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Record W2014798101 · doi:10.1086/671074

Gone with the Trees: Deciphering the Thar Desert’s Recurring Droughts

2013· article· en· W2014798101 on OpenAlexaff
Karine Gagné

Bibliographic record

VenueCurrent Anthropology · 2013
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicWater Governance and Infrastructure
Canadian institutionsUniversité de Montréal
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDesert (philosophy)GeographyClimate changeEnvironmental historyEthnographyArticulation (sociology)Environmental resource managementSocioeconomicsSociologyHistoryEcologyArchaeologyPolitical science

Abstract

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In the 10-year period between 1999 and 2009, the district of Barmer, located in the Marwar region of Rajasthan, India, experienced 7 years of rainfall deficits, as well as instances of excessive rainfall. This increased variability in rainfall patterns in an area largely covered by the Thar Desert ‘has exacerbated the region’s already precarious environmental and land conditions. This article is based on ethnographic research conducted in this part of India, which is impacted by the numerous social, economic, and environmental outcomes of successive extreme weather events. It discusses the transformation of the ecosystem of the Thar Desert by drawing the outlines of the recent environmental history and by exposing local farmers’ articulation of these changes. The meanings and subjectivities with which rural Rajasthan is endowed and which constitute farmers’ identity are also addressed through the examination of the cultural construction of place. The analysis reveals that people’s understanding of environmental change is intertwined with their broader worldview and their relationship with the elements that compose their immediate landscape. The author argues that a comprehensive understanding of the impact of climate change can only be reached by according more attention to the cultural dimensions of places.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.717
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.306
Teacher spread0.285 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2013
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