Cities are focal points for the activities of societies. They are centres of employment, commerce... more Cities are focal points for the activities of societies. They are centres of employment, commerce, education, culture, social or political interaction. They also impose significant demands for civil infrastructure needed to support social and economic activities and a suitable quality of life. The challenges in providing this infrastructure are even bigger in the rapidly growing cities founded in developing countries. The gathering of human population in the surrounding region of these cities is shaping the primary challenges to sustainable global environment, resulting in a myriad of other adjacent challenges with significant impact on economics, transportation, environment, social equity and administration. The turn of the twenty-first century marks a divide from a predominantly rural world to one where the majority of people live in cities. The management of these urban areas, many of them organized in metropolitan associations, and the provision of shelter, services, mobility an...
Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a systematic, pro-active and participative process ai... more Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a systematic, pro-active and participative process aiming at a high-level integration of the environmental aspects into planning and decision making beyond the project level. One of the most important development goals of the modern world is to succeed in building environmentally friendly societies, but even in the western countries, local administration still faces challenges of effectively incorporating environmental considerations into their planning systems. An efficient planning system should produce a balanced and transparent relationship between the economic, social and ecological interests. In order to legally ensure the planning systems within the European Union meets these requirements, the Council of the European Union adopted Directive 2001/42/EC (the SEA Directive) on the assessment of the effects of certain plans and programmes on the environment, a procedure meant to document environmental interests more thoroughly [1]. The ...
Globally, ecosystems are constantly degrading as a result of pressures derived from human activit... more Globally, ecosystems are constantly degrading as a result of pressures derived from human activities and climate change. For working towards the restoration of the natural balance, it is necessary to evaluate the deviations induced in the ecosystems, to identify where the changes took place, to know what is their amplitude and to decide where it is possible to get involved. Many aquatic ecosystems are depreciated and their restoration is often difficult. Development of appropriate assessment methodologies will improve the decision-making process in public policies for environmental protection and conservation of biodiversity. This study presents an assessment of the degradation level of lentic ecosystems in Romania, performed through a multi-criteria analysis. An extension of the WRASTIC index (Wastewater-Recreational-Agricultural-Size-Transportations-Indutrial-Cover) was generated, namely WRASTIC-HI. The new index was obtained by including values derived from the Potential Pollutan...
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
In general, the elaboration of the synthesis of water quality in Romania is based on the processi... more In general, the elaboration of the synthesis of water quality in Romania is based on the processing of a large volume of information coming from primary analytical data collected with a constant frequency by the organisms with a specific role in water quality monitoring. This study proposes a novel methodology for multi-criteria analysis aiming to evaluate the degradation state of lake ecosystems. The cornerstone of the newly presented methodology is a geographic information system (GIS) automated tool, involving the assessment of potential degradation sources affecting the watershed that supply the lakes with water. The methodology was tested by performing an analysis on 30 lakes in Romania. The lakes belong to different geographical areas, owing various natural specific conditions and were selected to fit to various types and specific local conditions. The calculation of the WRASTIC-HI (Wastewater–Recreation–Agriculture–Size–Transportation–Industry–Cover–Hazard Index) revealed tha...
Cities are focal points for the activities of societies. They are centres of employment, commerce... more Cities are focal points for the activities of societies. They are centres of employment, commerce, education, culture, social or political interaction. They also impose significant demands for civil infrastructure needed to support social and economic activities and a suitable quality of life. The challenges in providing this infrastructure are even bigger in the rapidly growing cities founded in developing countries. The gathering of human population in the surrounding region of these cities is shaping the primary challenges to sustainable global environment, resulting in a myriad of other adjacent challenges with significant impact on economics, transportation, environment, social equity and administration. The turn of the twenty-first century marks a divide from a predominantly rural world to one where the majority of people live in cities. The management of these urban areas, many of them organized in metropolitan associations, and the provision of shelter, services, mobility an...
Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a systematic, pro-active and participative process ai... more Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a systematic, pro-active and participative process aiming at a high-level integration of the environmental aspects into planning and decision making beyond the project level. One of the most important development goals of the modern world is to succeed in building environmentally friendly societies, but even in the western countries, local administration still faces challenges of effectively incorporating environmental considerations into their planning systems. An efficient planning system should produce a balanced and transparent relationship between the economic, social and ecological interests. In order to legally ensure the planning systems within the European Union meets these requirements, the Council of the European Union adopted Directive 2001/42/EC (the SEA Directive) on the assessment of the effects of certain plans and programmes on the environment, a procedure meant to document environmental interests more thoroughly [1]. The ...
Globally, ecosystems are constantly degrading as a result of pressures derived from human activit... more Globally, ecosystems are constantly degrading as a result of pressures derived from human activities and climate change. For working towards the restoration of the natural balance, it is necessary to evaluate the deviations induced in the ecosystems, to identify where the changes took place, to know what is their amplitude and to decide where it is possible to get involved. Many aquatic ecosystems are depreciated and their restoration is often difficult. Development of appropriate assessment methodologies will improve the decision-making process in public policies for environmental protection and conservation of biodiversity. This study presents an assessment of the degradation level of lentic ecosystems in Romania, performed through a multi-criteria analysis. An extension of the WRASTIC index (Wastewater-Recreational-Agricultural-Size-Transportations-Indutrial-Cover) was generated, namely WRASTIC-HI. The new index was obtained by including values derived from the Potential Pollutan...
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
In general, the elaboration of the synthesis of water quality in Romania is based on the processi... more In general, the elaboration of the synthesis of water quality in Romania is based on the processing of a large volume of information coming from primary analytical data collected with a constant frequency by the organisms with a specific role in water quality monitoring. This study proposes a novel methodology for multi-criteria analysis aiming to evaluate the degradation state of lake ecosystems. The cornerstone of the newly presented methodology is a geographic information system (GIS) automated tool, involving the assessment of potential degradation sources affecting the watershed that supply the lakes with water. The methodology was tested by performing an analysis on 30 lakes in Romania. The lakes belong to different geographical areas, owing various natural specific conditions and were selected to fit to various types and specific local conditions. The calculation of the WRASTIC-HI (Wastewater–Recreation–Agriculture–Size–Transportation–Industry–Cover–Hazard Index) revealed tha...
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