Society for Human Ecology

05/02/2023

In exciting news, a second edition of Understanding Human Ecology (Dyball and Newell) is about to published. There is a discount available for pre-orders. Teachers and instructors can also request an inspection copy. See this link

Understanding Human Ecology offers a coherent conceptual framework for human ecology – a clear approach for understanding the many systems we are part of and for how we frame and understand the problems we face. Blending natural, social, and cognitive sciences with dynamical systems theory, this k...

01/17/2023

Generous PhD scholarship opportunity in Planetary Health research
The Hothouse PhD students will begin in July in 2023, and there is one scholarship left for a full time, 4-year PhD. The successful candidate will work closely with the Hothouse team here in Canberra, commencing in July 2023.
EOIs are particularly welcome in the public policy, politics, and political economy of governance at the intersections between climate change, social inequity and health inequity.
If this sounds like your area of interest, more information can be found here, or send the Hothouse an email, we’ll be happy to follow up with you.
EOIs close on the 20th of February.
https://hothouse.anu.edu.au/engagement

12/09/2022

Human Ecology Review journal is out now. Free and open access. Studies presented include the indigenous Truká people’s knowledge of medicinal plants in Pernambuco, Brazil (Alves et al.); perceptions of Lyme disease risk in New Hampshire, USA (Bolin); social and physical aspects of adolescent sport development (Concha-Viera and Datta Banik); the role of ecopolitics and ecopoetics in promoting environmental concerns about and resistance to oil exploration in Africa (Nwosu); traditional water harvesting and conservation in arid regions of the Canary Islands (Santamarta et al.); feedback-guided analysis of ecotourism and poaching in the Dominican Republic (Taveras Dalmau and Coghlan); motivations for participation in off-grid ecovillages, featuring a case study from Uruguay (Colby and Whitley); and biodiversity protection in Santiago, Chile (Cox and Asún).

Human Ecology Review 27(2) features contributions from researchers from around the world, including Brazil, the United States, Mexico, Chile, Australia, Uruguay, Spain, and Nigeria.

05/13/2022

Home to the ANU Human Ecology program - and a whole bunch of Good People. Great opportunity!

We're hiring! ANU Fenner School of Environment & Society is looking for a new Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in . You are passionate about , collaborate well, and take an interdisciplinary approach to shape environmental policy.

To address the gender-imbalance of our academic staff, this role is specifically available to women.

To apply, visit: https://jobs.anu.edu.au/cw/en/job/545429/senior-lecturerassociate-professor-environmental-policy

04/29/2022

Facing the Future: Human Ecology and Higher Education conference hosted by the German Society for Human Ecology. Live and hybrid from Potsdam Germany 31 August to 3 September
This conference aims to bring together the diversity of teachers, researchers, students, and practitioners practising inter-and trans-disciplinary concepts and human ecological approaches. The international program will discuss the new challenges for academic and implementation-oriented work in the future. Participants will explore which concepts and approaches are suitable to support the required transformation and which of them are seen by the learners and designers of Generation Greta as suitable to address the complex and diverse challenges.
More information and registration at

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03/11/2022

Check out the Transforming Higher Education website (Spanish and English) Their program seeks to achieve transformative change in selected and interested universities with schools or colleges of agriculture, which enables them to prepare university graduates as ethical leaders who serve society, who are creative and innovative problem solvers, which contribute to improving the well-being of their communities and countries by positively affecting the environment, promoting peace, understanding and respect for diversity.

We advocate for the development of professionals prepared to contribute to the challenges of the 21st century. These professionals will be able to act as ethical leaders who serve society, bringing well-being to their communities and those around them.READ TESTIMONIALS HERE NOTICIAS VER TODAS NEWS S...

01/31/2022

Two interesting positions at the Santa Fe Institute. A program manager in emergent political economies and diversity and complexity fellow https://santafe.edu/about/jobs/program-manager-emergent https://santafe.edu/about/jobs/diversity-and-complexity-fellow Both five year appointments

SFI seeks a quantitative researcher interested in the promotion of diversity in complexity science to lead SFI’s new diversity research and outreach initiative. Areas of focus include rethinking political economy and the uses of complexity method and theory. The ideal candidate will be give...

12/15/2021

Human Ecology Review vol 27:1 is out now. It is free and open access under a creative commons licence. Please note that we can only make this knowledge sharing accessible to all through membership dues, so consider joining the Society for Human Ecology and supporting our work.
http://doi.org/10.22459/HER.27.01.2021

This volume of Human Ecology Review represents an internationally diverse range of human ecology research and practice. Diansyah, Abas, and Sakawi present a review of community forest management in Southeast Asia and its impacts on biodiversity conservation community livelihoods. Flagg and Rudel survey national differences in proposed greenhouse gas emission reductions and relative levels of fossil fuel dependencies. On a similar topic, Hargrove, Sommer, and Shandra link national levels of CO2 emissions to levels of executive and public sector corruption, with consequences for transitioning to renewable energy economies. Hooykaas provides a Canadian place-based case study of the role of public gardens in developing a sense of being ‘at home’. Irshad, Hussain, and Malik analyse the ecological intensity of different levels of well-being across a number of developing countries. From Sweden, Löwgren explores a range of factors that encourage or reduce community acceptance of hydroelectric power generation. Nwoma and Eni provide a fascinating discussion on the interconnectedness between literature and Zimbabwe’s environmental crisis. Finally, Sari and Rahaman give us a study of the community impact of road development in Papua, Indonesia.

This volume of Human Ecology Review represents an internationally diverse range of human ecology research and practice. Diansyah, Abas, and Sakawi present a review of community forest management in Southeast Asia and its impacts on biodiversity conservation community livelihoods. Flagg and Rudel sur...

12/09/2021

This Society for Human Ecology 2022 membership is open. Membership is just US $70 regular and $35 for students and individuals from developing nations. Your fees support the free open-access publication of Human Ecology Review and the other outreach activities of the society. Please join us via links athttps://www.societyforhumanecology.org/news/mya71vy3hx1tueq2sdu1kw82gr4d0g

Dear Members and Friends: This is the notice for 2022 membership renewal with the Society for Human Ecology. Membership is just US $70 regular and $35 for students and individuals from developing nations as we have maintained it for the last five years. Membership renewal may be completed in two wa

09/23/2021

Faith + Food Dialogues Statement - UN Food Systems Summit

With only a week left before the UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), we are calling on Faith Based Organizations and Civil Society Organizations, and Individuals to sign onto The Faith + Food Interfaith Dialogues Statement, which is built upon the insights generated during the 6 independent faith and food dialogues hosted in the lead up to the UNFSS pre-summit.

The process surrounding the UNFSS has caused serious concern from observers and those of us who have participated in dialogues. There is a lack of ambition and innovation within the Summit that demonstrates a continued reliance on the actors and methodologies that have led to the imbalance and exploitation we are experiencing.

See dialogue statement at

Faith + Food UNFSS Dialogues Interfaith Statement Endorse Statement Here ____________________________________________________________________________ Our story of food is one of sacred joy. Interconnectivity. Dignity. Empathy. These values are enshrined in faith, non-faith, spiritual, and Indi...

09/13/2021

Australian Instutue for Water Futures is seeking a PhD candidate for project “Transitions, equitably imagined?”

Transitions to more sustainable futures are widely viewed as a pressing imperative, and are now being motivated and mobilised by interacting social, technical, and political drivers amid changing natural and physical systems. Such transitions are challenging – they involve deliberately creating different future trajectories with industries and communities, that include new governance arrangements, technologies and ways of working that raise questions about whose voices and knowledge are included, and how. Whether they are explicit or not, efforts to mobilise sustainability transitions promote and construct ideals of ‘just’ and ‘equitable’ imagined futures. This PhD project will be connected to a large research program in CSIRO that attempts to build transdisciplinary approaches to support transitions, in part through the co-production of knowledge and re-imagining of possible futures. The successful candidate will have an opportunity to study and contribute to addressing questions such as: how transitions are imagined? What forms of exclusion remain in processes that attempt to be inclusive? Do attempts to define indicators of successful ‘trajectories of change’ end up making some trajectories more likely and others less so?

They are seeking a candidate who we would support through the application process for an Australian Government Research Training Program stipend scholarship at the Australian National University.

The successful candidate will be provided with a $10K top-up scholarship, and an additional $10K to support research expenses from the CSIRO Future Science Innovation Platform. They welcome applicants from a range of disciplines, including but not limited to sociology, geography, anthropology, political science, environmental sciences, and human ecology. This project will involve qualitative social science research and ethnographic fieldwork. Applicants should display experience in conducting such research, or a desire to learn these skills.

Top up scholarships of up to AUD$10k per year of study are available for some projects. Contact us at [email protected] for more information on these scholarships or upcoming projects.