Territorial Dynamics Research Articles

Recovery of Velykyi Luh through ecological restoration of the Kakhovka Reservoir

The relevance of modern environmental issues requires comprehensive approaches to the restoration and preservation of natural ecosystems, specifically through ecological restoration as a tool to eliminate the effects of anthropogenic interventions. The purpose of this study was to survey the territory of the Kakhovka Reservoir using remote sensing and to propose a way to restore the historical territory of the Kakhovka Reservoir of Velykyi Luh. The following research methods were employed: empirical, analysis and systematisation, remote sensing, geographic information systems. The study consisted of two main stages. The first stage included an analysis of the dynamics of the historical territory of Veliky Luh, from the end of the 19th century to the present day. The second stage involved comparing the dynamics of the area’s restoration using 19th-century mapping data and 21st-century satellite imagery. The use of modern technologies, including the analysis of satellite images of the degraded area and three indices of the EO Browser software, such as the differential vegetation index, the normalised differential humidity index, and the differential water index, helped to obtain data on the state of vegetation and water resources in the study area. The analysis of the patterns between these indicators made it possible to determine the close interaction between plant growth rates and their moisture availability. The biomass growth on the territory of the Kakhovka Reservoir was measured from the moment of dewatering to November 2023. The results obtained indicate that it is possible to effectively restore the ecosystem of the Velykyi Luh through ecological restoration. This process involves the selection of optimal biotopes for the restoration of the historic area, which is a crucial step in conserving biodiversity and stabilising the natural environment in the Kakhovka Reservoir. The findings of the study on a new approach to ecological restoration based on high-precision technologies and in-depth analysis of ecosystem dynamics will contribute to the development of scientific approaches to the restoration of natural landscapes and will be an important contribution to modern environmental practice

Territorial dynamics of spatial growth in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal: understanding geographical notion of urban sustainability

Territorial dynamics of spatial growth in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal: understanding geographical notion of urban sustainability

Vínculos Territoriales en las Misiones Jesuíticas-Guaraníes de Paraguay, Argentina y Brasil: un Enfoque de Análisis de Redes.

Relationships and territorial links are fundamental to Geography studies. In recent years, these aspects have undergone significant evolution. Besides, the study of tourism activity is not indifferent since the flows generated in places of tourism interests are those that give rise to territorial dynamics. The main objective of this study is to reveal the spatial interactions stemming from an internationally renowned tourist route, with a very particular niche of its resources, which focus on the heritage of the Jesuit-Guarani missions located in three countries: Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil. The methodology used integrates the use of qualitative and quantitative techniques. These techniques are combined with "Gephi," a network analysis software, and "Geographic Information Systems" (GIS). With the aid of cartography, the characteristics and properties of the nodes and links established among the “pueblos misionales" in which the primary tourist activities take place are displayed. Additionally, the concept of "friction of space" is incorporated to explain, in more detail, each of the relationships and links established.

Olivotourism as a tourist-cultural product and its influence on the dynamics of territories

This article proposes to explore olive tourism as a tourist-cultural product and its influence on the dynamics of territories. It is understood that the use of natural and cultural resources existing in the territories, as differentiating tourist products, when coherent and rigorous, can be the key factor for territorial cohesion and sustainability. The practice of olive tourism is strongly linked to the tourist and cultural development of more natural and rural areas, contributing to the appreciation and conservation of the unique identity of places, through the promotion of traditional activities that can be experienced by tourists. In this sense, product development strategies based on olive oil and olive trees are relevant to enhance knowledge of the product itself and its connection with local history and traditions. The increase in olive tourism is presented in this study as a challenge for the territory (municipality of Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal), highlighting the recovery of some activities that have been developed to revitalize territorial cohesion.

Subjectivation and psychosocial risks of the uberization of work in territorial dynamics

Resumo Diante das mudanças econômicas, políticas e tecnológicas do mundo do trabalho no território urbano, enfrentamos hoje novas informalidades que precarizam as relações e condições de trabalho de forma global. O objetivo deste ensaio é tecer reflexões críticas sobre os processos de novas subjetivações e riscos psicossociais da uberização do trabalho e seus impactos nas dinâmicas territoriais, destacando as empresas-plataforma que oferecem serviços de táxi e entrega, fazendo um panorama que desloca do cenário internacional para o nacional. Os trabalhadores uberizados enfrentam situações singulares de violências das empresas-plataforma e urbana, agravando os riscos psicossociais, a dignidade, a saúde e a qualidade de vida dos trabalhadores. As práticas, gestão e contradições dessas empresas denotam a privação do direito à cidade e a captura da subjetividade dos trabalhadores.

Social innovation networks and territorial dynamics

Social innovation networks are increasingly recognized as key players in social innovation. Based on qualitative case-studies, this research analyses, through the dimensions of proximity, the Actor-Network Theory and collaborative innovation - the process by which networks develop social innovations with a public service aim and create territorial dynamics. The findings reveal two types of implementation strategies, which create social and institutional proximity. Innovation processes, although not exempt from controversies, provide a broad latitude for local actors to negotiate, to adapt and share common tools or to create ad hoc methods. Organizational and cognitive proximity ensure collaborative governance and creativity. Territorial innovation dynamics rely on existing resources but the creation of new interactions also shapes the territorial service offering.

Subjetivação e riscos psicossociais da uberização do trabalho nas dinâmicas territoriais

Abstract In view of the economic, political, and technological changes in the world of work within the urban territory, nowadays we are facing new informalities that increase the precariousness of work relationships and conditions in a global level. This essay aims to reflect critically on new subjectivations and on psychosocial risks related to the uberization of work, analyzing their impacts on territorial dynamics. We highlight platform companies that offer taxi and delivery services, and we provide a panorama that shifts from the international to the national scenario. Uberized workers face unique episodes of violence committed by platform companies and urban violence, which intensify psychosocial risks and harm workers' dignity, health, and quality of life. The practices of platform companies, as well as their management and contradictions, reveal a deprivation of the right to the city and the capture of workers' subjectivity.

Российская Арктика-2035: полимасштабный прогноз

The subject of the study is the forecast of the development of the Arctic territories of Russia at the zonal, regional and municipal levels based on the concept of technical and economic (structural) dynamics of N. Kondratiev – S. Glazyev – С. Peres. The object of study is the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation. The purpose of the study is to describe the technical and economic dynamics of the Arctic territories until 2035. This goal determined the solution of three tasks: 1) identifying the features of new resource development of the Russian Arctic based on the mineral resources and fuel and energy potential of the Arctic territories of Russia; 2) justification of the current situation in the regions of the Russian Arctic, such as the dynamics of technological structures and calculated positions on the volume of GRP in 2035; 3) compiling a list of Arctic municipalities (49) with limited delivery times for cargo and their typology based on the speed of technical and economic dynamics. Results of the study: I. The resource potential of the Russian Arctic from the point of view of technological structures can be strengthened through the commissioning of deposits of graphite, antimony, and bauxite, the global demand for which is characterized by favorable conditions in the forecast period; II. The regions of the Russian Arctic are differentiated based on the analysis of greenfield projects carried out during the forecast period into three groups of technological renewal: a) maximum; b) partial; c) minimal. The forecast of the GRP of the Arctic territories based on resource production indicators in 2035 determined their rank: 1) Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug; 2) Murmansk region; 3-4) Nenets Autonomous Okrug and the Arctic of the Krasnoyarsk Territory; 5) Arctic of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia); 6) Arctic of the Komi Republic; 7) Chukotka Autonomous Okrug; 8) Arctic of the Arkhangelsk region; 9) Arctic of the Republic of Karelia. III. Arctic municipalities with limited delivery times are separated into four groups from the point of view of the prospects for the formation of a new technological structure based on new projects: 1) maximum potential (12); 2) average potential (9); 3) without new mining projects, but with prospects for completing the development of previously started ones and technological modernization of old projects (12); 4) without prospects for the deployment of new projects for the development of non-renewable resources, but with prospects for the development of biological resources (16). Possible application of the results can be documents of strategic planning of the Russian Arctic at the zonal, regional and municipal levels.

Dos rios e dos peixes durante o calcolítico no Alto Douro Português

This text aims to contribute to the understanding of the Chalcolithic walled enclosure of Castanheiro do Vento (Horta do Douro, Vila Nova de Foz Côa) as a place forged in a profuse network of practices, from which territories and landscapes were activated. To this end, it analyses its relationship with the surrounding watercourses, as well as the remains of ichthyofauna recovered during excavation. By demonstrating the importance of the Douro, Torto and Teja rivers valleys in the network of places where the enclosureis located, we discuss how the occurrence of barbel and shad/save allows us to deepen our knowledge of this network. The migratory cycles of these fi sh and their reproductive behaviour, given its seasonal character, are indicators of a cyclical temporality that would have structured the dynamics of territories and landscapes.

Territorial dynamics of highly complex health services in the Belém Metropolitan Region, Brazil: is specialized health care subsidized by the SUS?

This article presents an analysis of the territorial dynamics of the specialized healthcare network, focusing on medium and high complexity care in hospitals in the municipalities that make up the Belém Metropolitan Region. The analysis is based on secondary data from DATASUS available on the National Health Facility Registry (CNES) up to January 2022. The findings show that the private network accounts for the largest proportion of services in the region; however, the service capacity of the SUS is greater than that of the private sector due to the large volume of services outsourced to private facilities via public-private partnerships, with philanthropic hospitals allocating the largest proportion of services to public patients. This should not be confused with universal coverage, as public patient access to private services may be restricted by legal and institutional barriers depending on the form of access (open-door or closed-door).

Geography and form of settlement of Russians of the near abroad (Baltic states, Belarus, Moldova): main trends of the first quarter of the 21st century

The article identifies the main trends of the territorial dynamics of the Russian population of the Baltic states, Belarus, Moldova and Transnistria during 2000s-2010s. It was found that, correlating with the general decline, the geography of Russian population also decreased. However, in all the studied countries the fragmentation of the settlement system occurred at the expense of settlements of lower taxonomic ranks (farms, small villages). In larger settlements, Russian groups persisted even in Moldova and Lithuania, which demonstrated the highest rates of demographic decline of Russian communities in the post-Soviet period. The largest concentrations of the Russian population in all the considered countries remained in the capitals. Moreover, they were also the epicenters of assimilation, the main factor of Russian depopulation in the 2000s and the first half of the 2010s. The level of urbanization of Russian communities remained very high in all the countries (80-90%), but at the beginning of the 21st century it decreased. This process was related not so much to the increased rootedness of Russian villagers, but rather to the migration of the Russian population from peripheral regions to the rural outskirts of metropolitan agglomerations. Being a form of deurbanization, it represented a variant of the geodemographic metropolization of Russian communities (the increasing concentration in capital regions). Only in Moldova the increased demographic stability of rural Russians was determined by a small group of old believer villages amidst a high level of derussification of the rest of the settlement network. Only the Russian community of Transnistria demonstrated an increased territorial and quantitative stability in the 2000s and 2010s. It clearly illustrated the significant role of geocivilizational orientation of post-Soviet states in the demographic dynamics of the local Russian population.

A territorialidade da alta complexidade na Região Metropolitana de Belém, Brasil: a saúde especializada é subsidiada pelo SUS?

Abstract This article presents an analysis of the territorial dynamics of the specialized healthcare network, focusing on medium and high complexity care in hospitals in the municipalities that make up the Belém Metropolitan Region. The analysis is based on secondary data from DATASUS available on the National Health Facility Registry (CNES) up to January 2022. The findings show that the private network accounts for the largest proportion of services in the region; however, the service capacity of the SUS is greater than that of the private sector due to the large volume of services outsourced to private facilities via public-private partnerships, with philanthropic hospitals allocating the largest proportion of services to public patients. This should not be confused with universal coverage, as public patient access to private services may be restricted by legal and institutional barriers depending on the form of access (open-door or closed-door).

Transformation of soil and plant pastures cover of light chestnut soils in to sandy soils of kochubey biosphere station

The transformation of the vegetation cover of pasture landscapes is the result of the interaction of climatic, ecological, physiological and anthropogenic environmental factors. The result of the dependence of the conservation of species in the vegetation cover, especially forage plants, on the influence of these factors and the determination of their variability and stability in pasture ecosystem communities is relevant for production and science. As a result of a long-term study (more than 10 years) of the soil and vegetation cover of pasture landscapes on different soils and sands of the Kochubey Biosphere Station (KBS), especially under the conditions of anthropogenic impact, it was revealed that weeds adapt well to new conditions, stable populations of non-forage plants are created, causing deflation and degradation. The floristic composition and ecological and coenotic characteristics of the dominant plant species were studied on light chestnut sandy loamy soils and sands. The rapid change of indigenous species of plant communities formed in the conditions of a continental climate indicates a high mobility of vegetation. The species diversity and occurrence of plant species characterize the qualitative difference between the compared soils (light chestnut, sandy loam and sand). The described syntaxa reflect the directions of natural and anthropogenic transformation of the vegetation of light chestnut soils and sandy massifs of the KBS, which are characterized by a change in the composition of the prevailing life forms, a decrease in the role of valuable forage plant species and an increase in the diversity of annual non-forage species, without changing their species diversity. The landscape dynamics of the KBS territory is expressed in the transformation of the relief and vegetation cover under the influence of eolian processes with an increase in the projective cover and overgrowth of mobile landforms of sand massifs.

Territorial Dynamics Supported by a Collaborative Network of Innovation Labs: Toward an Approach to Establish a Portfolio of Indicators to Monitor and Assess their Territorial Impact

The multiplication of apparently similar Innovation Labs throughout the local territories raises questions about their role and their positioning. Innovation Labs are generally supplied by local resources. This substantial growth could facilitate the connection of various regions within a territory, thereby creating new areas for experimentation. The public authorities need these labs to bring added value to their territory. This study shows that a network of Innovation Labs could be a strategic means to support territorial dynamics at a local scale. The literature does not provide concrete tools, resources, and methods to evaluate the territorial impacts of Innovation Labs. Furthermore, no literature review regarding the networking of Innovation Labs in a territory has yet been conducted. This paper begins to fill this gap and shows that the linking of innovation labs can support territorial dynamics. Through a review of the literature, research trends pertaining to territorial dynamics and innovation laboratories were identified. The contribution of this paper is the proposal of an approach to design a system of indicators to analyze a network of ILs adapted to a local territory as well as a portfolio of indicators. These results will allow us to follow the evolution of these labs, their interactions and their impacts on a local territory.

Editorial Presentation - Perspectives on innovation governance: challenges and dilemmas

Editorial Presentation - Perspectives on innovation governance: challenges and dilemmas

Indigenous Amazonia, Regional Development and Territorial Dynamics: Contentious Issues ed. by Walter Leal Filho, Victor T. King, and Ismar Borges de Lima (review)

Indigenous Amazonia, Regional Development and Territorial Dynamics: Contentious Issues ed. by Walter Leal Filho, Victor T. King, and Ismar Borges de Lima (review)

Climate Change, Forest Fires, and Territorial Dynamics in the Amazon Rainforest: An Integrated Analysis for Mitigation Strategies

Recent times have witnessed wildfires causing harm to both ecological communities and urban–rural regions, underscoring the necessity to comprehend wildfire triggers and assess measures for mitigation. This research hones in on Cartagena del Chairá, diving into the interplay between meteorological conditions and land cover/use that cultivates a conducive environment for wildfires. Meteorologically, the prevalence of wildfires is concentrated during boreal winter, characterized by warm and dry air, strong winds, and negligible precipitation. Additionally, wildfires gravitate toward river-adjacent locales housing agriculture-linked shrubs, notably in the northern part of the zone, where a confluence of land attributes and meteorological factors synergize to promote fire incidents. Employing climate scenarios, we deduced that elevated temperature and reduced humidity augment wildfire susceptibility, while wind speed and precipitation discourage their propagation across most scenarios. The trajectory toward a warmer climate could instigate fire-friendly conditions in boreal summer, indicating the potential for year-round fire susceptibility. Subsequently, via machine-learning-driven sensitivity analysis, we discerned that among the scrutinized socio-economic variables, GINI, low educational attainment, and displacement by armed groups wield the most substantial influence on wildfire occurrence. Ultimately, these findings converge to shape proposed wildfire mitigation strategies that amalgamate existing practices with enhancements or supplementary approaches.

Is work hours' flexibility really a solution to morning peak period congestion? Comparative analysis between Paris and San Francisco

According to transport economics theory, the effect of flexible hours should be that workers spread out their starting times with the result that rush-hour travel conditions improve. But is this really what happens regardless of territorial contexts and transport systems? Paris and San Francisco region are facing serious congestion and are also the French and American cities with their countries' largest share of workers with flexible hours. In those contexts, do employees with the possibility of flexible working hours in fact avoid peak-time travel? Drawing on an international literature review and data from the national household travel surveys for the Paris region and the Metropolitan Area of San Francisco, we reveal new findings that may even appear paradoxical. Far from leading to staggered workplace arrival times, in Paris, flexible hours are associated with a significantly higher probability of arrival at work during the morning peak period. In San Francisco, flexibility has no significant impact on peak period. In an era of flexible schedules, our research tempers the idea of any systematic impact of flexibilisation oriented toward desynchronisation. It reveals that the impact of flexible hours depends on territorial dynamics, where the “social distribution of flexibility” plays an important role.

Assessing the ecological performance of French territories using a spatially-nested approach

Territories are at the forefront of efforts to curtail the trajectory of their environmental impacts and enhance their economic and ecological resilience. To expedite the process of curving the ecological footprint, France has launched the Ecological Transition Plan (ETP). However, environmental programs in France are orchestrated at the national and regional levels, which tends to diminish the heterogeneity of territorial dynamics. This underscores a disparity in scale that might potentially hinder the translation of the ETP's objectives (Top-Down) into feasible local initiatives (Bottom-Up), and vice versa. To bridge this gap, we suggest employing the Ecological Footprint as a monitoring framework, in conjunction with a spatially-nested approach. This combination aims to guarantee the precise conversion of objectives into impactful local actions. Results reveal that only 27% of French territories are encountering an ecological deficit, while the remaining 73% are classified as ecological reserves. The primary sectors contributing to this ecological overshoot are “road transport” (28.8%), followed by “industry” (21.4%), and “agriculture” (19.5%). We posit that this spatially-nested analysis can unravel territorial heterogeneities and facilitate the design of more nuanced and appropriately tailored ecological actions across different scales.

Mathematical Model of the Spread of Hantavirus Infection.

A mathematical epidemiological model incorporating the mobility of rodents and human groups among zones of less or major contact between them is presented. The hantavirus infection dynamics is expressed using a model type SEIR (Susceptible-Exposed-Infectious-Removed), which incorporates the displacement of the rodent and the human, between the urban and rural sector, the latter being subdivided in populated and non-populated. The results show the impact that rodent or human displacement may have on the propagation of hantavirus infection. Human mobility is more significant than rodents in increasing the number of hantavirus infection cases. The results found may be used as a reference by the health authorities to develop more specific campaigns on the territorial dynamics of the rodent, attend to the mobility of humans in these territories, mainly agricultural and forestry workers, and strengthen control-prevention actions in the community, to prevent future outbreaks that are fatal.