Full text .pdf For centuries on end, the Petroşani Depression, – one of the very few in the Southern Carpathians – has been a vast pastureland that helped the development of pastoral life. But, the discovery and exploitation of rich …
Seventy years ago Professor Ion Conea, a famous Romanian geographer and toponymist, suggested that, when not modified by officials, place-names are like ´some condensed description of the country’ (Conea 1928). In Romania there are, broadly speaking, three types of place-names: first, traditional placenames which are unchanged; second, traditional place-names which have been slightly changed so that they conform with the modern Romanian language; and third, new place-names which have been imposed by the authorities. In Romania, as in other regions of Europe, there are many settlement names (oikonymes) which fall into this third category and these form the focus of the paper. There are two periods of Romanian modern history during which place names have been changed on a wide scale. The first was in the decades following independence in 1878 and continuing up to the Second World War. The second, when the replacement of traditional place names was most widespread, was during the communist period (1948-1989).
Full text .pdf The paper present some problems of the developement and geographical repartition of the transport system, telecommunication networks and public services in Romania in the last part of the 20th century and their influence on the settlement system. …
Full text .pdf This paper analyses the state of health of the Romanian population between 1990 and 2000. This was assessed through the use of an aggregate index obtained from well-established indicators of the state of health such as general …
The recent dynamics of the Romanian population health state within a European context Read more »
Full text .pdf This article is developing a theoretical introduction and presentation of concepts, principles and development strategies in sustainable tourism. A detailed presentation of all the theoretical concepts concerning sustainable development and its tourism dimension is included further focusing …
Principles and practice of sustainable tourism planning Read more »
„Geopolitical aspects of Jewish presence in the Romanian Principalities, during the Middle Ages” is probably one of the very few scientific articles about the geopolitical role of Jewish existence in Romanian territory during the last centuries. Few historians dared to deal with this topic, as it was regarded a very delicate issue. The author is the only geographer that managed to show us some geopolitical aspects regarding the immense role of this ethnic group in the political, economical and social life of the Romanian people during the Middle Ages. Based on various sources of information, and expressing all the facts from a geographical point of view, the author offers us an analytic study of the geopolitical role of Jews who had settled in Romanian territory between XIVth and XVIIIth centuries. Interesting facts are revealed regarding the way Romanian ‘voivodes’ came to the throne and the help they received from the Jews.
Full text .pdf There is much confusion about ecotourism. For many people it seems to be agro-tourism, rural tourism etc. The study tries to point again what does it meant and how sustainable and useful can be for this area. …
Full text .pdf External environment of tourism company is composed from economic, technical, socialdemographic, juridical, ecological and management factors that can influence directly or indirectly the company evolution. In the present, the target of strategic management of external environment investigation …
Considering the aspect of preoccupations of the population, the health care represents a constant line, the quality of a medical assistance becoming an important element of individual security, or on the contrary, of insecurity. The quality of the medical services is differently perceived from one life style to another, from a community to another, in the rural environment the medical need is less than in the urban one. On the other hand, the territorial village surgeries often provide only the role of local health status and of transferring centers for the sick to the urban medical units (the hospital in Câmpulung, for small affections, and the one in Pitesti or Bucharest, for the urgent affections)
Full text .pdf Dans le cas des petites villes, parmi les facteurs socio-économiques, un rôle important est attribué au niveau de formation de la population, mais aussi à la pauvreté de la population de la majorité des unités urbaines de cette …