Search results for "LAND"

Widłaczek torfowy Lycopodiella Inundata (L.) Holub w stawach hodowlanych na Śląsku

2017

W pracy przedstawiono przegląd informacji na temat występowania widłaczka torfowego Lycopodiella inundata (L.) Holub oraz opisano nowe stanowiska zlokalizowane w stawach hodowlanych na Śląsku. W Polsce gatunek ten należy do bardzo rzadkich składników flory. W trakcie przeprowadzonych badań stwierdzony został na tym obszarze na 8 stanowiskach. Zagrożeniem dla taksonu na Śląsku, jak i w Europie jest postępująca sukcesja roślinności na stanowiskach.

Czy szwedzkie kamienie runiczne mogą być świadectwem religijności Waregów służących w gwardii cesarzy bizantyńskich z XI w.?

2017

Szwedzkie kamienie runiczne stanowią ważne uzupełnienie naszej wiedzy o aktywności Skandynawów w Bizancjum w XI w., w szczególności w ramach Gwardii Wareskiej. Pochodzące w największej liczbie z Upplandii są również świadectwem zmian w religijności przybyszy z Półwyspu Skandynawskiego, którzy z pogan przeistaczali się w chrześcijan. Umieszczanie na kamieniach runicznych krzyży, fragmentów modlitw za zmarłych, relacji z podróży czy pielgrzymki, było świadectwem wzrostu znaczenia nowej wiary, do czego przyczyniali się wracający do domów po długiej służbie gwardziści.

Faith based organizations as actors in the charity economy : A case study of food assistance in Finland

2019

In recent decades, charitable food assistance has grown into a prevalent way to respond to hunger as a manifestation of severe or absolute poverty that persists even in the affluent European Welfare States. By severe poverty we refer to an economic condition of life, which leaves an individual or family not only physically hungry but also in a situation where the basic need for nutritious healthy food is unmet to such a degree that it seriously violates the chance of sustaining socially accepted membership of society. Throughout Europe, nongovernmental organizations, and faith-based actors in particular, have taken up the task of alleviating the immediate food needs of the most deprived peo…

Action-oriented knowledge for sustainable management of organic soils in Finnish agriculture

2023

Agriculture is a contributing force to climate change due to unsustainable changes in land use with the usage of peatlands for food production in Finland. The use of organic soils in food production is a complex and politically driven issue, thus multistakeholder and participatory approaches to policy development, implementation and evaluation are essential. This study is integrating qualitative and quantitative methods in an iterative process to produce action-oriented knowledge for supporting actions to sustainably manage peatlands and reduce the enormous greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural peatlands. This study has engaged inter-disciplinary researchers and transdisciplinary actor…

Policy mixes for more vital legume value chains: Evaluation across competing policy frames

2021

Legumes receive increasing attention in sustainability transition research as they can contribute to more sustainable food systems. Previous research has established the need for policies relating to both production and consumption to tackle the marginalisation of legumes in European cropping systems and diets. In this paper, we apply the policy mix framework to food system transition and develop it further into an interpretive policy mix framework to evaluate policy mixes for more vital legume value chains. The interpretive policy mix framework facilitates a better understanding of competing policy frames in designing more consistent, coherent, and comprehensive policy mixes for transition…

Towards sustainable farming practices and food security: study about vulnerability of Finnish farms

2017

The aim of this paper is to discuss food security in the context of sustainable farming practices in Finland. There are two research questions: 1) How are the Finnish farms vulnerable from the viewpoint of food security? 2) How could they increase their resilience for guaranteeing food security in the future? The paper is based on a qualitative study for which 15 Finnish food system specialists were interviewed in 2015. According to the results, three types of vulnerabilities are discovered: 1) market vulnerabilities, 2) continuity of farms, and 3) environment changes. For reducing vulnerabilities, the re-evaluation of policy instruments is needed. At the same time, new knowledge and skills…

Territori locali. L’efficacia degli strumenti di governo dei paesaggi in transizione

2019

Si spopolano alcune delle aree deboli nel Paese. Le strumentazioni disponibili per la comprensione dei fenomeni di declino non sembrano in grado di cogliere appieno le specificità territoriali. Le attenzioni dei decisori alle tematiche sociali ed economiche sono proposte come prioritarie mentre la cura delle caratteristiche ambientali e culturali sono ancora oggi percepite come vincoli. Economia e sostenibilità culturale ed ambientale restano separate nella prevalenza dei casi e ciò determina l’inefficacia delle politiche di tutela e valorizzazione delle risorse in gioco. Le discipline economiche e quelle paesaggistiche dal punto di vista della ricerca possono essere integrate, mentre l’ana…

Boys learning craft skills : Rural artisan apprenticeships in early modern Finland

2019

Research on handicrafts has generally concentrated on the study of urban artisans and guilds. However, not all artisans operated in towns, nor were rural artisans always small marginal groups. For instance, the majority of Finnish artisans lived and worked in the countryside. They had the right to take on apprentices; therefore, most rural artisans received their training from artisans working in the same environment. This article characterizes apprentices in the early nineteenth century in Finland and studies how rural artisans organized their occupational training. A single large Finnish parish was selected as the subject of this research, in order to study artisans and their apprentices …

Coping with rural transition in northern Thailand : an analysis of rural economic diversification and social movements' response

2006

Dry-stone architecture

2004

The essay describes the process of typification of rural products and cultural objects related to the commodification of Pantelleria as rural and touristic landscape.