The Ecological Model Is Used To Improve Health Programs
Ilana Stein – For many of us, the word “ecology” brings to mind images of nature, of food webs and pyramids, of how every living thing is interconnected with another. But, the idea of an ecological model has little to do with nature and much to do with health, human behavior and health education.
The Importance of Ecological Restoration
Sydney Cohen – Regeneration ecology was first officially recognized as its own scientific area in the 1990s. The Society for Ecological Restoration describes ecological restoring as supporting the restoring process of damaged, deteriorated, or destroyed systems.
Understanding Ecology and The Environment
Sydney Cohen – The word ecology is derived from the Greek “oikos” which means home. Ecology, then, is the study of how organisms interact with each other and their environment in order to maintain a stable system.
What is The Concept of Political Ecology?
Sydney Cohen – The study of political ecology is the combination of politics, which includes government and institutions, with ecology. It looks at how human activity impacts environments to produce natural resource scarcity or abundance.
Is Ecological Engineering the Solution to the Global Ecological Crisis?
Matthew Mausner – Creating a functioning ecosystem used to be considered only within the scope of the divine. Human scientific and engineering abilities have advanced to the point now that we modify, alter, or even attempt to reconstruct or even create whole ecosystems… sometimes with ideas that are actual science fiction.