Research Projects

Funded research projects and collaborations.

BehaviorChange

Human activities and land-use change are causing major impacts on ecosystems. As a result, human-wildlife interactions reorganize dynamically, with fundamental consequences for zoonotic disease emergence.

Human-wildlife interactions Zoonotic disease emergence Social-ecological system Wildlife consumer behavior Behavioral change interventions

The impact of terminated Payments for Ecosystem Services (IMPACTED)

The proposed research project will evaluate the impact of a terminated, asset-building PES scheme in Mozambique. The Sofala Carbon Community Project (SCCP) contracted over 2600 smallholder farmers for the adoption of agroforestry between 2003 and 2015

PES agroforestry deforestation field experiments remote sensing carbon sequestration crowding-out

The Shadow of the Future: How climate change affects human behavior

The aim of the project is to better understand the climate change migration nexus. We conducted lab-in-the field experiments in three sea-levle rise hot-spots: low-lying islands in the Pacific (Solomon Islands) and river deltas in Bangladesh and Vietnam.

Sea-level rise Adaptation Human Behavior

Local leaders in Namibia

Procedural fairness and nepotism among local traditional and democratic leaders in rural Namibia

Leadership Traditional authorities Democratization