ABSTRACT
A behavioural ecological approach makes several predictions about resource use, fertility, mortality, male-female differences, and about how these are predicted to differ in various environments. "Genotypically altruistic" behaviours, that is, those which benefit reproductive competitors at a cost to the doer, cannot evolve through natural selection, and while they may occur, are always vulnerable to invasion from genotypically selfish behaviours. This chapter presents some predictions about what types of solutions are likely to work with environmental problems in any particular set of characteristics. The general categories of solutions which the authors consider here are: information/education programmes, social incentives, economic incentives, the formation of coalitions, and broad governmental regulations. Groups of individuals with common interests can affect governmental regulations by planning strategies that include gaining knowledge of the voting record and constituency of individual members of parliaments or congresses, and by lobbying heavily the members who are the most powerful and/or are undecided.
