scholarly journals Natural environment of small towns as an indicator of the developmental potential of a wider region – as exemplified by the South Moravian countryside

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Hana Vavrouchová ◽  
Mária Pákozdiová ◽  
Ilona Svobodová
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
The South ◽  
Developmental Potential ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Residential Units ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Grant Agency ◽  
The City

Our study is focused on the natural environment significance and potential for the development of a wider region. A special emphasis is put on the geographical category of small towns, which play an important role in stabilizing the population of the Czech Republic. In this context, a key factor of planning in the rural region is the demarcation of a catchment region and the determination of its potential. Natural environment (primary landscape structure) is a basic determinant of area development at all the levels. This paper aims at the natural environment analyses of the small towns in the South Moravian Region, with emphasis on the development opportunities and limitations. In this study, small towns are considered to be all the residential units holding a town status, with the exception of district towns and the city of Brno. The study is a part of the research project supported in 2011 by the Internal Grant Agency of Mendel University in Brno titled “Small towns - Motors of the South Moravian countryside development”.

scholarly journals Research of the Disparities in the Process of Revitalization of Brownfields in Small Towns and Cities

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1232
Author(s):  
Natalie Szeligova ◽  
Marek Teichmann ◽  
Frantisek Kuda
Keyword(s):  
Small Towns ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Essential Step ◽  
Community Strength ◽  
Population Turnover ◽  
Subsequent Application ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Relevant Factors

The subject of the work is the research on relevant factors influencing participation in the success of brownfield revitalization, especially in the territory of small municipalities. Research has so far dealt with the issue of determining disparities in the municipalities of the Czech Republic, not excluding small municipalities, but their subsequent application has usually been presented in larger cities. The focus on smaller municipalities or cities was usually addressed only in general. The introduction provides an overview of theoretical knowledge in the field of brownfield revitalization. Defining the level of knowledge of the monitored issues is an essential step for the purposes of more effective determination of disparities. Disparities will be determined on the basis of information on localities that have been successfully revitalized. The identified disparities are then monitored in the territory of small municipalities. For the purposes of processing, it was determined that a small municipality or city is an area with a maximum of 5000 inhabitants. Using appropriately selected statistical methods, an overview of disparities and their weights is determined, which significantly affect the success of revitalization. In small municipalities, the issue of brownfields is not emphasized but, in terms of maintaining community strength and reducing population turnover, the reuse of brownfields is a crucial theme.

scholarly journals Efficiency of iodine deficiency prevention in Moscow in case of SouthWestern Administrative Okrug

2003 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 33-36
Author(s):  
G. F. Okminyan ◽  
L. N. Samsonova ◽  
M. I. Pykov ◽  
T. G. Kurtseva ◽  
M. V. Veldanova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Iodine Deficiency ◽  
Prevention Programme ◽  
Monitoring Methods ◽  
The South ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
Iodine Excretion ◽  
Short Time ◽  
The City

The paper deals with the remonitoring of goiter endemia and the evaluation of the efficiency of iodine deficiency prevention in the South- Western Administrative Okrug of Moscow. This paper us­es the data available in the literature and the authors ’ own data obtained in the examination of 514pupils aged 6-12 years. Rou­tine monitoring methods, such as thyroid palpation and ultra­sonography, determination of neonatal thyroid-stimulating hor­mone levels, ioduria median, and the incidence of decreased uri­nary iodine excretion), were used as indicators of goiter endemia and iodine provision. The iodine prevention programme imple­mented in Moscow since 1997 has been found to be rather ef­fective and to lower the strain of goiter endemia in the city; how­ever, it failed to eliminate it completely. The reasons reducing the efficiency of iodine prevention were identified. These included: the short time and difficulties of the initial stage of iodine pre­vention and/or the involvement of other strumogenic environ­mental factors in the formation of goiter endemia in Moscow.

Identificación de una franja de periferias interiores de escala metropolitana en el sur de Madrid | Identifying a metropolitan inner peripheries set in the South of Madrid

ZARCH ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Kapstein López ◽  
Miguel Ángel Gálvez Huerta
Keyword(s):  
Urban Growth ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Urban Region ◽  
The South ◽  
Urban Regions ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
The City

El trabajo trata sobre la ciudad de escala metropolitana desde la perspectiva de la fragmentación del territorio, revisando el caso del crecimiento sur de Madrid. Esta zona se ha desarrollado rápidamente desde los años sesenta, dándose actualmente en ella la conurbación de ciudades pertenecientes a distintos municipios. Dicha expansión deja sin urbanizar una porción de suelo que separa estas ciudades de Madrid, la que no tiene un uso definido. Por la configuración que tiene esta zona se reconoce como una franja de periferias interiores de escala metropolitana. Se trata de definir su origen y localización. Este análisis se enmarca en el debate teórico sobre los procesos de metropolización de ciudades en regiones urbanas. PALABRAS CLAVE: Metropolización de ciudades, fragmentación territorial, región urbana, Madrid. The article reflects on the city from a territorial fragmentation point of view. The case of the southwards urban growth of Madrid is reviewed. This zone has developed rapidly during the sixties, and nowadays experiences a conurbation of small towns within its vicinity. Such expansion has left undeveloped a strip of land with no defined use in between the involved municipalities that can be defined as a metropolitan scale inner peripheries set. This work seeks to locate it and trace its inception. This analysis is part of the theoretical debate on the processes of metropolisation of cities in urban regions. KEYWORDS: Metropolisation of cities; territorial fragmentation; urban region; Madrid.

scholarly journals Puisi Selatan

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 143-152
Author(s):  
Ian Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
English Language ◽  
The South ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Common ◽  
Light And Shadow ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Made In

Puisi selatan is a small selection of Sydney poet Ian Campbell’s Indonesian language poems taken from the author’s larger collection titled Selatan-Sur-South of Indonesian language poems - which appeared in PORTAL in 2008 - but now supplemented, for the first time, with English language versions which have been rendered by the poet himself from the ‘starting point’ of these original four Indonesian language poems.   In all there are here now eight poems – four in Indonesian and four in English – with the common thread, for the poet, of being written ‘in the south’. For the poet also, they now interact, across languages, as a set of poems which consider the ways in which the actions of ‘memorialising’ are often intertwined with specific responses to the natural environment.   The poems ‘Semenanjung Bilgola’ and ‘Bilgola headland’ are poems reflecting upon the efforts the poet’s parents made in the late 1960s-early 1970s to restore the natural environment on a headland of one of Sydney’s northern beaches which had been donated to the National Trust. The Indonesian language original poem was read by the poet himself and by Indonesian poets in cities in West Java in 2004 and also at the first Ubud Writers Festival in 2004 by Indonesian female poet, Toeti Heraty,   The poems ‘Berziarah di Punta de Lobos, Chile’ and ‘Pilgrimage to Punta de Lobos’ are also memorialising poems and reflect upon the idea of ’pilgimage’ to a natural location near Pichilemu on the Chilean coast which is popular with surfers. In contrast, the poems ‘Simfoni angin’ and ‘Symphony of the winds’ describe the sights and sounds of a rural area near Purranque in the south of Chile, but here too the poet reflects upon the ways in which present evokes past.   The final poems ‘Buenos Aires’ - rendered as the title in both languages - explore the ways in which the Argentinian café becomes a place in which memories of the city are revealed anew through the processes of inversion of light and shadow, of internal and external shapes and sounds, as if through a camera lens.   Puisi selatan can be rendered in English as ‘poetry of the south’ as all poems derive their impetus from settings in Australia or in Latin America, specifically either Chile or Argentina. They were originally written in Indonesian as part of the poet’s interest in using Bahasa Indonesia as a language of creative writing.  

scholarly journals Transformation and Sustainable Development of Shopping Centers: Case of Czech and Slovak Cities

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
František Križan ◽  
Josef Kunc ◽  
Kristína Bilková ◽  
Markéta Novotná
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Shopping Center ◽  
Shopping Centers ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Capital Cities ◽  
Advanced Phase ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
The City ◽  
Level Of Analysis

The aim of the paper is to critically evaluate the similarities and differences in the development of the temporal and spatial structure of shopping centers in the Czech and Slovak republics. We focused on the retail transformation and sustainable manifestations of the location and construction of shopping centers. We classified shopping centers according to their genesis, location in the city, and size of the gross leasable area. To analyze migration trends and geographic distribution characteristics of shopping centers in the capital cities of both countries (local level of analysis), we used spatial gravity and standard deviational ellipse. Generally, there is an analogous trend in the development of shopping centers in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, with a particular two- to four-year lag in Slovakia (west–east gradient). Despite this, we still perceive the demand for shopping centers in both countries as above average, and it is not declining. The construction of shopping centers, mainly in small towns, also indicates this trend. In Prague and Bratislava, the pattern of spatial expansion of shopping centers differs. Prague probably represents a more advanced phase of shopping center agglomeration. However, neither country has reached the state of clustering.

scholarly journals Manager profile in organizations providing social services: Evidence from the Czech Republic

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 375-384
Author(s):  
David Mašát ◽  
Radka Prokešová ◽  
Jitka Vacková
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
The South ◽  
Job Descriptions ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Registration Number ◽  
Grant Agency ◽  
Axial Coding ◽  
The University ◽  
Work Management

A profile of manager represents characteristics of a person performing a managerial position, i.e., it includes qualities such as knowledge, skills, and competencies within a specific specialty that provides the ability to carry out managerial duties and responsibilities successfully. The reason for obtaining this information is to build a profile of managers in organizations providing social care, as this area has not been elaborated in detail in the Czech Republic.This study aims to identify and describe the profiles of managers in organizations providing social services in the South Bohemian Region. The study was conducted using semi-structured interviews with 24 managers of selected organizations providing social services in the South Bohemian Region until the information obtained was sufficient. Data were processed using open, selective, and axial coding. Managers were asked about their job descriptions, their skills and education, and the specifics of their duties and responsibilities within their organizations. The results show that manager profiles are influenced by the type of organization and the organization’s funding. The results of the study showed that specific managerial duties and responsibilities are based on the type of social service provided. These duties and responsibilities are also based on the clients of services and the frequency of services provided. AcknowledgmentThis study was financially supported by the project “Selected aspects of social work management”, registration number GAJU 052/2019/S (Grant Agency of the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice).

scholarly journals The Transport Service of Small Towns

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. A21-A31
Author(s):  
Jozef Gnap ◽  
Jana Kupčuljaková ◽  
Ľubomír Černický ◽  
Grzegorz Dydkowski
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Transport Service ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Transport Services ◽  
Current State ◽  
Urban Public Transport ◽  
The City ◽  
The Eu

The paper is focused on assessment of the transport services in small towns. Current legislation in the Slovak Republic, however, does not clearly determine which cities must provide the urban public transport (UPT). Analysis of the current state of the UPT evaluated 71 district towns of the SR and it was found out that 21 towns did not provide operation of the UPT. Another criterion for evaluation was the number of inhabitants of the city over 10,000 in Slovakia and selected regions of the Czech Republic and Poland. The paper presents results of a research conducted in the area of a transport operation, along with a proposal for the content of the methodology, based on a multi-criterial analysis to assess the need to introduce the UPT. The EU research results, regarding dependency of a GDP size and transport performances in UPT in selected EU states, Switzerland and Norway, are presented, as well.

scholarly journals Concentrations of manganese and iron in some woody and herbs plants

2011 ◽  
pp. 39-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dragica Stankovic ◽  
Borivoj Krstic ◽  
Mirjana Sijacic-Nikolic ◽  
Milan Knezevic
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry ◽  
Multidisciplinary Research ◽  
Flame Atomic Absorption ◽  
Term Basis ◽  
Level Of Significance ◽  
The City

Heavy metals are the substances that indicate environmental pollution. The plants polluted with heavy metals may endanger natural environment and cause health problems in humans. In our multidisciplinary research of the concentrations of pollutants in forest ecosystems and natural environment in Belgrade, we examined the contents of heavy metals essential for plants but harmful in greater concentrations on a long-term basis. The fact that heavy metals manganese and iron are accumulated in plants to the greatest extent focused our work on determination of the level of concentrations of Mn and Fe in the vegetative parts of 8 plant types on three locations on the Avala Mountain and one location in the centre of the city of Belgrade. The analyses of heavy metals contents in plants were performed by the method of flame atomic absorption spectrophotometry. The examination of the existence of important differences between the average values was performed by implementation of Duncan?s test for the level of significance of 95%. The current contents of heavy metals in plants in the area of the protected natural resource Avala do not represent danger that would presently cause notable damage to forests but show the tendency of the increase of concentrations. Therefore, this issue should be constantly monitored.

Ri-leggere Tor Bella Monaca. Mappare le aree sensibili al mutamento: criticitŕ urbane come potenzialitŕ rigenerative

TERRITORIO ◽  
2012 ◽  
pp. 112-115
Author(s):  
Paola Bracchi
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
City Administration ◽  
Strategic Objectives ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
The One ◽  
The City

Too big, fragmented, rundown and inaccessible. These and others are the reasons which the City of Rome used to justify the demolition of Tor Bella Monaca. A few questions should be asked here. Is it possible to turn the problems into potential for regenerating the neighbourhood? Is it possible to use a new description of Tor Bella Monaca to demonstrate that the project proposed by the City administration will not solve the problems identified? Strategic objectives for the regeneration project were formulated on the basis of the problems. These were permeability, connection and relationship. The map of the areas which can be changed is used as the key factor in the process. On the one hand it identifies the areas and spatial categories in which the strategic objectives are concretely addressed and on the other hand - thanks to a process of interpretation and abstraction - it is open to the determination of regenerative strategies.

Perencanaan Sistem Pengurangan Sampah Permukiman Bantaran Sungai Cidurian Kota Bandung

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Raka Maulana ◽  
Yulianti Pratama ◽  
Lina Apriyanti
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
River Basin ◽  
River Flow ◽  
Waste Reduction ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Inorganic Waste ◽  
Waste Bank ◽  
The City

<p>Some areas in the city of Bandung is an area that dilitasi by the flow of the river, to prevent the introduction of garbage into the river basin is necessary to note the waste management systems in residential areas along the river. Cidurian river has a length of 24.86 Km along the river flow. Consists of the city of Bandung and Bandung regency. Administrative regions Cidurian River past eight (8) districts, from the region in the District Kiaracondong precisely Village Babakan Babakan Sari and Surabaya populous and the most densely populated. Thus, there should be community-based waste management in the form of a reduction in resources to prevent potential entry of waste into the river basin. Planning waste reduction will be divided into two, namely the reduction of inorganic waste with waste bank then the reduction of organic waste with absorption holes biopori, and bio reactor mini determination of the reduction is determined by the results of the analysis of the sampling covers the composition and garbage, then the result of the measurement characteristics test and analysis results questionnaire.</p>

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