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Historical links between settlement, ecology, and politics in the mountains of west Nepal

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The paper presents a study of settlement processes in western Nepal. It emphasizes the linkages between settlement history, cultural ecology, and political economy as these relate to resources, marginality, and territory. Regional settlement trends are examined in accordance with land occupancy and tenure arrangements. Village settlement strategies are analyzed within a micro-processual framework that incorporates political economic perspectives on village land use and resource distributions. The past, present, and future roles of settlement in the human adaptation process of west Nepal's mountain populations is critically examined in the contexts of historical land policies and current rural political and environmental systems.

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Zurick, D.N. Historical links between settlement, ecology, and politics in the mountains of west Nepal. Hum Ecol 17, 229–255 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00889714

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