Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series

Mobility plays a crucial role in joining activity's locations to each other, enabling social contact, and facilitating the movement of people and goods from and to various locations. This study investigates the mobility characteristics of peri-urban communities in selected cities of Southwest Nigeria. We selected 505 respondents from the 11 peri-urban communities for the questionnaire survey using a stratified sampling technique. The data were summarised using frequency, mean and mode while ANOVA and Chi-square were used to test for the significant difference in inter-community and gender variations in mobility variables. Findings revealed a substantial variation in the distance separating the peri-urban communities and the city centres. Most of the respondents (81.4%) indicated that the roads in their communities were not paved, with adverse effects on their mobility. The peri-urban communities are served by informal transit modes, with more than 33% of the respondents relying on motorcycles for their mobility needs. Mobility characteristics among the peri-urban dwellers vary from one community to another and between gender. Over 80% of respondents work within the peri-urban interface, indicating increasing decentralisation of activities. The peri-urban dwellers are mobility-starved due to failed infrastructure and informal transit services. The government at all levels (Federal, State and Local) should prioritise improving road infrastructures and public transport services that enhance sustainable mobility at the city peripheries.

Samuel Yakubu

Kayode Samuel

Anthony Kola-Olusanya

Deborah Ayodele Yakubu

Samuel Babatunde Adedotun

Bulletin of Geography Socio-economic series

Movement on the Edge of Cities: Analysing Intra-urban Mobility in Peri-urban Communities in Southwest Nigeria

城市边缘的移动：分析尼日利亚西南部城市边缘社区的市内流动

The study proposes a simple procedure for evaluating the suitability of various locations for the installation of micro-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. The main aim of the study was to determine the applicability of GIS tools for assessing the suitability of different locations for solar energy generation. The applicability of open-source databases in geoinformation analyses was emphasized. The study was conducted in the urban municipality of Mrągowo in the Region of Warmia and Mazury, Poland. Mrągowo is characterized by considerable physiographic diversity, which influenced the results of the study. The evaluation focused on rooftops which are most widely used for the installation of micro-scale solar PV systems. For the purpose of generalization, the results of the evaluation were presented for the districts of Mrągowo, so as to assist state agencies, local governments, and non-public institutions in implementing local policies that support renewable energy generation. The average amount of energy (MWh) that can be generated per building and the total amount of energy (MWh) that can be generated in cadastral districts were calculated to determine the solar energy potential of the study site

Iwona Cieślak

Bartłomiej Eźlakowski

Use of GIS Tools for Decision-Making Support in Sustainable Energy Generation on the Example of the Solar Photovoltaic Technology

利用GIS工具支持可持续能源发电决策——以太阳能光伏技术为例

Currently, the functions of the historical parts of cities are more and more oriented towards the visitors rather than residents. The high density of cultural heritage objects attracts tourists for whom restaurants and shops are created. Therefore, the management and planning of the historic parts of cities has become an increasing challenge. At the same time, activities aimed at improving the quality of life in the city centre, including the most built-up historical parts, require the introduction of greenery (Kowarik, 2019). In order for such spaces to be effective, we require a greater understanding of user preferences. The aim was to define preferences regarding the presence and use of various forms of greenery and their acceptance in the space of the old town. We also asked a question about the functions of the greenery. The study was conducted using an online survey in Lublin, Poland. The method of virtual development of 4 public spaces presenting various forms of greenery in a built environment was used. It was found that the presence of green elements and their form are very important. Trees in particular have a strong influence on preferences, suggesting that they deserve more attention in historical spaces in cities. Flower beds, plants in pots are accepted. The results show that the current level of development is unsatisfactory, and the respondents point out the need to introduce more greenery. Respondents' preferences related to greenery forms depend mainly on gender and age. Especially women and younger age groups preferred spaces with aesthetically attractive elements, such as flowering herbaceous plants in pots. Most of the respondents declared the use of space as places of rest and recreation, and indicated the climatic, ecological and aesthetic functions as important factors in assessing historical spaces in cities. The results should be taken into account by specialists in urban design in historical spaces subject to revitalization.

Ewa Trzaskowska

Joanna Renda

Paweł Adamiec

Agnieszka Kułak

Preferences of public space users towards trees and other forms of greenery in Lublin's old town

卢布林老城公共空间使用者对树木及其他绿化形式的偏好

During the past decade there has occurred a burst of international research and debate on coastal tourism as part of the ‘blue economy’ including a growth of geography-specific scholarship. Arguably, however, within the extant geographical literature there is an overwhelming ‘present-mindedness’ and limited historical perspectives. This paper addresses this neglected knowledge gap by using an historical approach and archival sources to undertake a locality-based study of the historical transitions which have shaped and reshaped one coastal settlement in South Africa. The Mossel Bay area is of considerable historical significance because of its long history of indigenous settlement before the first European contacts triggered by the arrival in 1488 of Bartholomew Diaz and crew who were in search for a trading sea route for Portugal to India. The nature of the colonial growth of tourism in Mossel Bay and the distinctive tourism economy of the town under apartheid is interrogated. This culminated in the scripting of the controversial 1988 Dias festival hosted to celebrate the opening of ‘apartheid’s last museum’ which occurred before Mossel Bay would experience a radical social transition following South Africa’s democratic elections. Overall, the evolutionary pathways and transitions in the historical geography of this coastal locality are the focus of discussion.

Jayne M. Rogerson

Christian M. Rogerson

Historical Geographies of Coastal Tourism: Mossel Bay, South Africa c.1850-1988

沿海旅游的历史地理：南非莫塞尔湾，约1850-1988年

This article follows the argument that urban dystopia is reserved not only for the sphere of the fictional but also as a state of reality that academic methods can capture and describe. Taking the example of the city of Bytom, a traditional centre of coal mining in Southern Poland, the article discusses four spheres where the dystopian present is clearly visible – namely, the four elements that led Bytom to a socio-economic and spatial collapse: depopulation, social polarisation and ghettoisation, degradation of the urban fabric and mining damage. Apart from showing empirical evidence, the article critically considers the possibilities of a post-dystopian urban future for the city. A discussion of possible policy answers to these dystopian trends is based on two possible visions of how the urban future could look. First, the semi-dystopian vision assumes that the expected direction and the results of current policies will lead to some improvement in the quality of the urban environment and the residents’ quality of life. Second, the post-dystopian future is based on an optimistic vision, which assumes that a post-dystopian future is possible. However, the desired salvation from the dystopian present will not come about through the search for new utopian visions. It will rely instead on the improvement and mitigation of some of the substantial social, economic and environmental problems that exist and continue to present an unbreakable social image.

Valentin Mihaylov

Elżbieta Zuzańska-Żyśko

Making Post-Dystopian Future Possible: Alternative Policies for Bytom

使后反乌托邦未来成为可能：比托姆的替代政策

The issue of stormwater has an interdisciplinary dimension, but the work focuses on its legal and environmental aspects. The article analyses and evaluates Polish legal regulations in the field of stormwater management in urbanised areas. These regulations focus particularly on two different areas. The first is the discharge of stormwater into waters or the ground. The second concerns the reduction of natural land retention (the “rain tax”). These activities are always considered a form of water use that incurs a fee determined in accordance with the provisions of the Water Law. In both areas, both practice and legal doctrine raise interpretative doubts that stem from the applicable normative solutions. These doubts particularly concern the determination of entities obliged to take specific actions or the scope of application of the fee for reducing natural land retention. This, in turn, translates into difficulties in applying the law and non-uniformity of decisions made.

Michał Marszelewski

Adam Piasecki

Bartosz Kaźmierczak

Stormwater management in urbanised areas in Poland. Analysis and assessment of current legislation

波兰城市化地区的雨水管理：现行立法的分析与评估

The article discusses the process of converting industrial heritage for new uses in a large Central European metropolitan area (the case of GZM: Górnośląsko-Zagłębiowska Metropolia – Metropolis GZM). The aim of the research is to investigate the distribution of industrial heritage sites and to identify the factors influencing their current use. The methods include desk research (analysis of documents and database queries), field research and spatial analysis. The research has found 119 preserved industrial heritage sites, whose distribution reflects the historical spatial pattern of industrialisation and the priorities of the restructuring policy. To date, 70 sites have been converted, with commercial and institutional uses dominating and residential and recreational uses being much less common. Although minor differences in the average distance of industrial heritage sites from the city centre, shopping centre, university, train station or motorway exit depending on their current use have been observed, they were not statistically significant.

Jacek Koj

Adaptive reuse of industrial heritage in a polycentric metropolitan area: the case of GZM (Silesian Province, Poland)

多中心大都市区工业遗产的适应性再利用：以GZM（波兰西里西亚省）为例

In our study, we examined six demographically declining and shrinking settlements in a traditional Hungarian cultural region, Greater Cumania, which is considered an internal peripheral region: we used statistical data and development documents, loss mapping and the Kruskal–Wallis test methodology. Analysis based on loss mapping of the six municipalities showed that, on average, municipalities rated their losses as slightly less severe than moderate.The statistical test showed that, although their natural and demographic conditions are very similar, the municipalities have followed a markedly different development path, with differences in potential for emerging from their peripheral existence and in resilience to challenges.In the light of these analyses, it can be concluded that the source of the problem is basically expressed in terms of qualities of the local society: the average is below the national average education level, and its level of cultural aspiration is very low.The decline of local societies is clear: the study does not predict development based on endogenous internal resources, but rather a slow decline, which is still slow today, but which is likely to accelerate in the light of global, national and local socio-economic, political and environmental processes.

Tibor Kovács

Csaba Ruszkai

Hajnalka Csáfor

Mária Vasvári

Social perception of the process of rural shrinkage: Application of loss mapping method in one of Hungary's inner peripheral regions

农村收缩过程的社会感知：损失制图方法在匈牙利一个内陆边缘地区的应用

This study examined the factors influencing the success of local craft businesses in sub-Saharan Africa, using Cameroon as a case study. By way of multiple sampling techniques, the study adopted a concurrent embedded mixed-methods research design to collect data from locals (385), tourists (200), and craft vendors (20). Key findings reveal that economic variables, locals’ perceptions of the impacts of tourism and tourists’ preferences influence the success of craft businesses. Statistically significant relationships were found between craft preference attributes such as pricing, cultural significance, and authenticity. The intersection of the stakeholders’ perceptions provides valuable information for policymakers, local authorities, and tourism stakeholders to develop dynamic strategies that maximise the positive impacts of tourism development and craft businesses’ success.

Tembi Tichaawa

Mavis Chamboko-Mpotaringa

Factors influencing the success of local craft tourism businesses

影响本地手工艺旅游企业成功的因素

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) consist of 17 goals and 169 targets to be met by the end of 2030. Since the European Union (EU) members are also included in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development set by the United Nations (UN) countries, it is vital to analyze the Sustainable Development performance of the EU economies. This paper focuses on SDG 9, which aims to build resilient infrastructure, support inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation. This research analyzes the industry, innovation and infrastructure indicators in selected European economies. The main aim of this paper is to assess the performance of the European economies in SDG 9 and to verify whether there are any spatial dependencies among countries. Applying the taxonomic measure of development and its spatial version to the group of 29 countries from Europe shows that Sweden and Denmark were the leading countries in SDG 9 in 2013 and 2019. Eastern and South-Western Europe was characterized by the lowest level of SDG 9 in 2013 and 2019. The level of SDG 9 increased over the period 2013–2019.

Tomasz Grodzicki

Mateusz Jankiewicz

Building resilient infrastructure, supporting sustainable industrialization, and fostering innovation (SDG 9) in selected European countries: spatial and taxonomic analysis

在选定的欧洲国家建设韧性基础设施、支持可持续工业化及促进创新（可持续发展目标9）：空间与分类分析

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ISSN	1732-4254, 2083-8298
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涉及主题	地理经济社会学政治学法学历史生物考古业务计算机科学医学经济地理学哲学经济增长数学人口学工程类区域科学生态学环境卫生人口物理
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