To help mitigate climate change and its associated costs, behavioral economists need to better understand the determinants of pro-environmental behavior. How can this behavior be measured in the lab or online? This study presents the Tree Task, an incentivized, one-shot task used to measure...

To help mitigate climate change and its associated costs, behavioral economists need to better understand the determinants of pro-environmental behavior. How can this behavior be measured in the lab or online? This study presents the Tree Task, an incentivized, one-shot task used to measure...

Sufficiency strategies aimed at reduced production and consumption levels have a high potential to help combat environmental issues. There is limited knowledge on how to promote voluntary sufficiency behaviors at the individual level. In an online experiment with participants from the United...

Can the way a language encodes time influence speakers’ pro-environmental behavior? In a controlled experimental setting, we take advantage of a linguistic feature of the German language that allows speakers to use either the present or future tense when referring to an event in the future....

For more than a decade, efforts have been underway to establish Public Private Partnerships (PPP) for Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP). Due to issues arising in connection with their implementation, there has been increasing criticism in recent years questioning the usefulness of such...