Environmental Intensity of Human Well-Being

12:30 p.m. ET
Thomas Dietz
Assessing the Drivers

At least since the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, the relationship among ecosystem services and stress placed on both the environment and human well-being have been at the center of sustainability science. This framing has inspired a growing body of work, primarily at the

Double Disproportionality

12:30 p.m. ET
Integrating Environmental Privileges & Problems 

This seminar will use a computational social science approach to explore environmental inequality, defined broadly as the inequitable distribution of environmental privileges and problems across social groups, throughout the continental United States

Telecouplings & Global Sustainability

04:30pm
Jianguo Liu

A human–environment scientist and sustainability scholar, Dr. Jianguo "Jack" Liu holds the Rachel Carson Chair in Sustainability, is University Distinguished Professor of fisheries and wildlife, and also serves as director of the Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability at Michigan State

Ecology of Poverty & Disease

12:30 p.m. ET
Matthew Bonds

Dr. Matthew Bonds will present on his research, which explores relationships among ecology, infectious diseases, and economic development, with an applied focus on the role of healthcare in promoting economic growth in areas of extreme poverty.

Conservation Behavior

12:30 p.m. ET
A Synthesis of Knowledge

The resolution of environmental issues depends on many things—scientific knowledge, technological developments, economic incentives, etc.—but perhaps most importantly, it depends on the public’s awareness, interest, and capacity to act.

What are the ingredients for

The Human Ecology of Infectious Disease

12:30 p.m. ET
James Holland Jones

Biological anthropology is the study of the origins and maintenance of human diversity; the axis of diversity that defines his research interests is the stunning variation across populations and through time in the fundamental quantities of demography: age-specific mortality and fertility rates. Two

Land Use, Population, & Environment

12:30 p.m. ET
Emilio Moran

This talk will report on ongoing studies at three sites in the Brazilian Amazon where Dr. Emilio Moran has been working on the three dimensions of land use, population, and environment for the past 16 years. Migration flows have been a powerful force over this time, as well as the internal dynamics

A Minimal Model for Human & Nature Interaction

12:30 p.m. ET
Safa Motesharrei

There are widespread concerns that current trends in population and resource-use are unsustainable, but the possibilities of an overshoot and collapse remain unclear and controversial. Collapses have occurred frequently in the past five thousand years, and are often followed by centuries of

Collaborative Science

04:30pm
Susan Winter
Designing the Future

Dr. Susan Winter studies the co-evolution of technology and work practices, and the organization of work. She has recently focused on ethical issues surrounding civic technologies and smart cities, the social and organizational challenges of data reuse, and collaboration among

Have Wolves Saved the Willows of Yellowstone?

12:30 p.m. ET
Tom Hobbs
A Lesson on Restoring Ecosystems by Reassembling Food Webs

Dr. N. Thompson (Tom) Hobbs has worked on population and community ecology of large herbivores for the last three decades. He made a variety of contributions to basic theory linking animal populations to their environment and has also