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These are my recommendations for revising the article Cultural ecology.

• I reworded the definition of cultural ecology
• Added citation (1) after the first sentence to further explain the definition "Frake, Charles O. (1962). "Cultural Ecology and Ethnography". American Anthropologist. 64 (1): 53–59. doi:10.1525/aa.1962.64.1.02a00060. ISSN 0002-7294. JSTOR 666726."
• Added citation from the first sentence in the reference section
• Added an example of a study that represents real life application of cultural ecology to further clarify its importance in society and research.
• Added in text citation (2) "Geiger, Gebhard (1985-01-01). "Autocatalysis in cultural ecology: model ecosystems and the dynamics of biocultural evolution". Biosystems. 17 (3): 259–272. doi:10.1016/0303-2647(85)90080-2. ISSN 0303-2647."
• Added subheading to the first paragraph
• Changed the wording for the explaination of diachronic and synchronic as referenced in the first paragraph
• Added in text citation (4) after the bolded area "Paulson, W. (1993). Literature, Knowledge, and Cultural Ecology. SubStance, 22(2/3), 27-37. doi:10.2307/3685268"

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Overview

Cultural ecology is the study of culture and its influential role within human interactions in a particular ecological community. An exmaple of this can be found in Geiger's (1985) study on " Autocatalysis in cultural ecology: model ecosystems and the dynamics of biocultural evolution" where he discusses the affects of population dynamics on the development of the culutral magnitude of the human species. Human adaptation refers to both biological and cultural processes that enable a population to survive and reproduce within a given or changing environment. There are two different methodologies that have been observed in the realm of human adaptation. The first being diachronically, referring to the evaluation entities that exist in different points in history. The second is synchronically, meaning the ability of someone to examine a present system and its components. The central argument is that the natural environment, in small scale or subsistence societies dependent in part upon it, is a major contributor to social organization and other human institutions. In the academic realm, when combined with study of political economy, the study of economies as polities, it becomes political ecology, another academic subfield. It also helps interrogate historical events like the Easter Island Syndrome.

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External links

• Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers. Archive of newsletters, officers, award and honor recipients, as well as other resources associated with this community of scholars.
• Notes on the development of cultural ecology with an excellent reference list: Catherine Marquette
• Cultural ecology: an ideational scaffold for environmental education: an outcome of the EC LIFE ENVIRONMENT programme