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  • Photographic documentation of the Palace in Osiek (Oświęcim County, Lesser Poland) at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries

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    This dataset presents photographic documentation of the Palace settled in Osiek (Oświęcim County, Małopolskie Voivodeship – Lesser Poland) from the first half of the 19th century. In 1972, the Palace was listed as a Palace and park complex. The complex consists of a palace, the outbuilding "Kasztel" (Castellum), the "Judge's House" outbuilding, the...

  • Photographic documentation of St. Andrew’s Church in Osiek (Oświęcim County, Lesser Poland) at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries

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    This dataset presents photographic documentation of the St. Andrew’s Church settled in Osiek (Oświęcim County, Małopolskie Voivodeship – Lesser Poland), built in 1538-1549. This wooden church is a late-gothic Silesian-style building. Inside the church are the baroque main altar and the rococo pulpit, shaped like a boat from the second half of the 18th...

  • Inventory of the historic door woodwork at Matejki Street in Gdańsk-Wrzeszcz district, stage from 2014.

    The data presents photographic documentation of the historic door woodwork in apartment houses at Matejki Street, number 2,7, 8, 9, as a part of inventory works of the external door woodwork at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries in Gdańsk-Wrzeszcz district. The inventory was a conducted within the historical research of the Gdańsk-Wrzeszcz district...

  • Inventory of the historic fences in Gdańsk-Wrzeszcz district, stage between the 2010-2015.

    The data presents architectural survey and inventory documentation of the historic fences in Gdańsk-Wrzeszcz district, stage from the period between 2010-2015. The survey and inventory works of architectural details at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries are documented in the form of inventory drawings prepared by students of the Faculty of Architecture,...

  • Zewnętrzna stolarka drzwiowa Gdańska-Wrzeszcza na przełomie XIX i XX wieku

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    - Year 2014

    Dzielnica Gdańska Wrzeszcz ukształtowała się na przełomie XIX i XX w. Liczba mieszkańców Wrzeszcza wzrosła z około 2500 w 1884 r. do około 35 000 w 1914 r. W tym czasie powstało kilkaset jednorodzinnych i wielorodzinnych budynków mieszkalnych oraz najważniejsze obiekty użyteczności publicznej, jak zespół Politechniki, szkoły, szpitale i kościoły. Wrzeszcz – w odróżnieniu od śródmieścia Gdańska – w niewielkim tylko stopniu ucierpiał...

  • The Main Buildings of Technical Universities in Lviv, Warsaw, Gdańsk and Wrocław. Neo-Renaissance „Architecture parlante”

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    - Year 2018

    The article compares the buildings of historical campuses of four technical universities located in areas related to Polish culture. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, several new technical universities were established in Central and Eastern Europe. In 1844, the Technical Academy was opened in Lviv. In 1899, the Russian who were occupying the east and central part of Poland established the Polytechnic Institute in Warsaw....

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  • The two ring road complexes of Gdansk

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    - Year 2014

    The urban structure of Gdańsk city centre is determined by two ring road complexes. The first of them, the Gdańsk Ring, has been designed by Hermann Josef Stübben as a result of a defortification at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. This new modern zone of the city centre was destroyed like the rest of Gdańsk in the end of World War Two and had not been reconstructed as a result of de-Germanization of the Recovered Territories....

  • Targ Węglowy as the keystone of two ring road complexes of Gdańsk city centre

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    - Year 2014

    The urban structure of Gdansk city centre is determined by two ring road complexes. The first of them, the Gdansk Ring, has been created as a result of a city defortification at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and has been destroyed in the end of World War Two with the rest of Gdansk. The second, the Main Town Green Belt, has been formed in place of the medieval fortification system of the city’s most important historical...

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  • In Search of Naval Beauty. Historical Study of Ship Architecture

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    - Year 2018

    Designing ships is no mean achievement. In the old days, constructors focused on making their ships visually appealing, while paying scant regard to the living conditions of the crew. Such an approach reflected the state of the art in ship building at the time as well as the social order prevalent in those days. A breakthrough came no earlier than at the turn of the 19th / 20th centuries. The industrial revolution brought along...

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  • Rural Building in Opole Silesia During the Period of the Frederician Colonization

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    - Year 2023

    The aim of the article is to present the rural construction in the Opole countryside (Poland) during the “Frederician colonization”. Showing socio-economic areas of Opole villages, differing from each other, the differences of which resulted from the environmental conditions influencing the processes of enfranchisement and industrialization. These processes at the turn of the 17th and 19th centuries influenced the image of the...

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  • Dowodzenie w Policji – koncepcja zmian w zakresie dowodzenia formacją

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    The dynamic development of human civilization at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries unfortunately generates not only positive developments. So we need to constantly improve crisis management systems. The purpose of the research was to improve the police command system. Primarily, the research was based on the methods of non-standard observation and analysis and logical construction. The article presents the command in the...

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  • Re-use of historic wooden verandas in Sopot, Poland

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    Sopot is the best-known seaside resort in Poland. The city is unique with regard not only to its location and natural values, but also its interesting architecture, which dates back to the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. Wooden verandas are one of the characteristic features of Sopot architecture. Their origin is associated with the Swiss style, which was fashionable at the turn of the 20th century and quite...

  • Sopot - is it possible to retain the unique image of the city?

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    Sopot is the best-known seaside resort in Poland. The city is unique with regard not only to its location and natural values, but also its interesting architecture, which dates back to the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. The relic of that era is the largest in the country number of buildings characteristic for the Northern European seaside resorts. The architecture of historic Sopot is dominated by eclectic...

  • Western Front of the City Centre of Gdańsk. An Urban Conservation Study

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    - Year 2023

    The western front of Gdańsk`s city centre is the key fragment of a ring road scheme, which was created at the turn of the 20th century during the great transformation of the city. It was at that time that new streets and squares were delineated on the site of the early modern earthen bastions, which for more than three centuries marked Gdańsk`s border. The new city development was set up in their surroundings. In 1945, Gdańsk was...

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  • Modernisation of existing hospitals

    Progress in medicine and development of medical technologies directly affect the evolution of methods for treating patients in hospitals. The main task of 19th-century hospitals was patient care and nursing, while the aim of hospitals today is to diagnose and treat patients effectively in the shortest time possible. The changes which are taking place in methods of treatment affect the functional-spatial layout of hospitals. This...

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  • Sustainable Development of Water Housing Using the Example of Poland: An Analysis of Scenarios

    At the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries, Polish cities began the process of returning to live by water. There is a growing interest in water reservoirs not only as places for recreation, but also as new areas suitable for living, at the very center of the city. Unfortunately, due to the lack of appropriate legal regulations, the dynamic development of floating homes (FHs) is starting to raise increasing concerns in Poland. Regardless...

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  • CHANGES TAKING PLACE IN THE KINETIC ARCHITECTURE OVER THE 20TH AND 21ST CENTURIES

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    Kinematics has accompanied architecture from its beginning and is strongly associated with its evolution. Over the centuries, it has changed form and function. However, its rank grew at the beginning of the 20th century. Along with the widespread change of the design method in the early 90s of the twentieth century, its forms have become more complex. The study showed that with the development of design techniques, this time should be...

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  • Decreasing CO2 Emissions By Reducing Tire Rolling Resistance

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    The first motor vehicle was built by Nicolas Cugnot almost 250 years ago and since then there has been a continuous process of motor vehicles’ improvements, as well as development of new road pavements. The fuel crisis of the 70s of the 20th century made it clear to vehicle builders that measures should be taken to reduce vehicle fuel consumption and it contributed to an increased interest in electric vehicles. Although significant...

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  • Społeczny wymiar adaptacji do zmian klimatu w środowisku miejskim na przykładzie Gdańska

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    - PRZEGLĄD SOCJOLOGICZNY - Year 2023

    Kwestie zmian klimatycznych przestały być przedmiotem zainteresowania jedynie wąskich grup specjalistów, a stały się problemem społecznym angażującym szerszą opinię publiczną. Wobec wzrastającego znaczenia problemów środowiskowych w społeczeństwach, głównie na przełomie XX i XXI wieku, władze centralne we współpracy z samorządami miejskimi zaczęły podejmować działania na rzecz wsparcia tzw. środowiskowej (zielonej) polityki. Artykuł...

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  • Modernization of historic healthcare buildings

    The practice of transforming and adapting the existing healthcare facilities to meet the growing demands of modern medicine applies not only to buildings of historical value. Of course, one can set a time point from which hospitals, erected mostly with industrialized technologies, undergo upgrades for better or worse effect. Existing healthcare buildings or facilities, including historic ones, have to be refurbished and adapted...

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  • FACES OF MODERNISM - URBAN PLANNING OF SOCIAL HOUSING ESTATES IN GDANSK AND HAMBURG-ALTONA

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    - Year 2016

    The paper aims to compare the modernistic social housing estates built during the interwar period in the Free City of Gdansk and in Altona, the small neighbour of Hamburg. The comparison is based on the analysis of the factors, which significantly affected the decisions regarding spatial transformations and the development of both cities in that time. These factors include primarily: poor living conditions, resulting from the explosive...

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  • The role of isolated farmsteads in the open landscape protection on the example of Kashubia

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    - Architectus - Year 2023

    As a result of the social and economic transformation of rural areas, open landscapes are disappearing. Former farmsteads are being devastated or beginning to lose their landscape context due to the spread of residential building development. At the same time, in many places, the farmstead form is clearly legible and remains an element with which the view is structured and enriched. The article was aimed at drawing attention to...

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  • PROBABLE RAINFALL IN GDAŃSK IN VIEW OF CLIMATE CHANGE

    One of the manifestations of climate changes is the occurrence of a greater number of precipitation events, characterized by greater rain intensity that affects the economic stability of cities. Gdańsk is an example of a city in which such events have occurred since the beginning of the twenty-first century. Due to the altitude differences in the area of Gdańsk city (between –2 m and 180 m a.s.l.), the occurrence of extreme atmospheric...

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  • The Protection of the Heritage of Selected Ukrainian Cities - Lvov,Chernivtsi and Odessa - in the light of the 19th-20th Century.

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    - Year 2003

    Artykuł przedstawia uwarunkowania historyczne, stan istniejący oraz możliwości prewencji zasobów wybranych miast Ukrainy - Lwowa, Czerniowiec i Odessy, w kontekście autorskich 12 lat pracy naukowo - badawczej związanej z wymienionymi miastami. Jest to podsumowanie działalności na Ukrainie jako członek Zarządu PK ICOMOS.

  • Биополитика согласно Чеславу Милошу

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    - Year 2020

    The paper shows the origins of the transformation of history into biohistory as well as politics into biopolitics in the writings of Miłosz. It takes into account his view of history when he was a child and his social experiences when he was at school. It proves that the fact that Miłosz comprehends the world within the categories of biopolitics results from projecting Darwinism on the historical past, and then projecting on...

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  • Studies in 19th and 20th Century Social and Economic History

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    ISSN: 2080-8313 , eISSN: 2450-6796

  • Outdoor photographic documentation of the Castle in Oświęcim (Małopolskie Voivodeship)

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    This dataset contains outdoor images of the Castle in Oświęcim (Małopolskie Voivodeship). Retrieved documentation dates from the 19th to 21st centuries. The castle consists of an early Gothic bergfried tower, built at the end of the 13th century, a two-story basement building built on a rectangular plan, and an annexe. The latest image in the dataset...

  • Anita Jaśkiewicz-Sojak dr inż. arch.

    Anita Jaśkiewicz-Sojak (PhD Eng Arch) architect, architectural historian and conservator, assistant professor in the Department of History, Theory of Architecture and Monument Preservation, Faculty of Architecture, Gdańsk University of Technology. Education: graduate studies and doctoral studies in architecture and urban planning (Gdańsk University of Technology), graduate studies in history (University of Gdańsk) and post graduate...

  • Small Hydropower Plants in Pomerania: The Example of Evolution of Modern Industrial Brick Architecture

    Modernism is usually recognized and associated with the aesthetics of the International Style, represented by white-plastered, horizontally articulated architecture with skimpy decoration, where function was the main imperative of the architects’ ambitions. The brick face of Modernism in Northern Europe reflected, in fact, the complexity of the modern change, breaking ties with the historic styles of the 19th century and being...

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  • Non-Diophantine Arithmetics in Mathematics, Physics and Psychology

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    - Year 2020

    For a long time, all thought there was only one geometry — Euclidean geometry. Nevertheless, in the 19th century, many non-Euclidean geometries were discovered. It took almost two millennia to do this. This was the major mathematical discovery and advancement of the 19th century, which changed understanding of mathematics and the work of mathematicians providing innovative insights and tools for mathematical research and applications...

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  • Revitalization of Residential Buildings Dating Back to the Late19th and Early 20th Century on the Example of “Willa Halina” in Sopot (Poland)

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    - Buildings - Year 2021

    Residential buildings dating back to the late 19th and early 20th century constitute an important element of the urban composition of many European cities, often determining their overall spatial expression. These buildings often require revitalization and sometimes also reconstruction or extension. Such activities make it possible to restore historical buildings to their former glory, but also to create new architecture, inscribed...

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  • Where the Second World War in Europe broke out: the land-scape history of Westerplatte, Gdańsk/Danzig

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    - Land - Year 2023

    Westerplatte is known as the place where the Second World War in Europe broke out. However, its history covers many other events involving Polish, German, Russian and even French politics over the last three centuries - neglected by many papers published in the current discussion. Due to its location at the entrance to the main harbour on the Baltic Sea entrance, Wester-platte-Peninsula is cartographically the best-documented part...

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  • Vernacular and neovernacular architecture without a user. Wooden catholic churches in the vicinity of brody in Ukraine.

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    One of the basic theoretical postulates for the protection of monuments is to preserve them in the place of their creation. However, such action is not always possible to implement. The great historical processes of the 20th century led to significant national, political, religious and cultural changes in the border areas between Poland and Ukraine. As a result of those changes, a large number of wooden churches have lost their...

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  • Jacek Pokrzywnicki doktor

    Z wykształcenia jestem filologiem klasycznym. Dyplom magistra i doktora uzyskałem na Uniwersytecie Gdańskim. Z uczelnią tą jestem związany również zawodowo jako adiunkt w Zakładzie Filologii Klasycznej Instytutu Studiów Klasycznych i Slawistyki na Wydziale Filologicznym. Na co dzień obcuję z łacińskojęzycznymi starymi drukami i rękopisami. Zajmuję się recepcją kultury antycznej w dawnym Gdańsku, na obszarze dawnych Prus Królewskich...

  • Architectural & Urban Heritage 2021/2022

    e-Learning Courses
    • J. Szczepański
    • M. Sołtysik
    • A. Orchowska
    • R. Hirsch
    • Ł. Bugalski

    Participation in the course ARCHITECTURAL & URBAN HERITAGE gives an opportunity of knowing political, economic, and cultural issues of Polish Architecture in the 19th and 20th century. This period includes the fall of feudalism, the flourish of the industrial era, the birth of modernism, two totalitarian systems, and the rebuilding of Poland after II World War. Mentioned circumstances caused deep changes which gave a strong...

  • Chapel at St. Joseph's Church in Gdańsk

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    - Architectus - Year 2022

    The subject of this article is the chapel located in the former Gdańsk Carmelite monastery complex. The results of the architectural research carried out in it in 2014–2015 are presented. As a result, the time and purpose of the building’s construction were established. The original appearance and traces of later alterations were also recognised. The recesses found on the longitudinal walls, of similar dimensions, not reaching...

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  • Mirosław Kazimierz Gerigk dr hab. inż.

  • Infobrokerstwo w Polsce

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    W artykule przedstawiono etapy tworzenia infobrokeringu w Polsce, formy kształcenia infobrokerów,: studia podyplomowe, uczelnie, kursy i szkolenia.

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  • Searching for road deformations using mobile laser scanning

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    Millions of people use roads every day all over the world. Roads, like many other structures, have an estimated durability. In Poland a lot of the roads were built at the turn of the 20th and 21st c., especially for light cars. Many of these roads carry traffic and heavy goods vehicles which were not predicted when the traffic was first estimated. It creates a lot of problems with technical conditions and the infrastructure must...

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  • Potential Impact of Waterway Development on Cultural Landscape Values: The Case of the Lower Vistula

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    The northern (“lower”) section of the Vistula is on the route of two international waterways—E70 and E40. However, the current condition of the riverbed prevents larger vessels from passing through. Plans for the waterway date back to the beginning of the 20th century. Following Poland’s ratification of the European Agreement on Main Inland Waterways of International Importance in 2017, the general concept has been transformed...

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  • Big Beautiful Buildings: Eine Schönheit, viele Maßstäbe - urbane Landschaften der Nachkriegsmoderne in Europa / Big Beautiful Buildings: one beauty, many scales - urban landscapes of the post-war modernism across Europe

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    - Year 2019

    Massive urbanization in Europe is not a phenomenon that began only in the 20th century. The roots of this process can be traced back two centuries. With the end of the Second World War the specific conjunction of powerful forces together changed the landscape of European cities. Urbanization was undoubtedly one of them. Among other factors, Musterd and van Kempen (2005) correctly itemized not only objective processes that can be...

  • Evaluating the Catastrophic Rainfall of 14 July 2016 in the Catchment Basin of the Urbanized Strzyza Stream in Gdańsk, Poland

    We analyzed the causes, the course, and consequences of the extreme precipitation events that occurred 14 July 2016 in the watershed of Strzyza Creek in Gdańsk, Poland. Automated rain gauges located in Strzyża catchment registered a total precipitation lasting about 16 hours – from 129 to 160 mm of rain depth. More in-depth analysis based on rain data collected by Gdańsk University of Technology (GUT) rain station was done. The...

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  • Jacek Pokrzywnicki dr

    People

    As classicist I obtained my MA and PhD diploma at the University of Gdańsk. I am also professionally associated with this University as an assistant professor at the Institute of Classical and Slavonic Studies (Faculty of Languages). In my research I interact with Latin old prints and manuscripts. First and foremost I deal with the traces of ancient culture in early modern Gdańsk, but also in the area of ​​former Royal and Ducal...

  • Ocena przekształceń piętrowego, ceglanego domu z dachem półpłaskim z przełomu XIX–XX wieku pod wpływem termomodernizacji na przykładzie gminy Puck, woj. pomorskie.

    Ceglane budynki mieszkalne z przełomu XIX i XX wieku, które stanowiły charakterystyczny element krajobrazu wsi pomorskiej, obecnie powszechnie poddawane są modernizacji w celu poprawy warunków cieplnych. Przedmiotem badania jest stan zachowania najmłodszego, historycznego typu domuw zagrodzie chłopskiej na Kaszubach – piętrowego, ceglanego domu z dachem półpłaskim. Badanie przeprowadzono na obszarze gminy Puck. Zidentyfikowano...

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  • A novel concept of negative CO2 emission power plant for utilization of sewage sludge

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    • P. Ziółkowski
    • J. Badur
    • H. Pawlak-kruczek
    • L. Niedzwiecki
    • M. Kowal
    • K. Krochmalny

    - Year 2020

    Carbon Capture and Storage (CSS) technology is considered an important “bridge technology”, allowing effective abatement of CO2 emissions for power units using fossil fuels. However, if biomass is used in a power plant, equipped with CCS system, negative CO2 emissions can be achieved. In practice, wide development of such technologies would enable not only reduction of CO2 emissions, but also reversal of the harm done so far. In...

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  • Architekturführer Danzig: Gdansk Sopot Gdynia

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    - Year 2016

    Im Zweiten Weltkrieg bis auf die Grundmauern zerstört, wurde der historische Stadtkern der Hansestadt Danzig als polnisches Gdańsk wiederaufgebaut – ein Paradebeispiel für kritische Rekonstruktion in Polen und zugleich eine bis heute stark umstrittene Entscheidung. Zusammen mit dem mondänen Seebad Sopot und der modernen Hafenstadt Gdynia bildet die Bernsteinstadt eine Metropolregion an der polnischen Ostseeküste: die Dreistadt...

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  • Beata Basińska dr hab.

    She is a work and organizational psychologist. Her main research interests include occupational health psychology (job-related well-being and emotions) and positive organizational behaviour. She is an active participant of the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology, European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology, European Health Psychology Society and the Division of Health Psychology, Polish Psychological...

  • Forest management

    e-Learning Courses
    • S. Klisz

    The last ice age ended in Scandinavia about 15 000 years ago. The land was gradually occupied by present tree species. Human settlement followed the vegetation. The first forest uses were hunting and gathering. Animal husbandry and forest grazing came later. Shifting cultivation was a wide spread form of agriculture, especially in Sweden and Finland. Wood was first used for domestic purposes and for construction, In the 18th century,...