The world around us and how we make it - human ecology as human artefact, C. Dyke; the political economy of environmental problems and policies - consciousness, conflict and control capacity, Allan Schnaiberg; the assembling of human populations - toward a synthesis of ecological and geopolitical theories, Jonathan H. Turner; a culture scale perspective on human ecology and development, John H. Bodley; the ecology of macrostructure, Jonathan H. Turner; evolutionary tangles for sociocultural systems - some clues from biology, Lee Freese; human ecology - lost grail found? a critical review of programmes to address human-evolutionary relationships, Jeremy Pratt.