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There are a number of environmental issues in Florida.A large portion of Florida is a biologically diverse ecosystem, with large wetlands in the Everglades.Management of environmental issues related to the everglades and the larger coastal waters and wetlands have been important to the history of Florida and the development of multiple parts of the economy of Florida, including the influential ...
Ethnoecology is a field of environmental anthropology, and has derived much of its characteristics from classic as well as more modern theorists. Franz Boas was one of the first anthropologists to question unilineal evolution , the belief that all societies follow the same, unavoidable path towards Western civilization .
Environmental anthropology is a sub-discipline of anthropology that examines the complex relationships between humans and the environments which they inhabit. [1] This takes many shapes and forms, whether it be examining the hunting/gathering patterns of humans tens of thousands of years ago, archaeological investigations of early agriculturalists and their impact on deforestation or soil ...
Michael W. Warren is an American associate professor emeritus and forensic anthropologist, at the University of Florida.He formerly served as the William H. Garmany Term Professor of Human Rights & Social Justice in the Department of Anthropology, and as Assistant Director of the William R. Maples Center for Forensic Medicine.
Moran was trained as an environmental anthropologist, focusing on populations in the Amazon Basin experiencing dislocation through resettlement, particularly from highways and dams. He has been extremely critical of large hydroelectric dams as a method to generate power, given their inefficiencies and effects on local populations and ...
On the other side are Florida’s Black leaders and national civil rights activists like Al Sharpton. They vow to ignite voter energy and unleash a grassroots movement to remind people that ...
Steve Lansing in Borneo, 2018. J. Stephen Lansing (born 1950) is an American anthropologist and complexity scientist. He is especially known from his decades of research on the emergent properties of human-environmental interactions in Bali, Borneo and the Malay Archipelago; [1] social-ecological modeling, [2] and complex adaptive systems. [3]
OK, I am justifiably afraid of what Republicans are doing to the environment which we all depend on for clean air and water. Be warned Floridians, 'Project 2025' would further hurt Florida’s ...