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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 ...
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) Southern California Coastal Water Research Project Authority (SCCWRP) [26] UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC) UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California at Los Angeles [27] USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies (WIES)
Annual Review of Anthropology: published by Annual Reviews; releases an annual volume of review articles; Current Anthropology: published by the University of Chicago Press and sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research; Journal of Anthropological Sciences: published by the Istituto Italiano di Antropologia
Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography; J. John von Neumann Environmental Research Institute of the Pacific; M.
Veronica Strang is an author and professor of anthropology affiliated to Oxford University. Her work combines cultural anthropology with environmental studies, and focuses on the relationship between human communities and their environments. Strang's publications include the books 'The Meaning of Water' (Berg 2004); Gardening the World: agency ...
The environmental humanities (also ecological humanities) is an interdisciplinary area of research, drawing on the many environmental sub-disciplines that have emerged in the humanities over the past several decades, in particular environmental literature, environmental philosophy, environmental history, science and technology studies, environmental anthropology, [1] and environmental ...
Vayda published some hundred articles and several books, including Explaining Human Actions and Environmental Changes, a selection of his essays on explanation and explanation-oriented research in the social sciences and human ecology, published by AltaMira Press in 2009, and Causal Explanation for Social Scientists: A Reader, co-edited by him and Bradley B. Walters, published by AltaMira ...
It is co-directed by professors of anthropology Craig Stanford, Chris Boehm, Nayuta Yamashita, and Roberto Delgado. The center was established in 1991 with the joint appointment of Jane Goodall as Distinguished Emeritus Professor in Anthropology and Occupational Science. [1] [2] The center offers USC students the chance to study in Gombe. [3]