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The sedentarization of a Bedouin community in Saudi Arabia [PDF]

open access: yes, 1989
This thesis examines the sedentarization of bedouin nomads in Saudi Arabia: partly in general, but mostly focussing on a particular region (Sajir) which was studied in the field.
Nahedh, Monera, Nahedh, M
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Strenuous Exercise Worse Than Sedentarism?

open access: yesJournal of the American College of Cardiology, 2015
Letter
Sanchís-Gomar, Fabián   +5 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Drivers of human attitudes towards wolves Canis lupus in Kazakhstan

open access: yesPeople and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 7, Page 2104-2115, July 2026.
Abstract Kazakhstan is recognized as a key stronghold for the grey wolf (Canis lupus). Nonetheless, the wolf status and the dynamics of human‐wolf coexistence in the region remain poorly understood. This study aims to fill that gap by exploring current attitudes towards wolves in Kazakhstan and identify the underlying drivers of these attitudes.
Alyona Koshkina   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inmoviles, pero no quietos. La sedentarizacion de los saharauis como estrategia de adaptacion y respuesta a la supervivencia. Sobre la posibilidad de un nomadismo inmovil / Immobile but not Motionless. The Sahrawi Sedentarization as a Strategy of Adaptation and Response to Survive; on The Possibility of an Immobile Nomadism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
The nomadic/sedentary polarities are today questioned as Western constructions. Its deconstruction is necessary in contexts where nomadic populations become refugees for climatic, political and/or economic reasons.
Juan Carlos Gimeno Martín   +3 more
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Sedentarization as an adaptation to socio-environmental changes? Everyday herding practices in pastoralist communities in southern Ethiopia

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2022
As humanity is faced with various changes in social-environmental systems, adaptation efforts have become increasingly important. Significant effort and resources have been spent on devising overarching, large-scale strategies in response to climate ...
Xin Wang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

On cars, TVs, and other alibis to globalize sedentarism [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Heart Journal, 2012
This editorial refers to ‘Physical activity levels, ownership of goods promoting sedentary behaviour and risk of myocardial infarction: results of the INTERHEART study’, by C. Held et al. , doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehr432 ‘Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and ...
van Craenenbroeck, Emeline M.   +1 more
openaire   +3 more sources

ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 50, Issue 4, Page 960-981, July 2026.
Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
wiley   +1 more source

Geological heritage in the M'Goun geopark: A proposal of geo-itineraries around the Bine El Ouidane dam (Central High Atlas, Morocco)

open access: yesInternational Journal of Geoheritage and Parks, 2021
The surrounding area of the Bine El Ouidane dam in Central Morocco, has significant potential for the development of geotourism due to its historic, geological, biological, and cultural heritage.
Jamila Rais   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring drivers and costs of partial trans‐Saharan migration in juvenile vultures

open access: yesIbis, Volume 168, Issue 3, Page 1085-1099, July 2026.
Partial migration occurs when only a subset of individuals within a population undertakes a migratory journey. The decision to migrate can be influenced by intrinsic traits (e.g. sex or physical condition) as well as by extrinsic factors (e.g. social environment or resource availability).
Eneko Arrondo   +18 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sedentarization in Filtu Woreda, Ethiopia: Impacts on health, ecology and society [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This thesis is about the sedentarization process in Filtu Woreda of the Somali Region in Ethiopia. Sedentarization is described as the transition from a more nomadic to a less nomadic or sedentary livelihood for pastoralists.
Vrålstad, Kari
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