Ricardas Skorupskas

• Vilnius University

Growing concern about environmental challenges has led to the development of new observation tools to perform monitoring and assessment in a broad range of environments, application to conservation management and for mapping of natural resources. Although, the emerging methods and technologies of remote sensing are a powerful tool, they meet some d...

The post-industrial stage of development determined a significant reduction of the importance of industrial production, which led to restructuring the economy. An active process of revaluation has begun – reassessing the value of industrial heritage and finding options for its further use. Kryvyi Rih is the most powerful industrial center of Ukrain...

Rivers of Europe, Second Edition, presents the latest update on the only primary source of complete and comparative baseline data on the biological and hydrological characteristics of more than 180 of the highest profile rivers in Europe. With even more full-color photographs and maps, the book includes conservation information on current patterns...

The four major rivers that flow into the eastern Baltic Sea (the Vistula, the Nemunas, the Western Dvina, and the Narva) are described. All of these are lowland rivers. Most of the Vistula catchment is located in Poland, the Nemunas catchment—mainly in Belarus and Lithuania, the Western Dvina catchment—mainly in Russia, Belarus, and Latvia, and the...

Nowadays people are more aware of the importance of the surrounding nature: landscape, biodiversity, and natural resources. However, society is facing many ecological challenges, so individuals and communities are becoming more involved in conservation. While government is not always capable of providing the best care of nature and all its componen...

Straipsnyje nagrinėjama kraštovaizdžio garsinės aplinkos struktūra ir identifikuojamos akustinio kraštovaizdžio tyrimų kryptys. Pirmiausia nagrinėjami termino sampratos ypatumai, ypatingas dėmesys skiriamas akustinį kraštovaizdį formuojantiems veiksniams, analizuojama jo erdvinė struktūra, savybės ir garso raiška laiko aspektu. Taip pat identifikuo...

An assessment of blocking events over the Euro-Atlantic domain and their impact on surface air temperature and precipitation variability during the cold season is presented using the most long-term atmospheric circulation reanalysis (20th Century Reanalysis). Blocking situations were defined using the standard blocking index, which is based on the...

Evaluation of soil transformations and degradation is important not only for agriculture, but also for fundamental research on identification of new features for classification. In 1999, new Lithuanian soil classification (LTDK-99) was developed by adopting the diagnostic principles of WRB 1998. Together with new knowledge, it highlighted some rele...

The aim of the article is to theoretically and methodologically interpret the optimal structure of cultural landscape as the most complicated objective in landscape management, and land management in general. Universally, landscape optimality can be interpreted through the system of the fundamental anthropo-ecological criteria taken from the method...

Paper provides information about culinary heritage and culinary tourism opportunities in Lithuania. Please cite as: Burneika D., Skorupskas R., Charzyński P., Świtoniak M., 2015. Cultural Tourism in Lithuania – Experiencing Culinary Heritage in Regional Feasts. [In:] S. Sahin & P. Charzyński (Eds.) THE CULTURAL HERİTAGE AND ITS SUSTAINABILITY IN E...

Paper provides information about culinary heritage and culinary tourism opportunities in SE Anatolia Province in Turkey. Please cite as: Charzyński P., Świtoniak M., Burneika D., Skorupskas R. 2015. Food tour in South-Eastern Turkey – in the search of culinary heritage. [In:] S. Sahin & P. Charzyński (Eds.) THE CULTURAL HERİTAGE AND ITS SUSTAINABI...

After human activity has expanded to the global extent, the need to formulate a modern evaluation system for such effect became substantially important. The present paper provides a solution of the problem by means of developing the terminology and conception of soil as well as shaping the classification system. To implement these goals, peculiarit...

Terra Europae - Earthen Architecture in the European Union is a scientific publication, resulting from an intensive and valued teamwork of 50 authors that generated exclusive maps and texts from different regions and countries of the European Union. The outcomes were systematically and consistently combined to create a relevant overview of the stat...

This chapter focuses on the four major rivers that flow into the eastern Baltic Sea. From west to east, these are the Vistula, the Nemunas, the Western Dvina, and the Narva. Other larger rivers in this region are the Pregolja, the Venta, the Lielupe, the Gauja, the Parnu, and the Luga. All these rivers are meandering, lowland rivers fringed by vast...