2007
DOI: 10.2747/1538-7216.48.2.157
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Challenges Facing the Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus

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“…Depopulation coupled with land abandonment and forest encroachment is also documented for Slovakia's central and eastern mountains, Polˇana and Bukovsk e Vrchy (Chovankova and Mladek 2002;Meessen et al 2015;Solar et al 2016), as well as for parts of the Polish side of the Carpathians (Kozak et al 2007). Farther to the east, evidence of depopulation has been provided for the Caucasus, including detailed demographic analyses comparing mountains and lowlands in North Ossetia-Alania (Gracheva et al 2012) and a general regional overview across the Caucasus (Radvanyi and Muduyew 2007).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…Depopulation coupled with land abandonment and forest encroachment is also documented for Slovakia's central and eastern mountains, Polˇana and Bukovsk e Vrchy (Chovankova and Mladek 2002;Meessen et al 2015;Solar et al 2016), as well as for parts of the Polish side of the Carpathians (Kozak et al 2007). Farther to the east, evidence of depopulation has been provided for the Caucasus, including detailed demographic analyses comparing mountains and lowlands in North Ossetia-Alania (Gracheva et al 2012) and a general regional overview across the Caucasus (Radvanyi and Muduyew 2007).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…The regions in the republic's southwest are economically marginalized from the rest of the republic, in part due to insufficient infrastructure as well as continued reliance on agriculture. This pattern -with the mountainous southwest as a sending location -follows other research on population movement in Dagestan (Eldarov et al 2005, Eldarov et al 2007, Eldarov 2008; given that livelihoods in the republic's mountains are primarily dependent on agriculture and animal husbandry (Radvanyi and Muduyev 2007), the transition to the market economy increased the need to travel to other locations for employment.…”
Section: Sources Of Temporary Workersmentioning
confidence: 66%
“…23 According to Turizm (2005), there were 350,000 "organized" tourists in 2004. 24 See Radvanyi and Muduyev (2007) in this special issue. 25 Perhaps ironically, Ivanov was promoted to first deputy prime minister on the same day that the resignation of Chechen President Alu Alkhanov was announced (Myers, 2007a).…”
Section: A Contradictory Balance Sheetmentioning
confidence: 99%