Advances in Historical Ecology/Jaspal Juneja. New Delhi, Cyber Tech Pub., 2009, viii, 296 p., ISBN 81-7884-417-6.

    Contents: Preface. 1. The historical ecology of global climate change. 2. Historical ecology of the North Atlantic. 3. Historical ecology and future explorations. 4. Early human settlements as an opportunity for infectious microorganisms. 5. Environmental factors in the chronology of human evolution and dispersal. 6. Human ecology in anthropology: past, present, and prospects. 7. Tools and methods for historical research. 8. Subsistence strategies and early human population history : an evolutionary ecological perspective. 9. Building the contextual milieu: an approach to data collection and interpretation. 10. Landuse ecology. 11. Prehistoric, historic, and present settlement patterns related to ecological hierarchy. 12. From holistic landscape synthesis to transdisciplinary landscape management. 13. Cultural persistence and environmental change. Bibliography. Index. 

    "The study of ecology is an attempt to understand the reciprocal relationship between the living and nonliving elements of the earth. For year, however, the discipline has either neglected the human element entirely or presumed that its effect on natural ecosystems is invariably negative. However, social scientists in geography and anthropology have criticized efforts to address this human environment interaction as deterministic and mechanistic." (jacket)

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