Sentence examples for maps of indigenous from inspiring English sources

Most Western and Asian mapmaking cultures are represented, though the chapters on Africa and the Americas are disappointingly weak on maps of indigenous peoples.

The research team combined a satellite-based map of forest carbon from 2007 and 2008 with maps of indigenous territories compiled by organizations in Amazonia, Mesoamerica, Indonesia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Working with a ALS dataset collected over the 8049-km2 Wellington Region of New Zealand we create maps of indigenous forest carbon and evaluate the influence of wind by examining how carbon storage varies with aspect.

He had an introductory letter from Josef Albers to the director of Lima's archaeological museum, who gave him a map of indigenous weaving areas, which did not include the Q'ero.

The plots systematically sample the country, following a 8 m × 8 km grid superimposed onto a map of indigenous forests and shrublands (see Fig. 1).

In order to raise understanding about Latin America's indigenous peoples, UNICEF has launched a socio-linguistic map of indigenous communities in the region.

The third case study continues the discussion of the relationship between alternative ways of knowing using various examples of mapping of indigenous use of natural resources in the Arctic.

"The worst case scenario for me," Malhi says, "would be to generate this amazing genetic map and history of indigenous peoples of the Americas with no involvement or community engagement with living indigenous populations". .

Muchugi is focused on mapping the genomes of indigenous crops to create what she calls a dictionary of genetic information, and training traditional crop breeders to use this information all with the goal of improving the crops, especially trees, in a quick and efficient way.

It is recognized that participatory mapping techniques in the context of indigenous societies are fraught with dilemmas around the uneven distribution of power, differing understandings of boundaries drawn across the landscape, and incommensurable epistemologies of the human relationship with the environment.

We took on the task of mapping indigenous Antirrhinum charidemi in the Capo de Gata national park, Spain and we agreed to survey the Duke's Garden at Kew using a surveyor's chain instead of modern methods.