Julian StewardThinkers

Cultural ecology is an anthropological approach whose fundamental problem is to determine whether the adjustments of human societies to their environments require particular modes of behavior or whether they permit latitude for a certain range of possible behaviors.

Cultural ecology is built around three fundamental procedures: Determining the relationship of exploitative technology and the environment... determining the behavior involved in the exploitation of an area by a particular means... and lastly, ascertaining the extent to which the behavior patterns entailed in the exploitation of the environment affect other aspects of the culture.

Cultural ecology is the examination of the cultural adaptations of humans to their environment. Culture is seen as an evolutionary adaptation to the environment.

Cultural ecology is the examination of the cultural adaptations of humans to their environments.

Cultural ecology is the idea that specific cultures evolve their specific forms n the process of adapting to specific environmental conditions, and that the apparent uniformity of evolutionary stages is actually a matter of similar adaptations to similar natural conditions in different parts of the world.

Cultural ecology is the study of how culture effects adaptions to the environment via technologies, practices and knowledge which together allow a people to live in an environment.