Papers by Bianca Dumitrescu
Societies, 2021
The structural changes brought about by the collapse of the communist system also included the re... more 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. The present study aims to highlight the way in which the schoolbooks in Romania bring into the memory of the young generation a strictly secret episode in recent (pre-1990) history: anti-communist dissent. Two categories of methods were used: researching the data and information contained in history textbooks and other bibliographic sources on anti-communist dissent in Romania in the overall socio-political context of that era; and assessing—with the help of a set of surveys—the degree of assimilation by young people in Romania of the knowledge about communism conveyed through textbooks. Research points to the conclusion that the Romanian cu...
Knowledge Horizons - Economics, 2011
The tourism development of an area is an ongoing process of designing tourism facilities, the ren... more The tourism development of an area is an ongoing process of designing tourism facilities, the renewal of the existing ones, their dimensioning according to the changes of the tourism demand and supply and most important rendering the tourism activity efficient. According to the realities of the geographical space, the focus of the present study rivets on differentiating certain typologies and principles of tourism development in an area strongly affected by the economic streamlining following the effects that the tourism development has had upon the social and economic reality of the area. Apart from the analysis of the development of the Straja resort, the author realized a diagnostic analysis of the territory underlining the favourable agents for tourism activities, and in the same time the necessary steps that need to be taken in order to ensure the optimal development of the area. The detailed analysis included a series of parameters among which we name a few: number of sky slop...
Sustainable Development Potential of Rural Communities in the Brasov County. Case-Study Fagaras Depression
Journal of Tourism Challenges and Trends, 2008
Tourism is one of the economic sectors with real long-term development opportunities for the loca... more Tourism is one of the economic sectors with real long-term development opportunities for the local communities, provided the specific offer which could create revenues and jobs for the villagers in other fields than the common, basic ones is enlarged. At the same time, this experience may contribute to enhancing inter-human exchanges. Tourism may put to account the natural potential (which cannot be exported but may become an important export source at local level), historical and cultural availabilities, on condition that sustainable development principles are promoted and observed. As society is obviously evolving, tourism has been recording both a national and an international upsurge. Basic tourism resources are the natural environment, its quality and aesthetic attributes. Their sustainable development may contribute towards harmonising and pushing forward some regions by way of stimulating and balancing economic growth at national, regional and local levels (Candea, Bran. 2001...
Geographica Pannonica, 2010
Theoretical and methodological considerations The contradiction between institutional divisi� on ... more Theoretical and methodological considerations The contradiction between institutional divisi� on of the territory and the e�istence of cross�bor� and the e�istence of cross�bor� der issues that have requested a unitary approach and consequently a cross�border cooperation led to the appearance of new types of regional coop� eration structures. Which coincide with the state frontiers: cross-border zones and Euroregions. This kind of cooperation should take into consideration the fact that between the two cross�border zones there is a strip of frontier and, most of the times, there are different legislations that induce differ� ent requests regarding the cooperation framework. Consequently, the braking up process represents the main threat to the cross�border regions; if this process is not properly coordinated at the central level, there is the risk of loosing control, the cross� border region gravitating towards one of the co� participant states. The issues that fuel the dynamic of the cross� border zones are part of the level of harmonization of the policy for the development of the two cross� border zones that come in contact. The areas sit� uated on each side of the border have, or have not the tendency to evolve in the same way, as a result of central and local policy, but also the local specif� ic situations, which impose the cross�border zone type. Cross-border zones. Types of cross-border zones Largely speaking, the cross�border zone stands for the space situated on each side of the frontier, with breadths varying between 30 and 60 km, charac� terized by a clear variation of human and mate�
Sustainable Development Potential of Rural Communities in the Brasov County. Case-Study Fagaras Depression
Journal of Tourism Challenges and Trends, 2008
Urban Industry Intra-Regional Disparities of the South-West Development Region (Romania). Present-Day Dynamics and Evolution Trends
Fluxurile globalizante contribuie la extinderea culturii globale de consum în întreaga lume în de... more 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 tradiţionale. Însǎ tot în legislaţia europeanǎ se aflǎ reglementǎri stricte privind produsele tradiţionale şi produsele cu denumiri de origine, acestea fiind considerate elemente definitorii ale civilizaţiei locale, tradiţionale, ce pot contribui la dezvoltarea unor comunitǎţi locale prin creşterea diversificǎrii ocupaţionale ca urmare a atragerii de turişti prin programe specifice, prin dezvoltarea agriculturii şi a micii industrii. Implementarea acestora în practicǎ la nivelul ruralului românesc continuǎ însǎ sǎ rǎmânǎ o sarcinǎ dificilǎ, pe fondul sǎrǎciei generalizate şi a lipsei unor veritabile mǎsuri de sprijinire a iniţiativelor antreprenoriale în mediul rural. Cuvinte cheie: cultură globală de consum, civilizaţie tradiţională, satul românesc, mărci înregistrate, iniţiative antreprenoriale.
La politique et son rôle dans la création de couches architecturales. Etude de cas: Bucarest. Le ... more La politique et son rôle dans la création de couches architecturales. Etude de cas: Bucarest. Le développement de l'espace bâti et de l'infrastructure de la ville est la conséquence de l'évolution de la puissance financière de la ville. En Roumanie, l'industrialisation et l'importation de modèles architecturaux influencés par des décisions politiques sont les plus importantes caractéristiques des villes contemporaines. C'est pourquoi, la présence de nombreux couches architecturales (nord-américaine d'entre les deux guerres mondiales, architecture de la période staliniste soviétique, de la Corée du Nord et de la nouvelle architecture américaine) est considérée étroitement liée avec la politique de ce pays pendant le 20-ème siècle.
Development is a process illustrating a system's positive dynamics, as well as its quantitati... more Development is a process illustrating a system's positive dynamics, as well as its quantitative and qualitative transformations. The economic territorial disparities are shaped by the action of such factors as local resources, geographical position, regional development background, the infrastructure of transport and telecommunications, labour potential, investments, local, regional and international partnership, the capacity of the local/regional administration to obtain European funding, etc. In the economy of Arad County, agriculture and forestry, which have a significant potential for development, are dependent on the biological, soil and climatic conditions of the relief steps; agriculture and related services (210 firms) are better developed in the lowlands, especially at Cermei, Horia, Iratoşu, Olari, Sânleani, and Şiria, while forestry is specific to the mountainous area (Dezna, Moneasa, Buteni, Avram Iancu, and Săvârşin); industrial activities are wide-ranging mostly in...
Analele științifice ale Universității" Al. I. Cuza" …, 2007
Support system for urban water management decisions. Elaboration of a database module structure. ... more Support system for urban water management decisions. Elaboration of a database module structure. This was the first step in analysing the impact of the types and domains of the urban ecosystem on the structure of the periurban space by distinctive levels of space organisation (macro-territorial, mezzo-territorial and micro-territorial). The size of these levels is determined in terms of the complexity of the whole. Furthermore, the particular traits of various types of town-periurban space biunivocal impact were identified in relation to the relief potential by taking into account the distribution of towns by big relief units and hypsometric steps, as well as their position against the waterways. The purpose was to assess territorial expansion and the limits of the suburban systems to be studied in the future stages of research. While physiognomy often poses no other problems but the explanation of the succession of major sequences, unveiling the character of energy, substance and information fluxes was particularly challanging. Assessment of environmental potential. The next step was to assess the environmental potential as a premiss for defining the extent of town vulnerability to various types of flooding. Assessing environmental potential is a very complex undertaking based in principal on the knowledge of the resources and present condition of towns. Micro-territorial assessments proceed from a detailed analysis of major components in the light of the particularities of the analysed geosystem. Evaluating geological, geomorphological, topoclimatic, biogeographical, hydrological and other resources raises no technical or methodological difficulties. Assessment of human impact on the geosystem. This is a basic aspect in detecting critical areas / points, that is, the thresholds of those geosystems in which the imbalance between consumption of resources and available resorces is so great that the whole territorial system risks to be degraded.
The post-1950 economic and social changes imposed by the political factor placed the heavy indust... more The post-1950 economic and social changes imposed by the political factor placed the heavy industry, steel in particular, as primary element in a "trophic chain" meant to supply tools and equipments to the national economy. This economic policy was not in any way new or specific to Romania alone. It was the haulmark of economic development for all the former East-European communist countries. The setting up of industrial units within urban structures, insufficiently developed to assimilate them effectively, engendered severe dysfunctionalities in the industrialised towns themselves and throughout the urban system. The work discusses a few consequences of planting some mammoth steel industries in three towns with a different demographic pattern: Galaţi, Târgovişte and Oţelu Roşu.
Typologies related to floods vulnerability of the Romanian towns. The analysis of the causes that... more Typologies related to floods vulnerability of the Romanian towns. The analysis of the causes that generate the extreme hydrologic events in Romania within the last three years leads us to the identification of five categories of towns related to floods vulnerability. There are conditioned on one hand by the geographical position in relation to morphology and hydrography and on the other hand to human impact (transport infrastructure, upstream hydrotehnic arrangements and especially to sewage systems). On this base, we were able to identify towns vulnerable to floods having as mainspring: the misfit sewerage systems, the accumulation of waters from the proximate slopes, the feckless drainage system, the overflowing of the neighbouring rivers and the consequence of giving away the upstream hydrotehnic works. All these typologies were synthesized and transposed into cartographic display.
Typologies related to floods vulnerability of the Romanian towns. The analysis of the causes that... more Typologies related to floods vulnerability of the Romanian towns. The analysis of the causes that generate the extreme hydrologic events in Romania within the last three years leads us to the identification of five categories of towns related to floods vulnerability. There are conditioned on one hand by the geographical position in relation to morphology and hydrography and on the other hand to human impact (transport infrastructure, upstream hydrotehnic arrangements and especially to sewage systems). On this base, we were able to identify towns vulnerable to floods having as mainspring: the misfit sewerage systems, the accumulation of waters from the proximate slopes, the feckless drainage system, the overflowing of the neighbouring rivers and the consequence of giving away the upstream hydrotehnic works. All these typologies were synthesized and transposed into cartographic display.
Fluxurile globalizante contribuie la extinderea culturii globale de consum în întreaga lume în de... more 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 tradiţionale. Însǎ tot în legislaţia europeanǎ se aflǎ reglementǎri stricte privind produsele tradiţionale şi produsele cu denumiri de origine, acestea fiind considerate elemente definitorii ale civilizaţiei locale, tradiţionale, ce pot contribui la dezvoltarea unor comunitǎţi locale prin creşterea diversificǎrii ocupaţionale ca urmare a atragerii de turişti prin programe specifice, prin dezvoltarea agriculturii şi a micii industrii. Implementarea acestora în practicǎ la nivelul ruralului românesc continuǎ însǎ sǎ rǎmânǎ o sarcinǎ dificilǎ, pe fondul sǎrǎciei generalizate şi a lipsei unor veritabile mǎsuri de sprijinire a iniţiativelor antreprenoriale în mediul rural.
Territorial Balancing of Poles of Development
Romanian Review of …
... municipality Drăgăşani. Page 4. ADRIANA VARTANOFF, CLAUDIA POPESCU, BIANCA DUMITRESCU 18 Only... more ... municipality Drăgăşani. Page 4. ADRIANA VARTANOFF, CLAUDIA POPESCU, BIANCA DUMITRESCU 18 Only ... and equipment. No urban settlement in the countiesGiurgiu, MehedinŃi, and Ilfov fit in this size class. Excepting ...
La politique et son rôle dans la création de couches architecturales. Etude de cas: Bucarest. Le ... more La politique et son rôle dans la création de couches architecturales. Etude de cas: Bucarest. Le développement de l'espace bâti et de l'infrastructure de la ville est la conséquence de l'évolution de la puissance financière de la ville. En Roumanie, l'industrialisation et l'importation de modèles architecturaux influencés par des décisions politiques sont les plus importantes caractéristiques des villes contemporaines. C'est pourquoi, la présence de nombreux couches architecturales (nord-américaine d'entre les deux guerres mondiales, architecture de la période staliniste soviétique, de la Corée du Nord et de la nouvelle architecture américaine) est considérée étroitement liée avec la politique de ce pays pendant le 20-ème siècle.
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