Nicoleta Damian

• Romanian Academy

Cultural tourism plays a growing role both in tourists’ preferences and in tourism development options in many regions of the world. This paper examines how businesses in the Buzău Carpathians and Sub-Carpathians, a predominantly rural region where tourism relies heavily on the natural landscapes and cultural heritage, perceive cultural tourism. Th...

Millions of people from Ukraine have been forced to flee their homes to seek safety, protection, and assistance owing to armed conflict. This study aims to draw a parallel between the meaning and importance of the initial impact of Russian military aggression in February 2022 and the recent plight of Ukrainian refugees on Romania's territory. It is...

Cultural tourism (CT), although considered by some “friendly tourism”, has its impacts, being perceived by more and more people and communities as a force of change through its diversification. This study is aimed at exploring CT’ in Buzău Carpathians and Subcarpathians (BSC) perception by residents using the interview method, targeting three main...

In recent years, the climate services market has increased significantly, especially in the Western European countries where they have become widely utilised in both the public and private sectors. In Romania, there is no specialised platform for those kinds of services, and the sector is in its beginnings. The current study is based on sociologica...

The issue of refugees pertains to the permanent elements of historical reflection on the mass movement of people or the phenomenon of migration. The military aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine not only ignited a hot spot on the conflict map of Europe, but also triggered a cascade of events difficult to anticipate. A direct result...

Scientific collaboration between Polish and Romanian geographers is based on a very good and long tradition. It was long developed between human and physical geographers alike. The common bilateral projects had in view aspects related to the impact of natural and human process on the planning of mountain and hilly areas, the social-economic transfo...

This article highlights the problems faced by teachers, students, parents and authorities in Romania during the Coronavirus pandemic, as well as their management in the general context of the health crisis unfolding in this country. The documentation regarding Romania was compiled mainly on the basis of official reports and information taken from t...

Delta regions are compound socio-ecological systems increasingly exposed to various multi-hazards (e.g., drought, flooding). The Danube Delta, one of the most complex wetland areas in Europe, and one of the most vulnerable regions when it comes to drought, defined by its key vulnerable categories: women, children, the elderly population, the unempl...

The COVID-19 pandemic was and continues to be a major challenge for tourist activities worldwide. Cultural tourism was mostly hit because of the social distancing measures, travel restrictions and ban on people gatherings for cultural events. The current study is trying to provide an overall image of the challenges local cultural tourism has faced...

In Romania, the state of healthcare infrastructure and health state of the population are influenced by the evolution of the economy, which represents a key element in the development of the Romanian society, both from a social, as well as from an economic point of view. Although the health situation has improved over the years through the introduc...

In Romania, the immediate effects of the pandemic have revealed a strain on food supply chains due to the limitations related to social distancing between producers/deliverers/consumers. The paper aims to identify and analyze the resilience of small farmers in southern Romania (i.e., Bucharest Metropolitan Area) to the new conditions imposed by the...

This article aims to highlight the impact on local development of traditional economic activities. The case study that the authors consider concerns an area in the Romanian Carpathians developed through transhumant grazing and forestry activities: Mărginimea Sibiului. As shepherding kept developing, forest-cutting intensified to make room for pastu...

As part of the eastern border of the European Union, the Romanian-Ukrainian frontier is discontinuous and made up of two distinct sectors: the Carpathian one and the Danubian one. They are representative for the existence of cross-border ethnic communities as a result of specific historical and geopolitical circumstances. The paper aims to analyze...

Cities and metropolitan areas are becoming increasingly vulnerable to various environmental and socio-economic disturbances, posing a growing concern to food security, public health and well-being. This chapter intends to address two concepts that have only recently been addressed together – urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPUA) and nature-based...

Since 1990, many Chinese immigrants have come to Romania. These Chinese persons are full time involved in the profitable wholesale and retail trade activities; they have families and children, cared for by Romanian nannies. The study is focused on the particularities of an intercultural dialogue, unique and recenlty highlighted in the Romanian soci...

The secondary sector of the Romanian economy has in time suffered several modifications, the most important ones being linked to the political and legislative systems. The present paper, which analyses the secondary sector in the Romanian economy, relies on the following variables: the turnover, the employed population, net investments, as well as...

Organic farming is regarded as the most effective and environmentally friendly solution to the growing pressure on land resources as a result of population growth and urban demand for goods and services. In Romania, little research has been conducted on the geographical distribution of organic farming at regional level and no research at local leve...

The structural changes brought about by the collapse of the communist system also included the reconfiguration of social memory, so that future generations have a more objective imagining of the impact of the communist period on the societies from Central and Eastern Europe. In this view, the depoliticization of recent history is a top priority. Th...

Migration is one of the drivers of population change in Europe. Out-migration has become a relatively new phenomenon for Romania, especially after the fall of communism and the accession to the European Union. According to EUROSTAT, Romania ranks fifth in the out-migration hierarchy at EU level. The present study aims to provide an insight on the i...

The assessment and identification of risk/vulnerable groups and risk factors are vital elements that can help quantify the pandemic potential of the SARS‐CoV‐2 virus in order to plan prevention and treatment measures. The aim of the study is to identify a methodological approach of population vulnerability to the SARS‐CoV‐2 virus infection. The stu...

As part of the eastern border of the European Union, the Romanian-Ukrainian frontier is discontinuous and comprises two distinct sectors: the Carpathian sector and the Danubian one. They are representative for the existence of cross-border ethnic communities as a result of specific historical and geopolitical circumstances. The paper aims to analyz...

The implementation of the Association Agreement (AA), including the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA), between the EU and Ukraine has brought about a qualitatively new situation in the development of border regions and regional societies on both sides of the Schengen border. This volume’s comparative study of the impacts of the AA and...

In the context of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic crisis, declared by the World Health Organization in March, 2020, a sustainable and permanent solution was the development of an efficacious and safe vaccine against the virus. This study aims to be a picture of the vaccination process (VP), performed at the end of February, 2021, on the subject of the "pop...

Sustainable tourism is gaining importance in national agendas to encourage economic growth, social inclusion, and the protection of cultural and natural assets. More than 13 million tourists (10.6 mil. Romanians and 2.6 mil. foreigners) visited Romania in 2019, the fifth consecutive year of growth for the tourism sector. The authors have selected 1...

The article aims to analyze and compare the characteristics of the human and economic geography of the Romanian Danube Valley, as they are described by Emmanuel de Martonne in his book “Wallachia, an essay on geographic monography” comprising the current transformations of this region. The comparison gives us the opportunity to analyze the geograph...

Currently, Romania’s rural area is undergoing a restructuring process (demographic, economic, social) acquiring new dimensions and characteristics. In the current paper we focus on the social characteristics of the rural area of Romania, as a consequence of the economic restructuring. Its aim is to identify the current patterns of social developmen...

The effects of extreme climate phenomena (mainly heat-related) on agricultural crops, infrastructure and human health have become increasingly severe, varying between regions in response to the differences in the socioeconomic and environmental features. In Romania, heat-related phenomena (i.e. drought) are affecting extended areas in the southern...

The continuous population growth and built-up areas expansion requires an increasing urban demand for goods and services and a high pressure on land resources. As a result, farming adaptation around cities in a multifunctional way is a must in their effort to reach resilience, sustainability and food security. In Romania, agriculture in metropolita...

Since 1990s, many Chinese immigrants have come to Romania and they are numbering, nowadays, 2 017 people (83% of the total legal Chinese residents live in urban areas). The aim of this paper is to analyze the territorial, economic and socio-cultural hallmarks of the Chinese minority established in the Romanian urban areas. To meet this objective, b...

Since 1990s, many Chinese immigrants have come to Romania and they are numbering, nowadays, 2 017 people (83% of the total legal Chinese residents live in urban areas). The aim of this paper is to analyze the territorial, economic and socio-cultural hallmarks of the Chinese minority established in the Romanian urban areas. To meet this objective, b...

In-migration into the EU has become an important issue in recent decades, as an important component accounting for population changes in Europe. In contrast, it was after the fall of communism that out-migration grew into a major – but also relatively new – phenomenon affecting Romania. Especially after 2002, in which year Schengen visa requirement...

The Romanian sector of the Danube Valley covers a large area in which the life of resident communities is shaped by the river (1,075 km long). Exploring the links between the location of different ethnic minorities and the dwelling quality supposes to process and to map the statistical data provided by the National Institute of Statistics. Computin...

Currently, Romania’s rural area is undergoing a restructuring process, acquiring new demographic dimensions and characteristics. Since the first decade of the XXI century, the general dynamics of rural population was negative, as a consequence of the severe ageing, decreasing birth-rates and the upsurge of external migration. After decades of rural...

The current paper aims to provide a regional-level (Development Regions) assessment of the past changes in the agricultural land use pattern during the 1990-2006 period and to simulate future changes (2007-2050) in order to detect the main potential agricultural flows and their regional differences. The simulation was carried out through the CLUES...

The Romanian Danube Valley is an integral part of the Danube Region. According to the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR), a healthy and well‐educated population is the key issue for sustainable and coherent development of this territory. This paper aims to explore, at micro‐scale level (Local Administrative Units 2 – LAU2), the population's...

The quality of dwelling, one of the main components of the urban and rural living conditions, is the result of political, legislative, economic, demographic contexts. The present paper approaches the complex issues of dwelling quality in the Romanian Danube Valley, based on the territorial disparities (LAU2 level) of three types of statistical indi...

The aim of this study has been to assess changes in the land use and land cover pattern of an area where the geographical landscape has suffered deep-going man-made changes when farming land was been extended. The authors have reconstructed the land use and land cover pattern for a period of almost one hundred years (1912–2006), with highlight on t...

Infrastructure, particularly technical one, is basis of economic activities both in urban and rural areas. The Romanian sector of the Danube Valley covers a large area, in which the life of resident communities is shaped by the River (1,075 km long). At present, 266 local administrative units (LAU2) in the Ro-manian Danube Valley number 238 commune...

Romania plays an important part in the EU Danube Region Strategy as co-ordinator country together with Austria. Its main goal is the socio-economic development of the Danube Region with strict observance of environmental protection principles. It is a priority task of this country as most of the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve lies on its territory,...

Infrastructure, particularly technical one, is basis of economic activities both in urban and rural areas. The Romanian sector of the Danube Valley covers a large area, in which the life of resident communities is shaped by the River (1,075 km long). At present, 266 local administrative units (LAU2) in the Romanian Danube Valley number 238 communes...

REZUMAT Fluxurile globalizante contribuie la extinderea culturii globale de consum în întreaga lume în detrimentul elementelor locale, tradiţionale. În acest context, aderarea la Uniunea Europeană aduce în faţa satului românesc provocǎri complexe legate de generalizarea agriculturii intensive în detrimentul produselor locale, realizate prin tehnici...

As a territorial and socio-economic formation, the village represents the concrete expression of territorial permanence and continuity, directly relating to the genetic and dynamic factors of settlement phases and humanisation of the geographical space. Under the present conditions, a number of manifest phenomena are triggered by the decrease in bi...

Les perspectives de développement durable des communautés rurales dans le Delta du Danube. Le Delta du Danube est une entité géographique bien individualisée non seulement en termes des relations spécifiques qui sont établies entre les composantes du milieu naturel, mais aussi en termes des éléments qui définissent le contexte économique et social...

Différenciation territoriales du chômage et de la pauvreté dans les localités du Delta du Danube. La période de transition économique que traverse la Roumanie mais surtout la déclaration du Delta du Danube comme Réserve de la Biosphère ont conduit à des changements socioéconomiques qui ont obligé les communautés, la main d'oeuvre et les économies l...