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Hauenstein-Ifenthal
Hauenstein-Ifenthal is a municipality in the district of Gösgen in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. History Ifenthal is first mentioned in 1189 as ''Ifental''. Hauenstein was mentioned in 1260 as ''Horwen''. Geography Hauenstein-Ifenthal has an area, , of . Of this area, or 50.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 40.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 8.0% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 0.4% is unproductive land.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.4%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.7% of the area Out of the for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trimbach, Switzerland
Trimbach is a municipality in the district of Gösgen in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. History Trimbach is first mentioned in 1244 as ''Trinbach''. Geography Trimbach has an area, , of . Of this area, or 23.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 52.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 23.8% is settled (buildings or roads), or 1.0% is either rivers or lakes.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 2.1% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 11.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 7.7%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.3%. Out of the forested land, 50.9% of the total land area is hea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wisen
Wisen is a municipality in the district of Gösgen in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. Geography Wisen has an area, , of . Of this area, or 54.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 40.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 6.1% is settled (buildings or roads).Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.5%. Out of the forested land, 36.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.8% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 8.2% is used for growing crops and 36.6% is pastures, while 2.3% is used for orchards or vine crops and 7.1% is used fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hägendorf
Hägendorf is a municipality in the district of Olten in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. History Hägendorf is first mentioned in 1036 as ''Hagendorf''. In 1102-03 it was mentioned as ''Haegindorf''. Geography Hägendorf has an area, , of . Of this area, or 26.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 57.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 15.1% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 0.1% is unproductive land.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.3% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 7.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 5.0%. Out of the forested land, 56.1% of the total land area is heavily forested ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Läufelfingen
Läufelfingen is a municipality in the district of Sissach in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland. History Läufelfingen is first mentioned in 1226 as ''Leinvolvingen''. In 1481 it was mentioned as ''Leiffeldingen''. Geography Läufelfingen has an area, , of . Of this area, or 49.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 41.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 9.7% is settled (buildings or roads).Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.2% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 4.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.2%. Out of the forested land, 39.6% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.6% is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rickenbach, Solothurn
Rickenbach is a municipality in the district of Olten in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. History Rickenbach is first mentioned in 1288 as ''Richenbach''. Geography Rickenbach has an area, , of . Of this area, or 31.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 52.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 17.4% is settled (buildings or roads).Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 4.0% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 8.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.3%. Out of the forested land, 50.7% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wangen Bei Olten
Wangen bei Olten is a municipality in the district of Olten in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. Minaret controversy The construction of a six-meter (20 ft) high minaret in Wangen in 2005 led to a constitutional ban on their construction on 29 November 2009. The contention involved the Turkish cultural association, which applied for a construction permit to erect a minaret on the roof of its Islamic community centre. The project faced opposition from surrounding residents, who formed a group to prevent the tower's erection. The Turkish association claimed that the building authorities improperly and arbitrarily delayed its building application. They also believed that the members of the local opposition group were motivated by religious bias. The Communal Building and Planning Commission rejected the association's application. The applicants appealed to the Building and Justice Department, which reverted the decision and remanded. As a consequence of that decisio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eptingen
Eptingen is a municipality in the district of Waldenburg in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland. History Eptingen is first mentioned in 1145 as ''Ebittingen''. Castle Ruins Around Eptingen The Burgruine Witwald, also called ''Wild-Eptingen'' or ''younger castle'' , are the ruins of a hilltop castle above the settlement of Eptingen in the Swiss canton of Basel-Landschaft . You can see remains of the walls of the Palas as well as an entrance gate, a staircase and a cistern . About 300 meters southeast are the older ruins of Wild-Eptingen , probably a predecessor of Witwald Castle Coat of arms The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is ''Or, an Eagle displayed fesswise Sable beaked and membered Gules.'' Geography Eptingen has an area, , of . Of this area, or 47.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 47.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 5.2% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.1% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.3% is unproductive land. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Primary Sector Of The Economy
The primary sector of the economy includes any industry involved in the extraction and production of raw materials, such as farming, logging, fishing, forestry and mining. The primary sector tends to make up a larger portion of the economy in developing countries than it does in developed countries. For example, in 2018, agriculture, forestry, and fishing comprised more than 15% of GDP in sub-Saharan Africa but less than 1% of GDP in North America. In developed countries the primary sector has become more technologically advanced, enabling for example the mechanization of farming, as compared with lower-tech methods in poorer countries. More developed economies may invest additional capital in primary means of production: for example, in the United States corn belt, combine harvesters pick the corn, and sprayers spray large amounts of insecticides, herbicides and fungicides, producing a higher yield than is possible using less capital-intensive techniques. These technologic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swiss People's Party
The Swiss People's Party (german: Schweizerische Volkspartei, SVP; rm, Partida populara Svizra, PPS), also known as the Democratic Union of the Centre (french: Union démocratique du centre, UDC; it, Unione Democratica di Centro, UDC), is a national-conservative, right-wing populist political party in Switzerland. Chaired by Marco Chiesa, it is the largest party in the Federal Assembly, with 53 members of the National Council and 6 of the Council of States. The SVP originated in 1971 as a merger of the Party of Farmers, Traders and Independents (BGB) and the Democratic Party, while the BGB, in turn, had been founded in the context of the emerging local farmers' parties in the late 1910s. The SVP initially did not enjoy any increased support beyond that of the BGB, retaining around 11% of the vote through the 1970s and 1980s. This changed however during the 1990s, when the party underwent deep structural and ideological changes under the influence of Christoph Blocher; the SVP ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Party Of Switzerland
The Green Party of Switzerland (german: GRÜNE Schweiz; french: Les VERT-E-S suisses; it, VERDI svizzeri; rm, VERDA svizra) is the fourth-largest party in the National Council of Switzerland and the largest party that is not represented on the Federal Council. History The first Green party in Switzerland was founded as a local party in 1971 in the town of Neuchâtel. In 1979, Daniel Brélaz was elected to the National Council as the first Green MP on the national level (in Switzerland and in the world). Local and regional Green parties and organisations were founded in many different towns and cantons in the following years. In 1983, two different national green party federations were created: in May, diverse local green groups came together in Fribourg to form the ''Federation of Green Parties of Switzerland'', and in June, some left-alternative groups formed the ''Green Alternative Party of Switzerland'' in Bern. In 1990, an attempt to combine these organisations failed. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voter Turnout
In political science, voter turnout is the participation rate (often defined as those who cast a ballot) of a given election. This can be the percentage of registered voters, eligible voters, or all voting-age people. According to Stanford University political scientists Adam Bonica and Michael McFaul, there is a consensus among political scientists that "democracies perform better when more people vote." Institutional factors drive the vast majority of differences in turnout rates.Michael McDonald and Samuel Popkin"The Myth of the Vanishing Voter"in American Political Science Review. December 2001. p. 970. For example, simpler parliamentary democracies where voters get shorter ballots, fewer elections, and a multi-party system that makes accountability easier see much higher turnout than the systems of the United States, Japan, and Switzerland. Significance Some parts of society are more likely to vote than others. As turnout approaches 90%, significant differences between vot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
