“...This paper reviews the historic development of the conceptualization of ecosystem services and examines critical landmarks in economic theory and practice with...”

“...Despite the relationship between urbanization, energy use and CO2 emissions has been extensively studied in recent years, little attention has been paid to...”

“...What started as a humble metaphor to help us think about our relation to nature has become integral to how we are addressing the future of humanity and the...”

“...This article provides an alternative and novel theoretical approach to the conceptualization and analysis of payments for environmental services (PES). We...”

“...The interest in consumption-based emission and resource accounting has grown significantly. Many studies juxtapose consumer emissions (carbon footprint) and...”

“...). In this introductory paper, we set the stage for the rest of this Special Issue of Ecological Economics by reviewing the main issues arising in PES design and implementation and discussing...”

“...This article defends the proposal of sustainable degrowth. A starting premise is that resource and CO2 limits render further growth of the economy...”

“... The ecological economics approach, in contrast, seeks to adapt economic institutions to the physical characteristics of ecosystem services prioritizing ecological sustainability and just distribution...”

“...This paper provides with a review of the state of the art of environmental valuation with discrete choice experiments (DCEs). The growing body of literature on...”

“...This paper advocates consistently defined units of account to measure the contributions of nature to human welfare. We argue that such units have to date not...”