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Front Cover -- The Ecological Transition: Cultural Anthropology and Human Adaptation -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- The Author -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1. Prologue: Images of Man and Nature -- NATURE INTO CULTURE -- THE ECOLOGICAL TRANSITION AND ITS IMAGERY -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 2. Culture, Ecology, and Social Policy -- SOCIETY AS ENVIRONMENT -- SYSTEMS -- SOCIETY AS ENVIRONMENT (continued) -- CULTURE AND ECOLOGY -- RELEVANCE AND POLICY -- RELEVANCE AND CULTURAL ECOLOGY -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 3. Human Ecology and Cultural Ecology -- THE PARADIGM -- ENERGY TRANSFORMATION

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Glossary of Socialist Economic Terms -- 1 Background of Modern Socialist Economics -- A. The Socialist Economic System -- B. Models of the Socialist Economy -- C. Economic Reforms -- D. The New Socialist Economics -- 2 Planning and the Market -- A. Basic Principles of Socialist Planning -- B. The Complex Method of Inter-Branch Balances -- C. The Problem of Optimal Planning -- D. The Role of the Market -- E . Relevance of the Stage of Economic Development -- 3 Profit -- A. The Function and Determination of Profit -- B. The Distribution of Profits -- C. Profits and Prices -- D. Profit under Capitalism and under Socialism -- 4 Production and Growth -- A. National Income Accounting -- B. The Organization of Production -- C. The Structure of Production -- D. Rates of Growth -- 5 Accumulation -- A. Accumulation v. Current Consumption -- B. Investment and Socialist Reproduction -- C. The Efficiency of Investment -- D. The Financing of Investment -- 6 Consumption -- A. The Planned Consumption Model -- B. Private and Social Consumption -- C. Consumption and the Operation of Material Incentives -- D. The Question of Consumer's Sovereignty -- 7 Labour -- A. Conditions and Organization of Labour -- B. The Size and Structure of Wages -- C. Economic Incentives -- D. Growth of Labour Productivity and Wage Increases -- 8 Land -- A. The Socialization of Land -- B. The Problem of Ground Rent -- C. Prices of Agricultural Products -- D. The Position of Agriculture -- 9 Pricing -- A. The Law of Value -- B. The Institutional Framework for Price Determination -- c. Producers' and Retail Prices -- D. Price Stability and Flexibility -- E . Optimal Prices -- 10 Money and Banking -- A. Money and Monetary Policy -- B. The Banking System -- C. Credit and Interest -- D. Socialist Inflation

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Foreword To The paperback edition -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- Illustrations, Figures, and Tables -- Dedication -- Introduction -- One Adaptation as a Frame of Reference -- Two The Jasper Region of Western Canada -- Three Jasper Culture -- Four Jasper Economy -- Five The Indians -- Six The Ranchers -- Seven The Farmers -- Eight The Hutterites -- Cooperation and Competition in Agricultural Production -- Adaptation and Change -- Index

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I: Theory and Concepts -- 1: Underlying Ideas: Ecological Transitions, Socionatural Systems, and Adaptive Behavior -- 2: Anticipation, Adaptation, and the Concept of Culture in Anthropology -- 3: Human Ecology as Human Behavior: A Normative Anthropology of Resource Use and Abuse -- 4: Ecosystems, Resource Conservation, and Anthropological Research -- Part II: Field Studies of Resource Management -- 5: The Social Ecology of Japanese Forestry Managementin the World War II Period -- 6: Ethnographic Research on Allocation and Competitionfor Land and Water in the Canadian Great Plains -- 7: Social Aspects of Sustainability and Common Property:Lessons from the History of the Hutterian Brethren -- Part III: Literature Reviews and Field Surveys of Resource Management -- 8: Anthropological Contributions to the Cultural Ecology andManagement of Water Resources -- 9: Adaptations by Tribal and Modem Populations to the North American Great Plains and Other Arid and Semiarid Lands -- 10: The Changing Socionatural System of Migratory Pastoralism in Eastern Africa -- 11: Anthropology and Development: The Ambiguous Engagement -- 12: Epilogue: The Rise of Ecophilosophy -- Index