-capitalization following investment irreversibility. Understanding theoretical implications of capital as an irreversible investment input better could help to avoid over-capitalization. This article analyzes the case where irreversibly invested capital can be substituted by flexibly adaptable inputs such as labor and fuel in a CES production function. Using Hamiltonian derivation and numerical simulation, I compare investment under open access and under a social planner case across different levels of factor substitutability. For reasonably large ranges of parameter values, initial over-capitalization is stronger for weaker substitution possibilities. This is caused by differential open access investment incentives, in particular due to faster initial reduction in biomass. Despite lower initial over-capitalization, better substitution possibilities may lead to a lower minimum biomass during transition, threatening biological sustainability. Policy-makers therefore should be aware of these twofold impacts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51021,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Economics","volume":"233 ","pages":"Article 108584"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143620334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-03-13DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108601
Brice Kamguia , Sosson Tadadjeu , Hermann Ndoya , Ronald Djeunankan
The literature on the effects of industrialization shows that it boosts productivity, creates jobs, enhances workforce skills, and contributes to social stability. However, its effects on inclusive green growth are quite rare in the literature. This study endeavors to fill this research gap by proposing one of the first empirical analyses, linking industrialization and inclusive green growth in a sample of 42 African countries over the period 2000–2020. This study also examines whether energy efficiency can generate a positive synergy with industrialization to foster inclusive green growth in Africa. To this end, we develop an innovative assessment framework to measure Africa's inclusive green growth, covering three dimensions: economic, social, and ecological sustainability. Empirical analysis shows that industrialization reduces inclusive green growth. In addition, energy efficiency has a positive effect on inclusive green growth. Interestingly, energy efficiency mitigates the negative effect of industrialization on inclusive green growth. Based on these results, some economic policy implications are discussed.
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