ISBN:
9781351514484
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (398 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Bennett, John W Human Ecology as Human Behavior : Essays in Environmental and Developmental Anthropology
DDC:
304.2
Keywords:
Conservation of natural resources
Abstract:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I: Theory and Concepts -- 1: Underlying Ideas: Ecological Transitions, Socionatural Systems, and Adaptive Behavior -- 2: Anticipation, Adaptation, and the Concept of Culture in Anthropology -- 3: Human Ecology as Human Behavior: A Normative Anthropology of Resource Use and Abuse -- 4: Ecosystems, Resource Conservation, and Anthropological Research -- Part II: Field Studies of Resource Management -- 5: The Social Ecology of Japanese Forestry Managementin the World War II Period -- 6: Ethnographic Research on Allocation and Competitionfor Land and Water in the Canadian Great Plains -- 7: Social Aspects of Sustainability and Common Property:Lessons from the History of the Hutterian Brethren -- Part III: Literature Reviews and Field Surveys of Resource Management -- 8: Anthropological Contributions to the Cultural Ecology andManagement of Water Resources -- 9: Adaptations by Tribal and Modem Populations to the North American Great Plains and Other Arid and Semiarid Lands -- 10: The Changing Socionatural System of Migratory Pastoralism in Eastern Africa -- 11: Anthropology and Development: The Ambiguous Engagement -- 12: Epilogue: The Rise of Ecophilosophy -- Index
