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Early human settlement of Sahul was not an accident
Scientific Reports, 2019 The first peopling of Sahul (Australia, New Guinea and the Aru Islands joined at lower sea levels) by anatomically modern humans required multiple maritime crossings through Wallacea, with at least one approaching 100 km.
M. Bird +8 more
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Are we building competitive and liveable cities? : guidelines for developing eco-efficient and socially inclusive infrastructure [PDF]
, 2013 The guidelines have been developed to inspire change among local governments (and other actors in the field of urban development) in the planning, designing and managing of urban infrastructure.
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, 2015 [Excerpt] This essay provides a concrete understanding of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) by analyzing Owen Fiss’ article Against Settlement. Additionally, this essay provides insight regarding the role that the Human Resources (HR) function plays ...
Yonover, Jacqueline
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Diffusion-driven demographics -- Turing model as a concept for the emergence of sedentism [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Sedentism was a decisive moment in the history of humankind. In a review article Kay and Kaplan quantified land use for early human settlements and found that sedentism and the emergence of farming go hand in hand. For these settlements two primary land use categories, farming and living, can be identified, whereas for hunter gatherer societies no ...
arxiv
Can Deep Altruism Sustain Space Settlement? [PDF]
, 2018 Space settlement represents a long-term human effort that requires unprecedented coordination across successive generations. In this chapter, I develop a comparative hierarchy for the value of long-term projects based upon their benefits to culture, their development of infrastructure, and their contributions to lasting information.
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Forbidden fruit: human settlement and abundant fruit create an ecological trap for an apex omnivore
Journal of Animal Ecology, 2017 Habitat choice is an evolutionary product of animals experiencing increased fitness when preferentially occupying high-quality habitat. However, an ecological trap (ET) can occur when an animal is presented with novel conditions and the animal's ...
C. Lamb +4 more
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Comparing PCG metrics with Human Evaluation in Minecraft Settlement Generation [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 There are a range of metrics that can be applied to the artifacts produced by procedural content generation, and several of them come with qualitative claims. In this paper, we adapt a range of existing PCG metrics to generated Minecraft settlements, develop a few new metrics inspired by PCG literature, and compare the resulting measurements to ...
arxiv
Using Classified and Unclassified Land Cover Data to Estimate the Footprint of Human Settlement
Data Science Journal, 2018 Accurate, up-to-date maps of and georeferenced data about human population distribution are essential for meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals progress measures, for supporting real-time crisis mapping and response efforts, and for ...
Charlie Frye +4 more
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Fractal Texture and Structure of Central Place Systems [PDF]
Fractals, 2020, 28(1): 2050008, 2017 The boundaries of central place models proved to be fractal lines, which compose fractal texture of central place networks. A textural fractal can be employed to explain the scale-free property of regional boundaries such as border lines, but it cannot be directly applied to spatial structure of real human settlement systems.
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Sustainability Science, 2016 River deltas all over the world are sinking beneath sea-level rise, causing significant threats to natural and social systems. This is due to the combined effects of anthropogenic changes to sediment supply and river flow, subsidence, and sea-level rise,
R. Twilley +10 more
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