Sentences with phrase «subsistence activity»

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.

The 45 - day Call seeks to gather information about specific areas within the Beaufort Sea Planning Area that have the most promising oil and gas resource potential, while also increasing the agency's understanding about environmentally sensitive habitats and important social and cultural uses — including vital Alaska Native subsistence activities — that also exist within the area.

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

Commercial fishing and subsistence activities are an important part of the local culture.

I have also accepted these professionals» best scientific and legal judgments that the loss of sea ice, not oil and gas development or subsistence activities, are the reason the polar bear is threatened.

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.

«In an early program that intended to lay the groundwork for REDD + in Chiapas,» she writes, «subsistence activities were constrained while production of African oil palm and jatropha for biofuels received subsides from the state.»

Care must be taken, however, to make sure that at plantation creation, there is no displacement of economic or subsistence activities that will lead to forest clearing elsewhere.

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.

The extinguishment of native title hunting and fishing rights over such a vast area in a situation where subsistence activities are of major importance has itself been highly problematic, and has necessitated protection of hunting and fishing rights through various separate state and federal pieces of legislation - a situation which created administrative difficulty and uncertainty about the long term security of the rights.

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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.

He said the Government would also establish Micro Credit Centres to support the farmers to expand their activities from subsistence to commercial farming.

She describes how subsistence hunting remains a core activity: «We are here to stay.»

Coastal economic activity — whether subsistence fishing or resort development — creates high concentrations of vulnerable populations and exposed assets along the coastline.

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.

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.

Supervised 38 subordinate logistical managers engaged in maintenance, ammunition, general supply, subsistence support, and warehouse support activities.

Thus, women participate actively both in domestic activities and food subsistence, such as the activities of economic subsistence, that guarantee family livelihood.

A key concern with the Draft framework was the apparent failure to measure involvement in the subsistence economy and traditional activities as against the market economy.

Urgent attention needs to be given to the literature and research on these matters, including the work of CAEPR, and subsistence production and activity needs to be accommodated in the indicators.

Fishing is the main economic activity in the Torres Strait Islands, particularly fishing for prawns, rock lobsters, and Spanish mackerel, along with subsistence horticulture.

For example, activities pursuant to native title rights are restricted to pre-contract methods of exercising those rights (subsistence fishing, not commercial fishing).

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.