Land use change, such as land conversion for crops, livestock raising, and urban settlements, is the main factor affecting terrestrial ecosystems and the vital contributions made by living nature to humanity, referred to as Nature’s contributions to people (NCP; Díaz et al.2019). Nature’s r...
Land use change, such as land conversion for crops, livestock raising, and urban settlements, is the main factor affecting terrestrial ecosystems and the vital contributions made by living nature to humanity, referred to as Nature’s contributions to people (NCP; Díaz et al.2019). Nature’s r...
Habitat: Chinese Gray Shrikes prefer broad river valleys, pastures, and cultivated areas with bushes and small clusters of trees. They are found in open steppes, semi-deserts, and foothills in China. During the non-breeding season in South Korea, they are found in or near rice fields. Conse...
Assessment of performance characteristics and applicability of decentralized wastewater treatment systems to PERI urban settlement in Zambia In Zambia, sanitation options are still few and inadequate to effectively serve the urban poor in peri-urban settlements. Continued growth of the settlement now calls...
• Uruk pottery (4000-3100 BCE), named after the Sumerian city of Uruk, coincided with the emergence of urban life in Mesopotamia, and later Sumeria. During this time, pottery became the predominant medium of Mesopotomian art: production became more specialised as potter's wheels became faste...
Industrialized countries and urban areas are privileged with access to the distribution network with treated water, however, in rural regions and countries with little development in basic sanitation, they present heterogeneity in the type of water source. With the absence of water distribution, the ...
Rural settlements are the basic spatial units of rural geography research, and it is essential to explore the dynamic changes in land use on a rural settlement scale to promote the development of the rural revitalization strategy. The study took different rural settlement types in karst trough vall...
earlySothoandTswanasettlements (South Africa and Botswana) and stone-lined pit circles with sunken kraals for pygmy cattle (Zimbabwe) have been the subject of archaeological study. Stone-corbeledsheltersand circularhutswith thatched roofs were also recorded in the 20th century among the southern ...
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where there was less communication between different settlements or groups, different methods of reckoning the day presented no difficulties. Most primitive tribes used a dawn-to-dawn reckoning, calling a succession of days so many dawns, or suns. Later the Babylonians, Jews, and Greeks counted ...