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Ecology and Society, 2012 Arctic ecosystems are undergoing rapid changes as a result of global climate change, with significant implications for the livelihoods of Arctic peoples.
Katie J. Moerlein, Courtney Carothers
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Nutrition transition in 2 lowland Bolivian subsistence populations.
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2018 Background Traditional diets are often credited for the robust cardiometabolic health of subsistence populations. Yet, rural subsistence populations are undergoing nutrition transitions that have been linked to the increase in chronic noncommunicable ...
T. Kraft +5 more
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Deep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.This study investigates ground subsidence during tunnel excavation in karst areas, highlighting the combined effects of karst cave proximity, cave size, and soil spatial variability. Findings suggest that shorter cave distances and larger cave sizes increase subsidence variability, and a modified Peck formula is proposed for more accurate subsidence ...
Zhenghong Su +4 more
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Family-Type Subsistence Incomes [PDF]
Different family types may have a fixed flow of consumption costs, related to subsistence needs. We use a survey method in order to identify and estimate such a fixed component of spending for different families.
Carsten Schröder +2 more
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Pre‐industrial land‐use limits contemporary shrub encroachment in the French Alps
Ecography, EarlyView.Shrub encroachment has become a global phenomenon in recent decades. While global warming in the Arctic is often cited as the primary cause, human‐managed mountain regions have experienced intense historical land‐use that may also play a considerable role.
Baptiste Nicoud +6 more
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Ecology and Society, 2009 The effects of landscape changes caused by intensive logging on the availability of wild game are important when the harvest of wild game is a critical cultural practice, food source, and recreational activity.
Todd J. Brinkman +3 more
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Cell Reports, 2016 To understand how the gut microbiome is impacted by human adaptation to varying environments, we explored gut bacterial communities in the BaAka rainforest hunter-gatherers and their agriculturalist Bantu neighbors in the Central African Republic ...
A. Gomez +21 more
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Deforestation and its social impacts are an enduring challenge in agrarian frontiers, especially in the tropics. Fueled by global demand for commodities, this process is mediated by ideas, concepts, meanings, and policies that uphold socioenvironmental degradation. A key and understudied—arena in which this mediation occurs is the sub‐national
Gabriela Russo Lopes, Fabio de Castro
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Abondance frugale contre austérité pléthorique : pratiques de subsistance dans les Alpes françaises
Lien Social et PolitiquesCet article s’interroge sur l’écart entre, d’une part, l’inacceptabilité politique et la grande difficulté subjective de consentir à des réductions pourtant légères de la consommation pour des raisons écologiques et, d’autre part, la façon dont au ...
Jean Autard
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Ecology and Society, 2018 Climate change is impacting the subsistence livelihoods of many indigenous communities in the Arctic. We describe how structured decision analysis (SDA), informed by traditional ecological knowledge, can be used to understand the mechanisms of how ...
Katherine S. Christie +3 more
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