Aleksandra Figurek's research while affiliated with University of Banja Luka and other places

... Several procedures have been proposed to assess the NBS performances in urban areas (Liquete et al. 2016;EKLIPSE 2017;Narayan et al. 2017;Raymond et al. 2017;Zölch et al. 2017;Calliari et al. 2019), remarking upon the strict connection between the NBS effectiveness and the urban (Figurek 2021) and biophysical (Pinto et al. 2021) characteristics of the area. Moreover, many governmental agencies have been developing protocols and methods to evaluate strategies, plans, programmes and projects where different types of solutions (including grey and also nature-based) are considered in public investments' decision-making process, in order to compare the effects relative to the environmental, economic, and social goals (Interior 2013;King et al. 2021). ...

... The key ways and strategies of Ukrainian agricultural growth are presented by H. Kaletnik (2015), who argued that agricultural sector of the Ukrainian economy is a solid foundation of the state food security, the basis for expanding its export potential, and a source of meeting domestic demand for agricultural products and foods. Scientists are investigating various environmental and economic aspects of sustainable development of the agricultural sector, for example: economic growth and environmental degradation (Das and Sen, 2018); economic restructuring in view of destructive effect of enterprises on environment (Karintseva, 2017); assessment of environmental costs of national economy (Shkarupa and Kharchenko, 2017); relationship between outputs and inputs in agriculture (Figurek and Vasković, 2017; forms of management in agricultural production (Shulskyi, 2017); assessment of the reproduction process of agricultural enterprises (Tyapkina and Ilina, 2018), etc. ...

... Learning numeracy literacy can be developed by combining numeracy with the local cultural context, context in learning can be in the form of the context of learning motivation, national character, attitudes, knowledge, and or scientific skills (Indrawan & I Gede Jaka, 2021;Pinxteren et al., 2021). Learning that pays attention to local cultural wisdom or ethnoscience is one of the things that need to be considered in curriculum development in Indonesia. ...

... This Eastern European country experienced a number of challenges before the pandemic, including a war with Russia in the east of the country (Robinson 2016), high external debt ), high energy intensity (Pysar et al. 2020) and low added value of the economy (Bessonova et al. 2015). As recent studies show (Goncharuk et al. 2019), in 2018 most of the Ukrainian households were constrained to apply for subsidies from the state to pay for utilities. At the same time, the state's tariff policy contributed to the destruction of the middle class, in fact, obliging it to pay the highest price for energy and gas (Goncharuk and Cirella 2020), considering the natural gas is the main resource for heating in Ukraine (Goncharuk and Lo Storto 2017). ...

... In the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina, this is a common practice in its higher learning institutions. Nowadays, the country's higher educational quality assurance is on track to closely aligning itself with European Union standards and norms (Brankovic & Brankovic, 2013;Constantinides & Stagno, 2011;Figurek, Goncharuk, Shynkarenko, & Kovalenko, 2019). This paper showcases Bosnia and Herzegovina's educational quality assurance by utilizing textual analysis methods similar to those employed by Ilinska et al. (2016), Cunningham-Nelson et al. (2018), and Zhang and Law (2013). ...

... Other challenges of winemaking in Ukraine are the following: (a) low investment attractiveness (Samofatova and Gerus, 2012); (b) high taxes leads to ineffectiveness of small wine business (Lazareva, 2015;Goncharuk and Figurek, 2016); ...

... The knowledge of those working in them influences not only the quality of the achieved results in the form of a valuable crop, but also the effectiveness of the work itself. Research by or Sellers-Rubio, Alampi-Sottini and Menghini (2016) or Goncharuk and Figurek (2017) showed that the higher the knowledge and awareness of the vineyard's farmers and employees, the higher their productivity. ...

... 2) DEA-модель заснована на резервах [41] задля оцінки відносної ефективності діяльності підприємства та визначення резервів скорочення витрат різного роду для підвищення ефективності його діяльності; ...

... At the same time, we found significant positive correlation of both agriculture and fire with temperate grasslands (Table 2). It is well explained by widely accepted knowledge on a threat of agriculture, fire and grazing to ecosystems and certain plant species in such habitats as steppes and dry meadows (Smelansky and Tishkov 2012;Radic et al. 2017;Hurka et al. 2019;Suleymanova et al. 2019). No one of biomes had significantly correlation with such drivers as forestry and invasion. ...

... Records keeping at farm level have been considered as the most important management tool [13][14][15][16][17] that a farmer can use in improving their daily operations [14,37,38]. Keeping of records has immediate bottom line profitability of the livestock operation [39], where it assists a farmer in monitoring animal 2 e Scientific World Journal health, making rational decision, and proper monitoring of other farm management practices [40]. ...