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Cultural Adaptation to Climate Change in US Agriculture
We investigated “cultural adaptation to climate change”: a learnable behavior that spreads due to its benefits in a new environmental context. We explored two aspects of US agriculture: cover cropping and crop choice. Cover cropping showed evidence of adaptation to new economic conditions but not climatic. But changes in farmers’ crop choices tend to match changes in climate, providing the first evidence of cultural adaptation to climate change. The findings can help improve climate adaptation research and policy by distinguishing the process of adaptation from desirable outcomes or policy targets. Continue reading
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Waring leads KLI working group “Evolutionary Theories for Social-Ecological Change”
Our working group aims to connect the domains of evolutionary theory and social-ecological systems change to improve our collective ability to understand and influence the complex processes of change in social-ecological systems for the better. Our working group has been … Continue reading
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Waring and Schlüter to lead final meeting of KLI Working Group in Austria
2023-04-17 – 2023-04-21 In April, Dr. Tim Waring will lead the final meeting of a working group at the KLI (Konrad Lorenz Institute), an Independent Center of Advanced Studies in the Life and Sustainability Sciences in Klosterneuburg, Austria. The working … Continue reading
Proseminar on Evolution of Sustainability, University of Bern, Switzerland [video]
Video of Dr. Waring’s webinar for the University of Bern proseminar on the use of evolutionary social science for solving environmental dilemmas and evolving sustainable social-ecological systems. The Zoom recording is not of the highest quality, and it starts a little late. Continue reading
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How the Lobster Gangs of Maine evolved.
A new analysis suggests that Maine’s famous “lobster gangs” evolved due to a group-level pressure to protect their lobster populations. Continue reading
ACE Lab: Applied Cultural Evolution Laboratory 