A5059190518- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Environmental Sustainability in Business
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
2023-2024
Leipzig University
2023-2024
Climate protection is a collective project. However, most previous research on people’s pro-climate behavior ignores the dimension, looking at personal private-sphere and considering cost-benefit predictors only. The present paper transcends this individualistic perspective by addressing behaviors that target transformation (i.e., financial investments in renewable energy projects acceptance of policies) cognition motivation social identity). Combining insights methods from economics...
Previous research has mainly considered economic factors and personal psychological (e.g., pro-environmental attitudes) as determinants of investment behavior for renewable energies. However, less is known about how social identities, i.e. the human capacity to think act a member group, can shape green behavior. Combining insights from economics psychology, current investigates if collective motivation ingroup norms, climate efficacy beliefs) uniquely add explanation decisions acceptance...
Abstract Aspirations defined as future‐oriented desires or ambitions, can determine agricultural investments and rural development. are shaped by people's social, cultural, physical environment be affected external factors such natural disasters. This article addresses the question of how weather shocks influence individual community aspirations. Using primary panel data from two survey rounds before during a major drought in Zambia, we show that extreme events associated with adverse...