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Volume XII |
Human and economic geography, Regional geography

Competitiveness and sustainable development of the small towns in Romania. Case study: Marghita

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Abstract: There is a common thought that the Romanian small towns need to assume the role of catalyst for regional development outside the influence of higher-ranking cities. In this context, a question arises whether small towns can be competitive in regional development challenges, and especially if they can induce sustainable development in the region through resources they hold. Sustainable Development Indicators represent a conceptualization of sustainable urban planning, where land use and models of urban growth potential are based on town needs management depending on available resources, taking into account ecological limits. Thus, they incorporate the principles of inclusion, multidisciplinary and completeness, in order to achieve a social, environmental, economic and territorial balance. As a result, the proposed sets of urban indicators create a framework for sustainable urban planning. The model of sustainable development assessment of the town of Marghita contains a set of 16 indicators and four dimensions (or pillars of sustainable development: four indicators for the economic dimension, seven for the social dimension, two for the institutional and two for the environmental dimension), which lead to a composite indicator when aggregated.Indicatorii de Dezvoltare Durabilă reprezintă o conceptualizare a urbanismului sustenabil, în care folosințele terenurilor și modelele de creștere urbană sunt bazate pe nevoile orașului raportat la resursele disponibile și ținând cont de limitele ecologice.Acesta include principii de incluziune, multidisciplinaritate și complementaritate, în vederea atingerii unei dezvoltări sociale, environmentale, economice și teritoriale echilibrate. Ca urmare, setul de indicatori urbani propuși creează cadrul unei dezvoltări urbane sustenabile. Modelul de analiză a dezvoltării durabile pentru orașul Marghita cuprinde un set de 16 indicatori și patru dimensiuni (cei patru piloni ai dezvoltării durabile: patru indicatori pentru dimensiunea economică, șapte pentru dimensiunea socială, două pentru dimensiunea instituțională și două pentru dimensiunea environmentală) care agregate determină un indicator complex.

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Full article 10.5775/fg/2067-4635.2013.241.dDates:
Received: 06-05-2013 Accepted: 25-10-2013 Printed: 24-12-2013 Online: 30-01-2014
Affiliations:
  • 1 Department of Geography, Tourism and Territorial Planning, University of Oradea, Universității street, no. 1, Oradea, Romania
Corresponding author:
  • nemes_vali@yahoo.com
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Volume XII |
Environment

Landfills – territorial issues of cities from North-East Region, Romania

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Abstract: Landfilling prevails in waste management options in Romania like others new EU members, being contrary to the concept of waste hierarchy promoted in recent years by EC. Waste disposal is done usually in non-compliant landfills and Government established a program to close these sites. This paper aims to analyse the transition from traditional waste management systems to an integrated system at national, regional and local scale. Assessment of landfills location based on buffer analysis (using GIS techniques) is made according to the proximity of five critical factors (CF) such as: residential area, industry & commercial units, agricultural lands, rivers & lakes, forest and protected areas, all these factors being sensitive to pollution. Thus, most of these old sites are badly or improperly located related to surroundings and only few have an acceptable location in the study area! Therefore, the proposed method can be a necessary tool in EIA studies of these environmental threats at regional scale.

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Full article 10.5775/fg.2067-4635.2013.244dDates:
Received: 07-05-2013 Accepted: 26-10-2013 Printed: 24-12-2013 Online: 30-01-2014
Affiliations:
  • 1 Faculty of Geography and Geology, Department of Geography, University of “Alexandru Ioan Cuza”, B-dul Carol I, Nr. 20 A, RO-700505, Iasi, Romania
Corresponding author:
  • mihai.florin86@yahoo.com
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Volume XII |
Human and economic geography

Research possibilities in measuring allergic morbidity, using empirical data

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Abstract: There is lack of data about allergic morbidity on neighborhood; city district or micro regional levels, thus increasing focus have been put on morbidity of localities in epidemiological and health geographical studies. The aim of the study is to outline the best possible empirical research methods for allergic morbidity. Self-assessment based survey was made twice in Kecskemét, Hunyadiváros district of 8000 inhabitants, Hungary, to elucidate the allergic prevalence. The survey units were the households, but the analysis was made on the diseased people. Firstly 419 members of 148 households and secondly, during the repeated survey 401 members of 138 households were asked. Two-staged multistage sampling had been made, at first, one third of the district’s streets had been chosen randomly. Secondly according to the size of the streets a probability proportionate to size sampling method was used. Almost 40% of the households and 20% of the researched group showed allergic morbidity. According to the results, it can be assert, that around 20% of the population of Hunyadiváros district suffers from some kind of allergic disease, which is overwhelmingly larger than official statistical data shows.

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Full article 10.5775/fg.2067-4635.2013.248.dDates:
Received: 13-06-2013 Accepted: 25-11-2013 Printed: 24-12-2013 Online: 30-01-2014
Affiliations:
  • 1 Faculty of Natural Sciences and Informatics, Department of Economic and Social Geography, University of Szeged, Egyetem utca 2, Szeged, Hungary
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  • bana@geo.u-szeged.hu
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Volume XII |
Tourism

Thematic routes in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county according to the visitors’ opinion

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Abstract: Nowadays the role and importance of culture in tourism is increasing. One of the main manifestations of this process is the spreading of thematic routes. Since the routes are new “products” it is important to monitor their development. The paper analyses three thematic routes in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County (Hungary), using the results of an online survey and the content analysis of tourism web pages. According to the results the potential visitors do not have the sufficient information about the routes. The accessibility and available services were evaluated slightly better than average by those tourists who visited at least one of the routes. At the same time they were content with the attitude of service providers. Based on their experiences they would offer the routes to their friends – which can be a useful promotion tool. The surveyed visitors think that establishing these thematic routes was a good and important initiative. This shows the potential and importance of the routes but their further development and promotion is a must.

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Full article 10.5775/fg/2067-4635.2013.259.dDates:
Received: 06-05-2013 Accepted: 23-11-2013 Printed: 24-12-2013 Online: 29-01-2014
Affiliations:
  • 1 Department of Economic and Social Geography, University of Szeged, Egyetem u. 2, Szeged, Hungary
Corresponding author:
  • kovacsildiko87@gmail.com
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Volume XII |
Geomorphology

Consequences of the River Bank Erosion in the Southern Part of the Pannonian Basin: Case Study – Serbia and the Republic of Srpska

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Abstract: Bank erosion is one of the dominant geomorphological processes in the southern part of the Pannonian Basin. The consequences of bank erosion on the territory of Serbia and the Republic of Srpska were analysed including landscape degradation (lateral migration), socio-economic (land loss, land use changes, eco­no­mi­cal losses) and geopolitical consequences. The analysis covered the Danube River and the Drina River as the international river border, the Bosna River as a boundary watercourse along the administrative border and the Kolubara River with dominantly antropogenic impacts on the rate of bank erosion . The total amount of lateral migration of the Kolubara riverbed for the period 1925-2010 is 155 m and the Bosna riverbed for the period 1958-2012 is 352.2 m. Lateral migration has caused serious problems through loss of arable land (approximately 40 ha) and land use changes in both basins, but also economic loss due to the reduction of agricultural production. For the pro­te­ction of the Bosna River banks it is necessary to invest 7.91 million Euros, while in the case of the Kolubara River for their recovery 2.54 million Euros were needed. The geopolitical consequences due to the bank erosion acting and lateral migration of the river course were analysed on three paradigmatic examples: the Danube River (the border between Serbia and Croatia), Drina River (the border between Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Bosna River (the border between the Republic of Srpska and the Federation of B&H). The results of this investigation are applicable in the field of water and soil resources management, hydro-technical works, geopolitical studies, as well as in different aspects of the environmental protection.

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Full article 10.5775/fg.2067-4635.2013.008.iDates:
Received: 09-12-2012 Accepted: 15-02-2013 Printed: 28-06-2013 Online: 20-07-2013
Affiliations:
  • 1 University of Belgrade, Faculty of Geography, Belgrade, Serbia
  • 2 Faculty of Natural Sciences, Banja Luka, Republic of Srpska
  • 3 Institute for Political Studies, Belgrade, Serbia
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  • slavoljubdragicevic@eunet.rs
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Acknowledgements: This paper was realized as a part of the projects "Studying climate change and its influence on the environment: impacts, adaptation and mitigation" (43007) and "The Democratic and National Capacities of Serbia’s Institutions in the Process of International Integrations" (179009) financed by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Serbia within the framework of integrated and interdisciplinary research for the period 2011-2014.
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