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DESCRIPTION:Ecosystems and the Biosphere as Complex Adaptive Systems: Scali
 ng\, collective phenomena and governance\n\nSimon A. Levin\, Princeton Uni
 versity\n	Tuesday October 24\, 12-1pm\n	Zoom Link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/
 86855481591\n	In Person: 550 Sherbrooke\, Room 189\n	\n	Abstract: Phil Anders
 on\, in a landmark essay\, highlighted the challenges in understanding the
  emergent properties of what were later termed “complex adaptive systems\,
 ” and the need to go beyond reductionistic approaches\, themes later echoe
 d in another brilliant essay\, by Francois Jacob\, approaching the challen
 ge through a very different lens. No problem facing us better exemplifies 
 these issues than that of achieving a sustainable future for humanity.\n\n
 The continual increase in the human population\, magnified by increasing p
 er capita demands on Earth's limited resources\, raise the urgent mandate 
 of understanding the degree to which these patterns are sustainable.  The 
 scientific challenges posed by this simply stated goal are enormous\, and 
 cross disciplines. What measures of human welfare should be at the core of
  definitions of sustainability\, and how do we discount the future and dea
 l with problems of intra-generational and inter-generational equity? How d
 o environmental and socioeconomic systems become organized as complex adap
 tive systems\, and what are the implications for dealing with public goods
  at scales from the local to the global? How does the increasing interconn
 ectedness of coupled natural and human systems affect the robustness of as
 pects of importance to us\, and what are the implications for management. 
 What is the role of social norms\, and how do we achieve cooperation at th
 e global level? All of these issues have parallels in evolutionary biology
 \, and this lecture will explore what lessons can be learned from ecology 
 and evolutionary theory for addressing the problems posed by achieving a s
 ustainable future.\n
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SUMMARY:QLS Seminar Series - Simon Levin
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