scholarly journals Geodiversity mapping of the Bakony–Balaton UNESCO Global Geopark, Hungary

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Márton Pál ◽  
Gáspár Albert
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Nature Protection ◽  
Open Source Data ◽  
The World ◽  
Open Source Gis ◽  
Gis Environment ◽  
Tourism Potential ◽  
Cultural Ecological ◽  
High Degree

Abstract. Geodiversity is the natural range of elements in the physical environment. The relationships, properties, and systems of geoscientific features have an impact not only on the natural world but also on cultural and societal aspects of life. Geodiversity can be considered as a quantitative variable that is unevenly distributed all over the world. This spatial variability helps to locate areas with a high degree of geodiversity. These areas can be the basis of further nature protection and geotourism purposes: high geodiversity usually means higher scientific/cultural/ecological values in an area. We present a GIS-based workflow in which we collect, evaluate, and visualize geoscientific variables to provide information on the geodiversity of the Bakony–Balaton UNESCO Global Geopark in Hungary. By using mainly freely accessible data and an open-source GIS environment, we aim to develop a method that can be applied in many areas of the world. The evaluation is built up by the determination of five sub-indices per unit area, which are related to the elements of geodiversity: geology, relief, hydrology, soil, palaeontology, and mineralogy. The geodiversity index is the sum of the sub-indices. The current tourism potential is mainly found in the high geodiversity regions: the Balaton Uplands, the Tapolca Basin, the Káli Basin, and the Bakony Mountains. The results show that the current geopark infrastructure is in accordance with the geodiversity, but it took several years to reach this state. However, new geoparks are established every year and their infrastructure is yet to be planned. The method we apply helps in this process by using open-source data in the assessment and provides a workflow in areas that have not been evaluated before.

scholarly journals From photo-geology to 3D geological models. An open source approach

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Santangelo ◽  
Ivan Marchesini ◽  
Francesco Mirabella ◽  
Francesco Bucci ◽  
Mauro Cardinali ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Central Italy ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
3D Models ◽  
Preliminary Evaluation ◽  
Three Dimensional Modeling ◽  
Dimensional Modeling ◽  
Geological Models ◽  
Open Source Gis ◽  
Gis Environment

Three-dimensional modeling of geological bodies is a useful tool for multiple applications. Such tasks are usually accomplished starting from field-collected data, which typically suffer from intrinsic limitations such as accessibility constraints and punctuality of data collected. In this work, we explore the reliability of photo-geological analyses starting from aerial photo-interpretation in providing data useful to build up 3D geological models, and validate them using exploration wells data in a lignite rich area in Umbria, central Italy. The procedure that produces 3D models from photo-geological data is a three-step open source GIS procedure developed using python in GRASS GIS environment and GNU-Linux OS. We maintain that this procedure can have potential broad applications in Earth Sciences, including geological and structural analyses, up to the preliminary evaluation of potential reservoirs.

scholarly journals OSGEO UN COMMITTEE EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGE: A USE CASE OF SHARING SOFTWARE AND EXPERIENCE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD

2019 ◽  
Vol XLII-4/W14 ◽  
pp. 49-55
Author(s):  
S. Franceschi ◽  
K. Adoch ◽  
H. K. Kang ◽  
C. Hupy ◽  
S. Coetzee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Training Material ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Educational Challenge ◽  
The World ◽  
Open Source Gis ◽  
Working Groups ◽  
Web Platform

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> The paper presents the outcomes of an Educational Challenge launched by the OSGeo (Open Source Geospatial Foundation) United Nations (UN) Committee in 2018. The Committee promotes the development and use of open source software that meets UN needs and supports the aims of the UN. The Challenge supported the UN OpenGIS Initiative, a project “... to identify and develop an Open Source GIS bundle that meets the requirements of UN operations, taking full advantage of the expertise of mission partners including partner nations, technology contributing countries, international organizations, academia, NGOs, private sector”. The UN OpenGIS Initiative is organized into working groups, called ‘Spirals’. The OSGeo UN Challenge called for the development of training material that can be used for training UN staff working on Spirals 1 and 3. Spiral 1 focuses on a new open source web platform for data collection and Spiral 3 is related to new functionalities needed by UN staff during their field operations. The material developed for the challenges is now openly available for anybody, reaching a wider audience than only UN staff members. This paper describes the challenges and the training material developed for them. Expertise from all over the world was pulled together in designing, mentoring and developing the material.</p>

scholarly journals The evaluation of the use of tourist-recreational potential of Odessa region

2019 ◽  
pp. 93-99
Author(s):  
Stoyan Shushulkov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Recreational Activities ◽  
The World ◽  
Categorical Framework ◽  
Tourism Potential ◽  
Cultural Ecological ◽  
Definition Of

Entry. In modern conditions of development of globalization processes, tourism and recreational activities is one of the directions of economic development not only of regions but also the world. The tourism industry on the modern stage the most rapidly evolving and affects the social, cultural, ecological environment and the environment acts as a catalyst for socio-economic development. At the same time, despite the significant amount of scientific research, the specifics of the tour-ist-recreational potential of the regions is not well understood. The aim of the publication is the definition of the functioning of tourist-recreational potential of Odessa region. Results. Determined that the tourism industries are in the top five industries generating the largest revenues in the world. The article examines the features of functioning of tourist-recreational activities. It is determined that the resource potential in each region is different. Refined conceptual and categorical framework in the context of defining "potential" and «tourist potential», «recreational potential», «recreational potential». The approaches to defining the tourism potential: natural, resource. Conducted a comprehensive assessment of tourism and recreational potential of the Odessa region. The tendencies of its composition, present state and usage. It focuses on the problematic aspects of the use of tourist and recrea-tional potential. Conclusions. The analysis of current trends indicates considerable prospects for growth and further development of tourist and recreational potential is the basis for the planning sector at the national and regional levels. Indicates the need for its comprehensive evaluation system, these shortcomings towards the realization of the tourism potential in the sectors of the economy. Key words: tourism, recreation, tourist and recreational resources, environment, the potential tourist and recreation-al potential.

A Māori Girl Watches, Listens, and Learns – Coming of Age from an Indigenous Viewpoint: Mauri (Merata Mita, 1988)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alistair Fox
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Feature Film ◽  
Indigenous Woman ◽  
Spiritual Dimension ◽  
The World ◽  
Life Force ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter examines Merata Mita’s Mauri, the first fiction feature film in the world to be solely written and directed by an indigenous woman, as an example of “Fourth Cinema” – that is, a form of filmmaking that aims to create, produce, and transmit the stories of indigenous people, and in their own image – showing how Mita presents the coming-of-age story of a Māori girl who grows into an understanding of the spiritual dimension of the relationship of her people to the natural world, and to the ancestors who have preceded them. The discussion demonstrates how the film adopts storytelling procedures that reflect a distinctively Māori view of time and are designed to signify the presence of the mauri (or life force) in the Māori world.

9/11 and Armageddon: the Christian Right and George W. Bush

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-50
Author(s):  
Göran Gunner
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Christian Right ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Religious Leader ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The World ◽  
Mega Church ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Jerry Falwell ◽  
High Degree

Authors from the Christian Right in the USA situate the September 11 attack on New York and Washington within God's intentions to bring America into the divine schedule for the end of the world. This is true of Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell, and other leading figures in the ‘Christian Coalition’. This article analyses how Christian fundamentalists assess the roles of the USA, the State of Israel, Islam, Iraq, the European Union and Russia within what they perceive to be the divine plan for the future of the world, especially against the background of ‘9/11’. It argues that the ideas of the Christian Right and of President George W. Bush coalesce to a high degree. Whereas before 9/11 many American mega-church preachers had aspirations to direct political life, after the events of that day the President assumes some of the roles of a mega-religious leader.

Varieties of Understanding

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural World ◽  
Cognitive Resources ◽  
The World ◽  
Historical Tradition ◽  
Normative Considerations ◽  
Shed Light

According to a long historical tradition, understanding comes in different varieties. In particular, it is said that understanding people has a different epistemic profile than understanding the natural world—it calls on different cognitive resources, for instance, and brings to bear distinctive normative considerations. Thus in order to understand people we might need to appreciate, or in some way sympathetically reconstruct, the reasons that led a person to act in a certain way. By comparison, when it comes to understanding natural events, like earthquakes or eclipses, no appreciation of reasons or acts of sympathetic reconstruction is arguably needed—mainly because there are no reasons on the scene to even be appreciated, and no perspectives to be sympathetically pieced together. In this volume some of the world’s leading philosophers, psychologists, and theologians shed light on the various ways in which we understand the world, pushing debates on this issue to new levels of sophistication and insight.

Fundamentality

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Healey
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Theory ◽  
High Energy Physics ◽  
Physical Property ◽  
Natural World ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Quantum Field Theories ◽  
Fundamental Physics ◽  
The World ◽  
Energy Physics

The metaphor that fundamental physics is concerned to say what the natural world is like at the deepest level may be cashed out in terms of entities, properties, or laws. The role of quantum field theories in the Standard Model of high-energy physics suggests that fundamental entities, properties, and laws are to be sought in these theories. But the contextual ontology proposed in Chapter 12 would support no unified compositional structure for the world; a quantum state assignment specifies no physical property distribution sufficient even to determine all physical facts; and quantum theory posits no fundamental laws of time evolution, whether deterministic or stochastic. Quantum theory has made a revolutionary contribution to fundamental physics because its principles have permitted tremendous unification of science through the successful application of models constructed in conformity to them: but these models do not say what the world is like at the deepest level.

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