scholarly journals Comparison between simplified and standardized Penman evaporation equation: Egyptian Mediterranean coast case study

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maged M.A. Hussein
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Coast

The formation of the Egyptian Arabic dialect area

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Behnstedt ◽  
Manfred Woidich
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Coast ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
Dialect Contact ◽  
Historical Information ◽  
Egyptian Arabic ◽  
Transitional Area ◽  
The Mediterranean

This chapter deals with the sedentary dialects of Egypt, excluding the bedouin dialects of Sinai and the Libyan bedouin dialects on the Mediterranean coast. It attempts to combine historical information on the settlement of Arabic tribes in Egypt with accounts of present-day Egyptian dialects and those of the regions from which those tribes came, initially Yemen and the Levant, later Hejaz, and then the Maghreb. The diversity of the Egyptian Arabic dialect area is partly explained by external factors, namely different layers of arabization over centuries. It is also explained by internal factors, namely dialect contact, which implies phenomena such as hyperdialectisms. Egypt is seen as a dialect area in its own right, but one that shows phenomena of a transitional area between the Arab East and West. A case study of Alexandria deals with dialect death. The role of substrata is discussed, but is considered negligible.

Establishing the occurrence and profile of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in marine sediments: The eastern Mediterranean coast of Spain as a case study

2019 ◽  
Vol 142 ◽  
pp. 206-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.A. González-Fuenzalida ◽  
R. Herráez-Hernández ◽  
J. Verdú-Andrés ◽  
A. Bouzas-Blanco ◽  
A. Seco-Torrecillas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons ◽  
Marine Sediments ◽  
Aromatic Hydrocarbons ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Mediterranean Coast ◽  
Polycyclic Aromatic

scholarly journals Protected Areas and Overuse in the Context of Socio-Natural Changes: An Interdisciplinary French Case Study

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 73-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cécilia Claeys ◽  
Carole Barthelemy ◽  
Thierry Tatoni ◽  
Patrick Bonhomme
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sociology ◽  
Mediterranean Coast ◽  
Natural Areas ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Natural Area ◽  
The Social ◽  
French Case ◽  
Natural Change ◽  
Survey Questionnaires

Abstract: This article provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the notion of overuse in natural areas. Based on the case of the French Calanques massif (located along the Mediterranean coast between Marseilles and Cassis), sociology and biology combine their analyses to examine the social processes behind the increasingly widespread use of natural areas and the ecological consequences thereof. The data are comprised of interdisciplinary research based on eighty semi-structured interviews conducted on-site and 330 telephone survey questionnaires. We critically analyse of the notion of overuse and underscore the socio-economic, cultural and ideological weight it carries in the context of socio-natural change; this calls into question the relevance of the ancient nature/culture dichotomy. Drawing on theoretical tools from environmental sociology, this article also provides some perspectives for natural area managers.

scholarly journals Urban sprawl and citizen participation. A case study in the municipality of La Pobla de Vallbona (Valencia)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Gielen ◽  
Yaiza Pérez Alonso ◽  
José Sergio Palencia Jiménez ◽  
Asenet Sosa Espinosa
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Urban Sprawl ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Mediterranean Coast ◽  
City Council ◽  
Social Characteristics ◽  
High Dispersion ◽  
Good Government ◽  
The City

The accelerated urban growth of the last decades in Europe has caused, especially in the Spanish Mediterranean coast, a paradigm shift in much cities, moving from a mostly compact urban form to a more diffuse one. The concept of city has changed so much that even in a lot of dispersed municipalities, it becomes difficult to define its limits. This change implies not only ecological and economic impacts, but also, social effects. Urban sprawl makes difficult social interaction and reduces the community feeling, and therefore, social cohesion and identity. This produces also changes in the relations of citizens between them and with the city council. The research propounds a discussion about the challenges that the urban sprawl causes for the application of participative models in the decision making, understanding them as basic criterion of good government. We analyze a case study to extract the complexity of articulating processes of citizen participation in territory with high dispersion based on a project carried out in the municipality of La Pobla de Vallbona (Valencia) on participatory budgets. It analyzes the results of the process carried out in relation to the urban model, the morphology of their urban pieces and spatial structure, and the demographic and social characteristics of the municipality. The question is identifying the problematic for the articulation of participative processes in territories with this idiosyncrasy. Finally, the article suggests a series of strategic lines as starting points to achieve participatory processes in the city characterized by urban sprawl.

scholarly journals Paradigma, ensayo y conclusión: La Casa de Bernard Rudofsky en tres actos

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 153
Author(s):  
Héctor García-Diego Villarías ◽  
María Villanueva Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Coast ◽  
Theoretical Position ◽  
Current Context ◽  
Unpublished Information ◽  
Shed Light

<p>La Casa <em>–or in English, the house– that Bernard Rudofsky built on the Spanish Mediterranean coast in 1971 is a valuable case study on the operational possibilities of popular architecture in the practice of this contemporary discipline. It is a repository of theoretical references typical of the vernacular world; its author, known for the exhibition </em>Architecture without Architects<em>, is emblematic of this type of architecture to which he dedicated much of his efforts as a theorist and polemicist throughout the course of his life. Additionally, </em>La Casa <em>is a unique architectural feat as it involves the practical materialization of its implicated theoretical position. It is possible that a concrete conclusion can be drawn from this case, which may shed light on the possible operability of a type of architecture that presents more than a few difficulties for the current context of the discipline, despite being habitually admired and praised. Additionally, the text presented here brings to light unpublished information found in the personal diaries of the architect that allows for the recreation of the circumstances surrounding the ideation and construction of this piece of architecture.</em></p>

scholarly journals Del turismo inmobiliario al turismo de naturaleza. ¿Cambio de modelo o cambio de discurso? El caso de Noja, un municipio en la costa cantábrica

2019 ◽  
pp. 301-324
Author(s):  
Carmen Gil de Arriba
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Major Change ◽  
Mediterranean Coast ◽  
The North ◽  
Protected Natural Area ◽  
The One ◽  
High Level

En este artículo se aborda un tipo de relaciones que, a priori, parecen difíciles de conciliar, las que se plantean entre el llamado turismo residencial (denominación bajo la que a menudo se esconden los intereses del sector inmobiliario) y el turismo de naturaleza en espacios litorales. Tras un encuadre de la problemática, hemos optado por un caso de estudio que reúne buena parte de los rasgos que definen este tipo de espacios turísticos: por un lado, fuerte crecimiento inmobiliario, expansión urbana, alto nivel de permisibilidad urbanística y escasa adecuación del modelo a las condiciones ambientales; por otro, entorno de elevado valor ecológico y declaración como espacio natural protegido. Además, este caso de estudio tiene también cualidades específicas o distintivas, entre las que se encuentra su localización en la costa cantábrica, donde estos procesos han sido menos estudiados que en el Mediterráneo, y su proximidad al área metropolitana de Bilbao que ejerce como centro urbano de influencia. A partir del repaso de todas estas características, analizamos si la puesta en valor turístico de un espacio protegido supone un cambio real del modelo residencial e inmobiliario seguido hasta ahora o simplemente la adaptación a unas nuevas condiciones de mercado. This article studies a relationship, which a priori appears incompatible, between so called residential tourism (a name under which real estate interests lie) and tourism related to nature in coastal areas. After establishing a theoretical and methodological framework, a case study is analysed: the municipality of Noja in the North of Spain. This case combines most of the features that define this area type. On the one hand, strong real estate growth, a high level of urban sprawl and speculation, and limited control and adjustment of the model to environmental conditions. On the other hand, it is an ecologically valuable, protected, natural area. Moreover, this particular case study has specific or distinctive qualities, such as a geographical location on the Cantabrian coast where few studies have been carried out, unlike the Mediterranean coast, and proximity to the influential metropolitan area of Bilbao. Following a review of all of the above characteristics, we analyse whether the implementation of tourist values in a protected space represents a major change in the residential and real estate model pursued to date or whether these changes are just a gradual adjustment to new market conditions.

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