Environmental risk management of urban growth poles regarding national importance

• Published in: International journal of environmental science and technology (Tehran) Vol. 8; no. 4
• Main Authors: Peptenatu, D, Pintilii, R.D, Draghici, C
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Center for Environment and Energy Research and Studies (CEERS) 27-09-2012
• Subjects: Industrial pressure; Local communities; Pollution; Polycentric network; Sustainable development
• ISSN: 1735-1472

Urban settlements of regional importance from Romania impose within the
national settlements system by their ability to converge material and
human flows, leading to important unbalances in the relationships
between the components of territorial systems. The status they held,
both in the communist period and at present, made the economic
activities developed in a short time exceed the adapting ability of the
other components of the territorial system, the natural environment
strongly feeling the industrialisation pressure. Identifying the
specificities of the environmental risk management at the level of
development poles of regional importance was done by detailed analyses
accomplished in Craiova, a representative town for the high
concentration of economic activities strongly pressing upon the natural
environment. The construction of the model of environmental risk
management supposes the classifying of risks by a series of criteria, a
model which constitutes a useful instrument for the decision factors.
The management of unbalances from the territorial systems determined by
industrialisation is one of the major preoccupations of the decision
factors from Romania, in order to be aligned to the European
environment standards.