Poland
This book includes the following papers:
- A.R. Riebau, Reflecting stars in a mountain lake: managing alpine air quality with new techniques for data gathering, pollution modeling, and data visualization
- P. Wezyk, M. Guzik, The use of "Photogrammetry-GIS" (P-GIS) for the analysis of changes in the Tatra Mountains' natural environment
- W. Fraczek, A. Bytnerowicz,...
In addition to surveying food production from mountain areas, Euromontana’s 2002-2004 project takes stock of legislation, public schemes and private initiatives directly or indirectly addressing mountain farming and its food production. While the survey covered the eight countries involved in the project (France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Romania, Poland, Norway and the UK) — and the...
The Panos Oral Testimony Mountains Project included Peru, Mexico, Lesotho, Kenya, Ethiopia, China, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Poland. In each country, the Oral Testimony Programme (OTP) trained local interviewers and with partners, coordinated the collection of testimonies (usually 30-40).
Since the 19th century a slow expansion of forests into previous agricultural areas has been recorded in the Carpathians. The present article analyses forest cover change in the Orawa region of Poland, using historical maps and contemporary satellite data. Forest cover change was analysed with reference to elevation, under the assumption that it reflects a transformation of the vertical land...
Mountains occupy only 3 percent of Poland. They are the northern part of the European arc of the Carpathian and Sudety Mountains, extending about 700 km along the southern Polish border. They are of medium height (about 1,500 m., maximum 2,600 m. a.s.l.), and diversified in terms of climate, geology, soils, vegetation, and anthropogenic impacts. The forest vegetation of the Sudety and...
This Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB) Digest provides an overview of scientific activities undertaken within MAB Project 6, whose focus is on mountain areas. It considers MAB activities in the mountains of nine European countries -- Austria, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, and Switzerland -- and the former USSR. It is in these countries that the...
