Spatial Assessment of Renewable Energy Flows in the Agrarian Mara River Watershed (Maramureș Land, Romania) as a Potential Tool for Local and Regional Resource Management Policies
Journal Title: GeoJournal of Tourism and Geosites - Year 2016, Vol 18, Issue 2
Abstract
Watersheds have been described often as one of the most intelligible forms of natural hierarchical organization and as appropriate holistic spaces for a sustainable water and natural resource management at local and regional scales. In a time when resource scarcity has become a major preoccupation and concepts like auto-sufficiency, resource optimization or sustainability in general are guiding principles in the development process of territorial planning policies and strategies, both for urban and rural environments, we propose an integrated approach that imagines watershed spaces as hierarchical energy systems, quantifying its renewable energy flows by encompassing the premises of Emergy methodology and GIS. The purpose of the study is to identify and describe the spatial distribution of available renewable energies in the Mara River System, especially identifying areas of high energy concentration, an assessment usable as a tool for a more effective territorial planning and management.
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BUMBAK Silviu
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