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...
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 ...
Thus, some current stands of pitch pine may occur on relatively mesic sites not typically occupied by this species before Euro-American settlement. Such pine stands are likely to be successional in nature, eventually replaced by shade-tolerant species in the absence of active management. On the ...
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)...
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 form typical households, such as unaccompanied ...
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...
These plants would later flourish in other cultures in Louisiana. “Poverty Point culture occupied much of Louisiana and was spread into several surrounding states.” The Poverty Point culture started to irrigate farming methods with hunting methods as well. The Tchefuncte culture, during the ...
(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 ...
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...