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Journal articles on the topic "Human Niche Construction"

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Rendell, Luke, Laurel Fogarty, and Kevin N. Laland. "Runaway cultural niche construction." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 366, no. 1566 (March 27, 2011): 823–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2010.0256.

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Cultural niche construction is a uniquely potent source of selection on human populations, and a major cause of recent human evolution. Previous theoretical analyses have not, however, explored the local effects of cultural niche construction. Here, we use spatially explicit coevolutionary models to investigate how cultural processes could drive selection on human genes by modifying local resources. We show that cultural learning, expressed in local niche construction, can trigger a process with dynamics that resemble runaway sexual selection. Under a broad range of conditions, cultural niche-constructing practices generate selection for gene-based traits and hitchhike to fixation through the build up of statistical associations between practice and trait. This process can occur even when the cultural practice is costly, or is subject to counteracting transmission biases, or the genetic trait is selected against. Under some conditions a secondary hitchhiking occurs, through which genetic variants that enhance the capability for cultural learning are also favoured by similar dynamics. We suggest that runaway cultural niche construction could have played an important role in human evolution, helping to explain why humans are simultaneously the species with the largest relative brain size, the most potent capacity for niche construction and the greatest reliance on culture.
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Odling-Smee, John, and J. Scott Turner. "Niche Construction Theory and Human Architecture." Biological Theory 6, no. 3 (September 2011): 283–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13752-012-0029-3.

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Kendal, Jeremy, Jamshid J. Tehrani, and John Odling-Smee. "Human niche construction in interdisciplinary focus." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 366, no. 1566 (March 27, 2011): 785–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2010.0306.

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Niche construction is an endogenous causal process in evolution, reciprocal to the causal process of natural selection. It works by adding ecological inheritance , comprising the inheritance of natural selection pressures previously modified by niche construction, to genetic inheritance in evolution. Human niche construction modifies selection pressures in environments in ways that affect both human evolution, and the evolution of other species. Human ecological inheritance is exceptionally potent because it includes the social transmission and inheritance of cultural knowledge, and material culture. Human genetic inheritance in combination with human cultural inheritance thus provides a basis for gene–culture coevolution, and multivariate dynamics in cultural evolution. Niche construction theory potentially integrates the biological and social aspects of the human sciences. We elaborate on these processes, and provide brief introductions to each of the papers published in this theme issue.
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Laland, K. N., J. Odling-Smee, and M. W. Feldman. "Cultural niche construction and human evolution." Journal of Evolutionary Biology 14, no. 1 (January 8, 2001): 22–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1420-9101.2001.00262.x.

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Ready, Elspeth, and Michael Holton Price. "Human behavioral ecology and niche construction." Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews 30, no. 1 (January 2021): 71–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/evan.21885.

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Fogarty, Laurel, and Nicole Creanza. "The niche construction of cultural complexity: interactions between innovations, population size and the environment." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 372, no. 1735 (October 23, 2017): 20160428. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0428.

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Niche construction is a process through which organisms alter their environments and, in doing so, influence or change the selective pressures to which they are subject. ‘Cultural niche construction’ refers specifically to the effect of cultural traits on the selective environments of other biological or cultural traits and may be especially important in human evolution. In addition, the relationship between population size and cultural accumulation has been the subject of extensive debate, in part because anthropological studies have demonstrated a significant association between population size and toolkit complexity in only a subset of studied cultures. Here, we review the role of cultural innovation in constructing human evolutionary niches and introduce a new model to describe the accumulation of human cultural traits that incorporates the effects of cultural niche construction. We consider the results of this model in light of available data on human toolkit sizes across populations to help elucidate the important differences between food-gathering societies and food-producing societies, in which niche construction may be a more potent force. These results support the idea that a population's relationship with its environment, represented here by cultural niche construction, should be considered alongside population size in studies of cultural complexity. This article is part of the themed issue ‘Process and pattern in innovations from cells to societies’.
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Simonton, Dean Keith. "Human creativity, cultural evolution, and niche construction." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23, no. 1 (February 2000): 159–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x00382413.

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Sterelny, Kim. "Social intelligence, human intelligence and niche construction." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 362, no. 1480 (January 24, 2007): 719–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2006.2006.

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This paper is about the evolution of hominin intelligence. I agree with defenders of the social intelligence hypothesis in thinking that externalist models of hominin intelligence are not plausible: such models cannot explain the unique cognition and cooperation explosion in our lineage, for changes in the external environment (e.g. increasing environmental unpredictability) affect many lineages. Both the social intelligence hypothesis and the social intelligence–ecological complexity hybrid I outline here are niche construction models. Hominin evolution is hominin response to selective environments that earlier hominins have made. In contrast to social intelligence models, I argue that hominins have both created and responded to a unique foraging mode; a mode that is both social in itself and which has further effects on hominin social environments. In contrast to some social intelligence models, on this view, hominin encounters with their ecological environments continue to have profound selective effects. However, though the ecological environment selects, it does not select on its own. Accidents and their consequences, differential success and failure, result from the combination of the ecological environment an agent faces and the social features that enhance some opportunities and suppress others and that exacerbate some dangers and lessen others. Individuals do not face the ecological filters on their environment alone, but with others, and with the technology, information and misinformation that their social world provides.
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Stotz, Karola. "Human nature and cognitive–developmental niche construction." Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 9, no. 4 (October 12, 2010): 483–501. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11097-010-9178-7.

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Sinha, Chris. "Niche construction, too, unifies praxis and symbolization." Language and Cognition 5, no. 2-3 (September 2013): 261–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/langcog-2013-0019.

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AbstractArbib hypothesizes that evolutionary modern language significantly postdates human speciation. Why should this be so? I propose an account based on niche construction theory, in which Arbib's language-ready brain is primarily a consequence of epigenetically-driven adaptation to the biocultural niche of protolanguage and (subsequently) early language. The evolutionary adaptations grounding language evolution were initially to proto-linguistic socio-communicative and symbolic processes, later capturing and re-canalizing behavioural adaptations (such as serial and hierarchical constructive praxis) initially “targeted” to other developmental and cognitive domains. The intimate link between praxic action and symbolic action is present not only in the human brain, but also in the human biocultural complex. The confluence of praxis and symbolization has, in the time scale of sociogenesis, potentiated the invention of domain-constituting and cognition-altering symbolic cognitive artefacts that continue to transform human socio-cultural ecologies. I cite in support of this account, which differs only in some emphases from Arbib's account, my colleagues' and my research on cultural and linguistic conceptions of time in an indigenous Amazonian community.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Human Niche Construction"

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Pocheville, Arnaud. "LA NICHE ÉCOLOGIQUE: CONCEPTS, MODÈLES, APPLICATIONS." Phd thesis, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris - ENS Paris, 2010. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00715471.

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Cette thèse est une enquête sur le concept de niche et quelques grands cadres théoriques qui y sont apparentés: la théorie de la niche et la théorie neutraliste en écologie, la théorie de la construction de niche en biologie évolutive, et la niche des cellules souches en écologie intra-organisme. Le premier chapitre retrace l'histoire du concept de niche et confronte la théorie de la niche à une théorie concurrente, la théorie neutraliste. Le concept de niche apparaît comme devant être un explanans de la diversité des espèces et de la structure des écosystèmes. Le deuxième chapitre confronte la théorie évolutive standard à la théorie de la construction de niche, dans laquelle un organisme peut modifier son environnement et ainsi influer sur la sélection à venir. Nous montrons comment caractériser cette confrontation en termes d'échelles temporelles des processus en jeu, ce qui nous permet d'identifier le domaine de validité véritablement propre à la théorie de la construction de niche plus explicitement qu'il ne l'a été par le passé. Le troisième chapitre développe les recherches des deux chapitres précédents dans le cadre de la modélisation d'une thérapie génique comme un processus écologique de compétition et de construction de niche par les cellules. Nous présentons une famille de modèles appliqués à différentes échelles temporelles de la dynamique cellulaire, entre lesquelles le modélisateur précautionneux ne saurait choisir sans résultats expérimentaux spécifiques. Nous concluons sur les conceptions de la relation entre un organisme et son environnement attachées aux diverses facettes du concept.
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"Anthropogenic Fire and the Development of Neolithic Agricultural Landscapes: Connecting Archaeology, Paleoecology, and Fire Science to Evaluate Human Impacts on Fire Regimes." Doctoral diss., 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.53506.

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abstract: The recent emergence of global ‘megafires’ has made it imperative to better understand the role of humans in altering the size, distribution, and seasonality of fires. The dynamic relationship between humans and fire is not a recent phenomenon; rather, fire has deep roots in our biological and cultural evolution. Because of its long-term perspective, archaeology is uniquely positioned to investigate the social and ecological drivers behind anthropogenic fire. However, the field faces challenges in creating solution-oriented research for managing fire in the future. In this dissertation, I originate new methods and approaches to archaeological data that enable us to interpret humans’ long-term influences on fire regimes. I weave together human niche construction theory and ecological resilience, creating connections between archaeology, paleoecology, and fire ecology. Three, stand-alone studies illustrate the usefulness of these methods and theories for charting changes in land-use, fire-regimes, and vegetation communities during the Neolithic Transition (7600 - 3800 cal. BP) in eastern Spain. In the first study (Ch. II), I analyze archaeological survey data using Bayesian methods to extract land-use intensities from mixed surface assemblages from a case study in the Canal de Navarrés. The second study (Ch. III) builds on the archaeological data collected computational model of landscape fire, charcoal dispersion, and deposition to test how multiple models of natural and anthropogenic fire activity contributed to the formation a single sedimentary charcoal dataset from the Canal de Navarrés. Finally, the third study (Ch. IV) incorporates the modeling and data generated in the previous chapters into sampling and analysis of sedimentary charcoal data from alluvial contexts in three study areas throughout eastern Spain. Results indicate that anthropogenic fire played a significant role in the creation of agricultural landscapes during the Neolithic period, but sustained, low-intensity burning after the late Neolithic period maintained the human created niche for millennia beyond the arrival of agro-pastoral land-use. With global fire activity on the rise, it is vital to incorporate perspectives on the origins, development, and maintenance of human-fire relationships to effectively manage fire in today’s coupled social-ecological landscapes.
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Doctoral Dissertation Anthropology 2019
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"Feedbacks, Critical Transitions and Social Change in Forager-Resource Systems: An integrated modeling and ethnoarchaeological analysis." Doctoral diss., 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.24811.

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abstract: My dissertation contributes to a body of knowledge useful for understanding the evolution of subsistence economies based on agriculture from those based on hunting and gathering, as well as the development of formal rules and norms of territorial ownership in hunter-gatherer societies. My research specifically combines simple formal and conceptual models with the empirical analysis of large ethnographic and environmental data sets to study feedback processes in coupled forager-resource systems. I use the formal and conceptual models of forager-resource systems as tools that aid in the development of two alternative arguments that may explain the adoption of food production and formal territorial ownership among hunter-gatherers. I call these arguments the Uncertainty Reduction Hypothesis and the Social Opportunity Hypothesis. Based on the logic of these arguments, I develop expectations for patterns of food production and formal territorial ownership documented in the ethnographic record of hunter-gatherer societies and evaluate these expectations with large ethnographic and environmental data sets. My analysis suggests that the Uncertainty Reduction Hypothesis is more consistent with the data than the Social Opportunity Hypothesis. Overall, my approach combines the intellectual frameworks of evolutionary ecology and resilience thinking. The result is a theory of subsistence change that integrates elements of three classic models of economic development with deep intellectual roots in human ecology: The Malthusian, Boserupian and Weberian models. A final take home message of my study is that evolutionary ecology and resilience thinking are complementary frameworks for archaeologists who study the transition from hunting and gathering to farming.
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Ph.D. Anthropology 2014
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Books on the topic "Human Niche Construction"

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Kendal, Jeremy R. Human niche construction: Papers of a theme issue. London: Royal Society, 2011.

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Laland, Kevin N. Niche construction, human behavioural ecology and evolutionary psychology. Oxford University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198568308.013.0004.

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Laland, Kevin N., Marcus W. Feldman, and F. John Odling-Smee. Niche Construction: The Neglected Process in Evolution. Princeton University Press, 2013.

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Laland, Kevin N., Marcus W. Feldman, and F. John Odling-Smee. Niche Construction: The Neglected Process in Evolution. Princeton University Press, 2013.

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Niche Construction: The Neglected Process in Evolution (MPB-37) (Monographs in Population Biology). Princeton University Press, 2003.

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Laland, Kevin N., and Gillian R. Brown. The Social Construction of Human Nature. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198823650.003.0008.

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What is the job that the term ‘human nature’ is expected to do? Three notions are prevalent but are problematic: (1) Distinguishing what is biological from what is cultural/environmental. Here the term fails. (2) Characterizing the defining features of humanity, thereby allowing us to be distinguished from other species. This stance is tenable but contributes little. (3) Characterizing what is universal or typical about humanity, because of our ‘evolved biological heritage’. Here the term is tenable but misleading and hence counterproductive. ‘Human nature’ is equally reciprocally caused by gene–culture coevolution and niche construction. Given that the term has little explanatory power but carries extensive baggage, we suggest that it should be abandoned. It can be replaced with descriptions of human behaviour and cognition as the product of socially mediated internal and external constructive processes operating over both developmental and evolutionary timescales.
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Niche Construction: The Neglected Process in Evolution (MPB-37) (Monographs in Population Biology). Princeton University Press, 2003.

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Stotz, Karola, and Paul Griffiths. A Developmental Systems Account of Human Nature. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198823650.003.0004.

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We argue here that to understand human nature is to understand the plastic process of human development and the diversity it produces. Drawing on the framework of developmental systems theory and the idea of developmental niche construction, we argue that human nature is not embodied in only one input to development, such as the genome, and that it should not be confined to universal or typical human characteristics. Both similarities and certain classes of differences are explained by a human developmental system that reaches well out into the ‘environment’. We point to a significant overlap between our account and the ‘life history trait cluster’ account of Grant Ramsey, and defend the developmental systems account against the accusation that trying to encompass developmental plasticity and human diversity leads to an unmanageably complex account of human nature.
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Sullivan, Mark D. Seeking the Roots of Health and Action in Biological Autonomy. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780195386585.003.0010.

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The roots of biological autonomy and health are the same. Goals make biology distinct as a science, for without goals, we cannot understand why a biological trait exists. Organisms are autonomous biological entities because they define what is inside and what is outside themselves. This boundary between inner and outer gives the organism a self-referential purpose. Claude Bernard made experimental physiology possible with his concept of the internal environment, but he was unable to explain how the organism established the boundary between itself and its environment. Hence, homeostasis portrays the organism as reactive not active. Autopoiesis is an alternative defining characteristic of living beings. It generates biological autonomy through additional biological constraint on chemical processes, not through a special vital force. Healthy organisms can construct their own environmental niche. For humans, this niche is social and is constructed with a social physiology. Both exercise and education increase health by increasing capacity for niche construction.
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Book chapters on the topic "Human Niche Construction"

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Riede, Felix. "Niche Construction Theory and Human Biocultural Evolution." In Handbook of Evolutionary Research in Archaeology, 337–58. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11117-5_17.

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Kuijt, Ian, and Anna Marie Prentiss. "Niche Construction, Macroevolution, and the Late Epipaleolithic of the Near East." In Macroevolution in Human Prehistory, 253–71. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0682-3_10.

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Odling-Smee, F. John, Kevin N. Laland, and Marcus W. Feldman. "Niche Construction and Gene-Culture Coevolution: An Evolutionary Basis for the Human Sciences." In Perspectives in Ethology, 89–111. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1221-9_4.

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Riel-Salvatore, Julien, and Fabio Negrino. "Proto-Aurignacian Lithic Technology, Mobility, and Human Niche Construction: A Case Study from Riparo Bombrini, Italy." In Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation, 163–87. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64407-3_8.

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Cassel, Susanna Heldt. "Identity construction in relation to niche events: images of Landsmót in social media." In Humans, horses and events management, 121–34. Wallingford: CABI, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781789242751.0121.

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Abstract In this chapter the concept of identity is discussed in relation to niche events as expressed through images produced and circulated in social media. Since niche events focus on special interests and activities for a limited number of people and attract participants from afar who share this interest, these types of events also influence the identities of the places that are represented in relation to them. By circulating images online - the people, attractions, landscapes and cultural practices of places connected to specific hashtags on social media - places are co-constructed and materialized in the minds of visitors, businesses and other stakeholders in an ongoing flow of communication. The study shows that social media posts related to Landsmót (the National Championship of the Icelandic horse) represent both the event and Iceland as a destination by stressing national pride and an Icelandic identity strongly connected to the rural landscape, to outdoor activities, to harsh nature and to skilled, strong and independent men and women who create their identities in relation to their horses.
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Creanza, Nicole, Laurel Fogarty, and Marcus W. Feldman. "Exploring Cultural Niche Construction from the Paleolithic to Modern Hunter-Gatherers." In Dynamics of Learning in Neanderthals and Modern Humans Volume 1, 211–28. Tokyo: Springer Japan, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54511-8_13.

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"6. Human Niche Construction, Learning, and Cultural Processes." In Niche Construction, 239–81. Princeton University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781400847266.239.

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"9. Testing Niche Construction 3: Empirical Methods and Predictions for the Human Sciences." In Niche Construction, 337–69. Princeton University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781400847266.337.

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"Niche Construction and Human Behavioral Ecology." In Work Meets Life. The MIT Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/7417.003.0008.

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"CULTURAL NICHE CONSTRUCTION AND HUMAN EVOLUTION." In Social Brain Matters, 189–200. Brill | Rodopi, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401204491_018.

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Conference papers on the topic "Human Niche Construction"

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IRIKI, ATSUSHI. "TRIADIC NICHE CONSTRUCTION: A SCENARIO OF HUMAN BRAIN EVOLUTION REALIZING TOOL-USE AND LANGUAGE." In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference (EVOLANG9). WORLD SCIENTIFIC, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9789814401500_0080.

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Dey, Rajib, Bipul Hawlader, and Chen Wang. "Progressive Failure of Offshore Slopes due to Construction in Upslope Areas." In ASME 2015 34th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2015-42241.

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Human activities such as construction loading in upslope areas could be a potential triggering factor for many offshore landslides such as the 1979 Nice landslide. Post-slide investigations show that the existence of marine sensitive clay layers might be one of the potential causes of many large-scale submarine landslides. In this paper, a finite element (FE) modeling technique is developed to analyze the failure of a slope in undrained condition. Nonlinear strain softening behaviour of undrained shear strength of marine sensitive clays is incorporated in the FE analysis. Strain localization in narrow zones (i.e. shear bands) could be successfully simulated. The formation of shear bands and their propagation could explain some potential failure mechanisms. The FE results show that large-scale catastrophic failure of submarine slopes might have occurred due to shear band propagation through strain softening clay layers, which cannot be explained using the traditional limit equilibrium methods for slope stability analysis. Effects of different factors, such as thickness of the marine clay layer and its sensitivity, on stability of submarine slope are also examined.
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Exploring the Prospects of Using 3D Printing Technology in the South African Human Settlements. Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/assaf.2021/0074.

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South Africa is a country with significant socio-economic development challenges, with the majority of South Africans having limited or non-existent access to basic infrastructure, services, housing and socio-economic opportunities etc. The urban housing backlog currently exceeds 2.4 million houses, with many families living in informal settlements. The Breaking New Grounds Policy, 2014 for the creation of sustainable human settlements, acknowledges the challenges facing human settlements, such as, decreasing human settlements grants allocation, increasing housing backlog, mushrooming of informal settlements and urbanisation. The White Paper on Science, Technology and Innovation (STI), 2019 notes that South Africa has not yet fully benefited from the potential of STI in addressing the socio-economic challenges and seeks to support the circular economy principles which entail a systematic change of moving to a zero or low waste resource-efficient society. Further to this, the Science and Technology Roadmap’s intention is to unlock the potential of South Africa’s human settlements for a decent standard of living through the smart uptake of science, technology and innovation. One such novel technology is the Three-Dimensional (3D) printing technology, which has produced numerous incredible structures around the world. 3D printing is a computer-controlled industrial manufacturing process which encompasses additive means of production to create 3D shapes. The effects of such a technology have a potential to change the world we live in and could subsequently pave the roadmap to improve on housing delivery and reduce the negative effects of conventional construction methods on the environment. To this end, the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), in partnership with the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) and the University of Johannesburg (UJ) hosted the second virtual IID seminar titled: Exploring the Prospects of Using 3D Printing Technology in the South African Human Settlements, on 01 March 2021 to explore the potential use of 3D printing technology in human settlements. The webinar presented preliminary findings from a study conducted by UJ, addressing the following topics: 1. The viability of 3D printing technology 2. Cost comparison of 3D printed house to conventional construction 3. Preliminary perceptions on 3D printing of houses Speakers included: Dr Jennifer Mirembe (NDoHS), Dr Jeffrey Mahachi, Mr Refilwe Lediga, Mr Khululekani Ntakana and Dr Luxien Ariyan, all from UJ. There was a unanimous consensus that collaborative efforts from all stakeholders are key to take advantage of this niche technology. @ASSAf_Official; @dsigovza; @go2uj; @The_DHS; #SA 3D_Printing; #3D Print_Housing; #IID
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