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Interactions between human and environment
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Definition

• A System is made up of two or more mutually
  interacting components

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Ecosystem

• mutually interacting components, describable in
  broad term as
• climate (atmosphere),
• soil (lithosphere),
• water(hydrosphere),and
• organisms (biosphere)

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Human social system

• mutually interacting components
• population,
• technology,
• social structure, and
• ideology

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• What are the 3 fundamental functional aspects of
  all natural systems?
• What are the interactions within and between
  social and ecosystems?

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What do the system model show?

• 1. Plausible points of interconnection between
  social system and ecosystem.
• 2. These linkages involve flows of energy,
  material, and
• information within and between the individual
  components.
• 3. These linkages are strategic targets for
  interdisciplinary research to study interactions
  of man and environment.

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Are the interactions between man and environment
static or dynamic?
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How could interaction between man and environment
be classified?
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Influences of environment on social development

• Relationship between agricultural production,
  settlement patterns, socio-political system and
  religion in Danube basin

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Theoretical framework of social development

• 1. Environmental determinism
• "Environment is the determinant of cultural form"

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2. Environmental possibilism

• "Environment is the screen of cultural traits and
  setting the framework for cultural development"

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• Why do indigenous people in the tropics practice
  shifting cultivation?

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Interrelationship between the human and
environment
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Evolution of relationships between human and
environment

• 3 eras

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1. Human in nature

• modern human (Homo sapiens sapiens) evolve 40,000
  years ago
• about 30,000 years living as "hunter-gatherers"
• existed in many different ecosystems from tropics
  to temperate
• acted like other omnivorous species

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