Potencijali za regionalnu saradnju u primjeni inovativnih metoda planiranja gradova na bazi paradigme plavo zeleni san (blue green dream - bgd)

Author(s): Milenko Stanković,Tarik Kupusović,Čedo Maksimović / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 1/2016

BGD is a new paradigm for the planning, design, construction, operation and maintenance of urban water systems (blue component) and the green urban areas (green component - green infrastructure) as a synergy network, rather than as separate systems. It encourages effective solutions to improve the quality of urban life and adaptation to climate change. Innovative methodology in refreshing existing and planning new urban areas is developed and implemented by EIT (European Institute of Innovation and Technology), through its “cli¬mate” program KIC (Knowledge Innovative Communities), coordinated by the first author. The combined effects of climate change and increasing urbanization require skillful planning and remodeling of existing urban centers. BGD offers a way for the development, testing and implementation of solutions that connect science and innovation with broader deve¬lopment. The project opens many doors for regional and international cooperation, through a network of centers in Europe and the world, for the purpose of exchanging knowledge and experiences.

„Калиница“ в Асеновград като пример за конструиране на съвременен градски празник

Author(s): Zlatina Bogdanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2016

The paper is dedicated to a modern urban festival at the heart of which lies thetraditional celebration of „Kalinitsa“ preserved in Asenovgrad. The study reveals how this tradition is reconstructed today and turned into a cultural resource for the local community. The emphasis is on the cultural representations and functions ofthe festival and the importance attributed by local residents. The analysis identifiesthe main discourses related to „Kalinitsa“, paying attention to the role of collectivememory in shaping modern practices and models of celebration in the community. Who are the carriers of this local memory? To what extent it defines the essence ofthe festivities? In addition, the paper aims to answer the following questions: whatmakes the festival unique to Asenovgrad and what is its place in the modern urbanculture? In the disclosure of all aspects of this tradition the author relies on personal observations, stories of participants and earlier ethnographic researches.

Тютюневият град: дискурсът на индустриалното наследство

Author(s): Lina Gergova,Yana Gergova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2016

The Tobacco city is a case which at a certain moment attracted significant publicattention; at the same time, it is an example which combines various discourses. Inorder to find the specificity of this case, the article examines three more exampleswhich in geographical and historical aspect are appropriate for comparative researchon the problem, having in mind the commensurability in reference to size and significanceof the settlement and the cultural and industrial traditions, the relevant timecoincidence of the processes, as well as the geographical and economic representativeness.The research questions which the study attempts to answer are analyticalas well as completely practical, related to real management and political decisions.From an anthropological point of view, we are interested in the problem of the correlationbetween re-functionalizing with the purpose of settling, attracting investmentsand publics, and updating the use and access, one the one hand, and, on the other, thenarrative which represents the space itself in its capacity of heritage and the degree towhich this narrative should be preserved.

Две свети места в ж. к. „Младост“ в гр. София

Author(s): Valentina Sharlanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2016

ОРИЕНТИРЫ РОССИЙСКОГО ЗЕМСТВА В ЗПОХУ МОДЕРНИЗАЦИИ: КОНЕЦ ХIХ-НАЧАЛО ХХ Б. (НА МАТЕРИАЛАХ ВЛАДИМИРСКОЙ И КОСТРОМСКОЙ ГУБЕРНИЙ)

Author(s): Kirill Evgenievich Baldin / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1-2/2016

This article discusses the priority directions of the Russian zemstvo’s activities during the fifty years of its existence. Among them are, first and foremost, health, education, development of peasant farming and local communications (roads and telephony). The author pays special attention to the appearance of new guidelines in local authorities’ work in the period under consideration.

ПРОИЗВОДСТВО, СБЫТ И ПОТРЕБЛЕНИЕ В САНКТ ПЕТЕРБУРГЕ: ПЛОДОРОДНАЯ ПОЧВА ДЛЯ РАЗВИТИЯ КОРОТКИХ ЦЕПОЧЕК ПОСТАВОК ФЕРМЕРСКИХ ПРОДУКТОВ?

Author(s): Olga Gromasheva,G. Brunori / Language(s): Russian Issue: 2/2014

Currently in developed countries there is growth of initiatives which are aimed to reconnect farmers and consumers whose relationships in the last century became as distant and detached as they had never been before (due to industrial food production, centralization of the market, etc.). The state-of-art and recent trends in agricultural production, distribution and consumption in Russia, and St. Petersburg in particular, are analyzed in the article (mainly from the prospective of supply and demand for local products). The aim of the paper is to understand whether the current conditions are favorable towards development of such reconnection initiatives, which in the western literature are most frequently referred to as “short food supply chains” (or “alternative food networks”).

НОВЫЕ ТЕНДЕНЦИИ В ЭКОЛОГИЧЕСКОМ ПОТРЕБЛЕНИИ РОССИЯН ПОД ВЛИЯНИЕМ СПОРТИВНЫХ МЕГА-СОБЫТИЙ (НА ПРИМЕРЕ УНИВЕРСИАДЫ 2013 г., КАЗАНЬ)

Author(s): P. Ermolaeva / Language(s): Russian Issue: 2/2014

The article investigates the main trends in green consumption in Russia that were inspired by sport megaevents. The analysis is based on the case study of Universiade, which took place in the city of Kazan in 2013. The results of this empirical study confirm that the dwellers of Kazan have become more aware of green consumption and the green consumer practices have started to spread after the Universiade had been finished (for instance, waste sorting and ecologization of way of life and leisure). The author of the article links these trends to the increased availability of urban “green” infrastructure; the Year of Eco-culture that was held in Russia and promoted ecofriendly ideas; the local governments’ reorientation towards international environmental standards that have been maintained in other host-cities of international sport events; the popularization of post-materialistic values; globalization and increased population mobility; and growing value that is ascribed to health as symbolic capital.

АЛЬТЕРНАТИВНЫЕ СЕЛЬСКИЕ ПОСЕЛЕНИЯ В РОССИИ: СТИХИЙНАЯ ВНУТРЕННЯЯ ЭМИГРАЦИЯ ИЛИ ОСОЗНАННЫЙ ТРАНСФЕР В БУДУЩЕЕ

Author(s): I. Zadorin,D. Maltseva,A. Homyakova,L. Shubina / Language(s): Russian Issue: 2/2014

This article presents the results of the study "Ecovillages as a form of internal emigration: motivation and prospects of expansion", which was conducted by ZIRCON Research Group in Autumn 2012. This research studies new phenomenon of alternative rural settlements (in particular, ecovillages and kin estates settlements). These settlements are considered as countercultural movement. Yet, they have potential to generate innovative practices related to sustainable development of society and nature. The article aims to answer the question whether the ecovillages and kin estate settlements can be transformed from marginalized to influential social phenomenon. The authors also investigate the peculiarities of these settlements and their meanings for participants: are these settlements a way of internal immigration because of political reasons or a transfer to well-being and quality of life?

Laurent Coumel and Marc Elie, eds. “A Belated and Tragic Ecological Revolution: Nature, Disasters, and Green Activist in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet States, 1960s–2010s.” Special issue of Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, vol. 40, no. 2, 2013

Author(s): Georgios Tziafetas / Language(s): Russian Issue: 2/2015

Review of: Georgios Tziafetas - Laurent Coumel and Marc Elie, eds. “A Belated and Tragic Ecological Revolution: Nature, Disasters, and Green Activist in the Soviet Union and Post Soviet States, 1960s–2010s.” Special issue of Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, vol. 40, no. 2, 2013.

Tschechoslowakei - Zuerst stirbt der Wald...

Author(s): Andrew Csepel / Language(s): German Issue: 18/1984

Berichte vom verheerenden Waldsterben in den böhmischen Wäldern tauchten in letzter Zeit häufiger in unseren Medien auf. Die Wirklichkeit ist zum Teil noch schlimmer, als die Bilder, die wir dabei zu sehen bekamen. Ein Geheimbericht der Tschechoslowakischen Akademie der Wissenschaften enthüllt Einzelheiten.

„Mi corazón visto desde el espacio” de Alejandro Cuevas como una “novela capitalocénica”

Author(s): Katarzyna Gutkowska-Ociepa / Language(s): Spanish Issue: 22/2022

The main objective of the article is to investigate the usefulness of the notion of Capitalocene proposed by Jason W. Moore in the interpretation of Alejandro Cuevas’s most recent novel: Mi corazón visto desde el espacio (2019). The work of Cuevas, a writer from Valladolid with much experience in challenging various social problems of 21st century Spain, indeed gains a much more nuanced interpretative dimension, as it reveals the scope of the author’s critique of contemporaneity that encompasses a whole range of issues that go beyond the boundaries of the Anthropocene and require a bolder and more contemporary frame of reading. Thus, Cuevas’s fifth novel can be read as a “capitalocenic novel” as it turns out to be a quasi-manifesto of the weaknesses of the self in today’s System.

Effects of Family Socioeconomic Status and Educational Resources on Children’s Cognitive Ability Performance Based on Preschool Education Perspectives

Author(s): Qianqian SHEN,Peihua TSAI / Language(s): English Issue: 82/2023

Under the effects of rapid changes in current social environment and family, family structure gradually changes from past extended family and stem family to nuclear family for matching modern social environment. Preschool children’s learning is affected by school education as well as family education. When different family socioeconomic status would affect children’s cognitive ability to form the stratification of cognitive ability development, such a phenomenon is growing apart from the philosophy of equality of educational opportunity. Aiming at parents of children in preschool education units in china, as the research objects, total 360 copies of questionnaire are distributed, and 237 valid copies are retrieved, with the retrieval rate 66%. The research results are summarized as below. 1. Children with higher family socioeconomic status present better cognitive ability, explaining the actual effect of family socioeconomic status on current children’s cognitive ability to form educational stratification as well as unequal opportunity for preschool education. 2. The higher family socioeconomic status shows the richer family educational resources. It is therefore inferred that children with higher family socioeconomic status reveal better cognitive ability, possibly because of richer family educational resources allowing children receiving more cultural, social, or financial capital stimulation to enhance more cognitive ability. According to the result to proposed suggestions, it is expected to enhance domestic ideal of equality of preschool educational opportunity, allow domestic education parallel to various advanced countries, and achieve the responsibility for cultivating quality citizen in the future.

Wpływ ceny kontraktów terminowych EUA i uzyskiwanych z ich sprzedaży środków na inwestycje rządowe państwa polskiego w odnawialne źródła energii w latach 2013–2020

Author(s): Piotr Palac / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1-2/2022

The article presents an analysis of the relation between the scale of Polish government investments into renewable energy sources and the price of EUA Futures contracts and funds obtained by Poland from their sale in the years 2013–2020. The goal of the analysis was to check if there is any relationship between the funds obtained from the sale of EUA contracts and Polish government investments in renewable sources of energy. The theoretical section contains a partial research of sources, whereas the analytical part uses the comparative, descriptive and graphic methods, as well as Pearson correlation coefficient. The results of the study indicate a lack of relationship between the EUA prices and Polish government investments in renewable energy sources in 2013-2020. The study shows that, at that time, about 75% of investments expenditure for renewable energy sources in Poland came from private institutions and business entities and only 7% of the financial outlays came from state-owned energy companies.

Aspecte ale culturii organizaționale muzeale în cadrul sustenabilității

Author(s): Sorin Constantinescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2023

With the shift in the museum paradigm from exhibits to visitors and the conquest of museum territory by the IT revolution, the museum has been given the opportunity to reinvent itself. By adding environmental responsibility to heritage responsibility, the museum becomes sustainable and resilient, thus acquiring a new identity. As a cultural consumption driver and a guarantee of its quality under given conditions, resilience allows museum correlations that stimulate innovation. A sustainable, resilient and innovative museum capitalizes on its archetypal structure by establishing durable bridges between the protected heritage and the most diverse categories of public, while becoming the core of new cultural strategies. The museum’s involvement in the community life, according to the current institutional standards, is an interrelated process supported by viable elements that are almost all to be found in the museum’s organizational culture. Based on these premises, this article attempts to highlight the mechanism by which the museum organizational culture, taking on the data of sustainability, contributes to achieving resilience. However, in order to integrate organically and sustainably into the cultural fabric of society, museum institutions need to promote an open, strong and positive organizational culture, adapted to the significant role that the museum has within the community.

Żywe archiwum. Więcej-niż-ludzkie obecności w siedliskach ruderalnych

Author(s): Martyna Dziadek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2023

Ruderal ecologies can be regarded as places where more-than-human actants start to operate. In this article, places abandoned by a man, are called “prospective ruination” to emphasize the verb of decomposition function and to reorient the cognitive perspective of decay into the future, understood as a new human and more-than-human ruderal assemblages of culture-natures. The author of this text truly believes, that providing this kind of view, expands the Polish imaginary related to the rubble, reorienting the perspective of decay, to the vibrant more-than-human agencies and forces. The subject of the research reflection on ruderal ecologies (Caitlin DeSilvey), which constitute a. living archive, is Karolina Grzywnowicz’s project Weeds exhibited in 2015 at Zachęta in Warsaw. By introducing the term “biomnemonic witness” (gr. Mnemosyne, goodness of memory), the author emphasizes the subjectivity of the plant kingdom and its floral agencies in creating cultural and biological entanglements. The coda of the sketch problematizes the notion of a living archive and determines the trajectory of getting out of the anthropocentric cognitive impasse.

Psychological Support of Internally Displaced Persons in Ukraine and Emigrants Abroad: Challenges of Wartime

Author(s): Iryna OVDIIENKO,Oleksandra BRUKHOVETSKA,Tatyana CHAUSOVA,Liudmyla VERBYTSKA,Lesia INZHYIEVSKA,Olena GOROVA / Language(s): English Issue: 84/2024

In the context of war, providing timely psychological support is crucial for internally displaced persons in Ukraine and emigrants abroad. This kind of assistance is considered a priority for individuals who have recently experienced traumatic events and are in a vulnerable psychological state. The article is focused on identifying mental health problems among individuals who have been temporarily displaced or emigrated abroad during the war. It aims to improve the toolkit for providing psychological support to these populations. The study analyses the specific challenges associated with providing psychological support to these individuals. Forced resettlement to another region or country, combined with the prolonged impact of information stress, air raids, and the loss of a normal way of life, has been shown to contribute to the development of psychological disorders at both emotional and behavioural levels. The article focuses on the specificity of manifestations of prolonged stress, which can take the form of severe anxiety and excessive worry, as well as unpredictable outbursts of anger. It is widely accepted that physical stress can cause symptoms such as muscle pain, chronic fatigue, rapid heartbeat, and increased irritability. The physical aspects of stress, when combined, can have a detrimental effect on a person's personality and negatively impact their psychological well-being. This paper defines the complexity levels of mental disorders and outlines their factoriality. Factors such as age, involvement in the emergency (as a witness, participant, or directly affected), personal life experience, psychological health, and interpersonal relationships are considered. A conceptual approach is proposed for providing first psychological aid to the studied population categories. This includes providing emotional, physical, and social support to the affected individual, enhancing their sense of security. The practical significance of the research results lies in their potential application in the development, improvement, and implementation of psychological support programs for internally displaced persons in Ukraine and emigrants abroad in wartime conditions.

Psychological and Social-Communication Aspects of HR Management Career in Wartime, Including Stress, Motivation, Will and Efficiency of Working Conditions

Author(s): Oksana Kononenko,Andrii IVANCHENKO,Taisiia GAIVORONSKA,Tetiana KHITROVA,Svitlana SEMENKO,Viktor KUZMIN / Language(s): English Issue: 84/2024

The initiation of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation, coupled with the imposition of martial law, has prompted a paradigm shift in the comprehension of psychological and socio-communication dimensions inherent in the management of human resources. This underscores the significance of the present work. The primary objective of this study is to conduct a thorough examination of stress, motivation, will, and the efficacy of working conditions as integral components constituting the psychological and socio-communication facets of HR management during wartime. The article employs methodological approaches such as analysis, synthesis, scientific generalization, and the formal logical method. The business landscape in Ukraine, under the constraints of martial law, is marked by diminished production volumes, logistical and supply chain challenges, and financial constraints. In this pivotal juncture, human resources (HR) management necessitates the systematic implementation of planning, organization, motivation, control, and regulation. Presently, structural adjustments in HR management encompass elements such as flexible management, decentralization, integration, privatization, heightened innovation, organizational workflow optimization, and enhancement of the quality of working life. Furthermore, there is a noticeable escalation in individuals' interest in self-management. Motivating personnel amid a military conflict poses inherent challenges, given that warfare induces stress, anxiety, and restlessness among employees. Stress, in a general sense, constitutes the body's defensive response to threats or tension, and its adverse impacts on HR management become particularly pronounced in the context of military conflicts, where these factors synergistically manifest.

Етически аспекти на глобалната екологична паника

Author(s): Pepa Bouzova / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 1/2023

The paper provides a critical analysis of some aspects of environmental ethics in view of corporate business plans to profit from the transformation of the economy into a “green” one. It is well founded that the propaganda of environmental panic is increasingly becoming an ideology that enables large businesses to violate people’s rights and to crush poor countries. A veritable network of officials committed to this ideology is being developed in global organizations that will implement this plan. The ethical imperative today is not to submit to an ideology, unsubstantiated by scientific methods, but to protect the freedom and the right of poor countries to have their own economic development.

Fonoholizm – zagrożenie współczesnej młodzieży

Author(s): Marcin Kiper / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3-4/2022

The aim of the article is to present the most important facts about teenagers’ addiction to mobile phones on the basis of chosen subject literature. The article also presents and describes the research data. The aim of the research was the attempt to describe the chosen aspects of the phenomenon that is the use of mobile phones by teenagers. The research was carried out from May 9 to May 13, 2022 on a group of 80 students. All of the students were from a secondary school. For the purposes of the research, the diagnostic survey method was used and the tool was an original questionnaire. In the light of the obtained results, today’s youth use mobile phones in an irresponsible way and they are unaware of threat arising from abusing the mobile phones. Following the results obtained from the research, introducing the media literacy in schools should be conceptualized.

Permanent global crisis, biopolitics, and twenty-first century ethico-political turn

Author(s): Bogdana N. Koljević Griffith / Language(s): English,Serbian Issue: 2/2024

In this article, the issue of the permanent global crisis is reflected from the perspective of political theory, geopolitics, and contemporary political philosophy. The author emphasizes how this interdisciplinary approach is necessary for comprehending the existential crisis of the humankind as a manifestation of neoliberalism and postmodernity, i.e., in final instance, as a manifestation of theory and practice of biopolitics. In the relevant sense, it is articulated that what is at stake is precisely the condition of post-truth that functions through the logic of equivalence and then, how one of the exemplary biopolitical phenomena in the 21st century is artificial intelligence (AI). In the second part, the philosophical and practical basis for overcoming biopolitical transhumanism is outlined through the contemporary ethico-political turn. New forms of subjectification are presented as a manifestation of the conceptual interrelation between truth, freedom, and equality as true democracy – and the multipolar world, in its most fundamental determination, appears as the world of de-colonization.