The application of the concepts of plant and animal ecology to human collective life to seek knowledge about the structure of social systems and the way in which structures develop, paying attention to spatial configurations. It is the human population's adaptation to the natural environment.

  The study of human and environmental relationships.

The application of ideas from the plant and animal worlds to the study of residential patterns in cities. An approach of the Chicago School.

The interrelations between man and his physical, biological, socio-economic, and cultural environment, including the interrelations between himself and other individuals or groups of other species, an [..]