392 Pages
by Routledge

392 Pages
by Routledge

392 Pages
by Routledge

We face an environmental catastrophe of global proportions. The ecological rationality of modern society, and of science in particular, is in question. Science still responds to crises at the level of technocratic expertise, and still treats society as an adaptive system. By bringing together a number of integrative approaches to the human-environment problem, Human Ecology shapes a more... Read more

1 GENERAL INTRODUCTION, 2 INTRODUCTION TO PART I, 3 HUMAN ECOLOGY AND BIOHISTORY: CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES TO UNDERSTANDING HUMAN SITUATIONS IN THE BIOSPHERE, 4 HUMAN ECOLOGY AS TRANSDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE, AND SCIENCE AS PART OF HUMAN ECOLOGY 5 HOW DOES THE PERSON FIT INTO THE HUMAN ECOLOGICAL TRIANGLE? FROM DUALISM TO DUALITY: THE RANSACTIONAL WORLDVIEW, 6 PHILOSOPHICAL REMARKS ON THE PROJECT OF HUMAN ECOLOGY

Biography

Dieter Steiner is Professor of Quantitative Geography and Human Ecology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich. Markus Nauser is a Scientific Collaborator with Ecosens Ltd, an environmental management consultancy near Zürich

`... this important scholarly book ... contains a wealth of perception, analyses and insights into how society might change towards ecologically sound behaviour.' - Trends in Ecology and Evolution