Humanity and nature Book

	Preface: The Multiple Faces of Ecology
1	What Program can Ecology set for Society?	1
2	Ecological Patterns	14
	Kevo: Life in the Subarctic	14
	The Taiga	27
	Human Intervention in Northern Nature	40
	Ecological Complexity	46
	Qualitative Models	49
	System Dynamics	54
	Large-scale Ecological Theory	57
3	Practicing Ecology	64
	Research Practice: Working in the Field	66
	Theoretical Practice	72
	Data and Theory	84
	Language and Reification	91
	The Burden of Traditions	98
	Social Practice	106
4	Health as Part of the Ecosystem	117
	Infectious Disease	118
	Non-infectious Disease	136
	A Biosocial Model of Individual Health	146
5	Agricultural Ecology	152
6	Social History of Nature	182
	How does Nature Change?	183
	Ecohistorical Periods	190
	Ecohistorical Formations	213
7	Political Ecology?	225
	Defining Ecological Problems	226
	Nature: Appropriation Versus Appreciation?	236
	Perspectives for Action	239
	Red and Green	245
	References	253
	Bibliography	255
	Index	266