Awareness Of Today Research Articles

The Recovery of Disused Waterways as Blue Corridors: The Battaglia Canal between Padua and the Venetian Lagoon

The management of surface freshwater bodies can be considered one of the most important issues affecting the quality of living spaces in the industrialised world. Today's awareness of the importance of sustainable water management includes the artificial canals built over centuries to meet multiple and different needs. The development of railways in the 19th century and the extraordinary spread of road transport after World War II led to the steady abandonment of historic canals all over Europe and the consequent deterioration of their water quality and corridor spaces. This deterioration, in turn, led to socio-cultural conflicts over the spaces and the necessity/desirability of maintaining them in the late 20th century. In recent years the benefits provided by blue-green infrastructure in terms of biodiversity, new socio-economical opportunities and the improvement of the well-being and mental health of their users has been acknowledged by scholars and policy makers in the European Union and elsewhere. The article analyses the territorialisation of the Battaglia Canal in Italy’s northwestern Veneto region, between Padua (Padova) and the Venetian Lagoon and its broader canalscape that has resulted from different adminsitrative and planning processes and the manner in which changes in socio-environmental perceptions has influenced approaches to managing the canal. Building on this, the article raises issues concerning the management of the canal and proposes some perspectives for a multifunctional recovery and a sustainable valourisation of it as a social and environmental asset.

A Educação Ambiental em Instituições de Ensino Superior Privadas do Estado de São Paulo

A Educação Ambiental é um processo educacional no qual se objetiva despertar na sociedade a preocupação individual e coletiva para questões ambientais. Deve possibilitar o acesso à informação de forma clara e objetiva e contribuir com o desenvolvimento de uma consciência crítica em relação aos problemas ambientais contemporâneos. Este artigo teve como objetivo realizar um mapeamento da Educação Ambiental em cursos de Graduação em Instituições de Ensino Superior Privadas do Estado de São Paulo. Para tanto, realizou-se uma pesquisa e análise minuciosa nas Grades Curriculares em 12 instituições, totalizando 593 cursos, englobando as diversas áreas do conhecimento e modalidades. Observou-se que 36,4% dos cursos analisados continham disciplinas com a temática Educação Ambiental. Quando se analisou por modalidades, percebeu-se que a Educação Ambiental possui uma maior representatividade entre os cursos de Licenciatura (58,7%). Já entre os cursos de Bacharelado e Curta Duração, esse valor foi de 33,8%; dado interessante e muito importante, visto que, é em cursos de Licenciatura que se formam profissionais que irão disseminar o conhecimento e as ideias nos espaços escolares

MULTI-TEMPORAL SPATIAL DATA AFRICA

Abstract. To plan for the future, it is essential to understand the present as well as the past. Hindsight is the most valuable asset when examining how to proceed. Apart from natural catastrophes, conditions do not happen, they develop! This paper proposes that in order to change or influence conditions, not only must their present state be considered, but it is essential to investigate what triggered them in the first place. This requires access to records that might have to reach back for as much as many years. In Africa, such records are hard, if not impossible, to retrieve. Moreover, whatever records can be located are likely to have been compiled by a variety of different agencies, each presenting their own versions of events and consequently, often contradictory. To overcome such problems, it is proposed to use aerial photography that has been taken and hopefully archived over the past decades. Such aerial imagery can provide temporal geospatial data to trace the course, interaction and consequences of events. Combined with more recent satellite imagery, they provide unbiased evidence of past developments that can now be analyzed and assessed based on our awareness of today. This presentation deals with advanced data conversion and automated processing procedures conceived for convenient and user-friendly information access, as well as data mining and bigdata processing.

Behaviour and performance style in present day canto sul tamburo from the Giuglianese area: continuity and change

Within the tradition of the singing and dancing accompanied by the traditional frame-drum of Campania Region, there are different identifia-ble area styles. Beyond several common traits, these styles are distinguished by different types of performative structure concerning both vocal-instrumental and cho-reutic performance. The style of Giuglianese-domiziana area is easily recognizable being characterized by the use of sisco, a small straight flute. The aim of this study is to verify the relevance of the Giuglianese style with its different performative inno-vations and the wide variety of performance contexts (from ritual occasions to concert performances on stage). By means of examples, it will outline the essential features which characterize the performance practice of canto sul tamburo in Giugliano. Particular attention will be devoted to the different modes of self-represe-ntation that are mainly constitute by a large number of self-produced CDs, and a great flowering of video on YouTube and Facebook groups which play a crucial role in today's aware-ness of the local actors.

Travelling within the Socialist Period in the Awareness of Today's Youth

I subjected to a content analysis six Polish and six Czech history textbooks designed especially for secondary school students. Based on the results of that analysis, I compiled a questionnaire that included 15 questions. Empirical research was attended by three Polish lyceums (Cieszyn, Pszczyna, Wisła), three Czech grammar schools (Český Těšín, Havířov, Orlová) and the Polish language grammar school in Czech Republic (Český Těšín). The 499 students were engaged in that research, the ages of respondents ranged from 15 to 19 years. The main purpose of that empirical research was to determine the awareness among today’s studying youth of the socialist period, specifically about the former daily life of population. The questions concerned issues such as store supplying, home furnishings, anti-regime opposition, etc. In this article I would like to approach the topic of travelling in the period of communism, first as presented in textbooks, and secondly what awareness have today’s students of this issue.

Baseball When It Was a Game (review)

Reviewed by: Baseball When It Was a Game Frank R. Ardolino (bio) George Roy, Steven Stern, and David Harmon. Baseball When It Was a Game. New York: Black Canyon Productions in association with HBO Sports. 1992 and 2000. Editor, George Roy. This three-part series, which covers 1925 to 1970, is a brightly colored and highly entertaining potpourri of nostalgic memories created by scenes of happy and graceful players cavorting in the sun on God's greener-than-green grass in the romantic past of an Edenic time in baseball history. The heavily saturated colors of these 8mm and 16mm movies, made by players and fans alike, endow the scenes with an endearing vividness, befitting the purpose of recapturing the sense of baseball as the imagined youthful and exuberant past of us all when the players frolicked like young colts in various poses of playfulness and camaraderie. These are home movies, and they have that joyful, somewhat unprofessional quality that heightens the sense of spontaneity, but they are not amateurish in the worst sense of that word. At some moments, the beauty of baseball is captured, almost serendipitously. For example, in one quick shot, we see a youthful Ted Williams at spring training getting ready to take a splendid swing. The bright red of his socks matches the red earth of the batter's box as he digs in; in the background, players are warming up, and a sprinkling of fans sit in the wooden stands under the hot sun and the blue sky. Ted strides into the pitch, moving his bat effortlessly forward into the hitting zone, and ends with a long graceful follow-through that leaves his legs twisted and his head majestically raised to follow the flight of the ball. This is athletic ballet and poetry as we witness "our Achilles," as he is later called, do what he loved best and did better than almost anybody who has played the game. Another major advantage of these films is that, unlike most sports documentaries, [End Page 203] the voice-overs of the various celebrities do not impede their flow and rhythm. In Ken Burns's documentary history of baseball, the commentators serve as "talking heads," with the result that the rhythm is interrupted when the screen is filled with their presence and pronouncements. But in Baseball When It Was A Game, the narrator announces the name of the ensuing voice-over and we hear the person as the action continues. In addition, many of the voice-overs are those of players who, as they reminisce about themselves and other players, are shown in scenes that fit their statements. This technique produces a seamless and cohesive quality, which enhances the overall effect of the onrush of memories. The key to the overall intention of these documentaries is found in the title, which begins with the one-word declaration of the subject, followed by an adverbial clause that indicates the documentaries' perspective on the past as a time when the game of baseball was enjoyable for players and fans alike, when it was not a business dominated by multimillion-dollar contracts, expansion, dilution of talent, and home run-happy hitters, to mention only a few of the current ills. We are told repeatedly that the players in "those" days were regular guys who had to work all year long to support their families, who were not made inaccessible to fans by huge salaries, and who belonged to their teams and communities in ways that today's players do not. These simple values are stressed through emphasis on such facts as the minimum salary up to 1967 never being higher than $6,000 and by the reading of a humble request from Alex Grammas in 1953 to Gabe Paul, general manager of the Cincinnati Reds, asking him for something more than the $7,000 he was offered. His letter is a masterpiece of deference made even more obsequious by our awareness of today's contracts and perks, such as Kevin Brown's having a private jet at his disposal for familial travel. Grammas's plea was heeded, and he was given a $1,500 raise. But the grizzled Cardinal veteran...