Max N. Burger
@maxburger.bsky.social
Environmental Economics | Sustainability & Transformation | Development. Climate change mitigation (high-income) & adaptation (affected areas). Field experiments & behavioral insights. PhD researcher @ Uni Marburg.
🔓️ 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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📣The DFG research training group ECO-N at @unileipzig.bsky.social has just announced 14 new PhD🎓 vacancies within its 2nd cohort, on topics incl clean air💨, climate change🌀, soil biodiv🪱 and forests🌳. More info on ECO-N: www.eco-n.org Vacancy announcement: uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers/jobposting/9...
Universität Leipzig: Economics of Connected Natural Commons
The Research Training Group ECO-N trains a new generation of sustainability researchers to develop both an excellent command of quantitative research methods for understanding specific natural or human-made commons and adopt a systemic perspective on connected natural commons.
eco-n.org
Do climate disasters change us? New research with Hoenow & Karki (RWI Essen) examines Germany's devastating 2021 Ahrtal flood. We'd expect a disaster in your backyard to spark urgent climate action—but does it actually? Our findings: it's complicated. 🧵 Paper (OA): doi.org/10.1007/s105...
We’re filling the atmosphere with CO2 like a bathtub with water. Most of it stays for millennia. That is why the cumulative emissions (the total amount, as pictured here) and not yearly emissions determine the amount of #globalwarming.
Scheint so, als hätten eher ältere Männer auf dem Land Angst, nachts allein auf die Straße zu gehen?
Die Kids sind polarisierter zwischen Jungs und Mädchen denn je. Immer mehr Studien weisen darauf hin. Weltweit. Zuletzt in Norwegen. Und bei uns auch die Wahlen:
Ruben Mathisen@rubenmathisen.bsky.social · 2y agoNew Working Paper: Teenage boys and girls in Norway are more ideologically polarized than ever. Using data for 130,000 high-schoolers over 34 years, I find that a surge in anti-feminism among boys is driving much of the recent trend.📈 Read: osf.io/preprints/os... Findings 🧵👇
Im Freundeskreis sagt jemand, er/sie weiss nicht ob er/sie wählen geht, weil die Nachtschicht so anstrengend war und man eigentlich müde ist und keine Lust hat. Bitte geht wählen und nutzt eure Stimme! #GoVote
As Vance 'lectures' Europe on free speech, it is good to be reminded that the United States ranks 55 (!) on the World Press Freedom Index. The top 10 countries are ALL in Europe. #journalism #democracy #freepress rsf.org/en/index
Every country Trump puts tariffs on should fight back with a 100% tariff on Teslas.
On climate, did you know that only 11% of people in the US (and even smaller percentages in Canada, the UK, Australia and beyond) are dismissive? Yet because their voices are so loud and persistent, people often think they’re 50%. This is why I advocate so strongly for using YOUR voice!
Celeste Ng@pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 2y agoOne man is responsible for getting 100s of books (including mine!) banned in Clay County, FL. One sad dude! Sitting there filling out form after form with false claims about books he hasn't even read! The loudest voices have an outsize impact. We need to be loud--and persistent--too. 5calls.org
2024 kam 🇩🇪 erstmals seit 1961 ohne Atomstrom aus. Was wurde gewarnt: Blackouts, Brownouts, explodierende Strompreise & Kohle-Comeback. Stattdessen war Strom immer verfügbar, die Preise sind stabil, mit 37,2% Anteil historischer Tiefstand foss. Brennstoffe & mit 62,7% ein Rekordanteil von PV & Wind😊
NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.
5 Schlagzeilen, die man in 🇩🇪 nie lesen wird: 1.) Preisschock: D-Ticket über Nacht 9€ rauf 2.) 17 Mrd Subventionen - Zwingt der Staat uns ins Auto? 3.) Abzocke: Öffi-Einzelticket schon über 4€ 4.) Über 400 Fahrradtote - wie die Behörden versagen 5.) An Kaufkraft gemessen: Sprit immer billiger
In Germany, 55% find friendship very important (and further 41% rather important). At the same time, 88% deem family very important (ourworldindata.org/grapher/how-...). Contradicting the narrative of individualism? (Or showing discrepancy between wishes and reality)
Our World in Data@ourworldindata.org · 2y agoIn some countries, far more people consider friends very important than in others
Fantastic opportunity 👇
Moritz Drupp@moritzdrupp.bsky.social · 2y agoWe are advertising a PostDoc position in the Sustainability Economics Group at ETH Zurich (1-6 yrs, >$100K salary), offering excellent conditions to pursue innovative research projects & prepare for a professorship. Please spread the word to interested candidates: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
Very visual description of the temperature over time. No further words needed
Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 2y agoHere is how daily global surface temperatures have changed since the 1940s. Note that global temperatures show a modest seasonal cycle due to a higher proportion of land are in the Northern Hemisphere.
4 weeks to the deadline for the EER special issue for Nora. It will be tremendous. We have some really excellent papers form some of the best authors in our field. And no upper limit on quantity. Consider sending us your best work that fits to Nora’s interests. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
#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
📢 New OA paper alert! Led by Dennis Schüpf & w/ Nithya Kuppusami: With global increase in coastal development and urbanisation, sand resources protecting coastlines are critical for coastal communities. But coastal adaptations can also be maladaptive. 1/ www.cogitatiopress.com/oceanandsoci...
Disrupted Sand Flows, Artisanal Fishers, and the Making of Coastal Protection in Southern India | Article | Ocean and Society
Dennis Schüpf, Lisa Schipper, Nithya Kuppusami
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New starter pack filled with researchers and journalists studying our information environment, rumors, false information, how to correct misbeliefs, and ways to make it easier for people to find accurate information. I know I missed people so please let me know who else to add! go.bsky.app/T833yvS
I’m not a doomer but it feels like we’re pretty far to the right side already.
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?
A fantastic, international #PhD opportunity for all excited about #biodiversity, #farming and its socio-cultural background. Work together with #farmers and Katrin Prager at the beautiful Aberdeen University and at the Queens University Belfast. #EnviSky #EconSky #EnvSoc tinyurl.com/5xd4u7bb.
Way to go ExpEcon & Psy: Pre-registrations still less common then one would expect, and if done, often difficult to access. The is for the nicely summarized insights!
Data Colada@datacolada.bsky.social · 3y agoColada[115] shows the prevalence of pre-registrations in papers published in 2022, with lessons to improve in 2023+ datacolada.org/115
