Human Dimensions of &

Cultural Designs for Sustainability

THE PROBLEM & THE PROTAGONISTS

WEEK 1 Culture & Causality

Handwerker, W Penn. The Evolution of Choice & the Origin of Cultures. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2009. Chapter 1

Cosmides, Leda, and John Tooby, 1992 Cognitive Adaptations for Social Exchange. Pp. 163-228. In The Adapted Mind, J.H. Barkow, L. Cosmides, and J. Tooby, eds. NY: Oxford University Press.

Boyd, Robert and Peter J, Richarson. 1985 Culture and the Evolutionary Process. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. Pp. 32-80.

WEEK 2 What's Wrong with Malthus?

Carrying Capacity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrying_capacity

Hardin, Garrett. The Tragedy of the Commons. Science 1968; 162:1243-1248.

Simon, Julian  Resources, Population, Environment: An Oversupply of False Bad News. Science 1980; 208:1431-1437.

RULES FOR CULTURAL DESIGN

WEEK 3 One Rule for 400,000 Years of Cultural Evolution

Tainter, Joseph A. Archaeology of Overshoot and Collapse. Annual Review of Anthropology 2006; 35: 59-74

Borgerhoff-Mulder, M, P Coppolillo Conservation: Linking Ecology, Economics, and Culture. Princeton: Princeton Univ Press, 2005. Chapter 4

Kirch, P. Archaeology & Global Change: The Holocene Record. Annual Review of Environment & Resources 2005; 30:409-440.

Boserup, Ester  1965 The Conditions of Agricultural Growth.  Chicago: Aldine. (selections)  

Boserup, Ester   1981 Population and Technological Change.  Chicago: Univ of Chicago Press. (selections)

WEEK 4 Two Rules for Cultural Design

Netting, Robert M. Cultural Ecology. 2^nd edition. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, 1986.

Moran, Emilio Human Adaptability. 3^rd Edition. Boulder: Westview Press, 2008. Chapters 1-4, plus at least one from 5-9

WEEK 5 Cultural Design & Collective Action

Borgerhoff-Mulder, M, P Coppolillo Conservation: Linking Ecology, Economics, and Culture. Princeton: Princeton Univ Press, 2005. Chapter 5

Sheridan, Thomas E. Embattled Ranchers, Endangered Species, and Urban Sprawl: The Political Ecology of the New American West. Annual Review of Anthropology 2007; 36:121-38

Searle, John R  The Construction of Social Reality. NY: The Free Press, 1995.

MINDS & CULTURES

WEEK 6. Consciousness & Cognition

D'Andrade, Roy 1995 The Development of Cognitive Anthropology. Cambridge: CUP. Chapters 8, 9

Gazzaniga, M. 1998 The Mind's Past. Berkeley: Univ of California Press. Chapter 3.

Jerison, H.J. 1973 Evolution of the Brain and Intelligence. New York: Academic Press. Selections.

Jerison, H.J. 2001 On Theory in Comparative Psychology. In, The Evolution of Intelligence R.J. Sternberg and J.C. Kaufman, eds. Pp. 251-288. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc.

Bargh, John A., and Tanya L. Chartrand. The Unbearable Automaticity of Being. American Psychologist 1999; 54: 462-479.

WEEK 7. Rational Choice Theory

Shafir E, LeBoeuf RA. Rationality. Annual Review of Psychology 2002;53:491-517.

Borgerhoff-Mulder, M, P Coppolillo Conservation: Linking Ecology, Economics, and Culture. Princeton: Princeton Univ Press, 2005. Chapter 6

Wildavsky A. Choosing Preferences by Constructing Institutions: American Political Science Review 1987; 81:3-21.

Kahneman D. Maps of bounded rationality: Psychology for behavioral economics. The American Economic Review 2003;93:1449-1475.

De Martino, B., Kumaran, D., Seymour, B. & Dolan, R.J.  Frames, biases and rational decision-making in the human brain. Science 2006;313:684-687.

Bueno de Mesquita B.  Ruminations on Challenges to Prediction with Rational Choice Models. Rationality and Society 2003; 15: 136-147.

WEEK 8. Creative Minds, Information Flows, & the Winnowing of Innovations

Handwerker, W Penn. The Evolution of Choice & the Origin of Cultures. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2009. Chapters 2, 3, 4

Danchin, Etienne, Luc-Alain Giraldeau, Thomas J. Valone, and Richard H. Wagner . Public Information: From Nosy Neighbors to Cultural Evolution. Science 2004;305:487-491.

Reader, Simon M., and Kevin N. Laland. Social Intelligence, Innovation, and Enhanced Brain Size in Primates. PNAS 2002;99:4436-4441.

Henrich J, McElreath R, Barr A, Ensminger J, et al. Costly Punishment Across Human Societies. Science 2006;312:1767-1770.

Nairne JS, Thompson SR, Pandeirada JNS. Adaptive Memory: Survival Processing Enhances Retention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 2007;33:263-273.

WEEK 9 The Evolution of Choice

Handwerker, W Penn. The Evolution of Choice & the Origin of Cultures. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2009. Chapters 5, 6

Brauer, J. and H. Van Tuyll. Castles, Battles and Bombs. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2009. Chapters 1, 8.

DESIGNS FOR CULTURAL RESILIENCY

WEEK 10 Sustainability Dilemmas

Borgerhoff-Mulder, M, P Coppolillo Conservation: Linking Ecology, Economics, and Culture. Princeton: Princeton Univ Press, 2005. Chapters 8, 9

Liu, J. et al. Complexity of Coupled Human and Natural Systems. Science 2007; 317:1513-1516.

Ostrom, Elinor. A Behavioral Approach to the Rational Choice Theory of Collective Action. American Political Science Review 1998; 92:1-22.

Dietz, Thomas, et al. The Struggle to Govern the Commons. Science 2003; 302: 1907-1912.

Acheson James M. Institutional Failure in Resource Management. Annual Review of Anthropology 2006; 35:117-34.

WEEK 11 Cultural Designs for Effective Collective Action

Borgerhoff-Mulder, M, P Coppolillo Conservation: Linking Ecology, Economics, and Culture. Princeton: Princeton Univ Press, 2005. Chapters 10, 11

Folke, Carl, T. Hahn, P. Olsson, and J Norberg. Adaptive Governance of Social-Ecological Systems. Annual Review of Environment & Resources 2005;30:441-73.

Ostrom, Elinor The Danger of Self-Evident Truths. PS – Political Science & Politics 2000; 33: 33-44.

WEEK 12 Research Agendas for Policy & Program Design

Ostrom, Elinor, MA Janssen, and JM Anderies Going Beyond Panaceas. PNAS 2007;104:15176-15178

Ostrom, Elinor A Diagnostic Approach for Going Beyond Panaceas. PNAS 2007;104:15181-15187.