Book review forum: Explaining Human Actions and Environmental Changes

Blaikie P (1999) A review of political ecology: Issues, epistemology and analytical narratives. Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie 43: 131–147.

Blaikie P Brookfield H (1987) Land Degradation and Society. London: Methuen.

Chamberlin TC (1890) The method of multiple working hypotheses. Science (old series) 15(366): 92–96. Reprinted in: Vayda AP Walters BB (eds) (2011) Causal Explanation for Social Scientists: A Reader. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 168–178.

Ioannidis JPA (2005) Why most published research findings are false. PLoS Medicine 2(8): e124. Available at: http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.0020124.

McCay BJ (2008) An intellectual history of ecological anthropology. In: Walters BB McCay BJ West P Lees S (eds) Against the Grain: The Vayda Tradition in Human Ecology and Ecological Anthropology. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 11–26.

Nickerson RS (1998) Confirmation bias: A ubiquitous phenomenon in many guises. Review of General Psychology 2(2): 175–220. Reprinted in: Vayda AP Walters BB (eds) (2011) Causal Explanation for Social Scientists. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press.

Vayda AP Sahur A (1996) Bugis settlers in East Kalimantan’s Kutai National Park: Their past and present and some possibilities for their future. A CIFOR Special Publication, Center for International Forestry Research, Jakarta.

Vayda AP Walters BB (eds) (2011) Causal Explanation for Social Scientists: A Reader. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press.

Walters BB (2008) Events, politics and environmental change. In: Walters BB McCay BJ West P Lees S (eds) Against the Grain: The Vayda Tradition in Human Ecology and Ecological Anthropology. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 67–79.

Walters BB Vayda AP (2009) Event ecology, causal historical analysis and human-environment research. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 99(3): 534–553.