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Mycelium Matter(s) – Fictionalizing Human–Mushroom Relations

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Joshi V.

Jednak Książki. Gdańskie Czasopismo Humanistyczne

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2022

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issue 15

64-81

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Through this paper, the author tries to explore a simple yet complex question: how do we decentralize the human presence in conversations about climate-change? To do so, this speculative climate 2ction is presented through the non-human narrative perspective of mycelium (fungi). The speculative fiction provides a space for re-thinking our ontological and epistemological strategies and categorizations of nature/culture division, as well as how we understand nature in relation to human.The speculative climate-fiction proposes a reconsideration of human in relation to nature/climate, through fungi. It further explores how sensory, bodily, and multimodal methodologies may work in interaction to produce new possibilities to explore the corporealities of human-nature relationships and how a non-anthropocentric understanding of climate-change can allow for an emerging engagement with a vast mesh of human and beyond-human agencies. Drawing inspiration from Sylvia Plath, Ursula K. Le Guin, Margaret Atwood, and using Erin Manning’s understanding of a5ect as having a feltness that we often experience as a becoming-with, in this case, a becoming-with nature, the speculative-fiction (SF) is written as a dialogue between fungi and human. The SF also uses artwork created with mushrooms, fungal roots, as well as mushroom extracts, to exaggerate the presence of beyond-human beings in a new onto-epistemic strategy that reconsiders climate change and human–nature relationships.

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Współczesne zmiany klimatyczne i ich wpływ na funkcjonowanie systemów miejskich (na przykładzie miast strefy nadmorskiej Polski)

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Styszyńska A., Krośnicka K., Marsz A. A.

Studia komitetu przestrzennego zagospodarowania kraju PAN

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2018

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vol. 187

51-80

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IMPACTS OF GEOMORPHIC DISTURBANCES ON PLANT COLONIZATION IN EBBA VALLEY, CENTRAL SPITSBERGEN, SVALBARD

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Stawska M.

Quaestiones Geographicae

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2017

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vol. 36

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issue 1

51-64

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Global warming observed nowadays causes an increase in geomorphic activity in polar regions. Within the areas influenced by cold climatic conditions, relief dynamics and vegetation development are the main landscape shaping processes. The study is limited to the Ebba Valley (78°43’N; 16°37’E) in central Spitsbergen (Svalbard), where geomorphologic observations and vegetation sampling were conducted in 2007. The valley was divided into three zones differentiated by dominating geomorphic activity and stability of deposits. The settlement and the evolution of plant cover have been documented there. The main factors that control well developed vegetation cover within raised marine terraces are frost heave and solifluction. In deeper parts of the valley, aeolian processes dominate and high differentiation of microsite conditions causes high variability in plant coverage. The area close to the Ebba glacier marginal zone is characterized by initial stages of plant colonisation where disturbance to vegetation is mainly caused by hydrological processes.

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Adaptacja do zmiany klimatu w programach ochrony środowiska małych i średnich polskich miast

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Karaczun Z. M., Bojanowski J., Zawieska J., Swoczyna B.

Studia BAS

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2022

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issue 3(71)

59-80

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The article presents the results of the analysis of the declarations of the authorities of small and medium-sized cities in Poland regarding the need to implement adaptation measures to the effects of climate change, and an assessment of the adequacy of the planned activities in this area. As part of the study, Environmental Protection Programmes in 80 cities with a population of up to 100,000 inhabitants were analysed. In the beginning, the most important challenges that the effects of climate change pose for cities are discussed. Then the results of the research are described and discussed. The paper ends with a short summary. The obtained results are not unambiguous. On the one hand, it has been shown that the issues of environmental protection and adaptation to climate change are not among the most important priorities of the authorities of small and medium-sized cities, and the way of presenting the issue of adaptation in the analysed documents, concerning the threats caused by the effects of climate change, is not sufficient and adequate to the level of danger. On the other hand, the results show that the importance of this problem has been increasing in recent years and that the authorities of small and medium-sized towns more and more often declare the need and readiness to support adaptation measures.

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An evaluation of changes in the bioclimate of Łódź in the light of the tourism climate index

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Siedlecki M.

Turyzm

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2015

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vol. 25

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issue 2

21-25

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The paper presents basic information concerning bioclimatic conditions in Łódź based on the Tourism Climate Index (TCI). The index makes it possible to assess in a comprehensive manner, based on specified meteorological parameters, the climatic conditions affecting the development of tourism. The study uses measurements from the weather station, Łódź-Lublinek, taken in the years 1966-2014. The TCI values have a distinct annual pattern with the highest values recorded in summer. The summer season has the highest frequency of days with ‘very good’ or ‘excellent’ conditions for tourism. An assessment of the variability of bioclimatic conditions indicates an increase in the number of days with high TCI values pointing to ‘very good’ or ‘excellent’ conditions for tourism and recreation.

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No Measure without Concept. A Critical Review on the Conceptualization and Measurement of Environmental Concern

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Schaffrin A.

International Review of Social Research

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2011

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vol. 1

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issue 3

11-31

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Environmental concern is a highly relevant concept in the context of environmental change and increasing demand for political regulation of environmental protection. In order to prevent climate change, loss in global biodiversity or other highly critical environmental issues, we need to understand why (and why not) citizens support environmental politics. However, there is no measure without a concept, and empirical results might be biased if they are not operationalized according to well defined (theoretical and methodological) criteria. This research endeavor focuses on historical and more recent developments of the concept of individual environmental concern. It will be demonstrated that environmental concern is not only a distinct concept excluding behavior and knowledge, but is also rather complex addressing geographical as well as temporal issues. Most recent developments suggesting a hierarchical multi-dimensional character will be discussed and examples of the most relevant empirical measures and scales will be evaluated.

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Welcome Frustrations with the Climate: Comment on Redclift

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Gross M.

International Review of Social Research

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2011

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vol. 1

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issue 3

183-187

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Redclift (2011) provided a timely and perhaps deliberately provocative overview of sociological writings on climate change and the disciplinary problems of a post carbon world for environmental sociology. This comment emphasizes that he never actually clarifies what exactly are those problems that sociology faces in its attempt to open up a space for itself in the field of climate research. This omission also leads to unnecessary claims regarding the state of social science research on climate change as well as unspecified calls for more interdisciplinarity in sociological analysis of contemporary societies’ carbon dependence.

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Expressions of climatic change in Slovak Republic

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Marková I., Monoši M.

Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis Studia Naturae

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2020

145-156

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Postęp zmian klimatu ocenia się na podstawie trendów w długoterminowych szeregach czasowych (1951–2018) poszczególnych elementów klimatu, na podstawie porównania wartości z wielu lat, z normalnym okresem w klimatologii 1961–1990. Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie przejawów zmian klimatycznych na Słowacji (od ich powstania) według wybranych wskaźników: (1) średnia roczna temperatura powietrza, (2) temperatura gleby, (3) suma opadów atmosferycznych, (4) susza indeks w ciągu ostatniej dekady. Dane przedstawione w artykule pochodzą z publicznych raportów na temat stanu środowiska w Republice Słowackiej i innych powiązanych dokumentów. W Słowacji w latach 1881–2018 znaczącym zmianom uległy wszystkie monitorowane elementy klimatyczne. Największe zmiany zaobserwowano w latach 2017 i 2018 roku.

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The development of climate change is evaluated on the basis of trends in a long-term time series (1951–2018) of individual climatic elements by comparing values from individual years with the normal period in climatology of 1961–1990. The aim of the article is to present the manifestations of climate change in Slovakia (since its inception) according to selected indicators: (1) average annual air temperature, (2) soil temperature, (3) total atmospheric precipitation and (4) drought index over the last decade. The data presented in the article were obtained from public reports on the state of the environment in the Slovakia and other related documents. Slovakia, during the years 1881–2018, underwent significant changes in all monitored climatic elements. The most significant changes were in 2017 and 2018.

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Setbacks to the implementation of the nationally appropriate mitigation actions. Case studies of the NAMAs of Ethiopia, Georgia and Indonesia.

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Issaka S. A.

Quaestiones Geographicae

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2021

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vol. 40

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issue 3

33-44

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The lack of implementation of the Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) of the non-Annexe I Parties registered in the NAMA Registry of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is a worrying situation in the sense that it is limiting the contributions these NAMA projects would have made towards mitigating global climate change. There is however little research on the reasons behind the lack of implementation of these NAMAs projects and this is the knowledge gap that this paper seeks to fill based on a critical overview of the NAMAs of Ethiopia, Indonesia and Georgia. The source of data for this paper is mainly from the focal persons for the NAMAs of the countries under study, which was obtained via telephone and Skype interviews with the respondents. Our findings show that lack of funding, complicated financial mechanisms, lack of technical expertise, fringe condi- tions to donor support and policy issues according to the findings of this study are the main hindrances to the implementation of NAMAs. International organisations, donor partners, developed countries and local governments alike are therefore encouraged to channel some of the funds meant for fighting global climate change into sponsoring the NAMAs of poorer countries, as this will see to the successful implementations of these NAMAs and their subsequent impacts on mitigating global climate change. The paper is also timely considering the scarcity of literature on NAMAs related issues.

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Migranci czy uchodźcy? Prawne aspekty ochrony osób migrujących ze względu na negatywne zmiany środowiska naturalnego

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Groszkowska K.

Studia BAS

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2019

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issue 4(60)

241-259

EN

The article provides a general overview of the issue of environmentally induced migration. Despite having been a topic of climate change debate for over 30 years and a growing concern of the international community, environmentally displaced persons are not defined or described in any legally binding document. The first part of the article investigates difficulties with providing a definition of environmental migrants. Next, it examines different projects of international regulations and approaches. In the final section the author analyses the key issues of environmentally induced migration, namely: environmental factors, including slow and sudden onset events, characteristics of the movement, with focus on forced and cross-border migration and the appropriate terminology (migrant or refugee).

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Thermal Conditions Relative to Atmospheric Circulation in the Christmas Period in Poland

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Tomczyk A. M.

Quaestiones Geographicae

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2016

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vol. 35

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issue 1

47-56

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The main objective of this article was to determine thermal conditions in the Christmas period and the impact of atmospheric circulation on their formation. The article is based on data on the mean daily air temperature for 16 stations in Poland for the 1966-2014 multiannual period. In this period, no statistically significant changes of air temperature were observed, neither in December, nor the Christmas period. The occurrence of averagely warmer holidays was associated with the inflow of maritime polar air masses from the western sector, while colder holidays occurred with the inflow of continental polar air masses from the eastern sector.

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Sustaining Biodiversity and Income against Climate Change through Food Value Chain System by the Small-Holder Farmers in Southern Nigeria

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Asadu C. L. A.

Path of Science

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2016

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vol. 2

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issue 11(16)

8.1-8.7

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Biodiversity and sustainable income are very necessary in ecosystem stability. The food value chain (FVC) introduced in Nigeria to transform agriculture is commendable because through the system farmers receive various incentives as highly subsidized inputs from government and loans of low interest rates from designated Agricultural Banks and Central Bank. However, the system encourages specialization in the production of the reference crops but intercropping and mixed cropping systems practiced by most small-holder farmers because of its inherent advantages is de-emphasized or completely abandoned. This paper presents the results of two surveys of sole pepper and maize growers in 2015 and 2016 respectively as affected by sudden stoppage of rainfall in Nsukka area. The analyses showed that on the average > 70 % of the pepper farmers lost ≈ 65 % of their pepper fields while ≈ 57 % of the maize fields were lost. For a substitute intercropping system, plantain yield data from plantain plus moringa intercrop trials carried out in 2014 and 2015 were analyzed and projected to incorporate a food crop within inter-alleys. The mean plantain yields from the trials were 20 kg plant-1 for fresh bunch and 7 suckers stand-1. Based on a 6 m x 5 m (≈330 plants ha-1) spacing and the 2016 prices of bunches and suckers, these yields translated to a minimum net income per annum of N 1 320 000.00 (N 330 000.00 from bunches and N 990 000.00 from 6 suckers (net) stand-1). Proceeds from the food crop, moringa seed and leaf extracts used as liquid fertilizer took care of the cost of other inputs and cultural practices. The inter-row spacing of 6 m allows mechanical cultivation of any food crop by the farmer. This system was considered a reliable insurance against climate change and pest insurgence and can be adopted by farmers in the entire southern Nigeria because both plantain and moringa can do very well in the subregion.

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Биоразнообразие и устойчивый доход имеют важное значение в стабильности экосистемы. Цепочка добавленной стоимости продуктов питания, введенная в Нигерии для трансформации сельского хозяйства, заслуживает высокой оценки, так как через данную систему фермеры получают различные стимулы, такие как высокосубсидируемые вклады со стороны правительства и кредиты с низкими процентными ставками от целевых сельскохозяйственных банков и Центрального банка. Несмотря на то, что система поощряет специализацию в производстве эталонных культур, междурядные и смешанные системы возделывания сельскохозяйственных культур, практикуемые большинством мелких фермеров из-за присущих им преимуществ, являются ослабленными или же от них полностью отказываются. В данной статье представлены результаты опросов двух производителей перца и кукурузы в 2015 и 2016 годах соответственно, как пострадавших от внезапного прекращения дождей в районе Nsukka. Анализы показали, что в среднем > 70% фермеров, выращивающих перец, потеряли ≈ 65% своих полей, в то время только ≈ 57% полей кукурузы были потеряны. Для замены системы промежуточных культур, были проанализированы данные урожайности подорожника при пробном междурядном выращивании подорожника и культуры moringa в 2014 и 2015 годах. Было запланировано применить междурядное выращивание данной продовольственной культуры. Средний выход урожайности подорожника при испытании составил 20 кг растений-1 для пучка зелени и 7 боковых отростков-1. На основании расчетов при интервале высаживания 6 м х 5 м (≈330 растения га-1) и цен на свежие пучки и отростки в 2016 году был определен минимальный чистый доход в год от N 1 320 000.00 (N 330 000.00 от пучков и N 990 000.00 от 6 отростков (нетто). Доходы от продовольственных культур, семян moringa и экстрактов из листьев, используемых в качестве жидкого удобрения, покрыли стоимость других расходов и культурных практик. Междурядье в 6 м позволяет механическое культивирование фермером любой пищевой культуры. Эта система считается надежным страхованием от изменения климата и борьбы с вредителями и может применяться фермерами во всей южной части Нигерии, потому что и подорожник и moringa могут давать хорошую урожайность в этом субрегионе.

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The topic of climate change in Polish media coverage on the example of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference

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Zadrożniak D.

Studia Medioznawcze

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2023

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issue 4

122-132

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Climate change is one of the most critical global issues, engaging not just researchers and activists but also members of the power elite responsible for political decisions. A key annual event for discussing the challenges of climate change is the UN Climate Conference. Its 26th edition, held in Glasgow in 2021, received widespread coverage in both traditional and online media, earning the moniker “last chance summit.” This article presents a study on the media portrayal of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26). Concept: The research focused on news published during the Conference in three primary TV news broadcasts (“News”, “Events”, “Facts”) and on the main pages of three internet news portals (Interia, Onet, WP). Results: The study found that COP26, while competing for media attention with other significant events (such as protests against anti-abortion laws and the migration crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border), was featured by all surveyed media organizations. Additionally, each TV news outlet, through actions like sending reporters to Glasgow, and each online portal, through initiatives like participating in Greenpeace-organized events, emphasized the conference’s importance.

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Márkomeannu#2118, the Future is Already Here: Imagining a Sámi Future at the Intersection of Art and Activism

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De Vivo E.

Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture

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2022

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issue 12

227-246

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The 2018 edition of the Sámi festival Márkomeannu elaborated a narrative about the future of both the environment and society by articulating fears of an oncoming apocalypse and hopes for Indigenous Sámi futures through a concept presented to festivalgoers via site-specific scenography, visual narratives, and performances. This essay, addressing the festival as a site of artistic activism, reveals the conceptual bases and cultural significance of the festival-plot in relation to Indigenous Sámi cosmologies, the past and the possible future(s) in our time marked by escalating climate change. I argue that Márkomeannu-2018, providing a narrative about the future in which, amidst the Western societies’ dystopic colonial implosion, Indigenous people thrive, can be regarded as an expression of Indigenous Futurism. Counterpointing 19th-century theories predicting the imminent vanishing of Indigenous peoples while positioning the Sámi as modern Indigenous peoples with both a past and a future, this narrative constitutes an act of empowerment. Sámi history and intangible cultural heritage constituted repositories of meaning whereas a folktale constituted a framework for the festival-plot while providing an allegorical tool to read the present.

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The change and variability of snow cover in Kraków in a 100-year observation series

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Piotrowicz K., Falarz M.

Quaestiones Geographicae

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2023

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vol. 42

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issue 3

213-222

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This article presents the results of research on the changes and variability of snow cover in Kraków in the 100-year period 1921/22–2020/21 and in its two sub-periods covering the years of the slow and rapid territorial, urban and industrial development of Kraków (respectively, 1921/22–1960/61 and 1961/62–2020/21). The long-term variability of the number of days with snow cover, the maximum depth of the snow layer, the dates of the beginning and end of snow cover duration in the winter season, the potential snow cover duration and the index of snow cover stability were analysed. The directions of changes in the snow cover in the last 100 winter seasons in Kraków correspond to the global changes in air temperature presented in the latest IPCC reports: until the end of the 1950s there were no significant trends, or only small trends were observed, whereas from the beginning of the 1960s faster changes in the snow cover duration and maximum seasonal snow depth have been visible. In the last 60 years (1961/62–2020/21), the impact of global changes in Kraków has been joined by the impact of territorial, demographic and industrial development of the city, causing significant negative trends in snow cover with relative values of less than −9% ∙ 10 years−1, both in the case of snow cover duration and its maximum depth in the winter season; these changes are statistically significant. Throughout the whole 100-year period (1921/22–2020/21) and in its second part (1961/62–2020/21), a decrease in snow cover stability has also been observed.

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The Biden Administration’s New Industrial Policy: Domestic and International Implications

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Regulska-Ingielewicz B.

Polish Political Science Yearbook

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2025

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issue 1(54)

61-80

EN

The article aims to analyze new industrial policy based on the example of actions taken by the Joe Biden administration. Their essence is transforming the economy in line with climate goals while stimulating development. The paper will present the main assumptions of the United States’ green industrial policy, its goals, and international implications, which indicate that it is characterized by economic nationalism. The article attempts to answer three main research questions: What is the essence of the new industrial policy? What are the goals of the new industrial policy initiated by the Joe Biden administration? What are the expected international implications of this policy? Answers to the above questions will enable verification of the hypothesis, which states that the Joe Biden administration has initiated a new industrial policy in the spirit of state interventionism based on new environmental protection assumptions. Its goal is to give the U.S. economy new pro-development impulses and increase its competitiveness. The first part of the paper will present assumptions of the new industrial policy, then the goals and measures of the new United States industrial policy, and the third part will show the international implications of the above policy.

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Reflection on the report “Towards a sustainable future: transformative change and post-COVID-19 priorities” of the EASAC’s Environment Programme

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Rutkowska J.

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2021

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issue 1

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Natural and anthropogenic causes of climate changes

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Haman K.

Nauka

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2008

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issue 1

EN

The paper gives a short review of the basic physical mechanisms responsible for climate changes with particular attention paid to the structure of the Atmosphere–the Rest of the Earth dynamical system and its chaotic nature. The essence of "greenhouse effect" is explained and input of various natural and anthropogenic factors into it is presented. Problems, difficulties and uncertainties connected with reconstruction of past climates and and forcasting the future are discussed. Particular role of mathematical modelling in understanding and predicting the evolution of climate is emphasized.

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Consequences of climate change for spatial organization of Poland

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Starkel L., Kundzewicz Z. W.

Nauka

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2008

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issue 1

EN

Climate changes have been observed in Poland the recent decades and more pronounced climate changes are projected for the future. They impact on the natural and built environment of Poland, which has been shaped by both circulation of energy and matter, typical for moderate latitudes, and the properties of the landscape, inherited from the geological past. In the present paper, consequences of climate change (corresponding to model-based projections) for spatial organization of Poland have been reviewed.

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Climate Challenges: Central Banks In The Hot Seat – Rethinking Monetary Policy and Educational Activity

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Kurowski Ł.

Journal of Banking and Financial Economics

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2024

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issue 1(21)

29-41

EN

Global warming poses many challenges for all economic entities. The two main challenges facing all countries are climate change mitigation and adaptation. Central banks also face difficult tasks in this context. The difficulty stems from the impact of climate change on all sectors of the economy. Central banking has to deal with the new challenges created by climate change for monetary policy, macroprudential policy, but also climate education. The aim of the article is to verify to what extent climate change is considered in the central bank’s main objective – monetary policy. Therefore, the article examines the frequency with which central banks refer to climate issues in their inflation reports. Applying a text mining approach to the analysis of 459 inflation reports published by 10 central banks from post-communist countries between 2013 and 2023 confirms that climate issues make up a small part of inflation reports. On the positive side, the frequency of central banks’ references to climate issues increased after 2022 (in particular, the frequency of words in the area of transition risks). The study also found that the challenges of climate change are motivating central banks to take various actions to spread climate education in society. The trends identified point to an urgent need for central banks to pay more attention to climate risks in their activity – monetary policies, prudential policies and climate education.

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