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| Provedor de dados: |
Ecology and Society
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| País: |
Canada
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| Título: |
A multilevel evolutionary framework for sustainability analysis
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| Autores: |
Waring, Timothy M; Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions and School of Economics, University of Maine; timothy.waring@maine.edu
Kline, Michelle Ann; School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University; Institute for Human Origins, Arizona State University; michelle.ann.kline@gmail.com
Brooks, Jeremy S; School of Environment and Natural Resources, The Ohio State University; brooks.719@osu.edu
Goff, Sandra H; School of Economics, University of Maine; Economics Department, Skidmore College; sgoff@skidmore.edu
Gowdy, John; Department of Economics and Department of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; gowdyj@rpi.edu
Janssen, Marco A; School of Sustainability, Arizona State University; marco.janssen@asu.edu
Smaldino, Paul E; Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis; paul.smaldino@gmail.com
Jacquet, Jennifer; Department of Environmental Studies, New York University; jj84@nyu.edu
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| Data: |
2015-06-08
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| Ano: |
2015
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| Palavras-chave: |
Cooperation
Cultural evolution
Multilevel selection
Sustainability
Theory
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| Resumo: |
Sustainability theory can help achieve desirable social-ecological states by generalizing lessons across contexts and improving the design of sustainability interventions. To accomplish these goals, we argue that theory in sustainability science must (1) explain the emergence and persistence of social-ecological states, (2) account for endogenous cultural change, (3) incorporate cooperation dynamics, and (4) address the complexities of multilevel social-ecological interactions. We suggest that cultural evolutionary theory broadly, and cultural multilevel selection in particular, can improve on these fronts. We outline a multilevel evolutionary framework for describing social-ecological change and detail how multilevel cooperative dynamics can determine outcomes in environmental dilemmas. We show how this framework complements existing sustainability frameworks with a description of the emergence and persistence of sustainable institutions and behavior, a means to generalize causal patterns across social-ecological contexts, and a heuristic for designing and evaluating effective sustainability interventions. We support these assertions with case examples from developed and developing countries in which we track cooperative change at multiple levels of social organization as they impact social-ecological outcomes. Finally, we make suggestions for further theoretical development, empirical testing, and application.
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| Tipo: |
Peer-Reviewed Synthesis
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
vol20/iss2/art34/
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| Editor: |
Resilience Alliance
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| Formato: |
text/html application/pdf
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| Fonte: |
Ecology and Society; Vol. 20, No. 2 (2015)
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