Marieke Baaken
Thematic Area Environment and Society
Department of Environmental Politics
Working Group Land Use, Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity
Working Group Behavior, Co-Head
Environmental Research − UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany
phone: ++49 - 341 - 235 1681
marieke.baaken@ufz.de

Research Focus
- Behavioural & Experimental Economics
- Economics of Sustainability & Environmental Economics
- Sustainable Agriculture
Curriculum Vitae
since 09/2019
PhD Student at the Centre for Environmental Research − UFZ in Leipzig, Department of Environmental Politics
09/2018 – 08/2019
M.Sc. in International Economics and Business at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands (Double Degree Program), Master’s thesis: Gender Income Inequality and Happiness – An Empirical Analysis
10/2017 – 08/2018
M.A. in International Economics at Georg August University Göttingen, Germany (Double Degree Program)
11/2015 – 03/2016
Internship in the area of marketing and market research at Tecminho, Guimarães, Portugal
08/2014 – 10/2014
Internship in the area of business development sales and service at CLAAS Global Sales GmbH, Harsewinkel, Germany
10/2013 – 07/2017
B.A. in Economics and Cultural Anthropology/ European Ethnology at Georg August University Göttingen, Germany, Bachelor’s thesis: Nudging and Individual Tax Compliance – a Critical Analysis
05/2013 – 09/2013
Internship in the area of technology and knowledge transfer at CTEC, San Carlos, Costa Rica
Current Projects
PhD project: Behavioural insights and adequate policy instruments for sustainable agriculture
The Behaviour Change Wheel (BCW) for biodiversity conservation behaviour and policy
Publications
- Baaken, M.C. (2022):
Sustainability of agricultural practices in Germany: a literature review along multiple environmental domains
Reg. Envir. Chang. 22 (2), art. 39
full text (doi) - Möckel, S., Baaken, M., Bartkowski, B., Henn, E.V., Strauch, M., Stubenrauch, J. (2022):
Zukunftsfähige Agrarlandschaften in Deutschland – Ziele und Anforderungen aus ökologischer, ökonomischer und rechtlicher Sicht
Nat. Recht 44 (9), 611 - 621
full text (doi) - Paulus, A., Hagemann, N., Baaken, M.C., Roilo, S., Alarcón-Segura, V., Cord, A.F., Beckmann, M. (2022):
Landscape context and farm characteristics are key to farmers' adoption of agri-environmental schemes
Land Use Pol. 121 , art. 106320
full text (doi) - Rommel, J., Sagebiel, J., Baaken, M.C., Barreiro-Hurlé, J., Bougherara, D., Cembalo, L., Cerjak, M., Čop, T., Czajkowski, M., Espinosa-Goded, M., Höhler, J., Kuhfuss, L., Lagerkvist, C.-J., Lapierre, M., Lefebvre, M., Matzdorf, B., Ott, E., Paparella, A., Quendler, E., Rodriguez-Entrena, M., Schulze, C., Šumrada, T., Tensi, A., Thoyer, S., Tomić Maksan, M., Vecchio, R., Willinger, M., Zagórska, K. (2022):
Farmers' risk preferences in 11 European farming systems: A multi-country replication of Bocquého et al. (2014)
Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy
full text (doi) - Wittstock, F., Paulus, A., Beckmann, M., Hagemann, N., Baaken, M.C. (2022):
Understanding farmers' decision-making on agri-environmental schemes: A case study from Saxony, Germany
Land Use Pol. 122 , art. 106371
full text (doi)
- Rossano-Rivero, S.; Baaken, T.; Orazbayeva, B.; Baaken, M.; Kiel, B.; Maas, G. (2019). Social Entrepreneurship and its competences, in: Advances in Marketing, Customer Relationship Management, and E-Services, IGI Global.
- Sormani, E.; Baaken, M.; Baaken, T.; Okamoto, S. (2018). The Potential of Nudging for the Engaged University, Conference Paper UIIN University-Industry-Interaction Conference, London.
- Baaken, T.; Kiel, B.; Rossano-Rivero, S.; Baaken, M.; Mass, G. (2016). Competencies in Entrepreneurship: Teaching Entrepreneurship in Higher Education from a New Angle, in: Handbook of Research in Social Entrepreneurship and Solidarity Economics, IGI Global.