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Human Ecology

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Human ecology is a functionalist field studying the relationship between people and their built and natural environments, treating land use as predictable.

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A transportation system built around highways, compared with one built around dense rail, reflects two different human-ecology relationships to environment.

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Human ecology studies patterns in how people relate to environment; it claims no land-use pattern is correct or natural.