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  • 标题:Quantification of the aridity process in South-Western Romania
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  • 作者:Daniel Peptenatu ; Igor Sîrodoev ; Remus Pravalie
  • 期刊名称:Journal of Environmental Health Science and Engineering
  • 印刷版ISSN:2052-336X
  • 出版年度:2013
  • 卷号:11
  • 期号:1
  • 页码:5
  • DOI:10.1186/2052-336X-11-5
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:BioMed Central
  • 摘要:

    The report released by the Intergovernmental Committee for Climate Change indicates that Romania ranks among the top seven countries in Europe that would be strongly impacted by aridity in the next few years, with climate changes consisting in a rise of average annual temperatures by as much as 5°C. The research work was conducted in the South of the Oltenia South-Western Development Region, where more than 700,000 hectares of farmland is impacted by aridification, more than 100,000 hectares among them impacted by aridity. Research methodology encompassed the analysis of average annual temperatures over the time span data was available for, at three weather stations, an analysis of average annual precipitations, an analysis of the piezometric data, the evolution of land use as a result of the expansion of the aridity process. The assessment of the aridity process also involved taking into consideration the state of the vegetation by means of the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), used to assess the quality of the vegetal stratum, an important element in the complex analysis of the territory. The aridity process is an effect of global warming, and, based on the results of this study, the post-1990 escalation of its effects was brought about by socio-economic factors. The destruction of the irrigation systems and protective forest belts because of the uncertain situation of land ownership are the main factors that contributed to amplification of the effects of aridity on the efficiency of agricultural systems that nowadays are exposed to very high risks.

  • 关键词:Aridity; Desertification; Fragile environments; Territorial management
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