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Analyze of the Air Quality in Belgrade City During the Period September 2010 - September 2011

Author(s): Tatjana Đekic / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2013

In this paper are in detail analyzed values for air quality that have been extracted in monitoring sites in Belgrade since September first in 2010 until September first in 2011. Values extracted in the stations Square Slavija and Despot Stefan Boulevard was analyzed. The main task of this paper is to present the inferred air quality, while the main aim represents the checking of obtained data in respect to limit pollution values. Analyses were done for annual, seasonal, monthly and daily values.

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Current State of Studying Precipitation Acidification in Serbia

Author(s): Goran Anđelković,Radomir Talijan / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2015

Basic relations between the state of air pollution and their effects on chemistry of precipitation were introduced in this paper. Changes in the composition of atmosphere were defined by numerous chemical elements and compounds different in character which also affect the phenomenon of acidification and alkaline processes. The interconnected sources of emission, relations between urban and rural, the regime of rain measuring system and climate elements combined as whole give us more complete image of the global phenomenon and its effects on cities as a contemporary social development first of all caused by industrialization , its dependance upon fosil sources of energy and demographic pressure. Characteristics of main pollutants were considered as well as their ability to modify atmospheric conditions, but also the influence of climate elements on those conditions, ph rainfall average value movement, seasonal and daily variations, the influence of industrial zones and agglomeration on the conditions in the area much wider than emitters.

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Еколого-економічний експеримент у містах дніпродзержинську і кривому розі: аналіз п’ятирічного досвіду та перспективи

Author(s): S. A. Ryzhenko,V. O. Ovchinnikova,V. V. Zaitsev,A. Yu. Kondratyev,V. V. Volchek / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 2/2005

Results on environmental management experiment in the cities of Dniprodzerzhinsk and Kryvyi Rig are discussed. Parameters of the state of environment in 2000-2004 have steady tendency for worsening.

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Уредба на вещните права върху горски територии

Author(s): Vladimir Petrov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2014

The paper analyses important aspects of the new 2011 Forests Act of Bulgaria which was adopted to replace the previous Forests Act of 1977, which provisions were abusively used to carry out corruption transactions with forests and lands situated within forests. Such abusive practices caused huge damages to the state and municipal property over those forests and lands. The subject-matter under consideration is of significance, since the Forests Act has undoubtedly the important mission to protect forests and forest territories which constitute important part of Bulgaria’s national treasure.

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YERELLİK-POPÜLERLİK EKSENİNDE TÜRKİYE’DE ÇEVRE MÜCADELELERİ

Author(s): Hayriye ÖZEN / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 2/2018

As is the case in many other countries, many environmental struggles have emerged in Turkey within the last few decades. Although they first emerged only in a few places in the 1990s, these struggles extended to almost all regions of the country in 2000s by voicing environmentally harmful effects of gold-mining, hydroelectric power schemes, thermal power plants and nuclear plant projects. By focusing on the anti-HEPP protests in the Eastern Black Sea region and the anti-gold mining protests in the Aegean and South Marmara region, this paper adresses this question: to what extent do these locally emerged protest movements have the potential of transforming into a regional or national counter-hegemonic popular movement? It is argued that although they went beyond the local, neither the anti-gold mining nor the anti-HEPP protests succeeded to turn into such political agent. Both struggles constructed a discourse that articulated local demands together with national ones, and mobilized not only local, but also several national social groups. However, they could not construct a collective identity, failing to unite plural mobilized groups and turn them into a popular political agent.

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Przyroda groźna? Biofobia jako usprawiedliwienie konieczności polowań

Author(s): Hanna Mamzer / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2018

The feeling of security is one of the basic human needs and its disruption evokes reactions towards re‑gaining the state of comfort. In order to get it, humans are willing to accept radical procedures proposed by the government and other groups/institutions of power. In contemporary Polish socio‑cultural reality this manipulation method is used to justify the need of hunting which is claimed to be a method of managing threats associated with the natural environment. Clearly this is manipulation serving individual interests of lobbing groups and has nothing to do with sustainable development rules. Creating biophobia with the use of the Foucauldian power‑knowledge tool is contradictory towards biophilia – indicated by E. Wilson as a human need to create bonds with the natural environment.

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Communication during natural and technologic disasters

Author(s): Helena Maria Sabo,Tania Tudorache / Language(s): English Issue: 7/2009

Umweltrisiken sind eine wichtige Bestandteil der Umwelterziehung in enger Verbindung mit verschiedener politischer Aspekten die eine entsprechenden Management benötigen. Es handelt sich um verschiedene geographische, physische und antropologische Aspekte… etc.Es handelt sich um verschiedene Preventivmaßnahmen und wichtige, konkrete Rettungsmaßnahmen. Eine entscheidene Rolle spielt auch die Beteiligung der Bevölkerung (diferenziert durch sex, alter, entfernung... etc.) um die wichtigen ergebnisen zu ereichen.

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ORGANİK TARIMIN ÖNEMİ VE GELECEĞİ ÜZERİNE BİR DEĞERLENDİRME

Author(s): Mustafa Hakkı Aydoğdu,Fikret Kaya,Gönül Sevinç,Nihat Küçük / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 42/2019

In this study, it is aimed to make an evaluation on the importance of organic agriculture and the potential and usage areas expected to occur in the future. Consumer concerns based on food products led people to move from conventional agriculture to organic farming at the expense of paying more money. Organic product consumption is increasing globally. Nowadays, organic agriculture is now accepted as a new production method for all countries and is included in its programs. Organic agriculture is applied in 172 countries and 43.7 million hectares in the world and the trade volume is around 80 billion dollars. Turkey is the largest producer of organic farming and has 516 thousand hectares of organic farmland in Europe, there are 79 million dollars in export revenue. The tendency of individuals to become an organic product consumer increases as their income and education level increases. It is expected that the amount of consumption will continue to increase more in the future.

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KÜRESEL EKOLOJİK KRİZ VE FELSEFE: PARADİGMADAN KAÇIŞ MÜMKÜN MÜ?

Author(s): Fehmi ÜNSALAN / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 1/2019

The aim of this study is to critically examine the nature of philosophical approaches to the burning question of ecological crisis. In this context, study will primarily focus on the specific dilemmas that have caused the current ecological crisis and the questions brought by these dilemmas and secondly to the relationship between ethical approaches dominating the environmental philosophy and current ecological crisis. Philosophy, in fact, is unable to ignore the main problems of its age. And in this sense, it is not possible to say that philosophy is reckless about ecology. However, while philosophy deals with contemporary problems, it has, by its very nature, repositions the focus of interrogation with a conceptual framework and transforms for constituent philosophical discussions.

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SÜRDÜRÜLEBİLİR KALKINMA ve YEŞİL EKONOMİ: TÜRKİYE İÇİN BİR ENDEKS ÖNERİSİ

Author(s): İbrahim Al / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 1/2019

Green economy is accepted as the main strategy of sustainable development and it is thought to be a way to eliminate the contradiction between environmental concerns and economic goals. Therefore, the measurement and evaluation of the performance of countries on green economy is important for the policies to be implemented. However, due to the economic, social and environmental dimensions of the green economy, an alternative source of measurement representing these dimensions is needed. The aim of this study is to measure and evaluate the green economy performance of Turkey. For this purpose, a green economy index covering the period of 2002-2015 was calculated based on the numerical data of 22 variables which are thought to represent three different dimensions of the green economy. According to the index, Turkey's green economy performance increased in this period. The positive development in economic and social indicators has a large share in this performance increase. While environmental performance has improved in recent years, the contribution of environmental indicators to green economy performance has been relatively limited.

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AGAINST THE DESERT IN THE KARST. A PARADIGMSHIFT FROM RUINED LANDSCAPE TO CULTURAL SAVANNAH

Author(s): Aleksander Panjek / Language(s): English Issue: 14/2018

In questioning the traditional degradationist narrative about the history of the Classical Karst woodland, the article demonstrates the rationality of the forms of use by the peasant population. In the first chapter interpretations about the actors and factors of Karst »deforestation« are presented and discussed. Reducing the subjects responsible for the »destruction of forests« to Venice and the local peasants appears simplistic, since the factors of forest resources consumption were numerous in a pre-industrial economy. In the second chapter the early modern peasants’ woodland and pasture land-use system is presented, demonstrating how the Karst inhabitants did not destroy the woods and trees, but used them. Every single tree was there with a specific purpose. In determining their use peasants based on the characteristics of the karstic terrain, the climatic conditions and the experimented vegetative capacity of the species. According to their practical knowledge, they considered that a »real forest« was not economically justified in the Karst. Only the trees necessary to cover domestic and agricultural needs were allowed to grow, and coppice was the chosen form. The third chapter reconstructs a long-run historical parable of the Karst forests, connecting research results in historiography and archaeology. The barren landscape famous in the 19th c. was indeed the result of a process going on through the early modern period, but it had antecedents in earlier historical and prehistorical periods. Attention is drawn to the fact that the early-modern Karst landscape closely resembles the form of a manmade (cultural) savannah, as the expression of an agro-silvo-pastoral system. In the end, a so-far unknown statute of the village community of Rihemberk (mid-16th c.) certifies and dates intentional sustainable forestry practices by the rural population. At the end of the 19th c. the Karst ecosystem was still vital, demonstrating that local people knew how to exploit this vitality and preserve it over time, albeit in a modified environment. The traditional Karst landscape was the result of a rational use of its natural assets, based on the environmental potentials and deeply rooted local ecological knowledge, put into service of the local population’s economic and social system, values and goals.

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MENININKĖ KAIP ANTROPOCENO PARTIZANĖ: AURELIJOS MAKNYTĖS IR CASTOR FIBER BENDRADARBIAVIMAS

Author(s): Agnė Narušytė / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 14/2019

The 6th mass extinction of many species of wild animals that has already started prompts artists to take on a partisan approach in order to change people’s minds, because those in power are too indebted to the fossil fuel industry to stop the climate change. One of such partisans is the Lithuanian artist Aurelija Maknytė who explores the lives of beavers in marshes, rivers and melioration ditches for her on-going project The Landscape Partisan: Castor Fiber (started in 2013). She photographs the dams and lodges that beavers construct against the will of humans that keep destroying their work. By trying to access the point of view of other species unpolluted by human perception, the artist questions the traditional distinction between culture and nature, the ownership of landscape and the apparent lack of subjectivity in animals. She practices what Timothy Morton has defined as an ecological thinking and discovers the interconnectedness of cultural-natural ecosystems in the spirit of Bruno Latour. Since her project is never finished, Maknytė attempts to remain in the prolonged everyday documenting what appears to have survived the catastrophe, seeks to keep time in its indecisive state, while living into Giorgio Agamben’s messianic time, “the time it takes us to bring time to an end”.

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The Making of a National Park: Ruins of Nature and History in Northern Dobrudja

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The Making of a National Park: Ruins of Nature and History in Northern Dobrudja

Author(s): Călin Cotoi / Language(s): English Issue: 03/2017

After 1990, nature conservation areas multiplied all over Central and Eastern Europe. National parks came into being as part of a dramatically changing society, economy, and culture. Scholarly efforts to understand national parks rely either on arguments about the social construction of nature or on political ecology. In this article, I attempt to point to the analytical potential of the literature on ruins for expanding studies carried out in both theoretical traditions. I draw from fieldwork in nature conservation areas in southeastern Romania to explore how actors gain access to critical discourses and complex ways of narrating and enrolling the landscapes. The mechanisms that counterpoise safeguarding and development are analyzed as parts of a longue durée articulation of ruination and modernization.

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Larger than Life: Endangered Species across Media in Louis Psihoyos’s Racing Extinction

Author(s): Alexa Weik von Mossner / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2020

The article investigates Racing Extinction as an argumentative eco-documentary that deliberately embraces intermediality as a visual and narrative strategy to draw attention to a pressing environmental issue: anthropogenic species extinction. Scholars, activists, and artists alike have made the argument that storytelling is an important tool in communicating the threat of large-scale biodiversity loss. The article argues that Racing Extinction’s intermedial strategies turn endangered animals into a cross-media spectacle that is highly entertaining but not without some conceptual and political problems. In this context, it also aims to demonstrate that intermedial ecocriticism can be complemented and enriched in meaningful ways by cognitive approaches in the exploration of mixed ecomedia.

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10. Bienalna konferenca European Society for Environmental History: Boundaries in/of Environmental History

Author(s): Žiga Zwitter / Language(s): Slovenian Issue: 15/2019

10. Bienalna konferenca European Society for Environmental History: Boundaries in/of Environmental History, Talin, 21.–24. avgust 2019

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Екологичното гражданство през погледа на младите хора

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Екологичното гражданство през погледа на младите хора

Author(s): Valentina Milenkova,Dilyana Keranova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2020

In the conditions of globalization, it is an established belief that environmental and climate change threaten the existence of natural ecosystems, of which human society is a part. In this situation, the creation of sustainable environmental citizenship is the responsibility of the whole society. Susceptible to the topic are young people who are just actively entering public structures. How do social actions contribute to achieving sustainability as well as forming harmonious relationships with the environment? What is the contribution of the institutions? How do young people assess their effectiveness in developing environmental citizenship? These are the main research questions in the article. The formation of skills, values, competencies for living in the community and the construction of environmentally responsible behaviour is directly related to the process of socialization of the individual and the role of education in this process is an initial thesis of the article. This paper describes our research efforts aimed at showing the potential of young people to be agents of change in the context of their civic position, preserving and developing the environment. It also shows their need for knowledge and competencies for sustainable environmental development. From this point of view, we were paid particular attention to educational institutions and their approaches to the formation of proactive environmental behaviour and positions. The topic of environmental citizenship analyzed based on empirical material from qualitative methods. The main conclusion of the article is the explication of environmental citizenship through the potential of the educational institution as a key subject of heuristic educational and training approaches to improve the interaction between the individual and the environment.

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Гуманизм как основная биоэтическая категория при работе с животными в медицине

Author(s): Tatiana Kovaleva,Lidiia Zakharova,Elena Pariyskaya / Language(s): Russian Issue: 7/2021

Animals are at the heart of biological and medical disciplines when carrying out educational and research exercises, both in the laboratory and in the classroom. Recent technological developments and the advancement of ethics have made it possible for traditional views on the relation of the researcher-experimenter to the research subject to evolve. At the Department of Physiology at St. Petersburg University, teachers are gradually abandoning the use of animals in practical exercises, actively introducing alternative methods of instruction to medical students. Such changes are taking place due to the fact that an increasing number of students defend the position that animals ought to remain unharmed. Replacing animals with alternative methods of research does not impair the quality of education and has a number of significant advantages: speed and depth of training, an individualistic approach, repeatability, ease of monitoring and evaluating results, the potential for autodidactic study, and a positive attitude to life.

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Antropomorfizam danas – sudbina Protagorina impulsa

Author(s): Josip Guć / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 02/162/2021

In this paper I examine the role of anthropomorphic thinking today, especially in bioethics. In this context, the ban on anthropomorphism, which was until recently considered almost as an axiom, is particularly significant. The first part of the presentation considers the justification and consequences of this ban, where I especially refer to the insights of Hans Jonas. The second part of the presentation tries to offer answers to the issue of justification of anthropomorphism in bioethics, where the connection between anthropomorphism and anthropocentrism is also examined. Anthropocentrism is often considered as one of the main premises of in some way already actual ecological apocalypse. By playing with metaphors, one can set the fundamental question of this presentation as follows: does anthropomorphism originate from the “heart of darkness” that spawned the “apocalypse now”?

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Fighting the socio-ecological crisis through commoning

Author(s): Domen Žalac / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

Review of: Franklin Obeng-Odoom, The commons in an age of uncertainty: Decolonizing nature, economy, and society, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2021, 264 + i-xv pages. Reviewed by: Domen Žalac.

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S skupninstvom proti družbeno-ekološki krizi

Author(s): Domen Žalac / Language(s): Slovenian Issue: 1/2021

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