Editors' Afterword: A Research Agenda for Human Ecology

Writing in 1934 ¹ , H.G. Wells, one of the greatest science fiction writers and futures thinkers of the twentieth century, noted that if he ‘belonged to the now rapidly vanishing class of benevolent multi-millionaires’ he would create ‘a number of chairs for the teaching of an old subject in a new spirit’. He confesses, ‘It took me some years to grasp the magnitude of my own realization’, but that, ‘sooner or later Human Ecology under some name or other, will win its way to academic recognition and to its proper place in general education’.