Human Ecology as Human Behavior: Essays in Environmental and Developmental Anthropology

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ISBN: 9781560008491 | 1560008490
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Copyright: 1/30/1995

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John W. Bennett's essays cover a wide range: from the philosophy of environmentalism to the ecology of economic development; from the human impact on semi-arid lands to the ecology of Japanese forest management. This expanded paperback edition includes a new chapter on the role of anthropology in economic development.

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Preface
Underlying Ideas: Ecological Transitions, Socionatural Systems, and Adaptive Behavior	p. 3
Anticipation, Adaptation, and the Concept of Culture in Anthropology	p. 23
Human Ecology as Human Behavior: A Normative Anthropology of Resource Use and Abuse	p. 45
Ecosystems, Resource Conservation, and Anthropological Research	p. 77
The Social Ecology of Japanese Forestry Management in the World War II Period	p. 99
Ethnographic Research on Allocation and Competition for Land and Water in the Canadian Great Plains	p. 129
Social Aspects of Sustainability and Common Property: Lessons from the History of the Hutterian Brethren	p. 165
Anthropological Contributions to the Cultural Ecology and Management of Water Resources	p. 203
Adaptations by Tribal and Modern Populations to the North American Great Plains and Other Arid and Semiarid Lands	p. 251
The Changing Socionatural System of Migratory Pastoralism in Eastern Africa	p. 289
Anthropology and Development: The Ambiguous Engagement	p. 323
Epilogue: The Rise of Ecophilosophy	p. 353
Index	p. 379
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