ABSTRACT
The disjunction might also be due to the failure of human ecology to develop its theory sufficiently in fruitful directions. Whatever may be the explanation, the continuity between human ecology and general ecology seems to have been lost, for the moment at least. Human ecology begins with the obvious fact that human life is lived on the ground, so to speak, and that it is all mixed up with soil, tools, food, raw materials, buildings, and other material externalities. Environment has been a preoccupation of human ecologists from the beginning. But, since the earliest applications of ecology to human life was in reference to the city, environment was conceived abstractly as space alone, though later some attention was given to the time dimension. The use of aggregate data often obscures the holistic posture of human ecology. Human ecology, therefore, is committed to a holistic and macro-level mode of analysis.
