Micro Working Group

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The sustainability of human systems is inherently challenged by the misalignment of timescales between human activities and their impact on the environment and the human system itself. Such misalignment provides fertile ground for the emergence of common-pool resource dilemmas where short-term individual rewards are preferred to long-term global benefits. Additionally, the actors involved pursue different, and often opposite, interests while also having different resources, power, and vulnerability. This hinders positive collective actions. Prominent examples of such frustration are found in the context of climate change mitigation, transition to sustainable food systems, species preservation, and epidemic control. 

This meeting brings together researchers to build a conceptual model to understand the conditions under which global cooperation might emerge. We will account for (1) characteristic timescales of human and environmental processes, (2) risk perception of future consequences, (3) heterogeneity in the agency to act and agency to coordinate, (4) continuity and stochasticity in outcomes, and (5) varying organization scales of collective actions. This will study how differences in key parameters can lead to vastly different dynamical outcomes in the specific cases of climate change and global pandemics. 

Organizers

Saverio PerriSaverio PerriApplied Complexity Fellow, Santa Fe Institute
Andrew StierAndrew StierComplexity Postdoctoral Fellow, Omidyar Fellow, Santa Fe Institute
Emma ZajdelaEmma ZajdelaIntelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Santa Fe Institute

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