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Research
Our research focusses particularly at
understanding internal drivers of individual and collective human behavior at the root of environmental problems: This includes the role of preferences, beliefs, emotions, and inner skills.
designing and evaluating interventions and institutions to foster more sustainable behavior: We focus particularly on payments for environmental services, nudging, participatory interventions, and educational interventions training inner skills for sustainability transformation.
An overview of our research projects:
Inner Growth for Sustainability Transformation
“Inner Growth for Sustainability Transformation” is a pilot project assessing cognitive plasticity as a key facilitator for sustainability and aims to strengthen the interdisciplinary collaboration at Osnabrück University.
Latest project: DFG "Participatory vision-building for collective action in natural resource management"
The project seeks to identify the potential impacts and analyse the underlying mechanisms of different participatory interventions - participatory vision-building, in particular - on collective action in environmental and natural resource management. For that purpose, the project draws on the concepts and methods of institutional analysis, behavioural sciences and experimental economics. We gather experimental data on Andean farmers' individual and collective resource use and how different types of participatory interventions can affect these.
Latest Project: EU-Horizon 2020-Project FRAMEwork
On September 29-30, 2021 the first Full Assembly Meeting on the
EU FRAMEwork project (https://www.framework-biodiversity.eu) took place online with all project partners and advisory board members and allowed a great exchange on project progress so far.
CoVaCoa: Sustainable consumption decisions in the context of telecoupling
On Oct 16, 2021, a design workshop of the project team together with practice partners and advisory board members was held online within the DBU-funded project
"CoVaCoaConsumer decisions,Value chains & Cocoa"
(https://www.geographie.uni-osnabrueck.de/covacoa.html). Besides reporting on research progress and further sharpening research questions, the workshop facilitated a much appreciated exchange among the practice partners on their efforts to promote sustainable cocoa production.
