Kuchcik Magdalena
Articles
Geographia Polonica (2024) vol. 97, iss. 4, pp. 485-498 | 
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doi: https://doi.org/10.7163/GPol.0289
Abstract
The article presents the scientific-based strategic board game Neighbourhood with Climate, which aims to become an educational tool for adaptation on a local scale to climate change in temperate climates. The game used in climate education supports citizen engagement, empowering people with the knowledge of nature-based solutions (NbS), which could be applied to prepare and protect themselves and their community from extreme weather in temperate climates. As it combines social engagement and environmental and economic elements, it fulfils the criteria for Education for Sustainable Development. In this game, unlike many other computer or board games, neighbours play on real maps of their estate or neighbourhood and work outthe changes that can be implemented in the city. The paper can encourage scientists to create similar local educational tools for other climate zones and financial realities.
Keywords: climate challenges, serious game, nature-based solutions, education for sustainable development, city adaptation
[mkuchcik@twarda.pan.pl], Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization Polish Academy of Sciences Twarda 51/55, 00-818 Warsaw: Poland
[laczynski.marcin@gmail.com], Faculty of Journalism and Book Studies University of Warsaw Bednarska 2/4, 00-310 Warszawa: Poland
[agata_cieszewska@sggw.edu.pl], Department of Landscape Architecture Warsaw University of Life Sciences Nowoursynowska 159, 02-776 Warszawa: Poland
[joanna_adamczyk_jablonska@sggw.edu.pl], Department of Landscape Architecture Warsaw University of Life Sciences Nowoursynowska 159, 02-776 Warszawa: Poland
[renata_giedych@sggw.edu.pl], Department of Landscape Architecture Warsaw University of Life Sciences Nowoursynowska 159, 02-776 Warszawa: Poland
[gabriela_maksymiuk@sggw.edu.pl], Department of Landscape Architecture Warsaw University of Life Sciences Nowoursynowska 159, 02-776 Warszawa: Poland
[dorota.puslowska@pw.edu.pl], Faculty of Building Services, Hydro and Environmental Engineering Warsaw University of Technology Nowowiejska 20, 00-653 Warszawa: Poland
UTCI applications in practice (methodological questions)
Geographia Polonica (2021) vol. 94, iss. 2, pp. 153-165 | Full text
doi: https://doi.org/10.7163/GPol.0198
Abstract
UTCI, although it was developed with the participation of scientists from 22 countries, it has shortcomings and people using it face various obstacles. The difficulties include wide range of issues: from different availability of meteorological data in individual countries, through the kind of air temperature which should be properly used in calculations, or the need of recalculation of wind speed. However the biggest subject concern algorithms for mean radiant temperature (Mrt) calculations, different models and programs which simplify calculations of this complex index though introduce different approximations and, as a result, many false results. The paper presents also wide range of UTCI applications in urban bioclimate studies and bioclimatic mapping, climate-human health researches and biometeorological forecasts which were the primary purpose of the index creation, but also applications in tourism and recreation or even in bioclimate change analysis.
Keywords: problems with UTCI in use, data bases, mean radiant temperature, mapping, human health
[k.blaz@twarda.pan.pl], Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization Polish Academy of Sciences, Twarda 51/55, 00‑818 Warszawa, Poland
[mkuchcik@twarda.pan.pl], Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization Polish Academy of Sciences Twarda 51/55, 00-818 Warsaw: Poland