Human ecosystem
Human ecosystems are complex cybernetic systems that are increasingly being used by ecological anthropologists and other scholars to examine the ecological aspects of human communities in a way that integrates multiple factors as economics, socio-political organization, psychological factors, and physical factors related to the environment.
A human ecosystem has three central organizing concepts: human environed unit (an individual or group of individuals), environment, interactions and transactions between and within the components.[1] The total environment includes three conceptually distinct, but interrelated environments: the natural, human constructed, and human behavioral. These environments furnish the resources and conditions necessary for life and constitute a life-support system.[2]
Further reading
- Basso, Keith 1996 “Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language among the Western Apache.” Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
- Douglas, Mary 1999 “Implicit Meanings: Selected Essays in Anthropology.” London and New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
- Nadasdy, Paul 2003 “Hunters and Bureaucrats: Power, Knowledge, and Aboriginal-State Relations in the Southwest Yukon.” Vancouver and Toronto: UBC Press.
References
- ↑ "Sprout, H.H. and Sprout, M.: Ecological Perspective on Human Affairs (eBook and Paperback)". press.princeton.edu. 1965. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
- ↑ Bubolz, Margaret M.; Eicher, Joanne B.; Evers, Sandra J.; Sontag, M. Suzanne (1980). "A human ecological approach to quality of life: Conceptual framework and results of a preliminary study". Social Indicators Research. 7 (1–4): 103–136. doi:10.1007/bf00305595.