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Phenotypic differences between highlanders and lowlanders in Papua New Guinea. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2021
ObjectivesAltitude is one of the most demanding environmental pressures for human populations. Highlanders from Asia, America and Africa have been shown to exhibit different biological adaptations, but Oceanian populations remain understudied [Woolcock ...
Mathilde André   +8 more
doaj   +3 more sources

New Highlander Entrepreneurs in the Swiss Alps

open access: yesMountain Research and Development, 2016
Mountain regions are generally seen as depopulating. However, in the European Alps, a new migration trend can be observed that may represent a reversal of out-migration from these regions.
Heike Mayer, Rahel Meili
exaly   +3 more sources

Agri-cultural resistance and local development

open access: yesScienze del Territorio, 2021
The reconversion of raw lands into productive areas through cultivation may be considered as a practice of resistance toward territorial policies dictated from outside.
Maria Anna Bertolino
doaj   +1 more source

Chi ha bisogno della montagna italiana?

open access: yesScienze del Territorio, 2020
Due to urban and industrial development in the post-war period, the Italian Alps and Apennines have experience an intense phenomenon of depopulation, mainly caused by massive emigration to urban areas. Italian mountain regions, considered for a long time
Giulia Bergamasco   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rural every day life in Dagestan in 1920s

open access: yesВестник Майкопского государственного технологического университета, 2023
The article considers the problem that has not been studied in regional historiography, namely the daily life of the rural population in Dagestan in the first decade of the Soviet power.
Madina Magomedovna Amirkhanova
doaj   +1 more source

On the reasons of tightening the policy of the Russian Empire in the North Caucasus in the first third of the XIX century

open access: yesГуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2022
Caucasus in the first decades of the 19th century, and how it gradually became tougher, and violent actions became the main argument in relations with local peoples.
E. V. Kuznetsova
doaj   +1 more source

“That silence will seem absolutely incredible…”: on the assessment of the military-political situation in the North Caucasus after the end of the fight against Muridism

open access: yesГуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2023
Introduction. The article examines the situation in the North Caucasus that had developed by the beginning of the 1960s following the end of the armed confrontation.
P. S. Mordovin
doaj   +1 more source

ON PECULIARITIES OF SOME SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC INSTRUMENTS OF THE IMPERIAL POLITICS IN THE NORTH CAUCASUS IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE XIX CENTURY

open access: yesГуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2021
The article considers social and economic steps of the Russian administration in the North Caucasus after armed opposition with the part of mountain peoples.
E. Gurova
doaj   +1 more source

Amenity Migration in the Alps: Applying Models of Motivations and Effects to 2 Case Studies in Italy

open access: yesMountain Research and Development, 2016
Using 2 models, this article illustrates different forms of in-migration in the Alps, the motivations for relocation, and effects of newcomers on their destination areas. Since the 1990s, more and more communities in the European Alps, which had suffered
Roland Löffler   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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