, growth of information and knowledge-based society. The picture of Poland’s rural areas in about forty years probably will not witness any radical changes but a thesis could be formed here, that it will be more diverse, more active and more attractive
The World Heritage system may be the most visible and prestigious framework of conservation worldwide, but the local and national dimensions are more important for each country and locality. In Thailand there are only five sites with World Heritage
status, but it exists hundreds more significant buildings, historic towns, nature parks and wetlands, apart from other largely intangible cultural goods such as dance and music, all of which deserved to be preserved. Many of these vestiges are threatened
by many pre-industrializing countries as western concepts which compete with the more pressing problems of poverty, health, education, social injustice and inequality. - (GL)
The AA. argue that feminist political ecology must theorize a more complex and messier notion of gender that accounts for race , racialization and racism more explicitly. Building on the work of feminist geography and critical race scholarship
(KFC) style provides fewer opportunities for play than spaces designed in a more natural way. To test this hypothesis an evaluation tool is developed that draws upon a range of academic literature. This tool was tested on 10 sites in the East Midlands
in England. The results indicate that there is a continuum between KFC and more natural spaces with a mid-category of ‘composite’ spaces.#This paper reports research that explores the relationship between approaches to the ‘design’ of outdoor play spaces
and the play value of these spaces. The paper starts by explaining that there is an assumption that an outdoor space in the Kit, Fence, Carpet (KFC) style provides fewer opportunities for play than spaces designed in a more natural way. To test this hypothesis
Midlands in England. The results indicate that there is a continuum between KFC and more natural spaces with a mid-category of ‘composite’ spaces. Play value increases along this continuum between the two styles while characteristics such as the amount
Second homes tourism has shown that the scenic natural environment influences the location and development of second homes. Attention is directed to the potential impact degraded environments can have on second homes tourism and more specifically
their owners. Knowing the implications of a degraded environment may incite more responsible behaviour by tourists themselves in addition to an improved tourism policy by government and the acknowledgement of the importance of the natural environment. - (AJC)
places of bodies are no longer just rooms in homes where mothers, and children’s flesh and emotions rub up against each other on a daily basis but screens across which voices and, even more importantly, images are shared. It also demonstrates that ‘seeing
’ their child or children enables them to assess their children’s well-being more accurately. In this way the computer screen, as object, by portraying moving visual images, is ‘reorientating’ mothers’ and children’s bodies offering a seemingly closer physical
, whereas workplace networks engaged a wider variety of topics; (2) women discussed terrorism more frequently and in greater depth than did men; and (3) women heard more preparedness messages for the home than did men, whereas men undertook preparedness
It is argued that the density function, commonly used in the study of urban spatial structure, is more appropriately described as the ‘marginal density function’. From such a marginal density function, it is possible to derive two types of average
density function, each being concerned with a particular aspect of the spatial structure of population. The first type is consistent with the standard approach to the ‘average’in economic analysis, while the second more completely takes account
This paper responds to Richard G Smith’s review of ordinary city writing which he describes as ‘a trap for progressive international urbanism’. It focusses on questioning how and why Smith develops his ‘critique of a critique’. More specifically
, it considers the ways that Smith defines the boundaries of both the ordinary cities literature and the world/global cities writing that he pits against each other. Discussing genealogy and influence offers a more optimistic but not uncritical view of role
neighborhoods and their supporters organize to proactively improve livability and environmental quality ? To what extent do the environmental struggles of marginalized communities serve as means to advance more complex political agendas in the city ? Through
the examination of neighborhood organization for livability the A. analyzes how activists use their environmental endeavors as tools to address stigmas attached to their place, control the land and its boundaries, and build a more transgressive form of democracy.
in the meso-a scale (thermo-dynamic indicia connected with a cyclonic system of Mediterranean origin). These indicia were more significant in May than in August when conditional instability was additionally detected. Obviously more intensive orographic
of agricultural land use proposed here on the basis of the assessment, a complex floodplain rehabilitation project is a more desirable, though more expensive, alternative on the longer term. - (AM)
Imageability and form in the Grande Bibliothèque du Québec : the baroque as a more-than-representational technique toward the paradoxical particularity of ecperience in space
In his long career as a researcher, Ivan Gams was focused mainly on karstology, although he contributed significantly to physical geography and geography of natural hazards as well. These topics are central to more than 80% of Gams's scientific
and professional articles. Since Gams wrote more than 150 scientific articles in just a few decades, he is considered one of the most important Slovenian physical geographers. He was also the pioneer of studying natural hazards by means of modern geographical
in a global setting examines the historical record from early human society through to present concerns to explore how and why attitudes to drought have changed and why the mitigation of its impacts has become more difficult. To offer a more lasting strategy
to survey questions about residential choices. Evidence is found that households who place less value on neighbourhood services and those who face greater constraints on their choices are more likely to make an RLIN move. No evidence is found that households
making RLIN moves are choosing neighbourhoods that are more accessible to employment. Rather, it is found thathouseholds making RLIN moves appear to place less weight on neighbourhood amenities than other households and more weight on housing costs.