ТHE CONCEPTUAL PRINCIPLES OF MEDICAL AND ECOLOGICAL RESEARCHES IN THE CONTEXT OF MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY
Journal Title: Present Environment and Sustainable Development - Year 2012, Vol 6, Issue 1
Abstract
Nowadays ecological situation and population morbidity is generated most of all by the high level of anthropogenic effect. That is why the conception of medico-ecological researches is studied in the system “environment – population health”. The bases of conception are ecological researches, determination of the level of intensity of medico-ecological situation, integral index of ecological danger of landscape, cartographic modeling and geoecological monitoring.
Authors and Affiliations
Vasile Gutsuleak, K. Nakonechny, N. Аndriychuk
THE EFFECTS OF RIVER REGULARIZATION, EMBANKMENT AND DRAINING ON THE ECOLOGY OF MAJOR WATER MEADOWS
The hydraulic works carried for river regularization and floodplain’s embankment and draining alter the habitat, both within the river and the floodplain, this having a negative impact on their ecology. The changes...
STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS OF ROMANIAN FORESTS AFTER 1990
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LEVELS OF MAGNESIUM, CALCIUM AND OTHER INORGANIC COMPOUNDS IN WATER OF THE WELLS IN RURAL AREAS OF BOTOŞANI COUNTY
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HEAT WAVES: METEOROLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND BIOMETEOROLOGICAL INFLUENCES (CASE STUDY: ROMANIA, 14-16TH JULY 2011)
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OSCILLATIONS AND CYCLES OF AIR TEMPERATURE IN SOUTH AMERICA
This paper is seeking to prove that on the South American continent there are the same cycles of air temperature (almost perfect) as those proven to exist in Europe (Romania), New Zeeland and North America (the U.S.A.) T...