Human Ecology in higher education in Poland (I)

Research into and teaching of Human Ecology have a long tradition in several European countries, and both are undertaken from many different perspectives (economic, social, biological, technological, etc.) which have contributed to an integrated approach to this field of knowledge.

Poland is one of the countries with a great tradition of research and teaching of Human Ecology in science faculties, with the support of specific scientific journals (like Human Ecology) and the publishing of reference works like that written by one of us (Wolanski), which is shown in the picture and was published in several editions between 2005 and 2014.

Over its 15 chapters this work offers a complete and updated view of the paths followed by Human Ecology in Poland, with special mention for the following seven chapters on biocultural interaction: “Cultural adjustments: culture as a way of non-biological adaptation”, “Cultural adjustments to different biomes: tropical forest, savannah, temperate rainforest, boreal forest and tundra”, “Civilisation as an adaptive strategy: evolution of cultural behaviour”, “Industrial civilisation of the city and environmental problems: air pollution, nutrition and drinking water”, “Future, post-industrial society”, “Globalisation: sustainable development”, and, finally “Ecological aspects of bioethics”.

Napoleón Wolansky, Emeritus Professor in Human Ecology in Jagellonian University, and Anna Siniarska Wolanska, professor and researcher in the Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences in Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University (both of them in Warsaw, Polonia).