Definition of Human ecology

1. Noun. The branch of sociology that studies the characteristics of human populations.

Exact synonyms: Demography
Generic synonyms: Sociology
Derivative terms: Demographer, Demographist

Medical Definition of Human ecology

1. The relations of persons to their total (biologic and social) environment. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Human Ecology

human botfly myiasis
human chattel
human cheese
human chorionic gonadotrophin
human chorionic gonadotropin
human chorionic somatomammotropic hormone
human chorionic somatomammotropin
human clinical trial
human condition
human cytomegalovirus
human death
human development
human diploid cell rabies vaccine
human diploid cell vaccine
human dynamo
human ecology (current term)
human ehrlichiosis
human embryo lung cell
human engineering
human face
human fibrin foam
human foot
human gamma globulin
human gene therapy
human genetics
human genome
human genome initiative
human genome project
human geography
human granulocytic ehrlichiosis

Literary usage of Human ecology

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ecology, Diversity and Sustainability of the Middle Rio Grande Basin edited by Deborah M. Finch, Joseph A. Tainter (1996)
"Chapter 3 human ecology and Ethnology Frank E. Wozniak, USDA Forest Service, Southwestern Regional Office, Albuquerque, New Mexico HISTORIC PERIODS Spanish ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"The first volume (4 issues) of the Journal of human ecology is ... Andrew P. Vayda, Editor JOURNAL OF human ecology Program in Ecological Anthropology 466 ..."

3. The City: Urban Communities and Their Problems by Alan S. Berger (1978)
"McKenzie, Roderick D. 1926 “The Scope of human ecology.” Publications of the American ... 1961 “The Myth of human ecology.” Sociological Inquiry 31:128-39. ..."

4. Working with Indigenous Knowledge: A Guide for Researchers by Louise Grenier (1998)
"human ecology is the study of the relationships between the natural and human ... human ecology borrows the emic and etic perspectives from the field of ..."

5. Population, Land Use, And Environment: Research Directions by Barbara Entwisle, Paul C. Stern (2005)
"human ecology 28:359-38 1. United Nations Population Fund 2001 State of World Population 2000. Footprints and Milestones: Population and Environmental ..."

6. Current Issues in Non-timber Forest Products Research: Proceedings of the by Manuel Ruiz Pérez, J. E. M. Arnold (1996)
"human ecology 23: 29-52. Grimes, A., S. Loomis, ... human ecology 19: 115-122. Homma, AKO 1992. The dynamics of extraction in Amazonia: a historical ..."

7. Establishing Programs and Priorities for the Seismic Rehabilitation of (1993)
"human ecology: Research and Applications, College Park, Md.: Society for Human Ecology, 1988. (3) Dietz, Thomas, and Pfund, Alicia, ..."

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