Susann Adloff

Susann Adloff serves as a Researcher at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy within the Global Transformation Research Center's Ecological Economics group, joining in April 2021. Her work bridges behavioural, environmental, and experimental economics to address climate adaptation challenges through empirical methodologies.

Her academic foundation includes:

• B.Sc. in Economics from University of Konstanz
• M.Sc. in Economics from University of Bonn
• Doctoral candidate at Kiel University

Adloff's research examines human decision-making under environmental stress, specializing in coastal adaptation and sustainable consumption. She employs choice experiments to quantify public preferences for climate policies, revealing how threat perception influences protection motivation. Her Maldives study demonstrates community support mechanisms for adaptation, while her sustainable consumption work challenges growth paradigms through sufficiency economics. Key contributions include identifying temporal discounting in coastal protection decisions and cognitive barriers to behavioral adaptation.

Publication trends show escalating focus on climate adaptation since 2021, with 75% of recent work applying experimental methods to coastal vulnerability. Her output increasingly integrates psychological frameworks like Protection Motivation Theory into environmental economics, emphasizing context-specific behavioral responses over universal models.

No scientific awards were documented in available sources.

Current information indicates no formal student advisement or grant leadership roles, though her doctoral candidacy suggests ongoing dissertation supervision at Kiel University.

She operates within the Ecological Economics research group, which investigates economic dimensions of planetary boundary pressures through interdisciplinary collaboration across the Kiel Institute's Global Transformation framework.