The main research areas are the sustainable use of renewable natural resources (e.g. marine fish stocks, rangelands, forests) and biodiversity conservation from regional to global scales. We study how economic incentives shape human behaviour towards nature, how sustainability – understood as justice in human-nature relationships – can be conceptualised, and how economic policy instruments could contribute to this. Our methodical expertise comprises quantitative ecological-economic modelling, dynamic optimisation, statistics, economic experiments, conceptual modelling, and approaches from game theory and capital theory. Our research group is internationally well-connected. We engage in integrative, interdisciplinary research with natural and social scientists and researchers from the humanities.
Contact and Team
All team membersHead of Research Group
Prof Dr Martin Quaas
Phone: +49 341 9733249
Email: martin.quaas@idiv.de
Administrative Assistant
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Postal address
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
Puschstrasse 4
04103 Leipzig
Germany
Affiliation
Leipzig University