We combine climate-ecological-economic modelling, game theory, and discrete choice analysis to inform policies for sustainable landscapes that support biodiversity, climate goals, and rural livelihoods – guided by public preferences and aiming for cost-effective solutions.
Information about the research group MOTION-CB can be found here.
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News
- Working Paper: Charlotte Gerling, Nick Hanley, Anna Bartczak: Sharing the benefits and costs of conservation: public preferences for transboundary lynx conservation. (Link)
- Paper: Charlotte Gerling, Martin Drechsler, Payal Shah, and Frank Wätzold (2026). The Economics of Policies to Conserve Biodiversity in a Changing Climate. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. (Link)
- Paper: Charlotte Gerling, Payal Shah (2026). Policies to Conserve Biodiversity: Challenges and Opportunities. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. (Link)
- Podcast: Zia Audible Woman in Science, Episode #31: Dr. Charlotte Gerling "How economics can contribute to the protection of nature", (Link)
- Working Paper: Tobias Nowakowski, Charlotte Gerling, Tsvetelina Krachunova, Frank Wätzold (2025) "Quantifying farmers’ preferences for on- and off-field climate change adaptation: Insights from a discrete choice experiment in Lower Lusatia, Germany" (Link)
- Working Paper: Anthony Higney, Charlotte Gerling, Claire Buchan, Simon Butler, Liam Crowther, Melissa Marselle, Eleanor Ratcliffe, Konrad Uebel, Nick Hanley (2025) "Willingness to pay for birdsong" (Link)
- Prize: Charlotte Gerling will be awarded the "Emerging Scholar Plenary Award" at the World Conference of Natural Resource Modeling 2026
- Working Paper: Nonka Markova-Nenova, Ryo Ogawa, Astrid Sturm, Charlotte Gerling, Anna Cord, Frank Wätzold. 2025. Cost-effectiveness of Agri-environment Payments to Incentivise a Spatially Even Allocation of Habitats -Evenness Payments, Evenness Bonus or Homogeneous Payments? (Link)
- Working Paper: Gerling, C., Cord, A.F., Drechsler, M., Hölting, L., Markova-Nenova, N., Ogawa, R., Sturm, A., Wätzold, F.: “From Models to Decisions: A Software Tool for Evaluating Action-and Result-Based Conservation Payments”. (Link)