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Population and the Environment Working Group and Short Course

This Working Group / Short Course is generously supported by the James S. McDonnell Foundation, and will be offered free of tuition for accepted students.

Working Group
October 13 - 14, 2018
Santa Fe Institute
1399 Hyde Park Road
Santa Fe, NM 87501
The working group is by invitation only.

Short Course
October 15 - 16, 2018
Santa Fe Institute
1399 Hyde Park Road
Santa Fe, NM 87501
The short course is by applying only.

Program Directors

Sir Partha Dasgupta, University of Cambridge

Professor Dasgupta's research interests have covered welfare and development economics, the economics of technological change, population, environmental and resource economics, the theory of games, the economics of under-nutrition, and the economics of social capital.


Paul Hooper, Director of Education, Santa Fe Institute

Dr. Hooper's research asks, to what extent can major patterns of variation in societal organization across human history be explained by a finite set of evolutionary principles and processes? Dr. Hooper's research combines ethnographic fieldwork in Amazonia and Central Asia with cross-cultural analysis and mathematical modeling. His work examines the biological and economic processes underlying the formation of human social networks, demographic rates of growth, fertility, ad mortality, as well as the emergence of social inequality, political hierarchy, and leadership.

Faculty

Caroline Bledsoe, Anthropology, Northwestern University

Christopher Cowie, Philosophy, Durham University

Christopher Cowie is an Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of Durham, UK. Prior to this he was a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He works in a range of issues in Moral and Political Philosophy.


Aisha Dasgupta, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), United Nations



James Holland Jones, Earth Systems Science, Stanford University



Lori Hunter, Sociology / Environment & Society, University of Colorado Boulder



Chris Kempes, Santa Fe Institute


David Krakauer, President of Santa Fe Institute



Charlotte Lee, Biology, Duke University



Simon Levin, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University

Simon A. Levin is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University and the Director of the Center for BioComplexity in the Princeton Environmental Institute. His research examines the structure and functioning of ecosystems, the dynamics of disease, and the coupling of ecological and socioeconomic systems.
photo courtesy of Princeton University


Melanie Moses, University of New Mexico and Santa Fe Institute


Mike Price, Santa Fe Institute


Andy Rominger, Santa Fe Institute


Mary Shenk, Anthropology & Demography, Pennsylvania State University
Shenk is a biocultural anthropologist, human behavioral ecologist, evolutionary demographer, and anthropological demographer with interests in marriage, family, kinship, parental investment, fertility, mortality, and inequality. She has conducted field research on the economics of marriage and parental investment in urban South India, the causes of rapid fertility decline in rural Bangladesh, and the effects of market integration on wealth, social networks, and health in rural Bangladesh.


Carol H. Shiue, Economics, University of Colorado Boulder