Theory, Method, and Explanation in Human Ecology -- Explaining Indonesian Forest Fires: Both Ends of the Firestick -- On the Notions of Mother Nature and the Balance of Nature and Their Implications for Conservation -- Hunter-Gatherers Optimize Their Foraging Patterns Using Lévy Flights -- What is Biocultural Diversity? A Theoretical Review -- The Conservation Catch-22: Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Change -- Does Environmental Talk Equal Environmental Knowledge? An Example from Newfoundland -- Dynamics of Local Food Procurement Systems -- Tracking the Carbon Footprint of Paleolithic Societies in Mediterranean Ecosystems -- Burning and Hunting in Australia's Western Desert -- The Wild Yam Question: Evidence from Baka Foraging in the Northwest Congo Basin -- Life Without Pigs: Decisions, Community Action, and Subsistence Changes Among the Irakia Awa, Papua New Guinea -- Food Security and Pastoralism in the Northern Sahel -- Agricultural Intensification and Large-scale Population Dynamics -- Labor Productivity and Agricultural Development: Testing Boserup -- Following Netting: The Cultural Ecology of Viliui Sakha Households in Post-Soviet Siberia -- Adaptive Responses to Environmental and Sociopolitical Change in Southern Zambia -- Social and Environmental Impacts of the Rise and Fall of Flue-Cured Tobacco Production in the Copán Valley -- Does Climate Change Affect War Frequency? The Case of Eastern China -- Development, Common Property Management, and Conservation -- Local Knowledge and Changing Subsistence Strategies in James Bay, Canada -- After the Cochabamba Water War of 2000: A Common Pool Resource Institution in the Urban Andes -- Gender, Social Difference and Coastal Resource Management in Lowland Philippine Fishing Communities -- Causes of Deforestation in Central Maine, USA -- Environmental and Economic Costs of Biofuels.