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Homelessness among Indigenous Australians [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper presents information on the prevalence of homelessness among Indigenous Australians, the characteristics of Indigenous people who are homeless, and the use of specialist homelessness services by Indigenous people who are homeless or at risk of

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Andean and Amazonian Material Culture and Performance Traditions as Sites of Indigenous Knowledges and Memory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Andean and Amazonian Material Culture and Performance Traditions as Sites of Indigenous Knowledges and ...
Wibbelsman, Michelle   +1 more
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Arsenic Exposure and Cancer-Related Proteins in Urine of Indigenous Bolivian Women

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2020
Indigenous people living in the Bolivian Andes are exposed through their drinking water to inorganic arsenic, a potent carcinogen. However, the health consequences of arsenic exposure in this region are unknown.
Jessica De Loma   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Reform and resistance: an indigenous perspective on proposed changes to the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972 (WA) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This article provides a critical analysis of some of the seven proposals put forward to regulate and amend the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972. Reference is made throughout to Aboriginal heritage legislation in other Australian jurisdictions. We do not
Blaze Kwaymullina   +2 more
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Understanding Mammalian Habitat Use With a Multi‐Species, Multi‐Scale Approach: The Jaguar Protection Corridor in Guaviare, Colombia

open access: yesAnimal Conservation, EarlyView.
We applied a multi‐scale, multi‐species framework to quantify how landscape structure and human infrastructure influence habitat use across a terrestrial mammal community within a biological corridor in the Colombian Amazon. Forest cover and spatial configuration influenced wildlife habitat use at spatial scales associated with species dispersal ...
Gabriel P. Andrade‐Ponce   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Revisiter les frontières et réparer l’histoire

open access: yesAnthropologie & Santé, 2013
Crossing boundaries is a well-known practice for Aymara people living in northern Chile, Peru and Bolivia. This population lives in a set of different ecological environments, blended together by means of what has been called vertical complementarity ...
Alejandra Carreño Calderón
doaj   +1 more source

Rural alternatives for local development: An intercultural analysis (case study from northern Ecuador)

open access: yesJournal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics, 2022
This study takes a historical and analytical tour of the experiences, ways of life and community knowledge oriented towards the construction of alternatives to achieve development in the communities of Cotacachi and Yunguilla, Ecuador.
Anita Krainer   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Culture of the Indigenous People of the Colombian Massif, a Culture of the Andean Framework

open access: yes, 1994
Las alturas superiores a los 2.000 m. en el Macizo colombiano, se encuentran en su mayor parte pobladas por personas que se auto identifican como indígenas. En las faldas septentrionales del volcán Puracé y en el valle de Coconuco tiene asiento el grupo étnico que tanto por la gente foránea como por autodeterminación, se conoce como los Coconucos ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Environmental justice in education for climate action: Case studies from Perú and Uganda

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper draws on participatory research with secondary school learners in Perú and Uganda that shows how environmental and social (in) justices are interwoven and embedded in young people's experiences of the natural world. These experiences contrast with learners' accounts of environmental education in secondary schooling, in which the ...
Rachel Wilder   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The obsolescence of protected area categories in a polycrisis world

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Current global conservation models face significant limitations in addressing the global polycrisis, and the constraints of the International Union for Conservation of Nature protected area (PA) classification system are part of the issue. The principles of the new conservation paradigm—governance, equity, and interculturality—are not viable ...
Pamela Esther Degele
wiley   +1 more source

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