Schirpke, U., R. Scolozzi, and U. Tappeiner. 2022. Not too small to benefit society: insights into perceived cultural ecosystem services of mountain lakes in the European Alps. Ecology Society 27(1):6. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12987-270106

Epidemics of infectious disease have always played a role in American history, and such epidemics are sited in time and place and configured in terms of ecology and demography, available medical knowledge, and cultural values and collective experience. The mix of these variables has changed dramatically since the theocratic world of 17th-century New England, but the relevance of each remains. A...

The common and spotted asparagus beetles (Crioceris asparagi (L.) and Crioceris duodecimpunctata (L.), respectively) are host-specific pests of asparagus, and frequently occur wherever asparagus is grown. The common asparagus beetle is the more serious of the two pests. It emerges earlier in the season, and both adults and larvae can cause damage to the asparagus crop by chewing spears and remo...

Interest is growing in community psychology to look more closely at culture. Culture has resided in community psychology in its emphasis on context, ecology, and diversity, however we believe that the field will benefit from a more explicit focus on culture. We suggest a cultural approach that values the community's points of view and an understanding of shared and divergent meanings, goals, an...

The study of the landscape was once the main subject of study in geography. Now, it is a core topic in many disciplines, such as geography and ecology, soil science and land survey, landscape architecture and planning, psychology and philosophy, history and archaeology. This essay analyses how this evolution came about in Europe in general and focuses then upon the Belgian situation. Landscape ...

This book is a collection of state-of-the-art empirical studies in a paradigm that has become known as human behavioral ecology. The emergence of this approach in aiithropology was marked by the publication in 1979 of another collection of studies entitled Evolritionai-jBiology arid Hitiiiun Social Behavioi-: Aii Ar.itl.rropologiciil Per-specriw (Chagnon and Irons 1979). During the two decades ...

The deficiency of our present education in moulding the future generation to develop a social and natural out look is discussed in this paper. Also the author lighlights here the significance Adhyatma forms of teaching and cultural evolution takes place to that effect.

Launched in 2010, the Google Books Ngram Viewer offers a novel means of tracing cultural change over time. This digital tool offers exciting possibilities for cultural psychology by rendering questions about variation across historical time more quantitative. Psychologists have begun to use the viewer to bolster theories about a historical shift in the United States from a more collectivist to ...