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Equality and equity in Arctic communities: how household-level social relations support community-level social resilience

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2022
Social and economic inequality are increasingly linked with greater vulnerability and compromised resilience for communities navigating ecological and institutional change.
Shauna B. BurnSilver   +2 more
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Emperor goose fall–winter harvest monitoring and hunter's perspectives in Alaska

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, 2023
Monitoring harvests and understanding hunters' perspectives are key for effective harvest management. Emperor goose (Anser canagicus) harvest in Alaska was recently re‐authorized after a 30‐year closure, but relatively small numbers of geese are ...
Liliana C. Naves   +4 more
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The limitations of microcredit for promoting microenterprises in Bangladesh [PDF]

open access: yesEkonomski Anali, 2012
Microcredit is regarded as a tool for poverty alleviation. A stereotyped delivery system is designed and used for promoting and serving survival- and subsistence-level economic activities, particularly for poor female clients.
Alam Mahmudul, Molla Islam Rafiqul
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Alaskan wild food harvester information needs and climate adaptation strategies

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2021
Changing biophysical conditions due to amplified climate change in northern latitudes has significant implications for species' habitat and populations and can dramatically alter interactions between harvesters and local resources.
Casey L. Brown   +3 more
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Sustaining subsistence culture in Mamar agroforestry management in West Timor, is it possible? [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2020
A subsistence culture which has moral values related to the protection of ancestral territories and the environment, must be maintained in the management of Mamar agroforestry.
Ngaji Alfred Umbu Kuala   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Geospatial patterns and models of subsistence land use in rural Interior Alaska

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2022
Alaska Native people and rural Alaskans rely on subsistence harvesting of wild resources for their well-being. This study integrates publicly-available data from >30 Interior Alaskan communities to examine the geospatial patterns of subsistence and ...
Dana R. N. Brown   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Measuring perceptions of climate change in northern Alaska: pairing ethnography with cultural consensus analysis

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2014
Given current and projected warming trends in the Arctic and the important role played by subsistence hunting and fishing in the life of northern rural communities, it is increasingly important to document local observations of climate change and its ...
Courtney Carothers   +5 more
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Climate change, moose, and subsistence harvest: social-ecological assessment of Nuiqsut, Alaska

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2022
Assessing the impact of a rapidly warming climate on subsistence-based livelihoods in the Arctic is critical for building resilience for rural communities.
Jiake Zhou   +5 more
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Human Exploitation of Aquatic Landscapes. Editorial

open access: yesInternet Archaeology, 2014
Aquatic landscapes such as rivers, lakes, and seas played an important role in past human behaviour, affecting modes of subsistence, patterns of mobility, access to material resources, and technological choices and their developments.
Ricardo Fernandes, John Meadows
doaj   +1 more source

Ensuring the continuity of family law protection after the opening of succession estate in Russian law [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Pravnog Fakulteta u Nišu, 2020
In modern Russian succession law, factual grounds (incapacity for work, maintenance and community of life with the testator, etc.) have a decisive influence on the construction of the legal and necessary hereditary order.
Đokić Ivana
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