Sentences with phrase «impacts of subsistence»

Lead author Dr Mark Abrahams, from UEA's School of Environmental Sciences, said: «Understanding the impacts of subsistence hunting in tropical forests is crucial not only to safeguard the world's most biodiverse terrestrial ecosystems, but also to secure a sustainable future for forest - dependent communities.»

Not exact matches

It is not surprising then that after an exhaustive study of the impact of the green revolution in five countries, Keith Griffin concluded that the transfer of capital - intensive, market - oriented technology not only had little positive effect on malnutrition, but actually increased the range of inequality, wiped out many subsistence farmers (usually women in most of the poorer countries), and plunged them further into destitution.

Gracer wants people to move away from getting their protein from traditional livestock such as cows, pigs, and chickens because raising livestock has a huge negative impact on the environment, regardless of whether the animals belong to subsistence farmers in developing countries or a Western industrial conglomerate.

«In this high mountain desert, water is a critically precious resource and the use of metal - polluted waters for irrigation may have substantial detrimental impacts on the lives of subsistence farmers,» said Bill Strosnider, researcher on the project.

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

This loss is exacerbated by the intensifying Climate Destabilization (reportedly reflecting the start of the «Albedo Loss» feedback due to the decline of Arctic sea - ice and ice caps) which is suppressing subsistence farm yields and some commercial farm yields on a random basis by the impacts of extreme droughts, storms, floods, and heat and cold waves.

The scope of this chapter, with a focus on food crops, pastures and livestock, industrial crops and biofuels, forestry (commercial forests), aquaculture and fisheries, and small - holder and subsistence agriculturalists and artisanal fishers, is to: examine current climate sensitivities / vulnerabilities; consider future trends in climate, global and regional food security, forestry and fisheries production; review key future impacts of climate change in food crops pasture and livestock production, industrial crops and biofuels, forestry, fisheries, and small - holder and subsistence agriculture; assess the effectiveness of adaptation in offsetting damages and identify adaptation options, including planned adaptation to climate change; examine the social and economic costs of climate change in those sectors; and, explore the implications of responding to climate change for sustainable development.

His research has examined traditional knowledge of marine mammals and sea ice, the impacts of climate change on Arctic communities, the regulation of subsistence hunting, and other topics.

But proponents of indigenous rights and cultural integrity tend to see it as causing cultural erosion, with the attendant negative impacts to the ecologies that have been cared for by local cultures forever, precisely through their subsistence activities.

Total environment of change: Impacts of climate change and social transitions on subsistence fisheries in northwest Alaska

Development activities in the Arctic (for example, oil and gas, minerals, tourism, and shipping) are of concern to Indigenous communities, from both perceived threats and anticipated benefits.149 Greater levels of industrial activity might alter the distribution of species, disrupt subsistence activities, increase the risk of oil spills, and create various social impacts.

Huntington's research activities include reviewing the regulation of subsistence hunting in northern Alaska, documenting traditional ecological knowledge of beluga whales and bowhead whales, examining Iñupiat Eskimo and Inuit knowledge and use of sea ice, and assessing the impacts of climate change on Arctic communities and Arctic marine mammals.

(https://www.24hoursofreality.org/) In Ghana, women farmers produce some 70 percent of subsistence crops, giving many a ground - level perspective on the impacts of climate change.

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.»

This negative impact includes prohibiting individuals from merely pursuing their sole means of livelihood, fining and imprisoning these individuals, encouraging participation in other unlawful conduct for subsistence, and excluding the indigent from the public sphere.

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

Increase Indigenous participation in the development and implementation of government policies and programs in environmental, cultural heritage and climate change Indigenous Australians that impacts on Indigenous peoples» lands, natural environment and their means of subsistence; and