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“Local Heroes”: Construction firms pioneering circular innovation “地方英雄”：循环创新的建筑公司

IF 6.3 2区经济学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Ecological Economics

Pub Date : 2025-11-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108862

Elisa Chioatto , Alessandro Montanaro , Massimiliano Mazzanti

Innovation in the construction sector is critical to reducing environmental impacts, yet the adoption of circular innovations remains poorly understood. This paper examines the determinants of circular innovation adoption among 376 construction firms in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy, based on an original survey dataset. Our analysis reveals that R&D investments increase the likelihood of circular innovation adoption by 24 percentage points, while larger firm size raises it by 13 points. Local market orientation exerts a strong positive effect: firms generating at least 50 % of their turnover locally are 15 percentage points more likely to adopt a circular innovation. Regulatory factors are not significant in aggregate, but become decisive for specific circular practices such as selective demolition and the use of sustainable inputs. Theoretically, the study demonstrates that circular innovations follow different adoption dynamics than traditional innovations in the construction industry, with proximity-based networks and local material flows playing a central role. Policy-wise, findings highlight the need to support R&D, especially in smaller firms, strengthen targeted regulatory incentives, and foster local inter-firm collaborations to reduce transaction costs and overcome secondary material quality risks.

建筑行业的创新对于减少环境影响至关重要，但人们对循环创新的采用仍然知之甚少。本文基于原始调查数据集，研究了意大利艾米利亚-罗马涅地区376家建筑公司采用循环创新的决定因素。我们的分析表明，研发投资使采用循环创新的可能性提高了24个百分点，而更大的公司规模使其提高了13个百分点。本地市场导向产生了强烈的积极影响：在本地产生至少50%营业额的公司采用循环创新的可能性要高15个百分点。管制因素总体上并不重要，但对具体的循环做法，如选择性拆除和使用可持续投入，具有决定性作用。从理论上讲，该研究表明，在建筑行业，循环创新遵循不同于传统创新的采用动态，基于邻近性的网络和本地材料流发挥着核心作用。在政策方面，研究结果强调需要支持研发，特别是在较小的公司，加强有针对性的监管激励措施，并促进当地公司间的合作，以降低交易成本和克服二次材料质量风险。

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How does local policy attention reshape environmental justice? 地方政策的关注如何重塑环境正义？

IF 6.3 2区经济学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Ecological Economics

Pub Date : 2025-11-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108864

Qiang Li , Lin Zhang

Environmental justice is likely to be affected by local policymaking strategies towards environmental protection due to the uneven economic and social development throughout China. This paper examines whether and how local environmental protection policy attention reshapes environmental justice across the country. Utilizing data from prefecture-level cities spanning 2014 to 2020, and accounting for within-province variations, we construct the Theil index, based on 24-h SO₂ concentration and population data, to assess the environmental (in)justice. The empirical findings demonstrate that strong policy attention significantly increases environmental injustice. The induced environmental injustice associated with policy attention is stronger in regions characterized by low degrees of political and economic institutions. Geographically, the effects of policy attention are pronounced in western region and non-Yangtze River Economic Belt zones. Moreover, the policy attention-induced injustice is associated with a 0.3 % decline in per capita GDP or CNY130 on average. These findings reveal the substantial economic costs associated with uneven policy implementation and underscore the importance for policymakers to design a more inclusive and resilient economic and social landscape, mitigating unintended distributional consequences and advancing sustainable development goals.

由于中国经济和社会发展的不平衡，环境正义很可能受到地方环境保护政策的影响。本文考察了地方环境保护政策的关注是否以及如何在全国范围内重塑环境正义。利用2014 - 2020年地级市数据，在考虑省际差异的基础上，构建了基于24小时二氧化硫浓度和人口数据的Theil指数，以评价环境（in）正义。实证结果表明，强烈的政策关注显著增加了环境不公平。在政治和经济制度程度较低的地区，与政策关注相关的环境不公正现象更为严重。从地理上看，西部地区和非长江经济带地区的政策关注效果明显。此外，政策关注引起的不公正与人均GDP下降0.3%或平均下降130元有关。这些研究结果揭示了政策执行不平衡带来的巨大经济成本，并强调了决策者设计更具包容性和弹性的经济和社会格局、减轻意外分配后果和推进可持续发展目标的重要性。

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Reducing food waste by killing wolves? A continuing failure to integrate climate and biodiversity agendas in food policies 通过杀狼来减少食物浪费？继续未能将气候和生物多样性议程纳入粮食政策

IF 6.3 2区经济学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Ecological Economics

Pub Date : 2025-11-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108846

Amaranta Herrero , Fern Wickson

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Plant diversity to cope with increased drought risk in grasslands 应对草原干旱风险增加的植物多样性

IF 6.3 2区经济学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Ecological Economics

Pub Date : 2025-11-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108852

Nicolas Alou , Sergei Schaub , Matthias Suter , Andreas Lüscher , Robert Finger

Grasslands are essential for global milk and meat production. Climate change and growing frequency of extreme weather events are expected to increase variability in production. This study explores how plant diversity can act as natural insurance against drought risks in grasslands using theoretical model and simulation. Examining sown diversity from a portfolio perspective, we identify mechanisms underlying its insurance value, including the statistical averaging effects and community asynchrony. Our findings demonstrate that, within productive grasslands, modest plant diversity can mitigate a substantial portion (37 %) of the risk, offering a sustainable climate adaptation strategy in production-oriented ecosystems.

草原对全球牛奶和肉类生产至关重要。气候变化和极端天气事件日益频繁预计将增加产量的可变性。本研究利用理论模型和模拟方法探讨了植物多样性如何作为草原干旱风险的自然保险。从投资组合的角度考察种子多样性，我们确定了其保险价值背后的机制，包括统计平均效应和社区异步。我们的研究结果表明，在生产性草原内，适度的植物多样性可以减轻很大一部分（37%）的风险，为以生产为导向的生态系统提供可持续的气候适应策略。

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Plastic waste imports & coastal litter: Evidence from citizen science data 进口塑料垃圾和沿海垃圾：来自公民科学数据的证据

IF 6.3 2区经济学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Ecological Economics

Pub Date : 2025-11-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108848

Rebecca L.C. Taylor , Hebe Williams , Shan Zhang

Plastic waste is an internationally traded commodity, where importing countries recycle plastic waste into usable materials. However, there are concerns that the importation process creates plastic litter — a negative externality — in importing countries. While this concern has received much media and policy attention, quantifying the magnitude of this externality has been hindered by a lack of data on plastic litter across countries and over time. To this end, we use unconventional citizen science data on litter from Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup, together with the United Nations Comtrade Database, to estimate the correlation between traded plastic waste and coastal litter from 2003 to 2022. We find that a 10% increase in the amount of plastic waste a country imports is associated with a 0.6% increase in the amount of littered plastic collected. Heterogeneity analyses show this correlation is driven by countries with higher rates of waste mismanagement. Our results suggest that the country- and international-level regulatory policies implemented in the waste trade industry since 2018 may have contributed to mitigating plastic pollution.

塑料废物是一种国际贸易商品，进口国将塑料废物回收为可用材料。然而，有人担心进口过程会在进口国产生塑料垃圾——一种负面的外部性。虽然这一问题得到了媒体和政策的广泛关注，但由于缺乏各国和各时期塑料垃圾的数据，对这种外部性的程度进行量化一直受到阻碍。为此，我们使用了来自海洋保护协会国际海岸清理的垃圾的非常规公民科学数据，以及联合国Comtrade数据库，来估计2003年至2022年交易塑料垃圾与沿海垃圾之间的相关性。我们发现，一个国家进口的塑料垃圾每增加10%，收集的塑料垃圾就会增加0.6%。异质性分析表明，这种相关性是由废物管理不善率较高的国家推动的。我们的研究结果表明，自2018年以来在废物贸易行业实施的国家和国际层面的监管政策可能有助于减轻塑料污染。

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Decommodifying cacao: matchmaking between producers and buyers of fine flavour cacao from Peru 解腐可可：为来自秘鲁的优质可可的生产商和买家牵线

IF 6.3 2区经济学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Ecological Economics

Pub Date : 2025-11-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108850

Evert Thomas , Gesabel Villar , Diego Zavaleta , Viviana Ceccarelli , Fredy Yovera , Trent Blare , Marleni Ramirez , Christoph Oberlack , Rachel Atkinson

Decommodification is promoted as a sustainability strategy in bulk commodity sectors such as cacao or coffee. Fine flavour cacao (FFC) may contribute to decommodifying the cacao sector. However, such decommodification may lead to new patterns of exclusion among smallholder producers, depending on how well they are able to meet more stringent quality requirements. This study assesses the extent to which producers of two of Peru's premier FFCs match the requirements of FFCs buyers. We interviewed 76 Peruvian and international FFC buyers and 337 cacao farmer households from 114 communities in the Peruvian departments of Cusco and Piura. We used ordination and cluster analysis to construct buyer and producer typologies, and developed a methodology to assess how well each producer type matches the requirements of each buyer type. While certain producers are well positioned to comply with the demands of specific buyers, wide gaps remain for producers to benefit from FFC, notably those related to quality aspects of cacao beans, but also ecological and socio-economic considerations, such as zero-deforestation and agroforestry-grown cacao, and enhanced participation of women in the value chain. If decommodification of cacao is to benefit vulnerable smallholder producers, institutions and trade relationships are needed that allow more producers to meet the more stringent requirements of a diversified, high-quality cacao sector.

在可可或咖啡等大宗商品部门，分解是一种可持续发展战略。细味可可（FFC）可能有助于可可部门的分解。然而，这种分解可能导致小农生产者被排除在外的新模式，这取决于他们是否能够满足更严格的质量要求。本研究评估了秘鲁两种主要FFCs生产商满足FFCs购买者要求的程度。我们采访了来自秘鲁库斯科省和皮乌拉省114个社区的76名秘鲁和国际FFC买家和337户可可农户。我们使用排序和聚类分析来构建买方和生产者类型，并开发了一种方法来评估每种生产者类型与每种买方类型的要求的匹配程度。虽然某些生产商在满足特定买家的需求方面处于有利地位，但生产者从FFC中受益的差距仍然很大，特别是与可可豆质量有关的方面，但也存在生态和社会经济方面的考虑，例如零森林砍伐和农林业种植的可可，以及提高妇女在价值链中的参与度。如果要使脆弱的小农生产者受益，就需要建立制度和贸易关系，使更多的生产者能够满足多样化、高质量可可部门的更严格要求。

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The double dividend: Fact or fiction? Evidence from the European Union 双重红利：事实还是虚构？来自欧盟的证据

IF 6.3 2区经济学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Ecological Economics

Pub Date : 2025-11-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108851

Vít Ješina, Markéta Arltová

The public often considers environmental protection as detrimental to the economy. Our paper aims to contribute to this debate by examining the reality of the theory of double dividend on sixteen years (2008–2023) of historic European data. Using auto-regressive distributive lag (ARDL) models, we analyze indicators related to environmental performance, economy and taxation in order to verify the individual dividends as well as the revenue-recycling effect. Six models, each in three variations for groups of the original, the new and all member states, provide differing results. The double-dividend theory is wholly proven only for the original member states. The new member states showed conflicting results in the environmental dividend, and while the economic one was seemingly proven, the revenue-recycling effect was not. The same applies to the pooled group, except the revenue-recycling effect was also conflicting. The results thus show that some European states successfully turned the theory into reality, and others thus might have a chance to do the same.

公众通常认为环境保护对经济有害。我们的论文旨在通过研究欧洲历史数据的十六年（2008-2023）双重股息理论的现实，为这场辩论做出贡献。利用自回归分配滞后（ARDL）模型，我们分析了环境绩效、经济和税收相关指标，以验证个人红利和收入循环效应。六种模型提供了不同的结果，每种模型都有三种变化，分别适用于原成员国、新成员国和所有成员国。双红利理论仅在原成员国中得到充分证明。新成员国在环境红利方面表现出相互矛盾的结果，而经济红利似乎得到了证实，但收入循环效应却没有得到证实。这同样适用于合并组，除了收入循环效应也相互冲突。因此，结果表明，一些欧洲国家成功地将理论变为现实，而其他国家也可能有机会这样做。

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Greening prosperity stripes across the globe 绿色繁荣遍布全球

IF 6.3 2区经济学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Ecological Economics

Pub Date : 2025-11-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108818

Alexander Mihailov

This paper is motivated by the urgency of climate change mitigation and the crucial importance of communicating the need for it. Our approach relies on using comparative visualizations in terms of maps and stripes in color for all countries across the globe that can easily be conveyed and understood even by nonspecialists. It proposes an intuitive novel measure of what we refer to as ‘greening prosperity stripes’, defined to be visually comparable across countries over time along a brown-to-green pallette depicting the ratio of real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita to carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per capita, based on annual data from the World Bank since 1990. We illustrate our findings along both cross-section and time-series dimensions, acknowledging that images and colors speak louder than words and affect emotionally, thereby hoping to raise awareness and mobilize immediate climate policy action worldwide. Moreover, the greening prosperity world maps and stripes by country, possibly updated online every year, can be used to track progress toward the goal of net zero clearly and compellingly.

这篇论文的动机是减缓气候变化的紧迫性，以及传达这种需求的至关重要性。我们的方法依赖于全球所有国家的地图和彩色条纹的比较可视化，即使是非专家也可以很容易地传达和理解。它提出了一种直观的、新颖的衡量标准，我们称之为“绿色繁荣条纹”，根据世界银行自1990年以来的年度数据，根据棕色到绿色的调色板，描绘了人均实际国内生产总值（GDP）与人均二氧化碳（CO2）排放量的比率，各国之间随时间的视觉可比性。我们从横截面和时间序列两个维度说明了我们的发现，承认图像和颜色比语言更有说服力，并在情感上产生影响，从而希望提高认识，并在全球范围内动员立即采取气候政策行动。此外，按国家划分的绿色繁荣世界地图和条纹，可能每年都会在网上更新，可以用来清楚而引人注目地跟踪实现净零目标的进展。

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Identifying leverage points in the social housing system: Housing associations on the path towards degrowth? 确定社会住房制度的杠杆点：住房协会走向去增长的道路？

IF 7 2区经济学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Ecological Economics

Pub Date : 2025-11-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108841

Anna Pagani, Al Walker, Alex Macmillan, Arfenia Nita, Michael Davies, Nici Zimmermann

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Unpacking the green box: Endogenous preferences and environmental policy stringency in European Countries 打开绿色盒子：欧洲国家的内生偏好和环境政策的严格性

IF 6.3 2区经济学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Ecological Economics

Pub Date : 2025-11-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108826

Donatella Gatti , Gaye-Del Lo , Francisco Serranito

This paper identifies the determinants of the OECD Environmental Policy Stringency (EPS) index using a panel of 21 European countries for the period 2009-2019. If there is a large literature on the macroeconomic, political, and social determinants of EPS, the analysis of people’s preferences towards environmental policies is still burgeoning. Thus, the main goal of this paper is to estimate the effects of environmental preferences on the EPS indicator. Due to the endogeneity of preferences, we have applied an instrumental variable framework to estimate our empirical model. Our most important result is to show that environmental preferences have a positive and significant effect on the level of the EPS indicator once the endogeneity bias has been taken into account: on average, a rise in the prevalence of environmental preferences of 1% in a country will increase the aggregate EPS indicator by at least 0.25%. Furthermore, it should be noted that the channels through which environmental preferences influence the EPS operate primarily through market and technological instruments. In these two cases, the estimated elasticities are almost four times higher than for the aggregate index. Our results have important policy implications.

本文通过对2009-2019年期间21个欧洲国家的小组调查，确定了经合组织环境政策严谨性（EPS）指数的决定因素。如果有大量关于EPS的宏观经济、政治和社会决定因素的文献，那么对人们对环境政策偏好的分析仍然是新兴的。因此，本文的主要目标是估计环境偏好对EPS指标的影响。由于偏好的内生性，我们应用了一个工具变量框架来估计我们的经验模型。我们最重要的结果是表明，一旦考虑到内生性偏差，环境偏好对EPS指标的水平有积极而显著的影响：平均而言，一个国家环境偏好的流行率上升1%，将使EPS总指标至少提高0.25%。此外，应当指出，环境偏好影响EPS的渠道主要是通过市场和技术手段。在这两种情况下，估计的弹性几乎是总指数的四倍。我们的研究结果具有重要的政策意义。

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