Human Ecology

List of contents

1 GENERAL INTRODUCTION, 2 INTRODUCTION TO PART I, 3 HUMAN ECOLOGY AND BIOHISTORY: CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES TO UNDERSTANDING HUMAN SITUATIONS IN THE BIOSPHERE, 4 HUMAN ECOLOGY AS TRANSDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE, AND SCIENCE AS PART OF HUMAN ECOLOGY 5 HOW DOES THE PERSON FIT INTO THE HUMAN ECOLOGICAL TRIANGLE? FROM DUALISM TO DUALITY: THE RANSACTIONAL WORLDVIEW, 6 PHILOSOPHICAL REMARKS ON THE PROJECT OF HUMAN ECOLOGY

About the author

Dieter Steiner is Professor of Quantitative Geography and Human Ecology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich. Markus Nauser is a Scientific Collaborator with Ecosens Ltd, an environmental management consultancy near Zürich

Summary

Arguing for environmentally sustainable lifestyles, this envisages a new kind of consciousness based on the notion of the individual as an agent mediating between society and the environment.

Additional text

`... this important scholarly book ... contains a wealth of perception, analyses and insights into how society might change towards ecologically sound behaviour.' - Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Product details

• Authors: Markus (EDT)/ Steiner Nauser, Markus Steiner Nauser
• Assisted by: Markus Nauser (Editor), Nauser Markus (Editor), Dieter Steiner (Editor), Steiner Dieter (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.04.2016
• EAN: 9781138009332
• ISBN: 978-1-138-00933-2
• No. of pages: 392
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, Applied ecology, Human Geography, Development and environmental geography