2nd Edition
Human Ecology as Human Behavior Essays in Environmental and Developmental Anthropology
By John W. Bennett
Copyright 1996
398 Pages
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Routledge
398 Pages
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Routledge
387 Pages
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Routledge
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Human interaction with the natural environment has a dual character. By turning increasing quantities of natural substances into physical resources, human beings might be said to have freed themselves from the constraints of low-technology survival pressures. However, the process has generated a new dependence on nature in the form of complex "socionatural systems," as Bennett calls them, in... Read more
I: Theory and Concepts; 1: Underlying Ideas: Ecological Transitions, Socionatural Systems, and Adaptive Behavior; 2: Anticipation, Adaptation, and the Concept of Culture in Anthropology; 3: Human Ecology as Human Behavior: A Normative Anthropology of Resource Use and Abuse; 4: Ecosystems, Resource Conservation, and Anthropological Research; II: Field Studies of Resource Management; 5: The Social Ecology of Japanese Forestry Management in the World War II Period; 6: Ethnographic Research on Allocation and Competition for Land and Water in the Canadian Great Plains; 7: Social Aspects of Sustainability and Common Property: Lessons from the History of the Hutterian Brethren; III: Literature Reviews and Field Surveys of Resource Management; 8: Anthropological Contributions to the Cultural Ecology and Management of Water Resources: A Review of Literature to the 1970s; 9: Adaptations by Tribal and Modern Populations to the North American Great Plains and Other Arid and Semiarid Lands: A Survey of Issues and Problems; 10: The Changing Socionatural System of Migratory Pastoralism in Eastern Africa: A Review of Literature to the 1980s; 11: Anthropology and Development: The Ambiguous Engagement; 12: Epilogue: The Rise of Ecophilosophy
Biography
John W. Bennett
