WordNet
n. the branch of sociology that studies the characteristics of human populations [syn: demography]
Wikipedia
Human ecology is an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary study of the relationship between humans and their natural, social, and built environments. The philosophy and study of human ecology has a diffuse history with advancements in geography, sociology, psychology, anthropology, zoology, epidemiology, public health, home economics, and natural ecology, among others.
Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on human ecology. It was established in 1972. The editor-in-chief is Daniel G. Bates ( City University of New York).
Usage examples of "human ecology".
He knew his world well enough to find a unique niche for himself in the Mergan-human ecology.
Everyone should make their living, so to speak, based on a calculation of their real contribution to the human ecology.
It says so here,'' Dundridge protested, waving his letter of appointment, ```and in particular problems relating to environmental factors and human ecology'.
An unsettling feature of human ecology was the pets they called dogs.