HUMAN ECOLOGY IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM

VEENA BHASIN, VINAY K. SRIVASTAVA AND M.K. BHASIN (University of Delhi, Delhi, India)

2001• Pages: 270 • Size: 180 ´ 240 mm • ISBN 81-85264-28-7 • Binding: Hard •  

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(Human Ecology Special Issue No. 10)

This volume brings together the contribution of certain internationally known scholars to human ecology. Each of these scholars has made a significant and lasting contribution to the understanding of the relationship between human beings and environment, and their work have implications for theoretical as well as applied interests. Looking at the range of the contributions in this volume, we may submit that the field of human ecology is truly multi-disciplinary, and that is the way in which human ecology has to be approached. The volume has twenty two papers that are classified into the following seven units.

I. Perspectives on Human Ecology, II. Ecology and Health, IV. Ecology and Human Growth, IV. Ecology and Resources, V. Ecology and Biological Dimensions, VI. Ecology, Archaeological Finds and History, VII. Ecology, Disaster and Global change.

CONTENTS

I. Perspectives on Human Ecology
1. Perspectives on Human Ecology - by Napoleon Wolanski (Mexico/Poland) and Maciej Henne-berg (Australia)
2. Human Ecology: The Science of Sustainability for the third millennium? - by Mario Giampietro (Italy)
3. Social Ecological Work and Planning - Remarks on a Social - Ecological Theory of Action(SET)-by Michael Opielka (Germany)
4. Ecological Unequal Exchange - by Inge Røpke (Denmark)

II. Ecology and Health
5. Ecology and Health: The Indian Scenario – by M.K.Bhasin and Veena Bhasin (India)
6. Reviewing the Discourse of Ecology and Health Among Indigenous Peoples in Amazonia. Human Ecological Research on Livelihood, Well Being and Survival - by Maj-Lis Follér (Sweden)

III.Ecology and Human Growth
7. The process of Human Growth at the End of the 20th Century and Prospects for the New Millennium: An Italian Study of the Effects of Moderate Physical Exercise on Pre-pubertal Children - by E. Gualdi-russo, G.Tani and L.Zaccagni ((Italy)
8. Environmental Consequences of Population Growth: A Socio-Demographic Study of Asia with Special Reference to Iran - by Mohammad Taghi Sheykhi (Iran)

IV. Ecology and Resources
9. Rice Production and Climate Change in Monsoon Asia: Problem in the 21st Century -

by Masatoshi Yoshino (Japan)
10. Changing Patterns of Natural Resource Use: A Case Study from North Eastern India -

by Natabar S. Hemam (USA), B. Mohan Reddy and Madhav Gadgil (India)

11. The Waste of Human Wastes. A discussion of a  Global Ongoing Loss of Nutrient Assets - by R.E.S.Tanner (United Kingdom)
12. Lessons Learned from the South Turkana Ecosystem Project - by Michael A. Little (U.S.A.)
13. Anthropology and Transhumance - by Bibhash Dhar (India) 

V. Ecology and Biological Dimensions
14. Mutagenesis and Cancerogenesis. Anthropological Perspectives -

by Charles Susanne (Belgium) and Esther Rebato (Spain)
15. Genetic Risk Assessment in Cigarette Smokers - by J.S.Yadav, S. Thakur and

A. Chhillar (India)

VI. Ecology, Archaeological FInds and History
16. The Crisis of Palaeoanthropology in India in the Twenty-first Century -

by Kenneth A.R. Kennedy (U.S.A.)
17. Human Environment, as Introspected by the Sages and Seers in Vedic Age: A Contemplative Scientific Review from Manusmruti - by S.N. Padhy, S.K. Dash and Ratnaprava Mohapatra (India)

VII. Ecology, Disaster and Global Change
18. A. Human Ecological Approach to Environmental Security and Displacements -

by Luc Hens (Belgium)
19. Culture and Displacement, continuity, Protest and Change - by S.M. Patnaik (India)
20. Wartime Moblization to Counter Severe Global Climate Change -

by Dennis Bartels (Canada)
21. Human Ecology and the Millennium: Overwhelming (or Overcoming) Disaster Ahead? - by Robert J. Gregory (New Zealand)
22. Preparing the Way for a Planetary Civilization- by J.R. Vallentyne (Canada)
23. Religion and Environment: A Perspective from the Community of Bishnois -

by Vinay Kumar Srivastava (India)   

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