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A specific type of agriculture developes at suburbian zones upon the influence of activity of a big town aglomeration. Such an agriculture supplies perishable and requiring a short distance transport goods that have to be fully new at the town market everyday. An area that created such a type of agriculture we call an alimentation zone. This zone meets the towns demand as regards milk, vegetables,...
Studies on the recreation treated as a system were undertaken recently due to the more common acceptation of a general system theory and the methods of investigation attending. The paper presents the discussion on issue of the first degree of the system investigation on recreation examined by the Faculty of the Economic Geography at the Warsaw University. The investigation was theoretic-methodical...
The article is devoted to the spatial structure of livestock breeding in State Farms in Poland in 1971 by poviats (administrative units) in the state in June. In sequence the fodder problems, cattle, pigs, sheep, poultry breeding, livestock breeding in total and livestock breeding orientations are presented. Cattle amount to 86,1 % of all livestock in State Farms in 1971, growing systematically since...
Herewith article is an analitic test of dislocation of population and the changes referring to the above problems on a contemporary area of Suwałki voivodship in postwar period. The changes in dislocation of population in Suwałki voivodship considerably influenced upon a spatial structure of a regional economy, mostly upon the industry and agriculture. Interpretation of changes concerning dislocation...
Herewith article is an example of applying of some quantity method to analyse changes in town settlement network within the framework of a region. This region compreses Bydgoszcz voivodship within bounds before administrative reform in 1975. The area that composed Bydgoszcz voivodship when the war was over, belonged to the territory supplied with a danse, previously formed network of towns and a high...
Estimation of a tourist value of the geographic environment for the tourist movement needs, is one of the main task the tourist geography deals with. The paper is an attempt of a such estimate exemplified on Suwałki voivodship. The paper consist of two parts: estimate of a turist value as regards the basic components of the landscape (as a whole) and estimate of the geographic environment usefulness...
Science plays particular role in our days. In contemporary world science became one of the basic factors of social and economic development. The constantly increasing demand on different information makes a necessity of maintainance of adequate social and economic changes. It also creates a necessity of adujstment to these changes working in other regions. Transformation and unification of such information...
The introductory part of the article is devoted to a review of concepts of economic base and methods of measurement of economic base. The author presents K. Dziewoński’s concept of economic base who divided economic function of city into two groups: endogenous (non-basic ) and exogenous (basic). Out of a number of methods, H. Hoyt’s method of surplus employment has been chosen (1944). According to...
Results of researches of the young landslide erosion which were obtained from comprehensive investigations carried out one some selected regions of the Bohemia. The entire are presented was divided into two stages to be completed within five years. The development of the selected erosion forms is assumed to continue also in subsequent years. The results discussed are gathered from the first stage...
In conformity with the suggestions of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) and the East European Education Committee (MSOP) the problems of the human environment protection and development have been introduced to all the secondary school subjects, in a variable degree, in all the member countries of the Committee. The new qualitative level of influence of...
Landscape beauty is considered to be one of the natural resources (like climatic, water, mineral and other resources) which essentially affects the man’s activity, particulary in developing tourism, in regional planning etc. The landscape beauty or, in other words, the beauty of regional scenery problems are not new. The methods, on the other hand, with the aid of which evaluation is made, are novel...
Two aspects of nature conservation are discussed; the first is related to the character of our knowledge of the nature. A point is made that this knowledge is mainly concerned with this characteristic of the nature, which is its structure. Results of the analysis of the structure indicate that this is a function of the development and depends to a large extent on energy. The other aspect refers to...
The problems related to nature conservation in the African semi-arid zone are discussed. The negative changes in the environment there have such a bearing upon traditional occupations of the population that the nature conservation problems are reduced to the law-enforced observance of the principles of rational land use. In substantiation of this approach use was made of the determination of major...
The planning work aimed at the protection and development of geographicenvironment is undertaken at various management levels, in such activities as standardization, regional optimization, development and decision making as to the conditions and the site of a building project. The geographic environment of the Szczecin Voivodeship is one of the most interesting and richest in Poland. Owing to this...
Researches of urban verdure effect on thermic and humidity conditions, carried out for 1971-75 by Warsaw University, proved that the influence occured very distinctly in summer months. The influence of grounds with vegetation on air temperature and humidity occurs for areas at least of 3000 m² Then it can be sensible 1,5 m high over the ground surface. The verdure terrains cause decreasing of the...
The Karel University Earth Sciences Faculty, Carthography and Physical Geography Department employees are working now on two morphometric maps for the Chief Architect Office of the City of Prague. The topographic surface gradients maps for the area of Prague takes into account the following gradient ranges: 0-2°, 2-5°, 5-10°, 10-15°, and over 15°. The gradients were determined from a 1 : 25,000 contour...
The economic cooperation between the Socialist Republic of Czechoslovakia and the Polish People’s Republic has entered its fourth decade. Between the two countries there are close political, cultural, and economic contacts developing on the basis of the 1947 friendship, cooperation and mutual aid agreement ratified in 1967. Both countries aim at the same goal of the building of socialism and they...
The changes occurred in the land use on the Liberec and Česka Lipa county areas in years 1845-1905-1948-1961-1970 are examined. The development of the eight major land categories is documented, such as: arables, orchards (fruit orchards, vineyards, hopfields), meadows, pastures, forests, built-up areas, other land, which is taking place on the area of the counties as compared with the rest of the...
In recent years much effort is done to counteract efficiently the factors and processes responsible for degradation of the natural environment. The earth sciences faces the task of investigation and inventory of the regional structure of the environment development and degradation. An urgent need of elaboration the detailed maps documenting the condition of the environment gave rise to methodological...
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