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The research and project results of the Department of Environmental Economics at the University of Osnabrück are regularly presented at international conferences and published in scientific journals.
2024
Waldhof, G. 2024. Moral value conflicts in the German debate about genetically engineered foods. Journal of Consumer Protection and Food Safety 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00003-024-01519-3
Engel, S., Janssen, C. 2024. The Inner Development Goals as an Innovative Approach to Sustainable Development: Conceptualization, Implementation, and Evaluation of an Experiential University Seminar for Holistic Sustainability Education. 2024. In Leung (ed.), Engaging in Prosocial Behaviours for an Inclusive Classroom and Society. IntechOpen ISBN 978-1-83769-900-1. Chapter available under https://www.intechopen.com/online-first/1193423.
Hembach-Stunden, K., Vorlaufer, T., Engel, S. 2024. Threshold ambiguity and sustainable resource mangement: A lab experiment. Ecological Economics 226: 108353. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108353
Baaken, M.C.; Vollan, B. (2024). "Identifying behavior change interventions with deep leverage: a conceptual and qualitative case study with farmers from Germany", Sustainability Science, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-024-01540-3
Waldhof, G. (2024). Improving Science Communication About Genome Editing - Mitigating Strong Moral Convictions Through Shared Moral Goals, in: A Roadmap for Plant Genome Editing pp. 493-517 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46150-7_30
Möckel, S.; Baaken, M.C.; Bartkowski, B.; Beckmann, M; Strauch, M; Stubenrauch, J; Volk, M.; et al. (2024). "Zukunftsfähige Agrarlandschaften in Deutschland - praktische Maßnahmen und ihre Wirksamkeit im Vergleich", Natur und Recht 46 13-24, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10357-023-4282-y
2023
Ortiz-Riomalo, J-F., Koessler, A.K., Miranda-Montagut, Y.M., Cardenas, J.C. 2023. Participatory interventions for collective action and sustainable resource management: linking actors, situations and contexts through the IAD, NAS and SES frameworks. Sustainability Science, Vol. 18, 79-96 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01215-x
Pascual, U., Balvanera, P., Anderson, C.B. et al. 2023. Diverse values of nature for sustainability. Nature (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06406-9
Baaken, M.C.; Bartkowski, B.; Rode, J. 2023. “Exploring farmers' support needs for the adoption of agri-environmental practices: An application of the Theoretical Domains Framework”, Environmental Research Communications 5 111004, https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/ad03b0
Koessler, A.-K., Heinz, N., Engel, S. 2023. Perspective-taking with affected others to promote climate change mitigation. Frontiers in Psychology 14:1225165.https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1225165
Jauernig, J., Uhl, M., & Waldhof, G. 2023. Genetically engineered foods and moral absolutism: A representative study from Germany. Science and Engineering Ethics, 29(5). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-023-00454-0
Barreiro-Hurle, J., Dessart, F.D., Rommel, J., Czajkowski, M., Espinosa-Goded, M., Rodriguez-Entrena, M., Thomas, F. & Zagorska, K. 2023. Willing or complying? The delicate interplay between voluntary and mandatory interventions to promote farmers' environmental behavior. Food Policy 120 (Octorber): 102481. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2023.102481
Vorlaufer, T., Steimanis, I. 2023. Solidarity under Heterogenous Adaptation Costs: Experimental Evidence on Coping after Climate Hazards. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 120 (July): 102824. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2023.102824
Huber, C., Dreber, A., Huber, J., Johannesson, M., Kirchler, M., Weitzel, U., Abellán, M. et al. 2023. Competition and Moral Behavior: A Meta-Analysis of Forty-Five Crowd-Sourced Experimental Designs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120 (23): e2215572120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2215572120
Höhler, J., Barreiro-Hurlé, J., Czajkowski, M., Dessart, F. J., Ferraro, P. J., Li, T., Messer, K. D., Palm-Forster, L., Termansen, M., Thomas, F., Zagórska, K., Zemo, K. H., Rommel, J. 2023. Perspectives on Stakeholder Participation in the Design of Economic Experiments for Agricultural Policymaking: Pros, Cons, and Twelve Recommendations for Researchers. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1002/aepp.13385
Heinz, N., Koessler, A. K., Engel, S. 2023. Distance to climate change consequences reduces willingness to engage in low-cost mitigation actions–Results from an experimental online study from Germany. PLoS ONE 18(4): e0283190. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283190
Vorlaufer, T., Engel, S., de Laat, J., Vollan, B. 2023. Payments for ecosystem services did not crowd-out pro-environmental behavior: long-term experimental evidence from Uganda. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 120(18): e2215465120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2215465120
Vorlaufer, T., de Laat, J., Engel, S. 2023. Do Payments for Environmental Services Affect Forest Access and Social Preferences in the Long Run? Experimental Evidence from Uganda. Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 10 (2): 389–412. https://doi.org/10.1086/721440
Ortiz-Riomalo, J.-F., Koessler, A.-K., & Engel, S. 2023. The impact of participatory interventions on pro-social behavior in environmental and natural resource management: Evidence from the lab and the field. In A. Bucciol, A. Tavoni, & M. Veronesi (Eds.), Behavioral Economics and the Environment: A Research Companion. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003172741-10
Ortiz-Riomalo, J. F., Koessler, A. K., & Engel, S. 2023. Fostering collective action through participation in natural resource and environmental management: An integrative and interpretative narrative review using the IAD, NAS and SES frameworks. Journal of Environmental Management 331: 117184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.117184
Ferré, M., Engel, S., Gsottbauer, E. 2023. External validity of experiments to improve the design of agri-environmental schemes. Journal of Agricultural Economics 2023; 00: 1–25. http://doi.org/10.1111/1477-9552.12529
2022
Koessler, A., Vorlaufer T., Fiebelkorn, F.. 2022. ‘Social Norms and Climate-Friendly Behavior of Adolescents’. PLOS ONE 17 (4): e0266847. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266847
Barton, D.N., Chaplin-Kramer, R., Lazos, E., Van Noordwijk, M., Engel, S., Girvan, A., Hahn, T., Leimona, B., Lele, S., Niamir, A., Özkaynak, B., Pawlowska-Mainville, A., Muradian, R., Ungar, P., Aydin, C., Iranah, P., Nelson, S., Cantú-Fernández, M., and González-Jiménez, D. (2022). Chapter 4: Value expression in decision-making. In: Balvanera, P., Pascual, U., Christie, M., Baptiste, B., and González-Jiménez, D. (eds). Methodological Assessment Report on the Diverse Values and Valuation of Nature of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. IPBES secretariat, Bonn, Germany. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6522261
Ferré, M., Engel, S., Gsottbauer, E. 2022. Incentivizing coordination in the adoption of sustainable land use when costs are heterogeneous: An economic experiment. Land Use Policy 123: 106397.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106397
2021
Lliso, B., Arias Arevalo, P., Maca Millán, S., Pascual, U., Engel, S. 2021. Motivational crowding effects in payments for ecosystem services under alternative value frames: Instrumental versus relational values. People and Nature 00:1-18. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10280
Falk, T., Vorlaufer, T., Brown, L., Domptail, S., Dallimer, M. 2021. ‘Citizens’ Preferences for Development Outcomes and Governance Implications’. Land Degradation & Development, October, ldr.4099. https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.4099
Lliso, B., Arias-Arévalo, P., Maca-Millán, S., Engel, S., Pascual, U. 2021. Motivational crowding effects in payments for ecosystem services: Exploring the role of instrumental and relational values. People and nature http://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10280
Ortiz-Riomalo, J.F., Koessler, A.K., Engel, S. 2021. Inducing perspective-taking for prosocial behaviour in natural resource management. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 110, 102513, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2021.102513
Dessart, F.J., Rommel, J., Barreiro Hurle, J., Thomas, F., Rodríguez-Entrena, M., Espinosa-Goded, M., Zagórska, K., Czajkowski, M. and Van Bavel, R. Farmers and the new green architecture of the EU common agricultural policy: a behavioural experiment, EUR 30706 EN, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2021, ISBN 978-92-76-37778-8, doi:10.2760/718383, JRC123832.
https://doi.org/10.2760/718383
Lefebvre, M., J. Barreiro-Hurle, C. Blanchflower, L. Colen, L. Kuhfuss, J. Rommel, T. Sumrada,F. Thomas and S. Thoyer, 2021. Can Economic Experiments Contribute to a More Effective CAP? Euro Choices, Online Early View. https://doi.org/10.1111/1746-692X.12324
Koessler, A. K., Engel, S. 2021, "Policies as Information Carriers: How Environmental Policies May Change Beliefs and Consequent Behavior", International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics: Vol. 15: No. 1-2, pp 1-31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/101.00000123
Koessler, A. K., Ortiz-Riomalo, J., Janke, M., Engel, S. 2021. Structuring Communication Effectively—The Causal Effects of Communication Elements on Cooperation in Social Dilemmas. Environmental and Resource Economics (April2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-021-00552-2
Koessler, A. K., Page, L., Dulleck, U. 2021. Public cooperation statements. Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination (April 2021) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11403-021-00327-4
Heinz, N., Koessler, A. K. 2021. Other-regarding preferences and pro-environmental behaviour: An interdisciplinary review of experimental studies. Ecological Economics, 184, 106987.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.106987
Lliso, B., Pascual, U., Engel, S. 2021.On the role of social equity in payments for ecosystem services in Latin America: A practitioner perspective.Ecological Economics 182 (April 2021).
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106928
Working Papers
2021
Kouakou, A.-G., Gsottbauer, E., Engel, S. 2021. What makes PES fair? Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4042468
Heinz, N., Koessler, A. K., & Engel, S. (2021). Distance to climate change consequences reduces willingness to engage in low-cost mitigation actions–Results from an experimental online study from Germany. ZBW-Leibniz Information Centre for Economics. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3971047
Lliso, B., Arias-Arévalo, P., Maca-Millán, S., Engel, S., Pascual, U. 2021. Motivational crowding effects in payments for ecosystem services under alternative value frames: Instrumental versus relational values. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3878138
Bernal-Escobar, A., Engel, S. and Midler, E. 2021a. Beyond a Market Discourse: Is Framing a Solution to Avoid Motivational Crowding-Out in Payments for Ecosystem Services? Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3910112
Bernal-Escobar, A., Engel, S., Midler, E. and Vorlaufer, T. 2021b. Who is Benefiting Down-stream? Experimental Evidence on the Relevance of Upstream-Downstream Geographic Dis-tance for Water Provision. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3911047
Bernal-Escobar, A., Engel, S. and Midler, E. 2021c. Behavioral spillovers from mixing conserva-tion policies in neighboring areas: An experimental analysis on fairness perceptions towards un-equal policies. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3910452
Publications of past years
2020
Engel, S. 2020. Payments for environmental services. In Essential Concepts of Global Environ-mental Governance, J. F. Morin and A. Orsini (eds.). 2nd edition. Routledge.
Glaser, M., Breckwoldt, A., Ferse, S., Gorris, P., Schwerdtner-Manez, K. In press. The Gover-nance of Coastal and Marine Social-Ecological Systems: Indonesia and Beyond, in Science for the Protection of Indonesia’s Coastal and Marine Systems (Eds. T. Jennerjahn, H. Reuter). Routledge.
Glaser, M., Gorris, P. 2020. Decentralization and participation in integrated coastal manage-ment: Policy lessons from Brazil and Indonesia, in Integrated Coastal Zone Management Re-visited (Eds. B. Glaeser, M. Glaser). Routledge.
Gorris, P., Glaser, M. Accepted for publication. Information transmission capacity and robust-ness of natural resource governance networks in Brazil and Indonesia: A comparative analysis. Human Ecology Review.
Howell, N. J., Koessler, A. K., Mason, R. F. & Dulleck, U. 2020. Behavioral insights into the impact of bankruptcy's public record on business activity. Insolvency Law Journal 28(3): 125-148.
Kluger, L., Gorris, P., Kochalski, S., Müller, M., Romagnoni, G. 2020. Studying human-nature relationships through a network lens: A systematic review. People and Nature 2: 1100-1116.
Koessler, A. K., Ortíz-Riomalo, J. F., Janke, M., & Engel, S. In press. Structuring communication effectively for environmental cooperation. International Review of Environmental and Re-source Economics. Working paper version available at SSRN: ssrn.com/abs-tract=3533910 or dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3533910
Lliso, B., Pascual, U., Mariel, P., Engel, S. 2020.
Increasing the credibility and salience of valuation through deliberation: Lessons from the Global South. Global Environmental Change 62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102065
Lliso, B., Pascual, U., Engel, S., Mariel, P., 2020. Payments for ecosystem services or collective stewardship of Mother Earth? Applying deliberative valuation in an indigenous community in Colombia. Ecological Economics. doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.106499
Pahl-Wostl, C., Gorris, P., Jager, N., Koch, L., Lebel, L., Stein, C., Venghaus, S., Withanachchi, S. 2020. Scale-related governance challenges in the water–energy–food nexus: toward a diag-nostic approach. Sustainability Science. [online first]
Vorlaufer, T. & Vollan, B. 2020. How Migrants Benefit Poor Communities: Evidence from Rural Zambia. Land Economics, 96, 1, 111-131. doi: 10.3368/le.96.1.111
Wunder, S., Brouwer, R., Engel, S., Ezzine-de-Blas, D., Muradian, R., Pascual,U., Pinto, R. 2020.
Reply to: In defence of simplified PES designs. Nature sustainability (June 2020) https://rdcu.be/b4ysD
2019
Lliso, B., Pascual, U., Engel, S., Mariel, P. 2019. Payments for ecosystem services or collective stewardship of Mother Earth? Applying deliberative valuation in an indigenous community in Colombia. Ecological Economics 169 (March 2020).
https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1a5lP3Hb~0MJr2
Engel, S., and Ovando Pol P. 2019. Guest editorial to the Special Issue on Payments for Forest Watershed Services. Water Resources and Economics.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wre.2019.100153
Vorlaufer, T. (2019). Effects of Double-Anonymity on Pro- and Anti-Social Behavior: Experimental Evidence from a Lab in the Field. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 81, 216-225.
doi: 10.1016/j.socec.2019.07.001
Ferré, M., Muller, A., Leifeld, J., Bader, C., Müller, M., Engel, S., Wichmann, S. 2019. Sustainable management of cultivated peatlands in Switzerland: insights, challenges, and opportunities. Land Use Policy 87 (2019) 104019;
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.05.038.
Heitmann, F., Pahl-Wostl., C., Engel, S. 2019. Requirements Based Design of Environmental System of Systems: Development and Application of a Nexus Design Framework. Sustainability 2019, 11, 3464; doi:10.3390/su11123464
Thomas, F., E. Midler, M. Lefebvre and S. Engel (2019). Greening the Common Agricultural Policy: a behavioural perspective and lab-in-the-field experiment in Germany. European Review of Agricultural Economics,
doi:10.1093/erae/jbz014
2018
Andreoni, J., Kössler, A.-K., and Serra-Garcia, M. In press. Who gives? - On empathy and impulsiveness. The Economics of Philanthropy (MIT press), in press. Wunder, S., Brouwer, R., Engel, S., Ezzine-de-Blas, D., Muradian, R., Pascual, U., Pinto, R. 2018. From principles to practice in paying for nature’s services. Nature Sustainability 1 (March 2018): 145-150.
Cardenas, J.C., Ortiz-Riomalo, J.F. 2018. Acción colectiva para abordar conflictos socio-ambientales. El caso de Santurbán. In: Modos de gobernanza del agua y sostenibilidad. Aportes conceptuales y análisis de experiencias en Colombia (Ed: Hernández, A.), Eciciones Uniandes
Falk, T., Spangenberg, J. H., Siegmund-Schultze, M., Kobbe, S., Feike, T., Kuebler, D., Settele, J., Vorlaufer, T. 2018. Identifying governance challenges in ecosystem services management – Conceptual considerations and comparison of global forest case. Ecosystem Services. 32: 193-203. doi: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2018.07.012.
Feindt, P.H., Krämer, C., Früh-Müller, A., Wolters, V., Pahl-Wostl, C. Heißenhuber, A., van Bers, C.,
Thomas, F. and Purnhagen, K. 2018. Der Status quo ist keine Option – Vorschlag für eine zukunftsfähige Architektur der Agrarpolitik. Natur und Landschaft 93, 6, 280-285.
Ferré, M., Engel, S., Gsottbauer, E. 2018. Which Agglomeration Payment for a Sustainable Management of Organic Soils in Switzerland? – An Experiment Accounting for Farmers' Cost Heterogeneity. Ecological Economics 150: 24-33.
Gerhardinger, L. C.; Gorris, P.; Gonçalves, L. R.; Herbst, D. F.; Vila-Nova, D. A.; Carvalho, F. G. de; Glaser, M.; Zondervan, R.; Glavovic, B. 2018. Healing Brazil’s Blue Amazon: The role of knowledge networks in nurturing cross-scale transformations at the frontlines of ocean sustainability. Frontiers in Marine Science 4:395. doi:10.3389/fmars.2017.00395.
Glaeser, B., Ferse, S., Gorris, P. 2018. Fisheries in Indonesia between livelihoods and environmental degradation: Coping strategies in the Spermonde Archipelago, Sulawesi. In: Societal and governing responses to global change in marine systems (Eds.: Guillotreau, P., Bundy, A., Perry, I. R.), Routledge.
Glaeser, B.; Ferse, S. C. A.; Gorris, P. 2018. Fisheries in Indonesia between livelihoods and environmental degradation: Coping strategies in the Spermonde Archipelago, Sulawesi. In Global Change in Marine Systems: Integrating Natural, Social and Governing Responses; Guillotreau, P., Bundy, A., Perry, R. I., Eds.; Routledge: Oxon/New York, pp. 67–82 (ISBN 978-1-138-05922-1).
Glaser, M., Gorris, P., Ferreira, B.P., Breckwoldt, A. 2018. Analysing Ecosystem User Perceptions of the Governance Interactions Surrounding a Brazilian Near Shore Coral Reef. Sustainability 10(5):1464. (doi:10.3390/su10051464)
Gsottbauer, E., Gampfer, R., Bernold, E., and Delas, A-M. 2018. Broadening the scope of loss and damage to legal liability: an experiment, Climate Policy 18(5):600-611.
Ortiz-Riomalo, J.F., Rettberg, A. 2018. Minería de oro, conflicto y criminalidad en los albores del siglo XXI en Colombia: Perspectivas para el posconflicto colombiano. Colombia Internacional (93): 17-63. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.7440/colombiaint93.2018.02
Rettberg, A., Cardenas, J.C., Ortiz-Riomalo, J.F. 2018. Mismo recurso, diferentes conflictos: Un análisis de la relación entre oro, conflicto y criminalidad en seis departamentos colombianos. In: ¿Diferentes recursos, conflictos diferentes? La economía política regional del conflicto armado y la criminalidad en Colombia (Eds. Rettberg, A., Leiteritz, R., Nasi, C. and Prieto, J.D.), Ediciones Uniandes
Thomas, F., A. Koessler and S. Engel (2018). Stupsende Agrarpolitik? Nudging zu einer nachhaltigen Landwirtschaft. Vierteljahreshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 87 (2/2018): 127-138. DIW, Berlin.
Vollan, B., Hönow, C., Vorlaufer, T. 2018. On the definition and comparability of individual and group incentives for environmental conservation. Conservation Letters. 11:e12577. doi:10.1111/conl.12577.
Wunder, S., Brouwer, R., Engel, S., Ezzine-de-Blas, D., Muradian, R., Pascual, U., Pinto, R. 2018. From principles to practice in paying for nature’s services. Nature Sustainability 1 (March 2018): 145-150.
2017
He, P., Veronesi, M., Engel, S. 2017. Consistency of Risk Preference Measures: An Artefactual Field Experiment from Rural China. Journal of Development Studies. [online]
DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2017.1336542.
Muller, A., Ferré, M., Engel, S., Gattinger, A., Holzkämper, A., Huber, R., Müller, M., Six, J. 2017. Can soil-less crop production be a sustainable option for soil conservation and future agriculture? Land Use Policy 69: 102-105.
Gorris, P., Javaid, A. 2017. Fischen mit Gift und Dynamit - Ursachen und Lösungen. Technologie-Information - Wissen und Innovation aus niedersächsischen Hochschulen. Themenschwerpunkt: Wasser und Meer, 3:21
Javaid, A., Janssen, M., Rueter, H., Schlüter, A. When Patience Leads to Destruction: The Curious Case of Individual Time Preferences and the Adoption of Destructive Fishing Gears. Ecological Economics 142 (2017): 91-103.
Kössler, A.-K., Page, L. and Dulleck, U., 2017. "Promoting pro-social behavior with public statements of good intent," MPRA Paper 80072, University Library of Munich, Germany.
Feindt, P.H., Krämer, C., Früh-Müller, A., Wolters, V., Pahl-Wostl, C., Heißenhuber, A., van Bers, C., Thomas, F. and Purnhagen, K. (2017): A future-oriented social contract with the agricultural sector: Plea for a new agricultural policy, Policy paper from the ZANEXUS project, presented to the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) and the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Bonn/Berlin, January 2017.
Feindt, P.H., Krämer, C., Früh-Müller, A., Wolters, V., Pahl-Wostl, C., Heißenhuber, A., van Bers, C., Thomas, F. and Purnhagen, K. (2017): Ein zukunftsfähiger Gesellschaftsvertrag mit der Landwirtschaft: Plädoyer für eine neue Agrarpolitik. [online] URL: http://www.bmub.bund.de/N53910/
Feindt, P.H., Krämer, C., Früh-Müller, A., Wolters, V., Pahl-Wostl, C., Heißenhuber, A., van Bers, C., Thomas, F. and Purnhagen, K. (2017): Ein neuer Gesellschaftsvertrag für eine nachhaltige Landwirtschaft: Auf dem Weg zu einer integrativen Politik für den Agrarsektor. Politikpapier des Forschungs- und Entwicklungs-Verbundvorhabens "ZA-NExUS: Zukunftsfähige Agrarpolitik - Natur erhalten, Umwelt sichern", gefördert vom Bundesamt für Naturschutz und dem Umweltbundesamt, FKZ 35158 80 400, Bonn/Berlin, 32 Seiten, Mai 2017.
Koessler, A. , Page, L. and Dulleck, U. (2017)."Promoting pro-social behavior with public statements of good intent", MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany
Feindt, P.H., Krämer, C., Früh-Müller, A., Wolters, V., Pahl-Wostl, C., Heißenhuber, A., van Bers, C., Thomas, F. and Purnhagen, K. (2017): Ein zukunftsfähiger Gesellschaftsvertrag mit der Landwirtschaft: Plädoyer für eine neue Agrarpolitik. [online]
Feindt, P.H., Krämer, C., Früh-Müller, A., Wolters, V., Pahl-Wostl, C., Heißenhuber, A., van Bers, C., Thomas, F. and Purnhagen, K. (2017): A future-oriented social contract with the agricultural sector: Plea for a new agricultural policy, Policy paper from the ZANEXUS project, presented to the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) and the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Bonn/Berlin, January 2017.
Feindt, P.H., Krämer, C., Früh-Müller, A., Wolters, V., Pahl-Wostl, C., Heißenhuber, A., van Bers, C., Thomas, F. and Purnhagen, K. (2017): Ein neuer Gesellschaftsvertrag für eine nachhaltige Landwirtschaft: Auf dem Weg zu einer integrativen Politik für den Agrarsektor. Politikpapier des Forschungs- und Entwicklungs-Verbundvorhabens "ZA-NExUS: Zukunftsfähige Agrarpolitik - Natur erhalten, Umwelt sichern", gefördert vom Bundesamt für Naturschutz und dem Umweltbundesamt, FKZ 35158 80 400, Bonn/Berlin, 32 Seiten, Mai 2017.
2016
Engel, S. 2016. The Devil in the Detail: A Practical Guide on Designing Payments for Environmental Services. International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics 9(1–2):131-177. [pdf] dx.doi.org/10.1561/101.00000076
Engel, S., Muller, A. 2016. Payments for Environmental Services to Promote Climate-Smart Agriculture? Potential and Challenges. Agricultural Economics 47 (S1): 173–184
Glaeser, B., Ferse, S., Gorris, P. (in press) Fisheries in Indonesia between livelihoods and environmental degradation: Coping strategies in the Spermonde Archipelago, Sulawesi. In: Societal and governing responses to global change in marine systems (Eds.: Guillotreau, P., Bundy, A., Perry, I. R.), Routledge.
Gorris, P. 2016. Deconstructing the Reality of Community-Based Management of Marine Resources in a Small Island Context in Indonesia. Frontiers in Marine Science 3:120. [open access]
Gsottbauer, E., Gampfer, R., Bernold, E., and Delas, A-M. Could climate change liability help to strike a climate agreement? An experiment. Climate Policy, forthcoming.
He, P., M. Veronesi and S. Engel (2016), Consistency of Risk Preference Measures and the Role of Ambiguity: An Artefactual Field Experiment from China. Working Paper No. 3, Department of Economics, University of Verona (ISSN: 2036-2919)
Javaid, A., Kulesz, M. M., Schlüter, A., Ghosh, A., Jiddawi, N.S. 2016. Time Preferences and Natural Resource Extraction Behavior: An Experimental Study from Artisanal Fisheries in Zanzibar. PloS one 11.12 (2016): e0168898.
Koessler, A., B. Torgler, L. P. Feld and B. S. Frey, Commitment to Pay Taxes: A Field Experiment on the Importance of Promise, CESifo Working Paper No. 6186, November 2016
Thomas, F. & Knüppe, K. (2016): From Flood Protection to Flood Risk Management: Insights from the Rhine River in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Water Resources Management 30, 8: 2785-2800. doi: 10.1007/s11269-016-1323-9
Reutemann, T., Engel, S., Pareja, E. 2016. How (not) to Pay - Field Experimental Evidence on the Design of REDD+ Payments. Ecological Economics 129: 220-229.
Bernold, E., Gsottbauer, E., Murphy, R. and K. Ackermann. Social framing and cooperation: The roles and interaction of preferences and beliefs. Mimeo, University of Innsbruck.
Ferré, M., Engel, S., Gsottbauer, E.: “Can agglomeration payments induce sustainable management of peat soils in Switzerland? – A computerized framed experiment.”
Ferré, M., Muller, A., Leifeld, J., Bader, C., Muller, M., Engel, S., Wichmann, S.: “Sustainable management of cultivated peatlands: Insights, challenges, and opportunities – A case study from Switzerland.”
Ferré, M., Engel, S., Gsottbauer, E.: "Incentives for sustainable land use considering cost heterogeneity among farmers: Results from a computerized framed experiment",
Ferré, M., Engel, S., Gsottbauer, E.: "External validity of experiments in environmental economics: framing and subject pool effects among students and professionals,
Figuières, C., Midler, E. Compensations to curb deforestation efficiently can also reward environmental merit.
Gorris, P., Glaser, M., Idrus R., Yusuf, A. M.: Governing natural resources in decentralized political systems: Insights from analyzing interaction patterns among governance actors of a regional fishery in Indonesia.
Grolleau, G., Midler, E., Mzoughi, N. Behavioral insights for the analysis of green tips.
He, P., Veronesi, M., Engel, S. Consistency of Risk Preference Measures: An Artefactual Field Experiment from Rural China.
Gsottbauer, E., Engel, S., Wätzold, F., Drechsler, M. “Coordination and inequalities in agglomeration payments: An experimental analysis.”
Heitmann, F., Pahl-Wostl, C., Engel, S. “Using System of Systems Engineering to develop an analytical WEF-Nexus framework“.
Javaid, A., Janssen, M., Rueter, H., Schlüter, A. 2016. When patience leads to destruction: the curious case of individual time preferences and the adoption of destructive fishing gears.
Javaid, A., Schlüter, A. 2016. Temporal dilemma, resource extraction and use of destructive extraction methods: experimental evidence from Zanzibar.
Javaid, A. Competitiveness, Inequality-aversion and spiteful behavior: the dark side of social comparison.
Muller, A., Bader, C., Ferré, M., Engel, S., Gattinger, A., Holzkämper, A., Huber, R., Müller, M., Six, J. 2016. Can soil-less crop production be a sustainable option for soil conservation and future agriculture?
Koessler, A. , Page, L., Dulleck, U. : Public statements of good intent help to sustain pro-social behaviour in public good situations.
Wunder, S., Brouwer, R., Engel, S., Ezzine-de-Blas, D., Muradian, R., Pascual, U., P, R. Getting the Economics Right when Paying for Nature's Services.
2015
Alpizar, F. and Gsottbauer, E. 2015. Reputation and household recycling practices: Field experiments in Costa Rica, Ecological Economics 120: 366-375.
Drucker, A. G., Pascual, U., Narloch, U., Midler, E., Soto, J.L., Pinto, M., Valdivia, E. & Rojas, W. 2015. “Voluntary payments for the conservation of quinoa diversity: exploring the role of payments for ecosystem services in the Andes”. In: FAO & CIRAD, 2015, State of the art report of Quinoa in the world in 2013, by Bazile, D., Bertero, D., & Nieto, C. (eds.) Rome. pp 106-117.
Engel, S., Palmer, C., Taschini, L., Urech, S. 2015. “Conservation Payments under Uncertainty”. Land Economics 91(1): 36-56.
Engel, S., Wünscher, T. 2015. “Payments for environmental services as a mechanism to promote biodiversity conservation in a Green Economy: Potentials and limitations”. In: Biodiversity in the Green Economy. Gasparatos, A., Willis, K. (eds.). London: Routledge.
Engel, S. 2015. The Devil in the Detail: A Practical Guide on Designing Payments for Environmental Services. International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics 9(1–2):131-177. [pdf] http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/101.00000076
Ferrol-Schulte, D., Gorris, P., Baitoningsih, W., Adhuri, D. S., & Ferse, S. C. A. 2015. Coastal livelihood vulnerability to marine resource degradation: a review of the Indonesian national coastal and marine policy framework. Marine Policy, 52, 163–171
Gorris, P. (2015). Entangled? Linking governance systems for regional-scale coral reef management: Analysis of case studies in Brazil and Indonesia, Bremen. [online: opus.jacobs-university.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/211].
Gorris, P. (2015). Community-based management for sustainable fishing or organizing the battle over the remaining resources? Analysis of an island’s micro cosmos in the Spermonde Archipelago, Indonesia. Proceedings of the workshop on environmental governance approaches in the local context: Evidence from Indonesia, 7-8 September 2015, Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT), Bremen. [online: www.usf.uni-osnabrueck.de/fileadmin/DE/Institut/Publikationen/Forschungsgruppen/REM/ Gorris_2015_CBM_in_Indonesia.pdf].
Gsottbauer, E., Logar, I., van den Bergh, J.C.J.M. (2015). Rejoinder to Kallis et al.'s response to our criticism. Ecological Economics, 118: 285-286.
Gsottbauer, E., Logar, I. and J.C.J.M. van den Bergh (2015) Towards a fair, constructive and consistent criticism of all valuation languages: Comment on Kallis et al. (2013). Ecological Economics 112: 164-169.
Kluger, L., Kochalski, S., Müller, M.S., Gorris, P., Romagnoni, G. 2015. Towards a holistic analysis of social-ecological systems (SES) in the marine realm. In: Proceedings of the YOUMARES 6 Conference - A journey into the blue: Ocean research and innovation, 16-18. Sept. 2015. C. Jessen, S. Kalita & V. Golz (Eds.), Bremen, Germany, pp. 107-122. [online]
Javaid, A., and T. Falk. 2015. Incorporating local institutions in irrigation experiments: evidence from rural communities in Pakistan. Ecology and Society 20(2): 28. <http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-07532-200228>
Midler, E., Figuieres, C., & Willinger, M. (2015). Choice overload, coordination and inequality: three hurdles to the effectiveness of the compensation mechanism?. Social Choice and Welfare, 45(3), 513-535.
Midler, E., Pascual U., Drucker, A., Narloch, U. & Soto, J.L. (2015). “Unraveling the effects of PES on intrinsic motivations for collective action”. Ecological Economics 120, 394-405.
Veronesi, M., Reutemann, T., Zabel, A., and S. Engel. 2015. Designing REDD+schemes when forest users are not forest landowners: Evidence from a survey-based experiment in Kenya. Ecological Economics pp. 46-57. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.04.009.
Gsottbauer, E., Logar, I., van den Bergh, J.C.M. 2015. Rejoinder to Kallis' et al. response to our criticism. Ecological Economics, in press.
Javaid, A. Time preference and natural resource extraction: An experimental case study from small-scale fisheries in Zanzibar (with Micaela Kulesz, Achim Schlüter and Narriman Jidawi) (available upon request).
Javaid, A. Temporal dilemma, resource extraction and use of destructive extraction methods: experimental evidence from Zanzibar (with Achim Schlüter) (available upon request).
Javaid, A. When patience leads to destruction: curious case of individual time preferences and the adoption of destructive fishing gears (with Marco Janssen, Hauke Rueter and Achim Schlüter)
Midler E., Pascual U. & Simonit, S. “Forest ecosystems in national economies and contribution of REDD+ in green economy transformation: the case of Panama”. Technical report and policy briefing for the United Nation Environmental Program.
Figuières C. & Midler E. Deforestation and REDD+: Taking Stock of the Latest Institutional Possibilities. In revision for a book.
2014
Engel, S. “Payments for environmental services”. 2014. In Essential Concepts of Global Environmental Governance, J. F. Morin and A. Orsini (eds.). Routledge.
Gsottbauer, E. and J.C.J.M van den Bergh (2014) Environmental policy when pollutive consumption is sensitive to advertising: Norms versus status. Ecological Economics 107: 39-50.
Wünscher, T., and S. Engel, with contributions from K. Karousakis. 2014. “Cost-effective targeting for IPES.” In Global Biodiversity Finance: The Case for International Payments for Ecosystem Services. Bishop, J., Hill, C., (eds.). Edward Elgar, UK.
Zabel, A., Bostedt, G., Engel, S. 2014. “Performance Payments for Groups: The Case of Carnivore Conservation in Northern Sweden.” Environmental and Resource Economics 59(4): 613-631.
