Inserţia geografiei în abordările ştiinţifice regionale
The insertion of geography in regional scientific approaches

Author(s): Vasile Cucu, Elena Toma, Irina Lazăr
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Editura Lumen, Asociatia Lumen
Keywords: Region; regionalization; geographical contribution; regional delimitation criteria
Summary/Abstract: Through its scientific methodology, geography granted and pays special attention to the investigation problems and knowledge of phenomena at a regional level. Contribution is certified in the work of geographers from different periods, concerning the concept of region and "diversity of natural and administrative constituted regions”. The result is a number of scientific contributions to the literature on the need to identify geographic regions based on the economic and social criteria. Thus, the emphasis is on mapping these types of regions which can be found in part in the Dissertation of Geography of Romania, Vol II., "Human and Economic Geography", published in 1984. Based on such experience, the authors offer a proposal for the organization of the Romanian area in 11 development regions identified on three fundamental criteria (historical, geographical position and social and economic), taking into account the specific of each component.

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