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Volume XIX |
Geomorphology, GIS and Remote Sensing

Landslide-susceptibility Analysis, Mapping and Validation in the Bălăcița Piedmont (South-West Romania)

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Abstract: This work presents the results of applying the GIS matrix method (GMM) to the mapping and validation of landslide-susceptibility analysis in different sectors of the Bălăciţa Piedmont. The main objective of the paper concerns the achievement of landslide-susceptibility maps based on the inventory, classification and description of the landslides within the study area. The starting point was represented by the DEM and, subsequently, based on the lithological data, other determinant factors were analyzed and reclassified in a vectorial format: slope angle, slope elevation and slope aspect. After the factors that determine instability were identified for each type of mechanism, susceptibility maps were drawn. In the resulting landslide-susceptibility map a model for the validation is presented (based on the determination and calculation of a set of landslides not included in the susceptibility analysis). The landslide-susceptibility maps of the Bălăciţa Piedmont are preventive tools intended to minimize risks in the threatened areas, especially near the settlements that are located on the left slope of the Jiu river and witness the reactivation of old landslides.

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Full article 10.5775/fg.2020.127.dDates:
Received: 05-03-2020 Accepted: 03-08-2020 Printed: 30-12-2020 Online: 01-03-2021
Affiliations:
  • 1 Geography Department, Faculty of Sciences, University of Craiova, Romania
  • 2 National Agency for Natural Protected Areas, Dolj Territorial Service, Craiova, Romania
Corresponding author:
  • mihaela.licurici@edu.ucv.ro
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Acknowledgements: The authors would like to thank the University of Craiova that facilitated this research and provided technical support. Special gratitude goes towards Bilașco Ș. for the useful suggestions offered during statistical processing in the GIS environment and to the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments.
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Volume XIX |
Various

In Memoriam Professor Vasile Pleniceanu – life and activity

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Printed: 30-06-2020 Online: 16-10-2020
Affiliations:
  • 1 Faculty of Sciences, Geography Department, University of Craiova, Romania
Corresponding author:
  • oana_ionus@yahoo.com
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Volume XVIII |
Environment

Human impact due to the capitalization of water resources within the Jiu Gorge National Park

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Abstract: Within the Jiu Gorge National Park, there was a project, which almost draws to an end, for the hydro-energetic capitaliza-tion of the river, which implies a potentially negative impact of this investment on the aquatic sector of the Jiu river in this sector. The current study analyses the hydrological regime of the Jiu river within the gorge sector (natural flow and controlled flow for the technical-economic capitalization parameters) and the impact on natural landscapes due to building and construction sites, bringing arguments and solutions for meeting the declared objective of conserving the aquatic ecosystems within the Jiu Gorge National Park. Thus, there must be ensured a minimum discharge (ecological discharge) on all rivers within the national park and Natura 2000 sit, to provide for this mere purpose of this category of protected areas.

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Full article 10.5775/fg.2019.031.dDates:
Received: 25-03-2019 Accepted: 08-07-2019 Printed: 30-12-2019 Online: 30-12-2019
Affiliations:
  • 1 Geography Department, Faculty of Sciences, University of Craiova, 13 A I Cuza Street, 200252 Craiova
Corresponding author:
  • emilmrnsc@yahoo.com
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Volume XVI |
Geomorphology

The impact of the urban expansion on the Jiu floodplain. Case study –Craiova, Romania

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Abstract: The urban expansion of any settlement implies changing natural environment and gradually transforming it into an anthropogenic one to assure the needs of the community. A first step in urban planning is to identify the changes that have been made, and this study reconstructs the anthropogenic changes induced to the Jiu floodplain in the last 150 years, through multi-temporal spatial comparisons, geomorphological characteristics and anthropological and environmental transformation indicators. The processing of historical cartographic materials and current satellite imagery highlights the dynamics of the wetlands and the built-up area in the Jiu floodplain between 1864 and 2017. The urban expansion required flood protection works that were carried out along the canals and lakes resulting from the drainage of the ponds and marshlands. On the course of the Jiu hydro-technical works of straightening, embankment and regularization were achieved, which led to the transformation of the course from a highly meandered one as it was in the second half of the 19th century into a sinuous one in 2017. The study is a useful tool in urban planning, by centralizing the changes in the floodplain, the anthropogenic works carried out and the changes of the Jiu course within the analyzed sector.

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Full article 10.5775/fg.2017.011.dDates:
Received: 10-10-2017 Accepted: 25-11-2017 Printed: 30-12-2017 Online: 03-08-2018
Affiliations:
  • 1 Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania
Corresponding author:
  • alba_claudia@yahoo.com
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Volume XV |
Hydrology

Spatial and temporal dynamics of human pressure within the Preajba catchment area, Romania

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Abstract: This study refers to the spatio-temporal dynamics of human pressure in Preajba basin, located in the southeastern part of Craiova municipality. The statistic and cartographic analysis is based on the determination of a variety of environmental indices: index of human pressure by demographic dynamics, index of human stress through agricultural land use, naturality index, artificialization index and environmental change index. Choosing a grid of 1.5 sqkm for calculating and comparing the artificialization index of the landscape allows a concise analysis on the environmental transformation in the above-mentioned area. Complementary, temporal dynamics of the environmental indices values is highlighted by the choice of some benchmark years, i.e. 1992, 2002, 2012, 2014 to which data and recent cartographic materials from 2009 and 2014 are added. Results, materialized in the obtained values present the state of the environment and the human pressure implications on the Preajba lacustrine ecosystem (maximum values obtained at period level): physiological or agrarian density – 52 inhabitants/ha in 1992 (Craiova); human pressure index through arable – 1.4 ha/inhabitants in 1992 and 2002 (Malu Mare); naturality index of the landscape – 9.43 in 1992 (Malu Mare); environmental change index – 3.69 in 2012 (Coşoveni). Field campaigns conducted in 2015 and 2016 confirm the research results and visually support human pressure on the environment. The proposed measures, in order to stabilize and maintain the good environmental quality in the Preajba basin targets the lacustrine ecosystem by involving local authorities in order to protect the avi-faunistic natural area status of “Preajba-Făcăi Lacustrine Complex”.

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Full article 10.5775/fg.2016.070.iDates:
Received: 12-01-2016 Accepted: 15-03-2016 Printed: 30-06-2016 Online: 17-11-2016
Affiliations:
  • 1 University of Craiova, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Geography, 12 A.I. Cuza Street, 200585, Craiova
  • 2 University of Bucharest, Faculty of Geography, Doctoral School "Simion Mehedinți", 1 Nicolae Bălcescu Blvd., Sector 1, 010041, Bucharest
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  • oana_ionus@yahoo.com
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