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Andrew P. Vayda is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Ecology at Rutgers University and Senior Research Associate of the (Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) ) in Bogor, Indonesia.〔(Andrew P. Vayda homepage ), Rutgers University.〕 Formerly a professor at Columbia University, he has taught also at the University of Indonesia and other Indonesian universities and at the University of British Columbia. He specializes in methodology and explanation at the interface between social and ecological science and has directed and participated in numerous research projects on people’s interactions with forests in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Currently he is taking part in a CIFOR research project on anthropogenic carbon emissions from Indonesian peatlands. He has published some hundred articles and several books, including, most recently, ''Explaining Human Actions and Environmental Changes'', a selection of his essays on explanation and explanation-oriented research in the social sciences and human ecology, published by AltaMira Press in 2009, and ''Causal Explanation for Social Scientists: A Reader'', co-edited by him and Bradley Walters, published by AltaMira Press in 2011. The journal, ''Human Ecology'', was founded by him, and he was its editor for five years. He serves at present on the editorial boards of ''Anthropological Theory'', Borneo Research Council Publications, ''Forests'', and ''Human Ecology''. A festschrift in his honor, ''Against the Grain: The Vayda Tradition in Human Ecology and Ecological Anthropology'', with a concluding chapter by him on “Causal Explanation as a Research Goal,” was published in 2008 by AltaMira Press. ==Work== His works include: * ''Causal Explanation for Social Scientists: A Reader'' (with Bradley Walters, eds.), Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press. 2011 ISBN 978-0-7591-1325-1 * ''Explaining Human Actions and Environmental Changes'', Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press. 2009 ISBN 978-0-7591-0323-8 * ''War in Ecological Perspective'', New York: Plenum Press. 1976. * ''Environment and Cultural Behavior'', Garden City, NY: The Natural History Press. 1969 * ''Peoples and Cultures of the Pacific'', Garden City, NY: The Natural History Press. 1968 * ''Maori Warfare'', Wellington, NZ: Polynesian Society. 1960. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Andrew P. Vayda」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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