Research

The behavioural economics laboratory was established to puruse research in three main areas: (a) the economics of climate change adaptation, (b) connections between climate change policy and adaptation behaviours, and (c) behavioural economic analyses of other ecosystem issues.

Current Projects

Some current and future research themes being pursued within the lab include:

• Individual and collective behaviours with respect to the natural environment
• Contributions to public goods and free riding behaviour, particularly in the context of biosecurity, climate change, and vaccination
• Distributional (fairness) preferences, self-serving bias, and equity-efficiency trade-offs
• Competitive tenders for non-priced goods
• Risk taking, risk sharing, incentives, and institutional context
• Natural resource management as a function of social interactions
• Understanding and enhancing people's mental models of climate change
• Exploring the psychological and social factors that predict engagement with climate change and pro-environmental behaviours
• Using insights from behavioural economics to improve the communiction of climate science
• Integrating models of memory with theories of decision making