Research Cluster: Climate Protection at the Interface between Politics and Economics
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This cluster researches political, economic and societal interdependencies in climate protection at different levels (individual, local, state, federal, EU and international climate cooperation). It also explores the question of which packages of measures are necessary to achieve effective climate protection – and how they can be achieved.
- CO2 pricing
- Communication and sustainability
- International environmental agreements and moral consumers
- The role of individuals and politics
- Environmental policy measures and their impact
- Protection of reliance in the energy sector
- Association lawsuits, citizen initiatives and protests against wind energy expansion
- Eichner, T.; Runkel, M. (2025): Animal welfare, moral consumers and the optimal regulation of animal food production, Ecological Economics, 228, 108434.
- Wolf, J. (2025): Neuausrichtung von Wirtschaftsmodellen bzw. Ökonomieschulen - Ein Beitrag zur Wirtschaftstransformation, Springer Gabler (Essentials)
- Wolf, J. (2025): Wirtschaftstransformation - Design zeitgemäßer Ökonomie, 2. Aufl., Springer Gabler.
- Yaban, E. H.; Gaschler, R. (2025): Understanding pro-environmental behaviors through the Process-Person-Context-Time (PPCT) framework, Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education, 1-22.
- Töller, A.E. (2025): Kreislaufwirtschaftliche Pfadabhängigkeiten durch Müllverbrennungsanlagen, Müll und Abfall (3) 121-131.
- Barbett, L.; Rohmann, A.; Hollenback, C.; Landmann, H. (2025): Can feedback on CO2 emissions motivate pro-environmental behavior? An online intervention, Society & Natural Resources, published online.
- Hackfort, S.K.; Reinermann, J.-L.; Gottschlich, D. (2025): Critical perspectives in technology assessment: On the relevance of care for sustainability transformations, TATuP-Special topic in issue 34/1.
- Eichner, T.; Schopf, M. (2025): Self-Enforcing Environmental Agreements with the Optimal Intensity of Cooperation, Environmental Resource Economics, 88, pp. 249-278.
- Poier, S.; Nikodemska-Wolowik, A.M.; Suchanek, M. (2025): Should I buy or should I go? The effect of the big five personality traits and satisfaction with life on e-bike ownership in Germany, Transport policy, 162, pp. 188-199.
- Hackfort, S.K.; Reinermann, J.-L.; Gottschlich, D. (eds., 2025): Special Issue “Practices and concepts of 'care' in sustainbility transformations. Critical perspectives in technology assessment“. TATuP-Special topic in issue 34/1.
- Eichner, T.; Schopf, M. (2024): On breadth and depth of climate agreements with pledge-and-review bargaining, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 125, 102952.
- Töller, A. E.; Franke, A. (2024): Politik ist das, was möglich ist. Deutsche Klimapolitik im Spannungsfeld von Akzeptanz und Effektivität, dms – der moderne staat – Zeitschrift für Public Policy, Recht und Management, 17(2), pp. 402-425.
- Gaschler, R; Landmann, H. (2024): Motivationspsychologie für Umweltschutz und Nachhaltigkeit in der Sekundarstufe, in M. Krämer, & M. Imhof (Hrsg.) Psychologiedidaktik und Evaluation XV, S. 123-127, Shaker Verlag.
- Kreße, B. (2024): Sustainability Issues in the Supply and Value Chain under German Law, in: Milo/Oderkerk/Baaij (Hrsg.), The Energy Transition from a Comparative Perspective, Zutphen, pp. 35-50.
- Landmann, H.; Naumann, J. (2024): Being Positively Moved by Climate Protest Predicts Peaceful Collective Action, Global Environmental Psychology, 2, Article e11113.
- Drupp, M.; Nesje, F.; Schmidt, R. C. (2024): Pricing Carbon: Evidence from Expert Recommendations, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 16(4), pp. 68–99.
- Rogmann, J.; Beckmann, J.; Gaschler, R.; Landmann H. (2024): Media Sentiment Emotions and Consumer Energy Prices, Energy Economics, 130, 107278.
- Peter, N.; Landmann, H.; Bhar, S.; Rohmann, A. (2024): Die Psychologie der Klima(un)gerechtigkeit. Kritische Umweltpsychologie, S. 257-272, Psychosozial-Verlag.
- Töller, A. E. (2024): Das Individuum als Adressat umweltpolitischer Regulierung, in Regulierung, Selbstregulierung und Co-Regulierung, pp. 45-74. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG.
- Wenz-Temming, A. (2024): Weniger Verkehr – mehr Klimafreundliche Mobilität? Klimapolitische Maßnahmen zur Transformation des Individualverkehrs, INDES 11(3), pp. 87-100.
- Eichner, T.; Kollenbach, G. (2023): Participation and Duration of Environmental Agreements: Investment Lags Matter, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 10(1), pp. 33-53.
- Eichner, T.; Kollenbach, G.; Schopf, M. (2023): Demand-Versus Supply-Side Climate Policies with a Carbon Dioxide Ceiling. The Economic Journal, 133(652), pp. 1371-1406.
- Kreße, B. (2023): L'inconstitutionnalité du transfert de fonds destinés à la gestion de la pandémie Corona vers un fonds pour l'énergie et le climat (Tribunal constitutionnel fédéral allemand, arrêt du 15 novembre 2023, numéro 2 BvF 1/22), Questions Constitutionnelles - Revue de droit constitutionnel, online.
- Katsarava, M.; Gaschler, R. (2023): Fluctuations in the wind energy supply do not impair acceptance of wind farms. Sustainable Energy Research 10(1).
- Töller, A. E. (2023): The challenge of applying the Multiple Streams Framework to non-decisions and negative decisions, A Modern Guide to the Multiple Streams Framework (Hg. N. Zahariadis, N. Herweg, R. Zohlnhöfer, E. Petridou), Edward Elgar.
- Töller, A. E. (2023): The Glass is Half Full: Environmental and Climate Policy of the Last Merkel Government Between Protest and Pandemic, German Politics 33(2), pp. 362-387.
- Töller, A. E.; Schnase, P.-P.; Bothner, F. (2023): The Role of Litigation of Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations in Environmental Politics and Policy, Routledge Handbook of Environmental Policy (Hg. H. Jörgens, C. Knill, Y. Steinebach), Routledge.
- Eichner, T.; Kollenbach, G. (2022): Environmental agreements, research and technological spillovers, European Journal of Operational Research 300(1), pp. 366-377.
- Eichner, T.; Pethig, R. (2022): Kantians defy the economists’ mantra of uniform Pigouvian emissions taxes, Ecological Economics 200, 107514.
- Töller, A. E. (2022): Die Umwelt- und Klimapolitik der letzten Regierung Merkel zwischen Protest und Pandemie:„Business as usual “auf hohem Niveau, In: Das Ende der Merkel-Jahre: Eine Bilanz der Regierung Merkel 2018-2021, Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, pp. 415-448.
- Töller, A. E. (2022): Scheitert die Demokratie an der Klimapolitik? Überlegungen zur Input-und Output-Legitimation der deutschen Klimapolitik, In Staat, Rechtsstaat und Demokratie: Konzeptionelle und aktuelle Diskussionen in der vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft, Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, pp. 485-512.
- Bothner, F.; Töller, A. E.; Schnase, P. P. (2022): Do lawsuits by ENGOs improve environmental quality? Results from the field of air pollution policy in Germany, Sustainability, 14(11), 6592.
- Jacob, K.; Töller, A. E. (2022): Umweltpolitik und Krise. Über ein ambivalentes Verhältnis, Politische Ökologie, 168, pp. 24-31.
- Fink, S.; Hubo, C.; Töller, A. E. (2022): Parteiendifferenz in der Umweltpolitik: Einleitung zum Themenheft Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft, 15(4), pp. 437-446.
- Eichner, T.; Pethig, R. (2021): Climate policy and moral consumers, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 123(4), pp. 1190-1226.
- Katsarava, M.; Landmann, H.; Gaschler, R. (2021): No matter how you mark the points on the fever curve – threatening shapes do not add to threat of climate change, Current Psychology, 42, pp. 12190-12201.
- Münchhalfen, P.; Gaschler, R. (2021): Attention distribution of current key investor documents: Standardization as a long-term goal of the PRIIP regulation, Journal of Consumer Policy, 44, pp. 73-94.
- Töller, A. E; Vogelpohl, T.; Beer, K.; Böcher, M. (2021): Is bioeconomy policy a policy field? A conceptual framework and findings on the European Union and Germany, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 23(2), pp. 152-164.
- Vogelpohl, T.; Beer, K.; Ewert, B.; Perbandt, D.; Töller A. E.; Böcher. M. (2021): Patterns of European bioeconomy policy. Insights from a cross-case study of three policy areas, Environmental Politics, 31(3), pp. 386-406.
- Vogelpohl, Th., Töller A. E. (2021): Perspectives on the bioeconomy as an emerging policy field, Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 23(2), pp. 143-151.
- Schmidt, R. C. (2021): Are there similarities between the Corona and the climate crisis? , Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 11, pp. 159-163.
- Richter, P. M.; Runkel, M.; Schmidt, R. C. (2021): Strategic Environmental Policy and the Mobility of Firms, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 8(5), pp. 863–893.
- Kovac, E.; Schmidt, R. C. (2021): A simple dynamic climate cooperation model, Journal of Public Economics 194, 104329.
- Endres, A.; Friehe, T.; Rundshagen, B. (2020): Diffusion and adoption of advanced emission abatement technology induced by permit trading, Journal of Public Economic Theory, 22(5), pp. 1313-1337.
- Böcher, M.; Töller, A. E.; Perbandt, D.; Beer, K.; Vogelpohl, T. (2020): Research trends. Bioeconomy politics and governance, Forest Policy and Economics, 118, 102219.
- Töller, A.E. (2020): Das Verbandsklagerecht der Umweltverbände in Deutschland: Effekte auf Rechtsanwendung, Umweltqualität und Machtverhältnisse, dms - der moderne staat - Zeitschrift für Public Policy, Recht und Management, 13(2), pp. 280-299.
- Wenz-Temming, A. (2020): Die deutsche Elektromobilitätsstrategie, in: Schroeder, W., Bitzegeio, U., Fischer, S. (Hg.): Digitale Industrie, Algorithmische Arbeit, Gesellschaftliche Transformation, Bonn, pp. 138-152.
- Political Processes of the Bioeconomy between Economy and Ecology (Bio-Ecopoly) (BMBF, 2017–2021)
- Institutions and Environment (FernUniversität, 2021–2024)
- Theoretical Foundations of Environmental Policy among Moral Consumers (DFG, 2021–2024)
- Circular Cities NRW (EFRE.NRW, 2022–2023)
- Lawsuits and Citizens’ Petitions as Impediments to the Expansion of Wind Energy in Germany (BMWK, 2022–2025)
- The Litigation of Energy Transitions, an Observatory of the Difficulties of Governance of Global Problems at the Local Level (Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), France)
- Jun.-Prof. Dr. Michael Bucksteeg (Junior Prof. Business Administration, esp. Energy Sector)
- Prof. Dr. Görge Deerberg (Environmental Sciences)
- Prof. Dr. Thomas Eichner (Economics, esp. Finance)
- Prof. Dr. Robert Gaschler (General Psychology: Learning, Motivation, Emotion)
- Tuvana Gülcan (Civil Law, German and European Business Law, Energy Law and Comparative Law)
- Dr. Katharina Heidtmann (Policy Field Analysis & Environmental Policy)
- Dr. Mariam Katsarava (General Psychology: Learning, Motivation, Emotion)
- Prof. Dr. Bernhard Kreße (Civil Law, German and European Business Law, Energy Law and Comparative Law)
- Prof. Dr. Helen Landmann (Universität Klagenfurt)
- Simon Lenhart (Policy Field Analysis & Environmental Policy)
- Dr. Stefan Poier (Business Administration, esp. Energy Sector)
- Dr. Julia Lena Reinermann (Communication Science)
- Prof. Dr. Robert Schmidt (Economics, esp. Microeconomics)
- Sebastian Strocka (Civil Law, German and European Business Law, Energy Law and Comparative Law)
- Prof. Dr. Annette Elisabeth Töller (Policy Field Analysis & Environmental Policy)
- Alix Weigel (Policy Field Analysis & Environmental Policy)
- Dr. Anna Wenz-Temming (Policy Field Analysis & Environmental Policy)
- Prof. Dr. Johannes Wolf (Hamburger Fern Hochschule)
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