Working Group: Evolutionary Approaches to Sustainability

The Sustainability Working Group of the CES

We believe that sustainability is an urgent applied problem, and that sustainability solutions can be enhanced and accelerated through the use of cultural evolutionary frameworks.

Join the Group

During the recent CES 2018 in Tempe, a group of about twenty researchers met to discuss our shared interests in using cultural evolutionary approaches to sustainability. Our group, composed of academics, consultants and non-academic researchers is seeking to create an official Sustainability Working Group of the CES.

Generally, we believe that sustainability is an urgent applied problem, and that sustainability solutions can be enhanced and accelerated through the use of cultural evolutionary frameworks. The working group contains members of a growing international network of researchers who share this goal, with a membership of around 35 participants, many of whom have published on the topic ([1], [2], [3]).

The group hopes to increase the scope and reach of research that draws on cultural evolutionary approaches to sustainability and applications of cultural evolution research generally. We invite CES members or cultural evolutionists with an interest in sustainability to join our group (join here). We are especially looking for more female representation, so women evolutionists who care about the planet are especially invited!

Our Members

	Monique Borgerhoff Mulder University of California—Davis
	Taylor Davis Department of Philosophy, Purdue University
	Tim Waring School of Economics, Mitchell Center for Sustainable Solutions University of Maine
	Daniel Kelly Department of Philosophy, Purdue University
	James Liu School of Psychology, Massey University (New Zealand)
	Igor Nikolic Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
	Karthik Panchanathan Department of Anthropology University of Missouri
	Christine Beitl Department of Anthropology University of Maine
	Luke J. Matthews RAND Corporation
	John Gowdy Economics of the Anthropocene Program McGill University
	Marcel Harmon Research & Development Lead, BranchPattern
	Joshua Rottman Department of Psychology, Franklin & Marshall College
	Kelly Claborn Conservation Evidence Analyst, World Wildlife Fund
	Dwight Collins Presidio Graduate School
	David J. Yu Lyles School of Civil Engineering & Department of Political Science Purdue University
	Steven R. Smith Centre for Environment and Sustainability University of Surrey, UK
	Jeremy Brooks Ohio State University
	Maria J. Santos Department of Geography University of Zurich, Switzerland
	Adrian Viliami Bell Department of Anthropology University of Utah
	Vicken Hillis Human-Environment Systems Boise State University
	Kristin Hagel Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
	Peter J. Richerson Department of Environmental Science and Policy University of California—Davis