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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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Evaluating Building Sustainability Literacy Level in Nigerian Architectural Education

Author(s): Oluseyi A. Olagoke,Olusola O. Bamisile / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2017

Sustainability has become a qualifying factor in every human endeavor and architectural educators could really not care less in ensuring a holistic education premised on the tenets of both conscientious and discretionary use of the ever-depleting natural resources much of which is morally right to be left for yet many future generations. Also, since a good proportion of architecture graduates from Nigerian tertiary institutions end up as teachers in architecture departments, it becomes important to understand the level of their knowledge of the concept of building sustainability while in school as understanding this could be helpful in positioning them to be better architectural educators. This research hence focuses on six selected departments of architecture and architectural technologies in tertiary institutions in southwest Nigeria and the aim is to establish whether the concept of sustainability is well taught and understood both by architectural educators and students. Open and close-ended questionnaires were distributed to students and the results are analyzed using statistical tools. Consequently, findings derived from this survey are hoped to help inform a set of recommendations aimed at enhancing improved knowledge acquisition by these teaming future professionals thus ensuring a holistic and balanced training and education necessary for proper entrenchment of the much needed sustainability consciousness and awareness in Nigeria.

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Characterization and Effects of Noise Levels of Portable Generators Used in Residential Buildings in Ibadan Metropolis, Nigeria: A Case Study

Author(s): Akeem Wahab / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

The proliferation of generators used in urban settlements in Nigeria over the years has been a major source of concern to the health and comfort of building occupants. This study, therefore, assessed the impact of outdoor and indoor noise levels associated with the use of generators on the environment and building occupants. The study area, Ibadan Metropolis, was divided into core, transition and suburban zones. Five (5) residential buildings were purposively selected in each of the core, transition and suburban zones of the study area. Measurement of noise levels was taken with the use of a digital sound level meter with compliance to NESREA and OSHA standards. The outdoor noise levels before and during use of generators were taken at 0, 2 and 4m from external walls of the buildings sampled while the corresponding indoor noise levels were taken at the actively useable internal space; at a least distance of 1m from internal walls, 1.2 - 1.5m above floor level and 1.5m from windows. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyse the data collected. The findings of the study revealed that the mean indoor noise levels of 79.97 dB, 87.4 dB during use of generators in residential buildings were highest in the core zone and above the permissible limits. The study concluded that there should be adoption of best house-keeping practices by positioning generators in properly built enclosure features; and efforts made to enforce sales and procurement of generators with noise abatement mechanisms that can conform to ISO 3744 and local codes so as to mitigate impact of its high noise levels on the health and comfort of building occupants.

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Yeşil Satın Alma Davranışının Algılanan Tüketici Etkinliğine Etkisinde Çevresel Kaygının Aracılık Rolü

Author(s): Ahmet Saritaş / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 5/2018

This study was carried out in order to determine the mediating role of environmental loss between green purchasing behavior and perceived consumer activity in consumers living in Burdur. The survey covers consumers living in Burdur and a survey method was used as a data collection tool. Hierarchical regression analysis was used to determine the mediating role of environmental behavior on the perceived consumer efficacy of green buying behavior. According to the results of the study, the increase in green purchasing behavior affects perceived consumer activity in the positive direction and environmental concern can reveal perceived consumer activity in consumers. In addition, hierarchical regression analysis revealed that environmental involvement has a partial mediating role between green purchasing behavior and perceived consumer activity.

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Czy Teoria Aktora-Sieci daje narzędzia do ekokrytyki?

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Czy Teoria Aktora-Sieci daje narzędzia do ekokrytyki?

Author(s): Krzysztof Abriszewski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2018

Abriszewski asks whether Bruno Latour’s longtime theoretical project offers or is able to offer a viable conceptual tool for ecocriticism. By this he means any concepts and ideas for the critical analysis of social and cultural reality in the context of environmental problems. The analysis follows three paths: 1. Latour’s famous claim that we have never been modern; 2. The theoretical position elaborated in Latour’s Facing Gaia; 3. A short discussion of some of Latour’s recent critics. In conclusion Abriszewski suggests that Latour’s concept of modernity ought to be reconstructed in order to become useful for the critical work.

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Donbas as an Ecological Disaster Area: Technogenic Challenges and Threats

Author(s): Ann Obikhod,Alla Omelchenko / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

In recent years the territory of Ukraine and its regions has been under the negative influence of a number of technogenically dangerous factors. Among the latter, to determine the level of safety it is common practice to analyze the number of potentially dangerous objects, their spatial location, distribution by types of activity and hazards, etc. The article presents the latest challenges and threats in the system of anthropogenic safety of Ukraine, including: non-compliance of the regulatory system, lack of adequate risk assessment methods, sharp extension of causal relationships and strengthening of the role of synergistic risks, etc. Attention is focused on new risks and threats caused by political instability in the territory of separate regions of Ukraine, including the ATO zone, and a structure for their further analysis and assessment is suggested.

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Practicas de gestion ambiental en industria Minera. Caso de estudio San Luis Potosi, México

Author(s): Rosa Elia Martínez Torres,Patricia Rivera Acosta / Language(s): Spanish Issue: 7.3/2018

As a consequence of the mining and refining processes of metals and minerals, there are lands impacted by waste, which, following the country’s regulations, must be reprocessed by the companies so as not to unbalance the environment. Following this problem, a study is presented that aims to analyze the environmental management practices to which companies are obliged by government agencies, based on indicators emanating from official documents that promote the care of the environment; the study is carried out in Minera Tierra Adentro, S.A de C.V. (MTA), a family consultancy firm for the mining-metallurgical industry. This study uses an exploratory method, allowing the identification, organization and presentation through a qualitative approach, of environmental indicators that guarantee the effectiveness of remediation practices. Data collection instruments are constructed on the basis of these indicators, the scope of the study is the intervention of MTA in the construction of strategies with new perspectives. The results obtained in a previous analysis indicate that the environmental management practices carried out by companies are focused on the remediation of site infrastructure, so it can be concluded that MTA can contribute by advising them to improve environmental care strategies.

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Rzeczy publiczne jako przedmiot ochrony prawa administracyjnego

Author(s): Tomasz Jędrzejewski,Piotr Rączka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 9.1/2018

The present paper is concentrated on the protection of public goods which is offered by the administrative law. The leading criterion of analysis of the normative background is a manner in which the public goods are enjoyed. In this way it is possible to enumerate the forms of the protection prescribed by the administrative law. Thus, the Authors divides the public goods for which the entitlement for common enjoyment arises upon the law and those where such an enjoyment is based upon the individual administrative law.

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Opłata za gospodarowanie odpadami komunalnymi w prawie unijnym i polskim

Author(s): Łukasz Prus / Language(s): Polish Issue: 9.1/2018

The subject of the article is an analysis of objective and subjective area of price charged for waste management in EU and Polish law. The article answers the question whether the principle polluter pays requires that the price charged for waste management would be charged from those who produce them or preferably it is about the charge for performing a public task which charges all of users of waste management system.

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Waste Reduction as an Innovative Strategy: Case Studies

Author(s): Edyta Gheribi,Anna Wronka,Beata Gotwald-Feja / Language(s): English Issue: 12.2/2017

As presented in the article, the issue of waste management is crucial for contemporary economies, especially from a perspective of the citizens. Companies apply various methods to manage waste in a sustainable way, usually limiting their activities to the scheme of “reduce, re-use and recycle”. Although the needs of global community are the same (in terms of sustainable development) regardless country of origin, the companies apply different strategies of waste management. The insourcing model may be perceived as a way to gather waste from available places (streets, scrap-heaps or garbage dumps) and re-used to create a new value for the obtained resources. The outsourcing model is a chance for companies which have some production waste to be disposed. In it the customers (or generally speaking – people) are interested in gaining the resources to create a new product which is far from a firstly produced. The choice for specific model is irrelevant, because the crucial issue is sustainability which can be achieved by synergic cooperation of all waste-cycle members.

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Green Purchasing in Family Businesses: A Case Study of Suhab

Author(s): Edyta Gheribi,Anna Wronka,Beata Gotwald-Feja / Language(s): English Issue: 6.3/2017

Nowadays environmental dimension of business activity is often a key factor for achieving a sustained competitive advantage. Final customers as well as others stakeholders require balanced objectives related not only to the economic aspects but also social and environmental ones. In addition more restricted international legal regulations and on the other hand many potential measureable benefits influence on companies more eco-friendly attitude. This tendency is also reflected by family companies, which especially want to be innovative and open for all needs of modern and demanding market. In the article on the example of small company the Authors try to prove that being green is not only the matter of procedures or management standards, it is primarily a kind of philosophy which permeate organizational thinking and culture from the board room to the shop floor.

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Bezpieczeństwo ekologiczne w polityce inwestycyjnej gmin powiatu żywieckiego w latach 2011–2015

Author(s): Sabina Sanetra-Półgrabi,Paweł Ostachowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 5.3/2017

Article presents ecological safety as an area of investment policy of the municipalities of Żywiec in period of 2011-2015. Local investments in the environmental protection and nature conservation, are there still a problem for many local communities. The aim of this article is to show the costs of municipalities for air and climate protection and wastewater management. He also analyzes their progress in the development of local environmental protection infrastructure, which is one of the key issues of local environmental security. The purpose of this researches has been achieved using the analysis of municipal reporting documents and statistical data available to these entities within the Local Data Bank. The results of the analyzes allowed to put the conclusions and forecasts concerning the further development of ecological safety issues for the Żywiec district in the medium term.

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Здраве и околна среда

Author(s): Kadrie Shukri,S. Velikova,E. Mehmed / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2018

The effect of the environment on the human health is discussed in brief. Examples of using medical plants and dietary foods to improve a human health are given.

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THE DEVELOPMENT OF STREET PATTERNS IN ISRAELI CITIES

Author(s): Itzhak Omer,Orna Zafrir-Reuven / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2015

Street patterns of Israeli cities were investigated by comparing three time periods of urban development: (I) the late 19th century until the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948; (II) 1948 until the 1980s; and (III) the late 1980s until the present. These time periods are related respectively to the pre-modern, modern and late-modern urban planning approach. Representative urban street networks were examined in selected cities by means of morphological analysis of typical street pattern properties: curvature, fragmentation, connectivity, continuity and differentiation. The study results reveal significant differences between the street patterns of the three examined periods in the development of cities in Israel. The results show clearly the gradual trends in the intensification of curvature, fragmentation, complexity and hierarchical organization of street networks as well as the weakening of the network's internal and external connectivity. The implications of these changes on connectivity and spatial integration are discussed with respect to planning approaches.

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SUBURBAN VS. URBAN FRINGES ENTITIES’ WILLINGNESS TO PAY FOR AMENITIES: EMPIRICAL RESEARCH IN CRACOW CITY, POLAND

Author(s): Piotr Lityński / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2015

The aim of this paper is to estimate the value of selected amenities of infrastructure, space and public services on both sides of the cities’ administrative borders and its territorial implications. The used method is the estimation of WTP. The method was addressed to households and companies located in the district adjoining areas which are administratively not part of the city, and that are judged to be strongly characterized by the processes of suburbanization. The conclusions of the study indicate that the administrative border of the city is polarized in terms of a household economic profile. Residents of both regions express their needs for amenities and suburban residents generally estimate their value higher. While firms from both areas are not interested in improvements, the administrative border of the city does not really differentiate businesses (size, employment, wages).

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SPATIAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS – A TOOL SUPPORTING GOOD GOVERNANCE IN SPATIAL PLANNING PROCESSES OF GREEN AREAS

Author(s): Marcin Feltynowski / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2015

The article presents issues connected with the use of GIS for planning processes of green areas within the city. The main theoretical background of the article is the good governance concept which can be used in planning works with cooperation of local actors. The article shows how the local government can use the geo-survey in the participation processes. The green areas are only the example of the use of this tool in spatial planning processes. The aim of the article is to show how useful can be spatial information systems in the decision-making on the local level and how it supports public participation. Additionally, it has to be indicated that this type of tool can contribute to an increase in the effectiveness of local authorities’ activities in the spatial planning field. The use of these tools contributes to an increase of the level of public participation and to the clarity of the planning process.

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Ekolojik Kuram Bağlamında Dinî Gelişim Psikolojisi

Author(s): Fatih Kandemir / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 3/2018

The effects of heredity and the environment on the development of human being, which is a multidimensional being, have been discussed for many years. Studies on the religious development of man were also influenced by these discussions. In this context, in order to better understand the nature of religious development, some theories such as behavioral, cognitive or stage theories have emerged. In a sense, these theories have also identified the direction of religious development. However, many of these theories did not address their religious development as a whole. This restricted the understanding of religious development. Therefore, this article has two main purposes. First, to bring the ecological theory which is the human development model proposed by Bronfenbrenner, which considers human development as a whole with the environment and events in which it lives, to the literature of our country's religion psychology. The second aim is that to contribute to a better understanding of the psychological foundations of religious development through the use of this theory. In this article where qualitative research method has been used, some quantitative study data have been used. In the article, the ecosystem, ecosystem, macrosystem, and the effect of each of the chronosystem on religious development is discussed. In this article, it is concluded that approach to religious development in the context of ecological theory can be useful.

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ANALYSING ITALIAN REGIONAL PATTERNS IN GREEN ECONOMY AND CLIMATE CHANGE. CAN ITALY LEVERAGE ON EUROPE 2020 STRATEGY TO FACE SUSTAINABLE GROWTH CHALLENGES?

Author(s): Fracesco Bonsinetto,Enzo Falco / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2013

European cities and regions are facing the crucial challenge of greening their economy towards more sustainable patterns. Politicians and policy-makers should promote new policies for sustainable growth including renewables, greenhouse gas emissions, energy efficiency and biodiversity. All of these aspects can be considered as a boost for local and regional economy. In this regard, European countries and regions can benefit from the Europe 2020 Strategy which is defined as Europe’s blueprint for a smart, sustainable and inclusive future, providing a ten year roadmap for growth and jobs. EU2020S was designed as a European exit strategy from the global economic and financial crisis in view of new European economic governance. This study discusses the above issues regarding Italy and intends to provide some answers on the perspectives of the new EU2020S. It draws from a research project supported by ESPON, the S.I.E.S.T.A. Project, focused on the territorial dimension of the EU2020S. Therefore, this paper aims at analyzing Italian regional patterns on climate change, green economy and energy within the context of EU2020S and at providing policy recommendations for better achieving the goals of the Strategy.

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ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY - INTERNALIZATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL EXTERNALITIES

Author(s): Gabriela – Cornelia Piciu / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2017

Economic assessment of environmental damage and estimate the negative externalities are of particular importance aimed assigning monetary values to use. In economic terms, using produce cost environment where there is conflict between uses, and / or quality of a good is affected beyond measure considered tolerable. This means that the environmental good in question is a rare good economic sense. However, in addition to the direct costs of use, there are also indirect costs - negative environmental externalities that are highlighted in particular the phenomenon of pollution, when appearing as economic damages are not compensated financially. Monetization externalities should be performed when there are external benefits or costs, and they are not included in the financial analysis, or can be highlighted by using conversion factors.

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Uwarunkowania społeczno-ekonomiczne przywrócenia do ruchu linii kolejowej nr 241 relacji Tuchola – Koronowo

Author(s): Mateusz Urban / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2018

It is a huge challenge to provide the opportunities for development and to give residents of areas the fastest possible access to large urban centers today. European policy is focusing on ecological solutions, which increases the importance of transport systems, that are friendly to the environment. All of the above aspects are connected by well-organized rail transport. It affects for the spatial development of the area, the mobility of residents and also it attracts new investments. At the same time, it is less harmful to the environment from widespread car transport. The article shows the socio-economic potential of restoring the line between Tuchola and Koronowo and proposes most effective use this inactive local railway. The re-functioning of this railway line for the passenger, freight and seasonal transport would be an important element in the development of the forgotten area and a great chance to improve the quality of life of the region’s inhabitants. In addition, the restoration of local railway lines is compatible with the principle of sustainable development. This fact creates more possibilities about obtain external founds for investments in ecological transport means.

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