Human Ecology

Part 1: Philosophy, Theory, and Methods. There is no Mother Nature. Biocultural diversity. Causal explanations for forest fires, Indonesia. Knowledge & conservation practices. Levy flights. Fire, Senegal. LEK, Australia. Catch 22 conservation/LEK. Learning in the Pacific Northwest. Mediterranean landscapes. Mediterranean landscapes. Historical human ecology. Tobacco cultivation, West Honduras.- Part 2: Changing Subsistence Patterns. Gitksan landscapes. Without pigs in New Guinea. Ecology of rushes, Turkey. Agropastoralists, Siberia. Irrigation in Northern Spain. Pastoral production in Northern Kenya. Pastoral sedentarization & children's diet & health, N. Kenya. Impact of the ivory trade in E. Africa. Animal acquisition & herd demography, Turkana. Pastoralist response to flood plain rehab., Cameroon. Aboriginal hunting, Western desert, Australia. Hunter-gatherer gardens, West Panama. Foraging in the Congo Basin. Bedouin tourist stations as response to drought. 1000 years in the Pacific Basin.- Part 3: Agricultural Intensification/Population Pressure. New Guinea populations. Boserup revisited. Maya Biosphere. Matrilineal fertility, China (social aspects of population dynamics). Agricultural intensification, Central Europe. Invasive species, South Africa. Climate change & warfare, China. Sustainability, agricultural development & LEK, Central America. Ecology of increasing diseases. Agricultural intensification & population growth, Amazon.- Part 4: Common Property Resources/Conservation. Clearcutting Maine. Andean irrigation. Borneo forests. Common property regimes, Ecuador. Hardin Revisited. Mali burning mosaic. Common property among the Tamir, Siberia. Forest conservation, Kalimantan. Fire use in South America. Fire Policy, Alaska. Coastal resource management. Families and firewood, sub-Saharan Africa. Rangelands as common property, South Africa. Private and communal forests, Guatemala. Glossary.