Marija Ljakoska, Mirjanka Madjevikj, Biljana Apostolovska Toshevska, Ss. Cyril, Methodius
{"title":"DIVORCED MARRIAGES IN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA REGIONAL ANALYSES OF THE FREQUENCY","authors":"Marija Ljakoska, Mirjanka Madjevikj, Biljana Apostolovska Toshevska, Ss. Cyril, Methodius","doi":"10.18509/gbp.2018.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18509/gbp.2018.27","url":null,"abstract":"The influence of the social, economic, political, cultural and other changes and processes that are taking place in the country can be felt in the demogeographic changes that the Republic of Macedonia faces today. This global trend of demogeographic changes, such as lower birth and fertility rates, new conceptions of marriage and family, delayed marriage, new types of communities, changes in the educational level of the population, changes in the economic status, increased number of divorces and other, are also present in the Republic of Macedonia. The phenomenon of increased number of divorces is especially concerning, because it is becoming an integral part of the society more and more, and it reflects on all the processes of the population, particularly fertility. Despite the new understanding of life and the new types of informal communities, in most countries (even in the most developed), most of the children are still born within the marital union. This paper elaborates the regional analysis of the trend of divorced marriages in the Republic of Macedonia, the crude divorce rate, the number of divorces per 1,000 inhabitants older than 15 years and the number of divorces per 1,000 marriages in the period from 1991 to 2016. Divorces are also processed according to certain characteristics of the spouses. The purpose of this research is to point out the differences that occur among the regions when it comes to divorce.","PeriodicalId":179095,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 2018","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121830044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"INNOVATIVE APPROACHES FOR ACHIEVING HIGHER QUALITY TRAINING OF FUTURE GEOGRAPHY TEACHERS IN BULGARIA","authors":"Georgi Kotseff, T. Traykov","doi":"10.18509/GBP.2018.66","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18509/GBP.2018.66","url":null,"abstract":"The achieved level of education is one of the fundamental benchmarks defining the social and economic development of a country and the quality of life of its citizens. The training of future teachers (pedagogical staff) is of crucial importance in that matter. The innovation approaches in achieving higher quality training and their application need to be aligned with the current demographic changes and their influence on the labor market. The publication focuses on the process of training geography teachers in the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” and the application of such innovative approaches that are in line with the contemporary requirements and the needs for high quality geographical didactic education. Research methods: Theoretical analysis, empirical analysis, qualitative and quantitative analysis and evaluation, statistical methods.","PeriodicalId":179095,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 2018","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116636642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IS THERE TARIFF MIMICKING? THE CASE OF WATER PROVISION IN POLAND","authors":"P. Swianiewicz, Julita Łukomska","doi":"10.18509/GBP.2018.30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18509/GBP.2018.30","url":null,"abstract":"The concept of competition in public finance is usually applied to taxes, and it is often used to analyse policies of local governments. There are two types of tax competition: classic for mobile tax base and yardstick competition, in which local politicians compete for political capital being related to comparison of tax rates with neighbouring municipalities. The latter type is often addressed as tax mimicking in which rates in one municipality are following decisions made in close geographic proximity (neighbouring municipalities). In our paper we argue that in Central and Eastern Europe the concept might be even more useful in case of tariffs for local public services than in case of local taxes. It is due to relatively low tax autonomy of local governments and low tax yields collected from local taxes. We test applicability of the mimicking model in explaining variation of tariffs for water provision in three Polish regions. The test includes controlling variables, such as population size, affluence of local budgets and location and is conducted through multiple linear regression model. This method will allow us to determine whether geographical proximity is indeed a decisive factor, or is similarity of tariffs a result of other similarities of socio-economic environment. The paper is based on results of the “Fees for local public services financial and political importance” research project. The project is funded by Narodowe Centrum Nauki (National Science Centre) grant number UMO-2015/19/B/HS4/02898","PeriodicalId":179095,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 2018","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115793115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Milka Bubalo-Živković, B. Kalenjuk, T. Lukić, Bojan Đerčan
{"title":"DAILY AND INTERNAL MIGRATION OF SELECTED ETHNIC GROUPS IN MUNICIPALITIES AND TOWNS OF THE REGION OF VOJVODINA (SERBIA)","authors":"Milka Bubalo-Živković, B. Kalenjuk, T. Lukić, Bojan Đerčan","doi":"10.18509/GBP.2018.44","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18509/GBP.2018.44","url":null,"abstract":"The region of Vojvodina, a region in the north of the Republic of Serbia, represents a geographical area that is ethnically very diverse. A large number of ethnic groups in the area of Vojvodina, which are present today, is the result of migrations for centuries that took place towards these areas and from these areas. The aim of this paper is to determine which ethnic group, according to the 2011 Census data, was the most active in the daily movement, which was dominant in internal migration. Mobility of the population depends on the activity pursued by them, but also on the educational level. Nine ethnic groups in the region of Vojvodina (Serbs, Hungarians, Slovaks, Croats, Bunjevci, Roma, Romanians, Ruthenians and Montenegrins) have been identified in the work, surveying primary activity of the population, level of education of the largest part of the ethnic group, and then the participation of the daily migrants by separate ethnic groups. Socioeconomic processes in the structure of the economy that took place in the second half of the 20 century led to the globalization of activities across ethnic groups, but certain differences were also sustained in the twenty-first century, which is the goal of this paper, to determine the differences between ethnic groups. The analysis used the data from the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia obtained through the special processing of the 2011 Census data. The mentioned ethnic groups are separated by higher shares (Hungarians, Slovaks, Roma and Croats) or by small numbers, but they are specific ethnic groups in Vojvodina (Bunjevci and Ruthenians).","PeriodicalId":179095,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 2018","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131986131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Enea, M. Iosub, C. Stoleriu, A. Ursu, G. Romanescu
{"title":"THE DRONE - A METHODOLOGICAL TOOL, FOR GENERATING BASE LAYERS IN GIS","authors":"A. Enea, M. Iosub, C. Stoleriu, A. Ursu, G. Romanescu","doi":"10.18509/GBP.2018.56","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18509/GBP.2018.56","url":null,"abstract":"One of the latest paradigms of today's interdisciplinary studies in geosciences, consists of the implementation of the newest, most accurate, and relevant datasets available, in order to emphasize the appearance, causality or effects of different phenomena, which interfere with humans. Therefore, there is a permanent strive for data, relevant in geographical analysis, which is highly accurate, and also cost-effective. Due to the recent developments in UAV technology, and lowering of production costs, drones have been integrated into methodological workflows all around the world, in numerous fields, ranging from habitat delineation, to geomorphologic mapping. Most such studies use either a digital surface model (DSM) or ortophoto imagery generated from drone aerial images. Also, Structure From Motion algorithms (SFM) have been highly developed recently, into detecting ever more complicated shapes and objects. This means that the drone has turned into an indispensable tool for generating base layers used in any GIS-based study, because it generates fast, high accuracy, repeatable, on demand data sets. This paper intends to reveal a methodological approach towards generating the two, most important raster layers for the majority of spatial analyses: the digital surface model/digital elevation model, and the ortophoto, respectively.","PeriodicalId":179095,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 2018","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116791843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Piotr Raźniak, S. Dorocki, Anna Winiarczyk-Raźniak
{"title":"CHANGES IN THE RANK OF WORLD ECONOMIC CENTERS IN THE UNITED STATES – PRESENT STATE AND PERSPECTIVES","authors":"Piotr Raźniak, S. Dorocki, Anna Winiarczyk-Raźniak","doi":"10.18509/gbp.2018.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18509/gbp.2018.25","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of the study was to determine the level of resilience of the command and control function via its dominant sector in cities in the United States and forecast the level of resilience for the period up to 2025. Changes in the WECI index were used to analyze this issue. The index is calculated based on standardized values of financial data of companies located in major metropolitan areas with a special focus on economic potential and the variety of sectors present. The number of corporate headquarters decreased in most cities in the U.S. (designated world economic centers) in the period 2006 – 2016, while the resilience of their main sectors increased. The most important WECs in the United States today are New York, Chicago, Houston, and San Jose. Research has shown that the resilience of U.S. cities tended to increase in a lagging manner with respect to the market value of U.S. companies following the 2008 global financial crisis. The forecast for 2025 suggests that the leading WECs in the U.S. will be New York, Chicago, San Jose, and San Francisco. No spatial patterns were noted in future changes in WECI values. Both decreases and increases in WECI values occur more or less evenly across the United States. Changes in U.S. WECI values also do not appear to be related to a one specific sector of the U.S. economy.","PeriodicalId":179095,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 2018","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130089064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"POTKOZARJE REGION (BiH): BETWEEN NODAL-FUNCTIONAL AND STATISTICAL REGION","authors":"Goran Mutabdžija, Herzegovina","doi":"10.18509/GBP.2018.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18509/GBP.2018.38","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper emphasis is placed on the regional structure of Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereinafter referred to as BiH). It is complex and reflects on the creation of different regional identities, but also on the field of economic development. Like other Western Balkan countries, BiH is leading a policy of approaching European integration, but it does it slowly and inefficiently [11]. This is influenced by a wide range of reasons, especially geographically, so its regional structure needs to be analyzed. This will enable you to know the real economic and geographical differences that exist between individual regions. In order to achieve this, it is necessary to abandon the concept of the existing physiognomic or economic-geographical regions because they do not reflect the real dynamics of major social changes and do not enable a good view of the perspective of the future economic and geographical development of Bosnia and Herzegovina ([7], [12], [14]). Within the European framework, the generally accepted framework for measuring economic development indicators, as well as the planning process and regional policy, became statistical regions of different hierarchical levels ([6], [10]), and in BiH, their formations have not yet been institutionalized. The aim of this paper is based on the creation and detailed description of a statistical region in the Republic of Srpska as an introduction to the process that will be set up as an imperative for BiH on the road to EU accession. This is the basis for the starting hypothesis of the importance of creating clear indicators of the achieved level of regional development, at the level of BiH and its entities, as an instrument for creating a clear regional policy and planning process.","PeriodicalId":179095,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 2018","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126737605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CLASSIFICATION OF THE EUROPEAN UNION COUNTRIES WITH RESPECT TO THE STANDARDS OF LIVING","authors":"Patryk Brambert, I. Kiniorska, E. Pałka-Łebek","doi":"10.18509/GBP.2018.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18509/GBP.2018.33","url":null,"abstract":"The study evaluates the spatial differentiation in the structure of the standards of living in the European Union countries. Selected measures that represent, in an objective manner, the needs of an average resident of any EU member were analysed in detail. Those included: infant mortality, share of the pre-productive population, unemployment rate, accessibility of information and communications technologies, level of schooling, healthcare accessibility, and crime level. The basic research method used was the Ward’s minimum variance procedure. In studied years, the countries with the highest standards of living included Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Denmark, Netherlands, Finland and Sweden. Conversely, the lowest standards of living were found in Bulgaria and Romania.","PeriodicalId":179095,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 2018","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121630202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"INTEGRATING FLOOD RISK ASSESSMENT INTO MANAGEMENT PRACTICE (CASE STUDY IN BULGARIA)","authors":"D. Zlatunova","doi":"10.18509/gbp.2018.55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18509/gbp.2018.55","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of the current publication is to present a conceptual framework for integration of flood risk assessment into flood management practice in Republic of Bulgaria – the case study of Yantra River Basin. The conceptual framework is based on the concept of flood risk, which presents risk as the combination of ‘probability of flooding’ and ‘negative consequences’ for Human health, Economy, Environment and Cultural heritage. Flood risk management is a holistic and continuous process, which includes analysis of the flood risk system (determination of current and future flood risk), the evaluation of a certain system state (judgement on risk and risk reduction alternatives) and the reduction of undesirable risk (strategic alternatives for flood risk reduction). A central place in the conceptual framework take the applied methodological approach for flood risk assessment and mapping of Yantra River Basin, which allows application of different flood risk management regimes before, during and after the flood event A number of flood risk reduction alternatives are analysed. The major findings of the research are flood vulnerability and risk maps of the Yantra River, as well as identified interventions in the river flood-risk system based on physical measures and policy instruments.","PeriodicalId":179095,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 2018","volume":"114 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114108372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CHANGES IN LAND USAGE OF RURAL AREAS IN SUBURBAN AREA OF KATOWICE CONURBATION","authors":"Marlena Dyszy","doi":"10.18509/gbp.2018.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18509/gbp.2018.28","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of the elaboration is to indicate the changes occurring in the usage of land of rural areas. The investigated area is located in the south of Poland and includes eight rural municipalities in the suburban area of Katowice conurbation. The spatial scope of the examination concerns 2002, 2008 and 2014. The influence of the Katowice conurbation acquires different spatial forms. One of the manifestations are the changes of land usage. Rural areas of favourable conditions for the development of agriculture are subjected to the process of urbanization to the lesser extent in relation to areas of unfavourable conditions for agriculture. A decrease of the participation of land used agriculturally occurs, to the benefit of the lands of residential, service-related and industrial usage. The entire scope of research is subject to the city expanding over the suburban area. The dynamism of these changes varies in time. The elaboration allows to specify the direction of changes of the usage of land on the investigated rural areas.","PeriodicalId":179095,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 2018","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131826802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}