Spatio-temporal analysis of Romania's rural population access to sanitation services in the context of EU accession,

Abstract

This paper analysis the disparities between Romanian Counties regarding thespatio-temporal evolution of rural population acces to sanitation servicesfor pre-accession period (2003-2006) and the first two years since Romaniais part of the EU-27 (2007-2008) highlighting positive or negative changesoccurred in this period.Romanian counties were mapped and divided into fivetypological classes,using multivariate analysis such as hierarchicalcluster analysis method.Each class has different values of rural populationserved by waste collection services related to the Romania average(expressed in standard deviations).Limited access to sanitation servicesfrom rural areas lead to uncontrolled waste disposal.Despite improvement ofpublic access to sanitation services in rural areas compared to 2003 mostof population still lack access to waste collection services in 2008.Inthis context, implementation of the acquis communautaire on municipal wastemanagement is difficult to achieve in rural territory.

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