https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/716 2026-04-16T11:59:25Z 2026-04-16T11:59:25Z Klink-Lehmann, Jeanette Tatic, Milan Weingarten, Nina Hartmann, Monika https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/13553 2025-10-21T11:15:23Z 2023-10-06T00:00:00Z

Sustainability trade-offs in animal husbandry Klink-Lehmann, Jeanette; Tatic, Milan; Weingarten, Nina; Hartmann, Monika This paper investigates consumer choices in the presence of conflicting goals, with and without information making conflicts salient. An experimental online study was conducted with a sample of German consumers, focusing on pig farming. The results show that personal health benefits outweigh animal welfare considerations, while the latter still weigh more than environment-related sustainability attributes. Providing information can have ambiguous effects, depending on the sustainability trade-off being investigated and the type of information provided. The findings reveal that consumers are heterogeneous in their preferences for different protected goods, and these differences can be attributed to psychographic and socio-demographic factors.

2023-10-06T00:00:00Z Wagner, Simon Thiam, Sophie Dossoumou, Nadège Hagenlocher, Michael Souvignet, Maxime Rhyner, Jakob https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/10808 2023-04-28T12:31:42Z 2022-07-10T00:00:00Z

Recovering from Financial Implications of Flood Impacts Wagner, Simon; Thiam, Sophie; Dossoumou, Nadège; Hagenlocher, Michael; Souvignet, Maxime; Rhyner, Jakob In many West African river basins, households regularly experience floods and the associated impacts. In the absence of widely accessible formal risk transfer mechanisms (e.g., insurance), households often have to cope with financial impacts. Only a few studies have explored the financial effects of floods on agriculture-dependent households in the region and the role formal and informal risk transfer plays in their mitigation. This study addresses this gap, explores flood impacts with financial implications for households, and researches the existing strategies to mitigate them. Moreover, it aims to better understand how different measures influence the recovery process. The study draws on primary data from a household survey (n = 744) in the Lower Mono River basin, combined with stakeholder workshops and semi-structured interviews, and applies a generalized linear model to the survey data. The results reveal four flood impact types with financial implications: agricultural, material, health, and trade. Moreover, a shortened recovery time is significantly associated with assistance from savings groups and cooperatives—groups originally not formed to help during floods. In light of the severe and frequent flood impacts, effective and publicly accepted adaptation measures are needed to enable favorable conditions for creating sustainable and accessible risk transfer mechanisms.

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