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Spatial databases collect information about geographic objects that represent real world phenomena. Stored and shared data sets are not homogeneous, because they are obtained on the basis of diversified source materials. Distributed sources of spatial data are characterized by a different organization in terms of completeness, consistency and accuracy. In Poland, the topographic objects database (BDOT10k) is one of the basic databases covering the entire country. The positional accuracy is a basic element of the s...

The legal review of administrative decisions by independent courts is an accepted democratic principle, present in key European practices and an important contribution to ensuring order, especially to protect individual rights in front of the administration. The judicial review of governmental activities originates in the philosophy of the state governed and limited by law, and is based on the principle of supremacy of the law. Nowadays, a state of law cannot be imagined without access of all citizens to an indepe...

Within the framework of the work, monitoring and information analysis of the development of research activities of industrial, scientific and educational organizations, Federal and regional public authorities of the Russian Federation, as well as regional research centers in the field of study of the Arctic zone in 2017 was carried out. In total, data on 589 major Russian Arctic projects were analyzed, with a total funding of more than 130 million euros. The average volume of one conditional project amounted to ab...

Avalanches are undesirable phenomena, represented by the sliding or floating on the slopes of mountains snow masses. The snow masses sometimes train in motion stones, rocks, and shrubs. The avalanches are dangerous because they do human victims. In Romanian mountains, avalanche victims are mostly tourists, skiers or climbers. Avalanches can also cause disasters, covering roads and blocking access to some localities, and last but not least, human victims. They are also the most unexpected and most spectacular aspec...

River flash floods and floods are natural events, which are part of the normal regime of the water leakage of a fluvial organism. Depending on the generating causes, they have a different size and a certain frequency of occurrence in time. The target area of the present study is the Sireasa area in the Danube Delta. In that place, a breakage may occur any time in the defensive dam surrounding the enclosure. This is due to the phenomenon of settlement traveled over time, or due to the possibility of occurrence of t...

There are several hundreds of stone circles known in the northern Europe. Most of them were created during the time period from the late Stone Age until Middle Ages. However, their historical significance has been studied and evaluated only in a small number of cases. More often these stone circles are considered as peculiar nature formations, connected with the local folklore. The stone circles locate in the northern part of Poland were mainly studied since the beginning of the last century and the time of their ...

The article presents practical problems related to the application of REACH and LCA standards in the construction sector. Chemicals are an essential factor in assessing and managing of all kinds of risk due to their importance as components of materials and their various effects, such as: adverse and beneficial, biophysical and socio-economic. The process of reducing of adverse environmental impact of construction sector on the environment is a subject of increasing attention of scientists and companies. It should...

The aerial survey results have shown a number of benefits of aerial survey if compared to ground survey. Unmanned aerial vehicle can be effectively used in surveying works in opencasts. At the same time, this technology allows to improve accuracy, safety and effectiveness of surveying works as well as reduce costs and labor effort. The surveying department and industrial engineers of JSC SUEK for surveying works in open pits have applied the unmanned aerial vehicles. As the result, labor productivity increased sig...

The approximation of Kosovo legislation with the European Union (EU) acquis for the European integration process, is a complex one. Its complexity can significantly differ from filed to field. Moreover, the constant and rapid development of European environmental law makes this process even more challenging and demanding for Kosovo institutions. The aim of this paper is to provide a general analysis of Kosovo environmental legislation in the light of its approximation with EU acquis by using mainly the comparative...

In this paper we want to emphasize the current challenge in integration of BIM, GIS and CAD. In BIM can be identified and managed the existing relationship between architectural, structure layout and mechanical, electrical and hydraulic services. GIS is managing locations, identifying trends, patterns and 2D or 3D models. Integrating of GIS and BIM (originally developed for different purposes) will have an important impact on solving problems in the civil, building and infrastructure sectors. In our study were ana...

This paper compares the indicators of spatial development for the road network of Croatia towards chosen countries in Europe and on a county level in Croatia. It also shows the number of traffic accidents per counties and links it with indicators of spatial development. The paper presents the results of the research of spatial distribution of traffic accidents in Croatia by counties. An example of a hazardous site identification on the A6 motorway is provided by the accident data report. All the comparisons and an...

The present work aims to present how to identify the causes and sub-cases that lead to delays in the implementation of the projects with non-reimbursable financing using the cause-effect diagram (Ishikawa), as well as how to combat the main causes. The importance of timely identification of the major issues and the concentration of the management teams in solving them can reduce the risk of losing the grant, avoiding the decommissioning of the European funds, while helping to increase their absorption. Projects wi...

Effective territorial organization of Moscow and the rational use of its territory are impossible without taking into account the natural component of the city as well as the properties and potential of the landscape complexes that integrate all natural features in specific areas. The formation of the ecological framework of the city is particularly important. It should be a single system of interrelated and complementary components that make up a single environmental space: habitat-forming cores (junctions), ecol...

One of the most essential tools to protect nature, environment and biodiversity is to ensure the proper policy and environmental legislation in the creation of protected areas. Nowadays, green economy and environmentally friendly technologies play a major role for sustainable development. The purpose of this paper is to provide a detailed picture of the Romanian policy and environmental legislation regarding biodiversity and protected areas and to outline the importance of the institutional framework, global appro...

The management of the ?umava (Bohemian Forest) and Bavarian Forest National Parks have long been working in the field of natural science research. However, visitor monitoring in these protected areas has been given little attention so far. Successful management of national parks must combine the requirements of nature protection with public use. The aim of the paper is to suggest using cross-border socio-economic monitoring variables to increase the satisfaction of visitors to the national parks without jeopardisi...

The main goal of this research is to detection and mapping ground displacement using Differential Radar Interferometry (DInSAR) technique. DInSAR is a powerful tool to detect and monitor ground deformation. Ia?i county is considered as study area in this research. Study area is geographically situated on latitude 46В°48?N to 47В°35?N and longitude 26В°29?E to 28В°07?E. For this paper was used Sentinel ? 1 images, kindly provided by The European Space Agency (ESA), which cover period January - December 2017, with v...

This paper tackles the issue of the culture of ecological security and the ecological security sector, which both constitute a subfield of the culture of security and the culture of national security. The concept of sustained development provides important context for the issue. The dissemination on an individual, collective, and eventually global scale of a properly-cultivated ecological culture should allow for implementing changes in already existing policies regarding the exploration and utilisation of our pla...

This paper intends is to analyze and give a functioning overview of the national protection and competition development authorities in the Western Balkan countries. To explain how much these authorities are in compliance with EU rules and activities, to detail the implementation level of competition rules, to provide an overview how far these countries are in fulfilling their obligation based on Stabilisation and Association Agreement. Also, this paper intends to find the formula to build a strong and efficient Na...

The problem of energetic effectiveness is one of the most important in the XXI century high-speed developing realities. Sources of electrical energy, both reparable and irreparable, are the objects of constitutional and energetic law. The creation of legal normatives and the possibility of optimization of these mechanisms in this sphere will be sufficient guarantee of providing ecological safety and ecosystem worldwide. During this research formally legal, historical, comparative methods, method of modelling and s...

Urban sustainability is a major pillar in the European Union policy towards reaching Paris Agreement targets. In order to support cities and local communities around EU in their effort to implement innovative solutions and integrated approaches to increase their resource efficiency and climate resilience, European Commission funds the instrument "Smart Cities and Communities" (SCC) as part of its Research and Innovation Programme Horizon 2020 (H2020). The overall approach is to define and implement sets of innovat...

The rapid growth of the archives of the publicly available remote sensing data (RSD) of the Earth turns them into big data. In fact, for every element of the RSD resolution, tens of thousands of scenes and hundreds of thousands of spectral values are accumulated. The processing of individual images and channels becomes difficult, if at all possible. On the other hand, the quality of traditional statistical information on the territory of Russia is decreasing. It is almost impossible to understand where, how much a...

The main purpose of this paper is to present the process of fast and efficient acquisition of field data in order to create a map of the maneuvering area and aprons of the Deblin Airport (EPDE) using Mobile Mapper 50 receiver with Mobile Mapper Field Application. The area navigation (RNAV) uses runway information, field obstacles, and other important factors that support a precision and non-precision instrumental approach and landing procedure. Therefore, the development of RNAV flight procedures requires the acqu...

Air pollution is one of the most important problems of the contemporary society. One of the vital reasons for bad air quality are particulate matters and gases, generated by municipal and household sector, coming from coal-fired boiler houses and heating stoves used in houses. This source of pollution is named as low-stack emission. The situation is especially difficult in the regions of high population density, such as South Poland. In this region air belongs to the most polluted in the European Union. The concen...

Flooding caused by storm surges, tropical storms and hurricanes causes severe damages in Haiti every year. When these inundations occur, the affected areas become inaccessible, preventing field work to register the flood water height and extent. Highresolution satellite imagery and aerial photography, on the other hand, are too expensive for a developing country like Haiti. The lack of this data results in a lack of adequate flood maps and models, making it impossible to predict the cost of the damages and take th...

The Motru-Rovinari coal basin is placed in South-West Development Region on an area of about 522.54 km2 and is part of Oltenia mining region. Since the 50-60?s (1955- 1960) it was opened here the open cast mining from which was extracted lignite, a quality charcoal. There followed the years of communism when were opened many fronts of exploitation and now has over 50 quarries, micro quarries, dumps and mining extraction. Opening and exploiting the high capacity of coal in this extractions unit, needed to find solu...

The article presents the analysis of the flood zones of Nizhnevartovsk by means of geographic information mapping taking into account the peculiarities of natural and climatic conditions. A study of flood zones of the urban landscape has a social, economic and ecological importance. The social effect is due to the recommendations of the placement of industrial and residential facilities in the flood zone. The economic aspect is focused on avoiding the financial costs of flooding. The ecological effect of the resea...

Complex historical and scientific research of ancient waterways has been carried out by the Department of the History of Earth Sciences of the Institute of the History of Natural Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in conjunction with the Geography Department of Moscow State University since 2003. Based on expeditionary research, collection and analysis of archival and published materials on historical waterways: ?From the Varangians to the Greeks? and the Great Volga, Mariinskaya, North-Dvi...

This paper describes the process of creating a useful geographic information system (GIS) viewer on the web that shows the map of the old town of ?ibenik, which is located in the heart of Dalmatia. Spatial and attribute data is the core of every geoinformation system so therefore a database with objects of interest (cultural and historical sights in the old town centre) was created. The main goal of the project was to develop a GIS viewer for tourist purposes, but also to provide basic information about the curren...

Throughout the last few years, there has been a global trend to preserve protected green areas. Each nation is responsible for ensuring that such areas are not potentially destroyed by faulty social management and development. Therefore, a sustainable future can only be built with sufficient care for green infrastructure, which once destroyed is almost impossible to restore. Communities should thus actively participate towards protecting their local biodiversity and natural habitats, thereby improving their collec...

Thunderstorm activity is the main natural cause of forest fires occurrence. Lightning discharges are divided into cloud-to-ground and cloud-to-cloud. The higher the current, the higher the probability of fire in the forest. Geographic information systems are a convenient and multifunctional means of visualization and geospatial data analysis, including the level of forest fire danger. It is necessary to design the structure and information flows in such a GIS system. The development of such a GIS system is carried...

The most of information is linked to the geospace location. This information can be represented on the map. For some kinds of users, the maps have to be created in a different way than is usual. People with visual impairments are such a target group of users. The number of visually impaired people increases every year and to their fullfledged integration into society is devoted considerable attention. The tactile maps are an essential element of current cartographical research. Presented study is focused on the as...

This paper sets forth in exploring the impact that developments in the energy sector in Greece may have on the economic growth of the country, and in the EU?s energy situation. The inspiration for this topic derived from a widely recognized need for the EU to reinforce, through multiple initiatives, developmental activities in the sector in countries located in the south-east Mediterranean region, diversify its energy supply and improve its energy security. Greece has a lot to offer towards that direction, confirm...

The action of touristic development and valorisation of a territory and implicitly of ?ureanu Massif is influenced by the values of morphometric indicators such as hypsometry, gravity or exhibition. Tracking the territorial distribution of their values provides a first overview of the massive in functional aspect, outlining the personality and individuality of neighboring units. The climate and the component elements, influenced by the position of the area studied in Romania, which impose the main temperate and co...

This paper handles the sustainable development tools used to support the development in bi centric Hradec Kr?lov? ? Pardubice agglomeration. Because the agglomeration is unique in its type ? a conurbation forming the agglomeration core ? the adjustment of mutual relations in the cooperation towards sustainable development of the agglomeration is important. One of the tools is ITI strategy which is aimed to set up and deepen the cooperation of not only the core cities but also other municipalities situated in the a...

The study of seabed relief is part of operations by development of the mineral deposits, which are in the territory of water objects. All of them are required at the stage of industrial planning, construction and exploration, definition of geo-hazard, for the monitoring activity and also required to repel potential threats, including natural ones, etc. The uniqueness of the ecosystem and bioresources of the Caspian Sea against the backdrop of unfolding offshore oil production, sharply raises the issue of monitorin...

In developing countries or transition countries, there emerges popular trend as local governments executed land use reform to achieve higher efficiency in land use planning and to allow better resource allocation in rural society. Land tenure reform is the first and foremost step to pave the way for later institutional improvement in the land use planning process. In Vietnam, the transformation took place as result of a new Land law in 1993, which endorse rural household as a production unit; they are allocated la...

. Clusters are one of the main priorities in consolidation and development of innovations in Europe. Strengthening the competitiveness of the Latvian fisheries sector cluster is in the basis for achievement of the goals of the EU Common fisheries policy and management of the proper policy in the sector, which can facilitate growth of the state's economy, especially development of the areas important for fisheries. The aim of the research is to give a general insight into the Latvian fisheries sector cluster and it...

The article is devoted to the consideration of one of the most pressing problems of Russian reality - ensuring the environmental security of the country. This problem is investigated by the authors in the context of their awareness of the fact that Russia's environmental problems are part of the global environmental problem and, accordingly, require for their solution not only domestic measures, but also broad coordination of environmental actions of the Russian Federation with the actions of other countries and i...

The right to environmental protection is enshrined in Article 44, Section 1 to 5 of the Constitution of the Slovak Republic. From the point of view of the theory of law, it is included in the third generation of human rights, which emerged later than the first generation and the second generation. Its formation is associated with the second half of the twentieth century, a period of renewal of the destroyed countries by war. Third-generation rights make the need to protect people from the threats posed by post-mod...

Land use planning strategies on regional and local level have in the last time gained a special consideration in connection to debates about shaping human activities in such a way that their environmental impacts are as low as possible, as such strategies are actually playing a decisive role in this regard. Taking into account technical aspects in connection with environmental and social ones, special attention has to be paid to the field of land use. A proper land use planning, beside land administration and mana...

Based on the common understanding upon the importance of co-operation between countries and institutions in establishing functional early warning systems and sharing the knowledge already existing on forest invasive alien species (IAS) and land degradation, it is crucial to find new approaches to address these sustainability challenges. At global level, we are witnessing a shift in the economic, political and social context towards more integrative approaches in line with Agenda 2030. In this respect, Romania adap...

Scattered settlement in the rural and mountain regions is typical. Technical conditions of roads is a key factor deciding on the possibility of accessing certain locations by ambulance in such areas. The objective of this study is the assessment of the passability of mountain roads within the scope of ambulance access with the use of GIS and the national cartographic database. From the roads in the district, the authors selected unpaved roads, with the surface of bare ground. Then, the buildings located at the dis...

Pyrotechnic article are means any article containing explosive substances or an explosive mixture of substances designed to produce heat, light, sound, gas or smoke or a combination of such effects through self-sustained exothermic chemical reactions. Of the family of these products are the electric igniters framed according to the intended use in category P1 / P2 - Other pyrotechnic articles. These types of pyrotechnic articles are used to initiate the burning of pyrotechnic components that generate deflagration....

The article deals with several ways of monitoring bank line changes, such as the cartographic and two modern satellite-based methods, one of which is the method of satellite images interpretation. It is easy to use and does not need expensive equipment or fieldwork. The second of the satellite-based methods, the field method with the application of satellite positioning system, is characterized by high accuracy and effectiveness of results but requires expensive equipment and fieldworks. The danger of erosion is t...

Using multilayer forest cover dynamics map, which was developed based on GIS, remote sensing data, forest inventory and field data post-fire and post-logging forest regeneration trajectories were revealed in a range of forest growth conditions. A legend of the map was built based on dynamic classification of forest cover and contained information about forest regeneration series and their age stages in different forest growth conditions types. Based on this map a spatial distribution of the most common forest succ...

Underground mining exploitation in the Upper Silesian Coal Basin results in lowering of a land surface. It has its environmental consequences. These processes favor the creation of wetlands and floodplains, which often help to increase biodiversity. However, progressive lowering of the land surface disrupts flow of rivers, force change of land use, and may lead to real risks for building facilities. Therefore, it is necessary to undertake reclamation works, which consist in filling depression area. All this leads ...

An important problem of modern civilization is the aging of societies. The effect of this phenomenon is and will be limited access of enterprises to young and middle-aged employees. This problem also applies to coal mine. First and foremost, young and middle-aged employees work in them. Therefore it will be necessary to undertake actions aimed at stopping already working workers and employing older people in the case of shortages. Extending the employment time in mining enterprises requires a proper approach to th...

The stream bed of alpine tarns is heterogeneous. Forms and whole character of lake basins relief depend primarily on the level of their reformation by mountain glacier during the glacial stage and development of geomorphological processes in the surrounding of postglacial stage. Bathymetric survey creates the basis for the construction of bathymetric maps and DTM of lake basins. They complete the whole picture about the local geomorphological development of valleys and variety of their bases. They have the biggest...

Technology development has been enormous in recent years. This is particularly noticeable as regards telephones and personal computers as well as other devices e.g. modern GNSS receivers which currently are the basic equipment of even small land surveying firms. Drones are an example that shows the dynamics of technology development, especially in a few recent years. Currently, the aim is to capture data of the best possible quality, yet capturing it should generate the lowest possible costs. In this regard, drone...

The public hearings are the kinds of the public control?s forms. These hearings are usually devoted to considering of environmental issues, problems of town planning, land use, i.e. the most important problems for population. Research objective is search of additional legal opportunities for citizens' activity in questions of local life. The author analysed the positive experience of participation of inhabitants in some American municipalities by solution of city problems. However there is a number of the problems...