The Evaluation of Environmental Quality in Romania

2011

Widely debated concept, at least in the last three decades, sustainable development remains an important objective of mankind, even in the third millennium. Objectives of sustainable development, in our country, are contained in several categories, which are grouped into „critical challenges” and „inter and trans-sectoral issues”. „Critical challenges”, according to this approach, are the „protect the environment” and „protection of

The report was prepared within the UNDP-GEF Project MP5-PIMS 3069, “Strengthening the Capacity to Integrate Environment and Natural Resources Management for Global Environmental Benefits (CB2)”. The goal was to review the two environmental procedures from procedural and methodological point of view in order to assess the effectiveness of their implementation in Romania. The analysis had two main objectives: i) to identify the problems (gaps, constrains and limitations) that affect the effectiveness of both procedures and ii) to propose measures to address the identified problems.

European Countryside, 2009

In the present study, our intention is to reveal the positive and negative aspects of living, in the rural communities appearing in Romania in the last 5-6 decades; often, these have occupied territories with astonishing natural landscapes, situated close to large rural settlements with a century-old history. If, from the perspective of the quality of the natural components of the environment, inside the perimeter of these settlements we can talk about extremely favorable habitat conditions, from the perspective of the access to utilities and technical facilities, we can identify a primitive, rudimentary lifestyle, whose only goal is most oftenly, the access of the minimum resources for subsistence. This case study has been made on two communities, situated at the contact between the Subcarpathians of Arges and the Iezer-Papusa and Leaota Mountains, respectively: the Gura Pravat village, a formal settlement, which extends along the left bank of the Argesel river, north of Namaiesti tourist village and an informal village situated on the left bank of the Dambovita river, inside the Complexe Reserve Cheile de la Cetateni.

2010

The metropolitan area is defined as an association on the basis of a voluntary partnership between urban and rural localities, where collaboration relations are established at different levels. The level of influence of the metropolitan area is established depending on the territory it organizes as a regional, national or international metropolis. As a result of the researches carried out, (inclusively in the DEMOS project) the Metropolitan Area of Bucharest (MAB) may include 61 administrative units within a radius of 50 km around the capital. In comparison to other capitals and metropolitan areas from Central and Eastern Europe (Berlin, Budapest, Prague, Warsaw), Bucharest occupies the fifth rank in terms of number of population and square kilometres, but it is ranking the first in terms of density (inhabitants/square kilometre), with 1266 inhabitants/ sq. km, in comparison to the second ranking city – Warsaw – having only 638 inhabitants/sq. km. This fact makes a strong argument f...

The main objective of the sustainable development is to find the ways of economic growth and development under a rational use of the natural common resources in order to preserve the regenerate resources and to use the non-regenerate resources in a manner which don't affect the future generations. For the beginning, the paper deals with the European environment policy, especially with the water sources' protection. Then, it is presented the situation from Romania. We analyse the causes of the water high pollution degree: the old cleaning stations, sewerage and collecting systems. The next step is to connect them to the regional distribution of the human agglomerations in Romania. The situation is analysing on regions, the worst situation being in Bucharest-Ilfov. Using the drinking water distribution and the sewerage system criteria, we can divide the Romania's population into three categories. A comparative analysis with the latest 12 Member States shows us that all those 11 countries have a better public water and sewerage network than Romania. As a result, we present the investment plan for the Romanian water system protection during 2007-2013, comparing with other Member States. In the end, we present the water systems regionalization in Romania as a solution to improve water resources protection. The final conclusion of the paper is that Romania has, once again, one of the worst situations in the E.U. The water problem becomes one of the greatest challenges for Romania on short and medium term.

Romania joined to ensure the stability of the principal and secondary legislative framework, which is directly or indirectly used in the regulation of the regional policy and the structural instruments. Environment protection and environment quality improvement is a national priority within 2007–2013 National Development Plan. The paper analyses the Environment Sector Operational Program and its impact on the Romanian economy, focused on quantifying the pollution effects on agriculture, forestry, water management and human settlements from Romania. As a result of processing data from the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development and Eurostat, the authors realised pertinent analysis, which are followed by suggestive diagrams connected to the European. The analysis leads to two main conclusions. First, the environment policy transformed into a powerful independent force, which is able to influent the public opinion and the European economic policy. Second, the environment policy was permanently promoted and changed, because it is considered as the peak in the " continent Europeanization " , as progress and civilization.

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2014

The article examines the impact of environmental quality on shaping the development policy of Polish voivodeships. The main analytical tool used was the synthetic index of environmental quality, compiled by means of the Perkal method. It was constructed in order to organize Polish voivodeships in terms of environmental quality, which was determined in a comprehensive way on the basis of three thematic areas: advantages of the natural environment, the level of pollution (degradation) of the environment as well as active protective activities. The obtained values of synthetic measures were then compared to the level of economic growth of Polish regions. It was necessary in determining which voivodeships perceive the quality of the environment as the main factor enhancing their economic growth, and which treat it as a barrier to economic development.

This monograph presents the results of empirical research studies which have been conducted in the framework of the international project “Assessment of the Quality of the Environment in the V4 Countries (AQE V4)”, co-financed by the International Visegrad Fund. The aim of the project was to facilitate and promote cooperation between the Visegrad Four countries: Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary, in scientific, research, practical and educational activities in the field of the environmental impact assessment. Knowledge about resources, values, state and sensitivity of elements of the environment plays the crucial role in the procedure of impact assessment. In some particular cases, EIA should include multi-directional, complex analysis and assessment of the actual state – quality of the environment as well as human life quality and safety. Determination of the environment quality at so called initial stage which is prior beginning of the project enables to determine s...

2013

The paper objective is to review the EPI 2012 results and analyze Romania performance and ranking. We detail the ranking status for Romania on different levels of aggregation. We also emphasize the new features and methodology chances available for the 2012 ranking. The paper also presents some cases of asymmetries between EPI 2012 and other development measurements, presenting some cases of countries scoring different across those rankings.

Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 2019

This paper offers an overall picture of the importance of Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) in Romania and its opportunities and constraints. The role, scope and effectiveness of SEA in Romania are presented in two good practice examples and examined in order to highlight the strengths and weaknesses of the procedure at national and local scale. In practice, the number of SEA procedures is very high due to the legislation in force, and it is increasingly effective in decision-making about programmes and plans. SEA can be viewed as a great opportunity for the implementation of sustainable development in practice. It also continues to be an important procedural and decisional instrument for management and monitoring of socioeconomic development, spatial planning and environmental protection in Romania.

Revista de Chimie

Protecting the environment is a matter of great importance that must be treaty very seriously, both internationally as well as nationally.The actual situation in Romania, about the economy and the state of the environment, requires the development of a program corresponding to its own interests. Given the specific situation of Romania, the transition to a strong market economy, the restructuring of the economy, the stages that we will go through this market strategy, will mark certain phases with clear objectives.The paper will present the objectives of environmental protection strategy�s, industrial risk analysis that affect environmental quality, environmental impact assessment methods and problems of ecological marking of the products. Based on strategies can be developed economic and environmental programs, which must be completed in order to achieve the set objectives, either macroeconomic, sectorial, regional, operative coordination (mandatory) or programs of measures at the f...

Due the fact of that the evolution of European politics requests ad set of locally standard indicators that allow in some degree the comparison between different cities and towns, as a complement to specific local indicators related to the problems of each locality, which differ from one locality to other. In this thought a set of Common European Indicators (CEI) were established. In the analysis of each indicator is found interaction between the common European economic, social and environmental factors, allowing the identification of trends and directions for different development directions, trends and the progress made in this regard. Further indicator which was analyzed is a part of many other general indicators, which is monitoring the satisfaction of the local community, as well as the level of housing, living and the work place. In this sense considering certain local features such as the degree of satisfaction for public transport, air quality in the town existence and quality of green spaces, satisfaction with health services, recreational and cultural services for leisure, degree of satisfaction with public schools, and all other aspects that create a complete picture of the degree of satisfaction from living area. It thus emphasizes the directions of local development and progress made, in a real and absolute term. It has to be mentioned that these published studies results are part of our institutions research program and were conducted between 2012-2013 in Arad city, Romania.

Bulletin of University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca. Agriculture, 2014

Environmental problems, by the nature, character and its implications, increasingly proves to be a global problem. The environment and its protection claims becoming more consistent management, a variety of intervention tools and ongoing communication with socio-economic actors, in order to minimize the phenomena of pollution and use of resources natural. Aware that the intensity of human activity is increasing the pressure on the environment, either by uncontrolled consumption of resources and space, either by producing waste that nature can not absorb without suffering, prompted the international community to move to initiate and support concrete actions to prevent, counteract and eliminate disturbing factors repercussions of ecological balance. Environmental issues can be made from multiple angles: legal, institutional, economic, technological, etc. This paper aims to address environmental responsibility that should be considered permanent so all economic agents and civil society...

Analele Universităţii din Oradea, Seria Geografie, 2019

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