Human Ecology


Human ecology includes the study of how people interact with the environment and how they change it.	Sapience Home Site Map About Sapience Anthropology Environmental effects Other life forms Human effects

Human ecology includes the study of how people interact with the environment and how they change it.

Anthropology

Human effects

This includes the study of things such as mineral extraction, earthmoving, irrigation and drainage, Human-influenced weather and clomate, and the cultivation, transportation, and elimination of species and ecosystems.

Other life forms

This includes ecological relationships with microbes, protists, plants, fungi, and other animals, including their availability as food, or predation or parasitism on man, sources of disease, and so forth.

Environmental effects

This includes such things as earthqakes and volcanoes, droughts and floods, storms, and influences of climate.


History Although human ecology is as onld as humankind and has roots in prehistory and antiquity and developed in classical and medieval times, it was not recognized as a subject until late in modern times. The future can be connected. Human effects on the environment, relations with other life, and environmental effects on people can be examined.	Links to other sites Not yet available
Sociology Peoples of the world Particular nations including Poland, Kenya, Morocco, Algeria, Canada, Afghanistan, Uganda, Nepal, Peru, Uzbekistan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Malaysia, North Korea, Ghana, Yemen, Taiwan, Romania, Mozambique, Sri Lanka, Australia, Madagascar, and Syria will be influential. Western Civilization including Spain will be useful. Anglic peoples including those of the UK and the United States can be considered. Latin peoples including Argentina will be useful. Italic peoples including those of Italy can be connected. French peoples including those of France can be connected. Hispanic peoples including those of Colombia can be connected. Hispanic Mexican American peoples including those of Mexico can be connected. Lusitanic peoples including Brazil can be connected. Germanic peoples including those of Germany can be connected. Northeast European peoples including those of Russia and Ukraine can be considered. Asiatic peoples including those of Burma can be considered. Cities such as Shanghai can be connected. Middle Eastern peoples including those of Iran can be connected. Turkey can be connected.Egypt can be considered. South Asian peoples including those of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh can be considered. Oriental peoples including those of South Korea can be considered. Cities including Seoul can be connected. China with cities including Canton can be connected. Japan with cities including Tokyo can be connected. Southeast Asia including Thailand will be useful. The Southeast Asian Mainland including Vietnam can be connected. The Southeast Asian Archipelagoes including Indonesia and the Philippines can be connected. African peoples including those of Tanzania can be considered. East African peoples including those of Sudan can be connected. Northern East African peoples including those of Ethiopia can be connected. West African peoples including those of Nigeria can be connected. Southern African peoples including those of South Africa can be connected. Central African peoples including those of Congo DR can be connected. American Indian peoples including some of those in Colombia Argentina may also be useful to human ecology. Middle American Indian peoples such as those of Mexico can be connected. Southwest American Indian peoples such as those of the Southwestern United States can be connected. South American Indian peoples such as those found in Brazil can be considered. North American Indian peoples such as are found in the United States can be considered. Eastern North American Indian peoples and Western North American Indian peoples can be connected. Communities Mexico City, Delhi, New York City, Sao Paulo, Bombay, Manila, Jakarta, Los Angeles, Karachi, Osaka, Beijing, Moscow can be connected as the site develops. Social structure and change Social change Particular changes and movements The Agricultural revolution can be connected. The agrarian revolution including bronze age movements, early iron age movements, late iron age movements, an modernization can be connected. The Industrial revolution including the early industrial revolution, middle industrial revolution, and late industrial revolution can be connected. Social change factors including cultural change, demographic change, and natural change can be connected. Institutional change can be connected. Social change processes including innovation, transmission, adaptation, and extinction can be connected. Social types Industrial societies can be connected. Agrarian societies can be connected. Horticultural societies can be connected. Hunting and gathering societies can be connected. Social structure Community and regional structure can be connected. Class structure can be connected. Institutional structure can be connected. Cultural structure can be connected. Anthropological structure can be connected.
Institutions Religion Particular religions including Asiatic religion, pagan religion, and secular tradition may be helpful. Abrahamic religion including Christianity, Judaism, and Islam can be connected. Religious organization including unstructured, fragmented, and highly structured religions may be useful. Religious practice may be connected. Religious belief may influence human ecology. Government Particular governments including international governent, national government, and local government can be connected. Government activity including state relations, administration, and succession can be connected. Government structure including forms of government, heads of state, executive systems, legislative systems, judicial systems, and political parties and interest groups can be connected. Law including international law, Western law, Asian law, and tribal law can be connected. Economics Economic systems including economic system behavior, economic system times, networks, and firms can be connected. Industries including commercial and financial, communication, transportation, social and medical, building, manufacturing and extraction, and agriculture can be connected. Economic activities including consumption, distribution and exchange, and production can be connected. Education Schools including higher education, secondary education, and primary education can be connected. Educational organization including administration, faculty, students, and course material can be connected. Cultural institutions including performance venues, libraries, and museums can be connected. Teaching can be connected. Research can be connected. Families Families may have some connection to human ecology. Particular families can be connected. Kinship can be connected. Parenting can be connected. Marriage can be connected. Culture Behavioral culture Cultural events including holidays, gatherings, disasters, and other events can be connected. Recreation and entertainment including sports, games, theater, dance, and music can be connected. Occupations including service occupations, industrial occupations, communications occupations, transportation occupations, building-related occupations, and transportation occupations can be connected. Customs including institutional customs, social interaction customs, Dress and adornment customs, living and dwelling customs, and vital customs can be connected. Conceptual culture Philosophy including philosophical schools and doctrines, special topics, ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, epistemology, and logic can be connected. Applied science including applied social science, accounting, information science, medical science, navigation, engineering science, and measurement can be connected. Mathematics including statistics, analysis, geometry, algebra, arithmetic, and mathematical foundations can be connected. Literature including works of literature, literary types and genres, literary forms, and oral tradition can be connected. Graphic arts including animation, photography, printmaking, painting, and drawing can be connected. Language including languages of the world, writing, and linguistics can be connected. Material culture including clothing, foodstuffs, building technology, and industrial technology can be connected. Miscellaneous artifacts including medicines, sculpture, toys, and musical isntruments can be connected. Communication technology including electronic communication, graphic communication, and written communication can be considered. Transportation technology including space transportation, air transportation, water transportation, ground transportation, and packaging can be connected. Other Anthropology There are connections to particular groups and human geography. There are connections with physical anthropology including human origins, racial variation, and human dispersion. Demography including population change, population size and structure, death, migration, and birth can be connected. Social foundations such as social presentation, social interaction, social control, group types, and group behavior. Personal studies Biography may be significant. Psychology, including behavioral elements, consciousness, mind, behavior, mental ilness, development, and personality is essential. Studies of the human body including body function and body systems, life cycle, disease, appearance are significant. Physical and natural science Biology is most useful. Molecular biology and cell biology are not useful just yet. Organism biology, and some areas of systematics including microbes, protists, fungi, plants, and animals and ecology are most useful. Biohistory is not the most useful area at present. Earth science including hydrospheric science, atmospheric science, physical geography, and geohistory is even more applicable. Geology is moderately useful. Mineralogy and petrology are rather indirectly useful, but landforms and geological processes are more useful. Interior geology is very indirect at best. Hydrospheric science is useful, not so much for oceanography, glaciology, or groundwater, but for fresh water bodies. Astronomy is also useful. Human life is not known to exist away from the earth, since in most places the environment does not support life. Solar system astronomy including the sun, soplar planetary systems, smaller bodies, interplanetary medium, and solar system history can be applied. Stellar astronomy has speculative applications. Galactic astronomy and cosmology and galactic astronomy do not seen highly useful Chemistry including substances, changes, and systems seems to be a little less directly applicable. Physics including mechanics, electromagnetism, thermodynamics, relativity, quantum mechanics, and the structure of matter seems to be only minimally and indirectly useful.

History

Although human ecology is as onld as humankind and has roots in prehistory and antiquity and developed in classical and medieval times, it was not recognized as a subject until late in modern times. The future can be connected. Human effects on the environment, relations with other life, and environmental effects on people can be examined.

Links to other sites
Not yet available

Sociology

Peoples of the world

Particular nations including Poland, Kenya, Morocco, Algeria, Canada, Afghanistan, Uganda, Nepal, Peru, Uzbekistan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Malaysia, North Korea, Ghana, Yemen, Taiwan, Romania, Mozambique, Sri Lanka, Australia, Madagascar, and Syria will be influential.

Western Civilization including Spain will be useful. Anglic peoples including those of the UK and the United States can be considered. Latin peoples including Argentina will be useful. Italic peoples including those of Italy can be connected. French peoples including those of France can be connected. Hispanic peoples including those of Colombia can be connected. Hispanic Mexican American peoples including those of Mexico can be connected. Lusitanic peoples including Brazil can be connected. Germanic peoples including those of Germany can be connected. Northeast European peoples including those of Russia and Ukraine can be considered.

Asiatic peoples including those of Burma can be considered. Cities such as Shanghai can be connected.

Middle Eastern peoples including those of Iran can be connected. Turkey can be connected.Egypt can be considered.

South Asian peoples including those of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh can be considered.

Oriental peoples including those of South Korea can be considered. Cities including Seoul can be connected. China with cities including Canton can be connected. Japan with cities including Tokyo can be connected.

Southeast Asia including Thailand will be useful. The Southeast Asian Mainland including Vietnam can be connected. The Southeast Asian Archipelagoes including Indonesia and the Philippines can be connected.

African peoples including those of Tanzania can be considered. East African peoples including those of Sudan can be connected. Northern East African peoples including those of Ethiopia can be connected. West African peoples including those of Nigeria can be connected. Southern African peoples including those of South Africa can be connected. Central African peoples including those of Congo DR can be connected.

American Indian peoples including some of those in Colombia Argentina may also be useful to human ecology. Middle American Indian peoples such as those of Mexico can be connected. Southwest American Indian peoples such as those of the Southwestern United States can be connected. South American Indian peoples such as those found in Brazil can be considered. North American Indian peoples such as are found in the United States can be considered. Eastern North American Indian peoples and Western North American Indian peoples can be connected.

Communities

Mexico City, Delhi, New York City, Sao Paulo, Bombay, Manila, Jakarta, Los Angeles, Karachi, Osaka, Beijing, Moscow can be connected as the site develops.

Social structure and change

Social change

Particular changes and movements

The Agricultural revolution can be connected. The agrarian revolution including bronze age movements, early iron age movements, late iron age movements, an modernization can be connected. The Industrial revolution including the early industrial revolution, middle industrial revolution, and late industrial revolution can be connected.

Social change factors including cultural change, demographic change, and natural change can be connected. Institutional change can be connected.

Social change processes including innovation, transmission, adaptation, and extinction can be connected.

Social types

Industrial societies can be connected. Agrarian societies can be connected. Horticultural societies can be connected. Hunting and gathering societies can be connected.

Social structure

Community and regional structure can be connected. Class structure can be connected. Institutional structure can be connected. Cultural structure can be connected. Anthropological structure can be connected.

Institutions

Religion

Particular religions including Asiatic religion, pagan religion, and secular tradition may be helpful. Abrahamic religion including Christianity, Judaism, and Islam can be connected.

Religious organization including unstructured, fragmented, and highly structured religions may be useful. Religious practice may be connected. Religious belief may influence human ecology.

Government

Particular governments including international governent, national government, and local government can be connected. Government activity including state relations, administration, and succession can be connected. Government structure including forms of government, heads of state, executive systems, legislative systems, judicial systems, and political parties and interest groups can be connected. Law including international law, Western law, Asian law, and tribal law can be connected.

Economics

Economic systems including economic system behavior, economic system times, networks, and firms can be connected. Industries including commercial and financial, communication, transportation, social and medical, building, manufacturing and extraction, and agriculture can be connected. Economic activities including consumption, distribution and exchange, and production can be connected.

Education

Schools including higher education, secondary education, and primary education can be connected. Educational organization including administration, faculty, students, and course material can be connected. Cultural institutions including performance venues, libraries, and museums can be connected. Teaching can be connected. Research can be connected.

Families

Families may have some connection to human ecology. Particular families can be connected. Kinship can be connected. Parenting can be connected. Marriage can be connected.

Culture

Behavioral culture

Cultural events including holidays, gatherings, disasters, and other events can be connected. Recreation and entertainment including sports, games, theater, dance, and music can be connected. Occupations including service occupations, industrial occupations, communications occupations, transportation occupations, building-related occupations, and transportation occupations can be connected. Customs including institutional customs, social interaction customs, Dress and adornment customs, living and dwelling customs, and vital customs can be connected.

Conceptual culture

Philosophy including philosophical schools and doctrines, special topics, ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, epistemology, and logic can be connected. Applied science including applied social science, accounting, information science, medical science, navigation, engineering science, and measurement can be connected. Mathematics including statistics, analysis, geometry, algebra, arithmetic, and mathematical foundations can be connected. Literature including works of literature, literary types and genres, literary forms, and oral tradition can be connected. Graphic arts including animation, photography, printmaking, painting, and drawing can be connected. Language including languages of the world, writing, and linguistics can be connected.

Material culture including clothing, foodstuffs, building technology, and industrial technology can be connected. Miscellaneous artifacts including medicines, sculpture, toys, and musical isntruments can be connected. Communication technology including electronic communication, graphic communication, and written communication can be considered. Transportation technology including space transportation, air transportation, water transportation, ground transportation, and packaging can be connected.

Other Anthropology

There are connections to particular groups and human geography. There are connections with physical anthropology including human origins, racial variation, and human dispersion. Demography including population change, population size and structure, death, migration, and birth can be connected. Social foundations such as social presentation, social interaction, social control, group types, and group behavior.

Personal studies

Biography may be significant. Psychology, including behavioral elements, consciousness, mind, behavior, mental ilness, development, and personality is essential. Studies of the human body including body function and body systems, life cycle, disease, appearance are significant.

Physical and natural science

Biology is most useful. Molecular biology and cell biology are not useful just yet. Organism biology, and some areas of systematics including microbes, protists, fungi, plants, and animals and ecology are most useful. Biohistory is not the most useful area at present.

Earth science including hydrospheric science, atmospheric science, physical geography, and geohistory is even more applicable. Geology is moderately useful. Mineralogy and petrology are rather indirectly useful, but landforms and geological processes are more useful. Interior geology is very indirect at best. Hydrospheric science is useful, not so much for oceanography, glaciology, or groundwater, but for fresh water bodies.

Astronomy is also useful. Human life is not known to exist away from the earth, since in most places the environment does not support life. Solar system astronomy including the sun, soplar planetary systems, smaller bodies, interplanetary medium, and solar system history can be applied. Stellar astronomy has speculative applications. Galactic astronomy and cosmology and galactic astronomy do not seen highly useful

Chemistry including substances, changes, and systems seems to be a little less directly applicable. Physics including mechanics, electromagnetism, thermodynamics, relativity, quantum mechanics, and the structure of matter seems to be only minimally and indirectly useful.