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Human ecology

open access: diamondStudia Ecologiae et Bioethicae, 2006
Environmental problems do have a universal dimension: they concern entire humanity as well as each human being individually, therefore, a new ecology needs to be developed in which man will play a principal role being a focal point of the study, its ...
Stefan Konstańczak
doaj   +4 more sources

Ecological Economics and Human Ecology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
While economic theory has been enormously influential since the eighteenth century, the level of dominance of culture, politics and ethics gained by it in the last few decades is unprecedented.
Gare, Arran
core   +3 more sources

An interdisciplinary perspective of the built-environment microbiome. [PDF]

open access: yesFEMS Microbiol Ecol
The built environment provides an excellent setting for interdisciplinary research on the dynamics of microbial communities. The system is simplified compared to many natural settings, and to some extent the entire environment can be manipulated, from architectural design, to materials use, air flow, human traffic, and capacity to disrupt microbial ...
McAlister JS   +10 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

The Ecology of Human Mobility [PDF]

open access: yesTrends in Ecology & Evolution, 2017
Mobile phones and other geolocated devices have produced unprecedented volumes of data on human movement. Analysis of pooled individual human trajectories using big data approaches has revealed a wealth of emergent features that have ecological parallels in animals across a diverse array of phenomena including commuting, epidemics, the spread of ...
Meekan, Mark G.   +6 more
openaire   +6 more sources

Convergence of human and Old World monkey gut microbiomes demonstrates the importance of human ecology over phylogeny. [PDF]

open access: yesGenome Biol, 2019
Amato KR   +12 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Structure, function and diversity of the healthy human microbiome [PDF]

open access: yesNature, 2012
Studies of the human microbiome have revealed that even healthy individuals differ remarkably in the microbes that occupy habitats such as the gut, skin and vagina. Much of this diversity remains unexplained, although diet, environment, host genetics and
Huttenhower, Curtis, Izard, Jacques
core   +3 more sources

Human Ecology

open access: yesInternational Encyclopedia of Transportation, 2019
A large body of research highlights the positive effects of physical exposure to and feeling psychologically connected to nature on human well-being.
Roderick J. Lawrence
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Fables of the Past

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2020
Prehistoric landscape reconstructions are still considered an unsolved methodological issue in archaeological research, and this includes the perception and transformation of an individual landscape in relation to situational and local ecosystem ...
Michael Kempf
doaj   +1 more source

Early to Middle Holocene Estuarine Shellfish Collecting on the Islands and Mainland Coast of the Santa Barbara Channel, California, USA

open access: yesOpen Quaternary, 2020
Terminal Pleistocene to Middle Holocene sea level rise resulted in a number of changes to coastal ecosystems around the world, providing new challenges and opportunities for coastal peoples.
Torben C. Rick
doaj   +1 more source

Would the Trees Dim the Lights? Adopting the Intentional Stance for More-Than-Human Participatory Design [PDF]

open access: yesIn Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference 2022: Volume 2 (PDC 2022 Vol. 2), ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2023
The 2019/20 Black Summer bushfires in Australia demonstrated the brutal and disastrous consequences of changing the technological world without considering linkages with the biophysical, ecological or human worlds. An emerging more-than-human design philosophy encourages designers to consider such interrelations between humans and non-human entities ...
arxiv   +1 more source

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