linear green infrastructures along rivers and canals serve different functions: green corridors, or ecological network, maintain biological diversity, improve water quality, and provide areas for fauna and flora to grow and thrive. greenways connect people with landscape resources and serve as recreational areasthat are easy to use and accessible to the greatest number of potential human users....

The number of tourists to recreation areas has increased dramatically, leading to a growing concern about the congestion phenomena in these areas. Since the information provision has been introduced to reduce the congestion, its potential benefits as well as its drawbacks have been discussed controversially. In this work, we address a basic recreation area scenario with different patterns of in...

Background Soccer is the most popular sport worldwide, with a long history and currently more than 500 million active participants, of whom 300 million are registered football club members. On the basis of scientific findings showing positive fitness and health effects of recreational soccer, FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) introduced the slogan ‘‘Playing football for 4...

The aim of our study was to determine the prevalence of keratinophilic and keratinolytic fungi in the soil of recreational areas in Lodz, with a particular emphasis on species potentially pathogenic for humans. The material consisted of 104 soil samples collected from the surface layer and 10-15 cm below the surface at 26 recreational areas in Lodz. Soil samples were inoculated on Sabouraud, Cz...