Performing Democracy: An Analysis of Church-Based Electoral Capital in Romania

Bîrsănuc, Elena Manuela; Cociș, Emanuela Adina; Gligor, Viorel

doi:10.33993/tr.2020.suppl.2.18

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“…By assessing the biocultural resilience, the ability of landscapes to adapt to anthropogenic and natural changes and pressures can be identified, thus contributing to the development of appropriate strategies and actions for the conservation and sustainable management of natural and cultural resources. Moreover, biocultural resilience can provide guidance for promoting sustainable development that balances the social, economic and ecological needs of local communities, helping to maintain the health [123] and stability of ecosystems and the quality of human life [124,125] within multifunctional landscapes.…”

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The Biocultural Resilience Index (BRI): A New Tool for Assessing the Sustainability of Multifunctional Landscapes

Costea,

Gligor,

Nicula

et al. 2024

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Multifunctional landscapes are complex systems that integrate biophysical, cultural-historical and socio-economic components into unique territorial structures and regional ensembles. Facing increasing pressures generated by urbanization, climate change and overexploitation of natural resources, assessing the sustainability of these landscapes has become an urgent priority. The present research is based on the development and parametrization of a new tool for evaluating the sustainability of multifunctional landscapes that aims to measure the level of biocultural resilience of a landscape, integrating biological, cultural and socio-economic indicators in a single analytical framework. This index, called the biocultural resilience index (BRI), provides a holistic perspective on the dynamics of landscapes, allowing the identification of vulnerability areas and the development of conservation and sustainable management strategies. The evaluation of the of multifunctional landscapes sustainability requires a comprehensive approach that has to integrate both biological aspects, such as biodiversity and ecosystem health, as well as identity and cultural aspects, such as cultural value and the relationship of the local communities with the environment. In this context, this study highlights the fact that the development of appropriate tools and methods for assessing and monitoring the sustainability of multifunctional landscapes becomes essential for their sustainable management and for protecting the benefits they offer to society. Our findings show that the biocultural resilience index (BRI) can be used in a variety of contexts and fields, including spatial planning, biodiversity conservation, sustainable rural development and ecotourism. In the meanwhile, this index offers a robust and flexible analytical framework, adaptable to the needs and particularities of different regions and communities.

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The Biocultural Resilience Index (BRI): A New Tool for Assessing the Sustainability of Multifunctional Landscapes

Costea,

Gligor,

Nicula

et al. 2024

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“…At the same time, several alternative solutions for sustainable reconstruction and spatialfunctional reintegration have been identified, in line with the European Unionʹs Circular Economy Package, linked to Directive 2006/21/EC [49]. The possibilities for sustainable development of mountain localities with abandoned mining industry were also analyzed, where local communities are still affected by numerous risks with cumulative post-exploitation propagation [50], such as: depopulation [51,52], demographic ageing, decline of single-industry mining towns [53], socioeconomic isolation, environmental degradation [54] and increasing poverty.…”

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The Roles Played by Environmental Sustainability and Innovation in the Rehabilitation of Abandoned Mining Sites

Gligor,

Nicula,

Cretan

2024

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The rehabilitation of abandoned mining sites is an increasingly pressing issue in the context of sustainable development. Recent research has emphasized the need for a holistic approach to the abandoned mining sites and their environmental rehabilitation. Based on field analysis, environmental assessments, satellite imagery processing and geographic information operations, this paper pushes forward the existing knowledge by doing a comprehensive assessment of abandoned mining sites in the Romanian Carpathians and by proposing innovative and sustainable rehabilitation solutions. Our findings highlight that abandoned mining sites and their surrounding territories in the Romanian mountains have significant ecological imbalances and complex socio-economic issues. The findings also suggest that by adopting innovative, integrated, and sustainability-oriented approaches, territories affected by mining can be transformed into valuable and sustainable spaces to meet human needs. We conclude by presenting the importance of innovation in ecological reconstruction and spatial-functional reintegration of mining sites in mountain areas as a useful tool in making fair decisions, both in the context of implementing appropriate development policies as well as for resilience and environmental sustainability of mining-affected mountain areas.

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“…Park 2002C. Park , 2005, connecting it to (ethnic) cultural proximity (Berceanu et al 2023;Creţan et al 2014) and elections (Barsanuc et al 2021;Doiciar and Creţan 2021), as well as to specific concepts of space, place and identity that frame new landscapes and spatial patterns and often relate to new paradigms for various problematizing dialogues on religious backgrounds and religion from a geographic perspective (Stump 2008;Knott 2008;Tong et al 2021;Yorgason and della Dora 2009;Berceanu et al 2023;Yang and McPhail 2023). As regards religion geographies, Romania remains an interesting European spatial sample, with certain dynamic religious patterns framed both during past layers of time and in recent post-socialist decades with interesting, real diversity, which will briefly be investigated in the next section.…”

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How Can Digital Maps of Religions Inform Us about Fractionalization and Polarization in Post-Communist Romania?

Rotaru,

Creţan,

Jucu

et al. 2024

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This study explores religious diversity in Romania and how the trends of indices of religious fractionalization and polarization manifest at the county level in a post-communist period. The county level was selected as the relevant level for analysis due to its more clearly visible spatial dynamics with regard to religions. Recent studies have revealed that the erosion of diversity is an important aspect for any country and needs to be considered as an important aspect of democracy. This paper highlights how digital mapping of religious polarization and fractionalization in Romania has been generally maintained, although the regions of Transylvania, Banat, Dobrogea and Western Moldova remain areas in which there are different religions. Other than the general aspect of religious diversity depending on ethnic trends, there has been a rise of Pentecostals and Baptists at the county level. This aspect has further implications for our study, which calls for creating new institutions for dialogue between majority Orthodox communities and Protestants, not only so that potential conflicts do not appear between Orthodox and emerging religious communities but also to ensure objective, cultural, religious coherence. Our maps revealed the distribution patterns and the temporal evolution of religious denominations for the 1992–2011 period. The major line of originality in our research rests in the findings that after conducting a bivariate spatial autocorrelation analysis of religious fractionalization and polarization, we were able to identify two distinct clusters with spatial overlap over historical provinces.

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Performing Democracy: An Analysis of Church-Based Electoral Capital in Romania

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The Biocultural Resilience Index (BRI): A New Tool for Assessing the Sustainability of Multifunctional Landscapes

The Biocultural Resilience Index (BRI): A New Tool for Assessing the Sustainability of Multifunctional Landscapes

The Roles Played by Environmental Sustainability and Innovation in the Rehabilitation of Abandoned Mining Sites

How Can Digital Maps of Religions Inform Us about Fractionalization and Polarization in Post-Communist Romania?

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