The Geoecosystem and its Application in Research on the Present-Day Morphogenetic System in the Temperate Climate Zone

Author(s): Andrzej Kostrzewski / Language(s): English Issue: 144/2016

The organisation and performance of research on geomorphological processes should be based on the methodological and methodical grounds of the empirical sciences. A well-organised observation in the form of geomorphological monitoring forms the grounds for the collection of observational data. Actually, it is not an option to consider the geoecological approach in the study of present-day geomorphological processes. This is a methodological must. Adopting a certain concept of the geoecosystem seems to be a good option in research on present-day geomorphological processes (Kostrzewski 1993). A geoecosystem is a unit of geographic space with varying size and structure. This geomorphological monitoring stands for the organisation and conduct of research on geomorphological processes (considered to be dominant) and relevant conditions (weather-related, hydrological) based on a standardised measurement system in order to obtain reliable data aimed to assess current research studies and plan future studies. Currently in Poland, geomorphological monitoring is conducted at scientific research sites; for example, at selected high schools and as part of the Integrated Environmental Monitoring Network in Poland, which is a subsystem of Poland’s National Environmental Monitoring Network. The data obtained from geomorphological monitoring sites, verified on the grounds of accepted statistical tests, forms the basis for the analysis and assessment of a given geoecosystem and its operation, taking into account observed climate changes and increasing human impact.

Ziemia, plutopia ludzi

Author(s): Iwona Boruszkowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 743/2017

Territorial Branding and the Authentic Rural Communities of Romania: Case Study—Țara Beiușului (The Land of Beiuş, Romania)

Author(s): Luminiţa Filimon,Valentin Nemeş,Dănuț Petrea,Rodica Petrea / Language(s): English Issue: Suppl.1/2016

The present study highlights the valences of territorial branding, or indeed those of place branding,as an instrument for increasing the attraction of authentic rural spaces by highlighting the identity,the traditions and the local specificity, reinterpreted as original local development resources.The theoretical argumentation of territorial branding as a “smart” territorial management tool is exemplified by applying these concepts to the Land of Beiuş, a representative Romanian geographical-historic area, an old land, strongly coagulated, with a powerful territorial identity, which, nonetheless, is dealing nowadays with severe socio-economic difficulties. The study results consist of an actual territorial branding model, conceived so as to express the identity and originality of the local heritage, a model applicable to any type of territory with a strong territorial identity,such as the other Romanian “land-type (Țară)” areas.

Perceptions Regarding the Land of Năsăud Regional Identity

Author(s): Cristian Nicolae Botan,Csaba Horváth,Ion Horatiu Pavel,Silviu Florin Fonogea,Viorel Gligor / Language(s): English Issue: Suppl.1/2016

This paper aims to highlight the values and elements that make the Land of Nãsãud known at national and European level. We intend to approach the subject from a double perspective,namely: (1) identifying and ranking the elements that define the identity of the Land of Nãsãud, by analyzing some scientific papers researching the region in question and (2) confronting the scientific conclusions with the local perception regarding the hierarchy of elements and values that define the region that they have existentially assumed. Thus, we analyzed a total of 15 scientific papers and we consulted through a questionnaire on the subject a total of 520 respondents. The results show that the Land of Nãsãud has a set of clear identity elements, which through an adequate and sustained promotion can become regional brands that can facilitate the development process. Their importance is, however, understood differently by the locals relatively to the hierarchy established in various scientific papers.

Towards Transport Sustainability in the Cluj-Napoca Metropolitan Area

Author(s): Ana-Maria Corpade,Ciprian Corpade,Ioan-Aurel Irimus,Claudia Ionescu / Language(s): English Issue: Suppl.1/2016

The central idea of this article is that policies promoting transportation mobility, economic development and environmental sustainability can be pursued in harmony with one another, rather than as conflicting goals. In particular, it explores how issues of transportation and environmental sustainability could interact in the context of the studied metropolitan area,in which the rate of growth in population and economic development seem to have outpaced the needed transportation infrastructure.

Identity Matters for Development: Austrian and Romanian Experiences

Author(s): Oana Ramona Ilovan,Peter Jordan,Kinga Xénia Havadi-Nagy,Thomas Zametter / Language(s): English Issue: Suppl.1/2016

Two research teams from the Faculty of Geography of Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca and the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Urban and Regional Research conducted a research project looking for sustainable development strategies in the rural areas of both countries. The surveyed Romanian villages are: Viscri/Deutch-Weißkirch, Rimetea/Torockó, and Marginea. The Austrian counterparts were all located in the federal province of Carinthia: Tröpolach-Nassfeld, Kötschach-Mauthen, and Weißensee. We used the results of interviews and focus groups with locals,entrepreneurs, NGO representatives, and members of the local administration to underline the relationship between leadership, successful tourism, culture and heritage commodification and protection,the role of local identity and future sustainable development perspectives. The question of transferring these development models to other settlements in both countries and elsewhere was also answered.

Karadeniz Kuzeyindeki Bucak Yeradının Kökenine Dair

Author(s): Osman Karatay / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 43/2014

The region that can be simply defined as the north of the Danube, and as preventing Moldova from Access to the sea, used to be called Budjak ‘corner’ during the Ottoman rule, and the same word survived to us at least in scientific literary usage. The region was denominated Ongl, a Slavic word with the same meaning as the Turkic Bucak ‘corner’, in early Medieval. Before it, authors of antiquity use the word Peuce for the same region, at least from the 1st Century BC. That word means also ‘corner’ in Turkic and other languages of the Altaic region; it is indeed the earlier form of the later word budjak. Thus, it seems there was usage of Turkic in a place name in the nortwest of Black Sea in Antiquity. Regarded altogether with some other data and results, this would contribute a lot to the explanation of earlier Turkic presence in the region.

DÉVELOPPEMENT DURABLE ET AMÉLIORATION DU NIVEAU DE VIE, CAS DU PROJET DE GESTION DES RESSOURCES NATURELLES AU GOUVERNORAT DE MÉDENINE (SUD-EST TUNISIEN)

Author(s): Riadh Béchir / Language(s): French Issue: 4 (37)/2017

Southeast Tunisia has benefited from a large volume of investments and many development programs and projects. Several development indicators have proved the success of the actions of these policies ( water in rural area, electrification, health centers, etc.). This article will deal with the application of the natural resources management project and these results to the province of Medenine in the southeast of Tunisia.

Улога планирања предела у примени Европске конвенције и пределима

Author(s): Nevena Vasiljević / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 3/2008

The most important recent policy initiative concerning quality and diversity, as well as natural and cultural landscape's values within all Europe is European Landscape Convention. The Convention was adopted by Council of Europe's Community of Ministers on 20th October 2000., in Firenze, Italy. The main goal of the Convention is protection, planning and management of the landscape as important part of the quality of life for people living everywhere: in urban areas and in countryside, in degraded areas as well as in the areas with high quality and those recognized as being of outstanding beauty. Serbia has singed Convention on 21 of September 2007. Diversity and quality, the cultural and natural values linked to European landscapes are part of Europe's common heritage, and it is important to co-operate towards its protection, management and planning According to explored international experiences, landscape plan, with its known methodology, is recognized as the most suitable tool in the most Countries which have already implemented European Landscape Convention. As to situation in Serbia, landscape planning is not treated in adequate or appropriate way within system of spatial planning. On the basis of the recent European experiences regarding The European Landscape Convention, the paper will underline the inevitability of landscape planning integration into the spatial planning system at the national, regional and city level, in Serbia.

KARSTIC GEOMORPHOSITES WITH HIGH TOURISTIC VALUE IN MEHEDINȚI PLATEAU

Author(s): Iamandei Mihaela Ioana / Language(s): English Issue: XVIII/2017

In the Mehedinţi Plateau area, there is a great number of karsts complexes, also named geomorphosites, created by the action of water in the massive calcareous rocks. Some of these, such as Izverna and Topolnita karsts complexes, are suitable to speleological tourism, cave diving, tourist and scientific explorations, underground and underwater photography and filming. Tourists come here from all over the world and this is a place where special camps for cave diving the fans are organized. This study presents especially the types of geomorphosites generated by water, the touristic offer in this area and the analysis of indicators representing the global value of one of the main geomorphosites. This global value increased in particular due to their scientific, cultural and aesthetic values which makes them suitable to ecotourism. The economic value is also an important indicator for the touristic activities in Mehedinți Plateau

THE OPTIMISATION OF CHROMATOGRAPHIC CONDITIONS FOR THE DETERMINATION OF ACCEPTOR-DONOR PROPERTIES OF GRAPHENE OXIDE AND REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDE

Author(s): Henryk Grajek / Language(s): English Issue: 26/2018

The oxidised and reduced graphene samples (having different surface functionalities) were studied by inverse gas chromatography to characterise their acceptor-donor properties. The DN values denoting the donor number in the Gutmann scale and the AN* values denoting the acceptor number in the Riddle-Fowkes scale have been chosen in the estimation of the electron-acceptor parameter KA and electron-donor parameter KD values.

Z badań czwartorzędu w Polsce. Pamięci Profesor Haliny Klatkowej

Author(s): Jacek Forysiak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 106/2017

The Climate of Montenegro: Modificators and Types – Part Two

Author(s): Jovan Mihajlović,Vladan Ducić,Dragan Burić / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2014

The main objective of this study is to emphasize the basic climate modificators and types in Montenegro. Rarely could you find such a small area with more climate types and several subtypes and varieties as it is the case here. The most important climate modificators in Montenegro have been discussed in the Part One of the study, such as: mathematical – geographical position, relief dissection, atmospheric circulation and the Adriatic Sea. Atlantic and Mediterranean aquatories and Eurasian landmass play an important part in climate modification in the area of Montenegro. These vast areas represent the source of atmospheric action centres and air masses. In the Part Two of this study, the climate regionalization of Montenegro is given according to the Köppen criteria, as it has been proved that it gives a good basis for solving several practical and scientific problems.

Analysis of Ground Water Quality in Terms of Geological Setting in the Territory of the Mesić Village for the Purpose of Bottling (Municipality Of Vršac)

Author(s): Nataša Biočanin,Velimir Jovanović,Ivana Carević,Dragana Vušković / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2014

This paper presents an analysis of the quality of groundwater that are exploited in the territory of the Mesić village in the factory "Moja voda" on the slopes of the Vršac Mountains. Spring waters formed in the Tertiary and Quaternary sediments are situated near the high-grade metamorphic complex border of Vršac Mountains that represents the northernmost prolongation of Serbo-macedonian massif to the West and low-grade metamorphic complex of the Ranovac-Vlasina-Osogovo terrane to the East. Groundwater is assigned on the basis of chemical analyses to the group of hydrocarbonate-calcium-magnesium non-carbonated low-mineral water, whose physical properties and chemical composition is the consequence of geological conditions of the environment through which circulates. The dominant anions and cations (HCO3 - , Ca2 + and Mg2 + ) accumulate in groundwater of Mesić as a product of weathering of silicate minerals present in igneous and metamorphic complex of Vršac Mountains. The specificity of these waters is an adequate amount of selenium in its composition related to the Tertiary and Quaternary clay deposits which have the pyrite and organic matter, as well as silica, whose presence in the water is a consequence of weathering (hydrolysis) of silicate minerals, particularly feldspar. Water from the exploration wells is classified as “B reserve” according to the applicable criteria.

Analysis of the Climate Change in Slovenia: Changes in Plant Development Under the Influence of Meteorological Parameters in the Period 1961-2011 (Part II)

Author(s): Stevan Savić,Igor Žiberna,Dragan Milošević / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2013

In this paper spring and autumn temperature thresholds of 5°C and 10°C, active air temperature sums and lengths of growing seasons with temperature threshold of 5°C and 10°C were analyzed. The analysis were made for 10 meteorological stations for the period 1961-2011. The dates of occurrence of phenological phases of selected plants (oxeye daisy, beech, apple, winter wheat and maize) has been investigated. It was observed a tendency of earlier appearance of spring phenological phases and later appearance of autumn phenological phases. As a result extension of vegetation periods in the Republic of Slovenia is present. Dates with occurrence of phenological phases of selected plants from 8 phenological stations were connected with the results of the analysis of meteorological parameters from 8 meteorological stations. The highest correlation coefficients were obtained for the temperature parameters (0.8), while the average precipitation quantities, number of days with frost, potential evapotranspiration and water balance showed a low correlation coefficient values with the appearance of phenological phases.

The Climate of Montenegro: Modificators and Types – Part One

Author(s): Jovan Mihajlović,Vladan Ducić,Dragan Burić / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2013

The aim of this study is to point out the basic climate modificators and types in Montenegro. Rarely could you find such a small area with more climate types and several subtypes and varieties as it is the case here. In the Part one of the study the most important climate modificators in Montenegro have been discussed, such as: mathematical – geographical position, relief dissection, atmospheric circulation and the Adriatic Sea. Atlantic and Mediterranean aquatories and Eurasian landmass play an important part in climate modification in the area of Montenegro. These vast areas represent the source of atmospheric action centres and air masses.

Климатске промене и водност река - пример Колубаре, Бели Брод

Author(s): Nenad Živković,Ljiljana Gavrilović,Jelena Luković,Gorica Stanojević,Dragan Burić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 1/2012

This paper analyzes climate change and its impact on river discharge. This issue is very well studied worldwide, but in Serbia so far has been poorly studied. The first part of the paper presents the views of two different opinions, those who favored anthropogenic impact on the increasing greenhouse effect, and those who say that this is due to natural factors. Most attention is paid to changes in temperature and precipitation patterns. Classification by the group of those who favor the promotion of natural phenomena is demonstrated through the analysis of river flow fluctuations in the hydrological gauge Beli brod located on Kolubara River.

Преглед и могућности заштите неких трансграничних (Источна Србија-Западна Бугарска) стратиграфско- палеонтолошких геообјеката

Author(s): Morteza Taherpour Khalil Abad,Dragana Vušković,Ivana Carević,Velimir Jovanović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 1/2012

Stratigraphic/palaeontological geosites of Stara Planina Mountain in east Serbia are well developed in the area of Serbian/Bulgarian state border, where with this occassion, three sections of exeptional geological and scientific interest are selected: Jelovica, Rosomač and Senokos. These geosites represent the important localities for study of Triassic and Jurassic terrigene-carbonate deposits, for which the scientific value from the domains of palaeontology, stratigraphy and sedimentology is widely known. The aim of this work is to represent the main scientific arguments for inventory and protection of detached transborder geological sites that are unique according to their composition and content.[Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 176008]

Повезаност температуре воде субтропског Атлантика, Азорског максимума и температуре ваздуха у Србији

Author(s): Tamara Jojić Glavonjić,Milan Radovanović,Boško Milovanović / Language(s): English,Serbian Issue: 2/2010

The paper explores the link between water temperature of the subtropical part of the Atlantic Ocean (the belt of 25 to 40° N), atmospheric pressure and air temperature in Belgrade and Serbia. The main point of the research is to examine the linkage between the Azores air pressure maximum with the changes of water temperature in the subtropical belt of the Atlantic (given in the net 5x5°). Using the hierarchical cluster analyses, 10 clusters of water temperature of the subtropical part of the Atlantic Ocean were selected. Their linkage between the position and the intensity of the Azores maximum was examined by multiple-linear regression. It was established which of the clusters influenced most the geographical latitude, geographical longitude and the intensity of the Azores maximum, as well as which of the grid cells represented the most significant predictors within each of the clusters. Examining the relation between the position and the intensity of the Azores maximum with the air temperature in Belgrade, i.e. Serbia, it was established that the linkage with the geographical latitude of this action centre was the most significant.

Климатски екстреми у Србији - дефиниције, врсте и класификација -

Author(s): Goran Anđelković / Language(s): English,Serbian Issue: 4/2010

Climatic extremes as negative events are named to be one of the major problems of humankind today. Still, their complex and systematic study is missing - they are studied only as an “attachment” to the problem of contemporary climate changes. Number of terms is used arbitrarily, such as climatic extremes and extreme climate events. From the geographical perspective, there is a need to define extremes and classify them at first, and only then to establish criteria for their identification, to link the problem to the geographical base, etc. There should be a specific approach for every area on Earth. In this work 31 extreme climate events have been isolated and defined, and all of them, according to their specific characteristics and their harmfulness, have been classified into 5 categories. Systematic geographical studies of these events could intensify the fight against atmospheric hazards in Serbia and help the system of insurance of people and material goods. There should be regulations that would include precise definitions of all hazards with precise borders of the harmfulness of the event, then the assessment of the possible endangerment and the possibility of protection in certain regions, etc.