The papers of the dissertation focus on decision making under uncertainty of farmers in developed and developing countries and apply experimental approaches in order to investigate farmersʾ risk attitude and investment behavior. The first paper experimentally examines the investment and...

Palm oil production creates negative externalities, e.g., through intensive fertiliser application. If policy wants to limit externalities, an effective, sustainable and efficient measure seems desirable. Embedded in a framed field experiment in Indonesia, we apply a business simulation game to...

EFForTS is a collaborative research center (CRC) which focuses on Ecological and socioeconomic Functions of Tropical Lowland Rainforest Transformation Systems in Sumatra,Indonesia. The paper presents the common sampling frame of the socio economic sub-projects.The investigations and data...

Vor dem Hintergrund des Klimawandels und der Endlichkeit fossiler Ressourcen steht eine Vielzahl regionaler Landnutzungsentscheidungen an. Hierbei sind unterschiedlichste landwirtschaftliche und forstwirtschaftliche Konfliktfelder zwischen Produzenten, Stakeholdern und der regionalen Governance...

In this dissertation I present novel findings that analyze the effects of insurances on the resilience to shocks and household's risk taking behavior. Moreover, the question is raised as to whether there could actually be something good about shocks, as they could trigger processes of social...