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Case Studies in Human Ecology

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Editors:
  1. Daniel G. Bates

    1. Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, USA

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  2. Susan H. Lees

    1. Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, USA

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Daniel G. Bates, Susan H. Lees
      Pages 1-12

  3. Foraging

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-16
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    2. Australian Aboriginal Subsistence in the Western Desert

      • Scott Cane
      Pages 17-53

    3. The Ecological Basis of Hunter-Gatherer Subsistence in African Rain Forests: The Mbuti of Eastern Zaire

      • Terese B. Hart, John A. Hart
      Pages 55-83

    4. Batak Foraging Camps Today: A Window to the History of a Hunting-Gathering Economy

      • James F. Eder
      Pages 85-102

    5. Northern Islands, Human Error, and Environmental Degradation

      • Thomas H. McGovern, Gerald F. Bigelow, Thomas Amorosi, Daniel Russell
      Pages 103-152

  5. Subsistence and Intensive Agriculture

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 233-235
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    2. Changing Household Composition, Labor Patterns, and Fertility in a Highland New Guinea Population

      • Patricia Lyons Johnson
      Pages 237-250

    3. Variation and Change in Fertility in West Central Nepal

      • Steven Folmar
      Pages 251-270

    4. Land Use, Soil Loss, and Sustainable Agriculture in Rwanda

      • Daniel C. Clay, Laurence A. Lewis
      Pages 271-287

    5. Agricultural Intensification in a Philippine Frontier Community: Impact on Labor Efficiency and Farm Diversity

      • W. Thomas Conelly
      Pages 289-310

    6. Seventeenth-Century Organic Agriculture in China

      • Wen Dazhong, David Pimentel
      Pages 311-325

    7. Kofyar Cash-Cropping: Choice and Change in Indigenous Agricultural Development

      • Robert McC. Netting, M. Priscilla Stone, Glenn Davis Stone
      Pages 327-348

    8. Time, Space, and Transnational Flows: Critical Historical Conjunctures and Explaining Change in Northern Nigerian Agriculture

      • Louise D. Lennihan
      Pages 349-364
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About this book

This volume was developed to meet a much noted need for accessible case study material for courses in human ecology, cultural ecology, cultural geography, and other subjects increasingly offered to fulfill renewed student and faculty interest in environmental issues. The case studies, all taken from the journal Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Jouma~ represent a broad cross-section of contemporary research. It is tempting but inaccurate to sug­ gest that these represent the "Best of Human Ecology." They were selected from among many outstanding possibilities because they worked well with the organization of the book which, in turn, reflects the way in which courses in human ecology are often organized. This book provides a useful sample of case studies in the application of the perspective of human ecology to a wide variety of problems in dif­ ferent regions of the world. University courses in human ecology typically begin with basic concepts pertaining to energy flow, feeding relations, ma­ terial cycles, population dynamics, and ecosystem properties, and then take up illustrative case studies of human-environmental interactions. These are usually discussed either along the lines of distinctive strategies of food pro­ curement (such as foraging or pastoralism) or as adaptations to specific habitat types or biomes (such as the circumpolar regions or arid lands).

Editors and Affiliations

  • Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, USA

    Daniel G. Bates, Susan H. Lees

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Case Studies in Human Ecology

  • Editors: Daniel G. Bates, Susan H. Lees

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9584-4

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1996

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-45245-1Published: 31 July 1996

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-306-45246-8Published: 31 July 1996

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-9584-4Published: 29 June 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 408

  • Topics: Archaeology, History, general, Population Economics, Sociology, general

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