"HAYMAKING ON RAJAC" - Tourist event analysis according to gender and age structure

Author(s): Jovana Brankov,Željko Bjeljac,Ivan B. Popovic / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2009

This work, using previous researches of socio-demographic influences upon tourist market, studies habits and behavior of tourists (visitors) on tourist event Haymakingon Rajac mountain, as well as the use of advertising means for the purposes of gaining new information. The poll was conducted among 352 people selected by chance whereas the data analysis was carried out according to gender and aging structure. The aim of this research is to determine if there is a significant difference in the number or motives of traveling, choice of transport means, the amount of funds intended for staying and the way of spending money, as well as in using different means of tourist propaganda.

"Municipal settlements of Ukraine" database and its possible application spheres

Author(s): Glibchuk Petro Volodymyrovych / Language(s): English / Issue: 34/2016

With the development of geoinformation technologies and geoinformation mapping the sphere of activity of professional geographers and cartographers has been enriched by a wide application of databases (DB). They enable geographical information to be put in order in a user-friendly system. The article considers the methodological aspects of the organizations and creation of such a system - the "Municipal settlements of Ukraine" databases. The basic stages and databases forming the principles which the author designated during the creation of this specific database are highlighted. The DB structure is revealed - the list of the data included in every table is given. The ways of DB applications are determined; they consist in using DB for the creation of various cartographic studies and reference books about the municipal settlements in Ukraine. The prospects of DB development and perfection are considered.

(С)поделена природа? Природно наследство и местно развитие в един регион от българо-сръбското пограничие

Author(s): Ivaylo Markov / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2017

The article is focused on a border region between Bulgaria and Serbia which is geographically dominated by Ruy Mountain (whose ridge is the boundary between Bulgaria and Serbia) and the valley of Erma river forming two huge defiles along its way in this mountainous region – the Lomnishko defile (in Bulgaria) and the Poganovsko defile (in Serbia). The micro region (from natural and geographical point of view) shared until 1919 several cultural, social and economic characteristics (from an anthropological point of view), thus forming a common historical and geographical entity. The demarcation of the boundary between Bulgaria and Serbia as a result of the Treaty of Neuilly split the region between the two countries. The border regime, which was rigid and impermeable through the whole second half of the 20th century, made the zones on the both sides of the border well guarded, but industrially underdeveloped periphery. With the opening of the border in the period after 1989 and especially with the intensification of the European integration processes the character of the Bulgarian-Serbian border is undergoing changes and is gradually turning into a bridge for diverse trans-border initiatives. A great deal of these initiatives are connected with the well preserved ecology of the region, which is evaluated at present as a treasure by the local authorities and communities who believe it to be an important resource and instrument for the overcoming of the peripheral position of the region.

65 de ani de cercetare în construcţii, arhitectură şi urbanism

Author(s): / Language(s): Romanian / Publication Year: 2015

History of NIRD URBAN-INCERC: research in civil engineering, architecture and spatial planning.

A Defining Moment - Transnational Nursing Education

Author(s): Nirmala Arunasalam / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2017

A DEFINING MOMENT, Transnational Nursing Education by Dr Nirmala ARUNASALAM is a competent and accessible text focusing on nurse education. Recommended for teaching and learning as well as pedagogical courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It is a must have and a must read in a world of “pseudo factum knowledge” where social and human oriented professions and scientific disciplines such as nursing are getting little attention. The depth of the background for this study, and the intimate self-reflection Dr Arunasalam provides for this monograph greatly enhances the quality of the study. This book is an insightful exploration of an example of transnational higher education which identified some key questions that need to be asked about such programmes.

A diachronic approach of landscape changes. Case study: Morii Lake and its surroundings

Author(s): Mihaela Alina Ristea / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2013

The objective of this study is to identify specific characteristics of urban development in the category of complex facilities within cities. The study aims to identify changes that took place in the urban landscape, near Morii Lake on Dâmboviţa River, changes with a significant impact on the natural and anthropogenic environment. The analysis follows space functionality structure, whose evolution is basically modified. The communist period of the 80's, the one of great constructions, includes the design of Morii dam, based on the overall goal of protecting the capital from Dâmboviţa's floods. The interpretation of the results is oriented towards a complete picture of the advantages and disadvantages of building a dam lake within an urban area. The changes that took place both during and after the construction of Morii Lake, led to impregnation of another aspect of the landscape in the area. Among the visible effects, as a result of demolitions and displacements from the adjacent area, blocks of flats and villas were built, some agricultural area from the past have been left without use, nowadays attempting the tourist development of the area. For a better understanding and visualization of the results, databases were represented using GIS techniques.

A loosing combination for romanian cities? Shrinking population and urban sprawl

Author(s): Alina BAILESTEANU / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Urban development represents a key element of the sustainable economic development in all the countries. The cities through concentration of the people, services and business are driven forces for competitiveness of the countries. More than 70% of the EU population lives in urban areas, urban areas generate more than 67% of EU GDP, cities are territories that focuses most jobs, most economic and higher education institutions can be found in these areas which also provides access to services and trade. But also, in urban areas - unemployment, social segregation, environmental or mobility (congestion) are emphasized. According to the 2007 report of UNFPA, entitled "Urbanization, urban expansion potential", the phenomenon of urbanization will be the most important factor influencing development in the 21st century. Apparently the Romanian cities are facing similar problems as the Western European cities: decay of inner urban space and deterioration in the social, economic, political and physical substance of the city. In spite of the apparent similarity in the forms of manifestation of these phenomena, their substance is different.After emerging the communism era, Romania had to tackle and overcome all sorts of disparities and to reconnect to current practices and policies developed in Western European countries.

A Magyarországon élő külföldi állampolgárok területi koncentrációja, 2001–2011

Author(s): Áron Kincses / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 06/2014

Today the Carpathian Basin’s motherland role, a policy regarding minorities in neighbouring countries, transnationalism, multiple identities or multiple citizenship of the migrants, the new forms of migration, the circulation migration phenomenon are simultaneously present in Hungary. International migrants cannot be uniformly regarded. Our analysis divides migration of the population into four main groups: the double (Hungarian and other) citizens, foreign citizens, foreign-born citizens and returning Hungarian nationals.

A szelektív iskolaválasztás tényezői, motivációi és az oktatás minőségével való összefüggései a leghátrányosabb helyzetű térségekben

Author(s): Márta Kiss / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 4/2016

It is an individually rational choice when parents decide to take their children out of a local school if the segregation has started in that institution, however this process has very harmful consequences from the perspective of society. This collective action problem leads to disadvantaged children’s bigger lag and long term to their exclusion from integration. The Give Kids a Chance Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences has led a research project comprising 23 disadvantaged areas. Based on a large representative database the following questions are analysed: how many children are taken away from local schools in these rural areas, who are they (what kind of families are they from), what are the explanatory factors of the selective school choice and whether there is a difference of quality between the local schools and mobile children’s educational institutions.

A társadalmi integráció térbeli kérdései a városokban

Author(s): Gergely Olt / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 1/2016

The lack of social integration or signs of disintegration are often visible and can be delimited in space. “Bad neighbourhoods” and “no-go areas” or villages and regions going through ghettoization can give the impression as if social problems were only typical of these areas. However, these stigmatized territories are merely the symptoms of the fact that the social system cannot equally integrate everybody and the most disadvantaged and discriminated members are excluded from it in the physical sense as well. The social problems appearing in space are often treated – especially in the last few decades – with spatial interventions that are not handling the wider causes of them, and only displace the problems and the socially excluded residents. On the other hand, residents of these excluded territories often suffer disadvantages because of the dysfunctional institutions and unsatisfactory infrastructure in the broad sense that are typical in these areas. This can also mean that economic growth and social programmes are not affecting these places as elsewhere. This study reviews a part of the international literature of urban spatial interventions from the aspect of the spatial issues of social integration.

A View of Planning in Romania

Author(s): Josefina López Galdeano / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Abordarea acţiunilor de management teritorial la nivelul ariilor restructurate funcţional

Author(s): Andreea-Loreta Cercleux,Florentina-Cristina Merciu,Cristian-Constantin Draghici,Andrei Schvab / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 1/2013

This study is based on the general analysis of functional restructured areas, whose evolution is achieved through interdependence relations at the economic level that support their development and assertion. The main major types are: a) traditional residential areas restructured for residential and services, whose relative stability is given by the slow process of changing at the structural level under the influence of different socio-economical processes; b) industrial areas restructured for residential and residential-services, whose interpretation is related to the multiple dimensions that the industrial restructuring process has in principal (economic, social and environmental); c) old industrial areas restructured in industrial parks, the new areas being often combined to a viable industrial environment, undistorted, based on competition and on a stable legal framework, simple and coherent, in order to ensure a sustainable economical growth; d) residential and services areas restructured for transport, the concerns in the transport restructuring representing a step absolutely necessary in the whole process of urban restructuring.

Added value from European Territorial Co-operation: the impact of demographic change in the Alps on the young

Author(s): Naja Marot,Damjana Gantar,Barbara Cernic Mali / Language(s): English / Issue: 30/2015

The article sets demographic change in the Alps in the framework of European Territorial Cooperation programs . A statistical overview of selected regions in five Alpine countries serves as a basis for further policy analysis. The latter was undertaken to reveal how transnational projects tackle youth issues, including the difficulties within the labour and real estate markets that appeared to be the most problematic factors influencing (out) migration of the youth. While there is only a minor recognition of the young in current policy making on supranational, regional and local levels, the analysis showed that the added value of transnational programs for mountain regions and localities can be recognized in the development of multi-stakeholder environments, creating and transferring new solutions for the labour market as well as empowering youth participation in policy processes. However, the extent to which these solutions might contribute to overcoming the challenges of demographic change because of transnational programs is limited by various factors. Among these are the precise governance framework, administrative capacity, and population figures.

Afektywna topografia współczesnego Tokio w powieści Yoriko Shōno „Kombinat zakrzywionej czasoprzestrzeni” (Taimu surippu konbināto )

Author(s): Beata Kubiak Ho-Chi / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 6/2015

Kubiak Ho-Chi reads Yoriko Shōno’s novel ‘Time Slip Kombinat” (1994) in the light of Brian Massumi’s theory of affect. She highlights the importance of affect and the cognitive potential of studying the emotional interaction between the individual and the place (Tokyo) in Shōno’s novel. She also emphasizes the correspondence between the chaos of the city and the chaos of feelings, which becomes apparent in the novelistic world after the industrial catastrophe. While Shōno is still untranslated into Polish, in Japan she is counted among the most revolutionary contemporary writers. Saturated with an atmosphere of surrealism and a nightmarish combination of dream and wakefulness, her experimental prose represents a postmodern Japan as well as a modern individual lost in the globalized world, filled with fear and lacking all faith in the future.

AFRICA IN QUEST OF STABILITY? REFLECTIONS INSPIRED BY THE CURRENT PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

Author(s): Alphonse Zozime Tamekamta / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2018

This study proposes to analyze the determinants of the volatile situation of Africa and its capacity of adaptation or appropriation of the global stakes, with regard to the current problems of the humanity, described in the work coordinated by the Professor Dumitru Otovescu. Africa is considered here as a field of application since this continent is subject to all attention eye, all anxieties and all hopes. To lead this reflection, three methods of data collection were favoured: First, the ethnographic method which involved neutral direct observation. Observation provides information about social and political actors. Then, the interviews (unstructured, semi-structured and standardized) that gave rise to conversations, formal and informal, conducted on the basis of an interview guide, a questionnaire or a survey, structured around from subject. Finally, the exploitation of newspaper articles, magazines and periodicals, various reports, books, etc. At the end of this work, it is observed that Africa suffers as much as the other continents the volatility of the banking and economic system due to the practice of capitalism. Although sector-specific (developed-country) and global responses have been taken following several global economic and financial crises, Africa has remained isolated and compartmentalized. Today, its galloping demography and the extreme youth of its population as well as the natural wealth at its disposal are the basis of the hope of Africa. In contrast, the segmentation of its economic recovery programs, the tribulations of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), the faculties of its political governance and the recurrence of crises and complex escapes.

AGE STRUCTURE OF GYPSIES IN VOJVODINA

Author(s): Tamara Kovacevic,Andelija Ivkov-Džigurski,Branislav Ðurdev / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2005

Population ageing is very spread as in Serbia, so in Europe. Interests o fDemographers have not often been occupying with age structure of Gypsies in Vojvodina. Therefore, explorations are focused on it. Explorations are shown that the Gypsy population is the youngest on the territory of Vojvodina Province, but indicates of ageing are growing slowly. Changes in age structure are influenced by demographic transition. Gypsis represents atypical age patterns in Vojvodina population. Attendance of tendencies in age structure of Gypsies is very important. Analysis and comparison of Gypsies according to Censuses are elaborated in this paper. With statistic methods and mathematics proceeding are compared different parameters of the level of ageing (e.g. middle age, index of ageing etc). Results might used in function of Gypsiology.

Amateur Football – Identity and Memory

Author(s): Iva Kyurkchieva / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2017

This paper analyses the role of a village near Sofia’s football tournament and the football museum established in that same village as specific times and places of memory.The author’s interest is provoked by the fact that football occupies a significant part of the living world of the bearers of that culture; it touches them emotionally and their experiences related to it are extremely important to them. Football gives meaning to their workdays and holidays and at the same time, it becomes a kind of regulator of neighbourly and village relations. It also contributes to the adaptation of young people into modern society. The football occupations of the local people seriously influence their social life. By means of football, they provide themselves with the components of their local identity construction, which increase communal confidence and differentiate them from others.

An introductory study of perceptual marginality in Slovakia

Author(s): Roman Mikuš,Lucia Máliková,Viliam Lauko / Language(s): English / Issue: 34/2016

The existence of marginal regions is closely linked to the socio-spatial polarisation of our society. Especially in the post socialist countries, including Slovakia, which have undergone significant social and economic transformation, spatial polarisation and related regional disparities have become a relevant issue across multidisciplinary academic research. This study focuses on similarities and differences in defining the marginality from two different perspectives - one that is based on quantification of statistical data and another based on individual perception of marginality from the position of local mayors. Local mayors, the main figures of the local governance, have in the Slovak system of administration huge responsibility in the development of communes and a great opportunity to improve the status of certain communes, especially those marginal. At the same time this study investigates how the political affiliation and political support affect their competencies and activities in relation to the marginal position of their commune.

Analize geostatistice ale căilor de comunicaţie din puncte de vedere referitoare la geostrategie şi dezvoltarea regională

Author(s): Alexandru-Ionut Petrisor,Razvan Andrei Oprea,Liviu Bogdan Vlad / Language(s): Romanian / Publication Year: 0

Accessibility is a key concept in regional development, with numerous ties to territorial cohesion and polycentricity. Moreover, it also exhibits a geo-strategic function, anchored in the international relationships between countries and continents. The article reviews several case studies, placing analyses of the Romanian accessibility in a broader context. The results show that regional development, overall EU connectivity and possible transit fluxes are prevented by the configuration or lack of communication routes. Increasing the accessibility of regions must be a priority of governments, regardless of political opinions. It is expected that the transition of economy to post-carbon era or other models – green economy, knowledge-based economy etc.) – to result into the emergence of new poles and axes of development, and ensure transport sustainability.

Analysis of demographic processes in Poland and the Baltic States since the end of the XVIII century and forecast up to 2096

Author(s): Andrei Manakov,Pavel Suvorkov / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2017

Negative demographic tendencies are some of the most serious problems of development of post-Socialist countries. Goal of this research is historical analysis and forecast of demographic processes in Poland and the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania). The demographic forecast is prepared on the basis of revision of forecast model of the Population Division of United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Scenario approach and simulation multi-factor modeling act as the main methods of this research. One of the key objectives is critical analysis of use of the hypothesis of stabilization of migration components of demographic processes in scenarios of UN Secretariat. According to the most probable scenario, Latvia (-49% of modern population) can become the leader in expected depopulation within the next 80 years among the considered countries, smaller indicators of depopulation are expected in Lithuania (-43%), Poland (-38%) and Estonia (-34%).