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Environmental Justice
Other at-risk groups include ethnic minorities who consume local foods, particularly fish and waterfowl, as part of historic cultural traditions, ... beliefs. The inability to consume fish is a major social loss to these ethnic communities. Low-income and ethnic minorities often lack the political power to demand corrections of these problems ...
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TRAVEL AND LEISURE - DESTINATION HIGHLIGHTS - ETHNIC AND HILL-TRIBE COMMUNITIES
With many aspects of their culture and way of life well preserved, these ethnic communities are of immense ethnographic interest and importance to the study and preservation of the ... has been a substantial improvement in their standard of living and quality of life. The village communities have managed to achieve a level of sustainable development that fosters the harmonious co-existence ...
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NEWS & EVENTS - AKHA SWING CEREMONY - At various Akha villages in the Doi Tung Development Project Area
With many aspects of their culture and way of life well preserved, these ethnic communities are of immense ethnographic interest and importance to the study and preservation of the ... been a substantial improvement in their standard of living and quality of life. The village communities have managed to achieve a level of sustainable development that fosters the harmonious co-existence ...
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Solidarity South Pacific - News - NTM Missionaries Kicked Out
U.S. evangelical group New Tribes Mission, which has been active in indigenous communities along the southern border with Colombia and Brazil since 1946, President Hugo Chvez announced Wednesday. ... has focused its efforts on the Yanomami, Ye'kuana and Panare indigenous groups and other ethnic communities in the southern part of the country. The Summer Institute of Linguistics was founded ...
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Current News | Ecologic Development Fund
EcoLogic has launched its Carbon Plus program in response to the rapid growth in the ... activities and participation from all sectors of society. It also works to strengthen rural and ethnic communities' participation in the design and management of its projects. Our alliance will provide the ...
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EJRC-Transportation Equity Newsletter Vol 4, No 1, Spring 2001
Until there is a full commitment to meeting the transportation requirements of all people including those from diverse ethnic communities and who have disabilities, a large segment of these ... growth, Transportation Equity, 3(1) 1-3. Bradsher, J.E. (1995). Disability among racial and ethnic groups, Disability Statistics Abstract, 10, 1-4. Department of Transporation (1991). 49 CRF Parts 27 ...
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Mosaic: Building links between ethnic groups and national parks in the United Kingdom
"Mosaic" being chosen to reflect the idea of a mix of ethnic groups. 3. THREE STAGES The first stage of the Mosaic Project was to work with groups ... to visit national parks; Produced resource materials; and Laid down the basis for increasing involvement by ethnic communities in national parks. This paper copyright 2004 International Union for Conservation of Nature and ...
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Foreign Affairs - Is Ethnic Conflict Inevitable? - James Habyarimana, Macartan Humphreys, Daniel Posner, Jeremy Weinstein, Richard Rosecrance, Arthur Stein, and Jerry Z. Muller
European experience will repeat itself but a more modest one: that ethnic tensions are likely to be exacerbated, rather than eliminated, by the occurrence of similar processes ...
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Printed Matter -- Chitra Divakaruni -- Page
Southeast Asian community, yes, but my vision of India is only one and not a comprehensive one. And I write for other (ethnic) communities too and hope there will be a sense of discovery as they read my work." Divakaruni says she constantly feels that she is caught between two cultures. She came to America in 1977 and earned her Ph.D. at ...
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Heritage Conservancy: Community Revitalization in "Older Communities"
Important among Pennsylvania's physical assets are cities, boroughs and villages, whose buildings, parks, and urban patterns reflect the history of the Commonwealth and of the various ethnic groups who built these communities and the larger state and nation. Many of these communities ...
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