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Who suffers the heat? Partial adaptation and persistent inequalities in France 谁在忍受高温？法国的部分适应和持续的不平等

IF 6.3 2区经济学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Ecological Economics

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108873

Camille Salesse

This paper examines the heterogeneous effects of extreme heat on mortality in France, highlighting disparities across population density, socio-economic characteristics, and time. Using a new monthly database of French municipalities from 1980 to 2019, I exploit year-to-year random variations in temperature to show that extreme heat significantly increases the mortality rate, especially for people aged 75 and over. The study also emphasizes the greater vulnerability of people living in densely populated cities due to structural challenges that amplify the impact of high temperatures. Socio-economic conditions also shape vulnerability, as low-income municipalities face a disproportionate impact, especially in rural areas. Indeed, the paper’s key contribution is to disentangle the effects of urban density and income on the heat–mortality relationship, showing that social inequalities in the effects of high temperatures are particularly pronounced in rural settings. The results also show a major reduction in the impact of heat following the extreme 2003 heatwave, partly due to the National Heatwave Plan implemented in response to this event.

本文考察了极端高温对法国死亡率的异质性影响，突出了人口密度、社会经济特征和时间的差异。我利用1980年至2019年法国各市新的月度数据库，利用气温的逐年随机变化，表明极端高温会显著增加死亡率，尤其是75岁及以上的人。该研究还强调，由于结构性挑战放大了高温的影响，生活在人口密集城市的人们更容易受到伤害。社会经济条件也会影响脆弱性，因为低收入城市面临着不成比例的影响，特别是在农村地区。事实上，这篇论文的关键贡献在于理清了城市密度和收入对热死亡率关系的影响，表明高温影响的社会不平等在农村地区尤为明显。研究结果还显示，2003年极端热浪之后，热浪的影响大大减少，部分原因是为应对这一事件而实施的国家热浪计划。

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Tailored information and the public support for carbon pricing in Germany 德国碳定价的定制信息和公众支持

IF 6.3 2区经济学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Ecological Economics

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108849

Antonia Schwarz , Anna Stünzi , Kathrin Kaestner , Michael Pahle , Stephan Sommer

Providing information about carbon pricing is widely considered to be key to increasing public support for it. A number of studies have analyzed such effects, but little attention has been paid to how changes to the design can enhance the effectiveness of information treatments. Typically, generic information with low affective appeal has been used. In contrast, this paper, drawing on recent research into the design of information provisions, employs a targeted and tailored approach to ensure high receptiveness. Utilizing novel German survey data, we examine whether video-based information tailored to individuals’ carbon pricing concerns outperforms generic information. Our results confirm that targeted and tailored information significantly increases support, primarily for respondents concerned about costs. However, the effect of tailored information concerning fairness and effectiveness is statistically not different from that of the generic control video. Nevertheless, it reduces strong opposition, providing valuable insights for policy acceptance. These findings suggest that integrating targeted communication strategies into climate policy design may help build broader policy tolerance and stability, though further research is needed to confirm their effectiveness beyond the specific context of this study.

提供有关碳定价的信息被广泛认为是增加公众支持的关键。许多研究已经分析了这种影响，但很少有人关注如何改变设计来提高信息处理的有效性。通常，使用的是情感吸引力较低的通用信息。相比之下，本文借鉴了最近对信息提供设计的研究，采用了有针对性和量身定制的方法来确保高接受度。利用新颖的德国调查数据，我们研究了针对个人碳定价问题定制的基于视频的信息是否优于一般信息。我们的研究结果证实，有针对性和量身定制的信息显著增加了支持，主要是针对关心成本的受访者。然而，关于公平性和有效性的定制信息的效果在统计上与通用控制视频没有区别。然而，它减少了强烈的反对，为政策的接受提供了有价值的见解。这些发现表明，将有针对性的传播策略整合到气候政策设计中可能有助于建立更广泛的政策容忍度和稳定性，尽管需要进一步的研究来证实其在本研究特定背景之外的有效性。

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Resource regimes and the success of local renewable energy projects 资源制度和地方可再生能源项目的成功

IF 6.3 2区经济学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Ecological Economics

Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108843

François-Xavier Viallon , Francesco Sarti , Pierre-Henri Bombenger , Frédéric Varone , Josef Philipp Trein , Marie-Joëlle Kodjovi , Jérôme Dubois , Yann Fournis , Pierre-Olivier Pineau

While national governments and parliaments adopt policies to speed up the development of renewable energies, the local implementation of renewable energy projects often faces economic, ecological, and social challenges. The existing literature primarily focuses on conditions which foster local acceptance and policy integration to explain the (non-)realization of renewable energy projects. In contrast, property rights have not yet been explicitly considered as conditions. This study applies the institutional resource regime approach to investigate the joint impact of property rights and public policies on the local implementation of renewable energy projects. Drawing on a comparison of twelve cases which encompass solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal energy projects in three countries, the results show the importance of property rights within the project area, and the insufficiency of public policies alone to facilitate successful renewable energy projects. More specifically, public landownership and revenue sharing increase the chances of project success, as this entails the involvement of local democratic institutions and supports the resilience of project promotors against political contestation.

在各国政府和议会采取政策加快可再生能源发展的同时，地方可再生能源项目的实施往往面临着经济、生态和社会方面的挑战。现有文献主要侧重于促进当地接受和政策整合的条件，以解释可再生能源项目的（不）实现。相比之下，产权尚未被明确视为条件。本研究运用制度资源制度方法，探讨产权和公共政策对地方实施可再生能源项目的共同影响。通过对三个国家的太阳能、风能、生物质能和地热能项目的12个案例进行比较，结果显示了项目区域内产权的重要性，以及仅靠公共政策不足以促进成功的可再生能源项目。更具体地说，公共土地所有权和收入分享增加了项目成功的机会，因为这需要地方民主机构的参与，并支持项目发起人对政治争论的复原力。

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The effectiveness of unilateral fishing ban in contested waters: Evidence from the South China Sea 争议水域单边禁渔的有效性：来自南中国海的证据

IF 6.3 2区经济学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Ecological Economics

Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108812

Yifei Quan

This study examines the effectiveness of China's unilateral fishing moratorium in the South China Sea, where unresolved sovereign rights disputes complicate policy enforcement and compliance. Using high-resolution vessel tracking data and causal inference techniques, I identify both intended and unintended impacts of this policy. The findings indicate that while domestic fishing effort within closed areas declines by 84% during the moratorium, regulated vessels' strategic reallocation of fishing activity before and after the ban, along with increased foreign fishing activity during the ban, offsets 60% of the intended conservation gain. Moreover, I find that policy effectiveness fluctuates with external political conditions, as higher compliance coincides with stricter law enforcement and heightened territorial disputes. These findings highlight the challenges of implementing sustainable fisheries management in the absence of clearly defined property rights.

本研究考察了中国在南中国海单方面休渔期的有效性，未解决的主权权利争端使政策的执行和遵守复杂化。使用高分辨率船舶跟踪数据和因果推理技术，我确定了该政策的预期和非预期影响。研究结果表明，虽然在禁令期间，封闭区域内的国内捕捞量下降了84%，但受管制船只在禁令前后对捕捞活动的战略性重新分配，以及禁令期间外国捕捞活动的增加，抵消了60%的预期保护收益。此外，我发现政策有效性随外部政治条件而波动，因为合规程度越高，执法越严格，领土争端也越严重。这些调查结果突出了在缺乏明确界定的产权的情况下实施可持续渔业管理的挑战。

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The grey shades of green jobs: Unpacking the occupational approach to green employment 绿色工作的灰色阴影：打开绿色就业的职业途径

IF 6.3 2区经济学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Ecological Economics

Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108833

Davide Villani, Enrique Fernández-Macías, Ignacio González-Vázquez, Vesna Oshafi

The green transition is expected to reshape labor markets, yet measuring its employment impact remains uncertain. This paper provides a detailed discussion of the occupational approach (derived from task-based measures) for estimating green employment, the most widespread framework among academics and institutions. First, we highlight the theoretical flaws of the occupational approach, noting that its reliance on occupational titles leads to false positives and excludes essential contributors to the green transition, resulting in false negatives. Second, we discuss the methodological problems of this approach, including inconsistent categorisations, outdated classifications, and the assumption that the content of occupations remains constant across time and countries. Third, we operationalise the occupational approach to measure green employment (using the O*NET framework), quantifying green employment in 24 European countries between 2011 and 2022. The analysis shows that, according to this approach, virtually no new green jobs were created in Europe in this period. Furthermore, we find no correlation between the presence of green jobs and several aggregate and sectoral environmental indicators. These findings reflect the theoretical and methodological flaws in the occupational approach, undermining its effectiveness in capturing the labour market impact of the green transition. Alternative measures of green employment focused on green economic outputs and processes should be considered.

绿色转型预计将重塑劳动力市场，但衡量其对就业的影响仍不确定。本文详细讨论了用于估计绿色就业的职业方法（源自基于任务的措施），这是学术界和机构中最广泛的框架。首先，我们强调了职业方法的理论缺陷，注意到它对职业头衔的依赖会导致误报，并排除了绿色转型的重要贡献者，从而导致误报。其次，我们讨论了这种方法的方法问题，包括不一致的分类，过时的分类，以及职业内容在不同时间和国家保持不变的假设。第三，我们运用职业方法来衡量绿色就业（使用O*NET框架），量化了2011年至2022年24个欧洲国家的绿色就业。分析表明，根据这种方法，这一时期欧洲几乎没有创造新的绿色就业机会。此外，我们发现绿色工作的存在与几个总体和部门环境指标之间没有相关性。这些发现反映了职业方法在理论和方法上的缺陷，削弱了其在捕捉绿色转型对劳动力市场影响方面的有效性。应考虑以绿色经济产出和过程为重点的绿色就业替代措施。

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Outsourcing decarbonization? How trade shaped France’s carbon footprint (2000–14) 外包脱碳吗?贸易如何影响法国的碳足迹（2000 - 2014）

IF 6.3 2区经济学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Ecological Economics

Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108814

Pierre Cotterlaz , Christophe Gouel

This study investigates the evolution of France’s carbon footprint from 2000 to 2014, with a particular focus on the role of international trade. During this period, France’s territorial emissions decreased by 18%, yet its consumption-based footprint declined by only 5%. This divergence reflects an increase in emissions embedded in imports, which grew from 45% to 54% of the total. To analyze these dynamics, we develop a novel structural decomposition framework that disentangles the contributions of scale, composition, and technique effects from a consumption perspective. Our approach extends existing methods by explicitly distinguishing between domestic and foreign influences, and by separately analyzing trade openness and the geographic reallocation of imports. The results highlight the dominance of the technique effect in reducing emissions (

- 28 %

), driven primarily by efficiency improvements abroad rather than domestic progress. By contrast, the geographic composition effect substantially increased emissions (+18%), particularly before 2008, when France’s import sourcing shifted toward more carbon-intensive trading partners such as China. France’s situation is emblematic of economies that have already achieved relatively low domestic emissions—through nuclear energy and de-industrialization—and have thus become increasingly dependent on foreign improvements for further reductions. This reliance raises concerns about the externalization of mitigation outcomes and underscores the limits of climate strategies focused solely on territorial emissions. Our findings call for stronger coordination between trade and climate policies to ensure that future decarbonization pathways remain consistent with global mitigation objectives.

本研究调查了2000年至2014年法国碳足迹的演变，特别关注国际贸易的作用。在此期间，法国的领土排放量下降了18%，但其消费足迹仅下降了5%。这种差异反映了进口所包含的排放量的增加，从占总量的45%增加到54%。为了分析这些动态，我们开发了一个新的结构分解框架，从消费的角度解开规模、组成和技术效应的贡献。我们的方法扩展了现有的方法，明确区分了国内和国外的影响，并分别分析了贸易开放程度和进口的地理再分配。结果显示，技术效应在减排方面占主导地位（- 28%），主要受国外效率提高而非国内进步的推动。相比之下，地理构成效应大幅增加了排放量（+18%），特别是在2008年之前，当时法国的进口来源转向中国等碳密集程度更高的贸易伙伴。法国的情况是已经通过核能和去工业化实现了相对较低的国内排放的经济体的象征，因此越来越依赖于国外的改进来进一步减少排放。这种依赖引起了人们对减缓成果外部化的担忧，并突出了气候战略仅侧重于地区排放的局限性。我们的研究结果呼吁加强贸易和气候政策之间的协调，以确保未来的脱碳途径与全球减缓目标保持一致。

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Bridging climate and social equity: Progressive carbon tax simulations for Belgium 弥合气候和社会公平：比利时累进碳税模拟

IF 6.3 2区经济学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Ecological Economics

Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108803

Floore Bursens , Silvia De Poli , Sofia Maier , Gerlinde Verbist

This paper explores the distributive impact of a hypothetical carbon tax on households' transport and energy consumption in Belgium. It focuses on the welfare effects across population groups and along the income distribution, as well as on the expected budgetary and environmental effects, accounting for consumer responses under a partial equilibrium microsimulation framework. Given the well-known regressive features of consumption taxes in general, and of energy- or carbon-related taxes in particular, this study evaluates various scenarios for making the carbon tax more progressive and assesses how these methods affect the overall distributional outcomes and reduce emissions. Our results show that it is very difficult to offset the regressivity by changing the carbon tax design. The tax design scenario that has the smallest negative inequality effect and reduces GHG emissions the most, is the one that differentiates the tax on the basis of product category, and more specifically by taxing the most elastic product, which is transport. We also discuss the feasibility of the tax design scenarios, indicating that practical implementation and acceptability issues require careful consideration when designing and introducing the tax.

本文探讨了假设的碳税对比利时家庭交通和能源消费的分配影响。它侧重于各人口群体和收入分配的福利影响，以及预期的预算和环境影响，在部分均衡微观模拟框架下考虑消费者的反应。考虑到众所周知的消费税，特别是与能源或碳相关的税的累退特征，本研究评估了使碳税更累进的各种方案，并评估了这些方法如何影响总体分配结果和减少排放。我们的研究结果表明，通过改变碳税设计来抵消累退性是非常困难的。负不平等效应最小、减少温室气体排放最多的税收设计方案，是根据产品类别区分税收，更具体地说，是对最具弹性的产品征税，也就是运输。我们还讨论了税收设计方案的可行性，表明在设计和引入税收时需要仔细考虑实际实施和可接受性问题。

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Nudging grid-friendly electric vehicle charging: Different shades of social framing and the power of individual factors 推动电网友好型电动汽车充电：不同程度的社会框架和个人因素的力量

IF 6.3 2区经济学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Ecological Economics

Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108805

Junianna Zatsarnaja , Katharina Reiter , Alwine Mohnen , Trond Nordfjærn

The uptake of electric vehicles (EVs) poses new challenges to the electricity grid, as charging during peak demand hours leads to grid congestion, higher costs, and greater reliance on non-renewable energy sources. Grid-friendly EV charging strategies that encourage off-peak or renewable-abundant charging are essential for a sustainable transition. This study assesses the effect of nudging interventions – social framing with or without social transparency of own behavior and with donation-based gamification – on EV drivers' willingness to charge during grid-friendly times. The online vignette experiment conducted with 1178 EV drivers in Norway reveals that social framing, whether combined with social transparency of individual contributions or with donation-based gamification, fails to increase the likelihood of grid-friendly charging. In fact, donation-based gamification reduces the willingness to charge in a grid-friendly manner compared to the other two social framing interventions. Moreover, higher flexibility in daily routines, as well as individual characteristics such as being female and holding stronger moral values, are positively associated with grid-friendly charging. These findings provide insights into factors that are related to grid-conscious charging behavior, contributing to power system stability, renewable energy integration, and a successful transition to sustainable electric mobility.

电动汽车（ev）的普及给电网带来了新的挑战，因为在用电高峰时段充电会导致电网拥堵、成本上升，并加大对不可再生能源的依赖。电网友好型电动汽车充电策略鼓励非高峰或可再生能源充电，这对于可持续转型至关重要。本研究评估了轻推干预（带有或不带有自身行为社会透明度的社会框架以及基于捐赠的游戏化）对电动汽车司机在电网友好时期充电意愿的影响。对挪威1178名电动汽车司机进行的在线小插图实验表明，无论是与个人捐款的社会透明度相结合，还是与基于捐赠的游戏化相结合，社会框架都无法增加电网友好型充电的可能性。事实上，与其他两种社会框架干预相比，基于捐赠的游戏化降低了以电网友好方式收费的意愿。此外，日常生活的灵活性更高，以及女性身份、道德价值观更强等个人特征与电网友好型充电呈正相关。这些发现提供了与电网自觉充电行为相关的因素的见解，有助于电力系统的稳定性，可再生能源的整合，以及向可持续电动交通的成功过渡。

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Boosting peer influence for the climate? – Intervening friendship networks with serious games to promote food knowledge and reduce meat consumption 提高同行对气候的影响力？-以严肃游戏介入友谊网络，推广食物知识，减少肉类消费

IF 6.3 2区经济学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Ecological Economics

Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108797

Anja Köbrich Leon , Janosch Schobin

Our study addresses the urgent need for scalable tools to influence high climateimpact behaviors. To this end, we developed an interactive multiplayer game, Carbonia, designed to encourage groups of friends to reduce their consumption of foods with high climate impact, particularly meat. The game targets two main outcomes: dietary choices and knowledge about the climate impact of various foods. We compared this game-based intervention to a digital food diary and a control group keeping a diary on an unrelated topic. Our network intervention study among 702 university students from a major Chilean university allowed us to randomize treatments within real-life friend groups and non-friend groups. Results indicate that both the game and food diary treatments improved participants' knowledge of climate-impactful food choices. Additionally, data collected during the intervention suggest that the game treatment led to more climate-friendly food consumption over time.

我们的研究解决了对可扩展工具的迫切需求，以影响高气候影响行为。为此，我们开发了一款多人互动游戏《Carbonia》，旨在鼓励朋友们减少对气候影响较大的食物的消费，尤其是肉类。这款游戏的目标是两个主要结果：饮食选择和了解各种食物对气候的影响。我们将这种基于游戏的干预与数字食物日记和对照组在不相关的主题上写日记进行比较。我们对702名来自智利一所主要大学的大学生进行了网络干预研究，允许我们在现实生活中的朋友组和非朋友组中进行随机治疗。结果表明，游戏和食物日记处理都提高了参与者对气候影响食物选择的认识。此外，在干预期间收集的数据表明，随着时间的推移，游戏治疗导致了更多的气候友好型食物消费。

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More-than-capitalist economies: Insights from community supported agriculture, tiny houses and hitchhiking in Denmark 超越资本主义经济：来自丹麦社区支持农业、小房子和搭便车的见解

IF 6.3 2区经济学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Ecological Economics

Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108831

Line Kryger Aagaard

The accelerating planetary crises call for rapid reductions in carbon emissions, unlikely to be achieved alone through increasing renewable energy and more efficient production. A wide-ranging transformation of affluent lifestyles and current consumption-production relationships is needed as well. This brings existing economic models into question, as profit often stands in the way of necessary reductions. Thus, a growing field of research points to the need of rethinking the economic system, and frameworks of degrowth and sufficiency are receiving more attention.

In the context of Denmark, this paper maps the landscape of both mainstream and alternative consumption-production relationships across three high-emission domains: food, housing and mobility. Based on focus groups with 52 professional stakeholders, I identify a correlation between economic activities and sustainability approaches, with efficiency-oriented models being tied to profit-driven economies and sufficiency-oriented models aligned with alternative, collective economic practices. This finding shows how economic systems shape the strategies organizations employ in addressing environmental challenges.

Furthermore, more-than-capitalist economic activities in this landscape are explored. By zooming in on three cases, community supported agriculture, tiny houses and hitchhiking, I draw attention to diverse economies as a lens to reframe consumption-production relationships in a sufficiency-oriented direction. I contribute to this field by proposing three key dimensions in which more-than-capitalist actors share characteristics across food, housing and mobility: 1) spatial; 2) temporal; and 3) relational. Highlighting these, the paper calls for further research and attention to spatial proximity, long-term engagement and community-building in developing consumption-production relationships for a sustainable future.

不断加剧的地球危机要求迅速减少碳排放，而单靠增加可再生能源和提高生产效率是不可能实现的。富裕的生活方式和当前的消费-生产关系也需要进行广泛的转变。这使现有的经济模式受到质疑，因为利润往往阻碍了必要的削减。因此，越来越多的研究领域指出需要重新思考经济制度，而去增长和充足的框架正受到更多的关注。

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