A diachronic approach of landscape changes. Case study: Morii Lake and its surroundings

Author(s): Mihaela Alina Ristea / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2013

The objective of this study is to identify specific characteristics of urban development in the category of complex facilities within cities. The study aims to identify changes that took place in the urban landscape, near Morii Lake on Dâmboviţa River, changes with a significant impact on the natural and anthropogenic environment. The analysis follows space functionality structure, whose evolution is basically modified. The communist period of the 80's, the one of great constructions, includes the design of Morii dam, based on the overall goal of protecting the capital from Dâmboviţa's floods. The interpretation of the results is oriented towards a complete picture of the advantages and disadvantages of building a dam lake within an urban area. The changes that took place both during and after the construction of Morii Lake, led to impregnation of another aspect of the landscape in the area. Among the visible effects, as a result of demolitions and displacements from the adjacent area, blocks of flats and villas were built, some agricultural area from the past have been left without use, nowadays attempting the tourist development of the area. For a better understanding and visualization of the results, databases were represented using GIS techniques.

Caracteristicile sectorului antreprenorial din sistemele teritoriale emergente

Author(s): Daniel Peptenatu,Cristian-Constantin Drăghici,Radu Daniel Pintilii,Andrei Schvab / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2013

Economic ventures concentrated inside these urban clusters in a short span of time, and they registered a spectacular evolution, compared to the neighboring areas. Intensification of the linkages between cities with more than 300,000 inhabitants in Romania and the surrounding areas led to the individualization of territorial systems apart, with a spectacular evolution of economic-social processes, which turn those systems into the most dynamic territorial structures. The present study means to identify the causes of those complex processes within emerging territorial systems, the manner of functional organization of the space, and the causes that determine the spectacular evolution of the economic processes within emerging systems. Special attention was paid to the implementation of infrastructure projects, and to the manner they influenced the dynamics of the entrepreneurial sector.

Gentrificarea spaţiilor de locuit – proces de restructurare socio-spaţială urbană

Author(s): Daniel-Gabriel Valceanu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2013

Urban gentrification is the transformation process of an urban area by social class with high incomes. In territorial profile, can be identified several forms of urban gentrification. After 1989, various industrial restructured areas or residential buildings left unfinished following the withdrawal of financial support from the state housing construction sector went through the process of gentrification. Through its characteristics and specific features, the urban gentrification is a viable solution to improve the quality of urban living.

Abordarea acţiunilor de management teritorial la nivelul ariilor restructurate funcţional

Author(s): Andreea-Loreta Cercleux,Florentina-Cristina Merciu,Cristian-Constantin Drăghici,Andrei Schvab / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2013

This study is based on the general analysis of functional restructured areas, whose evolution is achieved through interdependence relations at the economic level that support their development and assertion. The main major types are: a) traditional residential areas restructured for residential and services, whose relative stability is given by the slow process of changing at the structural level under the influence of different socio-economical processes; b) industrial areas restructured for residential and residential-services, whose interpretation is related to the multiple dimensions that the industrial restructuring process has in principal (economic, social and environmental); c) old industrial areas restructured in industrial parks, the new areas being often combined to a viable industrial environment, undistorted, based on competition and on a stable legal framework, simple and coherent, in order to ensure a sustainable economical growth; d) residential and services areas restructured for transport, the concerns in the transport restructuring representing a step absolutely necessary in the whole process of urban restructuring.

Specificitatea dezvoltării sectorului antreprenorial în reţelele policentrice regionale ale regiunii de dezvoltare Sud – Vest

Author(s): Daniel Peptenatu,Radu Daniel Pintilii,Andreea-Loreta Cercleux,Daniela Stoian / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 4/2012

The development of the connections between cities and their surrounding spaces led to the creation of highly complex emergent structures, which require particular attention from specialists and decision-makers. This study emphasizes the importance of regional development hubs in space organization with superior economic dynamics, due to the influence exerted by the polarizing city on the economic assets in the neighboring territorial systems. One other goal of the current study is to identify the factors that contribute to organizing space in areas of urban influence, as a result of the establishment of complex linkages between the development hub and the surrounding space. Special attention was paid to the role of the entrepreneurial sector in space organizing, as the areas analyzed are characterized by a steep dynamic of the entrepreneurial sector.

Calitatea condiţiilor de locuire în România, în perioada post-aderare la U.E.

Author(s): Daniel-Gabriel Valceanu,Diana-Georgiana Tămîrjan / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2012

This study contains a post-adhering to European Union diagnosis of housing conditions. Statistics provided by the European Union Statistics Network, Eurostat, highlight the precariousness of housing quality, the main element of the quality of life. Statistical analysis of main housing quality indicators in the post-adhering period when our country gained the status of EU member indicate major differences between highly developed states and new Member States of this European structure, with particular problems in terms of standards development and thus quality of life.

Implementarea programului naţional de reabilitare termică a locuinţelor. avantaje şi dezavantaje

Author(s): Daniel-Gabriel Valceanu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2010

Thermal rehabilita tion of collective housing blocks represent a national priority. The cause is the low level of thermal insulation which results in higher energy consumption. The vast majority of collective housing are built before 1990 they do not comply with thermal and sound insulation, due to the structural degra dation over time. Implementation of the rehabilitation program must meet quality standards required by current legislation. Failure to achieve this involves a series of structural problems that arise in the medium and long term.

Analysis of demographic processes in Poland and the Baltic States since the end of the XVIII century and forecast up to 2096

Author(s): Andrei Manakov,Pavel Suvorkov / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2017

Negative demographic tendencies are some of the most serious problems of development of post-Socialist countries. Goal of this research is historical analysis and forecast of demographic processes in Poland and the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania). The demographic forecast is prepared on the basis of revision of forecast model of the Population Division of United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Scenario approach and simulation multi-factor modeling act as the main methods of this research. One of the key objectives is critical analysis of use of the hypothesis of stabilization of migration components of demographic processes in scenarios of UN Secretariat. According to the most probable scenario, Latvia (-49% of modern population) can become the leader in expected depopulation within the next 80 years among the considered countries, smaller indicators of depopulation are expected in Lithuania (-43%), Poland (-38%) and Estonia (-34%).

Center-periphery processes and urbanization stadiality in Belarus

Author(s): Henadzi Rydzeuski / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2017

Basing on active and hierarchically organized center-periphery processes, functional typology of urban settlements of Belarus is presented and stages of the country’s urbanization development are revealed. This functional typology of urban settlements reflects their role in settlement systems and urbanization stages are marked out in view of growth or decline of population in urban settlements of any functional type. Such a concept which reflects urbanization stages of urban settlements performing different functions in hierarchically organized settlement systems can be called the functional urbanization concept. Revealed urbanization stages indicate competition of polycentric and monocentric models of the territorial structure of Belarus during the second half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century. As monocentric development generates overconcentration of the population, economy and environmental management processes and intensifies social, economic and environmental problems, the country’s optimum development strategy should be the polycentric one, which can be achieved through active regional policy aimed at sustainable and inclusive development.

The impact of mega events on the local economic development through the development of social capital

Author(s): Grażyna Chaberek-Karwacka,Julia Ziółkowska / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2017

The aim of the paper is to prove the thesis that the organization of mass events actually affect the local economic development but this effect to a large extent is not straightforward. Mass events builds the social capital, which guarantees economic development in the future. The paper includes a review of the literature concerning the organization of mega events on the world and above all, a review of the available research about the effects of mass events expected and achieved afterwards. The study primarily includes the biggest sporting events in the World and in Europe which took place after 2000. The paper includes also authors’ research based on the organizational effects of European Football Cup Euro 2012 in Poland and 2014 Football World Cup in Brazil.

The implementation of the state social policy in Ukraine and abroad: methodological approaches to assessment of Effectiveness

Author(s): Alina Leonidivna Pomaza-Ponomarenko / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2017

The analysis of the condition of financial support of the state social policy in the economically developed countries and in Ukraine was made. The idea about the influence of the GDP growth rates dynamics on the share of social expenditures of these states was expressed and verified. It was defined that a relatively stable and high level of government social expenditures (nearly 20 percent) is achieved after several medium-term economic cycles, after which the economic system adapts to market relations, and the stabilization of social expenditures occurs. It makes it possible to assert that there is a certain optimum of the level of social expenditures, and the state aims to maintain it after its achievement. This level of expenditures ensures the implementation of the main goals of the state social policy.

Zielona infrastruktura jako wielozadaniowe narzędzie zrównoważonego rozwoju

Author(s): Krystian Puzdrakiewicz / Language(s): English,Polish Issue: 27/2017

Green infrastructure is a relatively new idea that promotes alternatives to the managementof natural and quasi-natural terrains. Its main goal is to improve the quality of life in urban areas by takingadvantage of natural elements. This approach undoubtedly goes along with the principles of sustainable development. The advantages of green infrastructure should be allowed to determine public policy implementationin this respect. In particular, one of the main advantages of green infrastructure is its multifunctionality. Giventhis and other advantages, it is immensely important to implement green infrastructure in urban structuraldevelopment. Six of the most important approaches have been selected to demonstrate the key functionsof green infrastructure: structural-forming, environmental, social, economic, production and technical.

THE ATTRACTIVENESS OF SELECTED CENTRAL EUROPEAN COUNTRIES FOR WINTER SPORTS AND MOUNTAIN HIKING

Author(s): Kinga Krzesiwo,Kamila Ziółkowska-Weiss,Michał Żemła / Language(s): English Issue: 1 ENG/2018

Hiking, downhill skiing and snowboarding are among the most popular forms of active tourism in mountainous areas. Their popularity and their mass scale do not only result from the presence of the appropriate landscape, but also from its appropriate development. The objective of the article is to attempt to assess the attractiveness of selected Central European countries in terms of winter sports and mountain hiking, to consider the opinions of students who live in Visegrad Group countries, as well as to evaluate the barriers to development of their competitive offers. According to respondents, the most attractive countries for winter sports are Austria and Slovakia, and the least attractive are Hungary, Romania and Lithuania. In turn, according to the students, the best conditions for mountain hiking are in Slovakia, Austria, the Czech Republic and Poland. In addition, respondents from particular countries assessed domestic offers highly.

Procesy metropolizacji i rozwoju metropolii w Polsce

Author(s): Waldemar W. Budner / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2008

Urbanization is a complex process undergoing in towns and also involving their surrounding areas. It concerns various aspects of economic and social life as well as town planning issues. Modern conversions of urban space have changed the relations between cities and their immediate surroundings. Economic development and globalization process made large cities enter a new phase of urbanization i.e. the metropolisation phase. In Poland, only several years later it has joined the world economy circulation, the processes of metropolisation and the increase of metropolitan functions can also be perceived. Apart from Warsaw only 3-5 Polish cities have the chances of different degree for faster metropolitan development.

Przyjemność ze zwiedzania

Author(s): Urszula Pieczek ,Lechosław Herz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 770-771/2019

Dlaczego wybieram mikropodróże?

Author(s): Filip Springer,Małgorzata Halber,Piotr Paziński,Olga Drenda,Andrzej Muszyński,Michał Zygmunt / Language(s): Polish Issue: 770-771/2019

Momo z Nutellą i spotkanie z ofiarą tortur. O solidarnej turystyce

Author(s): Natalia Bloch / Language(s): Polish Issue: 770-771/2019

Wykorzystanie platformy GIS w zarządzaniu kryzysowym

Author(s): Katarzyna Kocur-Bera / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2011

The aim of the paper is to present the types of unwanted events which may occur in connection with the loading, unloading and carriage of dangerous substances. There is an analysis of the causes of such events and analysis of the quantity and structure of carried goods. The final chapter focuses on the possibilities of using a geographical information system, with special consideration given to situations connected with risk during the carriage of such substances.

Percepcja, ocena i społeczny odbiór przestrzeni bezpiecznej

Author(s): Agnieszka Szczepańska / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2011

Space accounts not only for its constituent elements, but also for the emotions experienced by people who come into contact with space. When surrounded by space, our senses register the impressions related to our perceptions of space. Space is perceived with the involvement of various channels for communicating impressions. The information accumulated by different receptors is used by the observer to identify with and habituate space. Subject to the qualities of space, the observer may experience various emotions, ranging from fear and anxiety to a sense of freedom and safety. The paper discusses spatial thinking mechanisms which are involved in our perceptions of safe space and man-space relations. It analyzes spatial elements that contribute to public perceptions of safety and the factors that shape them. The paper also examines the concepts of urban stress and safety culture.

Sporządzanie dokumentacji kartograficznej na potrzeby europejskiej sieci ekologicznej Natura 2000

Author(s): Anna Źróbek-Sokolnik,Piotr Dynowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2011

Guidance for preparing documents concerning Natura 2000 areas strictly defines the way how particular areas have to be described. Both in the case of Standard Data Form (SDF) and Protection Activities Plan (PAP) cartographic documentation is required as well as precise area of habitats, which have planned i.e. proper protection activities. While creating thematic maps available cartographic materials including information about land cataster, forest section, ortophotomaps and previously registered areas covered by different forms of nature protection are commonly used. However, compiling data derived from different sources often leads to errors in measurements – even tens meters. Therefore, it is necessary to work out data base with information for SDF and PAP final structure as well as to establish the relations between particular tables with its uniformed onomatology used by all institutions taking care of Natura 2000 areas.