2006-2012 Land Cover and Use Changes in Romania – An Overall Assessment Based on Corine Data

Petrişor, Alexandru-Ionuţ; Petrişor, Liliana Elza

doi:10.1515/pesd-2017-0030

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“…Different studies indicated that the Romanian natural protected areas cover preferentially critical areas, such as the mountains (Petrişor and Petrişor, 2017a) and wetlands (Petrişor, 2010). However, the protection status was not always enforced (Petrişor, 2018)…”

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Recent land cover and use in Romania: A conservation perspective

Petrişor

2021

Present Environment and Sustainable Development

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The study of land cover and use changes is important for sustainability, given that they are part of the global changes affecting our environment. In order to understand the mechanisms determining them, land cover and use changes must be studied based on their associated transitional dynamics. The present research aims to look at the most recent land cover and use changes from Romania, chosen as an example for post-socialists transitions. The methodology was based on applying geo-spatial analyses to data on land cover and use changes and natural protected areas. The results indicate that the most prominent transitional dynamics are deforestations and abandonment of cropland, rooted in the post-socialist property restitution. Furthermore, the study identified transitional dynamics indicating the human pressure within the natural protected areas, including urbanization, development of agriculture, and deforestation. Although subject to limitations bound to the use of CORINE data, the findings are important for understanding the environmental impact of socio-economic drivers, and provide additional evidence for the fact that emerging economies tend to sacrifice the environment during the economic crises.

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Recent land cover and use in Romania: A conservation perspective

Petrişor

2021

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“…Protecting and monitoring the evolution of forest areas is an international concern that is reflected in different monitoring programs or methods and techniques that are necessary taking into account the effects of these practices [13]. Of all the methods for analyzing and measuring forest surfaces, satellite imaging and GIS methods have proven to be the most efficient and efficient [14], [15], [16], [17], [18], [19]. Romania is one of the European countries that has natural virgin forests but also many protected areas that are part of the European national program Natura2000, areas which are mainly in mountain areas such as the Apuseni Mountains [20], [21].…”

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Spatial Dimension of Timber Trade in the Apuseni Mountains, Romania

Simion¹,

Marin²,

Popa³

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The impact of the economic pressure on the forest fund is one of the main topics of debate in the public space, increasing the relevance of the analysis of the variables that define the problem being a constant concern of the scientific world. For this study we set out to analyze the spatial dimension of the timber trade from the territorial administrative units in the Apuseni Mountains, both spatially and in evolution, between 2000 and 2018. For this purpose, the statistical data regarding the timber trade were processed, so that it can be visualized at the level of territorial administrative unit, applying established GIS methods. The strings of statistical data were analyzed in evolution as well as spatial in relation to forest loss, information extracted based on the post-processed satellite images. Using both data sources, it was possible to make an administrative correlation between the evolution of forest loss and the commercially registered wood trade. In order to obtain real and relevant information regarding the dynamics of timber trade in the studied region, it is necessary to correlate this information with the dynamics of the forestry fund in the region. The results showed contradictions between the cleared surfaces and the participation of the administrative units where the cleared and their revenues from the wood trade were cleared.

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“…At both global and European Union level, the protection and monitoring of the evolution of forest areas has become an important objective [14], which is necessary in the context presented previously. The most efficient way to track the spatial and temporal evolution of the forest fund is by using remote sensing and GIS by providing and interpreting satellite images [15], [16], [17], [18], [19]. Globally, this is done by the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) through its Forest Resources Assessment (FRA-FAO) report, which also monitors the evolution of forest areas through a Global Remote Sensing Survey (RSS), the purpose of which is to observe the forested and deforested areas [20].…”

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Complementarity of Fractal Analysis and Gis Methods in the Analysis of the Spatial-Temporal Dynamics of the Forest Fund

Simion¹,

DrÄƒghici²,

Andronache³

et al. 2019

Proceedings 2019

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Forest is an important component of the ecosystem, which has been under increasing pressure in recent decades to provide raw material to emerging industries. Under these circumstances, it is necessary to develop methodologies for assessing the economic pressure on forest resources. In order to be able to assess forestry changes at regional level, a complex methodological approach is required, which implies GIS-based methods for obtaining quantitative information and fractal analysis, in order to obtain qualitative information. Applying GIS methods was designed to extract information on the spatial dynamics of the forest fund from post-processed satellite imagery and to obtain the basis of the fractal analysis. However, in order to obtain qualitative information about the degree of homogeneity / heterogeneity, fragmentation / compacting, anisotropy / isotropy and complexity of the deforested forest areas, a non-Euclidean complex analysis was applied based on the fractal analysis methods. It has been identified that in the years with very intense deforestation (2001, 2014 and 2016) the largest increases in the degree of complexity, heterogeneity, anisotropy, but insignificant increases of the fragmentation of the forest areas occurred. In antithesis, the years with low deforestation (2002, 2003 and 2005) were characterized by the smallest increases in complexity and heterogeneity (close to 0), decreases in anisotropy, but more pronounced increases in forest fragmentation. Thus, we have shown that the fractal methodology along with the GIS is very useful and provides additional information on forest dynamics.

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2006-2012 Land Cover and Use Changes in Romania – An Overall Assessment Based on Corine Data

Cited by 6 publications

References 7 publications

Recent land cover and use in Romania: A conservation perspective

Recent land cover and use in Romania: A conservation perspective

Spatial Dimension of Timber Trade in the Apuseni Mountains, Romania

Complementarity of Fractal Analysis and Gis Methods in the Analysis of the Spatial-Temporal Dynamics of the Forest Fund

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