"Indigenous knowledge and ecological science have complementary differences that can be fruitfully combined to better understand the past and predict the future of social-ecological systems. Cooperation among scientific and Indigenous perspectives can improve conservation and resource management...

A look at Philippe Descola's take on four modes of identifying with our environments, published in the journal Proceedings of the British Academy volume 139 (2006), pages 137–155.

This is a summary of Benjamin S. Orlove's (1980) paper "Ecological Anthropology," published in Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 9 (1980), pp. 235-273 (39 pages).