47 min
Humans in Their Habitats: A Research Agenda for Resilience Mandala
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Dr. Veena Srinivasan - Senior Fellow - Centre for Environment and Development and Director, Centre for Social and Environmental Innovation
Professor Esteban Rossi-Hansberg - Theodore A. Wells '29 Professor of Economics, Princeton University
Summary:
Humans’ choices affect the environment, and the environment shapes human opportunities. So why do we persist in modeling the dynamics of natural and social systems separately? This research gap has enormous practical consequences: The costs of climate change, for example, depend heavily on the costs of adapting to its differential impacts around the world – how can we better understand these costs and shape them? The evolution of watersheds and biodiversity depends on the accumulation of human actions and their interaction with hydrology and ecology. How can we develop solutions without understanding this intersection? This podcast features two leaders in the field of combining social and environmental science at local to global scales, reflecting on their research, its applications, and how to grow the intersection of natural and social science research to guide our public, private, and philanthropic responses to our changing habitats.
Dr. Veena Srinivasan - Senior Fellow - Centre for Environment and Development and Director, Centre for Social and Environmental Innovation
Professor Esteban Rossi-Hansberg - Theodore A. Wells '29 Professor of Economics, Princeton University
Summary:
Humans’ choices affect the environment, and the environment shapes human opportunities. So why do we persist in modeling the dynamics of natural and social systems separately? This research gap has enormous practical consequences: The costs of climate change, for example, depend heavily on the costs of adapting to its differential impacts around the world – how can we better understand these costs and shape them? The evolution of watersheds and biodiversity depends on the accumulation of human actions and their interaction with hydrology and ecology. How can we develop solutions without understanding this intersection? This podcast features two leaders in the field of combining social and environmental science at local to global scales, reflecting on their research, its applications, and how to grow the intersection of natural and social science research to guide our public, private, and philanthropic responses to our changing habitats.
47 min