- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- Environmental Sustainability in Business
- Municipal Solid Waste Management
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Economic and Social Issues
- Corporate Management and Leadership
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Innovation, Technology, and Society
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Marine animal studies overview
- Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability
- Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
Research Institute for Sustainability at GFZ
2014-2023
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2016-2018
University of the South Pacific
2018
University of Prince Edward Island
2018
Every community-based marine resource management (CBMRM) inherently takes place in a highly complex social-ecological environment, and stakeholder perceptions related to various aspects of the natural social environment guide behavior every stage process. This paper provides an introduction psychology perception with regard management. In particular, it offers typology CBMRM relevant along analysis psychological, societal, physical factors that modulate them. Based on this analysis, we...
Plastic waste is perceived as one of the major environmental problems our times. Nevertheless, rates consumption plastic packaging are constantly increasing. Based on focus group discussions with German consumers this study identified personal and structural barriers that hinder a reduced consumption. Combining findings those previous studies, we conclude fundamental changes in infrastructures lifestyles, well cultural economic transformation processes, needed to make zero-waste shopping...
Inhabitants of Pacific small island states are facing multiple socio-ecological pressures, with climate change being one the most prominent.Nevertheless, agency local stakeholders in decisions on how to adapt climate-related environmental has been largely underappreciated sciences as well policy decisions.We, therefore, conducted a survey study Tuvalu, Samoa, and Tonga, asking specifically residents perceive their situation regarding challenges, what adaptation strategies they have devised...
Weltweit wächst der Eintrag von Kunststoffen in die Umwelt. Da bestehenden Regulierungen zur Eindämmung des Problems nicht ausreichen, muss ständig steigende Kunststoffproduktion und -nutzung insgesamt reduziert werden. Es bedarf eines systemischen Ansatzes, alle Akteure Verantwortung nimmt, Kunststoffprodukte -verpackungen produzieren, nutzen, recyceln entsorgen sowie damit handeln. Die Politik den nötigen Paradigmenwechsel vorantreiben eine gesamtgesellschaftliche Suffizienzdebatte ermöglichen.