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Political ecology is the ___MASK50___ of the relationships between political , economic and social factors with environmental issues and changes . Political ecology differs from apolitical ecological studies by politicizing environmental issues and phenomena . ___MASK36___ ( from Greek , " geographia ", literally " earth description ") is a ___MASK41___ of science devoted to the ___MASK50___ of the lands , the features , the inhabitants , and the phenomena of Earth . The first person to use the word "  " was Eratosthenes ( 276  194 BC ). ___MASK36___ is an all - encompassing discipline that seeks an understanding of the Earth and its human and natural complexities  not merely where objects are , but how they have changed and come to be . It is often defined in terms of the two branches of human geography and physical geography . The four historical traditions in geographical research are : spatial analyses of natural and the human phenomena , area studies of places and regions , studies of human - land relationships , and the Earth sciences . ___MASK36___ has been called " the world discipline " and " the bridge between the human and the physical sciences ". ___MASK64___ is a range of political movements , ideologies , and social movements that share a common goal : to define , establish , and achieve political , economic , personal , and social rights for women . This includes seeking to establish equal opportunities for women in education and employment . Feminist political ecology is a feminist perspective on political ecology , drawing on theories from post - structuralism , feminist ___MASK36___ , and cultural ecology . Feminist political ecology examines the place of gender in the political ecological landscape , exploring gender as a factor in ecological and political relations . Specific areas in which feminist political ecology is focused are development , landscape , resource use , agrarian reconstruction and rural - urban transformation ( Hovorka 2006 : 209 ) . Feminist ___MASK36___ is an approach in human ___MASK36___ which applies the theories , methods and critiques of ___MASK64___ to the study of the human environment , society and geographical space . ___MASK4___ ___MASK36___ is the branch of the social sciences that deals with the ___MASK50___ of people and their communities , cultures , economies and interaction with the environment by noticing their relations with and across space and place . As an intellectual discipline , ___MASK36___ is divided into the sub - fields of physical ___MASK36___ and human ___MASK36___ , the latter concentrating upon the ___MASK50___ of human activities , by the application of qualitative and quantitative research methods . In ___MASK62___ , anthropology and linguistics , structuralism is the methodology that elements of human culture must be understood in terms of their relationship to a larger , overarching system or structure . It works to uncover the structures that underlie all the things that humans do , think , perceive , and feel . Alternatively , as summarized by philosopher Simon Blackburn , structuralism is " the belief that phenomena of human life are not intelligible except through their interrelations . These relations constitute a structure , and behind local variations in the ___MASK32___ phenomena there are constant laws of abstract culture ". Cultural ecology is the ___MASK50___ of human adaptations to social and physical environments . Human adaptation refers to both biological and cultural processes that enable a population to survive and reproduce within a given or changing environment . This ___MASK43___ be carried out diachronically ( examining entities that existed in different epochs ), or synchronically ( examining a present system and its components ). The central argument is that the natural environment , in small scale or subsistence societies dependent in part upon it , is a major contributor to social organization and other human institutions . Post - structuralism is a ___MASK46___ formulated by American academics to denote the heterogeneous works of a series of mid - 20th - century French and continental philosophers and critical theorists who came to international prominence in the 1960s and 1970s . Ecology ( from , " ___MASK57___ ", or " ___MASK94___ "; -  , " ___MASK50___ of ") is the scientific analysis and ___MASK50___ of interactions among organisms and their ___MASK94___ . It is an interdisciplinary field that includes biology , geography , and Earth science . Ecology includes the ___MASK50___ of interactions organisms have with each other , other organisms , and with abiotic components of their ___MASK94___ . Topics of interest to ecologists include the diversity , distribution , amount ( biomass ), and number ( population ) of particular organisms , as well as cooperation and competition between organisms , both within and among ecosystems . Ecosystems are composed of dynamically interacting parts including organisms , the communities they make up , and the non - living components of their ___MASK94___ . Ecosystem processes , such as primary production , pedogenesis , ___MASK49___ cycling , and various niche construction activities , regulate the flux of energy and matter through an ___MASK94___ . These processes are sustained by organisms with specific life history traits , and the ___MASK22___ of organisms is called biodiversity . Biodiversity , which refers to the varieties of species , genes , and ecosystems , enhances certain ecosystem services .