What is an anthropological approach to studying the environment?

anthropological approach. A method of research using the scientific method, fieldwork, and a holistic perspective. holistic perspective. The understanding that all of the various aspects of human biology and culture are necessarily interrelated.

The key anthropological perspectives are holism, relativism, comparison, and fieldwork. There are also both scientific and humanistic tendencies within the discipline that, at times, conflict with one another.

Anthropologists study the anthropogenic influences driving climate change, the governance systems for dealing with climate change mitigation and adaptation, and the human impacts and ramifications of global climate change.

Biological anthropologists seek to understand how humans adapt to different environments, what causes disease and early death, and how humans evolved from other animals.