1 an area in the north of Scotland that was one of nine local government regions until 1996 and is now a council area (= an area with its own local government): --
One of the prominent occupational engagements that cut across social identities in the highland forests was hunting.
For some in the tribal highlands, the problem was, quite simply, money.
Over sixteen commercialized varieties of potatoes are grown in the central highlands and sold in urban marketplaces.
In the cooler highlands, temperature (especially minimum temperature) has a more profound role in determining malaria transmission.
The experience of conflict in the southern highlands was also gendered.
The area includes the border between the agricultural plain and the forested highland.
Losses of 90% of amphibian biomass throughout highland tropical areas will affect nutrient cycling and energy flow, within and between habitats.
Stories abound in the southern highlands of late-nineteenth-century resource conflicts, migration of expelled or dissatisfied groups, and dispersal and resettlement.
