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Evaluation of geodiversity of landform of some fragments of young glacial landscape of Chełmińsko-Dobrzyński Lake District)
Recently, geodiversity has been defined as the changeability of all the abiotic elements of the natural habitat. It can be considered in the context of being a feature of a single geocomponent, a single geocomponent, or the whole natural habitat. According to A. Kostrzewski (1998, 2011), the relief’s geodiversity is “the actual diversity of the Earth’s surface, taking into account the morphogenetic zones, types of relief, and compounds of forms, or single forms of the relief”. At present, the most extensive research of geodiversity takes place in the areas of spatial identification and the evaluation of geodiversity (Kot, 2006; Serrano, Ruiz-Flaño, 2007a, b, c; Hjort, Luoto, 2010; Kostrzewski, 2011), geoconservation (Geographica Helvatica, 62, 3, 2007), geotourism (Reynard et al., 2007), or search of its indicators (Zwoliński, 1998) and its monitoring (Kostrzewski, 2011).
The aim of this article is to assess the usefulness of the used method of point classification for determining the spatial geodiversity in the detailed scales (1:25 000 and 1:10 000), delimiting the factors that exert an influence on the outcome of the evaluation. It is important to demarcate the most diverse areas, which are the most meaningful for the environmental protection as well as for the development of tourism. The research conducted on the area of the representative basin (in the vicinity of Toruń), can also be of validity for the creation and implementation of the geodiversity program within the framework of ZMŚP (Integrated Monitoring of the Natural Environment Program).
The research areas consists of the Struga Toruńska representative basin, which is tested in the Integrated Monitoring of the Natural Environment Program (Struga area) and a part of the Górzno-Lidzbark Ladndscape Park (Bryńsk area). According to physico-geographical regionalization by J. Kondracki (1998), the basin is situated on the border of southern part of physico-geographical mesoregion Chełmno Lakeland (315.11) and Bryńsk area on the
border of third mesoregions: Chełmno Lakeland (315.11), Lubawa Elevation (315.15) and Urszulewo Plain (315.16).
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The nature reserves in Kielce and its evaluation in the range of the present attractiveness
Kielce is a located near of Holy Cross Mountain. Kielce is rich in tourist attraction such as nature reserves. This reserves it’s a old, closed stone-pit, who was in XIX and XX century served as an important industry function. Now, this reserves served as function recreation, entertainment e.g. Wietrznia, Kadzielnia, as well as religion e.g. Karczówka. Promotion this reserves contribute to evolution of tourist in Kielce, who is low developed and low boosted in Poland.
utworzone przez webadmin | lut 15, 2015 | Bez kategorii
Palaeosoils as the source of the relief of “the polish Sahara” reconstruction
The Bledow Desert is sometimes called “The Polish Sahara”. It is located on the Tarnowskie Góry Hummock. An ecological succession, which causes formation of podsolic soil occurs in the Bledow Desert. The fossil soils can be observed in the southern part of the Bledow Desert. They seldom create complete soil profiles. The fossil levels occur at the depth of several dozen centimetres, because they are covered by contemporary podsolic soil. In the deflation fields, fossil soils occur at the depth of few centimetres only. Minor aeolian processes occurring there, as well as anthropogenic activity, including quad tourism, contribute to exposing the enriched fossil level.
According to Bednarek (2000) palaeosol is a “material”, which can be applied to reconstruct the relief. Therefore, considering the depth of occurrence of the enriched fossil level, the relief of Bledow Desert was reconstructed.
The main objective of the work was to locate sites with fossil soils in the southern part of the Bledow Desert and to make attempts the reconstruct its relief.
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The impact of health education on lifestyle high school students
Revision of the curriculum aims to achieve better learning outcomes than ever before to protect human health and the environment. Previous studies justify the desirability of a holistic approach to health education. It turns out that in Poland, economic growth does not translate into the development of civilization (Kleer et al., 2011), is at least not as fast as materially wealthy man. This confirms the above analysis of the results of high school students.
Despite the announced strategy of education for sustainable development and the duration of the Decade of Education for the sustainable development, the awareness of citizens’ health and human environment (Seroka-Stolka, 2011) is still not too high:
– physical activity of students, despite the many treatments and educational reform educational system is still not popular;
– secondary school students do not respect the basic principles of healthy eating, often
consume alcohol and high percentage does not always cope with stressful situations;
– studies have shown a surprisingly low level of personal hygiene among girls in secondary
schools compared to their peers.
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Mining and post mining landscape in the area of Kowala in Sitkówka-Nowiny commune (the Świętokrzyskie Mountains) and the prospects of using it in geotourism
Sitkówka-Nowiny Commune is located in the western part of geographical region of the Świętokrzyskie Mountains which are part of Kielecka Upland in the province of Lesser Poland Upland. The western part of the commune is a part of Chęcińsko-Kielecki Landscape Park where there is mainly agricultural and natural landscape. In the central
and eastern part, where exploitation of carbonate rock raw materials is developing intensively for the purpose of construction industry, industrial landscape is dominant. The most interesting area as far as geology and mining are concerned is the area of Kowala (eastern part of the commune where there are two types of landscape. The first one is mining landscape related to currently run mining activities in numerous mining enterprises located in the area of the research (open-pits, mine waste dumps, borrow pits, haul roads, concentrating plants). The second one is post mining landscape which appears in the area where the mining activity is finished (old mine workings and old waste dumps).
Due to the great educational, scientific and cognitive value mining and post mining landscape in the area of Kowala may be used in geotourism by designing geological or geotourist educational path. In the outdoor research carried out in March and April 2012 the route of geotourist educational path „Geological and mining treasures of Kowala”
was designed with educational stops and suggestions to use post mining objects for the purpose of geotourism. The route would go as follows: primary school in Kowala – mining enterprise „Trzuskawica” – „Stara Trzuskawica” (old open pit) – „Osadniki” (old open pit in Sitkówka) – mining enterprise „Radkowice-Północ” – inanimate natural monument „Kowala” – mining enterprise „Kowala” – primary school in Kowala. The geotourist path would be especially useful for students of geology, geography, environmental protection, landscape architecture during their outdoor practice and in their scientific research and for students of secondary schools, gymnasium and primary schools as complementary material in the program of geography and science classes.
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Social and economic conditions in the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship in the period of 2000-2009
The end of the twentieth century marked the beginning of changes in the nature of population and economic phenomena. Traces of the transformation period with both integration and globalization pressures are nowadays visible on the social, demographic and economic levels, on the local, regional and national scale (Kiniorska, Wrońska-Kaczor 2011). This study aimed at presenting changes in the demographic and economic development. The
results showed numerous negative processes including decreased population density conditioned by natural population decline registered in urban and rural areas. The decrease in the population was also given a considerable boost by migrations. The outflow areas were located on the outskirts where the concentration of negative socio-economic phenomena resulted in depopulation and ageing processes. In the Swietokrzyskie Voivodeship the largest decreases in the population size were recorded in the southern and north-western parts. Socio-economic development is also hampered by lack of jobs and high unemployment rate.
