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Agricultural terraces of Dagestan: ancient legacy for climate change adaptation and building resilience of mountain communities
Geography, Environment, Sustainability. 2024. Vol. 17. No. 4. P. 205–216.
In agricultural mountain regions, changes in weather patterns force people to look for new agricultural activities, shift from agriculture to tourism services, or even leave the mountains. This study discusses the role of Dagestan’s agricultural terraces as a potential resource for mountain people to adapt agricultural activities to climate change, thereby demonstrating the community resilience grounded on local traditional practices. We selected eight mountainous administrative districts of Dagestan as a case study area and tracked the changes of average annual, summer, and winter temperatures and precipitation for different altitudes in 2011–2020 compared to 2000–2010. We also conducted 30 informal exploratory interviews with local farmers and officials (purposive sampling) aiming at revealing common local narratives regarding climate change and its impact on agricultural activities, including the use of terraces. According to our results, respondents perceive the warming and drying of the Dagestan mountains as a growing water scarcity due to decreased precipitation and reduced snow cover, and as an opportunity to expand agricultural activities to higher altitudes. Agricultural terraces are seen as a prime land resource, preventing erosion and conserving soil moisture. Including terraces as a tourist attraction could increase interest in the local landscape and its history and may also indirectly serve to strengthen the resilience of local communities. While climate change may make it difficult to farm in the mountains, tourism becomes an additional source of income for farmers and supports agriculture.
Emelyanova O., Восток. Афро-азиатские общества: история и современность 2024 No. 1 P. 153–164
Food security in Japan has been under observation of analytics in both Japan and abroad as it is one of the key national security issues. Leading academic researchers of this issue in Japan include Suzuki N., Takeya T.,Yamamoto R. and Oguchi H. However, the main focus of their analysis is the social aspect. The English ...
Added: July 16, 2026
Pozanenko A., Социологические исследования 2026 № 6 С. 64–71
Due to persistent territorial socio-economic imbalances, some residents of Russian villages and small towns leave for a long time to work without changing their place of permanent residence. Such internal temporary labor migration is referred to by some researchers as otkhodnichestvo, and migrants as otkhodniks, by analogy with the pre–revolutionary and early Soviet migration of ...
Added: July 15, 2026
Stepanov A., Kivalov Sergey N., Vasenev I., Sustainability 2026 Vol. 18 No. 13 Article 6879
The carried-out microfield model research was aimed at identifying patterns in the dynamics of soil CO2 effluxes depending on the locally occurring hydrothermal regimes of regenerated lawn ecosystems on peat-sand substrates with different peat contents. Monitoring was carried out every ten days from 21 April 2019 to 30 October 2019 and included measurements of soil ...
Added: July 8, 2026
Podolskaia E., Вопросы лесной науки 2022 Т. 5 № 4 Статья 115
Paper presents an overview of history and current research state on the use of remote sensing data from
space to recognize roads for the regional projects. We have characterized principles of road detection on the imagery. A group of direct deciphering signs used in combinations such as brightness and texture, geometry and
brightness. Three research directions with ...
Added: June 25, 2026
Князева С. В., Ершов Д. В., Никитина А. Д. et al., Современные проблемы дистанционного зондирования Земли из космоса 2025 Т. 22 № 6 С. 383–386
This brief report summarizes the key outcomes of the IX All-Russia (with International Participation)
Scientific Conference “Aerospace Methods and Geoinformation Technologies in Forest Science,
Forestry and Ecology”. The conference was held April 15–17, 2025, in Moscow at Isaev Center for
Forest Ecology and Productivity RAS with organizational support from Space Research Institute RAS.
The conference was attended about 130 ...
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Ekaterina S. Podolskaia, Sinitsina A., European Journal of Forest Engineering 2026 Vol. 12 No. 1 P. 7–22
Machine learning in transport modeling has become a trend in science and industry. In this paper, we observe its main directions and focus on a dataset of seasonal road creation. Seasonality as a parameter in transport modeling has a significant impact on transport scenarios but is underestimated worldwide and in Russia, despite modern data challenges. ...
Added: June 24, 2026
Lifshits A., Святохина Е. В., Одиссей: Человек в истории 2026 № 1 С. 156–173
This article introduces a new source for scholarly discussion on the history of Russian language, science, and culture in the late 17th century. Numerous Russian captions for engravings were discovered in a copy of the "Travnik" (Herbal) by the great Renaissance botanist and pharmacist Pietro Andrea Mattioli, published in Prague in German in 1563. In ...
Added: June 15, 2026
Madison A., Plandin F., Kuzmina T. et al., Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 2026 Vol. 697 Article 113864
Unlike most other brachiopods, craniiforms lack a prominent pedicle, cement to a hard substrate by their ventral valve, and thereby can be easily distinguished in paleontological materials. In this study, we describe a new genus and species from the Porkuni Regional Stage of Northeastern Estonia (Baltica), corresponding to the lower part of the Hirnantian Stage ...
Added: June 15, 2026
Plandin F., Temereva E., Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 2025 Vol. 205 No. 2 Article zlaf139
Although Brachiopoda represent a relatively small phylum, they exhibit significant morphological diversity. One of the central issues in understanding the evolution of the ancestral brachiopod body plan pertains to the homologies among body compartments across the different brachiopod subphyla: Craniiformea, Linguliformea, and Rhynchonelliformea. In this context, the pedicle stands out as one of the most ...
Added: June 15, 2026
Yin X., Wu Y., Kivalov S. et al., Journal of Hydrology 2026 Vol. 677 No. A Article 135843
As a frequent extreme event under global climate change, drought significantly threatens the net primary productivity (NPP) of terrestrial ecosystems. Although numerous studies have reported drought-induced declines in NPP, the hydroclimatic mechanisms behind remain insufficiently understood. The strong interdependence among temperature, precipitation, and water availability has made it challenging to quantify their independent effects on ...
Added: June 8, 2026
An S., Wu Y., Luo X. et al., Catena 2026 Vol. 263 Article 109767
Vegetation restoration represents a highly effective strategy for offsetting carbon emissions, mitigating climate change, and enhancing the quality of the eco-environment. Despite the ecological benefits, the large-scale ‘Grain-for-Green’ program in China has caused unintended hydrological consequences, threatening the sustainability of regional water resources in this arid and semi-arid region. Therefore, it is crucial to understand ...
Added: June 8, 2026
Zhang G., Wu Y., Lu X. et al., Journal of Environmental Management 2026 Vol. 401 Article 128981
The ‘Grain for Green’ (GFG) project is a key ecological restoration initiative in the Loess Plateau. The land use changes induced by GFG project have the potential to alter the spatial distribution of soil organic carbon (SOC), yet its impact on the lateral loss of SOC was not well understood or insufficiently quantified. This study ...
Added: June 8, 2026
Tararushkin E., Glushak A., Rudmin M. et al., Applied Clay Science 2026 Vol. 291 Article 108288
Phengite is one of the important hydrous phyllosilicate minerals capable of transporting water and potassium in subducting slabs down to the Earth’s upper mantle. Being able to incorporate significant amounts of ammonium in its structure, phengite is also a major contributor to the nitrogen cycle in subduction zones. Employing classical molecular dynamic simulations with the ...
Added: June 6, 2026
Павлюкевич Е. Д., Крыленко И. Н., Кидяева В. М. et al., Лед и снег 2026 Т. 66 № 2 С. 298–318
Рассматриваются механизмы и причины прорыва озера Азау 6 августа 2025 г. На основе данных дистанционного зондирования и батиметрических съёмок определены основные изменения ледника Малый Азау и озёр, формирующихся в его моренном комплексе. Площадь ледника Малый Азау за 2000–2025 гг. сократилась на 14% (с 9.1 ± 0.4 км2 в 2000 г. до 7.9 ± 0.1 км² ...
Added: June 5, 2026
Helen Selorm Wohoyie, Anikin V. A., Tomsk State University Journal of Philosophy, Sociology and Political Science 2026 Vol. 90 P. 204–211
Menstrual health serves as a critical litmus test for state intervention in contexts where women’s bodily experiences are historically shaped by stigma, cultural taboos, and structural violence. Drawing on Joseph Gusfield’s theory of social problems, this review traces the moral passage of menstruation in Ghana (1992–2025) from a privately managed, stigmatized phenomenon to a matter ...
Added: May 26, 2026
Dorri Sedeh S., Kosonogov V., Kerimova N. et al., Frontiers in Psychology 2026 Vol. 17 Article 1710257
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As cities continue to grow, access to natural environments is becoming more limited, contributing to increased stress levels in urban populations. Panoramic 360° videos provide a creative and scalable means of simulating natural environments, potentially reducing stress in city residents under controlled settings. Here, we examined whether short immersive experiences in different urban environments support ...
Added: May 25, 2026
M. O. Balaban, Vasilizhenko A. A., L. B. Karachurina et al., Regional Research of Russia 2026 Vol. 16 No. 1 P. 151–169
The population dynamics of settlements are determined by many different factors, including, as
research shows, the availability of educational and healthcare facilities (i.e., basic social infrastructure) close
to home. One can assume a two-way relationship: a decrease in population entails a reduction in the number
of assigned students in schools and healthcare institutions and, as a result, the ...
Added: May 23, 2026
A. I. Salov, E. V. Semerikova, The Journal of the New Economic Association 2026 No. 1(70) P. 221–237
In this paper, we assess the extent of agglomeration externalities that
mirror on labour productivity gains while accounting for the direct and indirect effects
of transportation exposure. To this end we combine data on the local average wage and
employment with comprehensive information on the public transportation and road networks
of the Saint Petersburg Metropolitan Area, one of the ...
Added: May 19, 2026
N. V. Mkrtchyan, Regional Research of Russia 2026 Vol. 16 No. 1 P. 170–181
The aim of the study is to assess the provision of all settlements in four regions of the Near North of Russia (Vologda, Kostroma, Kirov, and Yaroslavl oblasts) with social infrastructure institutions and to analyze whether the migration balance of settlements is associated with different provision of these institutions. The study was conducted using data ...
Added: May 16, 2026
Желнина З. Ю., Sizova I., Korman A. et al., Креативные индустрии 2026 Т. 2 № 1 С. 42–62
The study of the experience of developing tourism and creative industries, which provide an independent track for the socio-economic development of the Arctic territories, reflects a request to identify the strength and properties of humanitarian industries that reveal their potential in regions where resource-extracting industries are the key drivers of development. A pre-project study and ...
Added: May 15, 2026
Фандюшин М. В., Вопросы национальных и федеративных отношений 2025 Т. 15 № 8 (125) С. 1701–1710
This article discusses the issue of assessing the coverage areas of cities in the Russian Federation by the availability of urban passenger electric transport for residents. This analysis is necessary to determine the directions of improvement of the state policy in the field of transport. The position of the scientific community regarding the role of ...
Added: May 14, 2026
Gaeva D. V., Barinova G. M., Romanchuk A. Y., Theoretical and Applied Climatology 2026 Vol. 157 Article 302
The objective of the paper was the spatio-temporal analysis of the dynamics of extreme climate indices for the south-eastern coast of the Baltic Sea over the 40-year period 1981–2020, employing 10 extreme indices proposed by Expert Team (ET) on Climate Change Detection and Indices (ETCCDI), characterizing hazardous phenomena as: extremely high temperatures, heat waves and ...
Added: May 13, 2026
Mkrtchyan N. V., Известия РАН. Серия географическая 2026 Т. 90 № 1 С. 231–245
Objective of the study is to assess the provision of all settlements in four regions of the Russian Near
North (Vologda, Kostroma, Kirov, and Yaroslavl oblasts) with social infrastructure facilities and to
analyze whether the migration balance of settlements is associated with varying levels of provision of
these facilities. The study is based on data collected from open ...
Added: May 13, 2026
Gallyamova A., Grigoryev D., Journal of Environmental Psychology 2026 Vol. 112 Article 103040
Recent theoretical developments in ecological approaches to culture challenge the prevailing East–West framing of cultural variation by emphasizing a north–south axis linked to local habitat stability and climatic demands. Building on Van de Vliert et al.’s (2025) ecological analysis, we replicate their preliminary tests across 83 Russian regions and add focused analyses to clarify the ...
Added: April 20, 2026