Werkzeuge des integrativen Ansatzes der Humanökologie

Authors related to I O H E (International Organization for Human Ecology) time and again have called the integrated approach the “earmark of human ecology”. The paper first of all asks why it is of such importance that it is called the earmark of a whole scientific realm (note: human ecology should not be called a “discipline” in the usual sense). The answer is that this integrative approach appears to be completely typical of human ecology since the basic paradigm of the latter, i. e. “human being(s) — outside surrounding world” needed for using the integrative approach is also a topic of this paper. Based on these prerequisites the main part of this contribution shows the different “tools” (i. e. the parts of the conceptual framework) really counting in this realization.