Björn Vollan
@bjoernvollan.bsky.social
Professor of economics and head of the research group "Sustainable Use of Natural Resources". Researching adaptation to climate change, resource governance and aspects of human behavior related to sustainable development. bjoernvollan.wordpress.com
🔓️ Why stay in #climaterisk areas if moving is financially feasible? @bjoernvollan.bsky.social @steimani.bsky.social @maxburger.bsky.social & Andreas Neef find that place attachment, selective risk information avoidance, sunk-cost reasoning, & low adaptation self-efficacy shape mobility decisions ⬇️ 🇧🇩
Decision to stay in climate-risk areas: cognitive biases and preferences in coastal Bangladesh
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New paper out in Energy Policy on solar home systems (SHS) in rural Pakistan. With Marco Nilgen and @jlinde.bsky.social we follow a large SHS programme in rural Sindh ~10 years after rollout and ask: When does early “access” become sustained i.e., a system that still works and is used years later?
Who needs formal evaluations when your students hand you a bottle of beer after the final lecture?
1/ This very important paper by Tim Conley and Morgan Kelly is now forthcoming. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The standard errors of persistence
Many studies of historical persistence find that modern outcomes strongly reflect characteristics of the same places in the distant past. However they…
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#ClimateAdaptation is about the people and their connections to the places they call home. But what happens when the value of these connections is left out of the equation? Our new study @steimani.bsky.social @maxburger.bsky.social explores whether relational values can fit into monetary frameworks
It seems the Special Issue on "Social Norms: Enforcement, Breakdown & Polarization" in EER is completed. Our paper "The Pro-Sociality of Local Democratic Leaders: Impact of Being Elected" explores how elections impact leaders' pro-social behavior www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....
New paper with Donia Mahabadi and Max Burger in Nature Sustainability: Technological optimism among COP24 delegates is linked to support for less stringent climate policies. What does this mean for global #ClimateAction?
