Search results for "PROTECTION"

Tilaa, seuraa ja ohjattua toimintaa

2021

Artikkelissa tutkitaan lapsille suunnattujen kaupunkiympäristöjen ja erityisesti ohjattujen leikkikenttien kehittymistä 1970-luvun Helsingissä. Lasten ympäristöjä ja niiden suunnitteluun vaikuttaneita lapsikäsityksiä tarkastellaan kolmen tason, rakennetun ympäristön, leikkikenttien arjen ja hyvinvointivaltion viitekehyksen kautta. Tutkimusaineistona on käytetty suunnitteludokumentteja, lapsista ja kaupunkiympäristöistä käytyä asiantuntijakeskustelua, sanomalehtikirjoituksia sekä entisten leikkikenttätoimijoiden kanssa tehtyjä haastatteluja. Artikkelissa esitetään, että lisääntyvistä lasten ympäristöjä koskevista normeista ja vähitellen kasvavasta valvonnasta huolimatta leikkikentät muotoutu…

The impractical supremacy of the local identity on the worthless soils of Mappano

2016

Introduction Soil is under pressure worldwide. In Italy, in the last two decades, land consumption has reached an average rate of 8 m2, demonstrating the failure of urban planning in controlling these phenomena. Despite the renewed recognition of the central role of soil resources, which has triggered numerous initiatives and actions, soil resources are still seen as a second-tier priority. No governance body exists to coordinate initiatives to ensure that soils are appropriately represented in decision-making processes. Global Soil Partnership draws our attention to the need for coordination to avoid fragmentation of efforts and wastage of resources. Both at a global and at a local level, …

UV Protection: Historical Perspectives and State‐of‐the‐Art Achievements

2021

Nexus of Electrospun Nanofibers and Additive Processing—Overview of Wearable Tactical Gears for CBRNE Defense

2021

Due to complex nature of twenty-first century battlefield, soldiers must perform multiple tasks to protect nations while maintaining their own safety. Advances in technological innovations are critical to support such functionalities to enhance safety and security. Using nexus of electrospinning and additive processing, we present how recent developments can be used to produce new generation of protective fabrics with integrative force protection, sensing/detection of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high yield explosives (CBRNE), and biomedical functionalities. Although electrospinning has been in use for some time, the special blends and configurations of nanofibers, as de…

Structural Vibration Control for a Class of Connected Multistructure Mechanical Systems

2012

Published version of an article from the journal: Mathematical Problems in Engineering. Also available from the publisher:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/942910 A mathematical model to compute the overall vibrational response of connected multistructure mechanical systems is presented. Using the proposed model, structural vibration control strategies for seismic protection of multibuilding systems can be efficiently designed. Particular attention is paid to the design of control configurations that combine passive interbuilding dampers with local feedback control systems implemented in the buildings. These hybrid active-passive control strategies possess the good properties of passive contro…

Regional climate model simulations for Europe at 6 and 0.2 k BP: sensitivity to changes in anthropogenic deforestation

2014

International audience; This study aims to evaluate the direct effects of anthropogenic deforestation on simulated climate at two contrasting periods in the Holocene, ∼ 6 and ∼ 0.2 k BP in Eu-rope. We apply the Rossby Centre regional climate model RCA3, a regional climate model with 50 km spatial resolution, for both time periods, considering three alternative descriptions of the past vegetation: (i) potential natural vegetation (V) simulated by the dynamic vegetation model LPJ-GUESS, (ii) potential vegetation with anthro-pogenic land use (deforestation) from the HYDE3.1 (History Database of the Global Environment) scenario (V + H3.1), and (iii) potential vegetation with anthropogenic land …

Ar dabas aizsardzību saistīto terminu lietojums uzņēmumu mājas lapu tekstos

2021

Uzņēmumi savās mājas lapās var izmantot ar dabas aizsardzību (DA) saistītus terminus, lai sabiedrība tos uztvertu noteiktā veidā. Šī bakalaura darba mērķis ir analizēt DA terminu lietojumu desmit izvēlētu uzņēmumu mājas lapu tekstos, kas ņemti no piecām dažādām nozarēm. Galvenās pētījuma metodes ir literatūras apskats, absolūtā biežuma analīze un diskursa analīze. Dati parāda, ka automašīnu ražotāji savās mājaslapās izmanto visvairāk DA terminu, savukārt apģērbu firmas izmanto vismazāk DA terminu. Lielākā daļa atrasto DA terminu ir lietvārdi. Tiek secināts, ka uzņēmumus, kas savās mājaslapās lielākoties izmanto DA terminus no „vides risinājumu” kategorijas, var uztvert kā dabai draudzīgākus…

Quantifying trade-offs between ecological gains, economic costs, and landowners' preferences in boreal mire protection.

2021

Private land often encompasses biodiversity features of high conservation value, but its protection is not straightforward. Commonly, landowners’ perspectives are rightfully allowed to influence conservation actions. This unlikely comes without consequences on biodiversity or other aspects such as economic considerations, but these consequences are rarely quantitatively considered in decision-making. In the context of boreal mire protection in Finland, we report how acknowledging landowners’ resistance to protection changes the combination of mires selected to conservation compared to ignoring landowners’ opinions. Using spatial prioritization, we quantify trade-offs arising between the amo…

Participation and compensation claims in voluntary forest conservation: A case of privately owned forests in Finland

2009

Abstract A new market-based voluntary programme aimed at preserving forest habitats on private land has been implemented in Finland. This scheme is based on conservation by fixed-term agreements between forest owners and a governmental authority. In this study we examine the characteristics of forest owners and their properties that indicate the owners' willingness to participate in the programme. In addition, we analyse factors affecting the real compensation claims. The study uses a dual set of data from the pilot project, i.e. one data set supplied by the authority and another collected from the owners involved in the project. The results suggest that to increase the participation rate, …

Threatened Plant Communities as an Indicator of Fishponds Value: An Example from Silesia (Sw Poland)

2007

This paper presents the first results of studies of fishpond plant communities of Silesia (SW Poland). On fishponds, many rare and threatened plant associations were found, especially within the aquatic, mud and rush communities. Among the most interesting are: Lemno minoris-Salvinietum natantis, Trapetum natantis, Eleocharetum ovatae and Scirpetum radicantis. The majority of the above-mentioned associations occur only in artificial fishpond reservoirs within the region. Thus, to reach an effective level of conservation, co-operation between biologists and owners, and integration of conservation and agricultural activities, have to be achieved. This would be the only way to stop the impover…