"human appropriation" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe how people take control of something that was not originally theirs. For example, you could say, "The human appropriation of natural resources has had a damaging effect on the environment."
Human Appropriation of the World's Fresh Water.
Krausmann, F. et al. Global human appropriation of net primary production doubled in the 20th century.
Haberl, H. et al. Quantifying and mapping the human appropriation of net primary production in Earth's terrestrial ecosystems.
Haberl, H. et al. Quantifying and mapping the human appropriation of net primary production in earth's terrestrial ecosystems.
Indicators such as the human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP) are increasingly used to evaluate the changes in ecosystem processes induced by land use.
Human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP) and the ecological footprint (EF) are two aggregate measures to assess human societies' draw on nature.
That seems rather... involved of Him, no? Eagleton recoils from the idolatrously human appropriations of the televangelist or the mullah.
Decisions on land use shape the distribution of these life support functions and thus require understanding of complex feedbacks between decisions on land use and human resource appropriation.
Historically that's been the pattern," said Sara Feigenholtz, a state representative from Chicago who chairs the human services appropriations committee in the Illinois House.
The Senate last week approved an amendment to the labor, health and human services appropriations bill that would grant Iraqi and Afghan interpreters and translators the same relocation benefits as refugees for six months.
"The Vivisector," a series of works completed last year, pays tribute to the Australian novelist Patrick White's novel of the same name — an unsparing dissection of an artist's appropriation of human relationships in a search for higher truth.
