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Human ecological intervention and the role of forest fires in human ecology

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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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 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 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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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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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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Human Ecology: Industrial Ecology [PDF]

open access: possible, 2006
Industrial Ecology aims to inform decision making about the environmental impacts of industrial production processes by tracking and analyzing resource use and flows of industrial products, consumer products and wastes. Quantifying the patterns of use of materials and energy in different societies is one area of research in Industrial Ecology.
Faye Duchin, Stephen H. Levine
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