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CONTRIBUTION OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENTARY MOVIE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS' ENVIRONMENTAL ATTITUDES

Author(s): Yunus Alyaz,Ali Osman Öztürk,Zübeyde Sinem Genç / Language(s): English Issue: 09/2017

This study investigates whether environmental documentaries have an effect on the attitudes of pre-service teachers, who are in an important position to shape coming generations. A total of 76 pre-service teachers at two state universities in Turkey participated in the study and worked on the activities designed about the documentary ‘Home’. The RNEP Scale (Dunlap et al., 2000) was used to measure and define the attitudes of pre-service teachers toward environment before and after the activities. The findings of the study showed that working on the environmental documentary had a positive influence since there was a significant difference in the attitude levels of pre-service teachers before and after watching the environmental documentary.The age and gender features of the pre-service teachers did not affect their attitude averages before or after the activity. Nevertheless, significant differences were observed at the sub-dimensions of the scale and at the language proficiency level of the participants. The difference between universities also disappeared after the activities. The difference in the attitudes was progressively significant as the language proficiency level of the participants increased. It is evident that the participants were more anthropocentric than ecocentric although they developed more positive behaviours toward environment after the activities.

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Capitalism and Destruction (From the Welfare State to the Neoliberal State)

Author(s): Irina Kovačević / Language(s): English Issue: 11/2016

As the liberal and the welfare state, and this modern, neoliberal capitalism in their relation to man and nature are destructive. Favoring the interests of private property and profit, capitalism denies authentic human needs, destroys and devastates nature. The degradation of nature, environmental problems and ecological crises, are developing risks that challenge not only the sustainability and sustainable development, but also life itself. Welfare state capitalism and the neoliberal state capitalism are destructive.

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Kapitalizam i destrukcija (od države blagostanja do neoliberalne države)

Author(s): Irina Kovačević / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 11/2016

Kako onaj liberalni i države blagostanja, tako i ovaj savremeni, neolioberalni kapitalizam su u svom odnosu prema prirodi i čovjeku destruktivni. Favorizujući interese privatne svojine i profita, kapitalizam negira autentične ljudske potrebe, razara i devastira prirodu. Degradacija prirode, ekološki problemi i ekološka kriza, razvijaju rizike koji dovode u pitanje ne samo održivost i održivi razvoj, nego i sam Život.Kapitalizam države blagostanja i kapitalizam neoliberalne države su destruktivni.

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The age of (omni)policy

Author(s): Maja Isović / Language(s): English Issue: 5/2013

The review of: “Vrijeme (sve)politike: Iluzije savremenog ekologizma” by Jusuf Žiga; (Sarajevo: BZK Preporod, 2012), p. 39.

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Vrijeme (sve) politike

Author(s): Maja Isović / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 5/2013

Prikaz knjige: “Vrijeme (sve)politike: Iluzije savremenog ekologizma” autora Jusufa Žige; (Sarajevo: BZK Preporod, 2012), p. 39.

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Gender and globalization (Ethic of care in sociology as a factor of overcoming negative globalisation consequences)

Author(s): Lejla Mušić / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2012

Globalisation as significant tendency of contemporary age influenced enormously social changes. Social changes formed as result of this process the most prominently question modern, postmodern sociological authors and authoress opening pleads of perspectives for solution of negative consequences of globalisation and apolitical scenery of future changes. Ethic of care as feminist and eco feminist conception is significant agens movens of changes for global ecological problems solution. Global becomes glocal, because global and local are interpolated. Sociologist and eco feminist Salleh demands creation of ecologically literate sociology. Ethic of care was globally developed in theory of Jane Addams, later on developed in theory of Mallory, Eislar and Warren. Modern and postmodern sociological theory with cognitions of feminism and eco feminism develops signifi cant strategy for overcoming the negative results of globalisation, in womanism, human progressivism, environmental nationalism, indigenisation, human progressivism and egalitarism based on the ethic of care.

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Rod i globalizacija (Etika brige u sociologiji kao faktor prevazilaženja negativnih konsekvenci globalizacije)

Author(s): Lejla Mušić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 3/2012

Globalizacija kao značajna tendencija modernog doba utjecala je enormno na promjene u društvu Etika brige kao feministička i ekofeministička koncepcija prevalirajući agens promijene koji vodi ka rješavanja globalnih ekoloških problema savremenosti. Globalno vrijeme postaje glokalno jer uključuje interpolaciju globalne i lokalne perspektive. Beck kao moderni autor ukazuje na nastanak koncepcije društva rizika sintagmom „Napredovanjem napretka napreduju i rizici”, Ariell Salleh zahtijeva da se sociologija ekološki opismeni, because in accordance with the opinion of Dunlop and Suttton foundations of any society are environmental. Globalni koncept etike brige razvila je sociologinja Jane Addams, a potom ga pominju sociologinje i ekofeministkinje Salleh, Mellory dok Barbara Adam konceptom globalnog vremena ukazuje na percepciju suvremenosti i zajedničke sadašnjosti. Postkolonijalne feministice ukazuju na pozitivne efekte globalizacije poput indogenizacije, čega je primjer modna revija Rei Kavakubo, modne kreatorice i filozofkinje Japana, te decentriranje svijeta i upisivanje jedne kulture terminima druge kulture. Dona Haraway Manifestom za kiborge, progovara o radikalnoj tehnologizaciji, transrodnosti i globalnoj kibernetizaciji koja ubrzava rad u svim poljima. Ekofeminizam postaje najsnažnija politička intervencija za ostvarivanje egalitarnog društva, a postmoderni diskurs u djelima sociologa Fukuyame zahtijeva koncept povjerenja za ostvarivanje bioregionalizma, Alice Walker zagovara humani progresivizam i ekovumenizam, ekofeministice i sociologinje decentriranje Zapadnih imperijalnih maskulinističkih patrijarhalnih nacionalizama u environmentalistički nacionalizam, što je moguće u postmodernom multiplicitetu načina da se identitet ispolji na globalnom nivou.

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Politika i klimatske promjene

Author(s): Irina Kovačević / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 1/2011

Prikaz knjige: “Klimatske promene i politika” autora Anthony Giddensa; Klio, Beograd, 2010.

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Istraživanje grobne humke na lokalitetu Desilo u Hutovom Blatu - preliminarno izvješće -

Author(s): Snježana Vasilj,Melisa Forić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 37/2008

Lake of Desilo is part of the „Hutovo Blato“ nature park, which is situated in the southern part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, precisely in Bajevci, municipality of Čapljina, about 10 km from the Metković-Mostar highway. This is a unique sub-Mediterranean marsh area located into specific Herzegovinian karst ambient. The site is named after the spring of Desilo, one of the numerous springs and lakes which become from the water of the subterranean river Trebisnjica, the largest subterranean river in this area. With a total area of 2 ha, and very significant depth which, on some points, even reaches 10m, Desilo is like a water hip, considerably pulled in between two hills, Pulica and Lopate. The area around the lake has been formed as a very specific archaeological landscape where an underwater archaeological site were registered, a hill-top settlement on the Lopata hill, and a necropolis which is presented in this article. So far, in the lake were discovered remains of two Illyrian ships with a cargo of amphorae of Lamboglia II type, Roman iron spears, dated in the 2nd and 1st century BC, as well as a double bladed bronze axe, and numerous fragments of ceramic from the bronze age from the underwater prehistoric layer, confirm the continuity of settlement in this area from prehistory until present times. The necropolis that we present here was discovered by accident, during construction works. The area of the prehistoric barrow (diameter 16m, and 2.5m high) was partly destroyed by the construction works and by the local road that was placed on it. Excavations discovered that the barrow was made by a combination of soil and chopped stones in the upper layers and small stones at the bottom

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Изменение демографических рейтингов стран Мира за период 1995-2010 гг.

Author(s): Dmitrij Sergeevich Ivanov,Nikolaj Aleksandrovich Sluka / Language(s): Russian Issue: 10/2013

Consider the contradictions in the demographic development of countries and regions of the world. Special attention is paid by the author to the general planetary aging of the population, to a decrease in the birth rate, to the transformation of the foundations of the family, and to a general slowdown in the rate of population growth. At the same time, the author points out that the traditional demographic indicators are not always able to cope with the tasks of mapping global, regional and country demographic processes. Therefore, they offer an original methodology for studying the demographic situation in the countries of the world, in the mirror of classical indicators and standardized demographic coefficients.

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“There Are No Recipes” - An Anthropological Assessment of Nutrition in Hungarian Ecovillages

Author(s): Judit Farkas / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

Nutrition, as a fundamental human need as well as a manifestation of a social and cultural function, has always been the focus of ethnographic and anthropological research. Various concepts – sometimes radically different and at odds with each other – have emerged in modern societies to define food that can be considered safe. These include various nutrition related movements. Like all social movements, these movements also act as a signaling system: they emerge as a reaction to a societal problem, and the problems they reflect as well as the attempts to formulate solutions also indicate the social dilemmas of the era. Such is the thematization of ecological crisis in recent times. The ecovillage is a specific type of settlement created in response to an ecological, economic and social crisis. The pursuit of an environmentally friendly way of life and self-sufficiency is also reflected in the food culture of ecovillagers, providing an interpretation of safe food deeply embedded in the ecological discourse. The study presents the considerations that govern the foodways of ecovillagers and how these manifest in practice (from farm to table), analyzing it in a framework of interpretation that places the ecovillages in a broader social context. First, the author briefly presents the ecovillages and the specific community being studied. Next, she sets forth the risk and crisis concept providing the framework of interpretation, and outlines the food movements that respond to it. Finally, she turns to the description and analysis of the specific ethnographic material, the modalities of preparing for an ecological crisis, the relationship and significance of biodiversity and gastrodiversity, and demonstrates the role attributed to the community as an institution in this process.

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Variable Husbandry and Changing Climate - Cattle Breeding and Permafrost Soil in Yakutia

Author(s): Csaba Mészáros / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2016

The author focuses on the changing perception and use of alaases (round shaped meadows in thermocarst depressions) in a Central-Yakutian village community under the effect of global climate change. Households of the local cattle-economy before the collectivisation used to be located at alaases and had used small and disperse hayfields. Subsequent economic reforms in the Soviet era, and the process of decollectivisation (in the 1990s) distanced villagers from alaases. Therefore knowledge on alaas ecotope in the village has radically diminished. In the 21st century environmental changes have had negative effect on the local agriculture and economy. Increase in annual precipitation, and in mean annual temperature resulted in the rapid humidification of permafrost soil, and the degradation of hayfields. Three factors expose today agricultural production in the village to ongoing climatic changes: low level of selfdependency in agricultural production, undiversified production of unprocessed raw material, and the vanishing concepts of local spiritual ecology. The author argues that anthropological research can effectively contribute to the mitigation of losses in Sakha cattle economy by studying traditional methods of land use and the perception of environment.

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Rural societies with industrial workers in northeast Hungary

Author(s): Péter Alabán / Language(s): English Issue: 1-2/2015

The sphere of analysis in this article includes settlements in the north of Hungary. They are located in the north of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, in the area that attracted a labor force to the former Metallurgical Works of Ózd. The most considerable stratification of society of the rural and poor noble population that lived in the settlements neighboring Ózd, which was inhabited since the Middle Ages, happened when in the former industrial town the demand for the labor force of the gradually expanding works extended and changed the society of the neighboring villages. After 1945, the process continued, and it attracted the inhabitants of the settlements located within a 50 kilometer radius to take part in industrial employment. Metallurgy, which offered a secure, permanent living as well as mining, which was typical of the region, formed laborers and miners from the native peasants living close to migrating workers and sometimes created dynasties of workers through several generations. The employment of women came to the fore in time: apart from housekeeping, which was demanding, the girls and mothers could do heavy manual work, so they appeared on the labor market as earners as well.

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Special urbanization: The effects of industry on rural settlements in Hungary: A case of study

Author(s): Péter Nagy / Language(s): English Issue: 1-2/2015

Until the middle of the nineteenth century Ózd was only a small settlement the residents of which were engaged primarily in farming. The center of the area was not Ózd, but rather the neighboring town of Sajóvárkony, which was also home to the registry office. The society and image of the village underwent major changes with the decision to establish an ironworks. As Ózd was slowly affected by urbanization, its population grew substantially. At the turn of the century, it was already seen as a small town. However, Ózd only became legally town in 1949. In this article, I present the evolution of the settlement from a small community with an economy founded essentially on agriculture to a medium-sized city with an economy based on industry.

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ПРО ДЕЯКІ ВІКТИМОЛОГІЧНІ АСПЕКТИ КРИМІНАЛЬНО-ПРАВОВОЇ ОХОРОНИ НАВКОЛИШНЬОГО ПРИРОДНОГО СЕРЕДОВИЩА В УКРАЇНІ

Author(s): Anastasia Dzhuzha / Language(s): English,Ukrainian Issue: 4/2016

The article considers the issues of legal protection of the environment enshrined in the law of Ukraine on criminal liability, the basic problems in this direction and designed research-based activities aimed at improving the legal mechanism on the designated research topic.

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Social acceptance of renewable energy: some examples from Europe and developing Africa

Author(s): Olaf Pollmann,Szilárd Podruzsik,Orsolya Fehér / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2014

Current energy systems are in most instances not fully working sustainably. The provision and use of energy only consider limited resources, risk potential or financial constraints on a limited scale. Furthermore, the knowledge and benefits are only available for a minor group of the population or are outright neglected. The availability of different resources for energy purposes determines economic development, as well as the status of the society and the environment. The access to energy grids has an impact on socio-economic living standards of communities. This not fully developed system is causing climate change with all its related outcomes. This investigation takes into consideration different views on renewable energy systems – such as international discussions about biomass use for energy production, “fuel versus food”, biogas use – and attempts to compare major prospects of social acceptance of renewable energy in Europe and Africa. Can all obstacles to the use of renewable energy be so profound that the overall strategy of reducing anthropogenic causes of climate change be seriously affected?

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KÖRNYEZETI VÁLTOZÁSOK HATÁSA A KÖZÉPKORI TELEPÜLÉSVISZONYOKRA A DUNÁNTÚLON

Author(s): Orsolya Mészáros,Gábor Serlegi / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1/2011

Die großflächigen archäologischen Ausgrabungen im vergangenen Jahrzehnt haben zahlreiche neue Angaben zu den klimatischen und Umweltveränderungen des Karpatenbeckens in historischer Zeit erbracht. In der vorliegenden Studie wird die mittelalterliche Klima- und Umweltveränderung in den Siedlungen am Südufer des westungarischen Plattensees sowie den Städten am Donauknie im mittleren Landesteil auf Grund von archäologischen Ausgrabungsbeobachtungen dargestellt. Die dem Autobahnbau der M7 vorangehenden Freilegungen am Südufer des Plattensees haben aus der Periode des 11.–13. Jahrhunderts ein sehr reiches Siedlungsgeflecht skizziert. Dieses dichte Dorfsystem aus der Arpadenzeit veränderte sich seit dem 14. Jahrhundert erheblich: In dem beobachteten Gebiet verringerte sich die Zahl der Siedlungen bzw. gestaltete sich die Struktur der früheren Siedlungen anders. Hinter der Veränderung können sich mehrere Gründe verbergen. Außer der wirtschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Umgestaltung im 13.–14. Jahrhundert kann auch mit umweltgeschichtlichen Gründen gerechnet werden. Zu dieser Zeit begann die gut bekannte Periode der kleinen Eiszeit. Der Plattensee, der größte See mit klimaabhängigem Wasserstand Mitteleuropas, reagierte empfindlich auf die Tendenzen der in dieser Periode eingetretenen Niederschlags- und Temperaturveränderungen und hat damit schon relativ früh, am Beginn der Periode, Einfluss auf die Siedlungsstruktur an seinem Südufer ausgeübt.

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The price of survival: Transformations in environmental conditions and subsistence systems in Hungary in the age of Ottoman occupation

Author(s): Lajos Rácz / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2010

In the modern era the population of the Carpathian Basin, for political and environmental reasons, was bound to the fundamental alterations of the prevailing subsistence system. Over the course of the 16th and the 17th centuries the country became a borderland between the Habsburg and Ottoman Empires. The regional effects of the Little Ice Age were aggravated by the ravages of the warring armies. Moreover, the climate turned cooler and wetter, and in consequence marshlands and swamps grew significantly. The population of Hungary adapted to the nearly two centuries of warfare, the environmental effects, and the European economic environment by cultivating cattle breeding and exports. Cattle exports reached 250,000 at the end of the 16th century, and the country’s economic unity survived intact in spite of the fact that Hungary itself had disintegrated politically. Following the close of the Turkish wars, Hungary became a part of the Central European Habsburg Empire.

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Reclaiming the streets — Redefining democracy. The politics of the critical mass bicycle movement in Budapest

Author(s): Éva Tessza Udvarhelyi / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2009

The Critical Mass bicycle movement, whose main aim is to reclaim cyclists’ right to use city streets freely, safely and proudly, is arguably the single most powerful grassroots movement that has emerged in Hungary since the 1989 change of regimes. While Critical Mass is a critique of today’s dominant motorized transportation practices as well as a celebration of alternative modes of transportation, it is not only about the environment. The Budapest Critical Mass can be read as the spatialized enactment of a direct and embodied form of democratic participation that goes beyond and at the same time transforms representative democracy. In the context of growing political apathy and widespread disillusionment with the formal public sphere in post-socialist Hungary, Critical Mass has emerged as a unique and powerful channel of citizen participation by forging a new kind of relationship between citizens, civil society and the state.

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AN EXAMPLE OF ECOLOGICAL ADAPTATION. THE CULTIVATION OF VINES ON THE RIVER FLATS IN SZENTES

Author(s): László Mód / Language(s): English Issue: 3-4/2004

With the regulation of the rivers vast areas along the Tisza River were drained. As a result of this process flood plain farming gave way to the cultivation of field crops. However, the traditional forms of farming survived on the river flats between the dikes and the river and in the early 20th century vines and fruit trees were planted on the higher areas here outside many settlements along the Tisza River. The cultivation of vines in a manner adapted to the ecology and natural conditions of the river flats in Szentes resulted in the production of table grapes in quantities exceeding the subsistence level, for sale on the market. The article attempts primarily to explore the natural conditions determining this special form of cultivation. The most important natural factor is the periodical inundation during floods which fundamentally influences the course of grape production. The author examines how people farming in these areas are able to adapt to the harsh natural conditions, how they organise the cultivation and whether this ecological adaptation can be regarded as successful and viable.

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