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Leśna przestrzeń produkcyjna w decyzjach i dokumentach planistycznych sporządzanych na obszarze gminy

Author(s): Maria Hełdak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2008

The study presents the methods used for the creation of spatial policy concerning forest production space in the study of conditions and directions of land development in the communes and in the local plan of spatial arrangement, which is a tool for the realisation of spatial policy. The examples provided show that the problems are not dealt with properly enough. The communes tend not to interfere with the management of forest areas, not only the state-owned, but private as well. It is doubtful whether the local plans for forests are prepared taking into account the management plans prepared for state-owned forests or the simplified plans for other forests.

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Geoinformacja w zarządzaniu siecią transportową – część II

Author(s): Katarzyna Kocur-Bera / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2010

This paper examines which information and database systems are used to support decisions taken in the process of national and communal road management. The GIS allows to visualise selected data or effects. Since it is possible to obtain information about the spatial position of road network attributes, thematic geoinformation systems are obtained which support the decision-making process related to road network operation and management.

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Analiza porównawcza wybranych geoportali europejskich

Author(s): Agnieszka Dawidowicz,Monika Sońta / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2014

The main aim of the study was to analyze and assess the progress of work on the implementation of the INSPIRE Directive in selected countries of the European Community. The adopted method of analysis is based on a system 0–1, which allows for the assessment of selected spatial information systems in the adopted point scale. Selected systems were analyzed in terms of their functionality, availability of selected data and spatial data services, user interfaces and the authorities responsible for the creation and maintenance of systems.

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ANALYSIS OF THE FUNCTIONAL AREAS IN PITEȘTI

Author(s): Adelin Daniel Nedelea / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

The functional areas within an urban settlement refer to those territories in which the same activity runs most. Consequently, within an urban settlement there are such different areas named by the each profile. At Pitești level, there have been outlined five areas individualized according to the profile shown. Within each area there is a dynamic structure and length that imply a reconversion at each area level, with a certain influence on the occupied territory. In time, the surface of the functional areas in Pitești has been influenced by many factors of which the economic factor is the most important. Thus, some of the areas have expanded their surfaces (residential and commercial ones), whereas other areas have been recorded as restrictions (especially in the industrial one). These changes have made an impact on people who used to work in those areas, but also on the natural environment. These functional areas play an important part within the incorporated territory dynamics of the municipality by either expanding or restricting the area.

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BRANDING AND TOURISM DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVES FOR SMALL ROMANIAN CITIES ALONG THE DANUBE

Author(s): Mădălina-Teodora Andrei,Costin Lianu / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

Big cities, large metropolitan areas benefit for wide range of attraction which enables them to ensure through tourism a sustainable development. High tourism consumption is poses in front of them important challenges related to sustainable urban development especially how to deal with over touristification. On the other hand, for small cities, with less or minor tourist flows, sustainable urban development poses different types of challenges if the process is planned to be based on tourism. Lack of identity and image is acting as barrier difficult to over come. The European Union Strategy for the Danube Region (E.U.S.D.R.) is a macro-regional strategy. In the E.U.S.D.R. context, the Danube cities of Romania could benefit by frame to be developed by tourism as smart cities. The 20 towns situated along the Romanian Danube valley have a rich tourism potential but little known, and less used, exception the Danube Delta and, somewhat, the Danube Gorge. Looking of the importance of the Danube Strategy for cities sustainable development through tourism, this paper argues that unless the cities managers are not trying to adopt a successful realistic branding strategy they are few changes to make the strategy works. In the same time we argue that associating riparian Danube cities with the Danube valley for destination management is a powerful way to develop tourism.

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PERCEPTION AND ACTION FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL KNOWLEDGE

Author(s): Costin Lianu,Simona Corina Gudei,Mădălina-Teodora Andrei / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

In Romania small and medium sized companies (SMEs) are facing serious challenges. Their capacity to create and add value on the national value chain or to insert into the global value chains depends essentially on their capacity to understand the markets and to change their business model. There is low density of SMEs in the country compared with EU and, on the other hand, based on ours research, there is a lack of capacity to go international. In the same time, one major concern is related to lack of entrepreneurial interest of the young generations of students based on research conducted by us at the university level based on questionnaires filled in by students. Statistics indicates also that students enrollment in universities is decreasing. There are also evidence indicating there is a lack of knowledge in the research institutes and universities how to assist entrepreneurs. Gathering all data we identified constraints and gaps of communication between researchers, universities and SMEs and to be solved in order to develop what we call university business services for SMEs. A way of this interaction is USH Pro Business Center, the business support hub of the largest private university in Romania (Spiru Haret University), which actuates in order to stimulate the entrepreneurial skills for students and for the academic personal and to develop of entrepreneurship beyond the national borders, taken into account as a critical factor of success.

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A LITERATURE REVIEW ON THE VALUATION MODELS OF TOURIST CARRYING CAPACITY, FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF THE ASINARA NATIONAL PARK IN SARDINIA (ITALY)

Author(s): Graziella Benedetto,DONATELLA CARBONI,GIAN LUIGI CORINTO / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

The Asinara National Park shows the peculiarity that it is a small island located very near to the big island of Sardinia (Italy). The site access is (relatively) easy to control and to program with the aim of a full territorial government. In fact, this specific form of the natural protected area’s isolation is particularly suitable for the experimentation of new government policies based on visitors’ access regulation. Within this new framework, we will consider the usefulness of the concept of Tourist Carrying Capacity (TCC). Due to the fact that there are many ways for assessing the TCC, a methodological choice is necessary: in order to identify the approach that best fits the purposes of the Asinara Park plan, we performed a standard review at international level of the scientific literature on the models used to calculate the TCC to be used for managing a natural protected area.

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ANALYSIS OF THE CONSTRUCTED AREAL IN THE TAZLĂU HYDROGRAPHIC BASIN, 1990-2012

Author(s): DANIELA-GABRIELA POPA (CIMBRU),Gabriela Munteanu / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

This research wants to enhance the importance of the human activities over the environment, driven by its development behaviour. A series of good and bad changes in the landscape in the Tazlău hydrographic basin, have been observed over the time. Land use/land cover changes of some natural vegetation areas were imposed, due to the economic development or human comfort increase, by replacing them with agricultural or construction ones. Economic activities have a large impact over the land cover imposing landscape changes in many and with different intensities modes. Following the data analysis from the INS, Corine Land Cover data bases, satellite images, field observations and GIS techniques it was possible to evidence the correlation between the human constructed areas and landscape modification.

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URBAN PATRIMONY, DOMAINS AND FUNCTIONAL ZONING IN CONSTANŢA: CURRENT LANDMARKS

Author(s): AMALIA COCULESCU,Maria Postea,Elena Grigore,ARDELIAN DAN VASILE / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

Much of the existing cities, today, occurred due to favourable elements, such as a natural resource, or an intersection etc. To assess the current situation of Constanţa a thorough analysis is required with the purpose: to show real chances of progress and development, to highlight the main objectives that were the basis for solving the problems of the moment, objectives that can ensure the increase of living standard, but also the particularities of the analysed area. This analysis is intended to be: an overview of the progress made in the development of the city, because despite the remarkable number of special equipment the city still has areas where the quantity and quality of services is poor; an accurate assessment of socio-economic variables; a summary of the results from the application of different methods of intervention and change, actually, of the actual achievements on the completion of regional and local development strategies.

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DIFFUSE SOLAR RADIATION – IMPORTANT GENETIC FACTOR IN DETERMINING THE CLIMATE OF VLĂSIA PLAIN

Author(s): ELENA DINICUŢU / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

This article shows the importance of diffuse solar radiation in determining the climate of Vlăsia Plain. For comparison we used values of diffuse solar radiation intensity on a normal surface, but also on a horizontal surface at Bucharest-Afumați (Vlăsia Plain), Craiova (Oltenia’s Plain) and Constanta (Black Sea seaside) stations, in June and December at different hours.

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THE MAIN BAROMETRIC CENTRES ACTIVATING IN VLĂSIEI PLAIN

Author(s): ELENA DINICUŢU / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

This article stresses the role of the barometric centres in the circulation of the tropospheric air, by setting it into motion, as well as their importance in the diversification of weather and climate phenomena on the territory of Vlăsiei Plain and implicitly of Romania.

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TOURISM SERVICES IN MANSOURA. A GEOGRAPHICAL STUDY

Author(s): Halah Abou Elenin Metwaly / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

Tourism services are among activities that attract intense labor in the field of luxury tourism. They include variety of services including tourism residence services (hotels, youth campuses and motels), restaurants and cafes in addition to services that are characterized by their cultural and luxurious nature and activating tourism movement towards them such as services of open places like parks, sport and social clubs, closed places’ services such as cinemas, theaters, public libraries, book fairs, various products and services’ showrooms and conference halls. Mansoura City is one of the Delta cities in urban Dakahlia governorate which is characterized with various tourism and luxury services for its population, its administrative region and neighboring governorate. The city contains high level of tourism services including hotels, youth campuses, restaurants and cafes (fixed and floating) and is served by an infrastructure of roads, facilities and public and luxury services. This happened especially after the city’s urban development and the emergence of many commercial and luxury sectors in its commercial center including the following places: New road St, Port Said St, Al Mashaya St, The University Neighborhood and Suez Canal St. these services played a role in the movement of tourism attraction in the destination for recreation, culture and as a leisure place for population at local and regional levels.

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WEATHERING FORMS AND DAMAGE CATEGORIES OF SOME EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES BASED ON FIELD MEASUREMENTS. A STUDY IN APPLIED CLIMATE

Author(s): Ismael Hossam / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

It is widely known, that all stones eventually change due to their interaction with various climatic conditions. Thus, similarly as the weathering processes occur at the Earth's natural surfaces, they also affect man-made monuments. Weathering processes are acting physically, chemically and/or biologically on a given material based on material's properties, its geographic orientation and intensity of the pre-dominant weathering process. The aim of the current study is to find out the distribution of rock's damage categories on the wall sides of the sites under investigation. Examining rock properties including its petrography, mineralogy, petrophysical and mechanical properties on one hand; and defining the damage category of some wall sides of the sites under investigation. The field study was complemented with laboratory analyses for a number of rock samples selected from areas with representative weathering patterns and damage categories of all the of archeological sites. Sixteen samples were examined by polarizing microscopy (PLM), X-ray diffraction analysis (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy equipped with an energy dispersive X-ray analysis system (SEM-EDX). From the current study is has been determined that, most of archeological sites El-Kharga Oasis has reached a severe damage category based on field investigations and Laboratory study.

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LANDSLIDE EFFECTS IN A HISTORIC SICILIAN TOWN

Author(s): Vincenzo Liguori,Giorgio Manno / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

The town of Agrigento is set in a physically fragile environment between unstable slopes and ancient structures in urgent need of conservation and restoration. Geomorphological studies were performed for the analysis and monitoring of the landslide involving the historic area of Agrigento (Italy), whose stability is threatened by retrogressive landslide processes. Up to 2-5 mm/year displacement are observed in 1992-2008 on the staircase and the lift aisle of the ancient Cathedral of the town (11th Century). Displacement acceleration to 13-15 mm/yr is measured in July 2006-May 2007. The areas moving at higher rates, located at the edge of the NW slope of Agrigento hill, which is made by a typical transgressive succession of a sandy-clay sequence with various calcarenite bodies (Agrigento formation). This sequence are probably discontinuously, on clay soils from the Middle-Upper Pliocene (Monte Narbone Formation). The area has been unstable since 1315, involving both the little-welded, very porous and fractured calcarenitic sections (E-W) from Pleistocene and the clay layers interstratified within these sections. Since 1924, from time to time, various typologies of disruption have occurred: falls, flows and more complex phenomena. From 2007 until now the collapse has been the object of several studies that used different research techniques (interferometric, aerial and satellite images analysis, geognostic and geo-physical surveys, etc.) as well as of a permanent monitoring activity. In order to rebuilding the geological model and identifying the typology of the landslide phenomenon, we analyzed all the available data. This analysis will be support to the most suitable solution to mitigate the risk and safeguard the monuments and houses located in this area.

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LANDSLIDE EFFECTS IN A HISTORIC SICILIAN TOWN

Author(s): Vincenzo Liguori,Giorgio Manno / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

The town of Agrigento is set in a physically fragile environment between unstable slopes and ancient structures in urgent need of conservation and restoration. Geomorphological studies were performed for the analysis and monitoring of the landslide involving the historic area of Agrigento (Italy), whose stability is threatened by retrogressive landslide processes. Up to 2-5 mm/year displacement are observed in 1992-2008 on the staircase and the lift aisle of the ancient Cathedral of the town (11th Century). Displacement acceleration to 13-15 mm/yr is measured in July 2006-May 2007. The areas moving at higher rates, located at the edge of the NW slope of Agrigento hill, which is made by a typical transgressive succession of a sandy-clay sequence with various calcarenite bodies (Agrigento formation). This sequence are probably discontinuously, on clay soils from the Middle-Upper Pliocene (Monte Narbone Formation). The area has been unstable since 1315, involving both the little-welded, very porous and fractured calcarenitic sections (E-W) from Pleistocene and the clay layers interstratified within these sections. Since 1924, from time to time, various typologies of disruption have occurred: falls, flows and more complex phenomena. From 2007 until now the collapse has been the object of several studies that used different research techniques (interferometric, aerial and satellite images analysis, geognostic and geo-physical surveys, etc.) as well as of a permanent monitoring activity. In order to rebuilding the geological model and identifying the typology of the landslide phenomenon, we analyzed all the available data. This analysis will be support to the most suitable solution to mitigate the risk and safeguard the monuments and houses located in this area.

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TECHNOGENIC LANDSCAPE OF NARROW GAUGE RAILWAYS IN ROMANIA AND THEIR TOURISTIC VALENCES

Author(s): Liviu Apostol,Viorel Paraschiv,Adrian V. Ursu / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

Nowadays, the functional maintenance of narrow gauge railways, which still exist, with a very old infrastructure, is costly taking into consideration their low economic profitability. Competition and facilities offered by road transport, infrastructure development of forest roads which are easier to maintain, uncontrolled deforestation over the regenerative capacity of forest, economic conversion of many mining regions have also contributed to the disappearance of many forestry and mining railways. Saving the last lines that still exist in Europe, located in Romania is an obligation of mountain communities; one of the easiest ways of economic viability is the railway tourism and the arranged museums of old railway technique. In Romania, there is still in operation the only narrow gauge forest railway in Europe.

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THE ROLE OF FEASIBILITY STUDY IN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INVESTMENTS

Author(s): STEFANIA-ALINA ROTARU / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

Investments in environmental protection are thought of as a tool of change, for after their successful completion, such investments will have a major impact on people, by changing their lifestyle, and on the environment. It is important that the investment implies minimum costs, including operating costs, for any operating costs will be covered by the fee the operator charges the beneficiaries – the individuals (the community) – so they can afford to pay for the services rendered and the operator affords to perform the object of the investment. We must have in view that a balanced investment, on the one hand, and the need to increase the fees, on the other hand, will probably lead to mutual dependence. Therefore, carefully planning the investment projects and conducting a feasibility study that covers clear options for low investment and operating costs as well as an economic and financial analysis, are essential elements enabling us to access new funding channels, especially European Union funds.

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THE GEODIVERSITY OF THE TERCEIRA AND THE PICO ISLANDS IN THE AZORES ARCHIPELAGO AS PATTERNS OF A MODEL WHICH CAN BE FOUND IN OTHER ATLANTIC ISLANDS

Author(s): Maria Teresa Mira de Azevêdo / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

The location of the volcanic Azores archipelago and it’s Plateau in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and over the Middle Oceanic Ridge (MAR) confers on the respective islands a very peculiar geodiversity. An extensive variety of lithologies and volcanic cones in the nine islands, also contributes for a spectacular landscape attracting tourists from all over the world. The main goal of this paper is to open a highly controversial discussion on the findings of artefacts which indicate a human presence in the Azores Archipelago long before the 1430 arrival of the Portuguese sailors described in the Portuguese and World History. Two of the nine islands that form the archipelago were chosen due to the archaeological findings which comprise, till today, more than one hundred scaled pyramids, dolmens, menhirs, cart-ruts, several hypogea, columbaria, rock basins and thousands of inscriptions in the stones delimiting the agricultural lands.

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MANAGEMENT OF THE PROTECTED AREA OF TSINJORIAKE IN SOUTH-WEST OF MADAGASGAR: A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THE SUCCESS OF A CONSERVATION AND INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT PROJECT

Author(s): Bernard Koto,Francis Veriza / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

In Madagascar, the implementation of a national land-use planning scheme is part of a new strategy for consensual and concerted development and management of a highly dynamic geographical area. The participative and evolving approach clearly redefines the respective roles of all development actors (public administration, national and international technical and financial partners, development projects and programs, local communities) and requires better coordination of priorities and coherence of their well-targeted actions to be undertaken. It is within this framework that a territorial planning law is elaborated and approved by the parliament to support a reasoned allocation of the national territory, a balanced and co-managed development through an improvement of the quality of the landscapes and the good management and development of the country's natural resources and development opportunities. Moreover, a shared and co-responsible vision of the development of the territory, which is an appropriated land, requires a systemic approach of all the dynamics linked to the socio-cultural and economical changes of the country.

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NATURAL FACTORS AND CURRENT GEOMORPHOLOGICAL PROCESSES IN THE HYDROGRAPHIC BAHNA BASIN. INTERDEPENDENCIES AND DEVELOPMENT

Author(s): MIHAI-BOGDAN VLADU / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

The current geomorphological processes are occurring under the influence of factors that determine the type of agents and morphological processes, their pace and intensity and, not at least, their distribution. In Bahna basin, the dominant processes are alterations, linear erosion and fallings forming debris. Adding to this, there are also current slope processes with predominant blocks detachment, rain erosion, moderate on the surface. The construction of the Iron Gates I dam had an important role in the development of current processes. The formation of the Iron Gates I water storage lake on the lower course of Bahna River led to the occurrence of some lacustrine processes and the adjustment of the basic level through the estuary invasion.

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