IS THE ROMANIAN DANUBE VALLEY A COHESIVE REGION? A GEOGRAPHICAL APPROACH
Journal Title: Revue Roumaine de Géographie/Romanian Journal of Geography - Year 2018, Vol 62, Issue 2
Abstract
The Romanian sector of the Danube Valley covers a large area in which the life of resident communities is shaped by the River (1,075 km long). At present, 266 local administrative units (LAU) in the Romanian Danube Valley number 238 communes, 28 towns and a population of 1.7 million inhabitants. According to the population structure, 58% of the total population is urban. The current paper is seeking to indentify disparities in the territorial cohesion of the Romanian Danube Valley following several research stages: selecting relevant statistical indicators, analysing territorial disparities, standardising the absolute values of the indicators and grouping elementary indicators into 3 secondary indexes in order to reflect the main aspects of territorial cohesion: life, environmental, and social quality. Finally, the authors were able to compute the Territorial Cohesion Index (TCI), revealing the levels of territorial cohesion. Generally, the outcome of the current study shows a higher territorial cohesion in the urban LAU economically developed that have a high demographic potential.
Authors and Affiliations
BIANCA MITRICĂ, IRENA MOCANU, MONICA DUMITRAŞCU, INES GRIGORESCU
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