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Malgorzata Kijowskastrugala - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • sediment variability in a small catchment of the polish western carpathians during transition from centrally planned to free market economics
    Geomorphology, 2019
    Co-Authors: Malgorzata Kijowskastrugala
    Abstract:

    Abstract The purpose of this study was to analyse suspended sediment (SS) transport in a small catchment (13 km2) located in the Polish Carpathians affected by various forms of human activity in the period 1970–2017. This period covers two stages of socioeconomic development with contrasting forms of human activity: the centrally planned economy related to the Communist System up to 1989 and the period of a free-market economy following. Analysis indicates increases in grassland and forest areas of the analysed catchment of 90% and 10% respectively and a decrease in cultivated land of 82%. Changes in land use and land cover (LULC) have reduced soil erosion by 74% as calculated using the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation. At the same time, population, number of buildings, and construction works along the stream increased, and number of cart roads decreased. Hydrometeorological data as well as suspended sediment load (SSL) have not shown a statistically significant trend despite changes in forms of human activity in 1970–2017. In the first three decades of the analysed period (1970–1979, 1980–1989, and 1990–1999), SSL gradually decreased. In 2010–2017, suspended sediment load was the highest in the whole investigated period. Principal component analysis (PCA) confirmed that it was a result of the appearance of new sediment sources associated with intensification of landslides and new forms of human activity, such as construction works. The imposition on these factors resulted in an increase in SSL and masked the effects of rainfall LULC change in the catchment. Analysis shows that proper recognition of changes in sediment sources in the catchment is fundamental for correct interpretation of long-term sediment transport in the streams.

Nancy Brandon Tuma - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • soviet studies society
    International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2001
    Co-Authors: Mikk Titma, Nancy Brandon Tuma
    Abstract:

    Soviet society refers to the society of the Soviet Union. It has been studied primarily either to reveal insights into the Communist System or to identify societal features that distinguish a Soviet type of society from a market-based, democratic society. In addition to outlining major approaches, the article summarizes key features of Soviet society, considers whether it was a single society or a multiplicity of societies, highlights major issues in the study of post-Soviet societies, and points to major empirical social scientific studies from the post-Soviet period.

Frances Millard - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • changes in the health care System in post Communist poland
    Health & Place, 1995
    Co-Authors: Frances Millard
    Abstract:

    Abstract In health care, as in other areas, the early stages of the transition from a Communist System to capitalist liberal democracy have proved bewilderingly complex and difficult to control. Political, economic and social factors weave a complex web of interactions. In Poland, spontaneous, unanticipated reactions both to macro-economic changes and to changes in health care policy characterized the health care System, while administrative decentralization further complicated attempts to steer the process of change and to introduce the Systemic reform promised for several decades.

Armin Bohnet - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The “socialist” market economy in a Communist System
    Intereconomics, 1997
    Co-Authors: Armin Bohnet
    Abstract:

    The Chinese model of a “socialist” marketeconomy within a Communist System is occasionally likened to the squaring of the circle. It is felt impossible to introduce a properly functioning market economy on a sustainable basis without abandoning the socialist pattern of ownership, and without jeopardizing the one-party System. The following article addresses, among other things, the tenability of this argument.

Pawel żuk - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.