Information and Templates for Bachelor's and Master's Theses

Instructions for writing a bachelor's thesis

Anleitung zum Verfassen einer Bachelorarbeit

Instructions for writing a master's thesis

Formal guidelines for theses and seminar papers

Formale Richtlinien für Abschluss- und Seminararbeiten

Format template

Formatvorlage

Summer Semester 2023

In the Summer Semester 2023 the following topics were issued for Bachelor- and Master theses:

• Negative Spillover-Effekte im Umweltkontext – Eine literaturbasierte Analyse der Auswirkungen auf umweltbewusstes Verhalten und Politikgestaltung
• Eine empirische Analyse des Zusammenhangs zwischen individuellen Umwelteinstellungen und subjektiver Lebenszufriedenheit
• Instrumente des Green Marketings zur Förderung von umweltfreundlichem Verhalten – eine systematische Literaturanalyse
• Impact of citizen science on pro-environmental behaviour
• ESG-Ratings und nachhaltiges Wirtschaften – eine kritische umweltpolitische Einordnung
• Spillover-Effekte von umweltfreundlichem Verhalten – Eine Kategorisierung der Mechanismen, Implikationen und Potentiale
• Happiness courses as an intervention to increase well-being and sustainability
• Biodiversity credit markets - Trading for sustainability?
• Eine Analyse zu Gerechtigkeitsdimensionen des Klimawandels und des Klimaschutzes und deren Implikationen 
• Nudging für eine umweltfreundliche Ernährung: Einblick in die Auswirkungen von Menu Design und Labels auf den Fleischkonsum
• Embedding mini-publics in environmental policy: examining coupling – between citizens and policymakers – to increase influence and trust
• Das Potenzial von Nudges zur Reduzierung des Energieverbrauchs an der Universität Osnabrück

Winter Semester 2022/2023

In the Winter Semester 2022/2023 the following topics were issued for Bachelor- and Master theses:

• Information architectures of sustainability labels and their influence on consumers’ behavior when buying chocolate
• Behavioural economic factors affecting farmers’ decision to convert their farming business from conventional to organic
• Biodiversity offests - a policy instrument to reconcile economic development and biodiversity conservation?
• Information architectures of sustainability labels and their influence on consumers’ behavior when buying chocolate
• Agricultural policy in industrialized nations: comparing the cases of the European Union and the U.S.A.
• How effective are community-based approaches to natural resource management and nature conservation in the developing world? A synthesis of experimental and quasi-experimental studies. 

Summer Semester 2022

In the Summer Semester 2022 the following topics were issued for Bachelor- and Master theses:

• Decarbonizing the building heating sector
• Agriculture, ecosystem services and externalities
• Barriers and solution approaches for the adoption of wind power plants in local community
• Extreme weather events and warning communication
• The ethics of digital nudging
• Barriers and solution approaches for the adoption of solar energy by private households
• The agricultural policy of Switzerland – A comparison with the European Common Agricultural Policy
• Distributional effects of carbon pricing: a global perspective
• Agri-environment schemes in the European Union
• Nudging im Bereich des nachhaltigen Konsumverhaltens
• Gelabelt schmeckt gut, Vertrauen schmeckt besser –
  Bewertung von Nachhaltigkeitslabeln und ihre Beeinflussbarkeit durch Informationsstrukturen
  auf Schokoladenverpackungen
• Kategorisierung und Vorkommen
  sozialer Präferenzen und ihre Bedeutung für soziale Dilemmata
• Economic incentives and stakeholder participation
• Agricultural policy in industrialized nations: comparing the cases of the European Union and the U.S.A.
• Barriers and solution approaches to the acceptance of peer-to-peer bike-sharing

Winter Semester 2021/2022

In the Winter Semester 2021/2022 the following topics were issued for Bachelor- and Master theses:

• Digital nudging and precision agriculture
• Behavioral economic barriers and solution approaches for taking the bike to work
• Economic inequality, fairness perceptions and cooperation
• Do Payments for Ecosystem Services crowd-out intrinsic motivations for nature conservation? A meta-analysis of experimental studies
• Wealth and income impacts of Payments for Ecosystem Services in Western Uganda
• Assessing the State of the Art in Behavioural Agricultural Economics – Choice Experiments with Farmers
• Potential of citizens’ assemblies (‘Bürgerräte’) in climate policy
• Assessing the State of the Art in Behavioural Agricultural Economics – Laboratory and Field Experiments with Farmers
• The role of participatory approaches in promoting a sustainability transition in agriculture

Summer Semester 2021

In the Summer Semester 2021 the following topics were issued for Bachelor- and Master theses:

• The behavioural effects of participation
• Potential of citizens' assemblies ('Bürgerräte') in climate policy
• Honesty in Experimental Economics
• The Agricultural policy of Australia - A comparison with the Common Agricultural Policy
• The future of the Common Agricultural Policy
• Environmental Policy in times of crisis
• Extreme weather events and endogenous time preferences
• The effects of land tenure formalization on deforestation: theoretical links and empirical evidence
• Nudging for biodiversity-friendly behaviour
• Zahlungen für Umweltleistungen - Eine Option zum Schutz des Wolfes?
• Payments for Ecosystem Services, transactions costs and peer monitoring - lessons from microfinance
• Nature appreciation of the urban vs. rural population and their actions to preserve it
• Anpassung an den Klimawandel in der Landwirtschaft: Welche psychologischen und sozioökonomischen Faktoren beeinflussen die Übernahme von Anpassungsmaßnahmen?
• Do Payments for Ecosystem Services crowd - out intrinsic motivations for nature conservation? A review of the literature
• The benefits of nature in times of crisis
• The Agricultural policy of China - A comparison with the Common Agricultural Policy
• Using social and behavioural sciences to support COVID-19 pandemic response
• Nudging in the public space
• Using auctions to design agri-environment measures - potentials, perceptions and pitfalls
• Pledges to promote pro-social an pro-environmental behaviour
• What makes people buy sustainable products?

Winter Semester 2020/2021

In the Winter Semester 2020/2021 the following topics were issued for Bachelor- and Master theses:

• How effective are interverntions that aim to promote pro-environmental behaviour through changing social norms?
• Digital Nudging - Assessing the potentials to induce pro-environmental behavioural change
• Behavioural economic barriers and solution approaches for the exchange of household heating systems to mitigate climate change
• Community-supported agriculture from the consumer perspective
• Environmental behaviour and gender (stereotypes)
• The potential of behavioural insights to make life in urban areas more sustainable
• (Behavioural) Economic tools to approach waste management in households
• Environmental economic barriers and solution approaches for the adoption of reduced meat consumption
• Boosts - Assessing their potential to induce pro-environmental change among farmers
• Benefits of Nature in Times of Crisis

Summer semester 2020

In the Summer Semester 2020 the following topics were issued for Bachelor- and Master theses:

• Environmental protection as a social dilemma – conditional cooperation and group size
• Behavioral barriers and solution approaches for the adoption of electric cars
• Bounded willpower in environmentally relevant behaviour
• Spatial distribution of environmental preferences in Germany
• "Goal setting as a management & regulatory tool for pro-environmental behaviour"
• The relationships between social cohesion and natural resource conflicts?
• Perceived self-efficacy and environmentally-friendly behaviour
• "The potential of nudges to increase the acceptance of agri-environment measures"
• The Wolf is Back in Germany - Conflicts, Regulation and Costs
• Who donates to environmental protection? - An empirical analysis of socio-economic characteristics
• Goal setting as a management & regulatory tool for pro-environmental behaviour
• Behavioral economic barriers and solution approaches for the adoption of reduced meat consumption
• Community-supported agriculture – a new paradigm for producer-consumer interaction
• Impact of Natural Catastrophes on Socio-Economic Values
• The EU Green Deal: Critical evaluation from an environmental economics perspective
• The ethics of nudging – What policymakers should keep in mind

Winter Semester 2019/2020

In the Winter Semester 2019/20 the following topics were issued for Bachelor- and Master theses:

• A behavioural economic analysis of food waste in private household
• Biodiversity Conservation in Domestic Gardens - Willingness and Barriers of Measure Implementation
• Klimamigration - Berücksichtigung wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse bezüglich
• Extremwetterereignissen im Zusammenhang mit Flucht und Migration in Prognosen
• Using nudges for promoting sustainable farmer behaviour – Conceptual design of a smartphone app for nitrate management
• Bestäuberrückgang – Ökonomische Relevanz und Pestizidsteuer als Regulierungsansatz“
• Energetische Gebäudesanierung für den Klimaschutz: Barrieren und Lösungsansätze
• Umweltfreundliches Verhalten aus Selbstinteresse oder für andere? Erkenntnisse zur Wirksamkeit aus experimentellen Studien