Jeroen C. J. M. Van Den Bergh

Human Evolution Beyond Biology and Culture

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A complete account of evolutionary thought in the social, environmental and policy sciences, creating bridges with biology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 566
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1080g
• ISBN-13: 9781108456883
• ISBN-10: 110845688X
• Artikelnr.: 53022620

Autorenporträt

Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh is ICREA Professor at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2007-present), and full Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (1997-present). He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions and served on the Netherlands' Energy Council. He is cited more than 17,000 times in Google Scholar, and received the Royal/Shell Prize 2002, IEC's Sant Jordi Environmental Prize 2011 and an ERC Advanced Grant.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Prevue: 1. Making the improbable probable
2. The world according to evolution
Part II. Evolutionary Biology: 3. Pre-Darwinism, Darwinism and neo-Darwinism
4. Advanced ideas in evolutionary biology and genetics
Part III. Bridging Natural and Social Sciences: 5. Evolution of social behaviour in animals and humans
6. Group selection in biology and the social sciences
Part IV. Evolutionary Social Sciences: 7. Evolutionary theories of human culture
8. Evolutionary economics
9. Evolution of organisations and institutions
10. Technological evolution
Part V. Evolutionary Cultural History: 11. Pre-history until the rise of agriculture
12. Industrialisation and technological history
Part VI. Evolutionary Environmental and Policy Sciences: 13. Survival of the greenest
14. Evolving solutions for climate change
15. Evolutionary policy and politics
16. Evolutionary futures.