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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
A conceptual viewpoint on the urban periphery. Craiova, Romania as a case study
Abstract: The article target is to address real and timely issues concerning the edges of the postmodern city by providing an invitation for thought, insight and overriding action in what concerns the urban geography and urban planning in Romania. The study addresses the scientific ingeneration to define and understand the concept of urban periphery and subsequently reflect on the characteristic elements that individuate it. It initiates a microscalar analysis, an original element which gives an insight in the mechanisms of its genesis, then customizes its features and afterwards, by stating subcomponents, clearly delineates the periphery of Craiova, a development urban pole in Romania.
Keywords: urban periphery, banlieue, urban sprawl, sustainable urban development, dynamics, suburbanization, Craiova
Full article 10.5775/fg.2067-4635.2013.222.dDates:
Received: 14-05-2013 Accepted: 23-10-2013 Printed: 24-12-2013 Online: 30-01-2014
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Volume XII | Issue 2
Competitiveness and sustainable development of the small towns in Romania. Case study: Marghita
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.
Keywords: small towns, sustainable development indicators, regional development, Marghita, local development, competitivity
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
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- 1 Department of Geography, Tourism and Territorial Planning, University of Oradea, Universității street, no. 1, Oradea, Romania
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