a term devised by Julian Steward to account for the dynamic relationship between human society and its environment, in which culture is viewed as the primary adaptive mechanism.
the study of the causal relationship between the land and the culture humans adapt to it with subsistence patterns and beliefs [ The Big Picture]; "study of the role of culture as a dynamic component of any ecosystem of which man is a part" (Julian H. Steward)
the study of ecosystems regarding the dynamic relationship between human society and its environment, in which culture plays an adaptive role.
an approach to the study of the relations between a cultural group and the natural environment proposing that configurations of environment and technology are related to social organization.
The interactions between a culture and its physical environment.
an approach to the study of human society which argues that change results in large part from the response of human societies to the challenges and opportunities of their environments
Cultural ecology is ecology including humans. It studies the relationship between a given society and its natural environment - the life-forms and ecosystems that support its lifeways. This may be carried out diachronically (examining entities that existed in different epochs), or synchronically (examining a present system and its components).
