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This article is devoted to the analysis of peculiarities and regularities of traditional nature management systems transformation of the Altai mountain region and characterize the main catalyst factors and modern trends of these changes. The article shows generalized results of long-term researches that employed questionnaire methods (questioning and narrative interview), post-event analysis, geoinformational and cartographical methods. The methods used enabled study of spatial, functional, social and psychologica...

The territory of Slovakia is in Central Europe at the interface of the parts of the continent that are influenced by continental and by oceanic climates. This is reflected in the variability of weather and climate characteristics. Apart from traffic load, change of climatic conditions are one of the constant external factors with adverse effects on physical and mechanical properties of different structural multi-layers in pavements. These impacts together with frost index and their corresponding changes significan...

The periods with precipitations surplus represent a risk that usually has a local prevalence, unlike the periods with precipitations deficit, where the areal spread is large, and the onset and evolution are slow. The perception in the case of periods with pluviometric surplus is that of a major hydrological risk, because of the violent and progressive way of manifestation, while droughts are perceived as being less dangerous phenomena. Among the pluviometric parameters that visibly influence the precipitations reg...