Fwd: Special Issue in Behavioural Ecological Economic: Ecological Economics - Deadline extension to November 30, 2023

[Nives Della Valle]

Dear Colleagues,
 
We have extended the submission deadline for the Ecological Economics' Special Issue on Behavioural Ecological Economics to April 30, 2024.
 
We look forward to your submission.
 
Sincerely
 
Guest Editors:
 

Nives Della Valle: nives.de...@ec.europa.eu

Leonardo Boncinelli:  leonardo....@unifi.it

Tiziano Distefano: tiziano....@unifi.it

Tommaso Luzzati: tommaso...@unipi.it

Ann-Kathrin Blankenberg: a.blan...@berlin.bard.edu

The Ecological Economics' Special Issue on Behavioural Ecological Economics  aims to highlight the importance of the integration of behavioural economics into ecological economics. While these fields have been largely studied in isolation, a deeper understanding of their interaction is essential as the socio-economic and sustainability challenges (such as climate change and biodiversity loss) we face grow in complexity. Hence, this special issue welcomes studies that investigate what drives and inhibits the adoption of prosocial and pro-environmental behaviours and citizenship practices, which enable to achieve well-being for all while staying within planetary limits. It will address the role that prosocial and pro-environmental behaviours play in both shaping collective ecological action and enhancing justice (e.g. procedural, intergenerational, distributional, etc.). It will evaluate the extent to which alternative approaches to methodological individualism, like ecological rationality, enable to better interpret ecological collective action as the co-evolution between agents’ non-monetary motivations and their relationships with nature and others.

We invite experimental, theoretical and empirical papers showing how behavioural economics can be integrated into ecological economics, and incorporating aspects ranging from the identification of behavioural levers and policy instruments that can support both sufficiency and justice, the advancement of analytical models of collective action that account for the complex relationships between humans and nature, to the consideration of facets like social, cultural and ethical values. The aim of this special issue is to enhance our understanding of how individual behaviour and collective actions can contribute to implement and foster an ecological transition in practice.

The editors of this special issue are Nives Della Valle (European Commission Joint Research Centre), Leonardo Boncinelli, (University of Florence), Tiziano Distefano (University of Florence), Tommaso Luzzati (University of Pisa) and Ann-Kathrin Blankenberg (Bard College Berlin).

 

All contributions will go through the normal peer-review process and are expected to at least meet, if not exceed, the usual quality standards of articles published in Ecological Economics. This includes the possibility that a given contribution will not be published if it is found to be not suitable.

 

Submissions must be made through the journal’s online submission platform Editorial Manager https://www.editorialmanager.com/ecolec/default1.aspx. We aim for publishing accepted publications from 1^st October 2024.

 

The call for papers is available here https://journals.elsevier.com/ecological-economics%20/call-for-papers/behavioural-ecological-economics