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Howarth, A, Ibrahim, Y
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International Experiences of Water Transfers: Relevance to India [PDF]
, 2008 Water transfer has and continues to be a complementary water management strategy for promoting socioeconomic development in water-scarce regions. Over 2,500 years ago, the Babylonians, the Roman Empire and the Chinese constructed extensive canal networks,
Francis Gichuki, Peter G. McCornick
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Population expansion in the North African Late Pleistocene signalled by mitochondrial DNA haplogroup U6 [PDF]
, 2010 Background <br/> The archaeology of North Africa remains enigmatic, with questions of population continuity versus discontinuity taking centre-stage.
Behar, D.M. +10 more
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Broadberry, Stephen
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Global Human Settlement Analysis for Disaster Risk Reduction [PDF]
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Fate Control and Human Rights: The Policies and Practices of Local Governance in America's Arctic [PDF]
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Kimmel, Mara
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Pola Spasial Permukiman Kampoeng Batik Laweyan, Surakarta [PDF]
, 2015 Settlement is an entity from culture and existence of human to live, grow and survive. Man creates house in an environment as they need. Forming process of the settlement affected by physical and non-physical thing, such as social culture system, economy,
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Understanding the Spatiotemporal Development of Human Settlement in Hurricane-Prone Areas on the US Atlantic and Gulf Coasts Using Nighttime Remote Sensing [PDF]
, 2019 Hurricanes, as one of the most devastating natural hazards, have posed a great threat to people in coastal areas. A better understanding of the spatiotemporal dynamics of human settlement in hurricane-prone areas largely benefits sustainable development.
Huang, Xiao, Lu, Junyu, Wang, Cuizhen
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Investigating shellfish deposition and landscape history at the Natia Beach site, Fiji [PDF]
, 2008 The relationship between environmental variation and subsistence practices is a central point of discussion in much Oceanic archaeology. While human predation can significantly reduce prey populations, environmental variation also contributes to ...
Cochrane, E.E., Morrison, A.
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