Disturbed landscapes also have soils classified as entisols, such as the many square miles of land occupied by freeway medians and urban centres in North America. Natural landscapes such as the Sand Hills of Nebraska also are areas of entisols. These soils also occur on steep mountain slopes...
For instance, at similar population levels, there is a 6-fold difference between the transport-related per capita CO2 emissions in Atlanta (US) and Barcelona (Spain) due to the 12-fold difference between the land area occupied by both cities (Litman, 2015; Balaban, 2017). Mixed-use ...
Reserved Land (“RL”), which refers to land reserved by the Government under Section 38 of the Sarawak Land Code or prior corresponding laws, that is comprised within a National Park, Forest Reserve, Protected Forest or Communal Forest, and is occupied by the Federal or State Government;8 ...
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 ...
Aboriginal Land Rights Aboriginal Australians have always had an eternal bond with the land. For the 50,000 years or more, they have occupied the continent; the land provided not only the basic needs, but also the spiritual beliefs. In the Dreaming, the forms of the land, mountains, rivers...
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...
Permanent crops are understood as “all surfaces occupied by permanent crops, not under a rotation system. Includes ligneous crops of standards cultures for fruit production such as extensive fruit orchards, olive groves, chestnut groves, walnut groves shrub orchards such as vineyards and some ...
The lack of formal land recognition and pressures toward privatization challenge Indigenous cultures and livelihoods, forming the basis of land claims against the LTWP. 5.4. Injustices in Indigenous peoples' land rights The land occupied by the LTWP was considered trust land before the Trust Land ...
(Ghana Chamber of Mines, 2006; Hilson, 2009). AsFigs. 1 and 2show, many sub-Saharan African states, keen to promote the extraction of their often-extensivemineral depositsare granting concessions to a range of different companies on land that is occupied and indeed used in forms of...
Rhode Island's historic Brown University has partly delivered on an agreement to return tribal land to the Pokanoket people, who occupied much of this area long before European settlers arrived here. The Ivy League university and the Pokanoket Tribe reached an agreement in September 2017, ending...