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Human ecology in medicine

Environmental Research, 1970
Abstract Understanding the close interrelationships between the social and biological ills of man is a current challenge for modern medicine. The consideration of health from an ecological perspective is a recognition of the necessity for consciously planning and manipulating ways to modify the bio-social environment in a manner that forces are ...
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Human Ecology and Interactional Ecology

American Sociological Review, 1940
IF VARIETY is spice, human ecology should be highly seasoned, for ecological literature contains an amazing variety of opinions. Biologists,' geographers,2 and sociologists3 have each claimed the field as their own. H. G. Wells identifies this ecological branch of study either with history4 or with a general synthesis of social studies centering in man'
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Rivers are social–ecological systems: Time to integrate human dimensions into riverscape ecology and management

, 2018
Incorporation of concepts from landscape ecology into understanding and managing riverine ecosystems has become widely known as riverscape ecology. Riverscape ecology emphasizes interactions among processes at different scales and their consequences for ...
J. Dunham   +8 more
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Human Ecology and Malaria

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1972
Summary Problems of malaria eradication are discussed in terms of relevant human ecological factors. Principal human factors seen as related to the success or failure of malaria eradication programs are: poverty, ignorance, illiteracy, social deprivation, migration and local mobility of populations, differential exposure of populations to Anopheles ...
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The unique ecology of human predators

Science, 2015
An anomalous and unbalanced predator In the past century, humans have become the dominant predator across many systems. The species that we target are thus far in considerable decline; however, predators in the wild generally achieve a balance with their
C. Darimont   +3 more
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The Humanizing of Ecology

Ecology, 1922
It may seem to some of us questionable that ecology should need to be brought into any special or intimate relation to considerations of human welfare (which is what I mean by humanizing ecology)-questionable whether the so-called practical bias is not already too pronounced; whether, indeed, ecology as it should be pursued and developed by its ...
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The ecology of human microbiota: dynamics and diversity in health and disease

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2017
Social welfare, better health care, and urbanization have greatly improved human health and well‐being. On the other hand, Western societies suffer from the downsides of the elevated standard of living.
Antti Karkman   +2 more
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The ecology of the microbiome: Networks, competition, and stability

Science, 2015
What makes the gut microbiome stable? Classically, we think of our microbiome as stable, benign, and cooperative. Recent experimental work is beginning to unpick essential functions that can be attributed to the stable microbiota of humans. To be able to
K. Coyte, Jonas Schluter, K. Foster
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Human ecological intervention and the role of forest fires in human ecology

The Science of The Total Environment, 2002
The present text is a summary of research on the relationship between forest fires and human activities. Numerous theories have been created to explain changes in forests during the late Pleistocene and early Holocene, and a general understanding has developed in the past 50 years regarding natural fire regimes.
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Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital

, 2016
In Capitalism in the Web of Life, Jason W. Moore advances a new synthetic framework that draws on environmentalist, feminist, and Marxist thought to formulate a theoretical edifice of capitalism-in-nature (as opposed to capitalism and nature).
Dan Boscov-Ellen
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