Human Ecology Contemporary Research and Practice

Human Ecology Contemporary Research and Practice / edited by Daniel G. Bates, Judith Tucker.

This comprehensive sourcebook on human ecology combines 25 source articles published in the journal Human Ecology, enhanced with new research updates and thematic commentary. Intended as a follow up to Case Studies in Human Ecology, this volume includes an entirely new group of articles, with the sa...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Bates, Daniel G. (Editor), Tucker, Judith (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
Edition:1st ed. 2010.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Anthropology.
Population.
Nature conservation.
Human geography.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • Theory, Method, and Explanation in Human Ecology
  • Explaining Indonesian Forest Fires: Both Ends of the Firestick
  • On the Notions of Mother Nature and the Balance of Nature and Their Implications for Conservation
  • Hunter–Gatherers Optimize Their Foraging Patterns Using Lévy Flights
  • What is Biocultural Diversity? A Theoretical Review
  • The Conservation Catch-22: Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Change
  • Does Environmental Talk Equal Environmental Knowledge? An Example from Newfoundland
  • Dynamics of Local Food Procurement Systems
  • Tracking the Carbon Footprint of Paleolithic Societies in Mediterranean Ecosystems
  • Burning and Hunting in Australia’s Western Desert
  • The Wild Yam Question: Evidence from Baka Foraging in the Northwest Congo Basin
  • Life Without Pigs: Decisions, Community Action, and Subsistence Changes Among the Irakia Awa, Papua New Guinea
  • Food Security and Pastoralism in the Northern Sahel
  • Agricultural Intensification and Large-scale Population Dynamics
  • Labor Productivity and Agricultural Development: Testing Boserup
  • Following Netting: The Cultural Ecology of Viliui Sakha Households in Post-Soviet Siberia
  • Adaptive Responses to Environmental and Sociopolitical Change in Southern Zambia
  • Social and Environmental Impacts of the Rise and Fall of Flue-Cured Tobacco Production in the Copán Valley
  • Does Climate Change Affect War Frequency? The Case of Eastern China
  • Development, Common Property Management, and Conservation
  • Local Knowledge and Changing Subsistence Strategies in James Bay, Canada
  • After the Cochabamba Water War of 2000: A Common Pool Resource Institution in the Urban Andes
  • Gender, Social Difference and Coastal Resource Management in Lowland Philippine Fishing Communities
  • Causes of Deforestation in Central Maine, USA
  • Environmental and Economic Costs of Biofuels.

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