Etoecology

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Etoecology or ethoecology (from the Greek words ethos: behavior; oikos: environment, habitat; logo: science, knoledge) is the science that studies the behavior of living beings in their environment.

Ethoecology as a science studies the customs, conducts, habits, norms, behavirors and practices, styles and patterns in the environment of an organic being –animal or vegetation- or of a determined society. To observe all of the factors and variables that contribute to the establishment of determined and heterogeneous forms of behavior from their original face, their evolution, deviations and suspensions for environmental reasons as much local as general.

Ethoecology according to its direction – human, economic, social, of natural resources, of health, etc. – can gravitate in the global understanding and particularly in tangible periods of life on the planet.

Ethoecology bears as a practice the improvement of the quality of individual and collective life, and the search of the common good.