Human ecology

Human ecology is an interdisciplinary science about the interaction of people with living and nonliving components of the environment at the organismic, population-species, biogeocenotic and biosphere levels. Human ecology arose at the junction of several sciences and is interconnected with such sciences as biology, demography, sociology, hygiene, toxicology, geography, philosophy, etc. The subject of human ecology is the human environment (natural and social), its features. This science investigates the adaptation of people to environmental factors, as well as the structure and conditions of existence of anthropogenic ecosystems. One of the tasks of ecology is to study the forms of anthropogenic activity and its consequences for living systems. In addition, she studies artificial space ecosystems and the influence of space factors on the human body. Attention is also paid to the ecological aspects of chronobiology and chronomedicine. Sections of human ecology are medical ecology, social ecology, environmental psychology.