Critical Environmental Regions

Journal Title: Romanian Review of Regional Studies - Year 2005, Vol 1, Issue 1

Abstract

A short etymological interpretation of the notion of regions (Rette Lineatte, etc.). The region is: R= f (S+P), where S is space and P is power. There follows an evaluation of the characteristics of the region and the presentation of different approaches to the region. From the classic ideas (von Humboldt, 1885, Dokuceaev, 1899, Herbertson, 1905, and others) we get to a wide interpretative array of what we accept as organizational spatial units of geographical reality. The environmental region has important connotations with regard to the system as a surrounded element (man, society) and the adjacent system. Critical environmental regions are areas where there already exists interactive degradation. The critical character may be physical, hence the “geocritical regions” or the result of human impact, hence the “anthropocritical regions.” Critical situations are differentiated at the local, regional, and global level. In order to understand critical regional situations we must refer to the following characteristics: fragility, resilience, and vulnerability. Still there are few environmental studies on critical regions and work must be done in this field.

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IOAN MAC, VICTOR SOROCOVSCHI

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IOAN MAC, VICTOR SOROCOVSCHI (2005). Critical Environmental Regions. Romanian Review of Regional Studies, 1(1), 55-58. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-124372