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- Various (33)
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Volume XIII | Issue 2
Recent mutations in the social-economic structure of Dolj county’s population. Gender differentiations
Abstract: The article sets out to explain the changes that occurred in the social-economic structure of Dolj county’s population, taking into consideration the differences between the male and the female population. The present analysis is based on the processing and mapping a large amount of statistical data from the 2011 population census.Identification and analysis of territorial imbalances were made on the basis of several significant indicators: the general activity rate, the economic dependency ratio, the unemployment share within the occupied population, the occupied population share in agriculture and other economic activities, the level of education of the active population. The results of this research pointed out some significant differences between the urban and the rural areas of Dolj county, but also between the male and female population.
Keywords: Dolj county, male/female population, structural changes, unemployment, active population, Romania
Full article 10.5775/fg.2067-4635.2014.169.dDates:
Received: 14-09-2014 Accepted: 01-11-2014 Printed: 30-12-2014 Online: 20-03-2015
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Volume XIII | Issue 2
The Romanian urban system – an overview of the post-communist period
Abstract: The Romanian urban system reveals both the influence of the central-based inter-settlement relations and the influence of the historical conditions (persistence of regional influence centres inside the historical provinces). Its 12 urban sub-systems are formed of towns that gravitate towards the Capital city – Bucharest and the second and third-rank cities. The Romanian urban network appears to be insufficiently developed in terms of number of towns versus the total population and surface. In 2012, there were 320 towns, when 400–450 were expected to be as referred to the overall surface of the country. This proves an excessive polarisation area/town ratio compared to other West and Central European countries. Under the socioeconomic transformation determined by the fall of the communist regime, profound changes in terms of intensive spatial development (urban/suburban sprawl, metropolisation etc) were experienced, similar to other post-communist urban systems. Subsequently, the EU accession opened the former socialist cities to new challenges related to urban phenomena, turning them into points of connection at European level by promoting cohesion and competitiveness for a polycentric metropolitan development. The paper attempts to summarise the urban development in Romania and the particularities of the Romanian urban system in relation to the legislative and political context of the post-communist period and the EU accession.
Full article 10.5775/fg.2067-4635.2014.179.dDates:
Received: 16-06-2014 Accepted: 25-11-2014 Printed: 30-12-2014 Online: 20-03-2015
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- 1 Human Geography and Regional Development Department, Institute of Geography, Romanian Academy, Romania
- 2 Dimitrie Racoviţă Str., no. 12, sector 2, Bucharest, Romania
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Volume XIII | Issue 2
Present and perspectives for health tourism – spa services in Romania
Abstract: The current paper aims at assessing the extent to which spa tourism developed in Romania after the fall of the communism, and to investigate the typology of Romanian spas in order to identify the drawbacks and opportunities of this sector from the supply perspective. The wellness offer (day spas, destination spas, medical spas, mineral spring spas and hotel spas) and the territorial distribution of spa centres within the country are analysed. The current trend is to diversify the offer, with numerous projects for day spas and destination spas within towns, and even resorts offering accommodation, sport and entertainment facilities, as well as spa facilities and programmes. Most of the spas in Romania are focusing only on wellness, less than 10% of them offering advice regarding nutrition, and only few meditation. The balneary spas, capitalizing the mineral and thermal spings, have failed to meet the demands and standards of the international market, thus loosing the fame they enjoyed before 1990.
Full article 10.5775/fg.2067-4635.2014.186.dDates:
Received: 21-08-2014 Accepted: 25-11-2014 Printed: 30-12-2014 Online: 20-03-2015
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Volume XIII | Issue 2
Premises for tourism development in the settlements of the middle sector of the Prut river (Botoșani and Iași counties)
Abstract: The tendency to capitalize less known and promoted natural and cultural resources is also remarked among the current trends of the tourism development. Along time, in Romanian tourism, some areas that concentrate a greater number of resources have been capitalized in tourist activities and programmes. In the context of the current changes, starting from the need to reduce the economic disparities at regional and local level, other tourist resources have also been included in the hospitality and travel industry. In Romania, the Prut valley is characterised as an extended crossborder area with the Republic of Moldova but also as having an authentic tourist potential. Based on the bibliographic data and the field research, one has seen that the settlements situated on both banks of the Prut river own important tourist resources, the natural ones dominating, followed by the cultural ones. Consequently, the whole Prut valley offers real conditions for developing some tourism forms and attracting potential tourists interested to see a nature scarcely changed by human activities. A first tackling refers to the human settlements in the Prut corridor in the Botoșani county.
Full article 10.5775/fg.2067-4635.2014.199.dDates:
Received: 08-04-2014 Accepted: 20-08-2014 Printed: 30-12-2014 Online: 20-03-2015
Affiliations:
- 1 National Institute of Research-Development in Tourism – NIRDT, Bucharest
- 2 Faculty of Geography, „Spiru Haret” University, Bucharest
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Volume XIII | Issue 1
Estimation of the Quaternary stream erosion in small drainage basins (Vâlcea sub-Carpathians and Olteţ Plateau, Romania)
Abstract: Stream erosion is a widely spread process in the Getic sub-Carpathians and Plateau (including the study sub-units). It is controlled by the high density of small drainage basins on a surface unit. Development of the 4th and 5th order valleys (according to Strahler’s system) in the sub-Carpathians and of the 3rd and 4th order in the Olteţ Plateau was also determined by the high altitude of hillslopes, up to 450 meters in the Vâlcea sub-Carpathians and to 250 meters in the Olteţ Plateau, a consequence of the strong downcutting performed by the Olt river and its main tributaries in this area (Olăneşti, Bistriţa, Cerna and Olteţ). Another control factor is the friable bedrock made of sedimentary deposits: conglomerate, gravel, sand, sandstone, marl, clay, tuffs etc. in the Vâlcea sub-Carpathians and Cândeşti strata (gravels with clayey lens of Villafranchian age) in the Olteţ Plateau.
Full article 10.5775/fg.2067-4635.2014.012.iDates:
Received: 25-10-2013 Accepted: 18-03-2014 Printed: 02-06-2014 Online: 08-08-2014
Affiliations:
- 1 Faculty of Geography, Department of Geomorphology, Pedology, Geomatics, University of Bucharest, Bd. N. Bălcescu No. 1, Sector 1, Bucharest, Romania
- 2 Faculty of Geography, Department of Regional Geography and Environment, of Bucharest, Bd. N. Bălcescu No. 1, Sector 1, Bucharest, Romania
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