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Toward an Experimental Ecology of Human Development.

, 1977
A broader approach to research in hu- j man development is proposed that focuses on the pro- \ gressive accommodation, throughout the life span, between the growing human organism and the changing environments in which it actually lives and grows.
U. Bronfenbrenner
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Ecology of the family as a context for human development: research perspectives

, 1986
This review collates and examines critically a theoretically convergent but widely dispersed body of research on the influence of external environments on the functioning of families as contexts of human development.
U. Bronfenbrenner
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Prolegomenon to a Structural Human Ecology of Human Well-Being

, 2015
There is a growing dissatisfaction with using standard measures of affluence, such as gross domestic product, as the sole conceptualization of human well-being.
Thomas Dietz
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Urbanization and Land‐Use Change: A Human Ecology of Deforestation Across the United States, 2001–2006

, 2015
Drawing from human ecology, the present study sheds light on the ways in which urbanization drives changes in forest cover at the local level across the continental United States. Using county-level data from the National Land Cover Database and other US
M. Clement, G. Chi, H. Ho
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Understanding Human Ecology: A systems approach to sustainability

, 2014
Prologue: Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast Part 1: The Challenge 1. Human Ecology: An Evolving Discipline 2 . Water Conflicts in the Snowy Mountains Part 2: Thinking Together 3. Thinking Together 5. System Dynamics I - Stocks and Flows 5.
R. Dyball, Barry Newell
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Human Behaviour and the Principle of Least Effort: an Introduction to Human Ecology

, 2012
Some people may be laughing when looking at you reading in your spare time. Some may be admired of you. And some may want be like you who have reading hobby. What about your own feel? Have you felt right? Reading is a need and a hobby at once.
G. Zipf
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Ecology and Human Ecology

Social Forces, 1944
government control tends to promote equal distribution of whatever advantages are derived from planning. Our open-class philosophy and broad educational base would tend to make planning for the exclusive benefit of the elite classes unworkable. Since dictatorial regimes, as well as social planning, tend to arise in crisis situations, it is not at all ...
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Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort: An Introduction to Human Ecology

, 1950
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Y. R. Chao, G. Zipf
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A critical political ecology of human dimensions of climate change: Epistemology, ontology, and ethics

, 2018
To understand the broader epistemological and ontological politics of human dimensions of climate change, this review adopts a political ecology approach, informed by Science and Technology Studies concepts and research on multiple ontologies.
M. Goldman, M. Turner, Meaghan Daly
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Ecologies by Humans for Humans

2016
This chapter discusses the potential of industrial and urban ecology to entwine humans and nature to achieve sustainability in ways that are respectful and ethical to both. Thinking about humans and nature linked as socio-ecological systems means appreciating the growing, inextricable connectedness between global locations where technology is ...
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