Archive: 2008

• Man induced impact on the environment as a result of hydrocarbons’ exploitations within the Amaradia hills

  Viorica TOMESCU, Liliana POPESCU, Elisabeta CIOCAN, Cristina MARA, Ştefan NEGREANU Abstract: The contents of the present research comprises the case studies of two areas, which are referential for the exploitation of hydrocarbons in the Amaradia Hills, with major impact on the environment: Brădeşti area, in the south-west of the region and Vârteju area, situated norther,...
  
  
• Criteria for the thermal comfort analysis within urban ecosystems

  Ioan MARINESCU, John WOOLNER Abstract: The understanding and evaluation of thermal comfort in urban ecosystem is a basic need for bioclimatic urban design including the green urban structures contribution. The study aims at establishing a set of criteria for the assessment and dynamic analysis of thermal conditions in close relation with extended knowledge about urban...
  
  
• The temporary lowering of water level from the phreatic of Jiu river meadow in the western area of Craiova municipality. Case study: West Gate Mall

  Constantin ENACHE, Oana IONUŞ Abstract: In order to carry out the foundation of WEST GATE MALL establishment, because the phreatic water level proved to be 1-2 m higher than the geotechnical study preestablished one, it was necessary its temporary lowering. For this problem to be solved we have suggested a double series of drillings with...
  
  
• Extreme hydrological phenomena in the hydrographical basin of the Danube. The floods from the spring of 2006 along the Oltenian sector of the river

  Extreme hydrological phenomena in the hydrographical basin of the Danube. The floods from the spring of 2006 along the Oltenian sector of the...
  
  
• Land use and impact on slope modelling within the Sebes river basin

  Marioara COSTEA Abstract: The Sebeş basin represents a morphohydrographical entity, covering a surface of 1,289 square km, at the contact of the Southern Carpathian Mountains with the Transylvania Depression. The combined action of both the internal and the external factors determined a distinctive evolution of the relief within the basin, which is subordinated to the...
  
  
• Targu Jiu: The analysis of environmental perception and usage of a living environment

  Simona MĂLĂESCU Abstract: The one who aims at investigating the way in which a life environment is perceived and used by the residents – as a basis for the analysis of the way in which that particular space is gradually modified and structured – methodologically, to try replacing or avoiding methods that already made a...
  
  
• The role of architecture in the cultural tourism of Sighisoara

  Camelia TEODORESCU, Elisabeta CIOCAN Abstract: The architecture of Sighişoara is represented by a mixture of styles in which Gothic, Renaissance and baroque elements are found. The urbanistic structure has been preserved through all the defining elements of the Medieval period. The great density of architectural monuments: public buildings, the dwellings that make up the assembly,...
  
  
• To be or not to be afraid of globalization in tourism?

  Mirela MAZILU Abstract: In the context of Romania’s recent adherence to the European Union, the tourism represents one of the real opportunities that the near future offers to our country. Or, the gained experience, existent facilities and prices competitiveness are factors that recommend Romania as an attractive destination but, in the same time, the imperative...
  
  
• Using G.I.S. for identifying mobility problems in Milan city

  Sorin AVRAM, Ştefan NEGREANU Abstract: Becoming an indispensable instrument in the integrated management of settlements, GIS has become very useful for territorial organization, the fluidization of the traffic representing the priority problem from both the environmental and the social costs point of view. Thus, through various informatical systems and mathematical modeling, a series of thematical...
  
  
• The systematization of the navigation and communication ways at Iron Gates until the end of the 19th century

  Florian OLTEANU, Ionuţ ŞERBAN Abstract: The authors aimed to present the evolution in time of the main arrangements made in the Iron Gates area. The engineer works during the emperor Trajan’s epoch are shortly presented; they have been taken back only in the 19th century, at the initiative of the Austria-Hungary. The originality is represented...
  
  
• Current changes in the structure of agricultural fields use in the rural geographical area of the Bailesti plain

  Anca CEAUŞESCU, Diana PĂUNOIU Abstract: The Băileşti Plain, a physico-geographical subunit of the Oltenia Plain ranges among the regions of the country where the agricultural branch clearly dominates as an economic activity. The favorability of the natural background allowed the outline of a landed macrostructure in which the main percentage is held by the agricultural...
  
  
• Orientations and tendencies in the didactic methodology for the initial formation of the teaching staff

  Alexandrina Mihaela POPESCU Abstract: The training centered on the pupil gains ground in the theory and the Romanian educational practice, fact that determines the formation of the professor in this sense. In these conditions of the change of the paradigm, the initial preparation of the professor acquires consistency and quality by means of the cognitive...
  
  
• The formation of an ecological ethic / environmental education’s utmost objective

  Mihaela Aurelia ŞTEFAN Abstract: We live today in a world defined by the following parameters: change, speed, complexity, globalization. Defending and improving the environment for present and future generations have become people’s primary objective, a task whose implementation will be coordinated and harmonized to achieve the fundamental objectives laid down already, peace and economic and...
  
  
• The carpathian-danubian-pontic space, the geographical area of the birth of the romanian christianity

  Petre MOCANU Abstract: The activities undertaken by Constantine the Great in the Danube, but particularly in the north of them, will contribute not only to return the territory part of borders in Dacia Traian Empire, but also to strengthen of the Romanity and the large spread of Christianity. This activity is resulting in a first...
  
  
• Free zones. Some theoretical aspects

  Silviu COSTACHIE Abstract: The study presents some theoretical aspects regarding the most important functional construction specific to nowadays economic context: free zones. There are presented the main theoretical concepts regarding these zones, the historical evolution of the term and concept, but also the examples referring to the specific subtypes of this functional construction. Also, there...
  
  
• “Regional development and european integration” research center, University of Bucharest

  Silviu COSTACHIE The University of Bucharest represents the first institution of upper education in Romania, having a tradition of over 140 years in the didactic field and, in the same time, of theoretical and applicative research in our country. It is not surprising that the most distinguished scientists of the modern and contemporary society came...