Land consolidation (LC) is an important tool for the improvement of
agriculture and rural development, which also includes environmental issues
in most of the countries in Europe. This paper presents ...the most important
results of the environmental impact assessment (EIA) of land consolidation,
conducted in the municipality of Vrsac through a pilot project based on the
EU methodology set within the project: ?Strengthening Municipal Land
Management in Serbia?, supported by the Deutsche Gesellschaft f?r
Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. During the summer of 2018, field
survey was carried out at 90 locations, documenting the natural,
semi-natural and man-made landscape elements of ecological or cultural
values, assessing their quality and estimating the potential harmful
environmental impacts of the land consolidation. The already existing
negative impacts of intensive agriculture were also registered, such as
abandonment or overgrazing of pastures and meadows, converting grasslands
into arable land, soil erosion and habitat fragmentation. Although the area
of LC is without natural forest and extremely poor in semi-natural elements
of rural landscape, the existing entities were revealed as refuges for
protected species. Some of the grassland fragments belonged to protected
habitat types. The final categorization of the landscape elements was
conducted in three levels. Category I landscape elements had to remain
undisturbed; Category II landscape elements could be removed with obligatory
ecological compensation, while the Category III landscape elements could be
removed without environmental compensation. Recommendations were given
pointing out the possibilities for improving the environmental characters of
the area by the land consolidation process.
Agrotechnical measures are the main factor defining the vineyard weed flora
structure and composition, while adequate weed control measures
simultaneously ensure that vineyards are being ...well-managed, thus securing
good grapevine health and high quality of wine. Given that the biological
spectrum of weeds affects the choice of weed control measures, the aim of
this study was to determine the biological properties of the weed flora in
Vrsac vineyards, by assessing dominant life forms and phenology of the
identified weeds. The floristic analysis was conducted during the 2016
vegetation season (March-November) at 60 plots (1 m2), at three field sites.
The presence of 97 plant taxa, belonging to 26 families, was determined. The
biological spectrum of the vineyards weed flora has shown a
thero?phyto-hemicryptophyte character (therophytes: 57.73% and
hemicryptophytes: 34.02%). The scapose herbaceous plants with
summer-flowering phenology were dominant within the therophytes and
hemicryptophytes. The obtained results have shown a higher weed diversity in
vineyards, when compared to previous research of the weed flora in the study
area, but similar to more recent studies conducted in the neighbouring
countries. Furthermore, the dominant presence of therophytes in the vineyard
weed flora was expected, bearing in mind the primarily mechanical weed
control measures traditionally applied in vineyards.
The paper will present the research results of motivational factors influencing wine tourists in decision making process regarding their visits to the wineries in the Vršac wine region, an area which ...belong to South Banat wine region according to the official regionalization and comprises the West slopes of Vršac mountains (South East Vojvodina). The aim of the paper is to analyse visitors of the Vršac wineries in order to establish components of the motivation and to define the influence they have on the decision to participate in the wine tourism in this region. The methodology of this approach entails: defining and establishing the importance of wine tourism, identifying motivating factors in wine tourism, followed by definition and analysis of the most relevant motivating factors of the wine tourist visiting the Vršac wineries, establishing the intensity of their attitudes related to certain factors and, finally, offering recommendations to the Vršac wineries management in order to create the high quality marketing mix aimed at clearly defined target markets and to position successfully in the wine tourism market. One of the conclusions is that the visitors to the Vršac wineries regard wine tasting as the most important motivating factor, followed by socializing and relaxation.
Stara Moldava is a micro area of speech in Banatska Klisura (Clisura Dunării) which is a subject of disputes in dialectology. As a contribution to the study of southern speeches in Romanian Banat, ...the paper analyses some significant morphological features of this speech by using the materials collected and recorded in the given area.
This paper presents an analysis of the quality of groundwater that are exploited in the territory of the Mesić village in the factory "Moja voda" on the slopes of the Vršac Mountains. Spring waters ...formed in the Tertiary and Quaternary sediments are situated near the high-grade metamorphic complex border of Vršac Mountains that represents the northernmost prolongation of Serbo-macedonian massif to the West and low-grade metamorphic complex of the Ranovac-Vlasina-Osogovo terrane to the East. Groundwater is assigned on the basis of chemical analyses to the group of hydrocarbonate-calcium-magnesium non-carbonated low-mineral water, whose physical properties and chemical composition is the consequence of geological conditions of the environment through which circulates. The dominant anions and cations (HCO3 - , Ca2 + and Mg2 + ) accumulate in groundwater of Mesić as a product of weathering of silicate minerals present in igneous and metamorphic complex of Vršac Mountains. The specificity of these waters is an adequate amount of selenium in its composition related to the Tertiary and Quaternary clay deposits which have the pyrite and organic matter, as well as silica, whose presence in the water is a consequence of weathering (hydrolysis) of silicate minerals, particularly feldspar. Water from the exploration wells is classified as “B reserve” according to the applicable criteria.
Research problem. The research problem is the increase of GHG and CO2
emissions in the transport sector, i.e. the intensification of urban
transport activity in Serbia during the last 15 years. ...Focusing on
redesigning of pedestrian networks as well as understanding the connections
between urban design and pedestrian movement, the walkable environment could
be achieved. In addition, as a direct result, a contribution would be made to
a decrease of GHG and CO2 emission. Methodology. The following methods were
used: analysis of the readability of open spaces, analysis of contents,
rhythm and transparency on the ground floor of buildings and analysis of the
intensity of use of open spaces using the Space Syntax method. Results. The
results show a proportional relation between characteristics on ground floors
of buildings and the intensity of pedestrian movement. Also, they enable the
establishing of general recommendations for designing the immediate
pedestrian environment and upgrading the quality of open public spaces.
Conclusion. The improvement of the quality of pedestrian environment would
have as its direct consequence greater use of open public spaces, and thus
also increased intensity of pedestrian movement. In this manner, people would
face a better quality and broader selection of contents and spaces.
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The Spondylus gaederopus/Glycymeris exchange network has long been known as the earliest continent-wide network in prehistoric Europe. This chapter establishes a space-time framework for the four ...distinctive phases of this network, which changes from low-intensity, Greek-Balkan to continent-wide, linking Greece to the Paris Basin, before a reduction to a Balkan-Carpathian network of high intensity, with many regional differences in forms and production. The two principal sources of the marine shells—the Aegean and the Adriatic—were exploited in different ways, with several production sites known near the former but none as yet near the latter. Currently, the only site more than 100km from the Aegean with a complete production sequence is Orlovo (SE Bulgaria). Shells were principally used as personal ornaments, taking advantage of their four main characteristics—their distinctive colour and brightness, their exoticity, and their capacity to carry biographical information about their life histories.
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