A5041533715- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Gender Diversity and Inequality
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Physical Education and Pedagogy
- Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Local Government Finance and Decentralization
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Forest Management and Policy
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Water resources management and optimization
- Ethics in Business and Education
Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research
2023-2024
Osnabrück University
2019-2023
Utrecht University
2022
Philipps University of Marburg
2017-2019
Does competition affect moral behavior? This fundamental question has been debated among leading scholars for centuries, and more recently, it tested in experimental studies yielding a body of rather inconclusive empirical evidence. A potential source ambivalent results on the same hypothesis is design heterogeneity-variation true effect sizes across various reasonable research protocols. To provide further evidence whether affects behavior to examine generalizability single study...
Ecosystems around the world generate a wide range of services. Often, there are trade-offs in ecosystem service provision. Managing such requires governance interdependent action situations. We distinguished between (1) enhancing situations where beneficiaries create, maintain, or improve an ESS and (2) appropriation actors subtract from flow ESS. classified ESSs order to identify focal link them types which likely strengthen sustainable management. The classification is applied six forest...
Payments for ecosystem services (PES) are increasingly being implemented worldwide as conservation instruments that provide conditional economic incentives to landowners a prespecified duration. However, in the psychological and literature, critics have raised concerns PES can undermine recipient's intrinsic motivation engage pro-environmental behavior. Such "crowding out" may reduce effectiveness of even worsen outcomes once programs terminated. In this study, we harnessed randomized...
This paper investigates the effects of internal in-migration on cooperation in rural farming communities Zambia. Potentially, could trigger discrimination, decrease overall levels trust, and hence negatively impact propensity for collective action. We measure cooperative behavior through self-reported survey information incentivized decisions a lab-in-the-field experiment. First, we find no evidence experimental data that affects across villages. Second, villages where income inequalities...
Adolescents are the decision-makers of future, and as educational research shows, behaviors, habits, attitudes established at young age strongly shape behavior in adulthood. Therefore, it is important to understand what factors people’s climate-relevant behavior. In this study, we examine how information about peer affects adolescents’ perception prevailing social norms own decision-making. Experimentally, manipulated whether adolescents received other (lack of) support for climate...
Conservation policies and programs may trigger unintended, potentially irreversible, changes that were initially not anticipated. Concerns have been raised the introduction of payments for environmental services (PES) fosters privatization natural ecosystems to detriment marginalized groups. We assess long-term impacts PES on sharing access resources, associated norms, social preferences. The studied program was implemented as a randomized control trial in western Uganda. Using survey...
The behavior of local natural resource users is not only affected by economic incentives but also a diverse set motivations and underlying values. These non-monetary drivers are crucial in safeguarding long-term positive conservation outcomes. However, measuring these factors still constitutes significant challenge. Building on lessons learned from established methodology such as attitudinal or behavioral measures, we showcase how contingent valuation method experimental donation tasks can...
Abstract Facing climate change, seasonal forecasts, and weather warnings are increasingly important to warn the public of risk extreme conditions. However, being confronted with inaccurate forecast systems may undermine individuals’ responsiveness in long run. Using an online experiment, we assess how false alarm missed alarm-prone influence adaptation behaviour. We show that exposure forecasts decreases investments if a warning is issued (the ‘cry-wolf effect’). Exposure increases no...
Abstract People's preferences influence national priorities for economic development and ecological integrity. Often policymakers agents base their actions on unclear assumptions about such preferences. This paper explores rural citizens' outcomes how they differ within between communities. We collected data from three purposely selected communities representing dominant social‐ecological systems in the transboundary Cubango‐Okavango River basin southern Africa. used contingent ranking...
Incentive payments for conservation activities, also known as Payment Environmental Services (PES), are increasingly being adopted worldwide (Salzman, Bennett, Carroll, Goldstein, & Jenkins, 2018). However, if land is under joint ownership, conditional on individual performance either too costly or impossible to implement. This the case activities difficult monitor at level and/or ecosystem services only observed an aggregate (Engel, 2016). In other cases, where both group and...
People’s preferences influence national priorities for economic development and ecological integrity. Often policy makers agents base their actions on unclear assumptions about people’s preferences. This paper explores rural citizens’ goals how they differ within between communities. We collected data from three purposely selected communities representing dominant social-ecological systems in the transboundary Cubango-Okavango River Basin southern Africa. used contingent ranking survey...
One of the greatest challenges water management in watersheds arises from asymmetry appropriation: people upstream always have first access to supplies and their decisions affect downstream users. Payments for watershed services (PWS) aim incentivize provision by directly paying land users they provide Nevertheless, since often exhibit parochial behavior, question how frame who benefits ecosystem provided needs be addressed with caution. We implemented a modified dictator game field study...