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Changes in the Landscape of Arctic Traditional Food

This article, written by Tim Lougheed*, appeared first in Environmental Health Perspectives—the peer-reviewed, open access journal of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. ...

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From Conflict to Peacebuilding: The role of natural resources and environment in conflict

RationaleEnvironmental factors are rarely, if ever, the sole cause of violent conflict. Ethnicity, adverse eco...

Human-modified habitats in the Arctic

This is Section 10.2.5 of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment Lead Author: Michael B. Usher; Contributing Aut...

Hunting, herding, fishing, and gathering: indigenous peoples and renewable resource use in the Arctic

This is Chapter 12 of the Arctic Climate Impact AssessmentLead Author: Mark Nuttall; Contributing Authors: Fik...

Anthropogenic biomes

Anthropogenic biomes describe globally-significant ecological patterns within the terrestrial biosphere caused...

Sacred places and biodiversity conservation

Sacred places, biodiversity, and conservation Sacred places are a new frontier for interdisciplinary res...

Global human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP)

Introduction Humanitys impact on the biospheres structures (e.g., land cover) and functioning (e.g., bi...

Carrying capacity

In population ecology, the carrying capacity is the population size at which the population growth rate equals...

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