Table of Contents

I. Conceptual and Theoretical Considerations.- 1. Human Ecology, Population, and Development.- 2. Human Ecology, Sociology, and Demography.- 3. The Ecological Complex: A Conceptual Elaboration.- 4. POETS-PACS-LEDD: From Paradigm to Theory to Policy in Human Ecological Perspective.- 5. An Ecological Theory of Organizational Structuring.- 6. Ecology’s Contribution to Cross-National Theory and Research.- 7. The Human Ecology of Agriculture in the United States.- 8. Ecological Approaches in the Study of Racial and Ethnic Differentiation and Inequality.- 9. Enhancing the Spatial Policy Framework with Ecological Analysis.- II. Empirical Research.- 10. Division of Labor and Morphological Response: Evidence from Saudi Arabia.- 11. Determinants of the Division of Labor in China.- 12. The Effects of Public and Private Sustenance Organizations on Population Redistribution in New York State.- 13. Toward an Integrated Ecological-Sociological Theory of Suburbanization.- 14. Spatial Segregation and Social Differentiation in China.- 15. An Ecological Investigation of Agricultural Patterns in the United States.- 16. Ecological and Structural Determinants of Declining Labor Force Participation of African-American Men: Evidence from Southern Nonmetropolitan Labor Markets, 1940–1980.- Epilogue: Confessions of a Sometime Ecologist (Mostly Human).- About the Contributors.- Name Index.