The Xokleng have challenged what they call the state's overly narrow interpretation of indigenous rights, recognizing only lands occupied by native communities when Brazil's constitution was ratified in 1988. A defeat in court for the Xokleng could set a precedent for the dramat...
A country of north-central Europe. Occupied since c. 500bcby Germanic tribes, the region became part of the Frankish empire by the sixth centuryad. Later it became a loose federation of principalities and the nucleus of the Holy Roman Empire until the imperial state was broken up by Napoleon...
at similarpopulation levels, there is a 6-fold difference between the transport-related per capita CO2emissions in Atlanta (US) andBarcelona(Spain) due to the 12-fold difference between the land area occupied by both cities (Litman, 2015; Balaban, 2017). Mixed-use quarters within the compact...
The following sections provide a series of interactive maps that visually display the history of land acquisition by the Territory and State of Arizona on behalf of the University of Arizona and relative to the Native nations who occupied and lived-off the land prior to settler-state colonization....
this isthmus and other peoples living in continental areas where civilization ultimately developed, is characterized, according to the field record, by the transfer of crops, technologies, and goods, until ca.1400 BP when speakers of Mesoamerican languages occupied the northwestern edge (Gran Nicoya)...
How many people comprised a typical household? On average, how many people lived per occupied dwelling unit before the disaster or conflict? – What percentage of households owned their homes before the disaster or conflict? – Did the affected community include groups of individuals who did not ...
(which existed until 1950). In 1814, with the dissolution of the Danish-Norwegian union of 1380, Greenland was left to Denmark and remained its colony until 1953, when it was declared part of the Kingdom of Denmark. In April 1940, after Denmark was occupied by fascist Germany, the US ...
(e.g., heath) swamps, but it seems likely that they occupy as much or more area as is occupied by nonpeatland swamps. Thus, a reasonable estimate is that swamps (wooded wetlands) occupy 30% or more of wetlands globally or 180–360million hectares. This is an estimate, since only a ...
A quarter (25%) of all agricultural land in Brazil is occupied by the country's 15,686 largest properties (0.3% of all properties) (ibid.). In 2022, Brazil produced 42% of global soybeans (372 megatons), and it exported 16 megatons of soybeans and soy meal to the EU-27.2 ...
The humid forests in the southern part of Cameroon are occupied by indigenous Baka Pygmy groups and Bantu-speaking swidden agriculturalists. The term Pygmy, although sometimes considered pejorative, is still widely employed in the literature, see3to capture the diversity of societies that make up th...