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It is spoken about the soul vessel – the Kur river which undergoes to serious pollution in Georgia and Armenia until it flows into Azerbaijan republic and about prompt actions which will be taken to avoid this disaster.
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To intervene on urban development, with the aim of finding an alternative model that has emerged in the last century, a sustainable approach is necessary so as to establish the territory as a pattern in which it is not possible to detect the boundaries between the natural and artificial environments and in which each process is controlled so that its impact and, consequently, the irreversible degradation induced is the minimum possible in relation to the constraints of the process itself. The urban context should be seen as an organism with a dynamic balance achieved through the technological control of complex functions. With the aim of achieving these objectives, the role of open urban spaces is particularly important, since they constitute nodal elements capable of performing the delicate function of linking the urban systems with the surrounding natural ones, while assuming a strategic role in the transformation of anthropized areas. In this context urban farming can make a valuable contribution as an effective instrument for the renewal of urban open space because offers significant possibilities from an environmental, economic and social perspective (Franchino, 2015).The drawing of a territory offers a contribution into the phases of a local context analysis and architectural design communication. In the specific field of urban farming and about the project introduced in this abstract,the study of the area has been the preparatory analysis phase for the knowledge of the local resources,founding premise of a proper planning process. The analysis of the agricultural vocation of the area emerged also through the map comparative study, both diachronic and synchronic. This study, simultaneous to the study of urban farming models, has allowed the development of the project idea. The representation and communication of the project took place through different methods and tools. The articulation of the interior and open spaces occurred through plan and front views, the communication of the project is rather occurred through render views that illustrated both changes through day and night views, but also the landscape modifies through the evolution and the alternations of crops over the seasons.In order to obtain an applicative definition of these concepts, is presented a structured case study related to the requalification of a degraded urban area in the South of Italy.
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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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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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Recent studies of developmental psychologists show that children already in infancy can reason, explore and experience. It is not true that a child up to 7 years of age is not able to plan their actions and realize what they had planned. It is also true that children in preschool and early school should learn about nature descriptive method. Commonly accepted goals of environmental education clearly indicate that the research method is basic to obtain the understanding of natural processes and phenomena and acquiring skills of their data. The educational documents in force in Poland in kindergarten and grades IIII does not sufficiently indicated the leading role of this method in natural science education of young children, despite the changes that have been carried out during the reform program in 2008 years. There is also no consistency in the area of general and specific requirements formulated for the higher stages of education, especially for the second stage (nature, class IV–VI of primary school). This may result in problems arising from the research skills deficit in students entering grade VI of nature as well as lower results of Polish students in international studies. There are examples of good practice in this area, even if the standards and programming framework in the United States, which can be used when amending the existing document core curriculum document of pre-school education and general education in the natural area. It seems significant to institute a systemic change in kindergarten and early school teacher training, as well as to adapt the teacher support system to new challenges related to early science education.
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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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When I am writing this sentence, the year 2014 is slowly coming to an end – it is 11.11.2014 today. Therefore, it is a good time to summarize last months and reflect upon the situation. Among many positive observations, I find two areas which have drastically changed my opinion about some people. To organize the text in a logical form, I dare to divide it into two sections: 1) guided tours and outdoor lessons, and 2) student conferences.
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Education concerning biodiversity has a long tradition in Poland, and has its origin in environmental education in XIX century. Biodiversity education in a novel approach encompasses three aspects – environment, society and economy. This approach arise with Education for Sustainable Development and Biodiversity Convention in 1992 during United Nations conference in Rio de Janeiro „Environment and development”. Poland as the cosignatory of Biodiversity Convention is obliged to educate for biodiversity protection on all levels of formal education. What means, that content connected to biodiversity should be present in all documents related to formal education, including curricula at universities. Here we aimed at comparing curricula of two faculties at Pedagogical University in Cracow: Biology and Environmental protection to verify if they include content related to biodiversity.
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„Czas wreszcie przestać robić z Natury ludzkich igraszek wielkie śmietnisko!” – manifest ekologiczny XXI wieku
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Review of: Wiesław Stawiński - Edukacja przyrodnicza wobec wyzwań współczesności. Podręcznik akademicki, Katarzyna Potyrała, Alicja Walosik (red.), „Kubajak”, Krzeszowice 2011, s. 312.
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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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Environmental accounting has gained importance in the eyes of both managements and their partners in terms of performing many activities such as engaging in activities in environment-friendly way, using technologies as environment oriented, tracking environmental costs in correct way, giving detailed information related to environmental performance and standards and reporting environmental activities in regular basis. In this research the value added that is procured to management and environment by the approaches which are used in calculation of environmental costs by taking environmental costs concept into consideration. In a cement plant the values added procured to the management by applying “Interview”, “Observation” and “Document Review” that are qualitative research methods are presented by a case study The purpose of the study is to explain how particularly the manufacturing enterprises get positive feedback through the measures they have taken in order to minimize the environmental damages caused or to be caused by the enterprises with the annual data of an enterprises in the cement industry, and show how environmental costs of the enterprise occur in this respect and set a model for the other enterprises.
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The history of human civilization is marked by accompaniment of specific plants. Their occurrence is strictly connected with economic processes and places disturbed by human. During a few archaeobotanical studies carried out in Kraków between years 1934 and 2001, many fruits and seeds of pant species were found in medieval layers dated to the 9–15th centuries A.D. They were mainly useful and synanthropic plants: weeds, ruderals and former cultivars or cultivars. These plants were dominated by weeds of cultivated crops characteristic of cornfields and flax fields and of root crops and gardens. Second types of debris are dominated by species characteristic of annual and biennial vegetation communities in ruderal habitats also thermophilic and heavily nitrophilous ruderal communities. Thanks to application of ecological characterization of individual synanthropic species and phytosociological analyses of ecological amplitudes of assemblages forming by them, it was possible to reconstruct environmental conditions ruling in medieval Kraków and location of several types of agricultures.
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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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The aim of this article is to discover if or how sustainable development (SD) is present in the current National Curriculum in Poland. We present the qualitative and quantitative analysis of core curriculum, taking into account the presence of issues connected with SD on different education levels (early childhood education, primary school, middle school and high school) and on various subjects. The list of linguistic indicators was constructed in order to analyze mentioned document in terms of the occurrence of SD and its components. The indicators were created on the basis of UNECE Strategy of Education for Sustainable Development, literature and authors’ personal knowledge. The conclusions of this study may serve further consideration on how important sustainable development is and how it is represented not only in Core Curriculum but also in school reality.
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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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Cele kształcenia: • umiejętności (wymagania ogólne): IV. Rozumowanie i argumentacja. Uczeń interpretuje informacje i wyjaśnia zależności przyczynowo- -skutkowe między faktami, formułuje wnioski. • wiadomości (wymagania szczegółowe): IV. Ekologia. 8) wskazuje żywe i nieożywione elementy ekosystemu, wykazuje, że są one powiązane różnorodnymi zależnościami, 9) opisuje zależności pokarmowe (łańcuchy i sieci pokarmowe) w ekosystemie, rozróżnia producentów, konsumentów i destruentów oraz przedstawia ich rolę w obiegu materii i przepływie energii przez ekosystem.
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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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Conservation of the environment as important conditions for sustainable development in recent years has become one of the significant agenda of all countries in the world. In fact, forming the production processes to protect the environment and human health and adoption of environmentally friendly production methods are going to be important. In this context, the organic agriculture is considered as an alternative agricultural system ensuring the development of such capacity and sustainability. With the decline in oil prices in recent years, the development of non-oil sector in Azerbaijan and in particular the realization of the necessity of high value-added agricultural production has been raised. In this country with a less polluted environment due to various reasons, the development of the organic agriculture regarded as a different perspective. Azerbaijan and Turkey, found in important collaborations in many areas, there is potentials for developing current situation mutually and having the opportunity to cooperate in organic agriculture issues.
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