Human Ecology Contemporary Research and Practice /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bates, Daniel G. (Editor), Tucker, Judith (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2010.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Nature conservation.; Population.; Anthropology.; Human geography.; Social Sciences.; Population Economics.; Nature Conservation.; Human Geography.

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...

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.