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Traditionally, doctoral students in Germany have been trained under the individual guidance of their advisors. Because of recent developments, doctoral students, especially psychology students, are now being trained within organized research groups, including broad national doctoral programs, the Graduiertenkollegs. The present article documents these changes and provides some statistical data.

In diesem Buch erfährt der Leser u.a. etwas über Wohnbedürfnisse, Wohnzfriedenheit, Privatheit und Nachbarschaft, über Wohndichte, Lärmeffekte, Wohngemeinschaften, über frauenfeindliche Wohnbauarchitektur und Stadtplanung, über Formen und Möglichkeiten der Bewohnerbeteiligung und über rechtliche Lösungen von Bewohnerkonflikten.

ABSTRACTNowadays, environment‐friendly products are widely accepted by society. However, market share of sustainable technologies demanding higher investments or behavioral changes is rather small, indicating that consumers seem to generally approve of sustainable products, but rarely perceive them as being compatible with their needs. The present research introduces a model emphasizing the importance of consumers perceiving the product as being suitable to match their motives relevant to the product domain. In investigating a sample of 531 car drivers, the hypothesized model was tested in the realm of a highly relevant sustainable product: electric vehicles (EVs). Findings based on structural equation modeling showed that participants' perceived matching with EV attributes was related to their domain‐specific motives (hedonic, freedom, ecological, and financial motives) and a global preference towards the product. Specific to sustainable products, ecological motives strongly influenced participants' matching processes by positively affecting perceived matching with all product attributes. Participants' purchase intentions, in turn, were strongly affected by their perceived matching of the product with their motives. The added value of the model with respect to self‐image theories and implications for sustainable product marketing are examined through discussion. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Today human ecology has split into many different sub-disciplines such as historical ecology, political ecology or the New Ecological Anthropology. The latter in particular has criticised the predominance of the Western view on different ecosystems, arguing that culture-specific world views and human-environment interactions have been largely neglected. However, these different perspectives only tackle specific facets of a local and global hyper-complex reality. In bringing together a variety of views and theoretical approaches , these especially commissioned essays prove that an interdisciplinary collaboration and understanding of the extreme complexity of the human-environment interface(s) is possible