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Volume IX | Issue 9
Issues of Territoriality and Territorial Cohesion in the Revision of the TSP and the Territorial Agenda – A Sort of Connection Between Geography and Regional Policy
Abstract: After Hungary was asked according to the Territorial Agenda (TA), agreed in the informal ministerial meeting under the German Presidency in May 2007, it undertook the responsibility to evaluate and review the TA and update the closely related Territorial States and Perspectives of the European Union (TSP). The TA has a key importance due to the fact that it had been the first document which identified joint action oriented framework of spatial (territorial) policy on the EU level. The TSP (as basic evidence of the TA) in its more synthetic chapters attempted to identify more integrated territorial structures of the European territory including main geographic dimensions such as north-south and east-west dichotomies, polycentricity and urban-rural patterns. Due to the changes in the driving forces and the new conditions of an enlarged EU, the content and also the function should be revised. The paper is aiming to introduce some of the main findings of the TSP/ TA revision process with special reference to the new aspects and trends related to the territorial structures of the Union and the spatial structure of Europe. Finally, some solutions will be introduced which could help to enhance the currently not enough strong territorial approach within TSP and TA.
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Printed: 01-11-2010 Online: 21-11-2010
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- 1 VÁTI Hungarian Non-profit LTD for Regional Planning, Office of Spatial Policy, International and Urban Affairs, Budapest, Hungary
- 2 Department of Regional Science, Budapest, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
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Volume IX | Issue 9
The Subsidence Caused by the Waste-Coal Self-Ignition Process in the Anina Town (Romania). Preliminary Study
Abstract: Uncontrolled subterranean coal fires, mainly developed through the process of self-ignition, represent a challenging hazard of local dimension, but with global-scale distribution. One important effect of this spontaneous ignition process is the surface subsidence. Porosity and particle size fraction of the coal particles in the deposit, water and oxygen play the main role. Anina sterile heaps present a non-typical situation of waste-coal self-ignition. The fine coal is found in the sterile heaps distributed all over the actual urban area, being covered by human activities and residential buildings, so that, the human risk is present in several forms.
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Volume IX | Issue 9
Characteristics of the Industrialization Process Around the Moment of Collapse of a Centralized Political System. Romania as a Case Study
Abstract: Although a country with a relatively small area, Romania has a variety of natural resources, which in time were favourable prerequisites to the development of processing activities. Most of these resources are not able to provide entirely the requisite, but cover parts of it in certain proportions. The territorial distribution of natural resources and the different cultural influences have fostered the development of certain regions or industrial centres of the country. The dynamics of the industrial exploitation of these centres has grown continuously, reaching a paroxysm in the centralised regime, when some of the resources have been largely exhausted. Rapid and often risky industrialisation, relying mainly on the basis of propaganda and not of economic efficiency has led to a falsely balanced development. New industrial structure, both territorial as well as sectorial has proven ineffective in the very first year of transition from the centralised system to the market economy.
Keywords: Romania, industrialisation process, communist regime collapse, very early transition period
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Printed: 01-11-2010 Online: 21-11-2010
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- 1 Interdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Researches on the Territorial Dynamics, University of Bucharest
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This work was supported by CNCSIS – UEFISCSU, project number PNII – IDEI code 1948/2008 and project number PNII - IDEI code 196/2007.
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Volume IX | Issue 9
The Use of the Digital Terrain Model in Analyzing the Natural Potential of the Muntele Mic – Poiana Mărului – Ţarcu Mountains Tourist Area to Extend and Plan the Ski Domain
Abstract: The present study aims at examining the natural potential of the region as a prerequisite for the planning and the expansion of the ski domain, in order to reinvigorate the resorts Muntele Mic and Poiana Mărului. The factors taken into account to identify the best areas for planning new ski tracks are: the altitude, the slope, the orientation of the slopes to the solar radiation, the duration and the thickness of the snow layer, the land use, the risk of snow avalanches occurrence and the degree of accessibility. Because the factors considered don’t have the same importance for the favorability, before the combination of the factors, we used the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) implemented by the IDRISI Andes software to assign for each factor a relative weight to use in the analysis. The risk of snow avalanches occurrence was considered as restrictive factor (Boolean factor). The combination of factors by Weight of Evidence method resulted in the creation of the final model, which presents the probability map for new ski tracks. The probability degree varies continuously in space, from a very high probability (255) to a very low probability (0) depending on the combination mode in a certain area of the considered factors and their weight. We considered as optimal areas only the areas with values above 200. The best areas to expand the ski domain are the detached secondary peaks of Muntele Mic towards north and the northern slopes of the Nedeia Ridge. These areas could allow for the development of certain ski tracks at least the same size as the ones of the Prahova Valley. The development of the ski domain in these areas will connect the two resorts, Muntele Mic and Poiana Mărului, and could increase the touristic potential of the study area.
Keywords: GIS, ski areas, Digital Terrain Model (DTM), spatial analysis, Muntele Mic, Poiana Mărului, Țarcu Mountains
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This work was supported by CNCSIS–UEFISCSU, project number PNII–IDEI 1075/2009 and by CNCSIS–UEFISCSU, project number PNII–IDEI 1066/2009.
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Volume IX | Issue 9
Social Vulnerability and Risks Associated to the Balkan Endemic Nephropathy in Mehedinţi County
Abstract: The Balkan Endemic Nephropathy (BEN), commonly known as “the dry kidney disease”, was observed for the first time in 1957 in Ergheviţa village from Mehedinţi County. Although, the phenomenon was mainly studied by doctors for a period of approximately 50 years, the number of cases increased, but the actual cause of the disease was not discovered yet. Among the mainly incriminated elements, there is to be mentioned the underground water that crosses through the coal deposit located in the Huşnicioara mines. It is important to notice the fact that this disease affects only the rural space, most of the effective areas of the disease being concentrated around the urban centres like Drobeta Turnu-Severin, Baia de Aramă, Strehaia and Vânju Mare. The respective rural communities are considered to be truly vulnerable to the poor quality of underground waters. Given the fact that new cases of nephropathy are continuously discovered, one of the hypothesis is that the risk induced by the pollution of underground water layers is significant and that the human communities are highly vulnerable to this element.The present study identifies the actual status regarding the symptoms and the extension of the disease, as well as the economical-social circumstances that favour the occurrence of the cases, representing a strong signal concerning the human communities vulnerable to the pollution of a natural resource that is indispensable to human life – water.
Keywords: Balkan endemic nephropathy, social vulnerability, coal deposits, quality of underground water layers, rural community, social isolation
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- 1 Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Geography, University of Craiova, 13 Al. I. Cuza Street, Craiova, Romania
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The authors would like to kindly acknowledge the county and local institutions that supplied important information from their statistical database, respectively the Mehedinţi County Statistics Office, the Mehedinţi County Public Health Office and the Renamed Medical II Dyalisis and Nephrology Centre, Drobeta Turnu-Severin. Further gratitude goes towards all persons that were willing to participate in the social survey in 2009. The National Council of Scientific Research in Higher Education supported the research in the framework of the RFFI Grant No. 973/2008, the project entitled "Vulnerabilitatea versanţilor la alunecări de teren în Piemontul Bălăciţei. Utilizarea SIG şi realizarea hărtilor digitale ale vulnerabilităţii (Slopes vulnerability to landslides within Balaciţa Piedmont. GIS utilization and achievement of vulnerability digital maps)".
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