ECOLOGICAL SUCCESS AND ITS MEASUREMENT

G. AINSWORTH HARRISON (University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K.)

1991 • Pages: 104 • Size: 180 x 240 mm • ISBN 81-85264-04-X • Binding: Hard •

Price: US $ 25/- Rs. 450/-

(Human Ecology Special Issue No. 1)

Establishing the criteria of ecological success is a complex and difficult proceeding, liable to generate as much heat as light. The editors board of the Journal of Human Ecology and its Special Editor Geoffrey Harrison, therefore deserve medals for bravery in entering a contentious field at the interface between science and public policy. This book demonstrates the problems of defining success in ways that are acceptable to both scientists and the lay public, and it should serve as a basis for discussion between them for some time to come. Harrison's special journal issue has been published at a most opportune time and should be widely read.
                                                                                                                

                                                                 –HUMAN BIOLOGY (U.S.A.)

CONTENTS

G. Ainsworth Harrison: Introduction

David Coleman: Population Growth—Ecological Success or Development Handicap?

C.A. Weitz, A. Basu, R. Gupta and I.G. Pawson: Demographic Changes and Modernisation

Among The Sherpas of Nepal in an Ecological Context

Paul T. Baker: Human Adaptation Theory : Success, Failures and Prospects

G.A. Harrison and G. Brush: Environmental Quality as Expressed in Child Growth

Igor De Garine: Ecological Success in Perspective

Karen K. Gual and R. Brooke Thomas: Indigenous Perspectives: Ecology, Economy and

Ethics

Stephen V. Boyden: Facing up to Ecological Realities: A Biohistorical Perspective

Index

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