Research projects
GROVAINITY
The project GROVAINITY examines how officials in International Organisations perceive the goal conflict between sustainability and economic growth and how it affects their decision-making.
Funding agency
Andrea von Braun Foundation
Project duration May 2022 – December 2024
Links
As ecological crises increase and intensify while the world economy continues to expand, humanity faces a goal conflict between economic growth and planetary sustainability. The project GROVAINITY integrates the focus of Environmental Psychology on individual behaviour and insights from International Relations into broader institutional dynamics to study how this goal conflict plays out in international organisations (IOs), whose work shapes sustainability transitions. Using a mixed-methods research design, we explore how IO officials conceptualise the relationship between growth and sustainability. Our research project will produce novel findings and targeted outputs for society at large (report), as well as practitioners (workshop) and scientists (publication) interested in how this goal conflict undermines efforts to stay within planetary boundaries.
Team
Laura Henn (Jun.-Prof. Dr.)
Co-Principal investigator; University of Kassel
Telephone: +49 (0)711 459 24945
E-Mai: laura.henn@uni-hohenheim.de
Matthias Kranke (Dr.)
Co-Principal investigator; University of Kassel, Department for Development and Postcolonial Studies
Fellow within the Young Academy for Sustainability Research (‘YAS Fellow’), Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), University of Freiburg, Germany (Oct 2023–Sept 2024)
Telephone: +49 (0) 561 804 7245
E-Mail: matthias.kranke(at)uni-kassel[dot]de
> Jana Antonia Guschlbauer (Student Assistant, University of Kassel)
> Amira Mehr (Student Assistant, University of Kassel)
> Gerrit Lühring (Student Assistant, University of Kassel)
> Ana Gabriela Hermida Ortiz (Student Assistant, University of Kassel)
Final workshop University of Kassel