Romanian-Serbian Cross-Border Territorial System. Elements and Mechanisms Generating Systemic Functionality (Natural and Administrative Context)
Romanian-Serbian Cross-Border Territorial System. Elements and Mechanisms Generating Systemic Functionality (Natural and Administrative Context)

Summary/Abstract: The following study analyses on the Romanian-Serbian border sector which is considered to be relict. Stretching on 546,4 km (256,8 km terrestrial; 289,6 fluvial), this area dominated by plains in the north and south (approximately 70% of the total surface) and by mountains in its central-south half (30%) inherits the morphologic characteristics of the Romanian-Yugoslavian border. The main objective of this study is to identify, quantify and integrate the elements and mechanisms which generate the functionality of the cross-border territorial systems and subsystems. By combining these according to the morphological and anthropic characteristics of the landform, the study proposes the remodelling of contiguous border systems and the modelling of the cross-border system obtained. Thus, by means of instruments and methods attested by specialized literature and based on the border line as well as on the morphological characteristics of natural contiguous border systems, we can identify the factors which determine and the elements which compose the functioning mechanisms of contiguous Romanian and Serbian border areas, using qualitative, quantitative and functional-systemic criteria. The understanding of these elements from a morphofunctional and morphodynamic point of view is the key to this study which will represent the starting point for the creation of a highly functional cross-border territorial system model.

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