Sentences with phrase «other subsistence activities»

As the mining boom waned in the early 20th century, local communities turned to other subsistence activities, including flower collecting.

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The term leisure (and the use of other related words yet to be defined, e.g., play, festivity, games, etc.) might best be limited to refer only to Clawson's «fun activities,» with a more neutral term such as discretionary time being used to indicate those moments or hours free from subsistence activity.
In an earlier day, when a «substance» philosophy was prevalent, this was talked about as «the divine subsistence,» not only as if God were to be distinguished from the world but also as if God's existence was somehow other than God's activity.
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;
It is claimed these new plantations can be created across «marginal» and «degraded» land in «which the occupants are not engaged in economic activity», meaning land used by subsistence farmers, pastoralists, hunters and gatherers and others not producing commodities for the mass market.
Permanent infrastructure and specified property rights increasingly constrain people's ability to safely use their environment for subsistence and other activities.
Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain and develop their political, economic and social systems or institutions, to be secure in the enjoyment of their own means of subsistence and development, and to engage freely in all their traditional and other economic activities.
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