Dr Elisabeth Gsottbauer
- Project status
- Ongoing
- Programmes
- Visiting Fellowships
- Departments
- International
The research objective of her Visiting Fellowship is to experimentally investigate the effectiveness of incentives, such as payments for ecosystem services (PES) with different degrees of conditionality, to secure ecosystem service provision. Furthermore, the project will ncorporate insights from theories within behavioural economics and explore if social preferences, measured by simple economic games, interact with provided incentives and are able to account for policy performance. Overall the knowledge and research results created by this project will assist conservation organisations and policy makers to improve upon the design of PES policies.