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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 ...
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]
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 .
Ecological anthropology developed from the approach of cultural ecology, and it provided a conceptual framework more suitable for scientific inquiry than the cultural ecology approach. [3] Research pursued under this approach aims to study a wide range of human responses to environmental problems. [3]
He then completed an M.A. in Latin American History (1969) and a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology (1975) at the University of Florida, where he studied the effects of the Trans-Amazonian Highway. Moran taught at Indiana University from 1975 to 2012, [ 1 ] and is an emeritus professor there.
A recent study of ocean microplastics by scientists from Duke University found that 68% of the animals researched had at least one microplastic particle inside its body. Plastic in our ocean is ...
An aerial view of a human ecosystem. Pictured is the city of Chicago. Human ecosystems are human-dominated ecosystems of the anthropocene era that are viewed as complex cybernetic systems by conceptual models that are increasingly used by ecological anthropologists and other scholars to examine the ecological aspects of human communities in a way that integrates multiple factors as economics ...
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