Kyoto protokolü ve kopenhag mutabakatinin karşilaştirmali analizi

Author(s): Özge Uysal Şahin / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 1/2016

Global warming and the natural disasters such as flood, drought and hurricane which appear in reaction to global warming have gradually increased. This situation threatens both natural life and human life. In this regard, taking certain measures on global level have to become compulsory. So, Kyoto Protocol and Copenhagen Accord are results of these initiatives. In this study, Kyoto Protocol and Copenhagen Accord are examined and analyzed comparatively. Global warming and the natural disasters such as flood, drought and hurricane which appear in reaction to global warming have gradually increased. This situation threatens both natural life and human life. In this regard, taking certain measures on global level have to become compulsory. So, Kyoto Protocol and Copenhagen Accord are results of these initiatives. In this study, Kyoto Protocol and Copenhagen Accord are examined and analyzed comparatively.

Aging in place. Design w obronie wieku

Author(s): Grzegorz Gawron,Paulina Rojek-Adamek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 02/2017

The subject of the article is to reflect on the challenges that contemporary designfaces in the area of shaping urban space.This issue is particularly important in the context of the observed process of aging, which is associated with the necessity to adjust the physical and social environments to the changing needs of a growing group of seniors. Their free and independent functioning is determined to a large extent by external factors, including spaces that are their living environment. There is a place for a special dimension of urban design. Its main goal should be to create environments that facilitate the maintenance of good health, generating a sense of security and maintaining a sense of well-being of their users. This approach is directly linked to the concept of Aging in Place, understood as giving the opportunity to remain in the living environment at every stage of life, with maximum autonomy for as long as possible.

Lepsze życie śmieci? Design i upcykling

Author(s): Karolina Izdebska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 02/2017

This paper is written to present the usage of waste materials in modern design. At the beginning the author analyzes the sources of fascination with waste and trash in art. Then the phenomenon from the borderline of ecology, design and high art - upcycling (re-design) is described. Upcycling was introduced as a one of the methods to maintain the environment without doing any harm and to recreate useful products out of waste materials. By changing functions, uses, and meanings of old things designers give the product a new higher value. The author lists the values and advantages of this method and examples of using it in indoor and outdoor spaces and also in fashion. In the summary the social aspects of upcycling are presented.

Interakcje z architekturą. Społeczne sprawstwo zabudowy

Author(s): Magdalena Łukasiuk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 02/2017

The article describes the role of urban design in the theoretical prospect of the sociology of architecture. I argue that the architecture and design select people (user and tenants) using aesthetic parameter. The process of social segregation as a result of gentrification and modernization is often hidden behind the discourse around design and serves the contemporary elites. I present the point of view elaborated by Project for Public Spaces as an example of place-centered (and not design-centered) approach.

Становништво источне Херцеговине у функцији регионалног развоја

Author(s): Milimir Lojović,Obren Gnjato / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 7/2010

East Herzegovina is a geographical and regional term for a part of the Republic of Srpska, which includes the municipalities: Trebinje, Bileća, Ljubinje, Gacko, Nevesinje, Berkovići, and East Mostar, with the 365 inhabited places, and the area of 3827 km2 as well as the population of about 86000 people. The demographic processes in the historical development of East Herzegovina have been influenced by the complex political and socio-economic factors, and they have had emigratory and migratory characteristics, especially in the second half of the 20th century.

Етно-демографски процеси у Доњем Поуњу

Author(s): Drago Todić / Language(s): Bosnian,Serbian Issue: 8/2011

This paper discusses the ethno-demographic situation in the Lower Pounje (Donje Pounje) after the war ended on the territory of the second Yugoslavia. Special attention is paid to the exodus of Serbs from parts of the Lower Pounje, the part that belongs to the Republic of Croatia, which is the continuation of banishing the Serbs from the period of the Second World War. Since peace has reached, only a small part of the older population of the Serbian population has returned, which is slowly dying by biological means. Many problems (economic, ethno-demographic, health, social, and psychological) of depopulation in rural areas are caused by this situation, because many villages remained deserted and left to the laws of nature. All controversial moments that led to civil war remain unresolved, which precludes the establishment of normal conditions for the return of the Serbian population. Political centers of the newly independent states are only declaratively taking efforts to resolve these border problems, which are growing every day.

Демографски аспекти савремене просторно-функцијске организације мреже насеља Војводине

Author(s): Nikola Krunić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 9/2012

This paper represents recent research of spatial and functional organization of the Autonomus Province of Vojvodina in the Republic of Serbia (in the sequel - Vojvodina) based on the level of development of the spatial-functional links and relations in its network of settlements. Presented researches have their theoretical and methodological fundaments in the paradigms of functional regionalization and contemporary doctrines of regional development, based on relevant theorethical and methodological postulates of modern spatial planning, human geography, and its social and economical disciplines. The goal of this research was to indentify, realize and scientificaly explain the problems of development and functional organization of Vojvodina`s settlements` network, and to determine a model for the sustainable development of settlements.

Промене у биолошким и економским структурама становништва општине Рашка

Author(s): Ivana Penjišević,Milena M. Nikolić,Aleksa Popadić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 9/2012

The importance of studying population structures and their changes is reflected to the possibility of performing qualitative and quantitative analysis of the achieved population development of Raška municipality. Statistical analyzes were performed in two census years (1961 and 2002). This analyzes show that the negative demographic trends are expressed primarily through the constant decline in the rate of population growth and fertility on the one hand and the growth index and the coefficients of aging on the other hand. Such demographic situation in Raška municipality is particularly pronounced in the last decade of the 20th and the first decade of the 21st century. Therefore, it is necessary to stimulate positive demographic trends with appropriate population policy measures, in order to mitigate negative tendencies present in certain population structures of the municipality of Raška.

Социально-культурный потенциал города в оценках его жителей (на примере города Махачкалы)

Author(s): Èlʹdar Magomedovich Èlʹdarov,Zoja Alekseevna Trifonova / Language(s): Russian Issue: 10/2013

The sociocultural potential of the capital of the Republic of Dagestan (Russia) - the city of Makhachkala is estimated. The evaluation was based on revealing the degree of satisfaction of Makhachkala residents with the level of development of the institutes of the sociocultural sphere of their city and analysis of statistical indicators of the functioning of its institutions of culture, education, media and religion. A number of experts were interviewed and the questionnaire was polled by 500 Makhachkala residents in 2008 and 2010. It is concluded that the use of cultural institutions in this city is not effective and requires adjustments, taking into account the development trends of modern urban communities.

Савремене промене у развоју и размештају становништва града Чачка

Author(s): Ana Vrbnik,Dragica R. Gatarić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 10/2013

From 1960 to 1980, Serbia went through a huge socio-geographic transformation due to the influence of industrialization and urbanization. Simultaneoulsy, besides the transition of active population from primary into secondary and tertiary activities, there was a movement from rural into urban areas as well as strong transformation of both rural and urban settlements. Emigration played a dominant role in the decrease of rural population, while immigration had an important role in the increase of urban population. All this influenced the natural component of general migration of the population. New tendencies in migration and distribution of the population emerged since the eighties of the last century, which are characterized by a rapid decrease of the population in rural areas and stagnation and slow increase of urban population due to low immigration and rapid decrease of population growth. Similar processes took place on geospatial territory of today’s town – former municipality of Čačak. In order to determine these processes this paper analyses the relationship between natural and migration determinants of the development of the population in the municipality i.e. the Town of Čačak.

Turbulent history, troublesome heritage: Political change, social transformation, and the possibilities of revival in the “Old Jewish Quarter” of Budapest

Author(s): Erika Szívós / Language(s): English Issue: 1-2/2015

This article explores the history of Belső-Erzsébetváros, the Inner 7th District of Budapest, an urban area regarded as a historic Jewish quarter in today’s discourse. The historical summary focuses on societal transformations caused by political changes and historical tragedies during the 20th century. One explicit goal is to show in which ways the Inner 7th District of Budapest is unique among similar historic districts of other Central European cities: in Central European comparison, a large proportion of its population – just like the Jewish population of Budapest in general – survived the Holocaust. Therefore Jewish heritage has been experienced differently there than elsewhere in cities of the region. After briefly introducing the historical evolution of the Inner 7th District before World War II, the article portrays local society, and explores the social relations that characterized this area until the last years of the World War II. Patterns of ethnic and confessional intermixing will be interpreted as defining characteristics of the district in the interwar period. Then the author will show the way wartime events and political measures disrupted the social fabric of the neighborhood, and transformed the local population dramatically by the spring of 1945. At the same time, patterns of survival will be also emphasized. After discussing the impact of World War II and the Holocaust, the article will highlight the post-1945 shifts in local society, exploring the impact of migration as well as the connection between societal transformation and the area’s physical decay in the Communist period. Finally, the author will briefly touch upon the past 25 years, discussing the possibilities of revival in the area, pointing out the role of Jewish heritage in the recent rediscovery of the neighborhood.

THE IMPACT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE ON MEDIEVAL SETTLEMENT STRUCTURE IN TRANSDANUBIA

Author(s): O. Mészáros,Gábor Serlegi / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2011

The large-scale archaeological excavations of the past years yielded a rapid increase of archaeological finds and observations. This large amount of new evidence enabled the observation of wider environmental archaeological relationships. In the study we reconstruct certain environmental and settlement pattern changes from the 13th to the 18th centuries based on archaeological data from the southern shore of Lake Balaton and the cities of the Danube Bend region. The settlements on the shore of Lake Balaton and along the Danube reacted similarly, but with a temporal lag. Hydroclimatic changes caused a shift in the location and structure of lake- and riverside settlements, which was of a horizontal character in the case of Lake Balaton, and of a vertical character in the case of the Danube Bend region.

THE OTAVALEÑOS OF ECUADOR

Author(s): Jerome WINDMEYER / Language(s): English Issue: 3-4/1999

Since their appearance at the end of the 1980s the Indian music groups have become a familiar sight in the streets of many European cities. Dressed in a poncho, white trousers, sandals, a hat and their long hair in a pony-tail these mainly young boys attract the attention of the shopping public. In Holland the music they play forms a welcome alternative to the street organ that traditionally occupies the shopping streets. Next to playing music these Indian youngsters also sell textile products from the Andes and music cassettes and cd’s. These music groups come mostly from Ecuador, to be more precise from a certain region of Ecuador of which the centre is formed by the little town of Otavalo. The Indians1 – or indígenas – of this region are generally known as the Otavaleños.

A Home on the Range and the (Near) Extinction of the American Bison

Author(s): Tadeusz Rachwał / Language(s): English Issue: 04/2017

Fredreric Jackson Turner’s seminal essay on the significance of frontier in American culture interestingly posits the development of railways as extension of the buffalo trail. The presentation of his ideas in 1893 not only followed the announcement of the closing of the frontier by the superintendent of the U.S. Census (1890), but was also the time of the near-extinction of bison whose number declined from about 600,000,000 at the end of the 18th century to 300 in 1900. In the paper I will try to tone the Indian traders’ transformation of the buffalo trail into a railway with the replacement of buffalo herds by cow droves as well as the popularity the song “Home on the Range” which in a way mythologized the domestic coexistence of people with the roaming buffalo. Drawing from Thoreau’s hypothesis that cows are buffalos within and capable of reasserting their “native rights,” I will look at some examples of the return of the buffalo in the 20th and 21st centuries as, however simulated, attempts at a return to homes on the range, and at living on the frontier, even if the frontier has been relocated to the vicinity of the Fermilab bosons where a small buffalo herd is maintained.

Проект „Локални бедствия и качество на живот: Културни стратегии в преодоляване на природни, технологични и биологични катастрофи“

Author(s): Petya Bankova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2018

ARTICULATING PROTEST LEGITIMACY: A CASE STUDY OF COLLECTIVE ACTION FRAMING IN AN ENVIRONMENTAL CAMPAIGN

Author(s): Tao Papaioannou / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2018

Using the case of the “Save Akamas” campaign, an environmental initiative protesting for the protection of the Akamas National Park in Cyprus during the Cypriot financial crisis in 2015 – 2016, this study explored whether and how the campaigners utilised collective action frames to enhance their articulation of protest legitimacy. Based on 15 interviews with key protest organisers, the results illustrated that the protestors creatively employed several collective action frames in their struggle for public recognition, contextualisation and amplification of protest grievances. These frames were purposefully aligned to protest legitimacy while taking into consideration of clearly identifying direction/locus of responsibility attribution, enlarging the interpretive scope of a symbolic act and augmenting credibility of the proffered frames through social media. Combining collective action framing analysis with empirical legitimacy research, this study contributes to further understanding of strategies and processes of legitimation in issue-based citizen protests within the sociological theory of collective action.

Performance Budgeting Model in the Environmental Perspective: Tackling Waste Pollution

Author(s): Žiga Kotnik,Maja Klun,Damjan Škulj / Language(s): English Issue: 29/2017

Performance budgeting is the latest trend in attempts to improve government performance. In this article we investigate the interaction between environmental taxes; environmental expenditures and environmental impacts in the field of waste management. Performance budgeting is realized only once all three groups have been taken into consideration. We confirm direct and indirect effects of environmental taxes on the reduction of waste pollution. Further, we test the earmarking of environmental taxes through the effect of environmental indicators on environmental taxes and note that the rate is high.

Глобализација и екологија одрживог развоја

Author(s): Irina Kovačević / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 2/2011

Приказ/Review: Лариса Коломејцева-Јовановић, Принципи одрживог развоја у решавању глобалних еколошких проблема, „Ecologica“, Београд, 2011., стр. 126

Global Political Context in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Building: The Case of Morocco

Author(s): Fiona Sussan,Louis Daily / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

Research on entrepreneurship ecosystems (EE) lacks a political contextual approach, particularly in emerging economies. Morocco is a large country in the MENA region where entrepreneurship activities have been thriving over the past decade. Morocco, a kingdom endowed with many natural resources, has been labeled the “anti-Silicon Valley” for its vibrant but casual entrepreneurial community. This paper investigates the Moroccan EE from an international geo-political perspective to provide a gateway to understand entrepreneurship development in the region. The shaping of the entrepreneurial community in Morocco is also the result of the significant influence of foreign government. The investigation of the significance of foreign assistance as a soft policy tool in a target region or country is lacking in prior EE research. Morocco is a good example since the US foreign policy interests have been translated in significant foreign assistance programs.

Philosophy Related Views and Philosophy Related Metaphors of Pre-School Teacher Candidates for Children

Author(s): Elvan Sahin Zeteroglu,Feyza Doğan / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2019

The aim of this research is to examine the views and metaphorical perceptions of the pre-school teachers about the philosophy of children for preschool teachers. The study group of the research was composed of one hundred and thirty teacher candidates in total who are sixty-five first grade students and sixty five fourth grade students in Uludağ University Faculty of Education, Pre-school Teaching Department in the 2017 – 2018 academic year. This study is a mixed study in which qualitative and quantitative approaches are used together. In the study, looking at the metaphors that teacher candidates bring out, philosophy has mostly been stated as a source of chaos. It is referred that philosophy, which is mostly stated as a source of chaos, is also seen as a source of abstract thinking, a source of unhappiness, and a source of epistemology. Teacher candidates have often stated that philosophy has developed the ability for thinking and questioning, but, can be applied to children by adapting the philosophy to their developmental levels. It has been stated that most of the teacher candidates are not interested in philosophy but can participate if a seminar on philosophy is organized for children. The aim of this research is to examine the views and metaphorical perceptions of the pre-school teachers about the philosophy of children for pre-school teachers. The study group of the research was composed of one hundred and thirty teacher candidates in total who are sixty-five first grade students and sixty-five fourth grade students in Uludağ University Faculty of Education, Pre-school Teaching Department in the 2017 – 2018 academic year. This study is a mixed study in which qualitative and quantitative approaches are used together. In the study, looking at the metaphors that teacher candidates bring out, philosophy has mostly been stated as a source of chaos. It is referred that philosophy, which is mostly stated as a source of chaos, is also seen as a source of abstract thinking, a source of unhappiness, and a source of epistemology. Teacher candidates have often stated that philosophy has developed the ability for thinking and questioning, but, can be applied to children by adapting the philosophy to their developmental levels. It has been stated that most of the teacher candidates are not interested in philosophy but can participate if a seminar on philosophy is organized for children.