Evolutionary Perspectives on Environmental Problems

Herausgeber: Mysterud, Iver

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The twenty-first century presents an increasing number of environmental problems, including toxic pollution, global warming, destruction of tropical forests, extinction of biological diversity, and depletion of natural resources

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9780202307558
• ISBN-10: 0202307557
• Artikelnr.: 21428653

Autorenporträt

Iver Mysterud

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Human Nature and Resource Conservation
1: Human Behavioural Ecology and Environmental Conservation
2: The Evolved Psychological Apparatus of Human Decision-Making is One Source of Environmental Problems
2: The Ecological Noble Savage Hypothesis
3: Game Conservation or Efficient Hunting?
4: Behavioral Ecology of Conservation in Traditional Societies
5: Evolutionary Ecology and Resource Conservation
3: The Tragedy of the Unmanaged Commons
6: The Tragedy of the Unmanaged Commons
7: Closing the Commons
8: Revisiting the Commons
9: Grassland Conservation and the Pastoralist Commons
4: The Evolution of Discounting and Conspicuous Consumption
10: Conserving Resources For Children
11: Two Truths about Discounting and Their Environmental Consequences
12: Sex Differences in Valuations of the Environment?
13: The Evolution of Magnanimity
5: Overpopulation and Fertility Declines
14: Evolutionary Economics of Human Reproduction
15: More Status or More Children? Social Status, Fertility Reduction, and Long-Term Fitness
16: The Demographic Transition
6: Biophilia
17: Biophilia and the Conservation Ethic
18: Human Behavioral Ecology
Conclusion: Integrating the Biological and Social Sciences to Address Environmental Problems