Krisztina (Krudy) Kosse was born in Budapest, Hungary on December 8, 1943. After moving to Great Britain in 1964, she studied under Stuart Piggott at the University of Edinburgh where she received her MA. She earned her Ph.D. in 1977 at the University of London, Institute of Archaeology with a dissertation on the settlement ecology of Neolithic cultures in Hungary published by British Archaeolo...

Seeking to generate a deeper methodological and theoretical dialogue between botanical science anthropology, this paper summarizes interdisciplinary approaches human–plant interactions we have described as “sensory ecology” “phytoethnography”, applying these concepts vital questions about relations in Amazonia. Building on work, broaden the scope of our investigations by considering their relev...

Cultural ecology is today at a place of rapidly expanding interconnections with the growing number of human-environment approaches in geography and other fields. Productive interconnections are evidenced, for example, in the extensive debate and discussion within geography that surround the varied relations (e.g., theory, methods, roles of science and representation, scale and subject matter) o...

Within anthropology and human biology, there is growing interest in immune function and its importance to the ecology of human health and development. Biomedical research currently dominates our understanding of immunology, and this paper seeks to highlight the potential contribution of a population-based, ecological approach to the study of human immune function. Concepts from life-history the...

NAVJOT S. SODHI,∗ THOMAS M. BROOKS,†‡§ LIAN PIN KOH,‖ GREG ACCIAIOLI,# MARIBETH ERB,∗∗ ALAN KHEE-JIN TAN,†† LISA M. CURRAN,‡‡ PETER BROSIUS,§§ TIEN MING LEE,‖‖ JASON M. PATLIS,## MELVIN GUMAL,∗∗∗ AND ROBERT J. LEE††† ∗Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 14 Science Drive 4, Singapore 117543, Republic of Singapore, email [email protected] †Center for Applied Biodiv...

This paper presents a spatial analysis of likely/potential hotspots of sustainability issues in Mainland China through an empirical investigation of patterns of ecological vulnerability in and of China’s megaregions. To be specific, this paper assesses the level of patterns of the ecological vulnerability of 16 megaregions through an indicator system, which includes soil erosion, desertificatio...

This paper explores how British rural space is variously constructed through the sonic-aural realm. Through a review of literature from the social scientific and artistic domains, the article proposes a typology of approaches and conceptual frameworks to illustrate the processes and actors involved in a sonic geography / rural aurality. Tranquillity / pastoralism, acoustic ecology, quotidian li...