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ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2022 | No 2 (74) Space

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The environment is crucial to socioeconomic development and to human well-being. Properly performed spatial planning efforts allow the natural environment to be shaped in a rational way, by identifying the possibilities and directions for its development.
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Paulina Legutko-Kobus
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  1. Warsaw School of Economics
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Since the dawn of the millennium, we have been regularly functioning in two parallel realities at the same time: ”meatspace” and ”cyberspace.”
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Dariusz Ilnicki
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Krzysztof Janc
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  1. Institute of Spatial Management, Institute of Geography and Regional Development, University of Wrocław
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Different social and professional groups have different perspectives on space and spatial planning, which is in turn reflected in their differing understanding of the law and differing approach to regulations that shape the spatial order.
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Maciej J. Nowak
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  1. West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin
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Spatial planning is a form of public management of a distinctive public good. It covers a range of activities and decisions affecting our environment.
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Tadeusz Markowski
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  1. The Interdisciplinary Centre of Urban Studies at the University of Łódź
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The socioeconomic status of cities and regions is nowadays determined by how they are positioned within the “space of flows.” On the continental scale, many types of such flows and linkages are developing most dynamically in Central-Eastern Europe – including in Poland.
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Tomasz Komornicki
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  1. PAS Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Warsaw
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Shifting living conditions, environmental change, and population migrations are all necessitating changes in how we manage the space in which we live. Does our living have a future?
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Przemysław Śleszyński
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Adam Kowalewski
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  1. Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw
  2. Foundation in Support of Local Democracy, in Warsaw
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What strategies do plants use in trying to disperse their seeds, so as to colonize distant areas? Is it more advantageous to have tiny seeds as light as a feather, or tough and heavy acorns?
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Ewelina Ratajczak
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Hanna Fuchs
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Joanna Kijowska-Oberc
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Jan Suszka
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Aleksandra M. Staszak
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  1. PAS Institute of Dendrology in Kórnik
  2. Faculty of Biology, University of Bialystok
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It turns out that the magical world behind the looking-glass portrayed in Lewis Carroll’s novel about Alice is real – it has been discovered and described by physicists. So how do we find a way in?
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Maciej Kolanowski
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  1. Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw
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Climate change is fueling migration to cities. How do we organize this process in a way that is supportive of intercultural integration?
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Marta Piechocka-Nowakowska
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  1. Information Society Development Foundation in Warsaw
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How can we best describe the living space of given species? Are geographical criteria sufficient, or do we need more dimensions to specify an ecological niche? What can we learn from such analyses?
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Marcin K. Dyderski
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  1. Institute of Dendrology in Kórnik, Polish Academy of Sciences
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Modern research methods, including analyses of chemical elements and isotope ratios of individual elements, can help us unravel mysteries of the past. Studies of metal ore mining activity in ancient South America reveal clues about the economic development of pre-Columbian civilizations across vast areas of the continent.
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Maciej Kałaska
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  1. Faculty of Geology, University of Warsaw
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The Tatra National Park is seeing continual growth in its tourist traffic, contributing to the destruction of the soil cover along the tourist trails. This process can be reduced by applying some simple solutions.
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Joanna Fidelus-Orzechowska
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Elżbieta Gorczyca
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Kazimierz Krzemień
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  1. Institute of Geography, Pedagogical University in Kraków
  2. Institute of Geography and Spatial Management, Jagiellonian University in Kraków
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Fossils are a source of great interest, even fascination. They offer evidence of the past existence of living things, somewhat different from life as we know it today. Yet not many fossil-hunters realize that these traces of a bygone past are often a source of radiation.
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Magdalena Długosz-Lisiecka
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Daniel Tyborowski
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  1. Institute of Applied Radiation Chemistry, Łódź University of Technology
  2. Faculty of Biology and Environmental Sciences, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński Universityin Warsaw
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There are currently more than 5,800 species of mammals in the world. They exhibit complex patterns of spatial organization in how they function in their habitats and in how they relate to other individuals of the same species.
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Elżbieta Jancewicz
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  1. Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW), Institute of Forest Sciences, Department of Forest Zoology and Wildlife Management
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What’s the difference between “space” and a “place”? How do places and literature inform one another? Prof. Elżbieta Rybicka from the Department of Anthropology of Literature and Cultural Studies at Jagiellonian University discusses this and other issues.
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Elżbieta Rybicka
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  1. Department of Anthropology of Literature and Cultural Studies, Jagiellonian University
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Building climate-resilient cities and public consultations are among the most important elements of today’s spatial planning.
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Piotr Lorens
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  1. Department of Urban Designand Regional Planning, Faculty of Architecture, Gdańsk University of Technology
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The development of gravitational wave detectors has made it possible for astronomers to penetrate the deepest corners of the universe in search of black holes and neutron stars.
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Aleksandra Olejak
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  1. Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw
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We value the things we own, create hierarchies of them, exchange them for others. However, there are some things whose loss we would never forget, because they are our inalienable possessions.
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Jan Kordys
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  1. Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw
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Length, width, depth… Knowing these parameters allows us to judge which table will fit into our dining room, which bed is right for our bedroom. We use three measures to describe the space around us, but we rarely ask ourselves whether reality is, in fact, three-dimensional.
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Jan Chwedeńczuk
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  1. Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw

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Katarzyna Kasia
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  1. Department of Culture Theory, Faculty of Management of Visual Culture, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw

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