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Human Ecology

Contemporary Research and Practice

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Editors:
  1. Daniel G. Bates

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

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  2. Judith Tucker

    1. Shelbyville, USA

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  • Comprehensive coverage of the field of human ecology
  • Provides insight into the current state of the field as well as future directions
  • Published and highly-cited articles are updated with new research since publication and contextual introductions
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Theory, Method, and Explanation in Human Ecology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-15
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    2. Introduction

      • Daniel G. Bates, Judith Tucker
      Pages 1-9

    3. Explaining Indonesian Forest Fires: Both Ends of the Firestick

      • Andrew P. Vayda
      Pages 17-35

    4. On the Notions of Mother Nature and the Balance of Nature and Their Implications for Conservation

      • Dennis E. Jelinski
      Pages 37-50

    5. Hunter–Gatherers Optimize Their Foraging Patterns Using Lévy Flights

      • Clifford T. Brown, Larry S. Liebovitch, Rachel Glendon
      Pages 51-65

    6. What is Biocultural Diversity? A Theoretical Review

      • Michelle Cocks
      Pages 67-77

    7. The Conservation Catch-22: Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Change

      • Flora Lu
      Pages 79-87

    8. Does Environmental Talk Equal Environmental Knowledge? An Example from Newfoundland

      • Craig T. Palmer, Reed L. Wadley
      Pages 89-100

  3. Dynamics of Local Food Procurement Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-107
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    2. Tracking the Carbon Footprint of Paleolithic Societies in Mediterranean Ecosystems

      • Mary C. Stiner, Steven L. Kuhn
      Pages 109-125

    3. Burning and Hunting in Australia’s Western Desert

      • Douglas W. Bird, Rebecca Bliege Bird, Christopher H. Parker
      Pages 127-142

    4. The Wild Yam Question: Evidence from Baka Foraging in the Northwest Congo Basin

      • Hirokazu Yasuoka
      Pages 143-154

    5. Life Without Pigs: Decisions, Community Action, and Subsistence Changes Among the Irakia Awa, Papua New Guinea

      • David J. Boyd
      Pages 155-171

    6. Food Security and Pastoralism in the Northern Sahel

      • Jon Pedersen, Tor A. Benjaminsen
      Pages 173-186

  4. Agricultural Intensification and Large-scale Population Dynamics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-193
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    2. Labor Productivity and Agricultural Development: Testing Boserup

      • Robert C. Hunt
      Pages 195-211

    3. Following Netting: The Cultural Ecology of Viliui Sakha Households in Post-Soviet Siberia

      • Susan Crate
      Pages 213-223

    4. Adaptive Responses to Environmental and Sociopolitical Change in Southern Zambia

      • Lisa Cliggett, Elizabeth Colson, Rod Hay, Thayer Scudder, Jon Unruh
      Pages 225-236

    5. Social and Environmental Impacts of the Rise and Fall of Flue-Cured Tobacco Production in the Copán Valley

      • William M. Loker
      Pages 237-254
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About this book

This book arose from the need to develop accessible research-based case study material which addresses contemporary issues and problems in the rapidly evolving field of human ecology. Academic, political, and, indeed, public interest in the environmental sciences is on the rise. This is no doubt spurred by media coverage of climate change and global warming and attendant natural disasters such as unusual drought and flood conditions, toxic dust storms, pollution of air and water, and the like. But there is also a growing intellectual awareness of the social causes of anthropogenic environmental impacts, political vectors in determining conser- tion outcomes, and the role of local representations of ecological knowledge in resource management and sustainable yield production. This is reflected in the rapid increase of ecology courses being taught at leading universities in the fa- growing developing countries much as was the case a decade or two ago in Europe and North America. The research presented here is all taken from recent issues of Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Since the journal itself is a leading forum for cont- porary research, the articles we have selected represent a cross-section of work which brings the perspectives of human ecology to bear on current problems being faced around the world. The chapters are organized in such a way to facilitate the use of this volume either to teach a course or to introduce an informed reader to the field.

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Daniel G. Bates

  • Shelbyville, USA

    Judith Tucker

About the editors

Daniel Bates is the editor-in-chief of the journal Human Ecology.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Human Ecology

  • Book Subtitle: Contemporary Research and Practice

  • Editors: Daniel G. Bates, Judith Tucker

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5701-6

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2010

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-5700-9Published: 14 April 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-1514-5Published: 17 August 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-5701-6Published: 29 March 2010

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 377

  • Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Anthropology, Population Economics, Nature Conservation, Human Geography

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