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

by John Bennett and John 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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560008490
• ISBN13: 9781560008491
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"