the Emergence of Cities

Running head : ECOLOGICAL COMPLEX

The ecological complex

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The Ecological Complex

The ecological complex encompasses the ecological organization whereby man is taken to live in intricate functional relationships . The ecological complex is made of four main elements including population organization , environment and technology usually referred to as POET (Micklin Ponston , 1998 . Each of the four systems is made of a basic unit which can be categorized structurally

The basic unit of a population is the individual who is an important feature in

the ecological complex . Individuals aggregate into structural categories constituting the community , a region , and on a wider perspective , a nation is formed . Even within the aggregates of individuals , it is possible to define the community , region or nation in terms of size , distribution and composition . For instance , one would describe a certain community as being populous or a nation being predominantly made of young people . The population can also be seen to change in terms of fertility , mortality and migration (Micklin Ponston , 1998

An organization is made of activity as the basic unit and the activities can be said to be categorized as an operating unit . Some examples of operating units in an organization include household , firm and industry in terms of complexity . The operating units are meant to be involved in both production and consumption of goods and services . It is notable that different operating units are different as per the population or even within a single population over time . Additionally operating units...