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Human ecology is a new discipline devoted to studies of the interactions between Man and Environment. According to the definition proposed in the early seventies by a World Health Organization Expert Committee, it is “the study of Man in his circumstance.” It seeks knowledge on a definite subject: interactions between humans and environment. It has its own peculiar interdisciplinary methodology. It seeks knowledge of facts and the organization of such knowledge. It is not just a descriptive activity. Understanding facts is the goal. As a new science, human ecology has been differently defined by different authors, and some time will elapse before a consensus is reached, but the basic concept of human ecology is implicit or explicit in every proposed definition: it is the study of humans where they exist and of the interactions between humans and their surroundings.
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Machado, P.A. (1989). A Human Ecological Approach to the Evaluation of Man-Made Environments. In: Preiser, W.F.E. (eds) Building Evaluation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3722-3_11
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