The study examined physical and environmental characteristics of the coastal area of Ondo State with a view to providing a framework for effective implementation of rehabilitation and relocation in the study area. The findings revealed that the environment is not good enough for human habitation due to lack of abasic amenities in the area. The study concluded that while housing facilities in the coastal area of Ondo State, like many others in Nigeria were in a deplorable state, there is an urgent need to attend to the concerned area for better living of the coastal dwellers.

The current study aims to make an analysis of the human and environmental capital of Oradea Hills, notably the locations where the household independent cellars are found. For the human capital more indicators were analyzed such as the active and inactive population as well as a focused analysis of the population age category of Episcopia Bihor neighborhood where these household independent cellars prevail. For the environmental capital the land tenure of Oradea Hills was considered and analyzed through the perspective of forests, hayfields and pastures, arable land, built-up area, lithology and slope exposure. Thus more theme maps resulted (i.e. geological map, slope exposure map) from this study carried out through the ArcGis program meant to further help the interested investors to capitalize these storage cellars.

Data and land resource information complete, accurate, and current is an input in management planning, evaluation, and monitoring Watershed. Implementation of this research is conducted with optimum utilization of secondary data that is supported by direct field measurement data, digitalizing the maps associated, Geographic Information Systems modeling, and model calibration. This research has resulted in a Geographic Information System Management of potential Watershed GIS Web-based or abbreviated WEB GIS MPPDAS using Palopo watershed area, South Sulawesi as a case study sites for the development of a prototype that consists of three applications the main website ie Web Portal, Web GIS, and Web Tutorial. The system is built to show online (and offline) maps watershed in the administrative area of Palopo along with the location of its potential accumulated in the four (4) groups of layers, including groups of main layer (2 layer), a group of base layer (14 layers), groups of thematic layers (12 layers), a group of policy layer (8 layer). In addition to display a map, use the WEB application of GIS MPPDAS can also use tools or controls in the application to perform analyzes in its monitoring and evaluation, including: Geocoding, Add layer, Digitizing, Selection, Measurements, Graph, Filtering, Geolocation, Overlay cartographic, and etc.

The city of Batna, one of the Algerian cities, is the most exposed to flood risks, which are highly active and constitute a threat to the residents and the infrastructure. To better understand the vulnerability of this phenomenon, an approach of cartography inspired by the method of “suitability modeling” is used. This method allows us to determine the potential vulnerability levels of the study zone; therefore, we need to consider several criteria: socioeconomic factors like density of population, land use, and also physical criteria such as permeability, flow direction, and the like. Each of these various criteria was built on a database, which constituting an important element for building a model that helps us determine the vulnerable zones by using various GIS applications. The applied approach that depends on how the criteria are suitable give us 4 different levels of vulnerability in Batna, which are as follows: high vulnerability, 13% of the city’s total surface, average vulnerability 5%, low vulnerability 0.7%, and null vulnerability 82%.

The present study wants to underline the particularities established between the present activity of the women with the age of 15 and over and their quality to have born children alive or not, the number of born children attribute to them, respectively, having as reference area the Depression of Beiu?. It were used data offered by the Census of the population and houses, accomplished in 2011. From the analysis of the results obtained, it can be observed that the percentage of women that have born alive children is higher in the rural feminine population (79,2%), and in the active population (80,3%), compared to the urban feminine population (73,5%), respectively the inactive one (74,9%), where their percentage is more reduced. Regarding the quantitative distribution of the women depending on the number of alive newborns predominates those with two children on the level of the entire socio economic categories registered, the exceptions being given by the feminine population of pupils and students, of persons supported and those with other economic situations, among which the highest percentage falls to the women with a child born alive.

The main assumption of the study conducted by the authors was to analyse the chosen determinants of crime in pomeranian voivodeship in 2015 with particular focus on their spatial variability. The collected data was intercorrelated using the method of signboard. One can notice a particular division of this administrative unit of Poland, where the dominant role in the crime phenomenon is played by social (e.g. in slupski district) or economic (e.g. in chojnicki district) factors. The results of the study provide a new outlook on the geography of crime, particularly the one covering the regions of Poland.

Many studies have attempted to assess the qualitative adequacy of housing in Nigeria. However, most of these studies focus either on slums or on public housing projects. There are very few empirical studies that examine and compare the qualitative adequacy of housing belonging to different population groups and from different neighborhoods in a city. The purpose of this study is to assess the housing quality in the (entire) city of Kano, Nigeria and to examine the disparities in housing adequacy across the city based on four factors: neighborhood density level, location of the neighborhood relative to the old city wall, monthly household income and ownership type and status. We found that, although bad by western standards, the condition of dwellings in Kano is better than in other Nigerian cities (based on information from previous studies), even when we consider only the high-density neighborhoods. Another major conclusion of this paper is that the four indicators mentioned earlier can be used as predictors for the quality of housing in a particular neighborhood.

The study refers to the licensed tourist guides of Romania during 1998-2016, namely their numerical evolution during this time series as well as an analysis of their numerical evolution by different types of tourist guides, be they national, local or specialized. The statistical analysis showed an increment from 24 tourist guides in the year 1998 to 4,335 licensed tour guides in 2016. The analysis is supplemented by current issues and shortcomings affecting the tourist guiding activity of Romania, as revealed by the tourist guides present at the annual tourist guides’ national conferences, various stringent problems raised and debated within these encounters and highlighted by this study as well as proposals for a better functioning for this segment of tourism entrepreneurs.

Fish farming is known as one of the ways of ensuring food security and alleviating poverty through income generation. It is very common in the urban areas of Nigeria because of great demand for fish. This study determines motivations for involvement in urban catfish farming and sustainable food security in Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria. Specifically, the study identifies fish farmers and their socio-demographic characteristics in the study area; it examines motives of fish farming; examines the contributions of fish farming to household food security; and assesses the challenges faced by fish farmers for increased production. Both primary and secondary sources of information were employed and a total of 120 fish farmers were sampled randomly with copies of structured questionnaire. Frequency counts, percentages, tabulations and matrix ranking were employed to analyze the gathered data. The findings revealed that catfish production has actually contributed immensely to sustainable food security by making fish available, accessible and stable within the study area. The main motive for involvement in fish farming by the farmers includes food security (with a mean value of 3.80). This was followed by income supplement (x = 3.50), source of employment (x = 3.42) and increase in price of meat (x = 3.37). It can therefore be concluded that catfish farming in the study area has not only improve practitioners’ food security but has also contributed immensely to their income. The paper recommends the need to include fish farming in urban planning and that it should be encouraged in both rural and urban areas so as to have sustainable food security in the country as a whole.

The concepts of innovation and creativity, as well as the territorial construct of city, have been, especially in the last few decades, the focus of an unprecendented and concerted scientific effort from all over the world. Many geographers, economists and urban planners studied how such a notions shape the fabric of urban areas and how they help them grow and develop. Kickstarter is an element of this triad, an innovative online platform which enables people to express their creativity and help gain funding for their ideas. This paper examines the Kickstarter projects launched in the 7 largest cities of three Central and Eastern European countries (Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary), plot their distribution and attempt to see territorial patterns in their distribution across the urban areas of this part of the European Union and Europe itself.

Tackling the topic regarding the spatial distribution of the accommodation/lodging infrastructure of Mures County for the entire transition period required first and foremost a quantitative analysis, with data sets from the National Institute of Statistics - Mures Statistics Department, and the Ministry of Tourism. After collecting the statistical data, we processed and interpreted the data by creating tables, graphics, and maps, which improved our scientific endeavour. The aim of this paper was primarily to offer a general view of the existing accommodation capacity, from hotels to agrotouristic lodgings, classified by size and comfort level. According to the ministry, the accommodation infrastructure of Mures County comprised of 373 units with 11,466 beds in 2016 (17.8% of the total accommodation units and 26% of the existing beds in the Central Region). Most units were hotels with 4,832 beds, more than half being medium sized units (50-200 beds), rated with 3 stars, followed by touristic pensions with 3,206 beds, mostly located in Sovata, Sighisoara, and Târgu-Mures, motels with 805 beds, touristic villas with 581 beds, campings with 549 beds, rooms for rent with 531 beds, hostels with 329 beds, tourist stops with 222 beds, touristic and hunting lodges, 208 beds, agrotouristic pensions, 169 beds, rented apartments, 66 beds and vacation villages, 22 beds. Mures County, according to the Ministry of Tourism, has only one national designated touristic resort, Sovata, being the most complex and intricate touristic development (117 units with 4,179 beds), and one local resort, Sângeorgiu de Mures (7 units with 202 beds). In 2016, there were 1,035 705 overnight stays made by 517,111 tourists, with an average of 2 overnight stays/tourist.

In this paper the purpose of the research was to register, map and analyse business entities in the small and mid-size cities in the County of Zagreb, and on this basis get conclusions of the economic and spatial structure in the area. The analysed area includes the central parts of eight cities, i.e. the areas with the highest number of business activities. Since the most of the activities are concentrated in the cities, municipalities in the County are not included into this research. Census of business activities shows certain patterns i.e. that most of the cities in analysed area are still getting behind in number and quality of business entities according to those in the City of Zagreb and that polarization of business structure is obvious between those two areas.