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  2. Habitants - Wikipedia

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    The seigneur was also allowed to a specific number of days of labour by habitants and to claim rights over fishing, timberm, and common pastures. [ 3 ] Though the seigneurs' demands became more significant at the end of French rule, they could neither obtain enough resources from the rents and fees imposed on the habitants alone to become truly ...

  3. Settlement hierarchy - Wikipedia

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    It is based on vector field calculations obtained by assuming that, in a given space, all inhabitants and jobs exert the same attractive force A and repulsive force R. The net force (A - R) exerted by each inhabitant or job is given by [1/(1 + d)] - [1/( β + d/2)], where d = distance and β is the only parameter.

  4. Habitat - Wikipedia

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    The word "habitat" has been in use since about 1755 and derives from the Latin habitāre, to inhabit, from habēre, to have or to hold.Habitat can be defined as the natural environment of an organism, the type of place in which it is natural for it to live and grow.

  5. Habitat for Humanity - Wikipedia

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    Habitat for Humanity New York City and Westchester County (Habitat NYC and Westchester) was founded in 1984 as an independent affiliate, serving families across the five boroughs through home construction and preservation, beginning with their first build on the Lower East Side, during the first Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project. [14]

  6. Category:Human habitats - Wikipedia

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    The term habitat comes from ecology, and includes many interrelated features, especially the immediate physical environment, the urban environment or the social environment. At the individual and family levels, one's habitat is one's home and the buildings in which one goes about daily life.

  7. Right to housing - Wikipedia

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    The simplified logo of UN Habitat. The right to adequate housing was a main theme in the Istanbul Agreement and Habitat Agenda. This includes a rule to "promote, protect and ensure the full and progressive realisation of the right to adequate housing" in Paragraph 61. The UN Human Settlement Programme was created during 2001. The programme is ...

  8. Population - Wikipedia

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    Population is the term typically used to refer to the number of people in a single area. Governments conduct a census to quantify the size of a resident population within a given jurisdiction. The term is also applied to non-human animals , microorganisms , and plants , and has specific uses within such fields as ecology and genetics .

  9. Biotope - Wikipedia

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    Biotope is almost synonymous with the term "habitat", which is more commonly used in English-speaking countries. However, in some countries these two terms are distinguished: the subject of a habitat is a population, the subject of a biotope is a biocoenosis or "biological community". [1]