Human Ecology

Below you will find the English language translation of the Holy Father’s address in Italian, delivered this morning at the Colloquium on the complementarity of Man and Woman at the Vatican. Dear sisters and brothers, I warmly greet…

Consider the example of determining the risk of exposure to toxic levels of uranium to biota in Magela Creek waters downstream of Ranger mine. In this case there are two information sources for the assessment: As illustrated in Figure 2 uranium levels for all exposure observations fall well under the…

Sept. 26, 2005 Urie Bronfenbrenner, a co-founder of the national Head Start program and widely regarded as one of the world s leading scholars in developmental psychology, child-rearing and human ecology - the interdisciplinary domain he created - died at his home in Ithaca, N.Y., Sept. 25 due to complications…

By Human ecology – the study of how our environment affects us, and how we in turn affect our environment – is a topic near and dear to our hearts at H&H. So when AIA Seattle’s Committee on the Environment (COTE) approached us to present to their members about human ecology and high performance…

The recent sting operation carried out by John Bohannan of Science focuses needed attention on the shadiest practices of academic publishing. As described in his great article, Bohannan submitted a faked cancer study, riddled with errors, to 314 open access journals. The sad outcome is that 157 of the…

The forthcoming issue of Human Ecology Review (vol 21: 2) has a review of Pope Benedict XVI book Towards a Human Ecology by Robin vanTine. Is Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI a Human Ecologist? In this collect ion of religious writings, sermons, talks, letters and encyclicals collected and edited by Maria…

The program in HNS includes foundation courses in basic sciences, fundamental courses in metabolic and applied nutrition, and applied courses in food utilization and management. In addition to these courses, students must elect a specialization in either nutrition or foods. Faculty based courses in communication…

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At the deeper level, we find that most aspects of life and its interactions with its surroundings are interconnected into complexes. No powerful action can be expected to have only one consequence, confined to the thing it was primarily directed at. It is almost bound to affect lots of other things as…