Meanings
- uncountableThe study of relationships between people and their environment, especially the interdependence of people, collectives and institutions.
Social ecology, as it has been taught in Australia and elsewhere, is a broad, deep and tangential (out of the box) area of study. At its heart it imagines conversations across disciplines about social-ecological interrelationships.
2020, “Preface”, in David Wright, Stuart B. Hill, editors, Social Ecology and Education, Routledge, →ISBN - uncountableA philosophical theory about the relationship between ecological and social issues associated with Murray Bookchin.
We can now look more broadly beyond the political economy with which Bookchin was chiefly concerned to develop a more inclusive understanding of social ecology that takes in other dimensions of society, such as gender, race, technology, and cognition.
2012, Stephen M. Wheeler, Climate Change and Social Ecology, Routledge, →ISBN, page 102
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