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Part of the built environment – suburban tract housing in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Human ecology is an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary study of the relationship between humans and their natural, social, and built environments.
Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on human ecology. It was established in 1972 by Andrew P. Vayda. [1] The editor-in-chief is Daniel Bates (City University of New York).
Human Ecology, Human Economy: Ideas for an Ecologically Sustainable Future is a 1997 book edited by Mark Diesendorf and Clive Hamilton. [1] [2] The authors' intent is to "develop some of the basic ideas, concepts and tools that are needed to create a set of preferred futures for the Earth". [3]
Hawley expanded McKenzie's work on population studies and human interaction with the environment further. Hawley contended that "the environment, population, and the ecosystem tend to move toward equilibrium" (Human Ecology, p. 10). In his book, Human Ecology, Hawley wrote that humans will modify their behavior patterns to fit with changes in ...
According to Cornell University's 150th Anniversary magazine on the founding of Human Ecology (Vol. 43, No.1, Spring 2015), Urie Brofenbrenner hiked with his father Alexander, first in their native Odessa, Ukraine, and after the family emigrated in 1923, to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and then upstate New York (p.14, Into the woods: How a father's ...
Ecological systems theory is a broad term used to capture the theoretical contributions of developmental psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner. [1] Bronfenbrenner developed the foundations of the theory throughout his career, [2] published a major statement of the theory in American Psychologist, [3] articulated it in a series of propositions and hypotheses in his most cited book, The Ecology of ...
Bogardus acknowledges that Park is the father of human ecology, proclaiming, "Not only did he coin the name but he laid out the patterns, offered the earliest exhibit of ecological concepts, defined the major ecological processes and stimulated more advanced students to cultivate the fields of research in ecology than most other sociologists ...
Gerald L. Young is an ecologist who has published and is best known for his work in human ecology. He is a professor of biology and environmental science and regional planning at Washington State University. and was past president (1988-1990) of the Society for Human Ecology. [1] The Society for Human Ecology offers the Gerald L. Young book award.