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Water and Communal Conflict: A Review of the Literature
WIREs Water, Volume 13, Issue 1, January/February 2026.Conceptual summary of the relationship between water access and communal resilience. Following the IPCC, resilience is understood as the capacity to cope with disturbance, responding in ways that maintain systems' essential function, identity, and structure while also maintaining the capacity for adaptation, learning, and transformation.
Stefan Döring
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Sedentarity and Colorectal Cancer in Morocco
Journal of Global Oncology, 2018 Background: The colorectal cancer (CRC) ranks third among the most nationally prevalent cancers. Several factors including lifestyle modifications are interacting for the emergency of this disease. Morocco has experienced an epidemiologic transition accompanied by the adoption of an unhealthy lifestyle and the physical activity and the sedentary ...
Z. Hatime +9 more
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Bulletin de l’Association de Géographes Français, 2017 After a brief presentation of the main geographical and social characteristics of nomadism in Iran, the article examines the evolution of the treatment of nomadic tribes by the Iranian state, first as partners, under control, in the Qajar dynasty, and ...
Jean-Pierre Digard
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The Sedentarization and Gentrification in Post-Nomadic Districts
Prace Etnograficzne, 2021 This paper presents a preliminary study on migrant’s adaptation in the post-nomadic settlements inside Mongolia’s Ulaanbaatar and China’s Nantun (Evenk Autonomous Banner or Ewenke Zizhiqi) using specific examples of education and housing. The research fields were selected in order to find urbanised areas with herders migrating to the city, and where ...
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Roma Migration Intentions: An Aspirations–Capabilities Approach
Sociology Compass, Volume 19, Issue 12, December 2025.ABSTRACT The Roma represent the largest ethnic minority in Europe, with Romania hosting the largest share. A significant proportion of this population seeks to improve their living conditions through migration. Drawing on the aspirations–capabilities framework, this study examines the micro‐, meso‐, and macro‐level factors influencing Romanian Roma's ...
Ionela Vlase
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Nomadic Pastoralists Adapting to the Challenge of Sedentarization in Arid Area of East Africa [PDF]
, 2009 Sedentarization has become one of the biggest transformations to occur among nomadic pastoralists of East Africa in the 20th century. Although many researches have been done on the socio-economic changes in pastoral societies under the influence of ...
Sun, Xiaogang
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Bedouin Petitions from Late Ottoman Palestine: Evaluating the Effects of Sedentarization
, 2015 This article examines petitions sent to Istanbul at the end of the nineteenth century by Bedouin groups from the kazas (subdistricts) of Jaffa and Gaza, on Palestine's central and southern coast.
Ben-Bassat, Yuval
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People and Nature, Volume 7, Issue 11, Page 2879-2894, November 2025.Abstract Indigenous Peoples rely on biodiversity and traditional knowledge for health and well‐being, yet biological and cultural systems are threatened by ecological and social changes. Limited understanding exists on the factors that support the resilience of Indigenous Peoples' healthcare systems—the capacity of a healthcare system to adapt to ...
Sandrine Gallois +8 more
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Climate change, urbanization, sedentarization, and dissipation of pastoral Fulani culture in Ghana
oai:oai.firjournal.com:article/48While a lot of research has been conducted on the effects of climate change, urbanization, and sedentarization on pastoralism in Africa, empirical research that synchronizes the combined impact of these three monsters ...
Abubakari, Abdulai
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, 2014 This article is a study of the Inner Mongolian land reform undertaken by the Qing government in the last decade of its rule. Instead of portraying land reform as a state process of taming and transforming nomads, I examine the metamorphosis of the multi ...
Wang, Liping, Liping Wang
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