Sentences with phrase «human subsistence»

Human subsistence and land use in sub-Saharan Africa, 1000 BC to AD 1500: A review, quantification, and classification

This new research helps explain the drivers of climate change that impact human subsistence and water resources in the driest region of the country.

The results also show there are considerable local variations in the preferred species, but that fishing has been highly significant for human subsistence, and the significance of fishing appears to constantly increase.

Early religious inklings of «another dimension» were felt especially in those aspects of nature considered important for human subsistence and survival.

Not exact matches

We have a choice: agonize over the lost of an energy obese society or embrace a low energy, subsistence lifestyle that has worked for most of humans over the centuries.

Nothing with such a subsistence ceases to exist by the perishing of the body, and therefore there is in the human being that which thinks and understands which does not cease to exist at death, and which I have proved in Chapter XIII - XIV to be the principle of unity of the whole human being, the soul.

In a society where virtually all property is in an immediate sense the means of subsistence rather than items of mere convenience or luxury or pleasure or whim, to steal is potentially as great a violation of human integrity as to murder or to commit adultery.

But as human population expands and subsistence farming gives way to mechanized agriculture, food production has become reliant on fossil fuel and fertilizers to increase yield from rapidly shrinking farmland.

Hunter - gatherer diets like those eaten by these northern groups and other traditional diets based on nomadic herding or subsistence farming are among the older approaches to human eating.

The vigorous, vehement and vexed reactions to any piece I have written that mentions climate change, combined with the power of greed on the one hand and the struggle for subsistence on the other, have convinced me there is no chance that governments will significantly reduce the output of industrial greenhouse gases in time to stave off considerable change to the planet's climate and to human habitats.

J. You / Science; Data: «Climatic signals in multiple highly resolved stable isotope records from Greenland,» Vinther et al, 3 November 2009; «Norse Greenland settlement,» Dugmore et al., 2007; «Human diet and subsistence patterns in Norse Greenland AD c. 980 — AD c. 1450,» Arneborg et al. 2012

«The same rate of growth measured for populations dwelling in a range of environments, and practicing a variety of subsistence strategies, suggests that the global climate and / or other biological factors — not adaptability to local environment or subsistence practices — regulated long - term growth of the human population for most of the past 12,000 years.»

This represents a period of dramatic innovation in terms of subsistence, cultural and technological practices among the humans of the age.

Many human communities want answers about the current status and future of Arctic marine mammals, including scientists who dedicate their lives to study them and indigenous people whose traditional ways of subsistence are intertwined with the fate of species such as ice seals, narwhals, walruses and polar bears.

Social, technological, and subsistence behaviors and pigment use emerged during human evolution more than 300,000 years ago.

To drive this point home, Talbott quotes Denis Goulet in The Barefoot Expert: «It is discomforting for a sophisticated technical expert from a rich country to learn that men who live on the margin of subsistence and daily flirt with death and insecurity are sometimes capable of greater happiness, wisdom, and human communion than he is, notwithstanding his knowledge, wealth, and technical superiority.»

While many ethnic groups have hunted wildlife for subsistence over millennia, often with highly detrimental effects [8], the unsustainablility of this practice has accelerated in many areas due to growing human populations, an increasing tendency for wild meat to be traded commercially [9], and the widespread adoption of firearms and motorized transport that increase the efficiency and spatial extent of hunting [10,11].

While human neurological, behavioural and physiological genetics is a vast field, little such research has been conducted among people living in non-industrialized or subsistence environments.

While future Metal Gear titles would improve on or refine Subsistence's intricate collection of systems, no other game in the franchise has combined design brilliance with raw human emotion like MGS 3.

re Dan H. 541 — that's what I meant by human population dynamics being «fortunately complex» — that it helps to control our population growth by being nice to each other (in specific ways), as opposed to how we would control deer or lady bugs (or aphids) or gypsy moths, etc. (would that change if deer reached a stage part - way between subsistence and affluence?

The number (N) of generations remaining before our society collapses to subsistence or extinction with huge loss of life is dependent on (a function of [f]-RRB- the Population (P) Level in the world multiplied by the Average Standard of Living in the world placing Economic Demands on the Earth's finite non-renewable natural resources (R) economically available to humans.

* loss of subsistence hunting opportunities potentially fatal interactions between humans and polar bears and brown bears

Asserting that anthropogenic climate change poses an existential threat to our nations, our cultures and to our way of life, and thereby undermines the internationally protected human rights of our people — including the right to sustainable development, right to life, the right to self - determination and the right of a people not to be deprived of its own means of subsistence, as well as principles of international law that oblige all states to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to the environment of other states or of areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction;

That low cost energy would allow them to bring themselves out of subsistence living and be more able to adapt to potential climate shifts, whether they be human caused or natural.

Among the risks the continent faces are reductions in food security and agricultural productivity, particularly regarding subsistence agriculture, increased water stress and, as a result of these and the potential for increased exposure to disease and other health risks, increased risks to human health.»

Threats include a growing human population and subsistence hunting.

Only when electrons are cheap and free flowing, can the human mind turn from subsistence to imaginative plans, hopes and dreams for a future.

He has worked on human dimensions issues related to subsistence, climate change, and adaptation in the Arctic and served on numerous boards and commissions such as the Gwich» in Council International, International Porcupine Caribou Board, and the Yukon River Panel.

Burning dung or charcoal for subsistence cooking and heating imperils both human health and the environment.

There are billions of people living in subsistence farming communities, and displaced because of human caused wars and subsequent famines.

12: Indigenous Peoples).91, 101 Warming also releases human - caused pollutants, such as poleward - transported mercury and organic pesticides, from thawing permafrost and brings new diseases to Arctic plants and animals, including subsistence food species, posing new health challenges, especially to rural communities.165, 166 Positive health effects of warming include a longer growing season for gardening and agriculture.5, 167

Smallholder and subsistence farmers, pastoralists and artisanal fisherfolk will suffer complex, localized impacts of climate change... [including] spread in prevalence of human diseases affecting agricultural labor supply.»

National Geographic reports that the animals face threats from a growing human population on the islands where they live, as well as being killed by subsistence hunters.

These organizations focus on clients» most basic human needs: preserving housing, protecting subsistence income, obtaining access to health care, providing food and clothing for families and maintaining safety, independence, and dignity.

The Court also classifies the benefits at issue as «social assistance» within the meaning of Article 24 (2) of Directive 2004/38 («Citizenship Directive»), as their predominant function is to cover the minimum subsistence costs necessary to lead a life in keeping with human dignity.

Similarly, Indigenous peoples in developing countries have suffered grave human rights violations (including expulsion of traditional territories, forced relocation and the use of force to deny them access to resources needed for subsistence) under conservation schemes which purport to protect the forests, wildlife, or wilderness but not the people who have co-existed with them for centuries.

Surprisingly, just like many of the human beings trying to scratch out a living in those countries, it's such a burden in the first world to have to worry so much about how the domesticated animals are treated by subsistence farmers and shepherds in the developing world, isn't it?

The key argument advanced in the petition was that the impacts in the Arctic of human - induced climate change infringe upon the environmental, subsistence, and other human rights of the Inuit people.

The key argument of the was that the impacts in the Arctic of human - induced climate change infringe upon the environment, subsistence, and other human rights of the Inuit people

Australia will quite likely continue to be brought to task by UN treaty committees where there is a failure to adequately recognise and protect the human rights of Australia's Indigenous peoples, including the right to own and inherit property and the right not to be deprived of their own means of subsistence.

Overall, this position responds to only one aspect of the relevant international human rights standards - not depriving a people of their means of subsistence.