Because of advances in methods and theory, archaeology now addresses issues central to debates in the social sciences in a far more sophisticated manner than ever before. Coupled with methodological innovations, multiscalar archaeological studies around the world have produced a wealth of new data that provide a unique perspective on long-term changes in human societies, as they document variat...

Investigating social cognition in dolphins is a complex, demanding task. Alien in senses, form, and habitat, dolphins are challenging to comprehend and difficult to study. As the previous chapters in this book have made clear, they are also sophisticated, innovative creatures whose cognition we have only just begun to understand. “Cognitive Ecology” (Hutchins, 2010a, 2014) is a transformative n...

One of the central tenets of behavioral ecology is that features of the environment shape animal behavior (Krebs and Davies, 1997). The abundance and distribution of alternative food sources determines optimal patterns of diet choice just as the abundance and distribution of females affect themating behavior of males.When food is widely scattered and travel from a central place to find it is le...

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Draft paper prepared for the UNRISD project HIV/AIDS and Development March 2002 " Societies are complex, and complexity calls for caution " (Susser, 1987:171)

The book written by seventeen experts in the field of rangeland management, this compilation of essays brings to light the latent issues concerning this subject to readers all over the globe. Though technical approaches can address some issues, social processes ultimately prevent the balancing of these matters. Socio-economic and political institutions are often a stumbling block for improving ...

In response to the Field et al. (2001) and Buttel (2001) argument that there are distinct patterns that distinguish natural resource and environmental sociology, I argue that this is typical of a thriving multiparadigmatic social science and is occurring across other ecological social sciences. In this article I brie ̄ y review current debates among anthropologists and human geographers to illus...

To what extent are we witnessing the application of a more ecologically modernising development process in advanced economies? This paper suggests that we are, and begins to assess what this means for rural development processes and their realities. Such a process requires, it is argued more theoretically engaged rural and environmental social science which attempts to reconstruct conceptual fr...

Ecological destruction in human-dominated landscapes has significant impacts on environment sustainability internationally. Landscape planning can play a role in mitigating the effects of human-related activities. One element of landscape planning involves the analysis of the biological, spatial and social arrangement of areas in an urban environment and identifying characteristics that are und...

A recent paper shows that dull-plumaged male house finches can improve their mating success by moving to a different social network, where their plumage is brighter relative to that of other males.