The PROSOCIAL internet platform for improving group efficacy is currently under development and will be ready for alpha release within a year. www.prosocialgroups.org
PhD student Sandra Goff wins Edith Patch Award!
The Edith Patch Award is given by the Friends of Dr. Edith Marion Patch each year to graduate and undergraduate women in acknowledgement of distinguished work they have done while at the University of Maine, and in recognition of their promise for future contribution to the fields of science, agriculture, engineering, or environmental education. Members of the committee were impressed by the rich integration of research, teaching, and service in Sandra’s exploration of the social aspects of environmental and economic behavior. Tim Waring is Sandra’s major advisor.
While finishing her PhD, Sandra is working in the Economics Department at Colby College and will soon be joining the Department of Economics at Skidmore College.
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Fundamental Questions in Human Ecology
Strange that the fundamental questions for Human Ecology does not include the challenge of predicting the emergence of sustainable human-natural systems. This seems to be the core challenge of the science.
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Society for Human Ecology – CMLS for sustainability science
The Society for Human Ecology meeting in Bar Harbor is underway with a session on evolutionary approaches to sustainability. The session featured David Sloan Wilson, Meredith Niles, Jeremy Brooks, Vicken Hillis, Dustin Eirdosh, Susan Hanish and myself. My presentation focused on our new cultural multilevel selection framework for sustainability analysis, currently under review in Ecology and Society.
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ACE Lab: Applied Cultural Evolution Laboratory 