Recent Trends in Behavioral Environmental Economics

Behavioral and Experimental Agri-Environmental Research: Methodological Challenges, Literature Gaps, and Recommendations

“…Over the past 30 years, behavioral scientists have both challenged and supported traditional economics assumptions about how individuals make decisions. In challenging these assumptions, they have demonstrated that cognitive and social factors once considered to be of second-order importance by economists can significantly affect people's decisions (Kahneman 2003;Leiser and Azar 2008;Kesternich, Reif, and Rübbelke et al 2017). Moreover, these factors -such as the simplification and framing of information, the use of social norms and comparisons, and changes to the default choice -can often be easily and inexpensively modified in social programs (OECD 2017).…”

“… See Mason and Phillips 1997;Messer, Kaiser, and Poe 2007;Shogren and Taylor 2008;Kotani, Messer, and Schulze 2010; Messer and Murphy 2010; Shogren, Parkhurst, and Banerjee 2010; Gsottbauer and Bergh 2011; Osbaldiston and Schott 2012; Friesen and Gangadharan 2013; Schultz 2014; List and Price 2016; Delaney and Jacobson 2016; Hobbs and Mooney 2016;Ferraro, Messer, and Wu 2017;Reddy et al 2017;Zarghamee et al 2017;Brent et al 2017;Kesternich et al 2017. …”

Behavioral Psychology Analysis of Individual Decision, Strategic Interaction and Climate Governance

“…With the aid of behavioral and experimental economics, Hasson, Löfgren, & Visser, (2010) explore the potential tradeoff between countries, mitigation investments and adaptation, and analyzed the important role of trust in enhancing cooperation. Kesternich, Reif, & Rübbelke, (2017). probe into the recent trends in behavioral environmental economics.…”

Still Waters Run Deep: Comparing Assertive and Suggestive Language in Water Conservation Campaigns

“…While there is a growing body of literature on information and conservation campaigns as policy instruments for managing water demand, much less research has been dedicated to evaluating which types of interventions work best; this, despite the growing consensus in both the behavioral economics and marketing literatures that suggests that the content of conservation campaigns is critical to determining their level of effectiveness and to ensuring success, especially in the context of environmental management (e.g., [15][16][17][18]). Much of the existing work that has attempted to address the content of conservation messaging has focused on normative social comparisons, wherein an individual's or household's consumption is compared to that of their neighbors (e.g., [19-21]) Addressing the need for an effective communication strategy to encourage residential water conservation, this work investigates a different aspect of conservation messaging or demarketing, namely, the tone of the language used in conveying the messages.…”