The more and more use of informatic tools, linked with cartographic or satellite images resources, requests attention in order to estimating errors about localization data in a defined frame. - (NF)
River restoration as a science needs to balance numerical analysis with a more general systems understanding typical of a classification-based approach. Davis' nomenclature and Gilbert’s analytical processes are both necessary to understand
and discuss landscape geomorphology. Similarly, both Rosgen’s classification system, or one like it, and other more analytical, process-based examinations, are necessary for a comprehensive approach to river restoration. It is clear that multiple viewpoints
and approaches triangulate towards a more thorough understanding of a system and will increase the probability of successful restoration. This will most likely include system-wide observation and classification married to numerical process modeling.
Growth and degrowth, globalization and financial crisis, sustainable development and equilibrium, the current debate proposes more viable solutions, more futures to imagines. Supposing to apply the paradigms of a sustainable development, here we
Sea-level adjusted daily values for atmospheric pressure and the major day-to-day changes in pressure were used to identify within Poland two zones differing more markedly in the burden the pressure changes identified impose on the human organism
during the cool half-year lasting from October to March inclusive. The overall trend is for areas further to the north in Poland to be associated with both more frequent instances of >8 hPa day-to-day changes and changes of greater magnitude, in winter
particularly. This season is more likely to be characterised by large falls in pressure from day to day, than by large rises, with these even exceeding 35 hPa on occasion. Overall, while the south of Poland records day-to-day changes in pressure of >8 hPa
on less than 23% of days in the cool half-year, the north experiences such changes on more than 25% of all days. – (BJ)
Valuing geodiversity and geoconservation : developing a more strategic ecosystem approach
the integration of geodiversity in environmental policy and its implementation in order to deliver more holistic and sustainable environmental management and wider public benefits. The AA. advocate a more strategic, ecosystem-based approach to address : the future
rather than more traditional approaches in which the students learn the theory and then study some examples. Students are typically more engaged in their active learning than they are in traditional approaches. Attempts to replace fieldwork with virtual
Slovenia’s geodiversity, or its abiotic natural diversity, becomes more and more significant when considering regulations on nature conservation. This article presents theoretical background information to the study of geodiversity
the First World War people were more sensitive to extreme cold temperatures. Further analysis points out that, in the last twenty years, death rates are increasing more rapidly in the summer season, due to increasing frequencies of extreme air temperature
distances are travelled, although the closest facility is chosen more often. In the most urbanised areas, spatial proximity is also an important aspect in destination choice. Quantification of these phenomena can support the practice of sustainable spatial
planning by distinguishing areas that are too mono-functional or too remote and therefore need more functional diversity and by identifying areas where densification is useful because the location is close to most quasi-daily destinations.
Recent debates in migration studies have emphasized the importance of attending to the urban as part of an effort to respatialize the study of mobility and transnationalism. The paper critically expands on these interventions through a more detailed
two potential avenues towards a more sophisticated conceptualization of transnational mobilities and urban spatialities : moving beyond rupture in analysis of migrant settlement, and interrogating transnational and urban mobilities.
. The majority of Italian lighthouses can be observed only from the outside, with the exception of so called “Lantern” in Genoa and the lighthouse of Trieste. A more recent practice is the creation of hospitality services within the lighthouses. The list of them
Geography is not a complulsory subject of study beyond the age of 14 in English schools and this has had an impact on both absolute and relative participation rates over recent years. Geodemographic analysis reveals that pupils domiciled within more
One of the major ongoing projects in Slovenia was to link the country with motorways. Almost half of Slovenia is karst and more than half of its supply of water comes from karst aquifers. Karstologists have been involved in planning and construction
With more than 60% of forests and 25% of grassland, Slovenia is an example of a green country. The situation is different in the mountain areas, where higher altitude, lower temperature and slope processes cause difficult growth conditions
on a questionnaire sent out to 2000 people in Sweden, and on a qualitative study comprising 19 people. In conclusion, people prefer landscapes experienced during childhood, but seem to attach more easily to qualities that are suggested to have an innate significance.