human ecology

American  

noun

1. ecology.

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Etymology

Origin of human ecology

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

Malm is a scholar of human ecology, an interdisciplinary field of research that focuses on human relationships to their environments across cultures.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 5, 2023

With these unique components, she looks at the relationship between visual culture and human ecology.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

Scores are optional for entry to schools of arts and sciences; engineering; human ecology; and industrial and labor relations.

From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2021

She attended the College of the Atlantic in Maine and studied human ecology, then interned at the Field Museum's insect division, where her first responsibility was the delicate task of "shaving spider genitalia."

From Chicago Tribune • Oct. 27, 2014

Ethnological and historical studies of individual communities furnish valuable comparative materials for a treatise upon human ecology which would serve as a guidebook for studies in community organization.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra