{"title":"Lessons (not) learned on climate change adaptation policy: qualitative research on the case of floods in Western Balkan countries","authors":"J. Puđak","doi":"10.17234/SOCEKOL.28.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17234/SOCEKOL.28.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present the findings of our qualitative research on adaptation to climate change within the context of the major floods that hit countries in Central and South-Eastern Europe in 2014. Adaptation here refers to the response of any given social system regarding existing and expected impacts of climate change and extreme climate events. The effectiveness of the response depends on how vulnerable or how resilient a particular system is, and this includes not only technical and biophysical aspects, but also social, cultural, political and economic ones. We conducted empirical research in order to describe how actors in environmental governance structures in three countries – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia – viewed the climate change adaptation process, and whether they recognized climate change as a trans-sectoral problem during all the phases of the 2014 flood crisis. The results show that even though most interviewees are aware of the connection between climate change and the 2014 floods, they are unable to properly address these kinds of crises. Given that in all three countries climate mitigation and adaptation measures are divided between different ministries and departments, which are not complementary, this lack of interconnectedness is thus reflected in the interviewees’ observations.","PeriodicalId":35175,"journal":{"name":"Socijalna Ekologija","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.17234/SOCEKOL.28.1.1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48557278","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":"Feminizam i psihoterapija: radikalnost ideja naspram ograničenja metode","authors":"P. Dražić","doi":"10.17234/SOCEKOL.28.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17234/SOCEKOL.28.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"This paper looks at the institution of family from the perspective of dominant theories within the field of psychotherapy: psychoanalysis, existential humanism and cognitive behaviourism. Many psychotherapy schools of thought find the way a nuclear family functions an important and even crucial source of various psychological issues. However, psychotherapy looks for sources of these issues in various dysfunctions without questioning the very institution of family. Psychotherapy therefore implicitly accepts a functionalist position. This approach is opposed by radical and marxist feminism as conflict feminist theories. Radical and marxist feminism are heterogonous approaches but they share a view that one of the key areas of patriarchal oppression and exploitation resides within the institution of family. Therefore, a new perspective developed on the point of convergence between psychotherapy and feminism – feminist psychotherapy – as an approach which applies feminist principles in therapy. In our analysis of this perspective, we conclude that psychotherapy must widen its horizons and analyse social inequalities, which have so far been neglected, while feminism provides important insight into the political perspective of the intimate. However, individualism inherent in psychotherapy, unequal distribution of power within the therapeutic relationship and dominant tendencies in science significantly limit the emancipation power of feminist psychotherapy. Therefore, it seems that psychotherapy, with its goals, methods and immersion in the patriarchal system, pacifies feminist ideas even radical ones.","PeriodicalId":35175,"journal":{"name":"Socijalna Ekologija","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.17234/SOCEKOL.28.1.3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49251730","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":"The impact of Europeanisation on the Nature Protection System of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Example of the Establishment of Multi-Level Governance System of Protected Areas Natura 2000","authors":"A. Šobot, A. Lukšič","doi":"10.17234/socekol.28.1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17234/socekol.28.1.2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35175,"journal":{"name":"Socijalna Ekologija","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.17234/socekol.28.1.2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48757746","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":"Etika institucionalne zaštite prirode u Hrvatskoj: studija slučaja Nacionalnog parka „Krka“","authors":"Dalia Matijević","doi":"10.17234/socekol.28.3.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17234/socekol.28.3.2","url":null,"abstract":"Sažetak Svrha ovog istraživanja bila je cjelovito procijeniti i evaluirati učinkovitost sustava institucionalne zaštite prirode te utvrditi njegov doseg, fokusiranost i opravdanost, s ciljem da se utemeljeno predlože odrednice daljnjeg razvoja koje su usklađene s etičkim načelima. Nacionalni park „Krka“ regionalno je relevantan predvodnik trendova u zaštiti prirode te ovdje predstavlja model za razvoj cjelovite procjene etičnosti institucionalnog sustava zaštite prirode. Studija slučaja pokazala je da Nacionalni park „Krka“ treba nadalje dosljedno ulagati napore u postizanju konstruktivne razvojne promjene dosadašnjeg sustava upravljanja parkovima. Pored kvalitetne provedbe mjera očuvanja i zaštite prostora, dobara i raznolikosti te razvoja održivog sustava integralnog upravljanja, u parku se sve više treba usmjeriti na: 1. afi rmiranje problematike ljudskim djelovanjem uvjetovanih klimatskih promjena; 2. razvijanje ekološke društvene svijesti; 3. sagledavanje i oblikovanje alternativnih mogućnosti suradnje u zaštiti prirode sa svim relevantnim dionicima i društvenim podsustavima; 4. afi rmiranje parka kao nositelja mentaliteta povratka prirodi i pro-aktivnog štovatelja i promicatelja tradicijskih znanja i vještina; te 5. preuzimanje uloge pokretača onakvog društvenog razvoja koji pretpostavlja dugoročnu održivost prostora, ljudi i dobara u uvjetima društvene pravde.","PeriodicalId":35175,"journal":{"name":"Socijalna Ekologija","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.17234/socekol.28.3.2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67428280","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":"Constitutional Legal Regulation of Environmental Protection and Nature Management in the Post-Soviet Space: Issues of Legal Technique","authors":"A. Anisimov, A. Ryzhenkov","doi":"10.17234/socekol.28.2.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17234/socekol.28.2.1","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with the issues of terminology and content of rules of the Constitution of the Russian Federation and the constitutions of several republics of the former USSR regulating relations in the field of nature management and environmental protection from the perspective of Hans Kelsen’s normativism methodology, namely the Pure Theory of Law. The authors substantiate their conclusion that the constitutional rules in the countries of the post-Soviet space have a number of defects consisting of duplications or inadequate reflections of the legal reality. This leads to the suggestion for the need to conduct a search for options of enshrining rules on environmental protection and use of natural resources corresponding to realias of the 21st century in the future Constitution of Russia, which will allow creating an appropriate system of guarantees for everyone’s rights to a favorable environment, the rights of citizens and legal entities to natural resources, as well as specifying their environmental and natural resources duties.","PeriodicalId":35175,"journal":{"name":"Socijalna Ekologija","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.17234/socekol.28.2.1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67428379","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":"Prekogranično zagađenje okoliša između Republike Hrvatske i Bosne i Hercegovine: tri studije slučaja","authors":"Tanja Jurić","doi":"10.17234/socekol.28.2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17234/socekol.28.2.2","url":null,"abstract":"Paralelno s razvojem suvremenog drustva raste broj i vrsta rizika s kojima se suvremeno drustvo suocava. Jedan vid takvih rizika je prekogranicno zagađenje okolisa i njegovih sastavnica, tla, zraka i vode. Napor država da se nose sa zagađenjem na svom teritoriju nedostatan je zbog cinjenice da zagađenje nastaje i siri se svuda ne ogranicavajuci se na granice jedne države. Iz tog razloga potrebna je suradnja među državama kako bi se ustvrdili standardi i mehanizmi za njegovo sprjecavanje i reduciranje. U radu se analizira prekogranicno zagađenje između Hrvatske i Bosne i Hercegovine kroz tri studije slucaja: zagađenje zraka u Slavonskom Brodu izazvano ispustanjem stetnih tvari radom Rafinerije nafte Brod u BiH, poplave koje su pogodile regiju u svibnju 2014. godine i „sedamnaesto jezero“ Nacionalnog parka Plitvicka jezera nastalo zbog nerijesenog sustava odvodnje. U sva tri slucaja opisani su specificni konteksti u kojima se prekogranicno zagađenje desilo ili se jos uvijek događa, glavni drustveni akteri ukljuceni u problem i njegovo rjesavanje uz analizu postojecih pravnih dokumenata koji se ticu okolisa, direktiva Europske unije i svjetskih konvencija. Istaknute su institucionalne manjkavosti država po pitanju zastite okolisa, razlike između BiH i Hrvatske i preporuke međunarodnih institucija za bolje upravljanje okolisem. Složenost problematike pokazala je da obje države trebaju raditi na unaprjeđenju svojih okolisnih politika u praksi, uz naglasak na potrebu za međudržavnom suradnjom za bolje upravljanje rizikom prekogranicnog zagađenja.","PeriodicalId":35175,"journal":{"name":"Socijalna Ekologija","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.17234/socekol.28.2.2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67427910","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":"Recent advances in vector studies of avian haemosporidian parasites","authors":"Rita Žiegytė, G. Valkiūnas","doi":"10.6001/EKOLOGIJA.V60I4.3042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6001/EKOLOGIJA.V60I4.3042","url":null,"abstract":"Many recent studies addressed morphological and molecular characterization, distribution, genetic diversity and evolutionary relationships of avian haemosporidian parasites (Haemosporida). However, the information about relationships between bird haemosporidians and their vectors remains fragmentary and scarce. Experimental studies on this subject are few. Recent advances in vector research of avian haemosporidians (Haemosporida) have been briefly reviewed in regard to the experimental studies, which have been carried out at the Nature Research Centre, Vilnius, during the last five years, with particular attention to widespread species of Plasmodium and Haemoproteus parasites. New information about vectors of avian malaria parasites and haemoproteids is provided and discussed. We point out high virulence of widespread Haemoproteus species for bloodsucking insects of the Culicidae and Ceratopogonidae, and call for additional studies on this subject. Due to widespread abortive sporogonic development in bloodsucking insects, Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)-based diagnostics should be carefully used in vector research of haemosporidians because it detects parasites in blood-sucking insects for several weeks after initial infection, but does not distinguish abortive parasite development. That questions vector studies, which are based solely on PCR-based tools. Demonstration of infective sporozoites in insects is essential for definitively demonstrating the insects are vectors. Because of the complicated life cycles of haemosporidians, microscopic approaches and experimental research remain essential and should be applied in parallel with PCRbased detection tools in vector studies, particularly in wildlife.","PeriodicalId":35175,"journal":{"name":"Socijalna Ekologija","volume":"132 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88169937","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":"Improvement of phosphorus removal in the wastewater treatment","authors":"M. Valentukeviciene, G. Ignatavicius","doi":"10.6001/EKOLOGIJA.V60I4.3041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6001/EKOLOGIJA.V60I4.3041","url":null,"abstract":"This research study is dedicated to sustainable use of backwash residual from groundwater treatment plants. A high concentration of phosphorus ranging from more than 12 mg/l was detected after primary sedimentation of domestic wastewater and cannot be removed with the existing biological reactors at wastewater treatment plants (Vilnius, Lithuania). Previous research results showed that the high levels of nitrogen compounds are also connected with phosphorus substances. A new reused material is presented in this article for the removal of phosphorus substances from wastewater by use of iron saturated backwash solids obtained from groundwater treatment plants. The treated wastewater quality increased during the treatment that used the 1 g/l dosage of backwash residual from groundwater treatment filters: phosphorus compounds concentration decreased by 98%. All results obtained from this research can be used with the background of sustainable development approach, when backwash residuals from gravitational filters can be collected and used for the removal of phosphorus compounds from domestic wastewater.","PeriodicalId":35175,"journal":{"name":"Socijalna Ekologija","volume":"60 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84897109","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":"Teofilį Zubavičių prisimenant","authors":"Jurgis Stašaitis","doi":"10.6001/ekologija.v60i4.3043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6001/ekologija.v60i4.3043","url":null,"abstract":"Pries 100 metų gimė žymus gamtininkas ir gamtosaugininkas Teofilis Zubavicius (1904–1993), pažinojes visus Lietuvoje gyvenancius paukscius, puikiai skirdaves visų jų balsus, ismanes slėpiningiausius sparnuocių gyvenimo niuansus.","PeriodicalId":35175,"journal":{"name":"Socijalna Ekologija","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84194218","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}