The diffusion of greenhouse gases in the earth atmosphere confronts us with problems demanding both national and international cooperation. For every single state it is attractive that other countries commit themselves to climate protection whereas the own state - using the free-rider-strategy -...

Within conflict management as well as in organizational psychology the crucial impact of different aspects of perceived (in)justices, e.g. with regard to distributive decisions or to decision procedures, has been demonstrated in many studies (e.g. Mikula & Wenzel, 2000; Montada, 2003; Nowakowski &...

Voluntary cooperation is essential for organizations. Within psychology its explanation is settled in the fields of prosocial behavior and of cooperation in social dilemmas. In addition, this paper draws on another field with strong parallels, namely research on Organizational Citizenship...

Strategies of international risk management, as the implementation of tradable emission permits, feed back to the incentive structure of a treaty, like the Kyoto Protocol. Discussing the Kyoto Protocol the question was: Should there be any restrictions on the trading of emission permits or not?...