Editing Human ecology (section)

==Bioregionalism and urban ecology==
{{main|Bioregionalism}}
{{see also|Urban ecology}}

In the late 1960s, ecological concepts started to become integrated into the applied fields, namely [[architecture]], [[landscape architecture]], and [[planning]]. [[Ian McHarg]] called for a future when all planning would be "human ecological planning" by default, always bound up in humans' relationships with their environments. He emphasized local, place-based planning that takes into consideration all the "layers" of information from [[geology]] to [[botany]] to zoology to [[cultural history]].<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = McHarg | first1 = I. | date = 1981 | title = Ecological Planning at Pennsylvania | journal = Landscape Planning | volume = 8 | issue = 2| pages = 109–120 | doi=10.1016/0304-3924(81)90029-0}}</ref> Proponents of the [[new urbanism]] movement, like [[James Howard Kunstler]] and [[Andres Duany]], have embraced the term human ecology as a way to describe the problem of—and prescribe the solutions for—the landscapes and lifestyles of an automobile oriented society. Duany has called the human ecology movement to be "the agenda for the years ahead."<ref>In Kunstler, J.H. 1994. ''The Geography of Nowhere''. New York:Touchstone. pp.260</ref> While McHargian planning is still widely respected, the [[landscape urbanism]] movement seeks a new understanding between human and environment relations.  Among these theorists is [[Frederich Steiner]], who published ''Human Ecology: Following Nature's Lead'' in 2002 which focuses on the relationships among landscape, culture, and planning. The work highlights the beauty of scientific inquiry by revealing those purely human dimensions which underlie our concepts of ecology.  While Steiner discusses specific ecological settings, such as cityscapes and waterscapes, and the relationships between socio-cultural and environmental regions, he also takes a diverse approach to ecology—considering even the unique synthesis between ecology and [[political geography]]. [[Deiter Steiner]]'s 2003 ''Human Ecology: Fragments of Anti-fragmentary'' view of the world is an important expose of recent trends in human ecology.  Part literature review, the book is divided into four sections: "human ecology", "the implicit and the explicit", "structuration", and "the regional dimension".<ref>Steiner, D. and M. Nauser (eds.). 1993. ''Human Ecology: Fragments of Anti-fragmentary Views of the World.'' London and New York: Routledge. Human Ecology Forum 108 ''Human Ecology Review'', 2008; Vol. 15, No. 1,</ref> Much of the work stresses the need for transciplinarity, antidualism, and wholeness of perspective.