Foreword (Pete Vayda, Dan Bates).- A Brief History of Human Ecology (Lozny).- Theory and Methods in Human Ecology (B. Walters, T. Rambo, P. J. Richerson, M. L.

McCaslin, K. Wilson).- Human Ecology as an Interdisciplinary Science (Dan Bates).- Section 1. Human adaptability and the perception of the environment (E. Moran, T. Ingold).- Section 2.

Resource management and access to resources (M. Jankowsky).- Section 3. Development and sustainability (Susan A. Crate).- Section 4. Landscape - its construction, use, and meaning (M. Johnson, I.

Hunt).- Section 5. Governability, environmental policy, and economics (A. Agrawal).- Section 6. Risk management (Petra T. Buergelt, Douglas Paton).- Section 7.

Historical ecology (Lozny).- Section 8. Conservation and preservation (Paul Robbins).- Section 9. Demography, population distribution, human geography (Marianne Schmink).- Section 10. Public Health (Eric Roth, Hanna-Andrea Rother).- Section 11.

Local knowledge (F. Berkes, I. Davidson-Hunt).- Section 12. Subsistence strategies and food security (David A. Cleveland).- Section 13. World society: the range of possible futures (Nora Haenn).

- Section 14. Climate change and its impact on human adaptation (Cynthia Isenhour).- Section 15. The Anthropocene (Simon L. Lewis).