Human behavioural ecology (HBE) can be defined as the evolutionary ecology of human behaviour. Its central focus is how the behaviour of modern humans reflects our species’ history of natural selection. The field has grown rapidly over the last twenty years, in anthropology and other social and behavioural sciences. It passes under many names, including Darwinian (or evolutionary) anthropology,...

The College of Human Ecology helps students bring together information from the social and natural sciences to address issues faced by individuals, families, and communities through the lifespan . Human Ecology is the interactive relationship between human beings and their environment, whether that environment is the home, workplace, community, or leisure activity . While studying in any of the...

The College of Human Ecology ranks among the top U .S . colleges of its kind in student enrollment, and in the number of master's and doctoral degrees granted . All undergraduate programs of the College are accredited by The American Home Economics Association; the Interior Design program is accredited by the Foundation for Interior Design Education Research (FIDER) ; the Teacher Education prog...

I-I tll, D.L., 199 1. Landscape planning: functionalism as a motivating concept from landscape ecology and human ecology. Landscape Urban Plann., 2 1: 1319. In this paper, the concept of functionalism fr--r both landscape ecology and human ecology is examined. The conceptual merger of these sciences and their application m landscape planning is explored as a basis for an ‘ecological approach’. ...

The first volume of this study deals with the biological principles of relationship between the human and his life environment. In the first part of this book (chapters one and two), the author explains the meaning of human ecology as a science and the scope of its research field. He presents also the procedures of data collection and analysis and shares his remarks on the problem of correct st...

the notion of sustainable development has rapidly gained considerable attention since the lastdecades of the twentieth century. it has become a locus for global paradigm shift on environment and development issues particularly after rio conference in 1992. the comparative analysis of agenda 21 and major un documents, mdg, and rio+20 as well as some major sources are made to provide a context fo...

the present study has been carried out with the aim of content analysis (ca) of newly-preparedtextbooks for social studies and science of the sixth grade based on the three environment education grounds, i.e.ecology, environment, and human activity. it is of caand descriptive nature. the statistical population was all thesixth grade textbooks pages and the statistical sample was equal to the st...

1. Organism and Environment 1.1 Man-environment interactions 1.2 Ecology and human evolution 2. Ecological Constraints of Human Cultural Evolution 2.1 The meaning of natural resources 2.2 Ecology and life style 2.3 The cultural value of plants and animals 2.4 Ethnoecology 3. The Human Impact 3.1 Changing the “ecological order” 3.2 Ecological knowledge and survival 4. Applied Ecology, Culture, a...