Romania
The development of rural tourism in the last two decades and the experience that Romania has achieved in this area have drawn the attention of researchers and academics from the country and from abroad and together with the managers of tourist and agritourist guesthouses they attempt to provide solutions to the problems, numerous and difficult, facing tourism.
Hence, prestigious...
In addition to surveying food production from mountain areas, Euromontana’s 2002-2004 project takes stock of legislation, public schemes and private initiatives directly or indirectly addressing mountain farming and its food production. While the survey covered the eight countries involved in the project (France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Romania, Poland, Norway and the UK) — and the...
The Iezer Mountains are part of the Southern Carpathians in Romania; the elevation range spans over 1,800 m, with the highest peak at 2470 m. In recent years, the vegetation in this montane landscape has undergone various changes. The aim of the present analysis is to test whether the evolution of vegetation zones can be modeled using remote sensing data and...
This book is an attempt at quantifying 'Total Economic Value' (TEV) of Mediterranean forests across 18 countries. TEV represents the ways in which a natural resource, such as a forest, is valuable to people. Mediterranean forests have always been managed for multiple users, not just timber harvesting. The many benefits from forests include timber, non-timber products such as...
In central and eastern Europe, alpine grasslands are unique habitats for a variety of plant and invertebrate species. Seasonal pastoral activities have been practiced for many centuries on accessible areas of these natural grasslands. To increase grazing areas, semi-natural grasslands have been created in mountain areas below the tree-line by forest logging. Although vascular plant species...
This publication, the first in a series of reports covering the state of the information society on an annual basis, focuses on the theme of participation. The report has three interrelated goals: surveying the state of the field of ICT policy at the local and global levels; encouraging critical debate; and strengthening networking and advocacy for a just, inclusive information society. It...
Localizati în estul României, aproape de Delta Dunarii (100km), muntii Macin sunt considerati cei mai vechi munti din tara, aparuti în orogeneza hercinica (acum aproximativ 300 – 400 milioane de ani). Fac parte din acelasi lant montan cu muntii Vosgi si muntii Scotiei, ce strabatea cândva întregul continent european.
Desi initial se considera ca...
Located in eastern Romania near the Danube river (10km) and Danube Delta (100km), the Macin Mountains are considered the oldest mountains in the country, appeared about 300 - 400 million years ago. They are part of the same mountain chain with Vosgi mountains and mountains of Scotland which once crossed the continent of Europe.
In 2000 the Macin Mountains National Park (www....
The Rodnei Mountains National Park in Romania is one of the 13 national parks and one of the three reservations of the biosphere in this country, that shelters a variety of natural touristic attractions setting it apart as a natural protected area. In general, the landscape is in a good state of preservation, being altered in some areas through atrophic actions such as land clearing, motorized...
The Birds Directive & the Habitats Directive together are the major EU policy instruments for nature conservation and they both demand the creation of a network of sites which together form the Natura 2000 network. Site selection is based on lists of species and habitats of conservation interest given in annexes to both directives. These annexes reflect the biodiversity of the EU at the...
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