Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity, and we, as machine
learning (ML) experts, may wonder how we can help. Here we describe how ML can be a …

Social-ecological systems (SES) research offers new theory and evidence to transform
sustainable development to better contend with the challenges of the Anthropocene. Four …

Utilizing common resources is always a dilemma for community members. While cooperator
players restrain themselves and consider the proper state of resources, defectors demand …

The evolution and long-term sustenance of cooperation has consistently piqued scholarly
interest across the disciplines of evolutionary biology and social sciences. Previous …

Social norms affect environmental quality. But what exactly is a social norm? Environmental
economists studying the topic draw on diverse scholarly traditions and may not have the …

Humans and the environment form a single complex system where humans not only
influence ecosystems but also react to them. Despite this, there are far fewer coupled human …

Today, humans have a critical impact on the Earth system and vice versa, which can
generate complex feedback processes between social and ecological dynamics. Integrating …

The rapid, human-induced changes in the Earth system during the Anthropocene present
humanity with critical sustainability challenges. Social–ecological systems (SES) research …

Spectacular examples of cooperative behavior emerge among a variety of animals and may
serve critical roles in fitness [1, 2]. However, the rules governing such behavior have been …

Does water shortage incentivize cooperation? Case studies suggests that water scarcity can
rarely, if at all, explain violence, instead such shortages rather facilitate cooperative actions …