| Investing in the Green Economy 2025 |
LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) |
~3 weeks ago (2025) (LSEG) |
Examines the size, growth, and financial performance of the global green economy. Key points: green economy now valued at ~US$7.9 trillion (Q1 2025); green revenues (products & services) above US$5 trillion; green bonds market remains strong with US$572 billion new issuance in 2024. Shows that adaptation & resilience solutions are becoming major growth vectors. |
| Global Risks Report 2025 (20th Edition) |
World Economic Forum |
2025 (World Economic Forum Reports) |
Assesses global risks, with environmental, societal, and economic components. In ecological economics context, highlights how environmental degradation, climate risk, and biodiversity loss are now among top global risks, and how these risks have increasing economic feedbacks. |
| Current Perspectives on Biosphere Research 2024-2025 |
F. J. Bohn et al. / in Biosphere Research |
2025 (Biogeosciences) |
A review of recent advances in ecological sciences focused on the biosphere: biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, socio-economic interactions with ecosystems, strategies for restoration, and policy packages. It emphasizes the economic and social value of ecosystems, risks of ecosystem degradation, and ecological opportunities in policy. |
| Farm Size Matters: A Spatially Explicit Ecological-Economic Framework for Biodiversity and Pest Control |
Moretti, Loreau, Benzaquen |
2025 (arXiv) |
Uses a model calibrated for European agricultural landscapes. It shows that smaller and medium farms can get both biodiversity benefits and economic returns when combining reduced pesticide use and habitat restoration (hedgerows etc.), whereas very large farms face trade-offs due to landscape simplification. This helps guide policy on farm-scale interventions. |
| Bridging Farm Economics and Landscape Ecology for Global Sustainability |
Kevin Bradley Dsouza et al. |
August 2025 (arXiv) |
Introduces a hierarchical & Bayesian optimization framework to align farm-level decisions with biodiversity goals at landscape scale. It proposes policy instruments (subsidies, eco-premiums) that can be cost-effective, scalable, and ecologically sound. Useful for designing ecological economic policy that works across scales. |
| Planning sustainable carbon neutrality pathways: accounting challenges experienced by organizations & solutions from industrial ecology |
Anne de Bortoli, Anders Bjorn, François Saunier, Manuele Margni |
Early 2025 (arXiv) |
Focuses on how organizations plan for carbon neutrality: identifies accounting challenges (LCA, data gaps, measuring supply chain and mineral scarcity, metrics) and proposes solutions. Helps ecological economics by clarifying how to measure impacts and plan transitions coherently. |
| Sustainability Risks under Lotka-Volterra Dynamics |
Yiren Wang, Tianhao Zhi |
September 2025 (very recent) (arXiv) |
Proposes a model linking economic, environmental, social variables (the EVS nexus) with dynamics inspired by predator-prey models (Lotka-Volterra). Aims to capture sustainability risks in systems where economic growth, environmental impact and social factors interact dynamically. Has advantages in analytical tractability and may help in early warning or policy scenario modelling. |
| Ecology and power: from environmental and ecological economics to stratification economics |
F. Obeng-Odoom |
2025 (SpringerLink) |
Explores how ecological economics often underplays issues of power, social stratification, inequality in environmental outcomes. The paper argues that integrating insights from stratification economics can help expose power dynamics (who benefits, who is burdened) in ecological crises, and suggests alternative institutional frameworks. |
