A review of the quality of environmental impact statements with a focus on urban projects from Romania

A Nita, CA Hossu, CG Mitincu, IC Iojă - Ecological Informatics, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) has experienced substantial
difficulties in effectively achieving its purpose owing to the interplay of political, social, and …

Trends in the national and regional transitional dynamics of land cover and use changes in Romania

AI Petrişor, I Sirodoev, I Ianoş - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
The crucial importance of land cover and use changes, components of the 'global changes',
for the worldwide sustainable and resilient development results from their negative influence …

Measuring sustainable development goals at a local level: A case of a metropolitan area in Romania

JA Nagy, J Benedek, K Ivan - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
Metropolitan areas became the breeding ground for economic, political, and cultural
concentration as well as for creativity and innovation. Therefore, sustainability within the …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of national policies on patterns of built-up development: an assessment over three decades

SR Grădinaru, P Fan, CI Iojă, MR Niță, B Suditu… - Land Use Policy, 2020 - Elsevier
Globally, built-up development is taking place at unprecedented rates. To mitigate and limit
its effects, recent scientific and spatial planning communities call for built-up management to …

Modelling land use/cover change to assess future urban sprawl in Romania

I Grigorescu, G Kucsicsa, EA Popovici… - Geocarto …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The current paper aims at assessing future urban sprawl in Romania based on predicted
land use/cover change (2007–2050) simulated using CLUE-S model (the Conversion of …

[HTML][HTML] Testing the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis on land use: The case of Romania

N Pontarollo, C Serpieri - Land use policy, 2020 - Elsevier
The aim of the present study is to test empirically the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC)
hypothesis for 42 Romanian counties over the 2000-2014 period. Specifically, we …

Patterns of urban shrinkage: A systematic analysis of Romanian cities (1992–2020)

M Eva, A Cehan, A Lazăr - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
EU post-socialist countries are nowadays the epicenter of urban shrinkage, despite
economic growth trajectories reported during the last decades. However, systematic …

Changes in the dynamics and demographic structure of the Romanian rural population: An overview of the post-communist period

B Mitrică, M Persu, I Mocanu, P Şerban… - Three decades of …, 2019 - Springer
Currently, Romania's rural area is undergoing a restructuring process, acquiring new
demographic dimensions and characteristics. Since the first decade of the XXI century, the …

Toward sustainable urbanization: Understanding the dynamics of urban sprawl and food (in) security of indigenous households in peri-urban Wa, Ghana

IA Abdulai, ED Kuusaana, A Ahmed - Journal of Urban Affairs, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This study responds to the limited literature on the effects of urban sprawl on food security in
Ghanaian cities. As the study sought to understand the characteristics, drivers, and …

Prediction of urban sprawl by integrating socioeconomic factors in the Batticaloa Municipal Council, Sri Lanka

M Seevarethnam, N Rusli, GHT Ling - ISPRS International Journal of Geo …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Due to extensive population growth, urbanization increases urban development and sprawl
in the world's cities. Urban sprawl is a socioeconomic phenomenon that has not extensively …