Andrew P. Vayda

TL;DR: In this paper, a proposal for what may be called evenemental or event ecology is presented, which is based on the work of the authors in applying an even-emental approach to research on mangrove forests of the Philippines.

TL;DR: The authors consider four criticisms of ecological anthropology: its overemphasis on energy, its inability to explain cultural phenomena, its preoccupation with static equilibria, and its lack of clarity about the appropriate units of analysis.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on significant human activities or people-environment interactions and the explanation of these by their placement within progressively wider or denser contexts, using a rationality principle, comparative knowledge of contexts, and the principle of pursuing the surprising.

TL;DR: A more explicit examination of the underlying logic and practice of event ecology can be found in this paper, which places at the center of research inquiry the answering of "why" questions about specific environmental changes of interest, instead of evaluating causal theories, models or factors that are thought in advance to influence such changes.

TL;DR: In this article, problems with studies, claims, and assumptions that have been made about the causes of fires in Indonesia's tropical moist forests are identified, and the kinds of concepts, methods, prioritizing, and data needed to resolve the problems are discussed.