Forest Cover Change in the Parâng-Cindrel Mountains of the Southern Carpathians, Romania

Marinescu, Emil; Marinescu, Ioan; Vlăduţ, Alina; Marinescu, S

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-12725-0_17

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“…In the 1970s in the Latoriței surroundings, a decrease in forest area took place due to hydrotechnical construction on main river valleys and development of tourist infrastructures (Marinescu et al, 2013). The national road, Transalpina (DN67C) is the highest road of the country and links two historical regions, Transylvania and Tara Românească.…”

Section: Regional Settingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Two chironomid-inferred mean July air temperature reconstructions in the South Carpathian Mountains over the last 2000 years

Szabó,

Buczkó,

Korponai

et al. 2024

The Holocene

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We present chironomid-based reconstructions of mean July air temperature changes over the last 2000 years from Lake Latoriței (1530 m a.s.l.) in the Southern Carpathians. A multi-proxy analysis was performed along a 58 cm long sediment core and two training sets were used for quantitative July air temperature reconstructions: the Eastern-European (EE, 212 lakes) and the Finnish-Polish-Carpathian (FPC, 273 lakes). The transfer functions had a coefficient of determination ( r2) 0.88 and 0.91 with a root mean squared error of prediction (RMSEP) 0.88°C and 1.02°C. Despite possible biases resulting from methodological problems and the ecological complexity of the chironomid response to both climatic and environmental changes, the agreement of the temperature reconstruction of Lake Latoriței with other alpine records suggests that the transfer function successfully reconstructed past summer temperatures between 750 and 1830 CE. Biases in the temperature reconstruction in the period before 750 and after 1830 CE were likely caused by increased abundance of rheophilic and semi-terrestrial chironomid species related to increased inflow activity before 750 CE and local land use changes after 1830 CE, which was also indicated by increasing deforestation and increasing lake productivity in the pollen and diatom records. Our results suggest that the region experienced a warm period between 750 and 1360 CE, and a cold period between 1360 and 1600 CE followed by fluctuating summer temperatures until 1830 CE. These events were associated with the so-called ‘Mediaeval Warm Period’ (MWP) and the ‘Little Ice Age’ (LIA), respectively. The inference models reconstructed a decrease in July air temperatures by 0.7°C–1.1°C during the LIA relative to the warmer MWP. We also demonstrated that the FPC training set gives better results, supporting that local/continental training sets are efficient to detect weak amplitude summer temperature changes in the Late-Holocene.

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Section: Regional Settingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Two chironomid-inferred mean July air temperature reconstructions in the South Carpathian Mountains over the last 2000 years

Szabó,

Buczkó,

Korponai

et al. 2024

The Holocene

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“…It is an assumed target for the achievement of which a series of steps and strict measures are necessary, but also a permanent monitoring with clear reporting of the stages achieved and those that must be accomplished. The increasingly obvious impact of climate change, in recent decades, has produced numerous negative effects and a series of measures have been imposed for reducing the emissions and for adaption to climate change [12].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Możliwy związek między eksploatacją lasów a emisją gazów cieplarnianych w Rumunii w latach 2008-2020

Dragomir,

Podaru,

Graur

et al. 2024

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The increasingly obvious impact of climate change, in recent decades, has produced numerous negative effects and a series of measures have been imposed for reducing the emissions and for adaption to climate change. Forestry activities try to find a balance between adapting forest regeneration practices to the needs imposed by climate change. Two important economic activities: Forestry and logging and the second one the Wood processing and manufacturing play an important role on the quality of environmental factors in general and on greenhouse gas emissions in particular. CO2, CH4, N2O resulting from wood processing activities were used in this paper to evaluate the possible correlation between these emissions and the volume of extracted wood. The data were collected by the National Institute of Statistics during 2008-2020. The volume of extracted wood varies between 16,704 thousand cubic meters in 2008 and 19,652 thousand cubic meters in 2020, the analyzed period average being 18,218 thousand cubic meters. The CO2 emissions from Wood processing and manufacturing are significantly higher than the CO2 emissions from Forestry and logging, for example in 2008 the emissions from the first source were 230 thousand cubic meters compared to only 28 thousand cubic meters from the second source. The analysis of CH4 and N2O emissions shows that the two activities have relatively the same impact on air quality. Until now, there have been extensive studies on Romanian forestry activities from a qualitative and quantitative perspective, but it is important to observe the link between the volume of wood extracted and the emissions of greenhouse gases.

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“…), focused on the problems of daily life, focused on awareness on the need to know and respect the fundamental rights of the individual, focused on the problems of humanistic education (forming a correct image of one's own person, confidence in one's own capacities of initiative, insertion and decision, etc.). The advantages of non-formal education are numerous (Blândul, 2015;Cucoș, 2006;Ciolan, 2008;Marinescu, 2013;Orțan, 2003): it allows students to participate in educational activities carried out in a flexible training space, in a positive affective climate that is understanding, responsible, responsive, etc. ; it allows students to achieve sustainable learning by assimilating the information generated by permanent interactions; it allows students to put into practice, in various contexts, the knowledge acquired in a particular field; it gives students the opportunity to transfer knowledge, methods, principles, language from one field to another; it encourages interactive learning by encouraging problem solving, decision making, etc.…”

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confidence: 99%

Volunteering As A Component Of Non-Formal Education

Bradea¹

2023

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference Education Facing Contemporary World Issues (Edu World 2022), 3-4 June, 2022, Un

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Volunteering is one of the non-formal activities with an important role in forming/shaping and developing students' personality. In Romanian schools, volunteering is not part of the compulsory curriculum, being left to the teachers or to the community. This research aims at looking at volunteering, not as a separate activity, subordinated to non-governmental organizations or to other public institutions, but as a component part of the educational activity of a school, carried out in a non-formal context. The objectives of the research were: (1) to identify teachers' perception on the role of volunteering as part of non-formal education; (2) to identify pathways of how to involve teachers in volunteering activities in schools; (3) to identify teachers' perceptions on the benefits of volunteering in shaping students' personalities. The research tool was a questionnaire administered to teachers from three counties in the western part of Romania. The results show that, although all teachers are involved in volunteering, there is a need to develop and implement a legal framework that regulates the volunteering activities in the Romanian educational system. Involving students in volunteering activities contributes to knowledge, mutual knowledge and self-knowledge -crucial aspects in the development of their personality, in building their own system of values that shall help them later. Through volunteering activities, students value the knowledge, the skills, the attitudes acquired/formed in a formal and informal context, but, at the same time, the experiences in which they participate develop the necessary skills in the classroom and in the daily life activities.

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Forest Cover Change in the Parâng-Cindrel Mountains of the Southern Carpathians, Romania

Cited by 6 publications

References 13 publications

Two chironomid-inferred mean July air temperature reconstructions in the South Carpathian Mountains over the last 2000 years

Two chironomid-inferred mean July air temperature reconstructions in the South Carpathian Mountains over the last 2000 years

Możliwy związek między eksploatacją lasów a emisją gazów cieplarnianych w Rumunii w latach 2008-2020

Volunteering As A Component Of Non-Formal Education

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