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This paper recommends expanding research on the interrelations between climate change, cities, culture and the way …
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networks. Actor-network theory breaks down the nature-culture dichotomy of actor-oriented theory, so that nature becomes as …
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Water scarcity, land use conversion and cultural and ecosystem changes threaten the way of life for traditional irrigation communities of the semi-arid southwestern United States. Traditions are strong, yet potential upheaval is great in these communities that rely on acequia irrigation...
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The loss of genetic diversity of thousands of plants and crops has been well documented at least since the 1970s, and has been understood as a result of epistemological and political economic conditions of the Green Revolution. The political economic arrangement of the Green Revolution,...
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leads to migration. However, the literature concerning migration in China has been primarily focused at the provincial scale … and on eastern parts of the country. Relatively few studies have examined migration between counties and these rarely … involve poor areas, and even more rarely involving out-migration areas. Using statistical data, this study analyzes the …
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While it is still a matter of global dialogue whether and how migration will feature in the post-2015 framework …, remittance-dependent countries like Nepal clearly back migration in their post-Millennium Development Goal (MDG) discussions. We … remittance-intense migration to include the increasing diversity of migration patterns and related commodification services, the …
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This article is about the work of museums in constructing the intangible cultural heritage of migration and diasporas … to the intangible cultural heritage of migration to Europe and argue that by recording, documenting, safeguarding and …
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they experience the risks and promises of transnational labor migration in gendered and culturally specific ways. …
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The impacts of environmental change and degradation on human populations, including the possibility of sharp increases in the number of people considered “environmental migrants” have gained considerable attention. Migrating communities may try to distribute their members along particular...
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Current patterns of “move-in move-out” hypermobility are perfectly exemplified by residential tourism: the temporary or permanent mobility of relatively well-to-do citizens from mostly western countries to a variety of tourist destinations, where they buy property. The mobility of...
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