Bio

Garry is a sustainability scientist committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and intergenerational well-being. He works with communities and organizations on solution innovation, decision analysis, strategic planning, and cross-sector partnerships. Garry also develops AI-based tools for adaptive planning and applies them and other scientific techniques in studying the relationship between micro-level human decision making and macro-level social outcomes. At Stanford, he teaches adaptation to climate change, decision-making, strategic planning, and transformative societal change. Garry's prior work ranged from social protection and resilience in the Middle East to decision-making and adaptation to policy and climate change in the United States and Ukraine.

Academic Appointments

  • Lecturer, Change Leadership for Sustainability

Contact

  • Academic
    gsotnik@stanford.edu
    University - Academic staff Department: Change Leadership for Sustainability Position: Lecturer

Additional Info

2023-24 Courses

All Publications

  • How to help Ukrainian scientists overcome Russia's invasion and advance sustainability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Sotnik, G., Spinova, Y., Sotnik, T., Polotska, O., Kysil, O., Krakovska, S., Diachuk, O., Bezvershenko, Y., Berezko, O., Beldavs, V., Andrusevych, A. 2023; 120 (6): e2219792120

    View details for DOI 10.1073/pnas.2219792120

    View details for PubMedID 36735758

  • The Role of Social Identity in a Population's Adoption of Prosocial Common-Pool Behavior Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation Sotnik, G., Choporov, S., Shannon, T. 2023; 26 (3)

    View details for DOI 10.18564/jasss.5132

  • A new agent-based model offers insight into population-wide adoption of prosocial common-pool behavior JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL SOCIOLOGY Sotnik, G., Shannon, T., Wakeland, W. 2022

    View details for DOI 10.1080/0022250X.2021.2021513

    View details for Web of Science ID 000751714000001

  • A global assessment of policy tools to support climate adaptation CLIMATE POLICY Ulibarri, N., Ajibade, I., Galappaththi, E. K., Joe, E., Lesnikowski, A., Mach, K. J., Musah-Surugu, J., Alverio, G., Segnon, A. C., Siders, A. R., Sotnik, G., Campbell, D., Chalastani, V., Jagannathan, K., Khavhagali, V., Reckien, D., Shang, Y., Singh, C., Zommers, Z., Global Adaptation Mapping Initiati 2021

    View details for DOI 10.1080/14693062.2021.2002251

    View details for Web of Science ID 000720170300001

  • A systematic global stocktake of evidence on human adaptation to climate change NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE Berrang-Ford, L., Siders, A. R., Lesnikowski, A., Fischer, A., Callaghan, M. W., Haddaway, N. R., Mach, K. J., Araos, M., Shah, M., Wannewitz, M., Doshi, D., Leiter, T., Matavel, C., Musah-Surugu, J., Wong-Parodi, G., Antwi-Agyei, P., Ajibade, I., Chauhan, N., Kakenmaster, W., Grady, C., Chalastani, V., Jagannathan, K., Galappaththi, E. K., Sitati, A., Scarpa, G., Totin, E., Davis, K., Hamilton, N., Kirchhoff, C. J., Kumar, P., Pentz, B., Simpson, N. P., Theokritoff, E., Deryng, D., Reckien, D., Zavaleta-Cortijo, C., Ulibarri, N., Segnon, A. C., Khavhagali, V., Shang, Y., Zvobgo, L., Zommers, Z., Xu, J., Williams, P., Canosa, I., van Maanen, N., van Bavel, B., van Aalst, M., Turek-Hankins, L. L., Trivedi, H., Trisos, C. H., Thomas, A., Thakur, S., Templeman, S., Stringer, L. C., Sotnik, G., Sjostrom, K., Singh, C., Sina, M. Z., Shukla, R., Sardans, J., Salubi, E. A., Chalkasra, L., Ruiz-Diaz, R., Richards, C., Pokharel, P., Petzold, J., Penuelas, J., Avila, J., Murillo, J., Ouni, S., Niemann, J., Nielsen, M., New, M., Schwerdtle, P., Alverio, G., Mullin, C. A., Mullenite, J., Mosurska, A., Morecroft, M. D., Minx, J. C., Maskell, G., Nunbogu, A., Magnan, A. K., Lwasa, S., Lukas-Sithole, M., Lissner, T., Lilford, O., Koller, S. F., Jurjonas, M., Joe, E., Huynh, L. M., Hill, A., Hernandez, R. R., Hegde, G., Hawxwell, T., Harper, S., Harden, A., Haasnoot, M., Gilmore, E. A., Gichuki, L., Gatt, A., Garschagen, M., Ford, J. D., Forbes, A., Farrell, A. D., Enquist, C. F., Elliott, S., Duncan, E., de Perez, E., Coggins, S., Chen, T., Campbell, D., Browne, K. E., Bowen, K. J., Biesbroek, R., Bhatt, I. D., Kerr, R., Barr, S. L., Baker, E., Austin, S. E., Arotoma-Rojas, I., Anderson, C., Ajaz, W., Agrawal, T., Abu, T. 2021

    View details for DOI 10.1038/s41558-021-01170-y

    View details for Web of Science ID 000712348000004

  • Practices in Social Ecological Research: Interdisciplinary Collaboration in 'Adaptive Doing' (Book Review) SOCIETY & NATURAL RESOURCES Book Review Authored by: Sotnik, G. 2021

    View details for DOI 10.1080/08941920.2021.1996667

    View details for Web of Science ID 000713048200001

  • A new agent-based model provides insight into deep uncertainty faced in simulated forest management LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY Sotnik, G., Cassell, B. A., Duveneck, M. J., Scheller, R. M. 2021

    View details for DOI 10.1007/s10980-021-01324-5

    View details for Web of Science ID 000686992000001

  • A transdisciplinary typology of change identifies new categories of adaptations and forms of co-adaptation in coupled human and natural systems SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE Sotnik, G., Fischer, A., Ibanez, I., Cousins, S. M. 2021; 16 (5): 1609-1623

    View details for DOI 10.1007/s11625-021-00979-y

    View details for Web of Science ID 000657624900001

  • The Doubly-Bounded Rationality of an Artificial Agent and its Ability to Represent the Bounded Rationality of a Human Decision-Maker in Policy-Relevant Situations JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL & THEORETICAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Sotnik, G. 2020; 32 (5): 727-749

    View details for DOI 10.1080/0952813X.2019.1672797

    View details for Web of Science ID 000490029000001

  • The SOSIEL Platform: Knowledge-based, cognitive, and multi-agent BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURES Sotnik, G. 2018; 26: 103-117

    View details for DOI 10.1016/j.bica.2018.09.001

    View details for Web of Science ID 000453493800009

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