Das schweizerische Mittelland und seine Biodiversität (Essay) | The Swiss plateau and its biodiversity

2007 ◽  
Vol 158 (5) ◽  
pp. 91-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario F. Broggi
Keyword(s):  
Species Diversity ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Forest Reserves ◽  
Public Areas ◽  
Minimum Requirements ◽  
Swiss Plateau ◽  
Agricultural Policy Reform ◽  
Forest Enterprises ◽  
Agricultural Areas

When it comes to preserving biodiversity, agriculture and forestry play a key role. The National Science Foundation study published in 1989 on «Minimum requirements of semi-natural areas within the cultural landscape»identified considerable deficiencies for species diversity in the Swiss plateau. The agricultural policy reform introduced in the 1990’s should have met those concerns more directly. Despite new measures such as direct payments and despite high financial investments, during the last several years species diversity within the favored agricultural areas has hardly increased and the Swiss plateau has stayed a species-poor region. However, regarding the forest, conditions within the Swiss plateau are considered to be more favorable. The forest owners and forest enterprises are operating in public areas which, to a certain degree,put constraints on the intensity of management. For the forest, the deficits of highest concern are the insufficient establishment of forest reserves, the lack of diverse structures and the deficiencies of old growth and deadwood. Recently, the request for timber has increased rapidly. In order that the biodiversity does not lose its qualities, ecological standards for forest management are to be defined. The author recommends the development and implementation of an action plan for a national biodiversity strategy which covers the entire living space.

scholarly journals Environmental management in the field of noise impact on recreational, public and agricultural areas

2020 ◽  
Vol 175 ◽  
pp. 14001
Author(s):  
Mariya Balmashnova ◽  
Tatyana Sorokoumova
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Noise Exposure ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Natural Structure ◽  
The Public ◽  
Noise Impact ◽  
Public Areas ◽  
Agricultural Areas ◽  
The City

As a result of increase in the number of residents of megacities, the anthropogenic impact on the public, recreational and agricultural areas is increasing. Anthropogenic load causes degradation of the natural structure of the city and has a negative impact on public health. In current situation, more recreational areas are organized for residents of the city. However, the organization of recreational areas does not always comply with the population requirements. In the formation that sort of spaces, it is necessary to obtain complete and reliable information about the quality of the environment, which can only be obtained through the regular monitoring studies. This article considers a number of recreational, agricultural and public areas under the noise exposure. The spatial organization of recreational areas should be carried out taking into account the main goal of creating a comfortable architectural and planning structure of the urban environment. This article shows the insolvency of the public, recreational and agricultural areas as comfortablespaces.

scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF THE SAFETY AND HEALTH STATUS AT THE WORK OF WORKERS OF THE FOREST INDUSTRY OF UKRAINE AND MEASURES FOR ITS IMPROVEMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 50-56
Author(s):  
M. Radionov ◽  
R. Gora
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Injuries ◽  
Forest Industry ◽  
Labor Protection ◽  
Managerial Decisions ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Forestry Sector ◽  
Minimum Requirements ◽  
Labor Safety ◽  
Forest Enterprises ◽  
Industrial Risks

Development of scientifically sound measures for the prevention of occupational injuries based on the analysis of data on occupational injuries, including fatal in the forestry sector of Ukraine, to identify the main causes of such injuries. Based on the analysis, it was established that the level of occupational injuries in the forest industry was in one of the first places among all sectors of the economy of Ukraine. A step-by-step decision-making process was used to develop an algorithm for making managerial decisions. It was found that the accidents occurred mainly due to violations of safety requirements by employees, lack of control by officials of forest enterprises over the organization of safe work and due to violations of the technological process. The study was based on actual statistics of the State Labor Service on occupational injuries in the forestry sector. It is stated that the situation around the enterprises of the forest industry cannot be radically corrected without the introduction of an effective labor protection management system with elements of assessment and management of industrial risks. The obtained theoretical conclusions, based on statistical data on occupational injuries, have been brought to the level of specific proposals suitable for practical use in the planning of preventive measures for labor protection in the field of forestry. The necessity of actualization and improvement of normative-legal acts in the field of forestry is substantiated. The adoption of the "Minimum requirements for the safety and health of workers in forestry and greenery" is justified, which will expand the scope, namely: legal relations will be regulated by the type of work, and not just apply to economic entities who carry out certain activities; it is proposed to introduce a "labor safety coordinator".

scholarly journals Sociocultural identity of Vinnitsa region as a component of cultural landscape of the region (based on the results of field research)

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 78-87
Author(s):  
Valentyna Hrebenova ◽  
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Natalka Zhmud ◽  
Olha Kolіastruk ◽  
Anatolii Voinarovskyi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Field Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Local Resources ◽  
State Pedagogical ◽  
Public Areas ◽  
Soviet Space ◽  
Decentralization Reform ◽  
Sociocultural Identity

The features of the sociocultural identity of the residents of Vinnitsa region are analyzed through the prism of cultural landscape based on field ethnographic materials collected during expeditions by students of the Faculty of History, Law and Public Administration and educators of the Department of History and Culture of Ukraine of Vinnitsa State Pedagogical University named after M. Kotsyubynsky in 2020. This has been achieved through combining objects of material culture with varieties of worldview manifestations and behavioral practices. The prospects of the research are important both in the scientific and in the public areas emphasizing its applied value. There is the question of the further process of the sociocultural identity of the residents of Vinnitsa region through the prism of decentralization reform, the expressiveness of the own “face” of the region due to active exploitation of distinctive local resources, strengthening the tourist attractiveness and comfort of the region. The outcomes of this study could interest researchers involved in developing methodological tools in the context of rethinking sociocultural identity and (re)planning the cultural landscape in the post-Soviet space.

Idiografia dell'agricoltura

TERRITORIO ◽  
2012 ◽  
pp. 73-80
Author(s):  
Paola Viganň
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
The Past ◽  
Public Areas ◽  
Agricultural Areas

Agriculture is designing cities today, not just in the sense of resuming its constituent rules in the construction of urban space, but by investing the condition of extended urban areas which we have been accustomed to calling cities for decades. The issues of réservoirs and of the relationships between biodiversity and agricultural areas and between the rural matrix and public areas are addressed in the two cases presented here (a study of the Durance Valley and the river park along the River Ripoll in Barcelona). They explore, even if only partially, the ‘idiography', the unique individuality, of agriculture, a specifi c design capable today of interacting again and differently from in the past in the construction of urban space on different scales.

scholarly journals The Effect of Artificial Lights on Nocturnal Macrolepidoptera (Lepidoptera: Macroheterocera) Communities

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edit Nagy Pintérné ◽  
Zoltán Pödör
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Species Diversity ◽  
Diversity Index ◽  
Light Sources ◽  
Light Traps ◽  
Summer Period ◽  
Species Diversity Index ◽  
Public Areas ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Number Of Individuals

AbstractWe examined the light sources and illuminated environments in Sopron’s public areas and studied the impact they had on the composition of macrolepidopteran moth communities. We employed light traps with three different light sources in three differently illuminated environments (seminatural, transitional, urban) on 60 occasions during the summer period of 2012-2013 and 20 times in the seminatural area in the spring and autumn of 2014. In the first two years, we evaluated the number of individuals; in year three, we evaluated the number of species. In the first two years, the high-pressure sodium light in the seminatural site trapped the largest number of nocturnal lepidopteran specimens (2,569), while the mixed HMLI light trapped the most individuals in the transitional (1,098) and urban (822) areas. Based on the average number of individuals the first two years, we compared the locations and light sources. In terms of average number of specimens collected, significant differences emerged between two light sources and two locations. When we completed the species diversity index, we determined the compact fluorescent tube in spring and the high-pressure sodium light in the autumn showed the greatest values.

Ein beliebter Alleskönner steht unter Druck (Essay)

2014 ◽  
Vol 165 (8) ◽  
pp. 220-223
Author(s):  
Urs Leugger-Eggimann
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Forest Area ◽  
Forest Protection ◽  
Economic Point ◽  
Forest Reserves ◽  
Mountainous Regions ◽  
Natural Processes ◽  
Swiss Plateau ◽  
Forest Habitats

Pressures on a multi-talented and beloved habitat (essay) Animal and plant species in forest habitats are less threatened than those in other habitats. That is to be welcomed, but is no reason to rest on our laurels in self-satisfaction. This forest success story can be explained by the strict forest protection which exists in Switzerland. This model, which has been a success for over 100 years, is under greater and greater pressure. Some politicians and interest groups want to open the forest to residential development. For Pro Natura, a relaxation of forest protection on the Swiss Plateau is out of the question. The same harmful processes which have been responsible for the dramatic loss of agricultural land would be imported to the forest. The fact is that the increase in total Swiss forest area is entirely limited to the mountainous regions, and does not concern the Plateau. It is important, from an ecological and economic point of view, to use some parts of the forest in a sustainable way. However, it is also essential that other parts of the forest are allowed to follow their natural processes. Pro Natura recommends that 10% of the Swiss forest area should be forest nature reserves by 2030, and 8% special forest reserves. A fifth of the forest area can safely be devoted to conservation of biodiversity, while four fifths can be managed according to sustainability criteria.

Warum Naturwaldreservate einrichten? (Essay)

2012 ◽  
Vol 163 (6) ◽  
pp. 180-186
Author(s):  
Heinz Kasper
Keyword(s):  
Forest Policy ◽  
Natural Forest ◽  
Managed Forests ◽  
Jura Mountains ◽  
Forest Reserves ◽  
Natural Processes ◽  
Swiss Plateau ◽  
Cost Efficient ◽  
Large Effort

Why should we have natural forest reserves? (Essay) Natural forest reserves, where any kind of intervention is prohibited, are a component of a holistic biodiversity and forest policy today. Permitting natural processes to unfold in natural forest reserves is a sustainable and cost-efficient contribution to the maintenance and enhancement of biodiversity. This paper discusses the reasons for the establishment of natural forest reserves and the peculiarities that need to be taken into account when implementing the biodiversity goals. It demonstrates that particularly the establishment of large natural forest reserves in currently managed forests on the Swiss Plateau and in the Jura mountains requires a large effort.

Landscape patterns and plant species diversity of forest reserves in the Kanto region, Japan

Vegetatio ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 124 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katsue Fukamachi ◽  
Shigeo Iida ◽  
Tohru Nakashizuka
Keyword(s):  
Species Diversity ◽  
Plant Species ◽  
Plant Species Diversity ◽  
Landscape Patterns ◽  
Forest Reserves ◽  
Kanto Region

scholarly journals Malaysia’s Green Neighbourhood Initiatives: Implementing and Approach in Putrajaya, Selangor and Johor

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (5C) ◽  
pp. 553-562
Keyword(s):  
Rainwater Harvesting ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Action Plans ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Agricultural Areas ◽  
Bicycle Lane ◽  
Green City

Green neighborhood is a neighborhood that practices a way of life to meet the needs of people's activities. Green neighbourhoods can form friendships, practice agricultural areas, use renewable energy methods and maintain sensitive nature. This practice also makes easy access to home, workplace, infrastructure, public utilities, transit facilities and easily accessible in neighbourhood. Conflicts between rapid development and communities required a new paradigm to understand about the relationships between green neighbourhood and communities. The objectives of the paper are to study the implementation of green neighbourhood initiatives in Putrajaya, Selangor and Johor and to determine their element of sustainability in the green action plans. The action plans and programs by local authorities in green neighbourhood initiative was summarised in a framework. The methodology of study base on document analysis which related to the green city and neighbourhood initiatives conducted by the study area is summarised in the tabulation of action or program. Based on the result’s analysis, it indicated each study area has created its own approaches and strategies of sustainability by adopting impressive programs and strategies such as implementing pedestrian walkway, bicycle lane, community farming, rainwater harvesting, composting and others. The action and program in green neighbourhood and green city by the local authorities are their commitment to social, economic and environment. Local Authorities and the private agencies can contribute their commitment in order to implement green neighbourhood with having a comprehensive action plan. In conclusion green neighbourhood implementation in Putrajaya, Johor and Selangor practices as an action for the present and future development.

scholarly journals Non-medicated, preventive and architectural-planning event prevention of morbidity development allergic rynthes in adults and children

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-58
Author(s):  
Anna O. Murashko ◽  
Olesya O. Smolina
Keyword(s):  
Allergic Rhinitis ◽  
Species Diversity ◽  
Respiratory Diseases ◽  
Study Group ◽  
Public Areas ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
Adults And Children ◽  
Architectural Planning ◽  
Functional Areas ◽  
The City

Objective: the development of non-medicated and preventive, as well as architectural and planning measures to reduce respiratory diseases. Materials and methods: the study group consisted of 60 patients aged 23 to 64 years with a diagnosis of allergic rhinitis based on the medical and diagnostic institution of Novosibirsk, in 2017, in a questionnaire format with subsequent analysis and synthesis from the results of the study. Twenty public areas (pre-school, school and multifunctional institutions) located in various functional areas of the city, the presence of the number and species diversity of tree plants-allergens are also considered, in 2018. Results: existing preventive and non-drug measures of allergic rhinitis require optimization. Architectural and planning complex of tasks to reduce respiratory diseases is completely absent. Conclusions: the technique for reducing respiratory diseases, based on the developed scientifi c and practical non-drug and preventive, as well as architectural and planning recommendations

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