Advances in Human Ecology

Name: Advances in Human Ecology
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ISBN: 9781559388740

ISBN-10: 1559388749

ISBN-13: 9781559388740

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Authors: Lee Freese

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This is the fourth volume in a series designed to publish theoretical, empirical and review papers on scientific human ecology. Human ecology is interpreted to include structural and functional changes in human social organization and sociocultural systems as these changes may be affected by, interdepent with, or identical to changes in ecosystemic, evolutionary or ethological processes factors or mechanisms. Three degrees of scope are included in this interpretation: the adaptation of sociocultural forces to bioecological forces; the interactions, two-way adaptations, between sociocultural and bioecological forces; and the integration, or unified interactions, of sociocultural with…

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List price: $121.99
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 212
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Preface



Autocatakinetics, evolution, and the law of maximum entropy production: a principled foundation towards the study of human ecology



The heuristics of ecological interaction



Linking technology, natural resources, and socioeconomic structure of human society: a theoretical model



Linking technology, natural resources, and socioeconomic structure of human society: examples and applications



Surplus and survival: risk, ruin, and luxury in the evolution of early forms of subsistence



Accumulation, deforestation, and world ecological degradation, 2500 BC to AD 1990



Dynamics and rhetorics of socio-environmental change: critical perspectives on the limits of neo-Malthusian environmentalism



Legal reform and local environmental mobilization