Cultural Ecology
Cultural ecology is a part of cultural/social anthropology (ethnology) that is dedicated to the relationship between societies and their natural environment. It researches the ways cultures adapt to their ecological surrounding, including their resource management, also with discussions on sustainability.
It is more and more taken into account that cultural diversity and ethnodiversity are part of biodiversity. Efforts to save cultures and languages become increasingly linked with efforts to save species and ecosystems. The knowledge of an ethnic group having been living in an area for millennia is often closely related to the ecosystem.
French: écologie culturelle
