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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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Cost-neutral food tax reforms for healthier and more sustainable diets 实行成本中立的食品税改革，促进更健康和更可持续的饮食

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.2025.108822

Jörgen Larsson , Edvin Månsson , Elin Röös , Sarah Säll , Emma Patterson , Liselotte Schäfer Elinder , Jonas Nässén , Emma Ejelöv

This study evaluates cost-neutral food tax reforms integrating climate and health objectives, compared with strictly climate- and health-focused reforms. Results indicate that a strict climate-focused reform risks negative health outcomes, while the strict health-focused reform achieves only 40 % of the climate benefit of the integrated reforms and adversely impacts animal welfare.

Integrated tax reforms, however, could reduce Sweden's food carbon footprint by an amount equivalent to an 8 % reduction in passenger car emissions, alongside co-benefits such as decreased pesticide and fertilizer use and lower ammonia emissions. In addition, the healthier diets simulated as a result of the integrated reforms are estimated to save more than twice as many lives as those lost to road traffic fatalities.

Furthermore, the strict climate- and health-focused reforms lead to higher food costs, disproportionately affecting low-income groups. The integrated reforms were designed to be cost-neutral by applying subsidies in the form of VAT exemptions on healthy foods or through the redistribution of tax revenues to all citizens. This study demonstrates that it is possible to design food tax reforms to achieve substantial environmental and health improvements while avoiding additional financial burdens on consumers, suggesting a promising pathway for policy development.

本研究评估了与严格以气候和健康为重点的改革相比，结合气候和健康目标的成本中性食品税改革。结果表明，严格的以气候为重点的改革可能会带来负面的健康结果，而严格的以健康为重点的改革只实现了综合改革的40%的气候效益，并对动物福利产生不利影响。

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Has “Ecological Economics” betrayed its roots? Revealing its state, internal tensions and evolution through a multi-level and multi-scale bibliometric assessment “生态经济学”是否背叛了它的本源？通过多层次、多尺度的文献计量学评估揭示其现状、内部张力和演变

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.2025.108845

G. Corsi , R. Guarino , E. Muñoz-Ulecia , U. Grande , E. Buonocore , A. Sapio , P.P. Franzese

This paper uses a mixed methods approach to investigate the development of Ecological Economics (EE), combining a critical literature review with quantitative bibliometric analysis. It maps the intellectual trajectory of the field, its thematic shifts and its authorship networks from inception to the present time. Three phases are identified: (i) 1983–1997: the founding period; (ii) 1998–2011: the establishment of ecosystem services' valuation; and (iii) 2012–2024: the contemporary EE, characterized by internal tensions and increasing integration into mainstream environmental initiatives. Our findings reveal a global surge in interest in the field, accompanied by an expansion in the intellectual scope and research themes, as well as a broader geographic distribution of authors. This is associated with the emergence of numerous new journals, with Ecological Economics maintaining a central, albeit declining, position. Our research shows that while EE began as a critique of neoclassical economics, during its establishment phase it embraced market-based solutions and monetary valuation. However, contemporary trends indicate a critical reassessment of these approaches, with a shift towards exploring issues such as climate justice, degrowth and social metabolism. This dynamic evolution highlights the ongoing importance of EE as a platform for transdisciplinary research that challenges conventional economic thinking.

本文采用综合方法，将批判性文献综述与定量文献计量分析相结合，对生态经济学的发展进行了研究。它描绘了该领域的知识轨迹，其主题转变和作者网络从开始到现在。确定了三个阶段：(i) 1983-1997年：成立时期；（ii） 1998-2011年：生态系统服务价值的建立；（iii） 2012-2024年：当代绿色建筑，以内部紧张和日益融入主流环境倡议为特征。我们的发现揭示了全球对该领域的兴趣激增，伴随着知识范围和研究主题的扩展，以及作者更广泛的地理分布。这与许多新期刊的出现有关，生态经济学虽然在下降，但仍保持着核心地位。我们的研究表明，虽然EE最初是对新古典经济学的批判，但在其建立阶段，它接受了基于市场的解决方案和货币估值。然而，当代趋势表明对这些方法进行了重要的重新评估，转向探索气候正义、去生长和社会代谢等问题。这种动态演变凸显了电子商务作为一个挑战传统经济思维的跨学科研究平台的持续重要性。

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The European Union deforestation regulation: The impact on Argentina 欧盟森林砍伐法规：对阿根廷的影响

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.2025.108836

Pablo de la Vega

We analyze the potential economic impacts in Argentina of the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), which as of January 2026 will prohibit the export to the European Union of certain raw materials and related products if they involve the use of deforested land. We estimate that the EUDR would cover around 6 billion US dollars in exported value, but only 2.84 % is not compliant with the EUDR, with soy and cattle being the most affected production chains. We use a dynamic computable general equilibrium model to simulate the impact of the EUDR on the Argentine economy. If the non-compliant production cannot enter the EU market because of the EUDR, the results of the simulations suggest that the potential macroeconomic impacts are limited: GDP would be reduced by an average of 0.14 % with respect to the baseline scenario. However, the potential environmental impact is greater. Deforested hectares would be reduced by 2.45 % and GHG emissions by 0.19 %. Notwithstanding, EUDR due diligence costs may still prevent compliant production from entering the EU market, so the total impacts could be higher.

我们分析了欧盟森林砍伐条例（EUDR）对阿根廷的潜在经济影响，该条例将于2026年1月起禁止向欧盟出口某些涉及使用毁林土地的原材料和相关产品。我们估计EUDR将覆盖约60亿美元的出口价值，但只有2.84%不符合EUDR，其中大豆和牛是受影响最大的生产链。我们使用一个动态可计算的一般均衡模型来模拟EUDR对阿根廷经济的影响。如果不合规的产品因为EUDR而无法进入欧盟市场，模拟结果表明，潜在的宏观经济影响是有限的：相对于基线情景，GDP将平均减少0.14%。然而，潜在的环境影响更大。森林砍伐面积将减少2.45%，温室气体排放量将减少0.19%。尽管如此，EUDR尽职调查成本可能仍会阻止符合要求的产品进入欧盟市场，因此总影响可能会更高。

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Total rents from natural resources: Framework and preliminary estimates for Switzerland 自然资源的总租金：瑞士的框架和初步估计

IF 6.3 2区经济学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Ecological Economics

Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108821

Felix Schläpfer

Rents and transfers linked to natural resources are an increasingly important part of national economies. However, concepts to comprehensively measure them remain limited, and empirical estimates are scarce. This paper proposes four concepts to organize and measure ‘total rents from natural resources’ including (1) traditional ‘resource rent’, (2) ‘resource gain’ defined as increases in resource value independent of changes in rights to resources, (3) ‘resource transfer’ through regulatory changes in resource rights, and (4) ‘resource externality’ or transfers through uncompensated damage to resources. Preliminary estimates for Switzerland for the period from 2016 to 2021 were calculated based on official statistics, private land price data, and existing studies of external costs. The annual estimates amount to CHF 78 billion for resource rent, CHF 167 billion for resource gain, CHF 23 billion for resource transfer, and CHF 31 billion for resource externality. The sum of CHF 298 billion corresponded to 42 % of the Swiss GDP in the same period, which was more than the combined tax revenues at the federal, cantonal and municipal levels. The rents from urban land accounted for 89 % of the total. Although these estimates are subject to considerable uncertainty, they show that the rents from natural resoures are very significant. These rents offer important potential for designing more efficient taxes and for achieving more equitable distributional outcomes. They deserve more attention in academic research and official statistics.

与自然资源有关的租金和转让是国民经济日益重要的组成部分。然而，全面衡量它们的概念仍然有限，而且经验估计很少。本文提出了四个概念来组织和衡量“自然资源总租金”，包括：(1)传统的“资源租金”，(2)“资源收益”，定义为与资源权利变化无关的资源价值的增加，(3)通过资源权利的监管变化进行的“资源转移”，以及(4)“资源外部性”或通过对资源的无偿损害进行的转移。瑞士2016年至2021年的初步估计是根据官方统计数据、私人土地价格数据和现有的外部成本研究计算出来的。每年的资源租金估计为780亿瑞郎，资源收益为1670亿瑞郎，资源转移为230亿瑞郎，资源外部性为310亿瑞郎。2980亿瑞士法郎相当于同期瑞士国内生产总值的42%，超过了联邦、州和市级税收收入的总和。城市土地租金占总租金的89%。虽然这些估计有相当大的不确定性，但它们表明自然资源的租金是非常大的。这些租金为设计更有效的税收和实现更公平的分配结果提供了重要的潜力。他们应该在学术研究和官方统计中得到更多的关注。

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Recent global value chain reconfiguration: drivers and consequences on EU carbon footprint 近期全球价值链重构：欧盟碳足迹的驱动因素及后果

IF 6.3 2区经济学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Ecological Economics

Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108828

Ángela García-Alaminos, María-Ángeles Cadarso, Luis A. López, María-Ángeles Tobarra

The vulnerability of global value chains is in the spotlight due to recent geopolitical tensions and shocks with a worldwide impact. Vulnerability in trade terms is often linked to distance from the suppliers, high concentration of imports, or not-shared values, implying several logistic risks. As a result, economies seeking higher resilience in their value chains are considering new sourcing strategies, like backshoring or nearshoring. Such trade-restructuring schemes need to consider sustainability to be effectively resilient, but, at the same time, they are drivers of changes in global carbon emissions.

This paper aims to measure the magnitude of those relocation patterns and their impact on carbon emissions, focusing on the European Union (EU). For this purpose, we use an environmentally extended multiregional input-output model to calculate global emissions' trends from 1995 to 2018 and to identify different trade-relocation patterns, quantifying their carbon content. We also perform a structural decomposition analysis to divide the changes in the EU's carbon footprint according to different drivers.

Our results show a change in global emissions evolution from 2008 onwards, with emerging trends of global value chains reconfiguration showing a more vital role of environmental concerns. We also find that reshoring and reoffshoring are less emission-intensive than offshoring. In the EU's context, its footprint has been reduced since the 2008 crisis, mainly due to lower emissions intensities and technical changes towards cleaner ways of production. In contrast, the geographical shift of suppliers contributes to the growth of emissions in the whole period.

由于近期地缘政治紧张局势和具有全球影响的冲击，全球价值链的脆弱性受到关注。贸易方面的脆弱性通常与与供应商的距离、进口的高度集中或不共享的价值有关，这意味着若干物流风险。因此，在价值链中寻求更高弹性的经济体正在考虑新的采购策略，如回流或近岸。这种贸易结构调整计划需要考虑到可持续性具有有效的弹性，但与此同时，它们也是全球碳排放变化的驱动因素。

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A new index reveals a widening gap between growth and sustainable wellbeing in China 一项新指数显示，中国经济增长与可持续福祉之间的差距正在扩大

IF 6.3 2区经济学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Ecological Economics

Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108827

Xi Ji , Xianling Long , Xuanyuan Luo , Robert Costanza

Previous wellbeing measures often aggregate economic, social, and environmental dimensions, assuming full substitutability. We propose a new index—Sustainable Wellbeing (SW)—that integrates Wellbeing Magnitude (WM) and Wellbeing Diversity (WD). This index reflects that positive wellbeing sources increase SW, with diminishing marginal returns, while negative wellbeing sources decrease SW, with increasing marginal damage. Both diversity and magnitude are integral to the index. This framework is applicable to many wellbeing indices. We demonstrate the application of SW using the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) for China, creating a revised Sustainable GPI (SGPI) that incorporates WD. An evaluation across China's 31 provinces from 1985 to 2018 shows a decline in WD, leading to a growing gap between sustainable wellbeing and economic growth. Economic wellbeing has expanded at the expense of environmental quality. The SGPI-to-GDP ratio displays an inverted U-shaped curve, reflecting limited substitutability between economic and environmental wellbeing beyond a certain income threshold. Provinces with stronger service sectors experienced the highest per capita SGPI growth. The wellbeing diversity framework supports balanced development and aligns with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

以前的福利衡量标准通常是综合经济、社会和环境维度，假设完全可替代性。我们提出了一个新的指数——可持续幸福（SW），它整合了幸福量级（WM）和幸福多样性（WD）。该指标反映了积极的福利来源增加了社会福利，边际收益递减，而消极的福利来源减少了社会福利，边际损失增加。多样性和规模都是该指数的组成部分。这个框架适用于许多幸福指数。我们使用真实进展指标（GPI）为中国展示了SW的应用，创建了一个包含WD的修订的可持续GPI （SGPI）。一项对1985年至2018年中国31个省份的评估显示，人均生活水平下降，导致可持续福祉与经济增长之间的差距越来越大。经济福祉的扩大是以牺牲环境质量为代价的。sgpi与gdp之比呈倒u型曲线，反映出超过一定收入门槛后，经济和环境福利之间的可替代性有限。服务业较强的省份人均SGPI增长最快。福祉多样性框架支持平衡发展，并与可持续发展目标保持一致。

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