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Perception of tourism and its impacts on small Adriatic islands – case studies of Zlarin and Krapanj, Croatia

Geoadria
Tourism on the small Croatian islands began to develop somewhat later than on the mainland, in parallel with intensive depopulation. The development of tourism was largely endogenous, driven by private initiatives and based on private accommodation, with
Nevena Grabovac, Dubravka Spevec, Ivan Šulc   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The role of the synoptic‐scale conditions in driving fog and mist during the FATIMA July 2022 Sable Island Field program

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, EarlyView.
ERA5 hourly 325‐m and 1512‐m (a) convergence and (b) vertical motion (actually pressure change with sign reversed to compare with convergence) over Sable Island around the time of an event. The mist (green) and fog (red) occurrences at the surface station are shown at the bottom of the figures. A 325‐m fitted line convergence was positive for the first
Clive E. Dorman, Darko Koračin, Reneta Dimitrova, Ismail Gultepe, Sebastian W. Hoch, Jesus Ruiz‐Plancarte, Qing Wang, Alexei Perelet, H. J. S. Fernando   +8 more
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The Croatian Islands on maps in André Thevet's Le Grand Insulaire et Pilotage

, 2020
Francuski kraljevski kozmograf André Thevet napisao je mnoga djela među kojima i Le Grande Insulaire et Pilotage. U drugom svesku toga izolara i peljara (plovidbenoga priručnika) priređenog u rukopisu 1586.
Marelić, Tome, Šinko-Depierris, Đurđa, Đurđa Šinko-Depierris, Faričić, Josip, Josip Faričić, Patrick Levačić, Levačić, Patrick, Tome Marelić   +7 more
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Isolation, Insularity and Resilience: A Review of the Geophysical, Socioeconomic, and Environmental Vulnerabilities of Gran Canaria and Lesvos Islands for Policy Interventions to Global Change

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The dynamic nature of small islands being geographically isolated and their perceived connectedness with global networks complicates research attempts to draw general conclusions on whether insularity leads to marginalization or strengthens their resilience for sustainable development.
Toheeb Lekan Jolaosho, Mazen Marouani, Takwa Boughanmi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Petishism”, or Animals in the City and on the Islands: Case Study of the Island of Silba

Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2020
The first part of this paper (by Suzana Marjanić) documents the fact that city authorities throughout Croatia do not encourage needed care for stray dogs and cats, specifically the construction of state and private shelters for abandoned and lost animals,
Suzana Marjanić, Rosana Ratkovčić
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Climate Vulnerability and Renewable Energy Consumption: The Moderating Role of Financial Development

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the nexus between climate vulnerability (CVUL) and renewable energy consumption (RECO) and tests the moderating effect of financial development (FD) on this relationship. The analysis is, particularly, relevant for the 162 panel countries observed between 1995 and 2022, which face diverse climate risks and exhibit ...
Sorin Gabriel Anton
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Assessing National Sustainability Transitions in Europe: A Dynamic MCDA and Clustering‐Based Approach

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The study evaluates the sustainable development of 42 European countries using a multi‐criteria decision analysis (MCDA) approach, based on 29 indicators covering the economic, social, and environmental pillars. All three pillars are assessed both individually and in consolidated form to provide a comprehensive view of countries ...
Una Smailbegovic, Džana Kadric, Edin Kadric, Simon Glöser Chahoud   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

High-resolution population structure and runs of homozygosity reveal the genetic architecture of complex traits in the Lipizzan horse

BMC Genomics, 2019
Background The sample ascertainment bias due to complex population structures remains a major challenge in genome-wide investigations of complex traits.
Gertrud Grilz-Seger, Thomas Druml, Markus Neuditschko, Max Dobretsberger, Michaela Horna, Gottfried Brem   +5 more
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Developing Sustainability and Resilience on Islands: Solidarity Economy on Croatian Islands

, 2022
The Solidarity economy, a kind of “radical” wing of the social and solidarity economy (SSE), encompasses a wide range of diverse initiatives and practices (such as workers’ cooperatives, cooperatives (zadruge), community-supported agriculture, shared housing, shared kitchens, open source, urban gardening, commons and many others).
Orlić, Olga, Mavrinac, Duga
openaire   +1 more source

Assessing the Performance of European Union Regions in the “People” and “Prosperity” Pillars of the SDGs

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper addresses the gap in subnational assessments of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by benchmarking the performance of European Union NUTS‐2 regions in the People and Prosperity pillars of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Pablo Arocena, Pedro Pascual, Margarita Vega   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source