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Culture, Ecology, and Development

Redefining Planning Approaches

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Environment and Culture

Part of the book series: Human Behavior and Environment ((HUBE,volume 4))

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Mine is a practical concern. Planning for development involves designing policies intended to shape, or, at least, influence what man does to nature and to himself in the process of using nature. As a planner, through my daily practice, I, therefore, relate to cultural ecology, as defined by J. W. Bennett (1976): “This is the heart of cultural ecology: the way man-man relations modify man-nature relations in particular representative cases, and how the results affect the future of both” (p. 310).

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    Ignacy Sachs

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  1. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

    Irwin Altman

  2. University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

    Amos Rapoport

  3. Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA

    Joachim F. Wohlwill

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Sachs, I. (1980). Culture, Ecology, and Development. In: Altman, I., Rapoport, A., Wohlwill, J.F. (eds) Environment and Culture. Human Behavior and Environment, vol 4. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0451-5_10

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