Having been on a scientific research team actually studying ecology, my main interest during my brief career as an anthropologist was a field called Cultural Ecology. It was the study of the feedback loop from our changing the environment which then forces our culture to adapt to its new environment! Yep, going on today at a level never before imagined! These unpublished papers were the germ of what would have eventually been published academic papers. That was not to be!
The Adaptive Paradigm in Cultural Ecology