Social–Ecological Systems

Anthropology's engagement with ecology, unique in the social sciences, has a long history. In 1903, Durkheim and Mauss argued that the relationship between nature (macrocosm) and culture (microcosm) is the primordial foundation for both human cognition and social organization. Cultural ecologists later added an ecological dimension to this perspective, linking sociological theory to community ecology. More recently, the concept of an “Anthropocene” era has intensified interest in humanity's relationship to the natural world. The concept of social–ecological systems implicitly suggests that the relationship between them is more complex than simple exploitation of the earth's resources. But there is as yet no consensus as to how this relationship should be approached as a scientific question

Anthropocene · Biology · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Geography · Humanity · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Philosophy · Ecology

• Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere

  Open Access•Anthony D Barnosky, Elizabeth A Hadly et al.•Nature•2012

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• Planetary boundaries

  Open Access•Will Steffen, Katherine Richardson et al.•Science•2015

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• Pigs for the Ancestors

  Roy A Rappaport•Pigs for the Ancestors•2000

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• Critical Transitions in Nature and Society

  Marten Scheffer•Critical Transitions in Nature…•2009

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• Disturbance, Complexity, Scale

  R B Bird•Annual Review of Anthropology•2015

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