It is hard to label me conventionally because I really write in a new paradigm, in the spirit of E.O. Wilson's 'consilience', i.e. where social and physical sciences come together. For sociologists an early start-point for my work was Catton & Dunlap. My first research thesis compared population, energy and environment policies in Australia and France. artist writer journalist evolutionary sociologist anthropology multi-species population science systems sociologist energy, land-tenure, land-use planning, population politics and political systems democracy and environment comparative national systems history wild-spaces and biodiversity Zoological influences include: E.O. Wilson, Pimentel, Lyn Margulis Editor/author at http://candobetter.net, a multi-author website for reform in democracy, environment, population, land use planning and energy policy. We welcome new authors there and book reviews Another page: http://independent.academia.edu/SheilaNewman