Acta Geographica Slovenica

This paper analyses the value of cultural ecosystem services in urban green spaces. A field survey of 900 respondents in Ljubljana, Slovenia, examined cultural ecosystem services in seven types of urban green spaces and compared the results with two types of non-green public spaces (old town, shopping mall). Differences between the types were assessed using one-way variance analysis (ANOVA). Results showed statistically significant differences between the types, with sports facilities standing out as valuable for recreation and education. The old town's cultural heritage and aesthetics were highly valued, while shopping malls ranked lowest. The study emphasises the importance of urban green spaces for quality of life of residents and informs land use planning decision-making.

Aleš Smrekar

Jernej Tiran

Katarina Polajnar Horvat

Acta geographica Slovenica

Unveiling the cultural ecosystem services of urban green spaces: A case study of Ljubljana, Slovenia

揭示城市绿地文化生态系统服务：斯洛文尼亚卢布尔雅那案例研究

The Lower Sebou Basin, placed in a Mediterranean climate, has the particularity of being exposed to the influence of disturbances from the Atlantic Ocean, making periods of drought and climatic phenomena variable in space and time. Applying the world's most recognized drought indices, shows that the duration, frequency and severity of droughts have increased since the start of the 21st century. These results revealed and placed in the even wider regional climatic context, including the two dominant atmospheric oscillations such as the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and the Mediterranean Oscillation (MO), suggest that the significant drought trends determined are correlated with the relative facts of the two oscillations.

Oualid Hakam

Abdennasser Baali

Khalil Azennoud

Touria El Kamel

Yassine Ait Brahim

Youssra Ahouach

Spatiotemporal evolution of droughts and their teleconnections with large-scale climatic indices in the Lower Sebou Basin in northwestern Morocco

摩洛哥西北部Sebou河流域干旱时空演变及其与大尺度气候指数的遥相关

The article examines how European Union rural development measures and food quality schemes are used for creating added value to regional food products in Estonia. In order to understand these processes, national food and heritage policies are analysed to highlight a lack of national instruments that would protect and promote regional specialities. The emergence of regional brands (funded by the European Union LEADER measure) is an example of an initiative to increase the visibility of regional products and food culture on the domestic market and to brand the region. Another attempt for recognising and re-regionalising local specialities is the application for the European Union Protected Geographical Indications (PGI) label for a traditional cheese sõir in south-eastern Estonia.

Ester Bardone

Anu Kannike

The use of European Union instruments for branding and labelling regional food products in Estonia

欧盟工具在爱沙尼亚地区食品品牌和标签中的应用

In the face of climate change and a common call for environmental protection, regionality and sustainability turn out to be as symbolic as monetary values in economic contexts. In order to highlight and certificate these ethical ambitions, an international programme of forest certification has established a label that aims at distinguishing wood as logged and processed within a specific ‘regional’ area. The article scrutinizes the implementation of this label in the timber trades and deconstructs how the actors involved establish a link between ethical and economic concerns. By describing their everyday perspectives on the micro level, the article reveals shared aims (evoking credibility) and ideals (establishing sustainable action within regional markets) but also contradictions (efficiency and range). It shows that the label borrows from established designation procedures (such as Cultural Heritage, Geopark, Geographical Indications), and yet has its own logics linked to the properties of the material wood and spatial relations that constitute and confine the label’s actors network.

Sarah May

Labelling local wood: On the valorization of regionality and sustainability in timber trade

本地木材标签：木材贸易中区域性和可持续性的价值化

Support for regional production along with its certification and labelling can be understood more broadly as regional development initiatives. Accordingly, the declared objectives of many certification schemes include environmental, economic, social, and cultural aspects. However, to bring benefits for the region, a certification scheme must be used efficiently. Key actor interviews combined with an assessment of the activities of thirty Czech certification schemes, all members of the Association of Regional Brands, helped us identify positive and negative factors affecting the initiatives’ success and potential for enhancing regional development. In line with current institutional approaches to regional development, the engagement and creativity of actors as well as creating networks, which help them overcome various constraints, were found to be essential.

Magdalena Fialová

Pavel Chromý

(In)visible agents in regional development: Active individuals and their networks as a driver of regional product labelling initiatives

区域发展中的（非）可见主体：活跃个体及其网络作为区域产品标签倡议的驱动力

Agricultural geography has developed for over a century. To review the recent development in this field, 1879 journal articles on agricultural geography published between 2013 and 2022 are analyzed using multi-leveled bibliometric methods and visualized by VOSviewer. Seven research themes are identified: “climate change and food”, “environmental sustainability”, “land and political ecology”, “water resources”, “rural geography”, “economic development”, and “spatial analysis”. Theory and practice are the two research strands, with few authors publishing extensively, indicating a lack of an active long-term research community. Geographical factors significantly influence agricultural geography research, with international collaborations showing regional patterns. China is an emerging player, developing independently from Western peers.

Sai-Leung Ng

Ching-Hua Tien

Mapping the landscape of recent research on agricultural geography (2013–2022)

绘制农业地理学近期研究景观（2013-2022）

The paper presents best practices pursued by eight companies from the Podravska statistical region selected because they promote green transition in this society. In the theoretical section, the article presents environmental responsibility as part of corporate social responsibility and deals with the type of communication needed to address and motivate people to implement the EU Green Deal goals. The empirical section analyses eight semi-structured interviews with representatives from selected companies in the Podravska statistical region. The results highlight long-term efforts to raise public awareness about the environmental crisis (without major visible effects), financial aid as the main motivation factor to implement green practices, shortage of specific training courses in communication, and the need for locally focused training.

Zala Virant

Janez Osojnik

Andreja Kozmus

Environmental responsibility and communication in selected companies in the Podravska statistical region

波德拉夫斯卡统计地区选定公司的环境责任与沟通

The article looks at viticulture, wine production and wine tourism in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The cluster analysis was carried out to identify the current situation and to explore the possibilities for the development of wine tourism as an additional segment that can contribute to a better positioning of both sectors and to the diversification of the income of wine producers in the country. The analysis identified three different groups (clusters) of wine producers with different capacities. Given the different structure of wineries, the possibility of diversifying agricultural and rural policy measures must be examined in order to contribute to a more intensive development of viticulture and winemaking which would also encourage the development of the tourist offer for each wine producer.

Radomir Bodiroga

Tijana Banjanin

Dajana Vukojević Ateljević

Simon Kerma

The trends in viticulture and winemaking in the context of wine tourism development in Bosnia and Herzegovina

波黑葡萄酒旅游发展背景下葡萄栽培与酿酒的趋势

Advances in Earth observation capabilities and the expanded accessibility of data provide the opportunity to monitor air pollution on a global scale. The Google Earth Engine (GEE) enables the efficient conduct of such large-scale research. This article examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on NO2 emissions at various supranational scales, with particular consideration of the Human Development Index of the countries, using GEE. The findings for the first three months of 2020 indicating a reduction in emissions of more than 4% per month, demonstrate that not only were the restrictions and closures imposed by governments effective in the global decline of NO2 levels, but also voluntary restrictions imposed by people on their own mobility with the motive of protection from the pandemic.

Nuri Erkin Öçer

Dilek Küçük Matcı

Uğur Avdan

Monitoring the impact of the Corona pandemic on nitrogen dioxide emissions at large scales via Google Earth Engine

通过谷歌地球引擎监测新冠疫情对大规模氮 dioxide 排放的影响

Abbreviation	AGS
Journal Impact	1.43
Quartiles(Global)	GEOGRAPHY, PHYSICAL(Q3)

ISSN	1581-6613, 1581-8314, 1854-5106
h-index	27

Publication Information	Publisher: ZRC SAZU, Zalozba ZRC，Publishing cycle: Semiannual，Journal Type: journal，Open Access Journals: Yes
Basic data	Year of publication: 2003，Proportion of original research papers: 85.00%，Self Citation Rate:7.70%， Gold OA Rate: 98.46%
Average review cycle	33 weeks
Average recruitment ratio	网友分享经验：容易

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Unveiling the cultural ecosystem services of urban green spaces: A case study of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Spatiotemporal evolution of droughts and their teleconnections with large-scale climatic indices in the Lower Sebou Basin in northwestern Morocco

The use of European Union instruments for branding and labelling regional food products in Estonia

Labelling local wood: On the valorization of regionality and sustainability in timber trade

(In)visible agents in regional development: Active individuals and their networks as a driver of regional product labelling initiatives

Unveiling the cultural ecosystem services of urban green spaces: A case study of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Mapping the landscape of recent research on agricultural geography (2013–2022)

Environmental responsibility and communication in selected companies in the Podravska statistical region

The trends in viticulture and winemaking in the context of wine tourism development in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Monitoring the impact of the Corona pandemic on nitrogen dioxide emissions at large scales via Google Earth Engine