Survey Research Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106-1248, USA.
AJS. 2011 Jul;117(1):209-58. doi: 10.1086/661072.
A new approach to investigation of human influences on the environment identifies social organization as an influence independent of population size, affluence, and technology. The framework also identifies population events, such as births, that influence the environment. The authors use longitudinal, multilevel, mixed-method measures of local land use changes, population dynamics, and social organization to test this framework. These tests reveal that changes in social organization are strongly associated with changes in land use independent of measures of population size, affluence, and technology. Also, local birth events shape local land use changes and key proximate determinants of land use change.
一种新的研究人类对环境影响的方法将社会组织确定为一种独立于人口规模、富裕程度和技术的影响因素。该框架还确定了人口事件，如出生，这些事件会影响环境。作者使用纵向、多层次、混合方法来衡量当地土地利用变化、人口动态和社会组织，以检验这一框架。这些测试表明，社会结构的变化与土地利用的变化密切相关，而与人口规模、富裕程度和技术等因素无关。此外，当地的生育事件会影响当地的土地利用变化，以及土地利用变化的关键近似决定因素。
