Advances in Human Ecology

Lee Freese
Hardback
9781559387606
01 August 1994
£85.99
Emerald
Emerald
  • Description
  • Contents
Part of a series which covers advances and progress in the field of human ecology, this volume discusses such topics as: the world around us and how we make it; the political economy of environmental problems and policies; and, the assembling of human populations.

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.