Advances In Human Ecology

This series publishes theoretical empirical and review papers on scientific human ecology. Human ecology is interpreted to include structural and functional changes in human social organization and sociocultural systems. These changes may be affects by interdependent with or identical to changes in ecosystemic evolutionary or ethological processes factors or mechanisms.

Three degrees of scope are included in this interpretation: (1) the adaptation of sociocultural forces to bioecological forces; (2) the interactions or two-way adaptations between sociocultural and bioecological forces; (3)the integration or unified interactions of sociocultural with bioecological forces.

The goal of the series is to promote the growth of human ecology as an interdisciplinary problem-solving paradigm. Contributions are solicited without regard for particular theoretical methodological or disciplinary orthodoxies and may range across ecological anthropology ecological economics ecological demography ecological geography epidemiology and other relevant fields of specialization.