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Abstract: Return migration might be a key factor for development in sending regions, especially in East Central Europe. In 2004, the enlargement of the European Union affected a mass labour migration from post-socialist countries towards Western European regions. Among rules of the Union this East-West migration has become more than brain-drain, beside high-skilled migrants, lower skilled ones also leave their country of origin. This paper focused on common characteristics of migrants from East Central European countries. During research I have used results of an online survey among migrants and made interviews with returned Hungarian migrants. Though sending countries make efforts towards re-attracting migrants, without stable macro-factors their return might be uncertain. According to my results, though each country has its own profile, in some cases, especially Hungarian and Polish migrants have common characteristics in terms of motivation of emigration and type of work abroad.
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.
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.
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.
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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