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Welcome to the Professorship of Environmental Economics!

We design, analyze and test strategies for sustainable and resilient development. Our work revolves around socio-ecological systems under pressure. A particular emphasis is on groups decisions under strategic and natural uncertainty. We use economic experiments, theory and statistical analysis, integrate teaching and interdisciplinary research, and connect theory with practical advice.

Sept. 8, 2023

New Publication

Citizen science observations have become a cornerstone for documenting climate change and conservation efforts. In this article, just published in Conservation Letters, we explore whether citizen observations could be influenced by explicit incentives (in this case, a prize competition). By comparing data from the two largest German online platforms for wildlife observations, we show that a prize competition increases the number of reported observations by about 10%, but at the same time reduces the diversity of reported observations. Our study thus provides important initial evidence that policy makers could use explicit incentives to motivate and target citizen observations.

Team

Current staff of the group

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Teaching

Information on our courses and writing your thesis

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Research

Active research projects and publications

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Contact:

Postal adress:
Universität Augsburg
Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
Professur für Umweltökonomik

Universitätsstr. 16
86159 Augsburg


Phone: +49 821 598 -4200 (Sekretariat)

Fax: +49 821 598 -4232

E-Mail: florian.diekert@uni-a.de

 

 

Room: I 2217

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