Handbook of Human Ecology

Ludomir Lozny, PhD, is Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, Hunter College, City University of New York. He is managing editor of Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and co-editor of the book series Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation (Springer). He has many years of teaching and publishing experience in the fields of prehistory, human adaptive behavior, evolutionary anthropology, and complexity research.

• Foreword (Pete Vayda, Dan Bates).- A Brief History of Human Ecology (Lozny).- Theory and Methods in Human Ecology (B. Walters, T. Rambo, P. J. Richerson, M. L. McCaslin, K. Wilson).- Human Ecology as an Interdisciplinary Science (Dan Bates).- Section 1. Human adaptability and the perception of the environment (E. Moran, T. Ingold).- Section 2.  Resource management and access to resources (M. Jankowsky).- Section 3. Development and sustainability (Susan A. Crate).- Section 4. Landscape – its construction, use, and meaning (M. Johnson, I. Hunt).- Section 5. Governability, environmental policy, and economics (A. Agrawal).- Section 6. Risk management (Petra T. Buergelt, Douglas Paton).- Section 7. Historical ecology (Lozny).- Section 8. Conservation and preservation (Paul Robbins).- Section 9. Demography, population distribution, human geography (Marianne Schmink).- Section 10. Public Health (Eric Roth, Hanna-Andrea Rother).- Section 11. Local knowledge (F. Berkes, I. Davidson-Hunt).- Section 12. Subsistence strategies and food security (David A. Cleveland).- Section 13. World society: the range of possible futures (Nora Haenn).- Section 14. Climate change and its impact on human adaptation (Cynthia Isenhour).- Section 15. The Anthropocene (Simon L. Lewis).