scholarly journals The Elbe Sandstones Area from the View-point of a Protecting of Nature

Geografie ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 100 (3) ◽  
pp. 210-221
Author(s):  
Pavel Benda ◽  
Jiří Marek
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Rock Climbing ◽  
View Point ◽  
Elbe River ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Forestry Practices ◽  
State Administration ◽  
River Quality ◽  
Environmental Educators ◽  
The Town

The Elbe Sandstones Area is situated on the borders of two countries: the Czech Republic and Germany. In 1972, the land on the Czech side was proclaimed the Protected Landscape Area (PLA) Elbe Sandstones. It has an area of about 320 square kilometres. Part of this land will become a national park. It will link the already renowned PLA Elbe Sandstones (also known as Bohemian Switzerland) with the National Park Saxonian Switzerland on neighbouring Germany. This unique erosional landscape was formed when Tertiary basalts disrupted and invaded the existing Cretaceous sandstone sedimentary rock. There are interesting occurrences of plants and animals including certain types of endemics and rare species. The headquarters of the PLA in the town of Děčín includes the state administration, the various specialists, environmental educators, public relation personnel and ranger services. The biggest problems in the PLA are intensive forestry practices, rock-climbing, unregulated camping, and Elbe River quality and cleanliness.

scholarly journals Synanthedon mesiaeformis (Herrich-Schäffer) new to the Czech Republic and to Spain (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae)

2008 ◽  
Vol 56 (5) ◽  
pp. 141-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zdeněk Laštůvka ◽  
Aleš Laštůvka
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Close Contact ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Habitat Requirements ◽  
Specific Population ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Southern France ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Town

Synanthedon mesiaeformis (Herrich-Schäffer, 1846) has been found in the Czech Republic and in Spain for the first time. The species was found in the south-easternmost part of the Czech Republic, near the town of Břeclav (faunistic quadrat 7267) in May 2008. The holes and pupae were found only in one, solitary growing group of trees about 20 years old. This finding place lies at a distance of more than 250 km from the localities in SW Hungary and about 550 km from the localities in eastern Poland. In June 2008, the species was found also in alders growing in the flat river alluvium on gravel sands between La Jonquera and Figueres in northern Catalonia. This locality is in a close contact with the fin­ding places near Perpignan and Beziers in southern France. The diagnostic morphological characters and bionomics of this species are briefly summarized and figured. The history of its distribution research is recapitulated and the causes of its disjunct range are discussed as follows. The present disjunct range represents a residual of the former distribution over the warmer and moister postglacial period; landscape modifications and elimination of solitary alder trees as „weeds“ from the 18th up to the mid-20th century in large areas of Europe; narrow and partly unknown habitat requirements and specific population ethology; an insufficient level of faunistic investigations in several parts of sou­thern and eastern Europe.

scholarly journals The Elbe Sandstones - Bohemian Switzerland, Geographical Approach to the National Park

Geografie ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 100 (3) ◽  
pp. 222-233
Author(s):  
Alois Hynek
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
National Park ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
The West ◽  
Elbe River ◽  
Sandstone Rock ◽  
The Elbe River ◽  
Controversial Concept

The controversial concept of the Elbe Sandstones National Park as proposed hy the Czech Ministry of Environment is being examined both from physical and human geographical viewpoints. The project of a National Park in geographical version includes three parts: mesas and kuestas in the West, sandstone rock cities in the East, and the Elbe River canyon in the centre. A discourse and social communication is offered for scientific and legitimate evaluation of geographical version. Cultural landscape and balanced regional development are in the focus of the new National Park.

scholarly journals The Benefit of Failure: On the Development of Ostrava’s Culture

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 2592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Suchacek
Keyword(s):  
Research Question ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Cultural Industries ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Cultural Management ◽  
Traditional Industry ◽  
Cultural And Creative Industries ◽  
The Town

Peculiar cultures are symptomatic for areas of traditional industry. The purpose of this paper is to analyze and evaluate cultural and creative industries in Ostrava, the third largest town of the country that at the same time constitutes a typical representative of old industrial urban fabrics in the Czech Republic. Special attention will be devoted to the emerging cultural clusters that appear to be indispensable in terms of sustainable cultural management. Unique qualities of Ostrava’s culture culminated in 2009, when the town decided to stand for the prestigious title of the European Capital of Culture. Finally, Ostrava did not succeed, nonetheless the contest vivified the discourse on Ostrava’s culture and a distinctive potential for the creation of cultural clusters was revealed. Semi-structured interviews accomplished with relevant actors of the town’s culture facilitated contextual interpretation of the role of cultural and creative industries as well as mapping the potential cultural clusters in the town. The research question posed in this article is as follows: do development effects formed by the concentration of creative and cultural industries in Ostrava exist? It turned out that the paths towards cultural management sustainability can differ substantially from recipes, which are well-proven in leading developed territories. The results of our analysis confirmed some developmental effects evoked by the concentration of cultural industries and cultural clusters in Ostrava can be identified, but genuine qualitative transformation towards a more cultural and sustainable milieu in Ostrava undoubtedly requires more time.

Checklist of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Canada and Alaska

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4666 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
VALERIE M. BEHAN-PELLETIER ◽  
ZOË LINDO
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Nova Scotia ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Prince Edward Island ◽  
National Park ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Large Numbers

This checklist of the oribatid fauna of Canada and Alaska (excluding Astigmata) includes 580 identified species in 249 genera and 96 families. The known fauna of Canada includes 556 identified species in 247 genera, and that of Alaska includes 182 species in 95 genera; 39 of the 42 oribatid superfamilies are represented. We further list ~ 300 species that are currently unidentified, and possibly undescribed. In addition, we list 42 genera that are represented only by unidentified and probably undescribed species. For each species we give combinations and synonymies, specific locations in Alaska and the Provinces and Territories of Canada, habitats, and biogeography.                There are 182 identified species known for Alaska, 152 for Yukon, 122 for Northwest Territories, 58 for Nunavut; 210 for British Columbia, 213 for Alberta, 15 for Saskatchewan, 84 for Manitoba, 167 for Ontario, 210 for Québec, 110 for Nova Scotia, 77 for New Brunswick, 84 for Newfoundland and 6 for Prince Edward Island. The known fauna of Canada is smaller than that of Austria, and is approximately equivalent to that of the Czech Republic. As these countries are much smaller in size than Canada and less ecologically diverse, we consider the Canadian and Alaskan fauna are at most 25% known. The paucity of these data reflects the absence of taxonomic and faunistic studies on Oribatida in State, Provinces or Territories, and especially in the Canadian and Alaskan National Park systems and the hundreds of Provincial Parks.                Despite the almost 90% increase in described species since the catalogue of Marshall et al. (1987), there is a need for focussed, coordinated research on Oribatida in the natural regions throughout Canada and Alaska, and for monographs on families and genera with large numbers of undescribed species, such as Brachychthoniidae, Damaeidae, Cepheidae, Liacaridae, Oppiidae, Suctobelbidae, Hydrozetidae, Phenopelopidae, Scheloribatidae, Haplozetidae and Galumnidae. 

Can Bureaucracies Change Policy?

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 287-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
William R. Lowry
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Limits To Growth ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
Park Service ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Town ◽  
The U.S

In the 1990s, policymakers at Yellowstone and Banff National Parks enacted two of the most controversial programs in the history of protected lands. At Yellowstone, the U.S. National Park Service (nps) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (fws) personnel reintroduced wolves into the Yellowstone ecosystem. This program restored a crucial element to the park ecosystem that had been eliminated decades before and not returned since extermination. At Banff, federal authorities imposed strict limits to growth of the town of Banff. This action reversed a policy dating to the park's establishment in the late nineteenth century of allowing and encouraging growth and development of the town within Banff. How did these policy changes occur?

scholarly journals Urban plan of Uzice from 1863 by Emanuel Sefel: From oriental to European urban planning

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-292
Author(s):  
Dusko Kuzovic ◽  
Nedeljko Stojnic
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
The State ◽  
City Center ◽  
Urban Plan ◽  
Current State ◽  
State Administration ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Internal Affairs ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town

The City of Uzice had 2490 inhabitants in mid 1862. Following the order of the state administration that every city must have an urban plan, firstly a Geodetic plan of the current state of the city center was made and based on it, in May 1863 the first urban plan proposal (author Emanuel Sefel) appeared. The Ministry of Internal Affairs, because of a large number of complaints of the population and of a short period time available to make changes to the plan sent the engineers Joseph Vesely and Joseph Klinar to Uzice so that they could assist. The second urban plan proposal was completed towards the end of 1863. The first urban plan of Uzice transformed the town, previously fully regulated by oriental principles, into a city organized according to European urban principles. The plan was effective from 1871 to 1891.

scholarly journals State forest administration performance in the Czech Republic: A case study of forestry legislation implementation in the South Bohemian Region

2021 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 248-257
Author(s):  
Michal Hrib ◽  
Marcel Riedl ◽  
Petra Hýsková ◽  
Jaroslav Maršík ◽  
Martina Jarkovská
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Timber Harvesting ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
State Administration ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Forest Act ◽  
Administrative Proceedings ◽  
And Control ◽  
Hunting And Fishing

Abstract In the Czech Republic, the present state forest administration is incorporated into general state administration. Municipalities with extended competence (MECs) as first-instance forest administration bodies thus perform the so-called “mixed” administration. Besides forestry, MECs cumulatively perform hunting and fishing administration, observing several different laws. On an example of three MECs in South Bohemia (České Budějovice, Týn nad Vltavou and Písek), the paper analyses the decision-making processes and control activities concerning the implementation of administrative activity, particularly the Forest Act. The findings show that during the observed period 2011–2015, the most frequently conducted administrative proceedings under the Forest Act involved binding opinions regarding permission for buildings at a distance of fewer than 50 m from the forest and decisions on timber harvesting. Other frequently performed acts somewhat surprisingly concerned issuing licenses for professional forest managers and decisions whether or not the land fulfils forest functions. Based on the findings, the paper also suggests stimuli and suggestions (de lege ferenda) for changes in the Forest Act and other regulations relating to this issue.

scholarly journals Menetus dilatatus (Gould, 1841) (Gastropoda: Planorbidae) in the Lipno Reservoir (Southern Bohemia, Czech Republic)

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 17-20
Author(s):  
Luboš Beran
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Elbe River ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Bohemian Forest ◽  
The Elbe River

Menetus dilatatus (Gould, 1841) has been found in July 2005 in the Lipno Reservoir (Bohemian Forest = Šumava Mts., Southern Bohemia, Czech Republic) at 12 particular sites. This locality is about 80 km south of the nearest known locality of Menetus dilatatus and more than 160 km south of the Elbe Lowland where Menetus dilatatus occurs in many sites including the Elbe River. The altitude of the Lipno Reservoir reaches 725 m a.s.l. and is the highest known altitude of Menetus dilatatus in the Czech Republic.

scholarly journals Tradition of geodetic instruments production in the Czech Republic

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-178
Author(s):  
Pavel Hánek ◽  
Pavel Hánek Sr.
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Roman Emperor ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Significant Development ◽  
State Administration ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Fine Mechanics ◽  
Geodetic Surveying

Abstract. The article describes the development of geodetic surveying and production of geodetic instruments in what is now Czech Republic. The beginnings of development can be found in the 12th–13th centuries during the colonization of the territory and the consolidation of state administration. Significant development peaks occurred in the 14th century during the reign of the Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia Charles IV and then at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries during the reign of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II. The new direction is related to the development of industry at the end of the 19th century. At that time, several dozen companies in fine mechanics and optics were operating in Prague. The company J. & J. Frič was a world leader in the use of a glass divided circle in 1864. The production of astronomical and geodetic instruments in Czechoslovakia was successful until the end of the 1960s.

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