People and the ecosystem: Biography as a study of ecology and culture |
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| Authors: | A Warren CM Harrison |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Geography, University College London, 26 Bedford Way, London WC1H OAP, U.K. |
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| Abstract: | Biogeography is seen as an attempt to understand the real nature of the relationship between people and ecosystems, both in terms of flows of energy and matter and in terms of the meanings with which living nature is invested. The never-ending manufacture of meaning and its constant confusion with ecological relationships,sensu stricto, require a dynamic discipline open to a great variety of notions. This has not been apparent in most biogeographical study. The cases of desertification and of acid rain are taken to illustrate the academic and practical importance of such eclecticism, and the need for more attention to the development of a theory of the total relationship rather than only one of its parts. |
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