Formal models are commonly used in natural resource management (NRM) to study human-
environment interactions and inform policy making. In the majority of applications, human …

Intertemporal tradeoffs are ubiquitous in decision making, yet preferences for current versus
future losses are rarely explored in empirical research. Whereas rational‐economic theory …

Complex global social-ecological challenges of our time such as climate change,
biodiversity loss or, more recently, the Covid-19 pandemic can neither be comprehensively …

Over the past two decades, scholars and practitioners across the social sciences, policy and
beyond have proposed, trialled and developed a wide range of theoretical and practical …

This paper proposes a novel account of impatience: People pay more attention to the
opportunity costs of choosing larger, later rewards than to the opportunity costs of choosing …

Environmental discounting is a potentially important research area for climate change
mitigation. We aimed to replicate and extend earlier work on the discounting of a negative …

Ecological systems often operate on time scales significantly longer or shorter than the time
scales typical of human decision making, which causes substantial difficulty for conservation …

Empirical evidence shows that people have multiple time-biases. One is near-bias; another
is future-bias. Philosophical theorising about these biases often proceeds on two …

This book develops a theory of climate cooperation designed for concerted action, which
emphasises the role and function of collectives in achieving shared climate goals. In …

Present-bias is the preference, all else being equal, for positive events to be located in the
present rather than the non-present, and for negative events to be located in the non-present …