Social marketing in promotion of energy-efficient building

Energy-efficient buildings or passive in the coming years should become a standard in Poland and Europe. Energy-efficient buildings are generally more expensive than traditional, so there are some psychological barriers before making a decision on their implementation. Despite a significant increase in awareness of investors in this area it is essential to disseminate knowledge about the need and benefits coming from the use of such solutions. Changing standards for buildings results from changes in building regulations, the use of various forms of financial support and educational activities

Historical geography of Yellagonga Regional Park, Western Australia

The principle aim of this study was to reconstruct the land use history of the Yellagonga Regional Park wetland landscape. Located approximately twenty kilometres north of Perth, covering about 1400 hectares, the Park lies within the North-West Corridor of the metropolitan area. This research, assisted by archival sources, demonstrates that prior to early European settlement the Yellagonga wetlands were quintessential summer hunting and gathering sites for the Nyoongar Aboriginal people. The wetlands were utilised for water, food gathering, hunting, corroborees and rituals that governed their tribal lives. Early European settlers, market gardeners, and later subdivision for urban development, have adversely transformed the Park over time. These pressures stem as a result of groundwater abstraction (bores), pollution, removal of native vegetation, invasion of weeds, stormwater drainage from residential and industrial areas, and more recently climate change, a global phenomenon. Consequently, the environmental quality of the Park has been undermined and it faces significant challenges for current and future management of its ecological and cultural values. This study offers an ecological perspective on the Park\u27s wetlands, chronologically measures the human footprint on its landscape, and maps the changes faced by the Park since the Aboriginal people\u27s sustainable ecology and guardianship was removed. Research such as this is essential to ensure that disappearing wetland landscapes such as the Yellagonga Regional Park are maintained and protected. The information from this study might be applied to other localities and environment

A comparative study of indigenous people\u27s and early European settlers\u27 usage of three Perth wetlands, Western Australia, 1829-1939

This study takes as its focus the contrasting manner in which the Nyoongar indigenous people and the early European settlers utilised three wetland environments in southwest Australia over the century between 1829 and 1939. The thesis offers both an ecological and a landscape perspective to changes in the wetlands of Herdsman Lake, Lake Joondalup and Loch McNess. The chain of interconnecting linear lakes provides some of the largest permanent sources of fresh water masses on the Swan Coastal Plain. This thesis acknowledges the importance of the wetland system to the Nyoongar indigenous people. The aim of this research is to interpret the human intervention into the wetland ecosystems by using a methodology that combines cultural landscape, historical and biophysical concepts as guiding themes. Assisted by historical maps and field observations, this study offers an ecological perspective on the wetlands, depicting changes in the human footprint on its landscape, and mapping the changes since the indigenous people’s sustainable ecology and guardianship were removed. These data can be used and compared with current information to gain insights into how and why modification to these wetlands occurred. An emphasis is on the impact of human settlement and land use on natural systems. In the colonial period wetlands were not generally viewed as visually pleasing; they were perceived as alien and hostile environments. Settlers saw the land as an economic commodity to be exploited in a money economy. Thus the effects of a sequence of occupances and their transformation of environments as traditional Aboriginal resource use gave way to early European settlement, which brought about an evolution and cultural change in the wetland ecosystems, and attitudes towards them

Identifikasi Siswa Berkebutuhan Khusus dan Implementasi Pendidikan Inklusi di Sekolah Dasar

Pendidikan merupakan aspek fundamental dalam kehidupan manusia dan berperan penting untuk menghadirkan generasi penerus yang cerdas dan kompeten. Pendidikan inklusif menjadi salah satu pendekatan yang mendukung hak seluruh anak untuk mengemban pendidikan yang setara. Pendidikan inklusif memungkinkan anak dengan kebutuhan khusus dan anak pada umumnya belajar bersama dalam satu lingkungan tanpa adanya diskriminasi. Tujuan Penelitian ini untuk menganalisis implementasi pendidikan inklusif di Sekolah Dasar dengan menggunakan metode kualitatif pendekatan deskriptif. Data dalam penelitian ini diperoleh melalui wawancara, dan dokumentasi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa implementasi pendidikan inklusi belum efektif, karena keterbatasan fasilitas dan minim pelatihan guru di sekolah. Penelitian ini juga menekankan kebijakan kepala sekolah terhadap pentingnya dukungan dan sumber daya memadai untuk meningkatkan efektivitas pendidikan inklusi di sekolah

Dragons, Flashes and Torches as Elements of the Literary Vision of Decline in Jan Paweł Woronicz’s the Post-Partition Work

The subject of analysis and interpretation in the article Dragons, flashes and torches as elements of the literary vision of decline in Jan Paweł Woronicz’s the post-partition works is Jan Paweł Woronicz’s writings (poetry, sermons and homilies), who lived from 1757–1829. Through the careful observation of the language used in Woronicz’s works, the author tries to extract metaphors which show a sense of apathy and decline at the turn of the century. The author also attempts to reach the substructure of the preacher-poet’s thinking and to make a critical reflection on the state of culture in a specific period of time — namely the last years of the 18th century and the first decades of the 19th century. She treats metaphors not only as stylistic means, but also as visible signs (phenomena) of feelings towards the world, and recognizes at the same time that Woronicz’s work is one of many testimonies to the intensified intellectual and cultural movement of Poland at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. In the article, the author presents Woronicz as a representative of time “in between,” and as an individual who has experienced something new, an often difficult situation that occurred within the framework of intense changes to the political and aesthetic paradigm that took place at the turn of the centuries

Bernardyni i bernardynki lwowskie w świetle planów przechowywanych w Centralnym Państwowym Archiwum Historycznym we Lwowie (XVIII i XIX w.)

A query conducted in the resources of the Central State Historical Archives in Lviv revealed not only archival sets intended for storing documents created during the dissolution of monasteries and confiscation of their property in Galicia, but also numerous plans of monastic properties revealing the goals of changes managed within them. Plans showing real estate belonging to the Bernardine friars and nuns of Lviv and the dissolution documentation relating to them allow us to see not only the transformations taking place within the convents and monastery churches, but also the political, religious, and social changes.Kwerenda przeprowadzona w zasobach Centralnego Państwowego Archiwum Historycznego we Lwowie ujawniła nie tylko zespoły archiwalne przeznaczone do przechowywania dokumentów powstałych w okresie kasat klasztorów i konfiskaty ich mienia w Galicji, ale także liczne plany nieruchomości klasztornych ujawniające cele zmian zarządzanych w ich obrębie. Plany ukazujące nieruchomości należące do bernardynów i bernardynek lwowskich oraz dotycząca ich dokumentacja kasatowa pozwala dostrzec nie tylko przekształcenia dokonywane w obrębie konwentów i kościołów klasztornych, ale także zmiany polityczne, wyznaniowe i społeczne.&nbsp