Culture and the Changing Environment

<p> Today human ecology has split into many different sub-disciplines such as historical ecology political ecology or the New Ecological Anthropology. The latter in particular has criticised the predominance of the Western view on different ecosystems arguing that culture-specific world views and human-environment interactions have been largely neglected. However these different perspectives only tackle specific facets of a local and global hyper-complex reality. In bringing together a variety of views and theoretical approaches these especially commissioned essays prove that an interdisciplinary collaboration and understanding of the extreme complexity of the human-environment interface(s) is possible.</p>