Going up the mountain! Exploitation of the Trentino highlands as summer farms during the Bronze Age: the Dosso Rotondo site at Storo (northern Italy), in COLLIS J.R., NICOLIS F., PEARCE M. (eds ...
The Iron Age site of Tossal de Baltarga (Bellver de Cerdanya) was a large Iberian residential complex occupying a strategic position in the middle of the Eastern Pyrenees. It was destroyed by fire in the second half of the 3rd century BCE, preserving an important volume of archaeological and bioarchaeological material in certain areas. This is the case of Building G, a two-story …
The paper presents the impact of the exploitation of bauxite in the Pădurea Craiului Mountains on the environmental factors. The extraction of bauxite was carried out by surface quarries and underground galleries. Exploitation of this field irrespective of the established method produces a significant impact on environmental factors.
The Appalachian mountains in the Eastern United States extend across thirteen states and are home to over twenty-five million people. Appalachia struggles with problems typical of rural poverty: social stratification, unemployment, lack of social services, poor education, and poorly developed infrastructure.
1. Thirteen percent of the world's population lives in the mountains. As well as providing resources and sustenance for 915 million mountain-dwelling people - 90% of which …
The timing of and reason behind the first human exploitation of mountain environments in different parts of the world. What is the time lag between the pioneer settlement on the coast or in
The shifting patterns in the habitation and exploitation of the mountains is discussed within the broader narrative of Cretan prehistory. Special emphasis is given to the changes observed between the Protopalatial and the Neopalatial period, which, as argued, are directly linked with sociopolitical transformations in the lowlands and with ...
Around the turn of the 1900s, smooth-talking land agents from back east swept through the area, coaxing mountain people into selling the rights to the ground beneath them for cheap. One of Mullins ...
The present work summarises preliminary results of an ethnobotanical study in the Rhodope Mountains. The aim was to assess the traditional home use of medicinal plants for herbal tea …
This article provides a comprehensive review of mountains as a highly heterogeneous, dynamic, yet increasingly vulnerable terrestrial environment undergoing rapid change in the Anthropocene. Mountains are widely appreciated for their geodiversity, species richness, high endemism, and association with various essential ecosystem services and …
7 Hubei Key Laboratory of Economic Forest Germplasm Improvement and Resources Comprehensive Utilization, Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for the Characteristic Resources Exploitation of Dabie Mountains, Huanggang Normal University, Huanggang, China. [email protected].
Central Appalachia's history is the story of coal. At its peak in the mid-20 th century, mining employed more than 150,000 people in West ia alone, mostly in the state's otherwise poor ...
The interviews showed that the actors in the exploitation of mountain resources are people whose age is under 50 years old and who have a higher percentage (40%). Cutting firewood is the most represented activity with 38.5% in Lara, 35.5% in Midjivin and 33.5% in Boboyo. Timber (34.67%), fruit (15.50%) and
In interior Eurasia, high mountain zones are crucial to pastoral subsistence, providing seasonally productive pastures and abundant wild resources. In some areas of northern Mongolia, mountainous tundra zones …
Since early times, mountain landscapes were used by hunter-gatherer societies as hunting territories, migratory circuits and exploitation of seasonal resources. Mountains are also mythical places ...
Agriculture and the exploitation of natural resources have transformed tropical mountain ecosystems across the world, and the consequences of these transformations for biodiversity and ecosystem ...
Mentors Comments: In the intro briefly describe what you understand by the mountain ecosystem and how India is endowed with it across the country from the Himalayas to the Western Ghats in the south. In the …
With this Research Topic we aim to illustrate how these new theoretical and methodological approaches improve the knowledge about the exploitation of mountain natural resources.
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William deBuys is the author of seven books, including River of Traps: A New Mexico Mountain Life, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in general non-fiction in 1991; Enchantment and Exploitation: The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range; The Walk (an excerpt of which won a Pushcart Prize in 2008), …
How old are the St Francois Mountains anyway? Commonly heard: 1. St Francois Mountains are the oldest mountains in the world! •Let's talk about that…. 2. Taum Sauk Mountain has never been under the ocean! •This is not true! Precambrian 1500 M.Y. Cambrian 500 M.Y. St. Francois Mountains • Highest Elevation • Deepest Erosion ...
Changing climate and human demographics in the world's mountains will have increasingly profound environmental and societal consequences across all elevations. Quantifying current …
In interior Eurasia, high mountain zones are crucial to pastoral subsistence, providing seasonally productive pastures and abundant wild resources. In some areas of northern Mongolia, mountainous tundra zones also support a low-latitude population of domestic reindeer herders–a lifestyle whose origins are poorly characterized in the ...
Mountains are exposed to multitudinous threats that range from climate change to direct habitat degradation by human activity. These impacts have biological consequences in …
Mountains host biodiversity that is critical to humankind and to achieving a sustainable future in mountains and beyond. Yet, human pressure on mountains (e.g., through …
Affiliations 1 Hubei Key Laboratory of Economic Forest Germplasm Improvement and Resources Comprehensive Utilization, Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for the Characteristic Resources Exploitation of Dabie Mountains, Huanggang Normal University, Huanggang, Hubei, China and Institute of Food Sciences and Technology, National Taiwan …
mountain biodiversity, including erosion prevention from plant species, and basic resources like timber, food, and medicine. Biodiversity is the theme of International Mountain Day 2020 to ... and the mass exploitation of mountain ecosystems for profit. Industries such as mining, commercial agriculture, and tourism have all placed significant
The knowledge gained so far suggests a complex trajectories of land use and exploitation of natural resources driven by an interplay of environmental, climatic and economic changes that need to be disentangled from the social and political frameworks of these areas.Mountain research of the last five years has seen significant developments in ...
Despite their importance to human survival, mountains often take a back seat in the Italian debate on the climate crisis. However, a growing number of activists are starting to bring them into the …
CHATTANOOGA — On Nov. 14, 2024, Patrick Bryant Hawley, 42, of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, was arrested in Chattanooga by agents of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Federal Bureau of
In the Andes mountains of Ancash, Peru, wetlands are known by their Quechua names: bofedales or oqho.Bofedales can be either peatlands (globally important carbon sinks) and/or seasonal wetlands. the Instituto de Montaña has conducted applied research on bofedales focusing on the crucial ecological services they provide.
Exploitation of Mountains . Russian Empire 12/16/18 . 1. 0. We will be mining the hell out of the Ural Mountains, Rocky Mountains, and any other mountains we own. We will also be logging the old growth trees in eastern Canada/America. Anyone who wants hella logs or minerals, we can trade.
Natural systems in mountains cannot be stable, and exploitation systems can be, as Ives says, for a few years. Many factors change over time and space. Consider the occurrence of large landslides.
The increasing recognition of global change may place traditional conservation goals in a deadlock. Mountains have been flagship lands of conservation around the world. Although plenty of natural resources, …
Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 8, Nos. 2/3, 1988, pp. 157-163 ... P. O. Box 35049 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania ABSTRACT Over-exploitation of mountain resources in the Usambara Mountains has led to serious hazards, such as deforestation, soil erosion, flooding, sedimentation, and disturbance of the hydrological balance. External and internal ...
2 Mincheva I et al.: Ethnobotany and exploitation of medicinal plants in the Rhodope Mountains... plant growing on dry and sunny habitats on the mountain slopes. Its natural distribution in Bulgaria is restricted mainly to the southern part of the country (Ancev 1989). The medicinal potential of the plant has been investigated.