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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Human Habitation"”.
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Unveiling ancestral land: Alkebu-lan practices of human habitation Ebandleni
Our cities can be perceived as palimpsests of sequential historic events that contributed to what the cities have become in the present age. Each event or occurrence produced and brought forth the intangible spirit of the time and place relatively, the aura, which can manifest through the people, …
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Constructing Frontier Villages: Human Habitation in the South Korean Borderlands after the Korean War
… of the border static, homogeneous, and empty of human habitation. However, a closer examination reveals a highly dynamic border full of discrepancies which is, in fact, inhabited by people from both sides of North and South Korea. The 65 years of military division has, despite the ongoing …
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Islands and Rocks: moving towards certainty on the interpretation of Article 121 of the Law of the Sea Convention?
… islands apart from "rocks which cannot sustain human habitation or economic life of their own." The provision was undoubtedly drafted in an intentionally ambiguous manner in order to strike a compromise between the contrasting views of States surrounding the regime of islands. Consequently, …
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Ghost Forests of the Mid-Atlantic : how sea-level rise is killing our coastlines
… changes in store for both natural ecosystems and human habitation. Dying coastal forests herald other coastal landscape changes: after the forests start to die, so do the marshes that live in zones between ocean and forest. As sea-level rise and human development combine to narrow the range of …
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A Harmony of Form and Place
… is used in this mode of study as a basic unit of human habitation. The hierarchical relationships within the parts of the villa mirror that within the formal construction of the object and the interactions that are necessary between the parts.
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Embedded Within Landscapes: Agrarian Philosophy and Sustainable Agriculture
… agrarianism provides a model for sustainable human habitation within heterogeneous landscapes. Thoreau's Transcendentalism and the historical roots of American Agrarianism are explored as influences for wilderness preservation and the New Agrarian movement. Idealizing a distant wilderness too …
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Geographies of nowhere : Smeltertown and the rising wave of environmental refugees
… memories. Pollution made these places unfit for human habitation. It turned the residents of these communities into environmental refugees. Another kind of pollution climate change - threatens to push even more people from their homes. That these communities are gone is tragic. That there are …
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Investigating Ozarks Marginality: A Study of Late Prehistoric Ceramics from the Northern Ozark Highland of Missouri
Archaeologists offer a range of hypotheses about human habitation in the Missouri Ozark Highland during late prehistory (A.D. 900-1500). Ahler, Kreisa, and Edging (2010) apply the Margin model, a version of the core-periphery-margin model. Application of the margin model to the region is …
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A Public Bath in Alexandria, Virginia: Body, Water, and Architecture
… way of image and totality of experience into the human habitation with concrete objects. Furthermore, when the body perceives the cosmos through tangible objects then those objects become significant life form. Through the process of experience on different types of water treatment, it reveals the …
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Inhabitants Within Threshold (Threshold as Antidote for Urban Density)
… from a city to a block, to a building and to the human habitation. My design project is about an application of threshold in architectural design within the context of urban density. The efficacy of threshold is tested in both external and internal conditions: the existing condition of the site …
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An Analysis of the South China Sea Dispute: Focusing on the Assessment of the Impact of Possible Solutions on the Economies of the Region.
… the Sea excludes rocks incapable of sustaining human habitation as stated in Article 121. Rocks, which cannot sustain human habitation or economic life of their own, shall have no exclusive zone or continental shelf. All of the claimant countries of the South China Sea dispute are signatories to …
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The Impact of Human Resource Management on Social Worker's Performance in Rural Areas: Evidence From Selected Social Workers at Capricorn District in Limpopo Province
… performance. This study explored the impact of Human Resource Management and Infrastructure (HRMI) on social workers' performance in rural areas. A qualitative research method was used to collate in-depth information from 30 social workers. A purposive sampling method was employed to …
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Economic costs of extreme heat on groundnut production in the Senegal Groundnut Basin
… heat also extend beyond agriculture, affecting human habitation and exacerbating societal inequalities. The findings highlight the potential long-term effects of increasing temperatures on agricultural practices in the Groundnut Basin and underscore the need for adaptation and mitigation …
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A bioengineered approach for sustainable crude oil pollution treatment via entrapment, dispersal and removal using Nano-CarboScavenger
… of water and surrounding ecosystems including human habitation. It is now well established that most methods of petroleum remediation are either inefficient or involve highly toxic chemical dispersants. In this work we adopt a commercially-amenable nanotechnology based approach to design …
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Hunting for humans in forest ecosystems : are the traces of Iron-age people detectable? : an investigation into the importance of Iron-age slash-an-burn agriculture in KwaZulu-Natal forests using compositional and demographic data and carbon isotope techniques
To what extent are humans responsible for the biological landscapes that we see today? We relate to recent phenomena such as urban environments and commercial farmlands as anthropogenically created landscapes, however historic anthropogenic influence may have been a lot more extensive than …
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Climate Change Displacement and Global Governance: a Case Study of Three Intergovernmental Organizations and the Conflict Between the Member States and Bureaucracy
… events. However, its direct effect on human life is yet to garner such attention. A changing climate will affect how people are able to use their environment, if at all. Sea level rise and desertification will force a shift in human habitation. How the world seeks to deal with this …
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The hydrology of malaria : field observations and mechanistic modeling of the malaria transmission response to environmental climatic variability
… relationships of breeding pools, mosquitoes, and human habitation. For each individual adult mosquito, the model tracks the attributes relevant to population dynamics and malaria transmission, which are updated as mosquitoes interact with their environment, humans, and animals.
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Powerscapes
… make its climatatic dynamics more habitable for human, animals and plants - an invaluable opportunity for the synthesis of energy production and climate conditioning. This thesis investigates the strategic programming and spatial configuration of such constructed landscape, capitalized by its new …
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Ruinscapes in poetry and architecture
… dipoles which constitute the poetics of ruin-habitation: inside and outside, nearness and beyond, rootness and errance, narrow and infinite, intimacy and strangeness, appropriation and exile, etc. Ruins are classified according to earthly or cosmic Openness, reflecting the existentials of …
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Effects of Road Characteristics, Land Cover, and Topography on Roadkill Patterns Across a Rural-Urban Gradient in Southwest Virginia
… are one of the most recognizable artifacts of human habitation and development. They cross various landscapes and expand with the increasing density of human settlements. While these structures are vital in facilitating vehicular transportation, they can also have unintended negative …
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