This paper explores the factors that have recently increased support for candidates and causes of the populist right across the developed democracies, especially among a core group of working-class men. In the context of debates about whether the key causal factors are economic or cultural, we contend that an effective analysis must rest on understanding how economic and cultural developments i...

Water management is facing major challenges due to increasing uncertainties caused by climate and global change and by fast changing socio-economic boundary conditions. More attention has to be devoted to understanding and managing the transition from current management regimes to more adaptive regimes that take into account environmental, technological, economic, institutional and cultural cha...

Many traditional cultural landscapes evolved as coupled social-ecological systems. It is important to understand how such systems navigate novel challenges posed by globalization. To address this issue, we bring together two components of a pilot study carried out in a cultural landscape from Central Romania. The region was affected by major social and economic perturbations in the past century...

The benefits of Marine Managed Areas (MMAs) (i) biodiversity conservation; (ii) protection of habitats attractive to tourism; (iii) increased productivity of fisheries; (iv) increased knowledge of marine science; (v) refuge for intensely exploited fish and invertebrate species, and (vi) protection of cultural diversity e.g. sacred places, wrecks and lighthouses. The study has evaluated the cost...

saffron is one of the most valuable crops and the world's most expensive spice among the plants that suit the particular climates and latitudes with low water requirements, the strategic importance of high social and economic impacts in many producing countries such as afghanistan, that has this feature in particularly high and a special influence in the international market. due to these reaso...

This paper presents a simple mathematical model that shows how economic inequality between social groups can arise and be maintained even when the only adaptive learning process driving cultural evolution increases individuals’ economic gains. The key assumptions are that human populations are structured into groups and that cultural learning is more likely to occur within than between groups. ...

Article history: Received 3 August 2015 Received in revised form 25 July 2016 Accepted 23 September 2016 Available online xxxx Empirical research has identified various institutions that improve resource longevity by supporting individual resource conservation. However, themechanisms bywhich these institutions emerge have not been established. We speculate that economic institutionswhich suppor...