Pub Date : 2024-12-03DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108477
Juliana Figueira Haugen, Jon Olaf Olaussen
Aquaculture has emerged as the fastest growing sector in global food production, with salmon farming in the lead. Norway is responsible for over half of the world salmon production, but its industry faces significant challenges which must be addressed to achieve sustainability. One key issue is the lack of a unified understanding among stakeholders of how production affects the environment and intersects with the interests of other users. Given this context, this present study aims to understand the diverse perspectives of different groups of stakeholders regarding the expansion challenges faced by the Norwegian salmon farming industry. We assessed environmental, socio-economic, operational, and regulatory aspects, highlighting areas of agreement and disagreement among stakeholders using Q-methodology. Our results reveal four distinct stakeholder groups, two of which reveal polarized views, while the other two present more balanced opinions. We believe that our findings facilitate enriched dialogues among stakeholders and provide insights into the management of the industry, while addressing the dilemma of ensuring sustainability amid pressures for production growth.
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Pub Date : 2024-12-03DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108473
Catherine Chambers, Paul Chambers, David Johnson
Conservation organizations employ charismatic species to appeal to potential donors and increase contributions. However, evidence that this strategy increases donations is mixed. In an experimental setting, we investigate the effects of species charisma and the characteristics of potential donors on donations to conservation organizations. We conducted a modified dictator game through MTurk with 330 subjects, exploring subjects’ responses to one of sixteen treatments that differ across three dimensions. The first dimension involves exposure to an image that varies among subjects in terms of charisma. In the second dimension, we use differing donation matching rates to examine the effectiveness of matching gifts. With the final dimension, we consider real versus hypothetical scenarios. Our key findings are that the effects of charismatic species on donations are limited after controlling for the characteristics of the subjects and that those faced with a hypothetical scenario donate significantly more than those with real stakes. These results suggest conservation organizations, particularly those with a national or international focus, should consider the characteristics of potential donors targeted by their fundraising campaigns rather than relying on images of charismatic species.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-29DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108467
Dianna R. Amasino , Suzanne Oosterwijk , Nicolette J. Sullivan , Joël van der Weele
Consumers often encounter, and claim to care about, ethical information concerning the products they purchase. Across three studies, we investigate how the accessibility of this information impacts choice. When consumers must seek out product attribute information, the impact of ethical certifications (Fairtrade and Organic) is diminished relative to other attributes. Both positive and negative framing of certifications increase their impact on choice relative to neutral frames, with negative frames having the strongest effect. However, in contrast to theories of information demand that would predict more willful ignorance of negatively framed content, negative framing has the same impact regardless of information accessibility. Together, our findings suggest that having to seek ethical certification information leads to a small reduction in the use of certifications to guide choice, but that affective framing has a larger impact on the weight placed on certifications in consumer choices regardless of the accessibility of information.
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Water markets aim to achieve water conservation and efficient allocation through market transactions. However, the presence of water rebounds may counteract this effect. Water markets and water rebounds have a complex interaction that has not been adequately explored in current studies. This study fills this research gap by developing an analytical framework connecting water markets and water rebounds and scrutinizing the causal linkage between them and the potential mechanisms involved within the context of China's water rights trading (WRT) policy. The findings have the potential to significantly impact water management strategies. We argue that water markets and water rebound mitigation—which is frequently linked with the capacity of water markets to improve water quality—are causally related. Furthermore, deploying water markets may also slow technological progress, resulting in reduced water efficiency and hence, an indirect mitigation of water rebounds. Lastly, the impact of water markets on water rebounds varies according to water availability and socioeconomic levels.
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Rational decision theory assumes that individuals have perfect knowledge of the consequences of their choices and actions. However, this assumption often fails to align with reality, particularly in the context of environmental degradation, where the impacts of actions can be distant in both time and space. Will an enhanced perception of those impacts encourage pro-environmental choices?
To explore this question, we designed and conducted an experiment in an immersive virtual reality environment (IVE). After an initial training phase, participants were asked to choose between using a tumble dryer or a clothesline to dry their laundry. Participants in the treatment group received exaggerated feedback during the training phase, experiencing a simulated sudden outbreak of a thunderstorm when they used the dryer. In contrast, participants in the control group did not receive any feedback. The experiment was conducted at two Italian universities, Siena and Pisa, with a total of 270 subjects.
The methodological finding is that even less elaborated IVEs can still be effective as experimental tools. The substantive finding is that exposure to exaggerated feedback in an IVE significantly increased the likelihood of choosing a more environmentally friendly action, such as using a clothesline, which involves lower energy consumption.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-29DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108470
Stephane Lhuillery , Nicolas Befort , Samih Atmane
Different views and definitions pertain to the concept of bioeconomy. Few propose a workable definition enabling scholars and decision makers to identify analyze and manage the bioeconomy. Two technological delineations based on patent IPC codes delimitate a bioeconomy based on biotechnology inventions or based on a broader set of technologies. The two definitions are applied to two samples of firms, one with biotech firms and one with biorefineries that are considered by scholars as core to the bioeconomy. The relevance of these definitions for identifying the innovation practices of bioeconomy companies and reporting on their development of sustainable activities is assessed.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-26DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108468
Tobias Bähr, Adriana Bernal-Escobar, Meike Wollni
Exposure to economic incentives such as payments for ecosystem services (PES) can change intrinsic motivations to act pro-environmentally. These so-called crowding effects in PES have been shown to affect pro-environmental behavior of PES-receivers. It is, however, unclear if social norms toward pro-environmental behavior are also susceptible to crowding effects in PES and how these changes could influence pro-environmental behavior in the larger population. We design and implement a modified dictator game with Costa Rican oil palm smallholders to test if crowding effects can change social norms by affecting injunctive normative beliefs of PES-receivers and subsequently the pro-environmental behavior of non-PES-receivers through peer influence. Our results indicate that next to crowding-in pro-environmental behavior of PES-receivers, PES also improve PES-receivers' injunctive normative beliefs toward the behavior. Although we cannot link this improvement to an increase in pro-environmental behavior in non-PES-receivers, peer-to-peer communication of injunctive normative beliefs against pro-environmental behavior does reduce non-PES-receivers' pro-environmental behavior. Jointly, these effects highlight the potential of crowding effects in PES to change social norms.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-25DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108448
Charlotte Sophia Bez
This analysis aims at conceptualising the environmental dimension of left-behind places. I argue that implementing environmental inequality concepts into economic geography is pivotal to sharpen the analysis of just transition geographies. Adopting such lens (1) helps to grasp the theoretical underpinnings of environmental inequalities, (2) lays bare the stratification of environmental risks in left-behind places, (3) helps overcome the environment-vs-jobs narrative. Overall, I lay out how environmental inequality exacerbates economic deprivation, together producing and reproducing left-behind places. Taken together, economic geography studies would profit from putting environmental inequality at its core. This conceptualisation has important policy implications around labour-focused just transitions.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-25DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108472
Thijs ten Raa, Rob Stahlie
In ten Raa and Stahlie (2024) we showed that the carbon dioxide footprint per euro expenditure decreases with income in the Netherlands. We correct an error in the units. Our conclusion that there is a tradeoff between environmental and income policies stands.
在 ten Raa 和 Stahlie（2024 年）一文中，我们发现在荷兰，每欧元支出的二氧化碳足迹随着收入的增加而减少。我们纠正了单位上的错误。我们的结论是，环境政策和收入政策之间存在权衡。
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Pub Date : 2024-11-23DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108453
Haishan Meng , Dewei Yang , Tian Zhou, Shuai Zhang, Min Wan, Yijia Ji, Junmei Zhang, Hang Yang, Ruifang Guo
International trade profoundly impacts global land resource redistribution, creating significant inequalities. However, there is still a considerable gap in studies on land transfer and resulting environmental consequences. This study aims to illuminate inequality patterns by examining the global transfer dynamics of embodied cropland, forestland, and pasture in 2001, 2011, and 2021. The results reveal a notable increase in transfers within developing regions, rising from 21.8 % to 37.1 %. The direction of the largest shifts changed in embodied cropland and forestland. Embodied land outflows from developing regions were mainly related to primary products, while those from developed regions came from manufacturing and services. The carbon losses from trade-induced land use changes indicated that the world experienced an average loss of 37.25 million MgC/yr from carbon sink and 17.60 PgC from carbon storage in 2011. Developing regions not only provided land resources to developed regions but also bore the resulting carbon sink and storage losses. To prevent international trade from worsening regional inequalities and spreading environmental impacts, concerted efforts in improving land-use efficiency and conserving carbon stocks are alternative pathways to foster and promote global sustainability.
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