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transhumance

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Contexto: "The Nenets' traditional means of life are dependent on reindeer herding, and the encroachment of fossil infrastructure has impaired their customary practices blocking transhumance routes and potentially polluting the pastures."
Fonte: LLAVERO-PASQUINA, Marcel et al. The political ecology of oil and gas corporations: TotalEnergies and post-colonial exploitation to concentrate energy in industrial economies. Energy Research & Social Science, v. 109, p. 103434, 2024

Termo equivalente: transumância

Definição: "Transhumance, the seasonal movement of people and their livestock to regions of different climate is a way of life for tens of millions of people living in the cool mountainous or the arid and semi-arid regions of the world."
Fonte: MACPHERSON, C.N.L.. The effect of transhumance on the epidemiology of animal diseases. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, (S.L.), v. 25, n.2, p. 213-224, dez. 1995. Elsevier BV. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0167-5877(95)00539-0.

Definição em português: "A palavra transumância vem do latim trans (além de) e de humus (a terra). A transumância é o deslocamento sazonal de um rebanho para chegar a uma zona onde ele poderá se alimentar antes de voltar ao aprisco."