The management of large common-pool resources, like fisheries and forests, is more difficult
when more people and more communities can access them—a particular problem given …

Human-induced rapid environmental change (HIREC) poses threats to a variety of species,
and if or how it changes phenotypes is a question of central importance bridging …

Protected area (PA) performance is thought to depend on effective conservation
management and favourable socio-economic context. However, increasing evidence of …

Through the exponential expansion of human activities, humanity has become the driving
force of global environmental change. The consequent global sustainability crisis has been …

It has been proposed that climate adaptation research can benefit from an evolutionary
approach. But related empirical research is lacking. We advance the evolutionary study of …

Group-structured models often explain the evolution of prosocial activities in terms of
selection acting at both individual and group levels. Such models do not typically consider …

Discussions of the environmental impact that revolve around monetary incentives and other
easy-to-measure factors are important, but they neglect culture. Pro-environmental values …

The idea of adaptation, in which an organism or population becomes better suited to its
environment, is used in a variety of disciplines. Originating in evolutionary biology …

While the Earth system is in overshoot mode with an imminent threat to our social,
ecological, and economic systems, cultural evolutionary theory may hold the key to more …

Behavioral science is increasingly considered foundational for addressing various
sustainable development challenges. Behavioral change and action competence have also …