Table of Contents
About the Series — Preface — Assessment of Past and Present Approaches — Limitations and Advances in Ecosystems Research — Historical Origins of the Ecosystem Concept in Biology — Anthropology, Evolutionary Ecology, and the Explanatory Limitations of the Ecosystem Concept — The Ecosystem Concept in Archaeology — Human Biology and the Development of an Ecosystem Approach — Environmental Events and the Ecology of Cumulative Change — New Directions in Resolving the Problem of Time and of Boundary Definition in Ecosystems — Trade, Environment, and the Reproduction of Local Systems in the Moluccas — Ecosystems over Time: The Study of Migration in “Long Run” Perspective — Reflections on an Alpine Village as Ecosystem — New Directions in Resolving the Problems of Hierarchical Level, Scale, and Data Collection — Remote Sensing, Discovery, and Generalizations in Human Ecology — Ecosystems and Methodological Problems in Ecological Anthropology — The Problem of Analytical Level Shifting in Amazonian Ecosystem Research — Ecosystems, Environmentalism, Resource Conservation, and Anthropological Research
