Goyke, Noah Dwivedi, Puneet Hitchner, Sarah Schelhas, John Thomas, Marc
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Human Ecology
African American forest landowners in the southern United States (US) are typically considered a homogenous group in current studies. Our research challenges this assumption by identifying four distinct forest management outlooks among African American forest landowners using Q Method. Sustainable Harvesters focus on balanced land use with a long-t...
Prasad, Nami Das, Tapati Adhikari, Dibyendu
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Human Ecology
Krsulovic, Felipe Augusto Maurin Casares, Fernanda Araujo Lima, Mauricio
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Human Ecology
After centuries of decline, the populations of indigenous nations in Brazil began to increase in the 1970s. Population Ecology theory predicts that population size affects the dynamics of three basic recovery patterns: intra-specific cooperation (a positive effect of population size); competition (a negative effect); and exponential growth (no effe...
Degen, A. Allan El-Meccawi, Shaher Kam, Michael
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Human Ecology
Traditionally, Negev Bedouin depended on semi-nomadic pastoralism for their livelihood and were always associated with camels. Camels were used as pack animals, for transportation, and for plowing. These functions have recently been replaced by motorized vehicles. Urbanization changed Bedouin societies and presently there is much less need and spac...
Western, David Nightingale, D. L. Manzolillo Mose, Victor Nyaliki Sipitiek, Johnson Ole Kimiti, Kennedy S.
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Human Ecology
Surveys conducted across sections of the pastoral Maasai of Kenya show a wide variety of values for wildlife, ranging from utility and medicinal uses to environmental indicators, commerce, and tourism. Attitudes toward wildlife are highly variable, depending on perceived threats and uses. Large carnivores and herbivores pose the greatest threats to...
Lindenfors, Patrik
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Human Ecology
In this paper, I draw on knowledge from several disciplines to explicate the potential evolutionary significance of health effects of religiosity. I present three main observations. First, traditional methods of religious healers seldom rely on active remedies, but instead focus on lifestyle changes or spiritual healing practices that best can be d...
Souza, Arlene Oliveira Chaves, Maria do Perpétuo Socorro Rodrig... Barbosa, Reinaldo Imbrózio Clement, Charles Roland
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Human Ecology
Chausson, Alexandre M. Rowcliffe, J. Marcus Escouflaire, Lucie Wieland, Michelle Wright, Juliet H.
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Human Ecology
Interventions targeting consumer behavior may help to reduce demand for bushmeat in urban areas. Understanding the drivers of urban bushmeat consumption is crucial to guide such interventions; however the cultural and socio-psychological factors driving consumer behavior remain understudied. Through qualitative interviews with urban bushmeat consum...
Woods, Kevin M.
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Human Ecology
I explore how and in what ways global conservation projects carried out in forest frontiers under rebel authority can serve to assert state control over resource-rich territories and populations. I advance the concept of “green territoriality” to describe how conservation practiced beyond the state can serve counterinsurgency aims based on a two-ye...
Gregory, Gillian Coomes, Oliver T.
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Human Ecology
Multi-sited households—which straddle rural and urban realms—are increasingly prevalent in riverine Amazonia. Although research on this collective livelihood strategy has focussed on the consequences for tropical forests, less attention has been given to riverine people’s welfare, or the fish and aquatic resources on which they often depend. Based ...
