This paper addresses the problem of the evaluation of people counting systems. The relation between the real people number and the output of the people counting system is used to motivate the computation of the maximum number of people as a scenario and geometry specific quantity which supports the evaluation of the system output. Based on the camera field-of-view we determine the maximum numbe...

Abstract We point out problems with the article Productivity beyond density: A critique of management models for reindeer pastoralism in Norway by Marin and co-workers published Pastoralism 2020. In our opinion, there are several misleading claims about governance pastoralist system Norway, Røros model herd density dependence herds their article. errors empirical re-evaluation previous work on ...

The most profound change in the relationship between humans and their environment was the introduction of agriculture and pastoralism. With this millennia lasting economic shift from simple food acquisition to complex food production humankind paved the way for its grand transitional process from mobile groups to sedentary villages, towns and ultimately cities, and from egalitarian bands to chi...

Mikhail Petrovich Gryaznov is one of the scientists whose range scientific interests has never been limited to topic. His work in early 1930s as part History nomadic pastoralism group a large extent determined direction his activities future. It important that by beginning M.P. accumulated significant and diverse experience field office research, which allowed him outline solution problem emerg...

Global drylands host more than USD 1 trillion in resource extraction investments, which serve to reconfigure communities and landscapes. In Mongolia’s Gobi Desert mega-mining brings social challenges environmental changes that question if nomadic herding mining can co-exist. Whilst company community conflict are common, nascent frameworks mediation models suggest alternate ways resolve the mini...

Eastern Africa is a relatively dry area, with considerable pastoralist population, which among the poorest segments of society. Pastoralism form subsistence lifestyle, and while pastoralists produce large proportion region’s livestock products, they are not covered well by statistical recording. Pastoralists experts in keeping arid rangelands, but often suffer from land alienation, environmenta...