J. Marty Anderies, Ph.D, is an assistant professor at the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. He is also affiliated with the Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity, the Global Institute of Sustainability, and the IGERT program in Urban Ecology. He is a pioneering researcher on the resilience of social-ecological systems, as well as a specialist in economic growth, demographics, theoretical ecology, human ecology, human-environment interaction, mathematical bioeconomics, and modeling and simulation.