DySoc webinar: Public goods and environmental challenges: Learning from evolution

DySoc webinar: 

Public goods and environmental challenges: Learning from evolution

Sep 28 02021

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So I attended this great DySoc webinar... 

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Public goods and environmental challenges: Learning from evolution
Speaker: Simon Levin (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University)
Topic: Public goods and environmental challenges: Learning from evolution

Abstract: Ecological and economic systems are alike in that individual agents compete for limited resources, evolve their behaviors in response to interactions with others, and form exploitative as well as cooperative interactions as a result. In these complex adaptive systems, macroscopic properties like the flow patterns of resources like nutrients and capital emerge from large numbers of microscopic interactions, and feed back to affect individual behaviors. In this talk, I will explore some common features of these systems, especially as they involve the evolution of cooperation in dealing with public goods, common pool resources and collective movement. I will describe examples from bacteria and slime molds to vertebrate groups to insurance arrangements in human societies and international agreements on environmental issues. These present mathematical challenges including scaling from the microscopic to the macroscopic, the emergence of pattern, critical transitions and conflicts between the interests of individuals and the good of collectives.

Great webinar, & a great series...
-------------2021 Fall Schedule (eastern time)Sep 28, 11:45 a.m. EDT Simon Levin (Princeton University)
Public goods and environmental challenges: Learning from evolution
Oct  5, 11:45 a.m. EDT Nathan Nunn (Harvard University)
Cultural Mismatch
Oct 12, 11:45 a.m. EDT Kristen Hawkes (University of Utah)
Sexual selection, carnivory, and life history evolution in the human radiation
Oct 19, 11:45 a.m. EDT Giulia Andrighetto (Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC) at CNR, Malardalen University, Vasteras, Sweden )
Norm change and cooperation under collective risk in a long-term experiment
Oct 26, 11:45 a.m. EDT Anne Pisor (Washington State University)
Long-distance social connections, collective-action problems, and climate-change adaptation Nov  2, 11:45 a.m. EDT Timothy Njagi (Egerton University, Kenya)
A comparative perspective on the evolution and sustainability of pastoralist production systems Nov  9, 11:45 a.m. EST Monique Borgerhoff Mulder (MPI-EVA Leipzig, UC Davis, Santa Fe Institute)
How Many Wives? Tracing the Interdisciplinary Career of the Polygyny Threshold Model Nov 16, 11:45 a.m. EST Stefani Crabtree (Utah State University & Santa Fe Institute)
Modern Lessons of applying Socio-Environmental Modeling to the Archaeological Record Nov 23, 11:45 a.m. EST Matthijs van Veelen (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
The evolution of morality and the role of commitment Nov 30, 11:45 a.m. EST Heidi Colleran (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
The impossibility of "natural fertility" in human cultural systems Dec  7, TBA EST Naoko Matsumoto (Research Institute for the Dynamics of Civilizations, Okayama University)
What’s so special about the Jomon? -------------
Thanks to Sergey and Pete and all for putting these on.

Looking forward to the rest!

also, I think The EthiSizer is a good solution to all the problems Simon mentioned, in his great talk.

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