Human Ecology as Human Behavior: Essays in Environmental and Development Anthropology

by John W. Bennett

Book Overview

Human 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. However, 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560000686
• ISBN13: 9781560000686
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Length: 387 Pages
• Weight: 3.05 lbs.