Human Ecology

Daniel Bates is the editor-in-chief of the journal Human Ecology.

• Theory, Method, and Explanation in Human Ecology.- Explaining Indonesian Forest Fires: Both Ends of the Firestick.- On the Notions of Mother Nature and the Balance of Nature and Their Implications for Conservation.- Hunter–Gatherers Optimize Their Foraging Patterns Using Lévy Flights.- What is Biocultural Diversity? A Theoretical Review.- The Conservation Catch-22: Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Change.- Does Environmental Talk Equal Environmental Knowledge? An Example from Newfoundland.- Dynamics of Local Food Procurement Systems.- Tracking the Carbon Footprint of Paleolithic Societies in Mediterranean Ecosystems.- Burning and Hunting in Australia’s Western Desert.- The Wild Yam Question: Evidence from Baka Foraging in the Northwest Congo Basin.- Life Without Pigs: Decisions, Community Action, and Subsistence Changes Among the Irakia Awa, Papua New Guinea.- Food Security and Pastoralism in the Northern Sahel.- Agricultural Intensification and Large-scale Population Dynamics.- Labor Productivity and Agricultural Development: Testing Boserup.- Following Netting: The Cultural Ecology of Viliui Sakha Households in Post-Soviet Siberia.- Adaptive Responses to Environmental and Sociopolitical Change in Southern Zambia.- Social and Environmental Impacts of the Rise and Fall of Flue-Cured Tobacco Production in the Copán Valley.- Does Climate Change Affect War Frequency? The Case of Eastern China.- Development, Common Property Management, and Conservation.- Local Knowledge and Changing Subsistence Strategies in James Bay, Canada.- After the Cochabamba Water War of 2000: A Common Pool Resource Institution in the Urban Andes.- Gender, Social Difference and Coastal Resource Management in Lowland Philippine Fishing Communities.- Causes of Deforestation in Central Maine, USA.-Environmental and Economic Costs of Biofuels.