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Miasto w pułapce żywiołowości

Author(s): Regina Maga-Jagielnicka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 15/2015

Transformations of the functional and spatial structure of the city are a process in which spontaneous phenomena may occur. Designers of urban space may draw inspiration from the spontaneous activity in the natural environment. In the city, which is considered man’s natural habitat, spontaneous actions of the users of space generate chaos, but also initiate a new order. By using a variety of spatial planning instruments, one may prevent the possible destructive consequences of spontaneity. In this regard, the principles of shaping urban spaces inside culture parks are of particular importance.

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Spring grass burning: An alleged driver of successful oak regeneration in sub-carpathian marginal woods. A case study

Author(s): Jan Ziobro,Magdalena Koziarz,Serhiy Havrylyuk,Mykola Korol,Bernadetta Ortyl,Paweł Wolański,Andrzej Bobiec / Language(s): English Issue: 146/2016

Wooded pastures or pastured woods are disappearing from European landscapes. It is caused by the cessation of traditional farming ( in particular traditional pasturing ), lack of proper protection, forestry and agriculture intensification. Oak is one of the most common trees in such ecosystems, where it successfully regenerates, in particular due to conducive light conditions. According to the studies carried out in North America and Mediterranean zone in Europe, grass burning is one of important factors contributing to the establishment of open and semi-open habitats fostering oak regeneration. Our goal was to check the potential and progress of oak regeneration in marginal woods neighboring with grasslands in Ostoja Przemyska ( SE Poland ) and in Rozhniativ District ( W Ukraine ). In Poland the traditional silvopastoral management was ceased after the World War II ( finally in the 1970s ), while in Ukraine oak woods are still subject to occasional burning and pasturing. The inventory of oak regeneration, accompanied with the measurement of photosynthetically active radiation and the phytosociological assessment of plant communities, revealed a relatively abundant oak regeneration in the studied Ukrainian woods ( on average 4750 saplings ha-1 ), contrasting with the absence of young oaks in the Polish stands ( on average 30 saplings ha-1 ). This coincided with the sharp difference in both light conditions and vegetation characteristics between the two studied landscape units. Occasional spring grass burning in Ukrainian woods is considered an important factor contributing to the oak regeneration success.

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Muzeum Morskie u podnóża Gór

Author(s): Marek Guzik,Alicja Walosik / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2016

Na zajęciach z biologii uczniowie poznają różnorodność świata przyrodniczego, zwracają uwagę na jego bogactwo i piękno. Ponadto powinni zrozumieć zależności istniejące w środowisku przyrodniczym, co umożliwia kształtowanie u nich nowych umiejętności i kompetencji. Zwiększa to ich zdolność do praktycznego wykorzystania nabytej wiedzy poza szkołą.

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Edukacyjno-wychowawczy wymiar kontaktu uczniów z przyrodą

Author(s): Magdalena Kołodziejska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2016

Natural sciences lessons can be an interesting adventure for students, if we allow them for active participation. They require to engage from students in learning activities, but also provide better quality and assimilation of knowledge and higher skills level. Outdoor activities can offer the possibility of cross-lessons integration so essential in modern teaching – outside the classroom the content from different subjects complement each other. During these classes the student gets not only theoretical knowledge but also comprehensive, intelligently learns the surrounding world and processes occurring in the natural environment and cultural heritage. Outside the classroom single lessons can be carried out or can combine them together. Classes can take place in the immediate vicinity of the school, eg. school garden or in a more remote area. These activities engage all children, not only the most talented, enabling direct contact with the environment, offer the possibility of outdoor activity, to involve all the senses and thus are considered by students, regardless of their age, the most attractive. The content of presented report are based on both theoretical assumptions , the results of the available studies and teacher observations independently conducting the outdoor activities in two different age groups: students of 1st and 4th stage of education.

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Czynna ochrona przyrody w edukacji ekologicznej

Author(s): Monika Pietraszko / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2015

The aim of this paper was to show active nature protection as a new element of environmental education. The author tries to present examples of activities carried out under active conservation and the possibility of their use in pro-environmental education of children, junior and adults.

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Manifest ekologiczny XXI wieku

Author(s): Agnieszka Romaneczko / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2014

„Czas wreszcie przestać robić z Natury ludzkich igraszek wielkie śmietnisko!” – manifest ekologiczny XXI wieku

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Environmental awareness and attitudes of farmers with environmental commitments

Author(s): Adam Kowalak / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2014

Environmental education for adults living in rural areas can be considered both from a theoretical point of view and practical-learning. The article describes a study to identify ecological awareness of farmers on agri-environment schemes. Activities of Selected Agricultural Advisory Centres were presented as an example of training for adults in the countryside. An attempt was made to assess activities in terms of the shaping of farmers’ pro-environmental attitudes. The results obtained will be used to determine the educational needs for local farming communities. The results highlight the poor environmental awareness of the farmers researched. The shaping of adult attitudes towards the environment is founded in school. Deficiencies in education do not foster later development of favourable habits towards the natural environment. While conducting lively educational activities, Agricultural Advisory Centres aim mainly at vocational training. Education about the natural environment is not an objective in itself but is focussed towards economic goals. Lack of cooperation between AACs and schools makes it difficult to introduce the concept of lifelong education.

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Symulując przyszłość Gry komputerowe w edukacji klimatologicznej

Author(s): Marcin Zaród / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2013

The paper presents use of computer games for enhancing the didactics of a science education. Subjects of the analysis are: Electro City, BBC Climate Challenge and Fate of the World. Scientific models used in those games are also discussed and evaluated. Paper also proposes high-school lesson scenario based on those new tools. The article also presents baseline knowledge on climate changes.

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Dieta vs. miażdżyca?

Author(s): Ilona Żeber-Dzikowska,Urszula Poziomek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2013

Wymagania stawiane uczniom szkół ponadgimnazjalnych aplikującym na wyższe uczelnie są bardzo wysokie. Dlatego ważne jest nie tylko opanowanie wiedzy i umiejętności opisanych celami kształcenia i treściami nauczania podstawy programowej oraz zawartej w podręcznikach szkolnych, lecz także wzbogacanie jej o informacje z innych źródeł, m.in. z czasopism przyrodniczych. Jest to zgodne z celem kształcenia, który występuje w podstawie programowej wszystkich czterech przedmiotów przyrodniczych – kształtowaniem umiejętności korzystania z różnorodnych źródeł informacji. Czasopisma naukowe czy popularnonaukowe przekazują najnowsze informacje, znacznie wyprzedzające treści zawarte w podręcznikach czy lekturach książkowych, pozwalając przy tym poszerzyć wiedzę z wielu działów biologii, chemii, geografii czy fizyki – m.in. ochrony środowiska, higieny i zdrowia człowieka czy kierunków rozwoju nauk biologicznych.

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Recenzja książki

Author(s): Mirosława Parlak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2013

Review of: Mirosława Parlak - Pomagamy dzieciom w badaniu świata, M. Kwaśniewska, W. Żaba-Żabińska, wydawca: Grupa Edukacyjna S.A., Kielce 2012 (skan okładki ze strony: okazje.info)

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Recenzja książki - Edukacja środowiskowa

Author(s): Wiesław Stawiński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2013

Review of: Wiesław Stawiński - Edukacja środowiskowa. Wybrane zagadnienia z osobistą refleksją, R. Kowalski, wydawca: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Przyrodniczo Humanistycznego w Siedlcach, Siedlce 2012, ss. 336 i 12 stron ilustr. (skan okładki od autora recenzji)

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MIĘDZY DYSTOPIĄ A UTOPIĄ: FUTURYSTYCZNA WIZJA ŚWIATA W FILMIE CHRISTOPHERA NOLANA INTERSTELLAR (2014)

Author(s): Patrycja Podgajna / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2016

Since the 1990s the number of dystopian films projecting apocalyptic visions of global catastrophe and dramatising an ecological agenda has radically increased. Much of this trend is inspired by anxieties about the future repercussions of today’s actions and the collective responsibility for the future of our planet. One film that aptly represents this category is Christopher Nolan’s futuristic dystopia Interstellar (2014). Blending generic conventions of space-travel, science-fiction and moral fable, the film, with its bleak vision of ecological disaster, social unrest, and economic decline, clearly evokes the dystopian paradigm in which the projected reality is perceived as significantly worse than the here and now (sensu Sargent 1994:5). However, contrary to many dystopias offering nihilistic or anti-utopian denouements, Christopher Nolan’s apocalyptic vision clearly posits a progressive and definite possibility of utopian impulse, which is encapsulated by the final resolution of the global catastrophe. The core of the argument is that the neutralization of the dystopian impulse and the resulting projection of the utopian vision are facilitated by the imposition of an interstitial space constructed in the vein of postmodern poetics: an ambiguous fifth dimensional library, in which books perform a two-fold function. While intratextually, they serve as a catalyst between the tangibly dystopian present and the possibly utopian future, extratextually, they function as a universal mode of communication transcending the constraints of time and space.

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Powstanie i status zasady zrównoważonego rozwoju

Author(s): Stanisław Fel,Łukasz Marczak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2016

The aim of the article is to analyze the formation process of sustainable development as a new ethical and social principle and to determine its status. The starting point is to demonstrate that there are different catalogs of ethical and social principles in Catholic social thought. Their diversity and dynamics points to the existence of the premises upon which official bodies of the social thought of the Catholic Church along with specialists in theoretical reflection, interpret and formulate new ethical and social principles. The article discusses the process of emergence of new ethical and social principles, which in the history of the Catholic social teaching has already many times revealed a regularity that the reflection of professionals dealing with Catholic social thought sometimes precede the social teaching of the hierarchical Church and inspires to formulate new statements. In this context, an attempt has been undertaken to reconstruct the stages and circumstances of forming a new ethical and social principle of sustainable development and to demonstrate what its status is on the grounds of Catholic social thought.

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ECO-LABELS AND CONSUMERS

Author(s): Martina Minárová,Zdenka Musová,Dana Benčiková / Language(s): English Issue: 1/1/2016

Rising concern with our planet’s future mobilizes all market participants to actively approach its protection as well as the removal of the existing damage. Marketing managers, who assess all their decisions with respect to the environmental impact, are no exception. In their opinion, the critical marketing tool is a product which on one hand causes pollution, but on the other it can reduce the negative impact on the environment thanks to its attributes. Eco-labeling is also a part of the process of making decisions about products. It is a tool of product differentiation and guarantees that the product influences the environment less than other products with comparable quality attributes throughout its whole life cycle. In this paper, we present the selected outcomes of the research (with the emphasis on eco-labeling), which focused on the examination of consumers’ environmental behavior in Slovakia and their reactions to environmental initiatives of companies. In the second part, we concentrate on consumers’ perception of bio products and organic food. Our findings are based onthe fact that the familiarity with these labels was the highest in terms of eco-labeling. Although the demand for the agricultural bio quality products in Slovakia rises, this growth is much slower compared to the developed countries. The awareness of bio products and organic food is in sufficientand only a small percentage of consumers buy them regularly for various reasons.

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BRAND AS ONE OF THE TOURISM DEVELOPMENT TOOLS IN THE TOURIST AREA BESKYDY - WALLACHIA

Author(s): Vladimír Vavrečka,Jiří Mezuláník / Language(s): English Issue: 1/1/2016

The article deals with the issue of the brand in the context of the research for the development of the tourist area of Beskydy-Wallachia. "Beskydy-Wallachia“ brand is originated from the name of the tourist area, geographically covering the area of the Moravian-Silesian Beskydy mountains and foothills, characterized by its original character and traditions - Valašsko (Wallachia). Yet executed marketing research is based on its own methodology, which relies on interviewing the focal group of actors in the tourist area. The exploitation rate of potential is assessed in relation to make the brand of "Beskydy-Wallachia".

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Relevant determinants of the political parties’ environmental preference

Author(s): Constantin-Marius Apostoaie / Language(s): English Issue: Spec/2016

An instrument that political parties use to inform the electorate with regard to their policy preference (including preference towards the environment) is the electoral manifest. This paper analyses some important drivers that push political parties towards adopting pro-environmental attitudes by analysing the content included in their electoral manifestos (using the Comparative Manifesto Dataset). As explanatory factors we consider various socio-economic, ideological and international related variables, but our main focus is on environmental related determinants. We proceed as such because the paper aims to test the validity of ‘the ecological approach’ given that the current literature overlooks this issue or doesn’t succeed in providing strong evidence of its existence. Our dataset covers 49 countries worldwide and a total of 190 national electoral years, occurring between 2000 and 2015. The resulting evidence, which might confirm the validity of ‘the ecological approach’, is rather weak, but there is nonetheless strong evidence to prove the existence of an opportunistic behaviour of the political parties (confirming the validity of the ‘opportunistic political cycle’).

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Political empowerment of citizens in online public consultations on the example of Polish local self-government activities

Author(s): Justyna Kania / Language(s): English Issue: 6/2015

The article presents the results of a research, which aimed was to verify the hypothesis about potential of the online public consultations, conducted by Polish local selfgovernment representatives in order to strength the citizens’ sense of political empowerment. The attitude that emerged from the respondents’ answers, despite various shortcomings in implementation of the process, allows assuming that online consultations presage the improvement of participatory democracy. Implementation of interactive form of communication with citizens is a challenge for public administration.

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Lietuvių ir latvių augalų vardai Aplinkos apsaugos žodyne EnDic2004

Author(s): Solvita Labanauskienė / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 16/2009

The article deals with botanical nomenclature of the Baltic languages. It analyses more than 300 Lithuanian and Latvian names of plant genera and over 430 names of species taken from the Environmental Dictionary EnDic2004 in nine languages which was published in 2004 by the Finnish Environment Institute. Plant names are analysed in respect of origin and word-formation. An attempt is made to establish similarities and differences of the Lithuanian and Latvian names of plant genera and species. Lithuanian and Latvian names of plant genera from EnDic2004 are one-word names, but they have different expression. Lithuanian names of plant genera meet the requirements of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (ICBN) – they are presented in nominative case in singular. Latvian genera of plants are presented in the nominative case in plural. Lithuanian and Latvian names of plant genera were divided into two groups: names irresolvable in respect of derivation and word-formations. Some names irresolvable in respect of derivation were inherited from Indo-European (Lith. beržas – Latv. bērzi (birch)), Baltic-Slavic (Lith. liepa – Latv. liepa (lime)) or purely Baltic (Lith. apynys – Latv. apinis (hop)) vocabulary and they are common for both Lithuanian and Latvian languages. Another rather small group is comprised of old borrowings taken from Finnic (Lith. kadagys – Latv. kadiķi (juniper)), Slavic (Lith. mėta – Latv. mētra (mint)) and Germanic languages (Lith. vikis – Latv. vīķis (vetch)). Both languages have also borrowed may more names from Latin (Lith. lobelija – Latv. lobēlija (lobelia)). There are more such borrowings in Latvian than in Lithuanian. The majority of Lithuanian and Latvian names of plant genera presented in EnDic2004 are derivates or compounds. The most productive way of name creation is suffixation in Lithuanian and compounding in Latvian. The most productive suffixes are -enis (bruknenis (azalea)), -enė (gebenė (ivy)) in Lithuanian and -enis (tītenis (bindweed)), -ene (gandrene (crane’s-bill)) in Latvian. In both languages diminutive suffixes are popular: -ytė (barborytė (wintercress)), -utis (barškutis (yellow-rattle)), -utė (medutė (may lily)), -ėlis (katilėlis (bellflower)) and -ėlė (ramunėlė (camomile)) in Lithuanian; -iņš (āboliņš (clover)), -iņa (žagatiņa (may lily)), -ītis (cīrulītis (corydalis)) and -īte (atraitnīte (pansy)) in Latvian. A specific characteristic of Latvian suffixation is the usage of two suffixes -en- + -īte (ziepenīte (milkwort)). In both languages compounds are frequent, but prefixation is rare. Lithuanian and Latvian names of species have similarities and differences. Most frequently a specific component of the name of species in both languages is an adjective. Specific components of Lithuanian names of species are expressed in definite adjectives (paprastoji rykštenė (goldenrod)), adjectives with the suffix -inis (pievinis katilėlis (spreading bellflower)) and compound adjectives (įvairialapė usnis (heterophyllous thistle)). Specific components of Latvian names of species are expressed in definite adjectives (mazais ūdenszieds (common duckweed)) and in the genitive of a noun (kalnu priede (dwarf mountain pine)). In Lithuanian the genitive of a noun is used rarely – only when the specific component of the name of species is a personal name.

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The essence of road safety in Poland. Recognition of theoretical and empirical

Author(s): Wenancjusz Przybytniowski Przybytniowski,Wioletta M. Pacholarz / Language(s): English Issue: 23/2016

This article consists of two parts. The first part is based on the theoretical analysis of the concept of safety and prevention measures in road traffic, described in the existing literature and statistics. Whereas the second part focuses on the analysis of vehicle insurance as a financial instrument of economic safety of road traffic participants. In the 21st century, one of very important problems, not only socially but also economically, referring to Poland and other EU countries is the ongoing development of motorisation and, consequently, the progress in transportation. Unfortunately, this development sometimes leads to the growing number of road accidents and their effects.

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Multicultural team conflict management

Author(s): Krystyna Heinz / Language(s): English Issue: 19/2014

The article presents the potential problems related to conflict resolution while cooperating in multicultural teams. Special attention is paid to specific character of such teams as well as to the concept of productive conflict and the ways of resolving it. The experiences gained in the Erasmus Intenstive Programme - Effective Working in Multicultural Teams were used.

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