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Strategies of Central European countries in the energy dimension during the Russian-Ukrainian war

Paszkowski Michał

Energy Policy Studies

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2023

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No. 1 (12)

3--12

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The Russian-Ukrainian war had a significant impact on the energy situation of Central European countries and significantly influenced the need to activate efforts to diversify the sources and directions of energy supply, as well as activities to reduce natural gas demand. The energy dependence built over the years by the Russian Federation was characterized primarily by the development of infrastructure and the conclusion of longterm contracts. The aim of the article was to analyze the activities of the Central European countries of the European Union during the Russian-Ukrainian war and to define the key activities that were primarily undertaken in 2022 towards ensuring energy security. The starting point was the thesis that the Central Europe countries made optimal use of the existing energy infrastructure, which made it possible to reduce the impact of the Russian Federation on the energy security of this countries and ensure the availability of commodity.

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Kultura strategiczna Węgier w aspekcie bezpieczeństwa po zmianach ustrojowych

Balogh Olivér

Studia Bezpieczeństwa Narodowego

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2021

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R. 11, Nr 20

33--45

PL

Celem poniższego artykułu jest przeprowadzenie analizy na temat kultury strategicznej Węgier po zmianach ustrojowych. Poznanie węgierskiej kultury strategicznej jest niezbędne do zrozumienia decyzji strategicznych i politycznych dotyczących bezpieczeństwo dla sojuszników oraz partnerów politycznych. Węgierska strategia opiera się między innymi na położeniu geopolitycznym, doświadczeniach historycznych o sytuacji wewnętrznej i zewnętrznej. Węgry są małym krajem, co uwarunkuje jego kulturę strategiczną. Kraj podobnie jak inne państwa w regionie po upadku Układu Warszawskiego jednoznacznie określił cel strategiczny - dołączenie się do struktury euroatlantyckiej. Najważniejszymi momentami okresu badanego jest zaproszenie do Organizacji Traktatu Północnoatlantyckiego w 1999 roku oraz dołączenie do Unii Europejskiej w 2004 roku. W badanym okresie 1990-2020 zostało wydanych 5 strategii bezpieczeństwa narodowego. Dokumenty te są podstawą do analizy kierunku rozwoju, jak i współpracy w aspekcie bezpieczeństwa kraju. Węgry od zmian ustrojowych prowadzili pokojową politykę w regionie. Mimo zgrzytów historycznych ciągnących się od dwóch wojen światowych, traktaty pokojowe nie zostały głównym elementem kultury nienawiści i wrogości. Najnowsza strategia z 2020 roku wydana na początku pandemii Sars-CoV-2 jest jedną z najbardziej rozbudowaną od 1990 roku. Mimo 30 lat od zmianach ustrojowych nie można mówić o własnej kulturze strategicznej Węgier. Kraj o małej potencjale społeczno-gospodarczym w dobie globalizacji nie ma możliwości tworzenia własnej kultury strategicznej bez uwzględnienia otoczenia a także sojuszników i organizacji międzynarodowych działających w regionie. Wynika to między innymi z charakteru uchwalenia i pracy nad strategią. Analiza opiera się na analizach dokumentów strategicznych w okresie 1990-2020, a także literatury węgierskiej. Ze względu na analizy dokumentów i literatury można wywnioskować charakterystyczne cechy kultury strategicznej regionu Środkowej Europy, a także doświadczenia historyczne z czasów zimnej wojny i strefy wschodniej do której Węgry należą.

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The aim of the article is to analyze the strategic culture of Hungary after the political changes in 1990. Getting to know the Hungarian strategic culture it is inevitable to understand the strategic political decisions regarding security for political allies and partners. The Hungarian strategy is based, inter alia, on the geopolitical situation, historical experience, internal and external situation. Hungary’s culture is conducted by small countries situation. The country, similarly, to others in the region after the collapse of the Warsaw Pact, clearly defined its strategic goals, which included the joining the Euro-Atlantic structures. The most important moments of the analyzed period are the invitation to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1999 and joining to the European Union in 2004. In the period from 1990 to 2020, five national strategies were issued. These documents are the basis for the analysis of development directions and cooperation in the aspect of security. Since the political changes, Hungary has pursued a peaceful policy in the region. Even the historical experiences of the two lost world wars and peace treaties, did not remain the main element of the Hungarian culture of hatred and hostility. The latest strategy from 20202, released at the beginning of the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic, is one of the most extensive strategy since 1990. Despite 30 years after the political changes, it is impossible to speak of Hungary’s own strategic culture. A country with a small socio-economic potential in the era of globalization cannot create its own strategic culture without considering its location, allies and international organizations operating in the region. This is due, inter alia, to the nature of the adoption and work on the strategy. The analysis is based on analyzes of strategic documents in the period 1990-2020, as well as Hungarian literature. Due to the analysis of documents and literature it is possible to deduce the characteristic features of the strategic culture of the Central European region as well as historical experiences from the Cold War and the Eastern zone to which Hungary belongs.

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The Impact of a forest fire event on moth assemblages in Western Bohemia, Czech Republic

Walter Jan, Sucháčková Bartoňová Alena, Faltýnek Fric Zdeněk

Polish Journal of Ecology

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2021

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Vol. 69, nr 3-4

156--171

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Fire has major impact on species diversity in natural ecosystems around the world. The consequences of fires for invertebrates can be immediate, and recovery of species assemblages may be a long-term process. We recorded moth communities from May to November 2019 in a pine forest in Western Bohemia, Czech Republic, where a local fire occurred in April of that year. We used UV light traps at one burned site and two neighboring unburned sites with a similar character as the burned site before the fire event. We analyzed moth assemblages using several species diversity indices – index of dominance, Shannon-Wiener index and Shannon-Wiener evenness, Simpson index, and Chao1 nonparametric estimation. We detected 67 species at the burned site, and 97 and 106 at the unburned sites. The three most frequently trapped species at all sites were Macaria liturata, Buphalus piniaria and Thera obeliscata, representing common forest geometrid moths. We observed a decline in species number and abundance at the burned site compared to the unburned sites, probably due to the direct mortality of larvae. On the contrary, the burned site was more diverse according to the diversity indices. The fire disrupted the original character of the coniferous forest, which was proved by a decline of species feeding on conifers and Vaccinium spp. The burned site attracted species associated with dry habitats such as Eublemma purpurina, Charissa obscurata and Scopula rubiginata. Even though wildfires are viewed negatively in general, they might temporarily enhance diversity in a homogeneous landscape.

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Assistance of an expert in the participatory planning model in the area included in the revitalisation programme in view of the desired changes. Based on the example of the district of Śródka in Poznań

Kaźmierczak Bartosz

Architectus

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2021

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Nr 1 (65)

59--66

EN

This article presents the method of resolving conflicts arising around projects implemented in the area included in the revitalisation programme. The author presents the subject of social participation in the Central European context, in which the low level of social trust and the difficulty in making joint decisions in the spirit of consensus are characteristic. The aim of this article is to try to define the role of experts in the participatory planning model. The described case study allows for the assumption that in the search for the desired changes in the area covered by the revitalization program, the participation of not only stakeholders but also experts should be taken into account. Thanks to this approach, it becomes possible to articulate – often contradictory needs, which in turn increases the chances for the implementation of postulates submitted by stakeholders. Real social participation in the decision-making process regarding changes related to revitalization is possible thanks to the involvement of experts who are, in a way, “shop stewards” who guarantee not only an appropriate level of debate but also help to objectify the developed postulates.

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W artykule omówiono sposób rozwiązywania konfliktów pojawiających się wokół projektów realizowanych na obszarze objętym programem rewitalizacji. Autor przedstawia w nim problematykę partycypacji społecznej w kontekście środkowoeuropejskim, dla którego charakterystycznym elementem jest niski poziom zaufania społecznego oraz trudność w podejmowaniu wspólnych decyzji w duchu konsensusu. Celem artykułu jest próba określenia roli ekspertów w partycypacyjnym modelu planowania. Opisane studium przypadku pozwala przyjąć założenie, że w poszukiwaniu pożądanych zmian w obszarze objętym programem rewitalizacji należy uwzględnić udział nie tylko interesariuszy, ale także ekspertów. Dzięki takiemu podejściu możliwe staje się wyartykułowanie – często sprzecznych ze sobą – potrzeb, co w konsekwencji zwiększa szanse na urzeczywistnianie i realizację zgłoszonych przez interesariuszy postulatów. Realny udział społeczny w procesie decyzyjnym dotyczącym przemian związanych z rewitalizacją jest możliwy dzięki zaangażowaniu ekspertów, którzy są niejako „mężami zaufania”, gwarantującymi nie tylko odpowiedni poziom debaty, ale również pomoc w obiektywizacji wypracowanych postulatów.

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Multistage structural evolution of the end-Cretaceous–Cenozoic Wleń Graben (the Sudetes, NE Bohemian Massif) : a contribution to the post-Variscan tectonic history of SW Poland

Kowalski Aleksander

Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae

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2021

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Vol. 91, No. 1

37--66

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Results of a new mapping and structural field study of the Wleń Graben (North Sudetic Synclinorium, SW Poland), made up of a post-Variscan volcano-sedimentary succession, were used to set up a new model of its multiphase tectonic evolution. The Wleń Graben constitutes a narrow tectonic trough, ca. 17.5 km long and up to 3.5 km wide, superimposed on the low-grade metamorphic rocks of the Kaczawa Metamorphic Unit and bounded by steep, NW−SE-oriented, normal and reverse faults. Previously, a simple, one-stage evolution of the graben was considered, with a single Alpine age intraplate compressional event responsible for the formation of the unit. The present study shows that the Late Cretaceous (post-Santonian?) evolution of the Wleń Graben was dominated by NW−SE-oriented, normal faults during the first, extensional stage of its formation. The central and southern parts of the graben were strongly affected by NW−SE-trending reverse faults and overthrusts, which reflect the second, probably latest Cretaceous to early Palaeogene(?) compressional event of tectonic deformation. Moreover, the whole area of the graben is dissected by sinistral strike-slip faults oriented perpendicular to the graben margins, representing the third stage of deformation (late Palaeogene–Neogene). The latest stage of evolution of the Wleń Graben includes a possible Neogene to Quaternary development of normal faults, interpreted here as gravitational collapse structures related to present-day morphology, rather than tectonically induced ones.

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Ocena przestrzennego rozmieszczenia parków narodowych i obszarów chronionego krajobrazu w państwach Europy Środkowej na tle prowincji fizycznogeograficznych

Badora Krzysztof, Nita Jerzy

Prace Komisji Krajobrazu Kulturowego

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2020

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nr 44 (2)

73--99

PL

Na podstawie analizy przestrzennego rozmieszczenia parków narodowych i obszarów chronionego krajobrazu Polski (parki krajobrazowe), Czech, Słowacji i Węgier oceniono czy tworzone w poszczególnych krajach systemy ochrony przyrody i krajobrazu są reprezentatywne również dla prowincji fizycznogeograficznych w granicach państw. Stwierdzono znaczną reprezentatywność w prowincjach głównie górskich i wskazano na dalsze możliwości ochrony. Na podstawie oceny stopnia integracji systemów ochrony przyrody i krajobrazu w rejonach przygranicznych określono obszary, które powinny uzupełnić system. Między poszczególnymi krajami występują różnice w przestrzennej organizacji parków narodowych i obszarów ochrony krajobrazu. Współpraca transgraniczna w ostatnich 30 latach znacznie się poprawiła. Większość przygranicznych parków narodowych i obszarów ochrony krajobrazu ma swoje kontinuum w kraju sąsiednim w formach podobnej rangi. Najsłabsze powiązania przestrzenne występują na granicy Węgier i Słowacji.

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Based on the analysis of the spatial distribution of national parks and protected landscape areas in Poland (landscape parks), the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, it was assessed whether the systems of nature and landscape protection created in individual countries are representative also for physico-geographical provinces within state borders. High representativeness was found in predominantly mountain provinces and further conservation options were indicated. Based on the assessment of the degree of integration of nature and landscape protection systems in border regions, areas that should complement the system have been identified. There are differences between individual countries in the spatial organization of national parks and landscape protection areas. Cross-border cooperation has improved significantly in the last 30 years. Most of the border national parks and landscape protection areas have their continuum in the neighboring country in forms of a similar rank. The weakest spatial connections are found on the border between Hungary and Slovakia.

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Partnerstwo publiczno-prywatne szansą na rewitalizację obiektów zabytkowych Europy Środkowej

Kołomański Tomasz

Wiadomości Konserwatorskie

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2019

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Nr 59

90--96

PL

Ratunkiem dla niszczejącego dziedzictwa kulturowego Europy Środkowej jest kompleksowo i skutecznie przeprowadzana rewitalizacja. Jest ona jednym z najważniejszych sposobów zapewnienia ładu przestrzennego i wysokiej jakości przestrzeni publicznej. Pomimo transformacji politycznej, jaką przeszła Europa Środkowa, a później w następstwie wstąpienia do Unii Europejskiej absorbcji funduszy pomocowych, problem rewitalizacji jej bezcennego dziedzictwa kulturowego wciąż nie został rozwiązany. Brak środków finansowych jest dla większości władz publicznych cały czas jednym z najbardziej palących problemów w odniesieniu do ochrony oraz utrzymania zarządzanych przez siebie obiektów zabytkowych. Przy ograniczonych środkach publicznych jedyną możliwością realizacji zadań rewitalizacyjnych jest sięgnięcie do doświadczeń i kapitału finansowego sektora prywatnego. Z pomocą przychodzi tutaj formuła partnerstwa publiczno-prywatnego (PPP). Niestety, do dzisiaj jest tylko kilka przykładów PPP w projektach rewitalizacyjnych. Jedną z przyczyn niewielkiego wykorzystania tej formuły jest brak wystarczającej wiedzy i dobrych praktyk. Najlepszym sposobem na zmianę tej sytuacji jest zwiększenie kompetencji i wiedzy zarówno władz publicznych, jak i podmiotów prywatnych w zakresie wykorzystania mechanizmów PPP, również przy okazji rewitalizacji obiektów dziedzictwa kulturowego. Przykładem takiego działania jest projekt Restaura realizowany wspólnie przez 10 instytucji z 4 środkowoeuropejskich państw: Polski, Słowacji, Chorwacji oraz Słowenii. Ma on na celu współpracę instytucji partnerskich w zakresie stworzenia skutecznych strategii dla odnowienia dziedzictwa kulturowego z wykorzystaniem PPP. W ramach projektu miasta partnerskie wskażą obiekt/obszar przeznaczony do rewitalizacji. Następnie przygotowana zostanie kompleksowa dokumentacja techniczna, prawna i finansowa. Zniszczony zabytek będzie przygotowany do prac restauratorskich w formule PPP. Stworzona baza dokumentów i dobrych praktyk będzie ogólnodostępna i stanie się wzorem dla innych samorządów i prywatnych inwestorów w Europie Środkowej.

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The last hope for the deteriorating cultural heritage in Central Europe is a complex and efficiently carried out revitalisation. It is one of the most important ways to ensure spatial order and high quality public spaces. Despite the political transformations that Central Europe underwent, and then acquiring aid funds as a result of accession to the EU, the problem of revitalising the priceless cultural heritage has still not been resolved. The lack of sufficient funds has been one of the most urgent issues for the majority of authorities in reference to the protection and maintenance of historic objects they are in charge of. With limited public funds, the only possibility to implement revitalisation tasks is to use the experience and the financial capital of the private sector. The formula of the public-private partnership (PPP) might be of help here. Unfortunately, revitalisation projects have only included a few examples of PPP so far. One of the reasons for the rare use of the formula is insufficient knowledge and lack of good practice. The best way to change the situation is increasing the competence and knowledge of both the authorities and private subjects concerning the application of the PPP mechanisms, also for the revitalisation of the cultural heritage. An example of such an activity is the Restaura project realised by 10 cooperating institutions from 4 Central-European states: Poland, Slovakia, Croatia and Slovenia. Its goal is the cooperation of partner institutions in order to create effective strategies for restoring the cultural heritage using the PPP. Within the project partner cities indicate the object/ area intended for revitalisation. Then a complex technical, legal and financial documentation is prepared. The damaged historic object will be prepared for the restoration treatment within the PPP formula. The created document and good practice base will be generally available and will set an example for other local authorities and private investors in Central Europe.

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Computerization of cartographic publishing activity – an outline of the problem exemplified by the former monopolist in Poland

Konopska Beata

Polish Cartographical Review

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2019

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Vol. 51, No. 3

143--150

EN

The post-1989 transition from a centrally planned economy to a free-market economy generated new investment opportunities in Poland, heavily impacted by computerization. The article analyses the genesis, course and effects of implementation of computerization in a cartographic publishing house which spent several decades operating on a typical Central and Eastern European market. It also highlights the multi-dimensional nature of this process, presenting it in the context of political and socio-economic changes. The author indicates that the factors hindering efficient implementation of computerization were the very qualities which in the past determined the enterprise’s market potential: a great reserve of source and technical materials for publishing maps, efficient technological facilities, experienced employees and the management who sought modernization, but underestimated the potential of computerization and had to deal with its own psychological barriers related to the issue.

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Central Europe after 1918. a short outline1

Miszewski D., Dąbrowski F., Deszczyński M., Wnętrzak F.

Security and Defence Quarterly

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2018

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Vol. 19, No. 2

13--38

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This paper analyses changes in the region’s states, and the evolution of Central Europe’s (CE) position in the international environment. Since forming in 1918, the new CE independent states have remained a focus for neighbouring powers and Western powers. The paper looks at the background for the historical, political, economic, demographic, cultural and geopolitical importance of Central Europe. Three essential periods can be distinguished, the first being thepost-WW1 period, when after the downfall of Austria-Hungary and the weakening of Germany, Russia and Turkey, a number of independent states emerged. The lack of Western assistance and insufficient mutual cooperation meant that CE countries became subject to aggression from Berlin and Moscow. After WW2, the region was forcefully reintegrated into the Soviet Union – and its states were subjected to political, social, economic and cultural degradation. The downfall of the Soviet Union and democratic transition in the states of Central Europe contributed to the regional economic and security integration. EU membership and close ties to the USA forged significant possibilities for development and becoming a subject of European policy. Historical experiences show that Central Europe has had a significant impact on international security in Europe. The region’s states of increasing significance have the capability potential to forge their own concepts of close regional political and economic cooperation.

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Sedimentary evidence for an ice-sheet dammed lake in a mountain valley of the Eastern Sudetes, Czechia

Hanáček M., Nývlt D., Skácelová Z., Nehyba S., Procházková B., Engel Z.

Acta Geologica Polonica

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2018

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Vol. 68, no. 1

107--134

EN

An accumulation of glacial sediments is located near Písečná village in the depression between the Sokol Ridge and Zlaté Hory Highlands NNE of Jeseník town (Eastern Sudetes). The accumulation lies at the lateral side of the mountain valley of the Bělá River and fills a preglacial palaeovalley of this river. Research combining facies analysis of outcrops, ground penetrating radar survey, interpretation drilling survey, and modelling of the preglacial relief was undertaken at the site. According to the results obtained, the upper part of the sedimentary accumulation represents a coarse-grained terminoglacial glaciofluvial delta of the Gilbert type. The development of the accumulation has dominantly been driven by the preglacial morphology. Facies typical for foresets of coarse-grained deltas represented mainly by high-density flows, cohesionless debris flows, debris falls and less common low-density flows were found in the outcrops. The delta near Písečná prograded into a lake dammed by the ice-sheet front in the north. The lake was bounded by the slopes of Sokol Ridge, Zlaté Hory Highlands and Góry Parkowe on other sides. The lake level reached an altitude of up to 430 m a.s.l., as the coarse-grained delta plain base lies at this level.

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New lobsters (Decapoda, Nephropoidea) from the Cretaceous-Paleogene section of the Middle Vistula valley, east-central Poland

Fraaije R. H. B., Jagt J. W. M., Van Bakel B. W. M., Tshudy D. M.

Acta Geologica Polonica

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2018

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Vol. 68, no. 4

503--509

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During fieldwork in the early 1990s at the then still active quarry near Nasiłów, on the left bank of the River Vistula (Wisła), accompanied by Professor Andrzej Radwański, some lobster remains were collected. A fragmentary anterior portion of a decapod crustacean carapace, recovered from a level about 2 m below the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary, in a siliceous chalk unit locally referred to as ‘opoka’, constitutes the oldest record of the thaumastocheliform genus Dinochelus Ahyong, Chan and Bouchet, 2010, D. radwanskii sp. nov. The other, more complete, individual is from c. 3 m above the K/Pg boundary, coming from marly gaizes or ‘siwak’; this is ascribed to a new species of Hoploparia M’Coy, 1849, H. nasilowensis sp. nov., the first to be recorded from Danian (lower Paleocene) strata. Although both ‘opoka’ and ‘siwak’ facies in the Nasiłów area are very rich in diverse biota, including some brachyurans, no macruran remains had so far been recorded from the region.

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A new Danian echinoid assemblage from the Greensand in the Kazimierz Dolny area, central Poland: taxonomy, taphonomy and sedimentological implications

Machalski M., Jagt J. W. M.

Acta Geologica Polonica

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2018

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Vol. 68, no. 4

571--596

EN

We describe a new echinoid assemblage, composed of specimens of Bolbaster sp., Cyclaster danicus (Schlüter, 1897), Diplodetus vistulensis (Kongiel, 1950) and Linthia? sp. in a distinctive phosphatic preservation, from the so-called Greensand, a marly glauconitic sandstone horizon at the base of the Danian succession in the Kazimierz Dolny area (central Poland). This assemblage presumably is of early Danian age, with Cyclaster danicus occurring in the lower Danian of Denmark and southern Sweden. The specimens are preserved as internal moulds, composed of phosphatised glauconitic sandstone, occasionally with some test material adhering. The genesis of these moulds involved the following steps: (1) infilling of tests of dead echinoids with glauconitic sand; (2) penetration of the infills by coelobiotic deposit-feeding organisms that produced burrows along the inner test surface; (3) early-diagenetic cementation of infills by calcium phosphate; and (4) exhumation and intraformational reworking of specimens, leading to abrasion, fragmentation and loss of test material in some individuals. Co-occurring are unphosphatised moulds of Echinocorys ex gr. depressa (von Eichwald, 1866) and Pseudogibbaster cf. depressus (Kongiel in Kongiel and Matwiejewówna, 1937), which may represent a younger (middle to late Danian) assemblage. Additionally, the presence of derived late Maastrichtian echinoids, e.g., Temnocidaris (Stereocidaris) ex gr. herthae (Schlüter, 1892), Pleurosalenia bonissenti (Cotteau, 1866) and Hemicara pomeranum Schlüter, 1902, is confirmed for the Greensand, based on new material and re- examination of previously recorded specimens. In summary, members of three echinoid assemblages of different age and preservation occur together in the Greensand. Our results are compatible with former interpretations of this unit as a condensed, transgressive lag with mixed faunas of different age and provenance. However, they are incompatible with the hypothesis that phosphatised Danian fossils preserved in the Greensand are derived from a facies equivalent, now gone, of the lower Danian Cerithium Limestone in eastern Denmark, because all moulds are composed of phosphatised glauconitic sandstone that is utterly different from the calcareous dinocyst-dominated, fine crystalline matrix of the Cerithium Limestone.

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Konkurencja na rynku międzynarodowych przewozów pasażerskich. Przewozy pasażerskie pomiędzy Warszawą a stolicami krajów Europy Centralnej

Kozłowska M.

TTS Technika Transportu Szynowego

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2017

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R. 24, nr 4

10--13

PL

Mobilność jest niezwykle ważna dla rozwoju gospodarczego oraz dla jakości życia obywateli, którzy mogą swobodnie podróżować zarówno w celach turystycznych i rekreacyjnych, jak i służbowych czy też szkoleniowych. W niniejszym artykule, będącym kolejnym w cyklu publikacji dotyczących konkurencji na rynku międzynarodowych przewozów pasażerskich, przedstawiono wyniki analizy ofert przewozów z Warszawy do stolic państw Europy Centralnej. Porównano przewozy realizowane indywidualnymi środkami transportu oraz transportem zbiorowym. Pod uwagę wzięto dostępność danego środka transportu, czas podróży oraz cenę.

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Mobility is extremely important for economic development and for the quality of life of citizens who are free to travel both for leisure and leisure purposes and for business purposes or training. In this article, being the next in a series of publications on international competition passenger transport, results are presented analysis of transport offers from Warsaw to the capitals of the countries of Central Europe. Comparisons were made with individualized transport and public transport. Considered taken availability of the means of transport, travel time and price.

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Can Naturalness Indicator Values Reveal Habitat Degradation? A Test of Four Methodological Approaches

Erdős L., Bátori Z., Penksza K., Dénes A., Kevey B., Kevey D., Magnes M., Sengl P., Tölgyesi C.

Polish Journal of Ecology

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2017

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Vol. 65, nr 1

1--13

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Assessing habitat naturalness belongs to the most current issues in conservation biology. It has been recognized that plants are able to indicate the naturalness of their habitat. Thus, species may be given relative naturalness indicator values (i.e. scores on an ordinal scale), reflecting their different tolerances against habitat degradation. In the present study, our first goal was to test whether relative naturalness indicator values are able to reveal known differences in naturalness levels. Our second purpose was to compare four different methodological approaches in order to identify which is the most reliable when analyzing habitat naturalness. We compared near-natural and degraded plots on the bases of (1) unweighted plot means, (2) plot medians, (3) unweighted naturalness indicator value populations, and (4) frequency-weighted naturalness indicator value populations. We found that relative naturalness indicator values performed well in differentiating among near-natural and degraded vegetation. Unweighted mean indicator values were the most reliable, but frequency-weighted indicator value populations were nearly as efficient as unweighted means. We conclude that relative naturalness indicator values provide a simple but reliable tool for estimating habitat deterioration.

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Precast concrete architecture in Central Europe

Glaesle J.

Materiały Budowlane

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2017

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nr 9

61--66

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Konkurencja na rynku międzynarodowych przewozów pasażerskich : przewozy pasażerskie pomiędzy Warszawą a stolicami krajów Europy Centralnej

Kozłowska M.

Autobusy : technika, eksploatacja, systemy transportowe

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2017

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R. 18, nr 6

12--15

PL

Mobilność jest niezwykle ważna dla rozwoju gospodarczego oraz dla jakości życia obywateli, którzy mogą swobodnie podróżować zarówno w celach turystycznych i rekreacyjnych, jak i służbowych czy też szkoleniowych. W niniejszym artykule, będącym kolejnym z cyklu publikacji dotyczących konkurencji na rynku międzynarodowych przewozów pasażerskich, przedstawiono wyniki analizy ofert przewozów z Warszawy do stalic państw Europy Centralnej. Porównano przewozy realizowane indywidualnymi środkami transportu oraz transportem zbiorowym. Pod uwagę wzięto dostępność danego środka transportu, czas podróży oraz cenę.

EN

Mobility is extremely important for economic development and for the quality of life of citizens who are free to travel both for leisure and leisure purposes and for business purposes or training. In this article, being the next in a series of publications on international competition passenger transport, results are presented analysis of transport offers from Warsaw to the capitals of the countries of Central Europe. Comparisons were made with individualized transport and public transport. Considered taken availability of the means of transport, travel time and price.

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Strategic importance of the seaport of Koper, Slovenia

Zupančič J.

Prace Komisji Geografii Komunikacji PTG

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2016

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nr 19(3)

18--26

EN

Presented is the development of the city and the port of Koper in the Upper Adriatic and its role as a regional transport node. Koper is in fact a substitute port-city; it developed after the decline of Trieste in the post-WW2 period because of the needs of Slovenian economy within ideologically polarized Europe during the 1950s. Favourable economic connections between Slovenia and the wider hinterlands in Central Europe facilitated the development of this port into an important North Adriatic transport node, with over 20 million tons of cargo per year and specialization for transportation of cars, timber, containers and finer commodities.

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Invasive Solidago Species: How Large Area Do They Occupy and What Would be the Cost of Their Removal?

Szymura M., Szymura T. H., Wolski K.

Polish Journal of Ecology

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2016

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Vol. 64, nr 1

25--34

EN

The impact of biological invasions should be considered from ecological and economic perspective. To understand the influence of the invader, both its range and abundance should be known. Even if the range of invaders is well-known, the problem of assessing their abundance still occurs very often. In this study we report the results of an assessment of the area covered by stands of alien Solidago species in Silesia (Central Europe, south-western Poland, area ca. 30 000 km2), and estimated costs of the invaded areas recultivation. The results of field survey show that the stands of invasive Solidago species cover an area of about 130 000 hectares in S-W Poland, which is ca. 4.5% of the total area of the studied region. It was also found that the cadastral data and Corine land cover maps underestimate the area of fallowed agricultural lands. The cost of removing stands of invasive Solidago species in S-W Poland ranges from 123.24 to 266.17 million PLN, depending on the method. The method that balances reasonable costs, low environmental impact and efficiency of grassland establishment costs 180.7 million PLN for S-W Poland.

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Representatives of the family Actinostromatidae (Stromatoporoidea) in the Devonian of southern Poland and their ecological significance

Wolniewicz P.

Geologos

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2016

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Vol. 22, No. 3

227--249

EN

Stromatoporoids of the family Actinostromatidae are common constituents of Givetian to Frasnian (Devonian) organic buildups. The species-level structure of actinostromatid assemblages from the Devonian of southern Poland is described in the present paper, with special emphasis on ecological factors that influenced species composition of the communities. Nine species of the genera Actinostroma and Bifariostroma are distinguished. Members of the family Actinostromatidae predominated in stromatoporoid assemblages within lower Frasnian carbonate buildup margins. The most diverse actinostromatid faunas were found within the middle Givetian Stringocephalus Bank, in the upper Givetian–lower Frasnian biostromal complex and in the lower Frasnian organic buildups. Species-level biodiversity was lowest within detrital facies which surrounded the Frasnian carbonate buildups. Species of Actinostroma with well-developed colliculi are commonest within the middle Givetian to early Frasnian coral-stromatoporoid biostromal complexes, whereas species with strongly reduced colliculi predominate early-middle Frasnian organic buildups. The skeletal structure of actinostromatids reflects environmental changes, documenting a transition from species with thin, close-set pillars and widely spaced laminae (common in the middle Givetian) to those with long, thick pillars and megapillars (in Bifariostroma), which were predominant during the early and middle Frasnian. The distribution of growth forms among species reveals a significant intraspecific variation. Species of Actinostroma can be either tabular or low domical, depending on the palaeoenvironmental setting. Thus, the present study confirms that stromatoporoid morphology was influenced by environmental conditions.

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Factors influencing temporal changes in chemical composition of biogenic deposits in the middle Tążyna River Valley (Kuyavian Lakeland, central Poland)

Okupny D., Rzepecki S., Borówka R. K., Forysiak J., Twardy J., Fortuniak A., Tomkowiak J.

Geologos

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2016

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Vol. 22, No. 2

121--136

EN

The present paper discusses the influence of geochemical properties on biogenic deposits in the Wilkostowo mire near Toruń, central Poland. The analysed core has allowed the documentation of environmental changes between the older part of the Atlantic Period and the present day (probably interrupted at the turn of the Meso- and Neoholocene). In order to reconstruct the main stages in the sedimentation of biogenic deposits, we have used stratigraphic variability of selected litho-geochemical elements (organic matter, calcium carbonate, biogenic and terrigenous silica, macro- and micro-elements: Na, K, Mg, Ca, Fe, Mn, Cu, Zn, Pb, Cr and Ni). The main litho-geochemical component is CaCO3; its content ranges from 4.1 per cent to 92 per cent. The variability of CaCO3 content reflects mainly changes in hydrological and geomorphological conditions within the catchment area. The effects of prehistoric anthropogenic activities in the catchment of the River Tążyna, e.g., the use of saline water for economic purposes, are recorded in a change from calcareous gyttja into detritus-calcareous gyttja sedimentation and an increased content of lithophilous elements (Na, K, Mg and Ni) in the sediments. Principal component analysis (PCA) has enabled the distinction the most important factors that affected the chemical composition of sediments at the Wilkostowo site, i.e., mechanical and chemical denudation processes in the catchment, changes in redox conditions, bioaccumulation of selected elements and human activity. Sediments of the Wilkostowo mire are located in the direct vicinity of an archaeological site, where traces of intensive settlement dating back to the Neolithic have been documented. The settlement phase is recorded both in lithology and geochemical properties of biogenic deposits which fill the reservoir formed at the bottom of the Parchania Canal Valley.