<P> Human ecology is an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary study of the relationship between humans and their natural, social, and built environments . The philosophy and study of human ecology has a diffuse history with advancements in ecology, geography, sociology, psychology, anthropology, zoology, epidemiology, public health, and home economics, among others . </P> <P> The roots of ecology as a broader discipline can be traced to the Greeks and a lengthy list of developments in natural history science . Ecology also has notably developed in other cultures . Traditional knowledge, as it is called, includes the human propensity for intuitive knowledge, intelligent relations, understanding, and for passing on information about the natural world and the human experience . The term ecology was coined by Ernst Haeckel in 1866 and defined by direct reference to the economy of nature . </P>

An interdisciplinary study of human relationship with other organisms and the earth is called