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

Author(s): Jovana Brankov,Željko Bjeljac,Ivan B. Popović / 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.

"MAPE STEREOTIPA" KAO DUHOVITO-OPAKI PROIZVOD:FOLKLORIZACIJA I KOMERCIJALIZACIJA ETNIČKIH PREDRASUDA U INTERNET PROSTORU

Author(s): Dragana Antonijević,Ana Banić Grubišić / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 1/2013

"Maps of stereotypes", whether they are made for commercial purposes created by Bulgarian designer Yanko Tsvetkov or have been created by anonymous authors, has become extremely popular in Cyberspace in the last two years. They are transmitted via e-mail communication or via social networks and the web pages which host this kind of maps attracts millions of visitors. Their intended humor has it vicious side: in the form of joke they provide folklorized prejudices about nations and states, and at the same time they cemented them as fixed images, ethnic labels and essentialized notions in consciousness and conception of the numerous Internet audience. From the multicultural perspective and its necessity for negotiating the diversity of identities who are supposedly susceptible of change, these stereotypical maps by utilizing cleverly constructed notions express the complete opposition: the characteristics of the people and of the state of a particular historical and political period are essencialized, offering as a "truth" the point of view of the sender without the possibility of the message recipient to respond in other ways than to press the "like button" or to show "silent" revolt or, even, by creating the "contra-map" with similar humorous and vicious content. In this paper we will examine the phenomenon of so called maps of stereotypes and ascribed notions of Serbia within political and geographical territory of former Yugoslavia and the Balkans.

"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.

1887 Nüfus Sayımına Göre Bulgaristan Burgaz İlinde Etnik Yapının Mekânsal Dağılımı

Author(s): Beycan Hocaoğlu / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 01/2021

The results of the census of 1887 which was published in 1888 by the smallest settlements provide an understanding of the religion, language and to some extent the migration characteristics of the population during the transition from Turkish authority to Bulgarian dominance. The aim of this study is to show the spatial distribution of these characteristics by mapping them in the possible smallest settlement. As a result, it has been seen that the Turks and Muslims have been concentrated mostly to the northern borders of the province especially where the Deli Kamçık strait connects Burgaz to Varna and is an important chokepoint to the “Sağ Kol” while the Orthodox Greeks are in majority at the most of the coastal cities such as Sozopol, Burgaz, Anhialo and Mesemvri. Bulgarian Orthodox population is located in the southern part of the province while to the north gradually Bulgarian coexists with the Turkish population.

20. godina rada društva

Author(s): Hamdo Tabaković / Language(s): Bosnian,Croatian,Serbian / Issue: 3/1977

Speleološko društvo Bosne i Hercegovina osnovano je 5. aprila 1956. godine u Sarajevu. Prateće društvo bila je Speleološka sekcija pri Geografskom društvu BiH, koja je formirana 12. oktobra 1954. godine i djelovala je sve do osnivanja Speleološkog društva.

25 WYKŁADÓW O MIGRACJACH

Author(s): Magdalena Lesińska,Marek Okólski / Language(s): Polish

Książka jest użytecznym kompendium wiedzy o jednym z najważniejszych procesów społecznych XX i XXI wieku - współczesnych migracjach ludności.- Dlaczego historia człowieka to historia migracji? - Kim jest migrant, uchodźca, repatriant? - Jakie są przyczyny procesów migracyjnych i jakie są ich skutki dla jednostki, rodziny i społeczeństwa?- Jaka będzie przyszłość migracji?- Kim są i jak funkcjonują cudzoziemcy w Polsce? - Dlaczego migranci są populacją trudną do zbadania?Na te i wiele innych ważnych pytań odpowiadają w prezentowanej pracy specjaliści z różnych dyscyplin naukowych, m.in.: demografii, socjologii, ekonomii, nauk politycznych, prawa, historii, geografii i antropologii.Jako podstawowe kompendium wiedzy o wszelkich zjawiskach i procesach dotyczących przeszłych, teraźniejszych i przyszłych migracji niniejsza książka znajdzie czytelników wśród osób zawodowo zajmujących się tą problematyką, lecz z uwagi na przystępny język zainteresuje z pewnością także osoby spoza świata nauki.z recenzji dr hab. Marii Zielińskiej, prof. UZCechą dobrego wykładu (z którym mamy tu do czynienia) jest jego treściwość połączona ze zwięzłością. (…) Sprawiło to, że przygotowane zostało obszerne i poważne kompendium wiedzy z zakresu migracji, bardzo potrzebne na polskim rynku wydawniczym. Nie ulega też wątpliwości, że otrzymana publikacja, gromadząca rzetelną wiedzę z wielu dyscyplin, będzie jedną z ważniejszych w dostępnej literaturze przedmiotu.z recenzji prof. dr hab. Krystyny RomaniszynW tomie publikują: Marta Anacka, Katarzyna Andrejuk, Jan Brzozowski, Maciej Duszczyk, Agnieszka Fihel, Kamila Fiałkowska, Michał P. Garapich, Agata Górny, Izabela Grabowska, Marta Jaroszewicz, Aleksandra Grzymała-Kazłowska, Anna Janicka, Ewa Jaźwińska, Paweł Kaczmarczyk, Marta Kindler, Witold Klaus, Weronika Kloc-Nowak, Piotr Koryś, Magdalena Lesińska, Karolina Łukasiewicz, Wojciech Łukowski, Michał Nowosielski, Marek Okólski, Marta Pachocka, Aneta Piekut, Karolina Podgórska, Agnieszka Radziwinowiczówna, Justyna Salamońska, Karolina Sobczak-Szelc, Renata Stefańska, Dariusz Stola, Monika Szulecka, Przemysław Śleszyński, Sabina Toruńczyk-Ruiz, Paulina Trevena, Mieczysława Zdanowicz, Piotr Zdanowicz.

65 de ani de cercetare în construcţii, arhitectură şi urbanism

Author(s): / Language(s): Romanian

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

A calibrated synthetic estimator for small area estimation

Author(s): Matthew Joshua Iseh,Ekaette I. Enang / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2021

Synthetic estimators are known to produce estimates of population mean in areas where no sampled data are available, but such estimates are usually highly biased with invalid confidence statements. This paper presents a calibrated synthetic estimator of the population mean which addresses these problematic issues. Two known special cases of this estimator were obtained in the form of combined ratio and combined regression synthetic estimators, using selected tuning parameters under stratified sampling. In result, their biases and variance estimators were derived. The empirical demonstration of the usage involving the proposed calibrated estimators shows that they provide better estimates of the population mean than the existing estimators discussed in this study. In particular, the estimators were examined through simulation under three distributional assumptions, namely the normal, gamma and exponential distributions. The results show that they provide estimates of the mean displaying less relative bias and greater efficiency. Moreover, they prove more consistent than the existing classical synthetic estimator. The further evaluation carried out using the coefficient of variation provides additional confirmation of the calibrated estimator’s advantage over the existing ones in relation to small area estimation.

A Comparative Analysis of Serbian National Culture and National Cultures of Some European Countries by Globe Project Approach

Author(s): Milena Nedeljković Knežević,Jelena Vukonjanski Srdić,Milan Nikolić,Olga Hadžić,Marica N. Šljukić / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2018

Many scholars have been interested in grouping countries into similar clusters based on different criteria including geographic proximity, mass migrations, and ethnic social capital and religious and linguistic commonality. Clustering of societies is beneficial for many reasons and the GLOBE project method of clustering is of special importance from the intercultural management point of view. The results of the GLOBE project were based on the data collected from samples which consisted of middle managers. In this paper, we used the GLOBE project approach to clustering process because of its importance from the point of view of international business cooperation. Namely, it is well known that national culture strongly influences organizational culture and that the business performances are much better when national and organizational cultures fit well. Our cluster consists of Serbia and the Eastern European cluster without Georgia, Kazakhstan and Albania, since the rest of the Eastern European cluster has many common historical connections with Serbia including the fact that they belonged to the former Eastern Bloc (the Communist Bloc) or they were under the occupation of the Ottoman Empire during a long period.

A Defining Moment - Transnational Nursing Education

Author(s): Nirmala Arunasalam / Language(s): English

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 Few Chapters of the Earlier History of Operational Urban Development in Central Europe

Author(s): László Bajnai,Attila Józsa / Language(s): English / Issue: 18/2020

The necessity of operational urban development becomes obvious if we intend to respond with a planned urban development to the challenges posed by an environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable urbanization. We all know the means necessary to enable operational urban development, the ones making planned urban development possible in the most developed founding Member States of the EU as well as in Central Europe – the region of the former ‘Mitteleuropa’. Operational urban development needs to be fully consistent with its objective in a constantly changing public policy, market, economic, and social environment while also being guided by the current local conditions, which is why improving and developing its toolbox and methodology according to scientific standards is an ongoing task. In terms of the evolution of this process, the culture ensuring its control is a crucial factor, wherefore not only the existing toolbox and methodology, serving as its subject, is worth investigating but the very historical foundation it relies on. Indeed, this is a factor that, even despite an uncertain public policy and social environment, can prove conclusively that operational urban development, acting as a prerequisite for a conscious and planned urban development, is possible not merely because there is an established and rich toolbox in place in the most developed Western European EU Member States, which has been functioning continuously and efficiently since the end of World War II and which has, since 1990, increasingly provided for the reintegrating countries of Central Europe too, allowing for adaptation to the local conditions, but it is also possible because what we call in today’s terms operational urban development is not some questionable practice of uncertain past but is nearly as ancient as the present-day European civilization with thousands of years of history, taken root in the wake of the Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Christian cultures – and this statement holds true not only for the most developed and richest countries but for those of Central Europe as well. The activity known today by the name of operational urban development already yielded some results in the past without which our cities would not be the same. This is not just the case in Western Europe but also in Central Europe. The mainstream of the European history of operational urban development that can be identified in connection with Italy, France, Germany, Spain, and England is a better-known and internationally more addressed topic in the literature even if it does not emerge in public awareness directly by this name but as a phenomenon integrated in other dimensions of the history of urbanism and architecture, the history of ideas, engineering, history, and geography. At the same time, although the turning points in its Central European history are increasingly present in scientific publications, the latter is still awaiting substantive treatment. In the above-specified context, the present study aims to facilitate this European cognitive process focused on Central Europe for ‘the history of science is science itself’.

A microscale study on perception of dangerous places. The case of Gniezno, Poland

Author(s): Emilia Bogacka,Anna Siniecka / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2020

Research on the sense of security in Polish crime geography has been developed since the end of the 20th century. The studies conducted focus primarily on the overall assessment of a city or town, or its selected parts, using survey questionnaires. This study is an attempt to address the issue of the sense of security at a microscale level. The focus of the paper is to identify dangerous places in Gniezno using a survey and analyse them using complementary methods: desk research, interviews with police officers, field inventory and photographic documentation. The research was carried out in the years 2017-2019. Research on the sense of security in Polish crime geography has been developed since the endof the 20th century. The studies conducted focus primarily on the overall assessment of a city or town,or its selected parts, using survey questionnaires. This study is an attempt to address the issue of thesense of security and, in particular, perception of dangerous places, at a microscale level. The focusof the paper is, first, to identify dangerous places in Gniezno using a survey and second, to analysethem using complementary methods: desk research, interviews with police officers, field inventoryand photographic documentation. The research was carried out in the years 2017–2019. The senseof security, both regarding the city as a whole and selected urban spaces, was higher during the day.The places most frequently indicated by the respondents as dangerous, regardless of the time of day,were: Tajwan, Cierpięgi street, the Old Town and parks. Difficult past and the image of the place playa crucial role in the safety perception.

A statistical and analytical study of the factors that impede women's participation in the economic activities in Kirkuk, Iraq

Author(s): Haseeb Hasan Sabah,Al-Harthi Abdulrahim Khalaf Rahi,Abdul Kareem Anwar Dhia'a / Language(s): English / Issue: 3-4/2019

This study deals with the issue of women's participation in economic activities in Kirkuk, Iraq, and the main factors that impede this participation. It employs the questionnaire designed for this purpose and distributed to women in Kirkuk. Additionally, the principal components method is used to reduce the number of the variables involved in the analysis to the lowest number of factors that serve as the best representation of the variables. The findings demonstrate that eight main factors representing the study variables. These factors explained about 70% of their total variance. Based on these factors, conclusions and recommendations are made on the study subject.

Affirmer son identité : un défi (bi)national et international de l’ethnie wayúu (Venezuela-Colombie)

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Author(s): Natacha Vaisset / Language(s): French / Issue: Special/2018

This paper observes how the Wayúu people (the most numerous native ethnic group in Colombia and Venezuela) adapts occidental economic patterns developing resilience strategies that mix identitary, territorial and economical criteria. Thus, they applied acultural and economical hybridization using tools and organizational method proper of the alijunas (the “non-Wayúu”) and even exploiting the flaws of these to develop activities belonging to their ethnic identity. However, they didn’t escape the damages due to extractivism and globalization. Hence, it’s necessary to think about the mechanisms established, by the Wayúu themselves (and by the institutions), in order to try and remedy these issues and/or to preserve strong identity markers as well as to stay part of their national communities.As a result, we postulate that the phenomenon leading to the Wayúu marginalization are also mechanisms for their “visibilization” on a national (or even international) level.

AFYONKARAHİSAR’IN NÜFUS COĞRAFYASI ÖZELLİKLERİ

Author(s): Fatih Ayhan / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 3/2020

Afyonkarahisar is located in the inner West Anatolian part of the Aegean region and at an important junction point in terms of transportation. In 1927, when the first census of the republican period was carried out, while Afyonkarahisar was the 18th most populous city in the country with a population of 258.743 people, by 2019, its population reached 729.483 but declined to 31st in the country. Afyonkarahisar, which has a very mountonious structure, Since it could not provide its economic development at the desired level, it send imigrants primarily to İzmir and its surrounding cities metropolitan cities such as İstanbul and Ankara. In the province, whose economy is based on agriculture and animal husbandry, approximately 40.2% of the population lives in rural areas as of 2019.In this study, some characteristics of the population of the city of Afyonkarahisar have been examined within the scope of population geography. In this context, development of the population of the province during the republic period, growth rates over the years, rural-urban rates, gender and age structure, migrations and thedistribution in the province was examined during the census years.

AGE STRUCTURE OF GYPSIES IN VOJVODINA

Author(s): Tamara Kovačević,Anđelija Ivkov-Džigurski,Branislav S. Đurđev / 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.

Agrotourism - Source of Income for the Rural Population

Author(s): Petrică Sorin Angheluță,Oleg Margina,Carmen Georgiana V. Badea / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2017

The article treats the rural environment of Romania, through developing the agro-tourism with its tourist villages. It highlights the features of agro-tourism in comparison with traditional tourism and the impact of it on local community and local economy as a source of revenues for its rural population. The Romania’s socio-economic development, according to the European standards and requirements, depends largely on rural area development, which is so significant for our country’s international recognition. The problem of the sustainable development of the rural areas constitutes a high priority for Romania in the quality of European Union’s member state. This supposes adopting of a coherent strategy that can realize a balance between the preservation demand of the economic, ecologic and socio-cultural area on one hand, and the tendency of life country modernization, on the other side.

Aktywizacja i integracja mieszkańców gminy Konopnica w odniesieniu do mocnych i słabych stron (analiza SWOT)

Author(s): Beata Żuraw,Małgorzata Szymańska,Mirosław Żydek / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2018

The Konopnica Commune, adjacent to the voivodeship capital Lublin, is of agricultural character. Due to transformations in the agricultural economy and inflow of population from the nearby city, the social sphere of life is gaining importance. One of the elements of its proper functioning is the developed network of non-governmental organisations and various forms of cooperation with the NGO environment. Many initiatives activating residents are implemented in the commune. The most interesting one is the international project “Promotion of land culture and preservation of historical heritage” conducted together with the Trembowla municipality in the Tarnopol oblast in Ukraine. The following associations are active in the area of the commune: Association Local Action Group for the Development of the Lublin Poviat “Kraina wokół Lublina”, 12 units of the Volunteer Fire Brigade, Association “Pracownia Twórczych Działań”, and Association “Skaut” with its seat in Lublin, implementing cultural-social workshops in the Konopnica Commune. Residents of the commune implement and develop passions in groups and artistic teams, including: singing group “Rola”, theatre group “Stacja Teatr”, ballet group “Arabeski”, group “Malarki z Konopnicy”, and a music band. Owing to the work of enthusiasts, cultural-social meetings are organised in the form of cyclical events and one-off actions. The cultural development is stimulated by cultural entities (“Dom Kultury” in Motycz, Commune Library and its branches, Ośrodek Działań Twórczych). The aforementioned advantages of the Konopnica Commune offer a chance for its development both in the socio-economic sphere and in terms of cultural-environmental heritage.

Aktywność społeczna mieszkańców gmin województwa lubelskiego, w których realizowano prace scaleniowe gruntów rolnych – studium przypadku

Author(s): Małgorzata Dudzińska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2016

Agricultural land consolidation affects the development of rural areas. He FAO [2008] classifies land consolidation impacts at three levels: first, there is the micro-level, where land consolidation aims focus on changing the farm structure. Secondly, there is the meso-level, where land consolidation has broader aims for changing rural communities by improving infrastructure, the natural environment, management of natural resources, landscape and, consequently, the spatial distribution of economic activities. Finally, there is the macro-level, where the focus is on changes which can positively affect the whole country, by reducing the disparities between rural and urban areas. According to Dacko [2006], the main goal of land consolidation should be to improve the quality of rural life, and not only to increase agricultural production. Land consolidation measures should be initiated to revive the countryside by encouraging continuous economic and political development of the local community, while protecting and rationally managing natural resources. He local community should participate democratically in land consolidation and in defining new forms of land use that make the most of the local potential. Therefore, the passage of time has brought about changes to the wider perception of consolidation work – not only in the strictly technical and economic aspects but in the social and environmental ones. One of the social benefits resulting from the implementation of consolidation work is the active involvement of the local community in the issues related to the formation of spatial conditions and enhancing the inhabitants’ social activity. In view of the above, the aim of the paper is to investigate the level of social activity of inhabitants in the communes in which agricultural land consolidation has been implemented. He study employed an analysis and synthesis of the literature as well as spatial and statistical research. He area under study included communes of Lubelskie voivodship.

ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITIES IN RURAL SPACES. A WORLD OF OTHERS

Author(s): Angel Paniagua / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

This contribution is an analysis of difference between alternative communities and a case study of others in a community of others. There is no academic consensus in the geographical field about others ruralities. Through the exam of the alternative spaces is possible to advance in the interpretation of the difference and the others. We seek to give a big picture of the alternative communities in depopulated areas and the differences between them. The alternative communities grouped in the Red Iberica of Ecoaldeas are the empirical example with a specific case study: Tierras Altas in Soria (Spain). The technique of investigation in the documentary interpretation of its own sources: leaflets, advertisements, propaganda and information leaflets. A systematic inventory and analysis of the journalistic reports on these initiatives is a secondary source. In addition, geo-ethnographic methods are used in the case of study. The study reveals different –and even contrasted- types of rural alternatives in Spain, based in new form of difference/alternative (rural) lives in a specific and special place and singular housing. It are concluded that among the other alternatives there is no convergence in its self-definition, an open category. It constitutes the symbiosis between nature, community and individual. The relationship between others alternatives and the nature/land is a central element in the discourse, tactics and strategies. In addition, social exclusivity is one of the characteristics of many alternative settlements. It eliminates the conflict between traditional rural communities and new comers.