The concept of collaborative management is considered to be one of the most efficient instruments for sustainable development of some areas, which are under anthropic pressure due to the production of solid waste. The paper stands for the necessity of promoting a collaborative management among the main actors involved in an efficient and sustainable urban solid waste management, in the metropolitan area of Bucharest. The present management is mainly based on the strictly economic vision of managing solid waste. The study is based on data from the County Council Ilfov, the city Hall of Bucharest, the interviews and questionnaires answered by population and to some institutional and economical actors involved in solid waste management, as well as from field researches. The gradual closure of 29 non-complying landfills increases the pressure upon the three large compliant landfills organized in the metropolitan area: Chiajna-Rudeni, Glina and Vidra. The limited vision of local and national decision factors regarding the externalization of the management of the solid waste disposals to a company, without their ample involvement, including the population's education and the participation of NGOs, endanger the perspective of a sustainable development of a very disturbed area after the year 1990.
The goal of the present study is to analyze the complex economic processes within emerging territorial systems, developed around big cities. Economic ventures concentrated inside these urban clusters in a short span of time, and they registered a spectacular evolution, compared to the neighboring areas. Intensification of the linkages between cities with more than 300,000 inhabitants in Romania and the surrounding areas led to the individualization of territorial systems apart, with a spectacular evolution of economic-social processes, which turn those systems into the most dynamic territorial structures. The present study means to identify the causes of those complex processes within emerging territorial systems, the manner of functional organization of the space, and the causes that determine the spectacular evolution of the economic processes within emerging systems.
The present study is a concise form of some of the researches conducted within the Interdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Researches on Territorial Dynamics of the University of Bucharest, which had as an objective identifying the relationships between the development of the poles network and the evolution of demographic indicators. The study’s objectives are related to identifying the role of decisional impulses from the development poles level in the functional structuring of the local settlements system. The analyses were done at each census level, and the measures adopted by the decision makers in order to stimulate the economy of development poles were underlined. A special attention was given to the communist period, when decisional impulses were followed by immediate effects at the level of dissipative capacity of towns, towards which the investments allocated in order to develop industry were oriented.
Topicality. Tourism is recognized as one of the most important commercial activities today. In 2019 it generated 10% of the total employment and represented a share of 10.4% of global GDP. Following the lead of cities, a growing number of towns and villages in rural areas are seeking to benefit from tourism, based on their local cultural and natural assets. This trend can be observed in the transboundary Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve of Romania and Ukraine where many formerly remote settlements have started to host increasing numbers of visitors. However, tourism can also impose a number of negative economic, social and environmental impacts on the destination and its region that could undermine the very attractiveness of the destinations concerned. Aims and tasks. A particular problem for authorities charged with developing regional rural tourism strategies and regulations is to have a standard method for assessing and comparing the visitor capacity and sustainability of different destinations. Emerging Tourism 4.0 technologies such as High-Performance Data Analytics (HPDA) can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of strategic planning and environmental sustainability. The general objective of the research reported here was to compare the current situation of two similar settlements in the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve: Vylkove in Ukraine and Sfântu Gheorghe in Romania. In collaboration with the municipal councils, local businesses and civic organisations, we applied the Tourism Impact Model (TIM) developed by the Slovene company Arctur to data collected using the same methodology between August 2020 and May 2021. Overall, 295 questions were addressed. The data could be quantitative (amount of electricity or water used per day), or more subjective expert opinion (whether and when the settlement suffered from traffic congestion or satisfaction of residents with levels of incoming tourists). The data were also quality controlled and labelled according to their accuracy, type (digital or analogue) and frequency of collection. Research results. With respect to Vylkove and Sfântu Gheorghe, in both cases the tourism data collected were not sufficient to produce a full analysis for an overall DCC assessment. However, it was possible to examine the data for each of the main TIM pillars individually (Environment, Economy, Social / Cultural and Collaboration) and make a comparison between the destinations. From these data, it is clear that while both destinations are generally managing tourism poorly (as Sleepers), Sfântu Gheorghe has a better overall condition than Vylkove across the four pillars since it scores higher in the Champion character. Vylkove suffers from having a large amount of missing data, probably because the town council derives little direct benefit from tourism (it is a receiver of impacts but most of the revenue goes to external parties) so it does not collect information. On the other hand, compared with Sfântu Gheorghe, it does not misuse or exploit its environment. Both destinations have a good level of collaboration between the tourism sector and the local community. Conclusion. The results from the first application of the Tourism Impact Model in Vylkove and Sfântu Gheorghe show that both destinations have considerable potential for improving their performance and the sustainability of their tourism offers. At present, the lead is mostly taken by private initiative and investment, with little involvement of the local authorities. In particular, environmental, social and economic data are largely unavailable for planning sustainable tourism development, gaining benefits or mitigating impacts. These aspects merit further action and research as a matter of urgency.
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