I. Leščešen, Ljubica Ivanovic-Bibic, Smiljana Djukicin-Vuckovic, J. Hercik, Lazar Kotorcevic
{"title":"The importance of teaching equipment in geography classrooms","authors":"I. Leščešen, Ljubica Ivanovic-Bibic, Smiljana Djukicin-Vuckovic, J. Hercik, Lazar Kotorcevic","doi":"10.2298/ijgi2103325l","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/ijgi2103325l","url":null,"abstract":"The main aim of the research was to determine teachers? opinion on the importance of teaching equipment in geography classroom. The research was conducted during the school year 2020/2021. A total of 134 geography teachers from different districts in Serbia took part in the survey. In general, 57.5% of the participants stated that their school buildings have a specialized and separate geography classroom, while in other schools a classroom is shared between related subjects. It is interesting that 84.3% of the participants stated that in their classrooms they have internet at their disposal. Further, it was concluded that there is no statistically significant correlation between the availability of internet connection and the location of school (rural and urban). On the other hand, one of the biggest problems that 38.8% of the participants highlighted is that maps, which are essential for geography teaching, are approximately 20 years old. On average, the best grade for equipment is awarded to schools in the City of Belgrade (3.47) while the lowest grade is awarded to geography classrooms in Kosovo and Metohija province (2.00). On average, participants graded that their classroom equipment is ?good? (3.02) while the importance of classroom equipment was graded with ?very good? (4.49).","PeriodicalId":54076,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Geographical Institute Jovan Cvijic SASA","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80426035","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":"Spatio-temporal pattern of tropical cyclones: The case of cyclones of the bay of Bengal","authors":"Bibi Hafsa, Raju Ahmed, Rocky Kumar","doi":"10.2298/ijgi2103213h","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/ijgi2103213h","url":null,"abstract":"For the last few decades, the generalized pattern of tropical cyclones has gone through an unstable system transformation in the global changing climatic scenario. Thus, the broad aim of this research work was to explore the spatio-temporal changing pattern of tropical cyclones in the basin of the Bay of Bengal between 1985 and 2019. Cyclone track information data have been collected from Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) server and Bangladesh Meteorological Department. The loss and damage statistics has been collected from different published sources. Geographical distributional characteristics such as mean center and standard directional distribution have been explored using the spatial statistical tool of ArcMap. The mean geographic center has been identified near the district of Bhola and Patuakhali. The cyclonic occurrences in the research area are oriented north-west to south-east according to standard directional distribution. Hot spot analysis was used to identify the most affected parts in the study area and found that there are no significant hotspots, but the distribution pattern is rather random. However, there are two minor concentration zones in the study area, one near Barguna and another one near Sandwip coast. SPSS software was also used here to analyze the relationship between cyclonic events and the loss/damage scenarios of the study area. The relationship between cyclonic velocity and damage of life and livelihood showed a strong correlation of .804 with a significance level of 99% (p < .01). Random cyclonic trends and patterns indicate a change in this region's climatic variability over the past 35 years.","PeriodicalId":54076,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Geographical Institute Jovan Cvijic SASA","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81990202","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":"Divergence or convergence? The case of the former Yugoslav area","authors":"Tadeusz Zienkiewicz, E. Zienkiewicz","doi":"10.2298/ijgi2103283z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/ijgi2103283z","url":null,"abstract":"Europe is differentiated socio-economically, both at the global and state level. The former Yugoslav republics are no exception. Due to cultural, religious, and developmental diversity, the area of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia can be considered a microcosm of Europe as a whole. The decision to research in this area was taken because this group of independent states, formed part of a larger territory for nearly 70 years. The study covers the territory of former Yugoslavia and the period from 2000 to 2019. The coefficient of variation of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita and Purchasing Power Parity (PPP; constant 2017 international $) showed the persistence of significant polarization of the relative measure of the regional differentiation. Using 21 statistical variables and applying the taxonomic method, we made a comparative assessment of the level of socioeconomic development of individual countries. It is noteworthy that the value of the taxonomic measure of the regional socio-economic development of Slovenia is nearly forty times higher than that of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The comparison of the values of taxonomic measures of socio-economic development consistently points to a significant differentiation in the level of development in former Yugoslavia. It seems that a review of current actions and strategies in the area of sustainable development of this region is necessary.","PeriodicalId":54076,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Geographical Institute Jovan Cvijic SASA","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86330706","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":"Assessment of shoreline positional uncertainty using remote sensing and GIS techniques: A case study from the east coast of India","authors":"Kongeswaran Thangaraj, S. Karthikeyan","doi":"10.2298/ijgi2103249t","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/ijgi2103249t","url":null,"abstract":"The focus of this research was to assess the shoreline changes by comparing the satellite data from 1980 to 2020. The study area falls in the region between Kodiakarai and Nagapattinam of the east coast of India, which has frequently been distressed by storm surges and cyclones in the Bay of Bengal. The Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) detects and measures the erosional and accretional shoreline positions through the statistics of the Shoreline Change Envelope, Net Shoreline Movement, End Point Rate, Linear Regression Rate, and Weighted Linear Regression. The results show that the shoreline from Kodiakkarai to Nagapattinam suffered severe erosion of 17.7% in total with an average annual erosion rate of 3.4 m/year from 1980 to 2020 and the rate of erosion ranged between 0.1 m/year to 19.8 m/year. About 90.5% of the total shoreline was faced high erosion during the period between 2000 and 2010. The maximum erosion was about 1061 m from 2000 to 2010, the maximum accretion was found to be 1002 m in transects at Kodiakkarai during 2010 to 2020. After the effect of 2004 tsunami, the corresponding changes in littoral currents caused the drastic erosion and accretion in this shoreline. The DSAS prediction model shows that 19.3% of the current shoreline will erode in 2030. The maximum predicted erosion is 406 m at Kodiakkarai and the maximum predicted accretion is 148 m at Nagapattinam region. The coastal zone from Kodiakkarai to Nagapattinam needs special attention to prevent the erosion and it is recommended to build suitable coastal protection structures along the coast for sustainable development and to execute the coastal zone management for this region.","PeriodicalId":54076,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Geographical Institute Jovan Cvijic SASA","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87192589","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}
Ivan Potić, N. Ćurčić, M. Radovanović, G. Stanojević, Slavica Malinović‐Milićević, S. Yamashkin, A. Yamashkin
{"title":"Estimation of soil erosion dynamics using remote sensing and swat in Kopaonik National Park, Serbia","authors":"Ivan Potić, N. Ćurčić, M. Radovanović, G. Stanojević, Slavica Malinović‐Milićević, S. Yamashkin, A. Yamashkin","doi":"10.2298/ijgi2103231p","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/ijgi2103231p","url":null,"abstract":"Soil erosion is a global environmental and economic problem that is significantly related to land-use changes. Over the last decades, several mountain areas in Serbia were exposed to strong human pressure caused by winter tourism development. The largest ski center in Serbia is situated on Kopaonik Mountain within the boundaries of Kopaonik National Park, where the conflict between economic and conservation goals is rapidly growing. In this study, we calculated the sedimentation and surface runoff in three sub-basins in the area of Kopaonik ski resort for two years (1984 and 2018) using the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) and analyzed the changes that occurred during the observed period. The results show an increase in surface runoff and sediment yield in sub-basins 1 and 3 and a decrease in sub-basin 2. The analysis of land cover change shows an expansion of evergreen forests, appearance of barren soil and urban areas, reduction of mixed forests and pastures, and the appearance of deciduous forests. These findings indicate that in the area studied, the dominant processes are the development of tourism and natural revegetation of abandoned agricultural land. Application of remote sensing techniques and SWAT contributes to identifying and monitoring land degradation problems and improving conservation and management practices.","PeriodicalId":54076,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Geographical Institute Jovan Cvijic SASA","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78055949","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}
Dimitar Krenchev, Rositsa Kenderova, S. Matev, N. Nikolova, G. Rachev, M. Gera
{"title":"Debris flows in Kresna Gorge (Bulgaria)-geomorphological characteristics and weather conditions","authors":"Dimitar Krenchev, Rositsa Kenderova, S. Matev, N. Nikolova, G. Rachev, M. Gera","doi":"10.2298/IJGI2101015K","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/IJGI2101015K","url":null,"abstract":"Over the last decades, numerous extreme climate events such as extreme temperatures, droughts, heavy precipitation, and storms associated with climate change have been recorded in many countries, including Bulgaria. As a result, geomorphological hazards such as landslides, debris flows, mudflows, high-speed soil erosion, etc. often occur on the territory of the country. The debris flow is one of the most common hazardous processes in small catchments of the main river basins in Bulgaria. The Kresna Gorge located in the middle part of Struma River valley is a typical area with such processes which often cause the damages to the E79 international highway. The purpose of the present study is to characterize debris flows in Kresna Gorge (southwestern part of Bulgaria) by comparative analysis between the two events (occurred on May 24, 2009 and July 28, 2019). In order to achieve the aim of the study the geomorphological features and flow type of 2019 event were identified and the results were compared with the previous publications which investigated the event on May 24, 2009. In the present paper, the sediments and the type of transportation of the investigated event (July 2019) were determined by grain-size and clast-shape analysis. The impact of weather conditions on debris flow occurrence was shown by the analysis of the synoptic conditions on the day before the event. The results of the study bring to clarifying the geological-geomorphological and meteorological factors for the occurrence of debris flow and are important for geomorphological hazard management.","PeriodicalId":54076,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Geographical Institute Jovan Cvijic SASA","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74239351","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}
Slobodanka Stankov, Marija R. Perić, Dejan Doljak, N. Vukovic
{"title":"The role of Euroregions as a factor of spatial integration and regional development-the focus on the selected border area","authors":"Slobodanka Stankov, Marija R. Perić, Dejan Doljak, N. Vukovic","doi":"10.2298/ijgi2103295s","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/ijgi2103295s","url":null,"abstract":"The political changes that affected the European area in the second half of the 20th century conditioned the development of European countries on the principle of Euroregions, as interesting creations of neighboring countries. Formed along the political borders of neighboring countries, Euroregions today play a significant role in the enlargement process of the European Union. At the end of the 20th century, the formation of Euroregions covered the area of the Western Balkans as well. In Podrinje, the border area of Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, the formed Euroregions have the goal of reviving and revitalizing rural areas. Tourism, as the most important economic activity, is integrated into the basis of the rural development of these areas. The subject of the research is related to the analysis of the development degree of border rural areas, under the influence of tourism. The research problem is focused on the rural areas of ?Serbian? Podrinje. Accordingly, the aim of this paper is to determine the change and burden of rural border area due to the development of tourism, using the indicator of tourist operation (I.T.O.) and the tourist function indices to measure the degree of the development of a destination. The results of the research indicate that three types of tourist destinations have been developed in the studied area: destinations with almost non-existent tourist activity (< 4), with small-scale tourist activity (4- 10), and developed and eminently tourist destinations (40-100). The obtained results indicate that 83.3% of the destinations in \"Serbian\" Podrinje are destinations with almost non-existent tourist activity. These are the destinations where the development of tourism does not affect the transformation of space, but the original and preserved environment is promoted as a tourist attraction.","PeriodicalId":54076,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Geographical Institute Jovan Cvijic SASA","volume":"119 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80327331","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":"Assessment of water quality during the floods in may 2014, Serbia","authors":"Dejana Jakovljevic","doi":"10.2298/ijgi2003215j","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/ijgi2003215j","url":null,"abstract":"Floods are considered to be the most common natural disaster which causes\u0000 more destructive effects than other natural disasters including loss of\u0000 human life, property and infrastructure damage, as well as a negative impact\u0000 on social and economic development. Besides these consequences, floods also\u0000 affect water quality. The aim of this paper is to present water quality\u0000 impairment caused by the floods in Serbia in May 2014. The parameters of\u0000 water quality were measured 13 times in 2014 (12 ordinary monthly\u0000 measurements and one extraordinary measurement during the flood) in\u0000 hydrological stations Ostruznica and Sabac (on the river Sava) and Badovinci\u0000 (on the river Drina). The Canadian Water Quality Index (CWQI) was used for\u0000 water quality assessment. This method calculates the overall water quality\u0000 and the water quality for specific conditions and purposes including:\u0000 drinking, aquatic habitats, recreation, irrigation, and livestock. Water\u0000 quality decline was recorded in all the stations in overall water quality as\u0000 well as for specific uses. Turbidity and heavy metals values were tens of\u0000 times higher than normal ranges. The most drastic example was Al with the\u0000 values which were thousand(s) of times higher than the objective.","PeriodicalId":54076,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Geographical Institute Jovan Cvijic SASA","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86453640","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 tourism demand on regional inflation in Turkey","authors":"M. Kırça, M. Özer","doi":"10.2298/ijgi2003241k","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/ijgi2003241k","url":null,"abstract":"The main purpose of this study is to examine the effects of total tourism\u0000 demand as well as the effects of both foreign and domestic tourism demand\u0000 (measured by overnight stays) on regional inflation in Turkey based on the\u0000 Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics regions classified by\u0000 Turkish Statistical Institute. To obtain the region-specific effects of\u0000 tourism demand on inflation, we used the Random Coefficient Regression\u0000 developed by Swamy by using the annual panel data over the period between\u0000 2004 and 2013. Before estimating Swamy Random Coefficients Regressions, we\u0000 first tested the existence of cross-sectional dependence among the regions\u0000 of Turkey. And then, based on the results of these tests, we examined the\u0000 stationarity properties of variables by using second-generation panel unit\u0000 root tests. The results of the study indicate that there are significant\u0000 differences in regional effects of different forms of overnight stays on\u0000 regional inflation. Also, the results show that the contribution of domestic\u0000 overnight stays to overall and regional inflation is greater than that of\u0000 foreign overnight stays. Thus, the findings of the study have significant\u0000 importance in Turkey for designing tourism, industrialization, and monetary\u0000 policies, particularly aiming to reduce the inflation by adopting inflation\u0000 targeting regime.","PeriodicalId":54076,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Geographical Institute Jovan Cvijic SASA","volume":"958 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85620767","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 and future air temperature and precipitation changes in the mountainous north of Montenegro","authors":"M. Doderović, D. Burić, V. Ducić, Ivan Mijanović","doi":"10.2298/ijgi2003189d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/ijgi2003189d","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of the research of this paper is changes in air temperature and\u0000 precipitation in the north of Montenegro in the instrumental period\u0000 (1951-2018) and projections up to 2100. Kolasin was chosen because the\u0000 altitude of the place is the average height of the northern region of\u0000 Montenegro (about 1000 m), the meteorological station has not changed its\u0000 location since the beginning of instrumental measurements, and homogeneity\u0000 was tested (for the instrumental period). In general, the climate of Kolasin\u0000 (1951-2018) has become warmer and with more frequent extreme daily\u0000 temperatures and precipitations in an upward trend. When it comes to the\u0000 projections for the north of this Mediterranean country, according to the\u0000 A1B scenario of the Regional Climate Model EBU?POM, the results indicate\u0000 warmer conditions and very warm ones at the end of the 21st century. The\u0000 projected reduction of the annual number of almost all the considered\u0000 rainfall days also implies that a slightly more arid future is expected. The\u0000 climate of the mountainous north of Montenegro is changing, and the results\u0000 presented in this paper may serve decision makers to take some measures of\u0000 adaptation (in tourism, agriculture, architecture, water management, etc.)\u0000 and climate change mitigation.","PeriodicalId":54076,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Geographical Institute Jovan Cvijic SASA","volume":"44 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72565807","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}