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100 1 $aBennett, John W.$q(John William),$d1915-2005.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50008017
245 10 $aHuman ecology as human behavior :$bessays in environmental and development anthropology /$cJohn W. Bennett.
250 $aExpanded ed., 1st pbk. ed.
260 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. :$bTransaction Publishers,$c1996.
300 $ax, 387 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tUnderlying Ideas: Ecological Transitions, Socionatural Systems, and Adaptive Behavior --$g2.$tAnticipation, Adaptation, and the Concept of Culture in Anthropology --$g3.$tHuman Ecology as Human Behavior: A Normative Anthropology of Resource Use and Abuse --$g4.$tEcosystems, Resource Conservation, and Anthropological Research --$g5.$tThe Social Ecology of Japanese Forestry Management in the World War II Period --$g6.$tEthnographic Research on Allocation and Competition for Land and Water in the Canadian Great Plains --$g7.$tSocial Aspects of Sustainability and Common Property: Lessons from the History of the Hutterian Brethren --$g8.$tAnthropological Contributions to the Cultural Ecology and Management of Water Resources --$g9.$tAdaptations by Tribal and Modern Populations to the North American Great Plains and Other Arid and Semiarid Lands --$g10.$tThe Changing Socionatural System of Migratory Pastoralism in Eastern Africa --$g11.$tAnthropology and Development: The Ambiguous Engagement --
505 80 $g12.$tEpilogue: The Rise of Ecophilosophy.
520 $aHuman interaction with the natural environment has a dual character. By turning increasing quantities of natural substances into physical resources, human beings might be said to have freed themselves from the constraints of low-technology survival pressures.
520 8 $aHowever, the process has generated a new dependence on nature in the form of complex "socionatural systems," as Bennett calls them, in which human society and behavior are so interlocked with the management of the environment that small changes in the systems can lead to disaster. Bennett's essays cover a wide range: from the philosophy of environmentalism to the ecology of economic development; from the human impact on semi-arid lands to the ecology of Japanese forest management.
520 8 $aThis expanded paperback edition includes a new chapter on the role of anthropology in economic development.
520 8 $aBennett's essays exhibit an underlying pessimism: if human behavior toward the physical environment is the distinctive cause of environmental abuse, then reform of current management practices offers only temporary relief; that is, conservationism, like democracy, must be continually reaffirmed. Clearly presented and free of jargon, Human Ecology as Human Behavior will be of interest to anthropologists, economists, and environmentalists.
650 0 $aHuman ecology.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85062856
650 0 $aConservation of natural resources.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85031255
650 0 $aApplied anthropology.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006167
852 00 $bleh$hGF50$i.B46 1996