Abordagens em ecologia humana: construções epistêmico-metodológicas interdisciplinares

Abstract

The emergence of the term “Human Ecology” originated in the 1920s, at the University of Chicago, through professor and researcher Robert Park together with Ernest Burgess, in which they began to observe the resulting relationships in social phenomena , creating a theory about Human Ecology, highlighting the similarities between cities, urban environments and natural (nonhuman) environments, and such organizations and disorganizations are explained through concepts of Biology / Ecology, hence the term Human Ecology. Since its creation at the University of Chicago, to the present day, we have expanded, evolved and contextualized these concepts, giving rise to new studies and contributions, placing the research in this area as interdisciplinary. The production of this book “INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES IN HUMAN ECOLOGY”, becomes a landmark for studies in Human Ecology and Socio-environmental Management, for dealing with the results of some studies over almost ten years of research developed in the Graduate Program in Human Ecology and Social and Environmental Management - PPGEcoH, at the State University of Bahia, Paulo Afonso and Juazeiro - BA campus. This collection is composed of twenty-two texts, of which three are studies developed by researchers and international researchers, and the other results of research developed in PPGEcoH / UNEB.