Thursday, Feb 22, 2024 – Friday, Feb 23, 2024

Human Behavior and Sustainability

This conference brought together scholars from across campus and elsewhere who have done work illuminating human thinking and action related to the environment and sustainability.

Open to

Faculty

Staff

Students

Stanford Community

Alumni

Public

Location

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Stanford University recently created the Doerr School of Sustainability, which is devoted to advancing knowledge critical to sustaining life on Earth, preparing students to lead, and catalyzing informed action to generate local, national, and global solutions.

The Doerr School recently formed a Department of Environmental Social Sciences, which currently includes faculty with expertise in psychology, sociology, communication, political science, economics, history, anthropology, education, business, the law, classics, health and medicine, archeology, and more. New faculty will be hired during the years to come.

With joint sponsorship from the Doerr School, the Stanford Graduate School of Business, the Departments of Communication, Sociology, Anthropology, and Psychology and the Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford hosted a conference to bring together scholars from across campus and elsewhere who have done work illuminating human thinking and action related to the environment and sustainability.

The conference was a mix of presentations of completed research, in-process research, and plans for research, as well as discussions of the presentations.

Agenda

February 22, 2024 from 12:00 pm - 7:00 pm
February 23, 2024 from 8:00 am - 4:15 pm

Full Conference Agenda

Key Conference Takeaways

Listen as professor William P. Barnett and Stanford student Charlotte Kramer host a discussion with Jon A. Krosnick, the Frederic O. Glover Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Professor of Communication and of Political Science, at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, to discuss the takeaways from this conference.

Conference Organizer

Jon A. Krosnick

Frederic O. Glover Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor of Communication and of Political Science, at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, and, by courtesy, of Psychology, Stanford University

Co-Sponsors

Department of Communication

Department of Sociology

Department of Political Science

Department of Anthropology

Department of Psychology

Woods Institute for the Environment