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insertion environment. This research aims to analyze the contribution that the University “Stefan cel Mare” from Suceava, located in the Northern – Eastern Region of Romania, bring it to the economic development of the city in witch it is located and his influence area. The emphasis is on: analysis of the relationship that established between the need for highly qualified labor force that exists to the locally level and the qualifications provided by The University; the direct participation of The University and its employees on to the local committees and boards, the provision of technical resources and support.
ASSESSMENT OF TERRITORIAL REPRESENTATIONS IN GEOGRAPHY TEXTBOOKS:
A TOOL CALLED “TOPOGRAPHICAL NAMES MAP”
Authors: Miroslav Sifta*, Charles University in Prague, Faculty od Science, Czech Republic; Jan Hatle; Silvie Rita Kucerova; Katerina Novotna
Keywords: cartography, geography education, geography textbook, territorial identity, The Czech Republic
Abstract: The poster introduces several selected results (maps) of textbooks assessment, that demonstrate the differences in territorial representation of observed North-western Bohemia region during time in the best way.In the era of communistic dicta- torship, governing in Czechia between 1948‒1989, particularly the territories and symbols connected with mining, heavy industry and power industry were adored. In the maps there are visible the topographical names of natural resources localities, of industrial cities and even the names of particular concerns and power plants. Almost opposite trend appeared after fall of the communism, when this type of areas was losing a principal economical position and in the analyzed textbooks the region turned to a symbol of environmental and social problems. The positive activities or phenomena (like e.g. natural protected areas and cultural heritage) were purposely suppressed in the presentation of the whole region. Contemporary textbooks tend to be more thematically balanced in the territorial representation. Nevertheless, these textbooks have already mirrored the competitors fight between various publisher houses. They have fashioned the presentation of territories to demand on market with learning texts according to the regional image that textbook users (especially teachers) anticipate.
LAND COVER CHANGES OF NATURE CONVERSATION AREAS BETWEEN 1990 AND 2006 – CASE STUDY FROM THE KISKUNSÁG NATIONAL PARK
Authors: Jenő Zsolt Farkas*, HAS Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungary; Andras Donat Kovacs, HAS Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungary
Keywords: landscapes, nature conservation, transformation
Abstract: The socialist state system has radically transformed after the transition in Hungary. In this context one of the most important step was to give the former community property into private hands. In the primary sector the former land owners could get new farm land during the compensation process. National Parks had a special role, which meant they had pre-emptive right to buy the protected areas. Before 1990 the state and the national parks owned only a small percent of the protected areas, because the former agricultural cooperatives were the most important land managers. This situation changed briefly because the state gave subsidy for land buying to the national parks in the compensation process, and after that this system remains until the mid 2000’s.
In this research we would like to investigate the land cover changes of the protected areas according to the changes in the ownership and in the management. We analyse the CORINE Land Cover Changes databases between 1990 and 2006. After we determine a broader picture we mainly focuse on the Kiskunság National Park, and we try to identify their methods and results how the agricultural land has transformed to semi natural areas. The actuality of our research is that the Hungarian government decided to give 20 % of protected areas to the National Land Management Organisation at the end of 2014. The results interpreted in the paper rested mainly on the research supported by the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund – OTKA 109269.
TRANSDISCIPLINARY INNOVATION AND EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING GEOGRAPHY AT UNIVERSITY
Authors: Asuncion Blanco-Romero*, Dep. of Geography., Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain; Jaume Barrera-Fusté; Sandra Saura-Mas
Keywords: geography education, innovation, methodology, transcisciplinarity, macroconcept, constellation
Abstract: The experience presented reflects the need for innovation and optimization towards academic excellence that the new EEES framework requires, based on a first-year course in geography. The implementation process was to adopt a transdisciplinary methodology, given the need to foster in students the knowledge, skills and attitudes for which the disciplinary educational models are not designed. In a society in constant change and in a geography subject whose main aim is to update the constructive knowledge of present time, only a methodology that relates different knowledge regardless of the disciplinary logic could achieve it. A large teaching team designed a wide variety of methods of transdisciplinary implementation based on the labyrinth theory, and focusing on what we call “design constellations.”
