RT Article
T1 Human Life and Culture: Dynamic Components of Ecosystems
JF Zygon
VO 24
IS 4
SP 401
OP 427
A1 Wolański, Napoleon
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 1989
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1827948736
AB Abstract. Contemporary humanity—especially urban-industrial civilization with its domination of nature—is disturbing complex, integrated, self-regulating systems that have evolved over long periods of time. We are threatening not only biological ecosystems but also human self-regulating capabilities at both the biological and the social-systems levels. This paper presents examples of such disturbance both in the organism—respiratory-cardiovascular problems related to environmental pollution-and at the population level—rates of infant mortality and relations between fertility and mortality in light of economic and emotional factors. Prospects for our future survival and flourishing are thus linked less to technical know-how than to ecological understanding.
K1 urbicenose
K1 self-regulating systems
K1 Evolution
K1 Ecosystems
K1 bio-cultural adaptation
DO 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1989.tb00986.x