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Volume XVI | Issue 1
Houseless People in Kanpur City: An Exploratory Study
Abstract: The author seeks to examine the status of population that ever lived/never lived in the shelter and houses possessed by their relatives, the frequency of chances to live in the shelter after months and years and their circulation between places of origin and Kanpur city, India. The study is based on primary source of data generated through a comprehensive field survey in Kanpur city carried out during 2012. The study reveals that more than four-fifth of the houseless population has lived in the shelter at least once in their whole lives for some time. Likewise, most of the relatives of the houseless population owned the houses and they are not houseless persons, but less than one-fifth of relatives were houseless too somewhere else in the country. Moreover, more than sixty percent of the houseless people have got the chance to live in the shelter either for some months in a year or for few years, while nearly fourty percent of the houseless persons have never got the chance to live in the shelter in their whole lives and are forced to live as permanent pavement dwellers.
Full article 10.5775/fg.2017.95.iDates:
Received: 21-02-2017 Accepted: 25-05-2017 Printed: 30-06-2017 Online: 13-02-2018
Affiliations:
- 1 Aligarg Muslim University, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Geography
- 2 Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Faculty of Earth Science, Department of Geography
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Volume XVI | Issue 1
The Ethno-creativity in the Pilot Centers in Romania and their Role in the Development of Cultural Tourism and the Educational Process
Abstract: The study aims to assess the role of ethno-creativity in the development of the local economy. Ethno-creative tourism comes in the support of those who want to discover the cultural values of certain ethnic groups by the usage of practices and products that create the sensation of crossing beyond space and time, or new links with traditional ethno-cultural elements through effective participation and learning. The geographical space of Romania has been analyzed using two pilot centers, where ethnicities can be identified in points of space, together with their creative possibilities and values, in an attempt to develop an ethno-cultural tourism. The research has been based on economical data at the level of the NEAC code- Classification of the activities in the national economy, as well as on data obtained from having confronted some representative samples: creative artists, tourists and resident population, analyzed by statistical methods. The partial results obtained underline the impact of this type of development, which may contribute to the increase of the complexity of the functional territorial systems where this type of tourism might implement. Cultural tourism based on creativity and traditional values contributes to the appearance of the economic multiplication effects. The development of the ethno-creative tourism may mean creating jobs within a period of economic crisis and relative social crisis. It can also be considered as a factor of cultural identity popularization, which plays an important role in promoting cultural diversity.
Full article 10.5775/fg.2017.007.iDates:
Received: 20-02-2017 Accepted: 25-05-2017 Printed: 30-06-2017 Online: 13-02-2018
Affiliations:
- 1 University of Bucharest, Faculty of Geography, Department of Human and Economic Geography, Research Centre for Integrated Analysis and Territorial Management, Bd. Nicolae Bălcescu, Sector 1, 0100411, Bucharest, Romania
- 2 Senior Advisor to the National Central Historical Archives, Regina Elisabeta Av., No. 49, postcode 050 013, Sector 5, Bucharest, Romania
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Volume XV | Supplement 2
A Special Issue: Hydrological Behaviour in Small Basins Under Changing Conditions
Abstract: The present paper aim to overview on the Euromediterranean Network of Experimental and Representative Basins conference – ERB 2016. The 16th Biennial Conference ERB was held 5–8 September 2016 in Bucharest, Romania, and was hosted by National Institute of Hydrology and Water Management. The conference program focused on the theme “Hydrological behaviour in small basins under changing conditions”. The conference was followed by a field work on microscale hydrologic monitoring of water balance elements in Voinești Experimental Basin.This special issues of Forum geografic/Geographical Phorum – Geographical studies and environment protection research (indexing in international databases) includes selected works – contained a variety of hydrology subjects – presented at the Euromediterranean Network of Experimental and Representative Basins conference. All published papers are assigned to Digital Object Identifier (DOI).
Full article 10.5775/fg.2016.010.sDates:
Printed: 30-12-2016 Online: 21-05-2017
Affiliations:
- 1 National Institute of Hydrology and Water Management, 97 Bucureşti - Ploieşti Road, Sector 1, 013686, Bucharest, Romania
- 2 Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universidade de Coimbra, Rua Luís Reis Santos, Pólo II – Universidade de Coimbra, 3030-788 Coimbra, Portugal
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Acknowledgements:
We specially thank National Institute of Hydrology and Water Management; Romanian Association of Hydrological Sciences and SCIENTIFIC COMMITTE of 16th Biennial Conference ERB: Hubert HOLZMANN, ERB coordinator (Austria), Niko VERHOEST (Belgium), Miroslav TESAŘ,
(Czech Republic), Daniel VIVILLE (France), Britta SCHMALZ (Germany), Luca BROCCA (Italy), Edvinas STONEVICIUS (Lithuania), Christophe HISSLER (Luxemburg), Piet WARMERDAM (The Netherlands), Johannes DEELSTRA (Norway), Janusz SIWEK (Poland), João de LIMA (Portugal), Gianina NECULAU (Romania), Sergey ZHURAVIN (Russia), Ladislav HOLKO (Slovakia), Mitja BRILLY (Slovenia), Jérôme LATRON (Spain), and Liudmyla GORBACHOVA (Ukraine).
It gives us a great pleasure to thank all of the authors for their contributions to the special issue. We also thank the editor in chief, Professor Sandu BOENGIU Ph.D. (Faculty of Sciences, Department of Geography - University of Craiova) of the Forum geografic, for the opportunity to publish this special issue.
Thank you to all our reviewers for generously sharing your time, insight, and expertise with manuscript authors in the evaluation of their work. The Guest Editors gratefully acknowledge the commitment of all the reviewers and colleagues, who supported us in the publication of this Special Issue on: “HYDROLOGICAL BEHAVIOUR IN SMALL BASINS UNDER CHANGING CONDITIONS”.
We hope you enjoy this Special Issue.
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Volume XV | Supplement 2
Field Assessment of Soil Water Repellency Using Infrared Thermography
Abstract: This study aimed to evaluate the applicability of an infrared thermography technique relying on cooling the soil surface with cold water for assessing soil water repellency (SWR) severity under field conditions. This study is a follow-up of earlier exploratory small-scale laboratory tests, where SWR spatial variability was mapped and repellent areas could be clearly detected on the thermal imaging due to their higher temperatures, thus distinguishing them from the remaining wettable areas. Field tests were carried out, where both natural and artificial SWR were mapped through thermal imaging, using a portable infrared video camera. Cold water was used to create a temperature gradient on the soil surface in order to assess SWR. Naturally repellent soils were found in a pine and eucalyptus forest and artificial SWR was induced with a waterproofing spray.The molarity of an ethanol droplet (MED) test was used to measure both natural and artificial SWR severity.The technique was, in overall terms, successful in mapping SWR spatial variability, distinguishing repellent from wettable areas as well as distinguishing different levels of SWR severity. Only extensive testing can, ultimately, validate the technique and reveal its suitability in different field conditions (e.g., surface roughness, surface cover, spatial scale).
Full article 10.5775/fg.2016.019.sDates:
Received: 7-11-2016 Accepted: 16-01-2017 Printed: 30-12-2016 Online: 21-05-2017
Affiliations:
- 1 Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universidade de Coimbra, Rua Luís Reis Santos, Pólo II – Universida de Coimbra, 3030-788 Coimbra, Portugal
- 2 Centre for Environmental and Maritime Studies, Department of Environment and Planning, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
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Acknowledgements:
This study was supported by the project “RECARE - Preventing and Remediating degradation of soils in Europe through Land Care" (Grant Agreement 603498) funded by the European Union (EU), through a 5 months research grant of the first author (BI/UI88/7111/2015).
This study is also in the framework of the doctoral (SFRH/BD/103300/2014) and post-doctoral (SFRH/BPD/97851/2013) grants of the first and third authors, respectively, and the project “HIRT - Modelling surface hydrologic processes based on infrared thermography at local and field scales” (PTDC/ECM-HID/4259/2014 – POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016668), coordinated by the second author and funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and FEDER (Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional).
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Volume XV | Supplement 2
Effect of changes in groundwater levels on selected wetland plant communities
Abstract: Wetland areas maintain a high level of moisture at all times and experience flooding at regular intervals. High groundwater levels help create wetland areas, as does a relative lack of surface water loss. The paper bases on the hypothesis that wetland areas are characterized by seasonally high water levels and drought. These changes in water content markedly affect the presence of rare plant communities. The purpose of this paper is to determine the effect of changes in the level of groundwater on selected plant communities in wetland areas. The paper also aims to determine if any other determinants affect these plant communities: (1) relief, (2) climate conditions (precipitation, temperature), (3) human impact. Furthermore, the paper provides a detailed hydrographic analysis of wetland areas including information on water migration pathways, water recharge systems, and sources of water loss. The study area consists of Piaśnickie Łąki – a protected natural area in northern Poland, close to the Baltic coastline. It is also a designated “Nature 2000” area, and it is abundant in rare plant communities such as reed grass (Molinietum medioeuropaeum), which thrives in variable moisture areas. The majority of the research work consisted of literature analysis and fieldwork, which included the installation of a groundwater monitoring system, groundwater and surface water level gauging, and discharge gauging for larger streams found adjacent to the study area. The fieldwork was done in the period 2014 – 2015. The collected research data indicate that groundwater levels did vary during the study period. These conditions helped produce a high rate of plant growth and an increased rate of evapotranspiration across the surface of the study area, which then helped decrease the level of groundwater. One basic condition for the functioning of variable-moisture reed grass communities (Molinietum medioeuropaeum) is a specific pattern of variability in groundwater levels. Small depressions in the studied nature reserve offer the best conditions for the occurrence of reed grass communities.
Full article 10.5775/fg.2016.032.sDates:
Received: 9-11-2016 Accepted: 16-02-2017 Printed: 30-12-2016 Online: 21-05-2017
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