Thread by @RoopeKaaronen

Conceptual mapping for an Ecology of Human Behaviour, with Open Access references: (Thread, 1/N)

1. Niche Construction [Modifying and designing environmental states in non-random ways]
link.springer.com/article/10.100… (2/N)

2. Ecological Information [Set of structures and regularities in the environment that allow an animal to engage with affordances]
link.springer.com/article/10.100… (3/N)

3. Affordances [Functional relations between abilities of an individual and features of an environment]
pdfs.semanticscholar.org/c504/3082b6416… (4/N)

4. Behaviour [Actualized affordances] (5/N)

5. Culture [Sets of behaviour patterns and cultural affordances, also affecting and involving mental states, values and norms]
frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… (6/N)

6. Ecological Inheritance [Modified environmental states that will be experienced by descendants]
link.springer.com/article/10.100… (7/N)

7. Cultural Inheritance [Modified behavioural and internal states that will be experienced by descendants] (8/N, see 5. for reference)

8. Ratchet-Effect [Restrained ability of human processes to be reversed once a specific thing has happened; path dependence]
rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/364/15… (9/N)

I have tried, and will continue to try, to study how the Ecology of Human Behaviour, the human-environment system as a whole, can be leveraged to a more sustainable trajectory. Thereby:

9. Leverage Point: [Places in the system where a small change could lead to large shift in the system’s behavior]
frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…
& Originally by: donellameadows.org/wp-content/use…

I will also attempt to introduce all these concepts (& others) in a unified manner in an upcoming essay for @TheSideViewCo, and in a more complete form, in my doctoral thesis 'Steps to a Sustainable Mind' (12/12).

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