Can evolutionary design of social networks make it easier to be 'green'?

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 561-569

  Dickinson, Janis L ^a,b   Crain, Rhiannon L ^b   Reeve, H Kern ^a   Schuldt, Jonathon P ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COLLECTIVE ACTION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; INTERNET; NETWORK DESIGN; NETWORKING; PSYCHOLOGY; RESEARCH;

CONSUMER; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EQUIPMENT; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; REVIEW; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84882734985     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2013.05.011     Document Type: Review

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