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Dissertation
Fostering sustainable consumption through communication: Consumers’ appreciation of biodiversity-friendly pasture-based cattle husbandry
(2024-01)
Considering dramatic environmental changes, there is an evident necessity of a transition to more sustainable animal production that caters to societal demand for ethical production and consumption. The slow but steady shift in consumer demand for animal-friendly, environmentally, and socially re-sponsible animal products has been well documented over the past years. The overarching goal of this dissertation is to provide insights regarding consumer perceptions, acceptance, preferences and com-munication of ...
Working paper
Bringing heterodoxy back into a world of pessimism
(2024-01-29)
In this Extractivism Occasional Papers’ volume, we brought together two first-wave scholars working on structuralism, class and development, Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira and Hartmut Elsenhans, and upcoming scholars – Ingrid Harvord Kvangraven, Fernando Rugitsky and Johanna Siebert – who build on structuralist thinking to present their own take on the importance of revitalising it. Our project follows the Hegelian dialectics and seeks aufheben, in the sense of learning from the past, preserving what is valuable, and ...
Working paper
Searching for a substitute: Algeria and Venezuela as energy security alternatives for Europe?
(2024-01-26)
• Venezuela und Algerien sind für die Europäische Union potenzielle, zukünftige Energiepartner.
• Die EU steht vor einer doppelten Herausforderung: Sie muss kurzfristige Alternativen für Gaslieferungen finden und sich langfristig
einem green deal verpflichten. Dies erfordert einen grundlegenden Wandel der Zusammenarbeit zwischen EU mit ihren
Energielieferländern.
• Algerien verfügt über großes Potenzial erneuerbarer Energien, es mangelt ihnen jedoch an Technologie und Kapital. Eine EUAlgerien
Energiepartnerschäft ...
Working paper
Climate Change and Consumption Patterns in Latin America: The Urgency of a Structural Transformation
(2024-02)
• Climate change obstructs Latin America's development, affecting the economy, society, and the environment. A substantial investment is needed for the 2050-2070 deep decarbonization process.
• Latin America's unsustainable development in the last five decades has boosted consumption, employment, and poverty reduction but falls short in addressing chronic poverty and high-income concentration. This undermines economic dynamics and exposes society to climate change impacts.
• A just climate transition requires changes ...
Working paper
To Stay or to Go? Outmigration of Nurses from Ghana. A GPN / UCC Project
(2024-02)
The Global Partnership Network (GPN) is a unique network of 12 universities and 18 civil society groups for research, teaching, and training in all continents around SDG 17 “Global Partnership for Sustainable Development”. The GPN has been functioning since 2020, headquartered in Germany at the University of Kassel and funded by the German Federal Government. It aims to provide policy-relevant research in three areas: development cooperation, global economy, and knowledge production, keeping in mind that international ...
Working paper
To Stay or to Go? Recruitment and Outmigration of Nurses from India. A GPN / JNU Project
(2024-02)
The Global Partnership Network (GPN) is a unique network of 12 universities and 18 civil society groups for research, teaching, and training in all continents around SDG 17 “Global Partnership for Sustainable Development”. The GPN has been functioning since 2020, headquartered in Germany at the University of Kassel and funded by the German Federal Government. It aims to provide policy-relevant research in three areas: development cooperation, global economy, and knowledge production, keeping in mind that international ...
Dissertation
On the Path to Professionalization in Coaching: From Coaches' Attitudes for Participating in Coaching Research to Improving Coachees' Reflective Capacity
(2024)
This dissertation aims to advance the professionalization of coaching by advancing coaching research. It does this by meeting the demand for methodological grounding and examining coaches' motives for participating in coaching research, thereby contributing to the generation of larger and more-realistic samples (Study 1), by conducting theory-driven research based on psychotherapy research, and by using an observer-based method to evaluate behavioral data (Study 2). At the same time, it contributes to improving the ...
Aufsatz
A Literature Review on Solid Waste Management and Disposal Behavior at the Base of the Pyramid
(2024-03-10)
Consumer behavior in disposing of products has substantial consequences for the environment that affect all of us. Waste management is a major challenge faced by many developing countries, underlining the relevance of this literature review. Even when academia tries to shed light on this field, it often fails to consider that waste management must be approached differently in less developed countries, which differ dramatically from advanced countries, especially with regard to consumers’ behavioral characteristics. ...
Aufsatz
Food security status and its determinants: A comparative study between farm households under government and non-government agricultural extension services in Bangladesh
(2024-02-29)
The ability to obtain food security is essential to human existence. Secure food access can have a variety of positive effects, such as economic expansion, the creation of jobs, and the eradication of poverty. This study assessed the food security status of farm households and its determinants in the Dinajpur district of Bangladesh. Efforts were also made to assess and compare the socio-economic demographics and item-wise calorie intake among households receiving government and non-government agricultural extension ...
Dissertation
Reporting Power
(2024)
An eclectic genealogy (Foucault, 1977) that reconstructs the previous understanding and emergence of a ‘taken for granted’ global practice: the practice of suspicious activity reporting. A governance practice whereby financial institutions worldwide document and report the conduct of consumers deemed suspicious. At the center of this practice is a material artefact, a multipage fillable form called the Suspicious Activity Report. Following Actor-Network Theory (Latour, 1987), the form also serves as the centerpiece ...