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The first—and only—source to integrate the multiple disciplines and professions exploring the many ways people interact with the natural and designed environments in which we live. Comprising more than 250 informative entries, The Encyclopedia of Human Ecology examines the interdisciplinary and complex topic of human ecology. Knowledge gathered from disciplines that study individuals and groups is blended with information about the environment from the fields of family science, geography, anthropology, urban planning, and environmental science. At the same time, professions intended to enhance individual and family life—marriage and family therapy, clinical psychology, social work, dietetic and other health professions—are represented alongside those concerned with the preservation, conservation, and management of the environment and its resources. How rampant are eating disorders among our youth? Are AIDS educational programs effective? What problems do adolescents transitioning into adulthood encounter? Here, four leading scholars in the field have assembled a team of top-tier psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, and other experts to explore these and hundreds of other timely issues.
The first-and only-source to integrate the multiple disciplines and professions exploring the many ways people interact with the natural and designed environments in which we live. Individuals, families and communities are constantly interacting with their work, social, and personal environments. What is the impact of these interactions on our health, quality of life, and environment? How can we build a healthy future for our children through an understanding of the ecology of human life? Comprised of more than 600 informative entries, The Encyclopedia of Human Ecology examines the interdisciplinary and complex topic of human ecology. Knowledge gathered from disciplines that study individuals and groups, such as biology, nutrition, psychology, and sociology, is blended with information about environments from the fields of family science, geography, anthropology, urban planning, and environmental science.; At the same time, professions intended to enhance individual and family life-marriage and family therapy, clinical psychology, social work, dietetic and other health professions-are represented alongside those concerned with preservation, conservation design and the management of the environment and its resources. How rampant are eating disorders among our youth? Are AIDS educational programs effective? What problems do adolescents transitioning into adulthood encounter? Here, four leading scholars in the field have assembled a team of top-tier psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, and other experts to explore these and hundreds of other timely issues.
Examines the way people interact with both natural and man-made environments from many aspects of study, including biology, psychology, sociology, and environmental science.
The complex nature of human ecology is examined in this encyclopedia.
Examines the way people interact with both natural and man-made environments from many aspects of study, including biology, psychology, sociology, and environmental science.
From investigations into nanoscale and cosmological domains, to pronouncements on "The End of Science" that have attracted recent attention in the popular press, the boundaries of human understanding are generally assumed to coincide with progress in the traditional disciplines. However, this disciplinary perspective has led to a balkanization of knowledge in which the variables we seek to measure and the methods we use to analyze the complex problems facing institutions and society fail to follow causal pathways and connections that cut across disciplinary boundaries.The Encyclopedia of Human Ecology represents the rediscovery of a concept that was first advocated around 1937 by H. G. Wells to overcome this fragmentation of knowledge. The work is the result of close cooperation among a team of resource scientists, economists, other social scientists, climatologists, and city planners to achieve a new synthesis. Building a system of linked data sets and establishing causal connections and structural analogies among societal phenomena that are typically studied in isolation is one of the great challenges facing science in the 21st century. In the process, a new field of human ecology is being created for such phenomenon- and problem-driven, rather than discipline-oriented, research.The Encyclopedia presents completely new bodies of theory, methods, and results in the fields of belief systems, the international financial system, population analysis, method