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Environment, Geomorphology

Human-Induced Environmental Changes and Floodplain Restoration Necessity along the Danube, on the Drobeta-Turnu Severin – Bechet Sector

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Abstract: The present paper aims at analysing the human-induced transformations that took place in the Drobeta-Turnu Severin – Bechet sector of the Danube Floodplain during the last two centuries. The research started from the need to obtain a real and comprehensive database concerning the extension, the nature and the characteristics of the topographic-hydrographical, edaphic and biologic structures appeared or modified under human influence, their relation with the changes occurred at the level of the land use and their present functionality. Special attention was paid to the latter transformations occurred after 1989. The primary types of topographical and hydrographical changes resulted from the geomorphic human activity in the Danube Floodplain are analysed in relation with the land use within this unit. The analysis of the environmental transformations in the floodplain sector started from cartographic and statistical materials that are relevant for the 19th-21st centuries. For the post-communist period, the valorisation of the Corine Land Cover database allowed for a more detailed analysis of the land use dynamics. The data thus obtained was checked and updated with field observations and measurements, which are mandatory given the fact that the cartographic database shows deficiencies and it is partially outdated.

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Full article 10.5775/fg.2067-4635.2011.027.dDates:
Received: 12-12-2010 Accepted: 30-06-2011 Printed: 01-12-2011 Online: 24-08-2011
Affiliations:
  • 1 Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Geography, University of Craiova, 13 Al. I. Cuza Street, Postal Code 200 585, Craiova, Romania
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  • mihaela_licurici@yahoo.com
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Acknowledgements: The author would like to kindly acknowledge all persons that supported this research by means of their knowledge, equipment or simply by their presence in this wide case study area. Special gratitude goes towards the researcher Lucian Badea, from the Geography Institute of the Romanian Academy, for his previous substantial works on the Danube Valley and for his first papers on the morphological changes within the Danube riverbed and floodplain. Further gratitude is to be given to the researchers from the Oltenia Museum, for their ambitious researches conducted in the area during the last ten years and for their advices. The information provided in the field of biology and history helped significantly the geographical research. I would also like to thank the reviewers for the constructive criticism and useful suggestions.
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Human and economic geography

The Drinking Water Infrastructure in the Oltenia Plain over the Last Decade. Territorial Characteristics and Quantitative Aspects of Production and Consumption

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Abstract: The aim of the paper is to analyse the territorial disparities of the drinking water infrastructure in the Oltenia Plain. The study focuses on the following main aspects, specific for the general dynamic of water infrastructure development in the last decade: – the increase in the number of human settlements connected to drinking water network;- quantitative aspects of drinking water production (cubic meters/ day) and different types of consumers (thousand cubic meters).The article intends to highlight the data-base on NUTS V level (TEMPO Online time series, National Institute of Statistics) and to map the main changes registered by the statistical indicators used for the analysis: the number of territorial-administrative units (ATU) connected to the drinking water network, the length of the drinking water infrastructure, the capacity of installations to produce drinking water, the consumption of water by the different types of consumers). In the Oltenia Plain the extension of the number of ATUs connected to the drinking water network was linked with the development of the regional operator in water management, Water Company Oltenia. Despite its weaknesses, this main actor on the water-market of Oltenia will install workstations in two small towns (Băileşti and Calafat), assuring better water services in a relatively large area of the Oltenia Plain. During the last ten years, the water infrastructure became more accessible for the rural settlements and population. The production of drinking water decreased (the capacity of installations to produce drinking water in 2008 was smaller by 1.1% than in 2000) in the last decade, this dynamic being related to the negative evolution of total population (a decrease by 98,736 inhabitants between 1990 and 2009) in the Oltenia Plain, and to decline of agricultural and industrial activities. The two types of consumers (the householders and other consumers = economic actors) differ concerning the rate of the decrease in their consumption: the household type consumption drops only by 17%, compared with 49.2% specific for the other consumers. This dynamic should be explained by the reduction in economic activities, great water consumers (e.g. agriculture and industry).

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Full article 10.5775/fg.2067-4635.2011.028.dDates:
Received: 18-01-2011 Accepted: 05-05-2011 Printed: 01-12-2011 Online: 24-08-2011
Affiliations:
  • 1 Institute of Geography, Romanian Academy, D. Racoviţă Street, no. 12, Bucharest, Romania
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Acknowledgements: This contribution presents some results under the "Climate Change and Impacts on Water Supply (CC-Waters) part of the South East Europe Transnational Cooperation Programme".
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Environment, Geomorphology

The Dynamics of Forest Areas in the Vâlsan Basin

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Abstract: This case study refers to forest area dynamics within the Vâlsan Basin, situated between his affluents: Mierlei Valley and Bunești Valley in 1904-2004 period. The dynamics was shown by maps on a temporal scale especially in reference years as 1904, 1973, 1981, 1994, 2004. Forest cover from our study area has been decreased substantially because of the impact of human activities. We can conclude at the end of our paper that forest ecosystems had lost the natural equllibrium, and barely can realize the protective and hydrological function, in the context of declaring our study a natural reserve.

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Full article 10.5775/fg.2067-4635.2011.031.dDates:
Received: 20-11-2010 Accepted: 19-07-2011 Printed: 01-12-2011 Online: 24-08-2011
Affiliations:
  • 1 Doctoral School of Geography Simion Mehedinti, University of Bucharest, Nicolae Bălcescu Blvd, No.1, Sector 1, 010041, Bucharest, Romania
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  • badea2003roxana@yahoo.com
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Acknowledgements: I would like to thank to professor Vespremeanu Emil, lecturer Ionuț Săvulescu for helping me to realize the maps. On this way I would like also to thank to researches from Forest Management Insitute Research and especially to engineer Ștefan Neagu which help me for obtaining some useful data for my paper. The research was supported by a POSDRU grant, financed by the Social European Fund (SEF).
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Regional geography

The Problem of the Sanitary System in the Land of Severin With Respect to Regional Development

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Abstract: The difficulties with the health system, occurred after 1989, are mainly induced by the lack of appliances and human resources and by the natural consequences due to the interruption of the reform process, which negatively influenced the repartition of medical service within the urban and rural spaces, in the Land of Severin. The supply and access to medical services are the major problems concerning the assurance of a better living standard and also social and economic development, especially in rural areas. Villages with a dispersed population (in the mountainous and piedmont area in the Land of Severin), represent quite a unique challenge for the management and use of medical services. The claim to improve the support is laid by vulnerable groups, as elders and those who live in isolated places (e.g. Marga, Negrușa and Moisești villages) or people who compulsory need dialysis three times a week. The low level of economic development have induced problems concerning the existence, the quality and accessibility of social services and difficulties in case of temporary or permanent health care services. The present reformation measures take into consideration the way of organization and operation of health care services, the problem concerning the financial means and equipment of sanitary units and, the provision of last generation medical technique correlated with a continuous training process of medical staff and health care personnel. Currently, by means of the Local Development Programme 2006 – 2013 and with the help of the European structural funds, the authorities want to establish and implement a special programme to modernize the medical cabinets in villages, to convey pharmaceutical products to this area, to eliminate the daily travel of doctors and to provide ideal conditions for them and for the nurses to integrate into local communities.

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Full article 10.5775/fg.2067-4635.2011.039.dDates:
Received: 12-01-2011 Accepted: 26-04-2011 Printed: 01-12-2011 Online: 24-08-2011
Affiliations:
  • 1 Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Geography, University of Craiova, 13 A.I. Cuza Street, Craiova, Romania
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  • cristiana_oana@yahoo.com
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Human and economic geography, Regional geography

Orientation of the Voters in the Presidential Elections in Romania 1990-2009

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Abstract: After the change of the political regime in 1989, Romania has returned gradually to democracy. This return is illustrated by the electoral process in which the presidential elections play an important role. The first elections after December 1989 represent the exception, the elections being won, detached, in the first round, by the candidate of the party which secured an absolute majority in the legislative (Ion Iliescu, the National Salvation Front), all other elections providing a winner after the second round. The victories were shared between the center-left and the center-right candidates, two decades of witnessing several electoral alternance in power (as in the case of parliamentary elections). It also requires the continuity in the electoral preferences of certain regions (the “Old Kingdom” voting, in general, for the centre-left Social Democrat candidates), while central and western regions and the capital have voted consistently with the right candidates. Between these consistency elements, the Hungarian electorate registers oscillation of voters between the center-left and center-right.

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Full article 10.5775/fg.2067-4635.2011.041.dDates:
Received: 02-12-2010 Accepted: 29-06-2011 Printed: 01-12-2011 Online: 24-08-2011
Affiliations:
  • 1 “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi, Romania
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  • ionel_boamfa@yahoo.com
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