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Volume XII | Issue 1
Landscape Quality Assessment in Almăj Land Rural System from the Mountainous Banat (Romania), during the 1990-2010 period
Abstract: Almăj Land represents one of the “land” types of territorial entities from Romania and the only one of this type from the Mountainous Banat. It is a purely rural regional system where the hierarchy and the centrality are the two defining attributes for the 31 villages that represent the region’s habitat component. The geographic location of Almăj Land constitutes the main element of restrictiveness regarding the region’s development and the setting of the interrelations with the neighboring regional systems, aspect that has recorded the region in the category of the mountainous rural landscape. For this reason, the economic practices are not very diversified, being based only on the revaluation of the local resources (especially forests and agricultural resources). This has accelerated the anthropogenic impact on its landscape and components, causing transformations in the typology of the rural landscapes. The changes occurred were identified following the calculation of several indicators of landscape quality assessment for a period of 20 years, choosing 2010 as the reference year.. The results obtained (the naturality index – 0.56, population density 15.1 inhabitant/km², the human pressure through agricultural – 2.84 ha/inhabitant, non-agricultural lands – 4.54 ha/inhabitant and forests – 4.35 ha/inhabitant, the environmental transformation indicator 1.5) present the current state of the environment, practically emphasizing the more and more obvious anthropization of the mountainous rural landscape after the change of the political regime and the transition to the market economy, especially through massive deforestation. The evaluation of the current condition of the landscape quality and of the changes in the landscape of the study area, should have a very important role for the mountainous rural community, in order to identify several protection measures of the ecosystems for the assurance of the sustainable development process, especially of the forest ecosystems, which are the most affected and the most important for maintaining ecological balance.
Full article 10.5775/fg.2067-4635.2013.034.iDates:
Received: 20-10-2012 Accepted: 14-03-2013 Printed: 28-06-2013 Online: 20-07-2013
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Volume XII | Issue 1
The Role of Infrastructure and Touristic Traffic in Romania’s Touristic Regionalization
Abstract: The touristic regionalization, in most cases, is performed by taking into account the tourism potential as main reference, in this respect numerous methodologies having attempted to quantify as balanced as possible both the natural tourism potential and the man-made one. Beyond its great theoretical importance, their actual, practical and statistical value is yet limited, given that all economic and socio-political analyses, reports and comparisons have a mandatory administrative dimension, too. These present realities constitute the main reason why we believe that a deepening of regionalization which takes into consideration, more than others made so far, the administrative component, on the one hand, and the actual revaluation, on the other hand, embodied in the existence of specific infrastructure, which together with the tourism potential shall determine the attraction of tourist flows. In this respect, we tried to consider, to share and to model a large number of indicators to reach an outcome which provides a more real, synthetic and complete image (8 data sets were structured and combined, calculating 13 indicators, subsequently synthesized into 5, which led to the preparation of maps: afterwards these were overlapped for county level, respectively their average at the level of development regions. Such a regionalization also reflects the real role that tourism plays in the economic balance of counties, respectively development regions.
Keywords: touristic regionalisation, touristic infrastructure, touristic traffic, spatial distribution, synthetic indicators, counties, development regions
Full article 10.5775/fg.2067-4635.2013.099.iDates:
Received: 12-09-2012 Accepted: 30-03-2013 Printed: 28-06-2013 Online: 18-07-2013
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- 1 Department of Geography, Valahia University of Târgoviște, Regele Carol I Avenue, no. 2, Târgovişte, România
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Volume XI | Issue 2
Characteristics of the urban settlements network in The Republic of Macedonia
Blagoja Markoski1,,
Biljana Apostolovska-Tosevska1,
Olgica Dimitrovska1,
Ivica Milevski1,
Svemir Gorin1
Abstract: The objective of this paper is to analyze of the net-work of urban settlements in the Republic of Macedonia, their territorial dispersion and operability. The current situation and future perspectives of the urban development of the settlements (development of the current settlements and promising growth of some of the settlements into those with the status of a City) have been analyzed. This issue has been analyzed in order to point out the directions of the spreading of the population on the territory of the Republic of Macedonia, which at the moment has an unfavorable characteristic. The following economic-functional characteristics of the settlements have been analyzed: transportation availability, daily migrations and other criteria.
Keywords: network of settlements, urban settlements, territorial dispersion, cartographic and geographic analysis, Republic of Macedonia
Full article 10.5775/fg.2067-4635.2012.033.dDates:
Received: 21-12-2011 Accepted: 01-11-2012 Printed: 20-12-2012 Online: 03-01-2013
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- 1 Faculty for Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Institute for Geography, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, str. Gazi Baba b.b., 1000-Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
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Volume XI | Issue 1
Rural Development Potential of Peripheral Areas – Case Study Bochov (Bohemia)
Abstract: This paper analyzes the microregion of the town of Bochov in the Karlovy Vary Region as an example of an area located in the internal periphery of Czechia and at the same time indicating typical characteristics of the borderland, the result of postwar population transfer. Long-term population development can be characterized by a decreasing population and at the same its concentration in the center. Educational attainment statistics indicate unfavorable findings. Employment is dependent on commuting. Possible strategies include ensuring good living conditions for the population, supporting small and medium businesses, regional marketing, developing tourism and landscape stewardship, and maintaining the rural characteristic of the microregion. Microregions such as the Bochov microregion do not nor cannot have the same preconditions for development as central microregions. Their development should be focused on improving quality of life for local residents and visitors.
Full article 10.5775/fg.2067-4635.2012.070.iDates:
Received: 07-02-2012 Accepted: 02-05-2012 Printed: 01-06-2012 Online: 29-07-2012
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- 1 Regional Office of the Karlovy Vary Region, Závodní 88, 360 21 Karlovy Vary, Czechia
- 2 Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czechia
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The paper is based on the project of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic Nr. 2D06001 “Interests of Development in Border Regions” dealt with the borderland periphery (Vaishar et al. 2011). The empiric part is based on the diploma thesis (Perlingerová 2010).
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Volume X | Issue 2
The Problem of the Sanitary System in the Land of Severin With Respect to Regional Development
Abstract: The difficulties with the health system, occurred after 1989, are mainly induced by the lack of appliances and human resources and by the natural consequences due to the interruption of the reform process, which negatively influenced the repartition of medical service within the urban and rural spaces, in the Land of Severin. The supply and access to medical services are the major problems concerning the assurance of a better living standard and also social and economic development, especially in rural areas. Villages with a dispersed population (in the mountainous and piedmont area in the Land of Severin), represent quite a unique challenge for the management and use of medical services. The claim to improve the support is laid by vulnerable groups, as elders and those who live in isolated places (e.g. Marga, Negrușa and Moisești villages) or people who compulsory need dialysis three times a week. The low level of economic development have induced problems concerning the existence, the quality and accessibility of social services and difficulties in case of temporary or permanent health care services. The present reformation measures take into consideration the way of organization and operation of health care services, the problem concerning the financial means and equipment of sanitary units and, the provision of last generation medical technique correlated with a continuous training process of medical staff and health care personnel. Currently, by means of the Local Development Programme 2006 – 2013 and with the help of the European structural funds, the authorities want to establish and implement a special programme to modernize the medical cabinets in villages, to convey pharmaceutical products to this area, to eliminate the daily travel of doctors and to provide ideal conditions for them and for the nurses to integrate into local communities.
Full article 10.5775/fg.2067-4635.2011.039.dDates:
Received: 12-01-2011 Accepted: 26-04-2011 Printed: 01-12-2011 Online: 24-08-2011
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- 1 Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Geography, University of Craiova, 13 A.I. Cuza Street, Craiova, Romania
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