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Ecology and Society
Prof. Ngamjahao Kipgen · IIT Guwahati
About
The course focuses on the ecology of human societies –human-environment relationships, with reference to cultural ecology and issues surrounding sustainable development. The ecology of human societies is about connections between ecological and human social, cultural, and organizational processes. Based on selected works of ecological anthropologists, this course focuses on the dynamic relationships between human cultures and their ecological environments. It uses basic concepts of anthropology, including the concept of culture as a dynamic system of learned behaviours and beliefs, to better understand how human beings adapt to and change their physical and social surroundings.
INTENDED AUDIENCE : UG and PG students of Humanities and Social Sciences, Sciences and Engineering
Lectures
Week 1 : Introduction: Ecology and Society
Week 2: Culture and Ecology
- Lecture 1: Cultural Ecology and Economic
- Lecture 2: Cultural Ecological Theory
- Lecture 3: Human Ecology:Concept and Meaning
Week 3: Human Ecology and Ecological Anthropology
Week 4 : Models of Human Ecology, Nature & Culture Debate, Contested Concepts
- Lecture 1 : Ecosystem-based & Actor-based Model of Human Ecology
- Lecture 2 : Nature & Culture Debate
- Lecture 3 : Nature - A Contested Concept
Week 5 : Conceptions of Natures & Contested Domains and Boundaries of Culture
Week 6 : Paradigms in Human—Environmental Relations
- Lecture 1 : Paradigms in Human—Environmental Relations Part I
- Lecture 2 : Paradigms in Human—Environmental Relations Part II
Week 7 : Nature Environment and Belief Systems
Week 8 : Religion in an Age of Environmental Crisis
- Lecture 1 : Religion, Nature & Environment Continue
- Lecture 2: The Historical Roots of our Ecological Crisis
- Lecture 3 : Biodiversity Conservation Ethics in Buddhism
Week 9 : Religion (continue) & Environmental Ethics
- Lecture 1: Hinduism & Nature Conservation Christian Religion Response to Ecological Crisis
- Lecture 2: Deep Ecology
Week 10 : Environmental Ethics (continue)
Week 11 : Natural Resource Management
Week 12 : Shifting Cultivation & Course Summary
Syllabus and materials
At NPTEL, as the course publishes them.
Credits and licence
- Institution
- IIT Guwahati
- Department
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Teacher
- Prof. Ngamjahao Kipgen
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Society and politics
- Source
- NPTEL
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
- Attribution
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