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WATER SUPPLY AND SEWAGE SYSTEM WITHIN BĂILEȘTI PLAIN

March 9, 2025 /
Lavinia CRIȘU Andreea-Gabriela ZAMFIR Daniel-Alin SIMULESCU – –

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This article evaluates the implementation status of water supply and sewer systems in Băilești Plain, as a response to the alignment with the objectives of the National Sustainable Development Strategy 2030. The length of the water supply network and the sewer system was analyzed at the administrative-territorial unit (ATU) level and their correlation with the population in each ATU was assessed. The potable water distribution network is approximately 900 km, which is insufficient for the population in the region. Furthermore, the sewer network has a low level of implementation in rural areas, not yet reaching the objectives set by the strategies and Oltenia Water Company (OWC), namely providing access to essential utilities for the population.

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Sustainable tourism development – an applied model of the Bucegi mountains

December 31, 2021 /
Mirela Elena MAZILU Ionuț-Adrian DRĂGULEASA 10.52846/AUCSG.22.1.06 10.52846/AUCSG.22.1.06

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The planning and management of the Bucegi Mountains require tools which allow a broad and essential view in order to identify the tendencies and promotion of some balanced projects of development. Based on the connection between the development of tourism, specific activities and touristic destination, the Bucegi Mountains capitalize the presence of some touristic facilities and technical-utility features which may ease the capitalisation, mainly, of the natural potential – support for the practice of various forms of tourism: mountainous tourism, recreation tourism, adventure tourism, cave diving, etc. The most important principles of sustainable tourism can be applied to all forms of tourism, including the niche tourism. Consequently, the way some forms of tourism are practised in natural reserve areas must maintain the essential ecological process, so as the aesthetical values or the cultural authenticity of the host communities to promote the traditional values or the cultural-historical patrimony. Thus, sustainable tourism must contribute to the reduction of the risk of poverty in the local communities.

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Environmental management systems, instruments to achieve sustainable development goals

January 31, 2021 /

Lavinia CRIȘU Cristian RĂDUCĂ

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We are witnessing an intensification of efforts to align states to “Transforming our world,” imposed by the need to maintain the balance between the environment, society, and the economy. The article signals the emergence of National Sustainable Development Strategy 2030 and its main objectives. The management systems required by an organization to manage environmental aspects are presented in a comparative manner: The Community Environmental Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) and ISO 14001: 2015 Standard – “Environmental Management Systems. Requirements with user guide “. The authors appreciate that at the level of organizations, experience in the field of ISO certification: 9001 and 14001 has to be capitalized to meet sustainable development goals. It is highlighted the fact that certification of any environmental management system (EMAS and / or ISO guidelines) brings benefits for sustainable development through better use of raw materials and resources. Proposals are made on continuous training with new concepts, collaboration between certification bodies and authorities.
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Risk and resilience in the sustainable development of tourism

January 14, 2017 /

Mirela MAZILU

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Tourism does not occur out of “nothingness”, an indefinite space, but it is an activity inserted in a particular geographical and sociocultural entity developed in a certain historical-political-geographic space and which has its own centres for potential, power and sustainable development force, interest groups, etc., with a special consistency and resiliency.
The significant resilience of Romanian tourism is that ability to withstand shocks, even to adapt well to “n” challenging situations like the economic crisis, the latest attacks launched in major capitals and tourist destinations (Istanbul, Paris, flues of all kinds, either avian or swine, the war in Ukraine, which favoured the development of cruise tourism, etc.), from which the Romanian tourism has emerged victorious, transforming many of these “shocks” into opportunities, emerging ever more powerful on the regional and international tourism market, itself subject to multiple metamorphoses.

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Land use and land cover dynamics in the Danube floodplain – Drobeta-Turnu Severin – Bechet sector

February 18, 2015 /

Mihaela LICURICI

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The present paper analyses the context, nature, intensity and effects of the changes in the land use and land cover within the Danube Floodplain, between Drobeta Turnu-Severin and Bechet. The study follows the changes undertaken by the natural environment during ca. two hundred years (end of 18th century – present day).
As land use involves the transformation and management of the natural elements to the human benefit, the environmental changes within the Danube Floodplain were less the result of natural conditions and mostly the outcome of human impact. The latter exerted a highly significant influence mainly through the construction of longitudinal or partition flood-protection dykes, of the irrigation or drainage canals network, but also through the agricultural use of large surfaces naturally covered with water, forests, or reed. Nevertheless, the importance of the natural processes in the study of land use/land cover shows a growing trend over the last decades, when especially climatic changes are taken into consideration.
The importance of the present research is furthermore underlined by the strong connection that exist among the land use/land cover change and the dynamics of biological diversity, risk phenomena and sustainable development within this damaged environment, in the framework of its particular natural and social-demographical features.

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Environmental protection and sustainable development in the Danube floodplain, the Drobeta Turnu-Severin – Bechet sector

December 28, 2010 / / 0 Comments

Mihaela LICURICI

Abstract: The floodplain sector under analysis is located in the south-western extreme part of Romania, covering a distance of about 260 kilometres between the towns of Drobeta Turnu-Severin (westwards) and Bechet (eastwards) and extending on variable breadths, from a few tens of meters to more than 14 kilometres (with greater extension near the settlements of Ciuperceni and Cârna). In the framework of its strategic and economic importance, of the food sources offered by the Danube floodplain and ponds, the human interventions within this unit were diverse and affected the balance and the metabolism of the natural ecosystems. In numerous cases, this type of intervention, under its multiple forms, led to irreversible changes of the environmental features. The present paper aims at analysing the theoretical and actual conservation status of the most important flora, fauna and habitat elements that are characteristic to the Danubian environment, as well as presenting some examples of good practices or financing sources that might contribute to the improvement of this approach in the prospect of the region’s sustainable development. The SWOT analysis allowed for a general, synthetic assessment of the quality of the environmental sub-systems within the Danube Floodplain sector under analysis and of their development possibilities in concordance with the sustainability principles.

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