Aktuelle Working Papers

• Gerling, C., Wätzold, F. 2024. Citizens Support Expansion of Ground-Mounted Photovoltaics for Climate Mitigation, But Local Benefits for Biodiversity and People Matter. (Link) 
• Charlotte Gerling, Anna Bartczak, and Nick Hanley: Accounting for Risk in Species Conservation Programmes. Available at SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4760451
• Sreoshi Banerjee, Christopher Stapenhurst. 2025. Efficient, Fair and Stable Agreements for Marine Plastic Pollution (Link)
• Andrew Clausen, Christopher Stapenhurst. 2025. Turning Bribes into Lemons: an optimal mechanism (Link)
• Fatma Aslan, Christopher Stapenhurst, Vivien Surman. 2025. Two Stage Mechanisms for Matching Students and Supervisors (Link)

• Christopher Stapenhurst. 2025. Double Monitoring: A Negative Result (Link)

Begutachtete Veröffentlichungen

• Bethlendi A. and Stapenhurst C. (forthcoming) Growth or stability? Using social risk preferences to guide industrial policy (Link). Journal of Economic Policy Reform. Code.
• Beaumont, N., Börger, T., Clark, J., Hanley, N., Johnston, R., Meginnis, K., Stapenhurst, C. and de Vries, F. (2025) Cooperative agreement between countries of the North Atlantic Ocean reduces marine plastic pollution but with unequal economic benefits. Communications Earth and Environment (Link). Code. 
• Gerling, C., Drechsler, M.,  Leins, J., Sturm, A., Wätzold, F. 2025. Cost-effective policy instruments for biodiversity conservation under climate change – The need for flexibility. Ecological Economics, 227:108414. ( Link)
• Cord, Anna F., Kevin Darras, Ryo Ogawa, Luc Barbaro, Charlotte Gerling, Maria Kernecker, Nonka Markova-Nenova, Gabriela Rodriguez-Barrera, Felix Zichner, and Frank Wätzold. (2025). Leveraging Passive Acoustic Monitoring for Result-Based Agri-Environmental Schemes: Opportunities, Challenges and next Steps. Biological Conservation 305:111042. ( Link)
• C. Gerling, M. Drechsler, K. Kadir, B. Kahlau, K. Keuler,  J. Leins, A. Sturm, F. Wätzold (2025): ClimeHop: An interactive app for teaching cost-effective biodiversity conservation under climate change. The Journal of Economic Education, 1-2.
• C. Gerling, M. Drechsler, K. Keuler, J. Leins, B. Schulz, A. Sturm, F. Wätzold (2025): Effektivität und Kosteneffizienz von Artenschutzmaßnahmen unter Klimawandel - das Beispiel der Sumpfschrecke (Stethophyma grossum) in Schleswig-Holstein. Natur und Landschaft, 100(1): 2-8. (Link)
• Hagemann, N., Gerling, C., Hölting, L., Kernecker, M., Markova-Nenova, N.N., Wätzold, F., Wendler, J., Cord, A.F. 2025. Improving result-based schemes for nature conservation in agricultural landscapes—challenges and best practices from selected European countries. Regional Environmental Change, 25(12). (Link)
• C. Gerling, O. Schöttker, J. Hearne (2024): The ‘Climate Adaptation Problem’ in Biodiversity Conservation: The Value of Spatial Flexibility in Land Purchase. Environmental and Resource Economics (Link)
• Abul Naga, R., Stapenhurst, C. and Yalonetzky, G. (2024) Inferring inequality: Testing for median-preserving spreads in ordinal data. Econometric Reviews (Link). Code: functions, results
• C. Gerling, O. Schöttker, J. Hearne (2023): The multi-period reserve design problem under climate change. Sustainability Analytics and Modeling 2023(3), 100025. (Link)
• Charlotte Gerling, Martin Drechsler, Klaus Keuler, Astrid Sturm, Frank Wätzold: Time to consider the timing of conservation measures: designing cost-effective agri-environment schemes under climate change. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review. (Link)
• C. Gerling, M. Drechsler, K. Keuler, J.A. Leins, K. Radtke, B. Schulz, A. Sturm and F. Wätzold (2022). Climate-ecological-economic modelling for the cost-effective spatio-temporal allocation of conservation measures in cultural landscapes facing climate change. QOpen. (Link)
• Martin Drechsler, Charlotte Gerling, Klaus Keuler, Johannes Leins, Astrid Sturm und Frank Wätzold (2021): A quantitative approach for the design of robust and cost-effective conservation policies under uncertain climate change: The case of grasshopper conservation in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany in Journal of Environmental Management 296, 113201. (Link)
• Charlotte Gerling, Frank Wätzold (2020): An economic evaluation framework for land‐use‐based conservation policy instruments in a changing climate, Conservation Biology (Link)
• Abul Naga, R., Stapenhurst, C. and Yalonetzky, G. (2020) Asymptotic Versus Bootstrap Inference for Inequality Indices of the Cumulative Distribution Function (Link). Econometrics 8. 
• C. Gerling et al. (2019) "Modeling the co-evolution of natural, economic and governance subsystems in integrated agri-ecological systems: Perspectives and challenges", Ecological Complexity 40 (A),100792 (Link)
• Charlotte Gerling, Astrid Sturm and Frank Wätzold: Ecological-economic modelling to compare the impact of organic and conventional farming on endangered grassland bird and butterfly species,  Agricultural Systems Volume 173, July 2019, pages 424-434 (Link)

• Abul Naga, R. and Stapenhurst, C. (2015) Estimation of inequality indices of the cumulative distribution function (Link). Economics Letters 130.

Wissenschaftskommunikation

•  C. Gerling. 2024.  Biodiversität und Klimawandel. Mehr Flexibilität und Effizienz beim Artenschutz. (Biodiversity and climate change. More flexibility and efficiency in species conservation.) Impulse Spezial.( Link)
• Gerling, C. 2023. Artenschutz unter Klimawandel. („Species conservation under climate change“) nah dran sein - Mitteilungen aus der Alfred Toepfer Akademie für Naturschutz, 2023(1) (Link)
• 1. Policy Brief of the Ecoclimb project: Artenschutz in Agrarlandschaften unter Klimawandel –Empfehlungen zur Ausgestaltung von Politikinstrumenten (Species Conservation in agricultural landscapes under climate change - reccomendations for the design of policy instruments) (Link)

Beiträge in Tagungsbänden

• Gerling, C. & Wätzold, F. 2019. Beständigkeit oder Flexibilität? Konzeptionelle Bewertung von naturschutzpolitischen Instrumenten zum Artenschutz bei Klimawandel. In: H. Korn, H. Dünnfelder, & R. Schliep (Hrsg.): Biodiversität und Klima – Vernetzung der Akteure in Deutschland XV. BfN-Skripten 536. (Link)
• Gerling, Charlotte (2018). Auswirkungen von biologischer Landwirtschaft auf Grünlandbiodiversität im Rahmen eines Agrarumweltprogramms. In: H. Korn, H. Dünnfelder & R.  Schliep. (Hrsg.): "Treffpunkt Biologische Vielfalt XVI - Interdisziplinärer Forschungsaustausch im Rahmen des Übereinkommens über die biologische Vielfalt", BfN-Skripten 487, Bundesamt für Naturschutz:  Bonn- Bad Godesberg, S. 15-20. ISBN 978-3-89624-224-2 (Link).