Title:	Human Population
Authors:	R.P. Cincotta L.J. Gorenflo
Keywords:	Human Population
Issue Date:	2011
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	This book emerges out of a third scholarly reaction to the disappearance of nature. This “third way” is embodied in the assumption that Homo sapiens, because of its unusually large, often dense, and increasingly widespread population, and because of the nearly limitless reach of human institutions, technologies and trade, should be considered a component of nearly all ecological systems and studied as such. Many of us who take this position were informed by the research of Paul Martin, which lent substantial evidence to the hypothesis that our species had a powerful hand in the widespread megafaunal extinctions of the Pleistocene Epoch. Others acknowledge the influence of cultural ecology developed by Julian Steward and successors, and the argument that human cultural behavior in part reacts to, and in turn influences, surrounding ecosystems. In the twenty-first century and beyond, researchers must accept that each biotic population – regardless of body size, habitat, or distribution – exists in an institutional–biotic–abiotic space which extends from the global economy to the state and its institutions, to local populations of humans and their community institutions, and finally to the abiotic and biotic environment. Pressures that induce behavioral adaptation, genetic selection, and population change (including extinction) could emanate from any part of this multidimensional space.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/50719
ISBN:	978-3-642-16707-2
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

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