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Volume XII | Issue 2
Non-realised plans for the enlargement of the Danubian waterway
Abstract: There is a widespread belief these days that the Danube River is a waterway which is by far underutilised. This is usually attributed to the problems blocking navigation on the river (mostly on the Hungarian section), and to the missing regulations of the navigation routes. We have to add, however, that there are many other factors that set back the development of navigation, including the endowments of our economy that result in limited demand for water transportation. Also, several further economic, geopolitical and geographical endowments contribute to the low level of utilisation. The starting point of our paper is that the Danube River now offers one single long navigation route. The competitiveness of this route is decreased by the fact that no waterway network has been established in the last two hundred years that could have made river transportation more rationally usable. Think of the navigability of the tributaries, the connecting and branch canals, and multimodal ports (connected to railway and road transportation). Because of all these factors, no macro-regional economy was created at the adequate time, built on water transportation. Think of the fact that one single long railway line of motorway, without junctions and connections, cannot be operated economically, either, it will not become a system and its regional development impact will remain limited. Our paper focuses on those experiments that were made to contribute to the network development of the Danube River water system, with exact plans. Many of them were realistic plans in their days, but could not be realised because of the competition of railway, lack of capital or for geopolitical reasons.
Full article 10.5775/fg.2067-4635.2013.164.dDates:
Received: 06-05-2013 Accepted: 10-08-2013 Printed: 24-12-2013 Online: 30-01-2014
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Volume XII | Issue 2
The new immigration in Sicily: between acceptance and rejection. The case of the city of Vittoria
Abstract: The aim of this study is to focus on the recent growing flow of foreign immigration into Sicily, in order to highlight how traumatic this development has been for Sicilian society. Although tolerance towards foreign presence is deeply rooted in Sicilian customs and traditions, recently it has been put at risk by the emergence of various ethnic groups, who are settling on Sicilian soil and are impacting upon local institutions, economy and society. The Sicilian population is the product of a melting pot of races and ethnicities, whose features can be found in the make-up of the Sicilian population. However, since the end of the nineteenth century, Sicilian population dynamics have been stable, with no traces of unabsorbed foreign presences. So, the plain of the Albanians, founded in 1500, and more recently Mazara del Vallo, which hosts a large group of Tunisians, were just isolated cases. The 70’s are the turning point since Sicily from a land of emigration became a land of immigration. Lots of ethnicities use Sicily as a natural corridor where the Mediterranean flows are channelled. To conclude we would like to find out which are the levels of intolerance and acceptance, and if one is more prominent than the other.
Full article 10.5775/fg.2067-4635.2013.172.dDates:
Received: 06-05-2013 Accepted: 20-11-2013 Printed: 24-12-2013 Online: 30-01-2014
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- 1 Department of Humanistic Sciences, University of Catania, Piazza Dante, No. 32, 95124, Italy
- 2 Department of Humanistic Sciences, University of Catania, Piazza Dante, 32, Catania, Italy
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Volume XII | Issue 2
GIS in Healthcare Planning: A Case Study of Varanasi, India
Abstract: The objective of this paper is to examine the relevance of Geographical information system (GIS) supporting health planners for a district level healthcare planning. For this purpose, an attempt has been made here to calculate the hospital requirement area to know the specific sector that needs to better develop health facilities. The weightage is assigned to the class of thematic layers respectively to produce weighted thematic maps, which have been overlaid and numerically added in order to produce a Hospital requirement index (HRI) and hospital requirement zone (HRZ) map. These maps are very useful to calculate the exact area having good health facilities and also those wherein healthcare facilities need to be improved in Varanasi district. The Hospital requirement index (HRI) values according to the weighting method are found to lie in the range from 11 to 23. After calculation by weighting method using selected indicators, it is found that the areas coming under very high and high requirement class is 46.62% and 7.55%, respectively, whereas 3.39% and 42.63% of the total areas comes under low and moderate requirement classes in Varanasi district. Primary data are also collected from 800 respondents of 16 selected villages (2 villages from each development block) in the rural parts of the district to know about the utilization of healthcare facilities and their results are analysed with the help of statistical SPSS software. It is interesting to note that only 25.38% respondents are satisfied with the available healthcare services of primary health centres (PHCs), while 60% of respondents remain partially satisfied. The remaining 14.62% (117) respondents are not satisfied with the services of PHCs.
Keywords: GIS, hospital requirement index, hospital requirement zone, weighting method, Varanasi district, SPSS, primary data, PHCs
Full article 10.5775/fg.2067-4635.2013.180.dDates:
Received: 15-11-2013 Accepted: 24-12-2013 Printed: 24-12-2013 Online: 30-01-2014
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- 1 Department of Geography, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
- 2 Department of Geography, School of Sciences, IGNOU, New Delhi, India
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Volume XII | Issue 2
Urban mobility management: new challenges for a sustainable future
Abstract: Nowadays urban areas show increasing signs of environmental problems (bad quality of air, traffic congestion, limited land resources etc.) while green areas and open spaces are under continuous threat. Urban activities deeply affect environment and the overall quality of life of the urban population. So urban mobility is becoming more and more an international problem and efforts regarding sustainable mobility issues are spreading worldwide. Several countries are proposing new standards to actual mobility, leading transport to a new sustainable future. Sustainable mobility means inducing a modal shift towards more sustainable transport patterns such as walking, cycling or public transport through the instruments of information and promotion campaigns. These measures are able to improve the effectiveness of “hard” urban transport and to develop sustainable behaviour among the citizens. Several international projects dealing with mobility management were promoted in Europe, most of them supported by the European Union. Furthermore, the European Platform on Mobility Management (EPOMM) was officially launched in 1999 as an international partnership aiming to promote and further develop mobility management in the EU. The main goal of this paper is to identify the different sustainable mobility strategies in the European context, to give an account of the most relevant European mobility projects and to try to demonstrate that best practices in sustainable mobility management could be easily transferred to other scarcely developed realities in many Italian cities.Mobilitate durabilă înseamnă a induce un transfer modal către modele de transport mai durabile, cum ar fi mersul pe jos, mersul cu bicicleta sau transportul public prin intermediul instrumentelor de campanii de informare și de promovare. Aceste măsuri sunt în măsură de a îmbunătăți eficiența transportului urban “greu”, și de a dezvolta un comportament sustenabil în rândul cetățenilor. Mai multe proiecte internaționale care se ocupă cu gestionarea mobilității au fost promovate în Europa, cele mai multe dintre ele susținute de către Uniunea Europeană. Mai mult decât atât, Platforma Europeană pentru Managementul Mobilității (EPOMM) a fost lansată oficial în 1999 ca un parteneriat internațional cu scopul de a promova și de a dezvolta în continuare gestionarea mobilității în UE. Scopul principal al acestei lucrări este de a identifica diferite strategii sustenabile de mobilitate în contextul european, pentru a prezenta proiectele europene cele mai relevante de mobilitate și pentru a încerca să demonstreze că cele mai bune practici în gestionarea durabilă a mobilității ar putea fi transferate cu ușurință la alte realități abia dezvoltate în multe orașe italiene.
Full article 10.5775/fg.2067-4635.2013.191.dDates:
Received: 06-05-2013 Accepted: 20-08-2013 Printed: 24-12-2013 Online: 30-01-2014
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- 1 Department of Ingegneria Industriale, University of Catania, Viale A. Doria, 6, Catania, Italy
- 2 Department of Scienze Umanistiche, University of Catania, Piazza Dante, 32, Catania, Italy
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Volume XII | Issue 2
Urban territorial dynamics and socio-economic changes in Craiova city
Abstract: The city as a form of spatial organization had different typologies along the time which have been shown in various models of urban organization. The complex functions of the city which are based on the analysis of its functional areas imprints a specific model and a specificity of the local potential that can be capitalized in various ways. The economic and social phenomena that occur in the city such as industrialization, tertiarization, deindustrialization and functional reorganization of spaces, population dynamics, the share of its involvement in different economic sectors, influence very clearly the physiognomy of the city. The urban dynamics reveals that the city is constantly facing a number of problems and has a close connectivity with the rural and urban areas nearby. This study aims to make a diagnosis analysis of Craiova urban space revealing the urban dynamics and systemic analysis and also the socio-economic aspects presented through the quantitative processing of statistical data (between 1965 and 2012) on population dynamics, its employment by sector of economy and the functional profile of the city. The determination of the urban organizational model and the morpho-functional zoning of Craiova will reveal the spatial characteristics which are reflected in the social and economic activities undertaken in the city.
Keywords: urban territorial dynamics, economic aspects, social aspects, Craiova, functional area, spatial organization
Full article 10.5775/fg.2067-4635.2013.199.dDates:
Received: 14-06-2013 Accepted: 12-10-2013 Printed: 24-12-2013 Online: 30-01-2014
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Danube
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