The study of the growth, distribution, and organization of human communities relative to their interrelationships with other humans and other species and with their environment.(European Environment Agency (EEA), European Topic Centre on Catalogue of Data Sources (ETC/CDS))
Interrelationship between humans and the entire environment - physical, biological, socio-economic, and cultural, including the interrelationships between individual humans or groups of humans and other human groups or groups of other species.
College of Human Ecology, Twin Cities.
The study of the interactions of humans with the environment.
the branch of sociology that studies the characteristics of human populations
the study of how people interact with their environment.
(first use of the term is arguable but see Bookchin, Black Rose Bks, Montréal & NY.) An emergent science of relationships between people and the natural environment.
As human animals living on earth at the cusp of the 21st century, we distinguish ourselves as the class of creatures that most alters ecologies sustaining all creatures… This dubious distinction reflects our sense of ourselves as exceptional to - rather than a part of - nature.` We deform nature and ourselves by regarding ourselves exceptional and presuming to behave with impunity. Human ecology is an oxymoron that describes our thoroughgoing immersion within nature and promises greater recognition of our role as participant in the destiny of ecologies we impact
Human ecology is an academic discipline that deals with the relationship between humans and their natural, social and created environments. Human ecology investigates how humans and human societies interact with nature and with their environment.
