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14th international conference on geography

Methodological challenges in geography

15 – 16th of May 2015 Timişoara, Romania

Organizers:

WEST UNIVERSITY OF TIMIŞOARA

FACULTY OF CHEMISTRY, BIOLOGY, GEOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY

A 14-a conferință internațională de geografie

Provocări metodologice în cercetarea geografică

15 – 16 Mai 2015 Timişoara, România

Organizatori:

UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST DIN TIMIŞOARA

FACULTATEA DE CHIMIE, BIOLOGIE, GEOGRAFIE DEPARTAMENTUL DE GEOGRAFIE

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SCIENTIFIC BOARD:

Acad. prof. dr. Dan BĂLTEANU (Bucureşti) Prof. dr. Jean-Baptiste HUMEAU (Angers) Acad. prof. dr. Alexandru UNGUREANU (Iaşi) Assoc. prof. dr. Cătălina ANCUŢA (Timişoara) Prof. dr. Joan Serafi BERNAT MARTI (Castellón) Prof. dr. Sandu BOENGIU (Craiova) Assoc. prof. dr. Péter BAJMÓCY (Szeged) Prof. dr. Remus CREŢAN (Timişoara) Prof. dr. Laura COMĂNESCU (Bucureşti) Prof. dr. Branislav DJURDJEV (Novi Sad) Dr. Monica DUMITRAȘCU (București) Prof. dr. Vasile EFROS (Suceava) Prof. dr. Mirko GRČIĆ (Belgrad) Prof. dr. Ion IANOŞ (Bucureşti) Prof. dr. Corneliu IAŢU (Iaşi) Prof. dr. Alexandru ILIEŞ (Oradea) Prof. dr. Marin ILIEŞ (Sighetu Marmaţiei) Dr. Peter JORDAN (Viena) Prof. dr. Ionel MUNTELE (Iaşi) Prof. dr. Dănuţ PETREA (Cluj-Napoca) Prof. dr. Nicolae POPA (Timişoara) Prof. dr. Maria RĂDOANE (Suceava) Prof. dr. Petru URDEA (Timişoara) Assoc. prof. dr. Sorina VOICULESCU (Timişoara)

ORGANIZING COMITEE:

Assoc. prof. dr. Mircea VOICULESCU Lect. Dr. Alexandru ONACA Lect. Dr. Alina SATMARI Assist Dr. Florina ARDELEAN Assist Dr. Andreea ARBA Assist Dr. Ionuț ZISU

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CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Friday, 15th of May 2015 / Vineri, 15 Mai 2015

09.00 – 09.30 Arrival and Registration

09.30 – 09.40 Welcome Speeches from the Organizers

09.40 – 11.10 Plenary Session

11.10 – 11.30 Coffee Break

11.30 – 13.00 Presentations on Sections (I)

13.00 – 14.30 Lunch Break

14.30 – 16.00 Presentations on Sections (II)

16.00 – 16.20 Coffee Break

16.20 – 17.35 Presentations on Sections (III)

17.35 – 18.00 Conclusions in Plenary Session

19.00 Dinner

Saturday, 16th of May 2015 / Sâmbătă, 16 Mai 2015 08.30 – 17.30

Field trip with the following route / Aplicație pe traseul Timişoara - Arad - Szeged - Sânnicolau Mare - Timișoara

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PLENNARY PRESENTATIONS / COMUNICĂRI ÎN PLEN Amphitheater A13 (09.40 - 11.10)

09.40 – 10.10 Globalisation and/or deglobalisation - a geographic perspective

Octavian Groza, Mihaela Mocănaşu-Rusu

(Al. Ioan Cuza University, Iași) 10.10 – 10.40 New patterns in the location choice of the Spanish immigrants

Luisa Alamá Sabater, Joan Serafí Bernat Martí, Maite Alguacil Marí

(Jaume I University, Castellón de la Plana)

10.40 – 11.10 Aspects of applying geomorphological and geophysical methods in archeology and environmental

studies

Petru Urdea, Alexandru Onaca, Adrian Cristian Ardelean, Florina Ardelean (West University of Timișoara)

PRESENTATIONS ON SECTIONS HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

Amphitheater A13 (11.30-13.00; 14.30-16.00; 16.20-17.35)

Session I

Reader/Moderator Prof. Dr. Octavian Groza

11.30 – 11.45 Virtues and limits of a structured qualitative approach of Timisoara’s Cetate’s sense of place and sense of belonging Mario Bédard, Sorina Voiculescu 11.45 – 12.00 The sense of belonging and identity in defining and delimiting the Codrului District Simona-Monica Chiţă 12.00 – 12.15 Discourse analysis and cultural differences: a comparative approach France – Romania Alexandru Drăgan

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12.15 – 12.30 Romanian’s migration in Spain. Socio-territorial consequences and dynamics Adriana Şuiu 12.30 – 12.45 The Importance of Qualitative Methods in Studying the Tourist Image of Transylvania: Discourse Analysis Cosmin-Gabriel Porumb-Ghiurco 12.45 – 13.00 The inventory, evaluation and mapping of the tourist routes in Padiş karst plateau Ovidiu Gaceu, Dorina Ilieş, Mihaela Ungureanu, Anamaria Giurău (Lăzuran), Mihai Vlaicu

Session II Reader/Moderator

Prof. Dr. Nicolae Popa 14.30 – 14.45 Romania's development based on growth poles: social and territorial cohesion versus economic competitiveness? Nicolae Popa 14.45 – 15.00 Transdisciplinary methods to highlight economic and geographic disparities, applied to Maramureş county Rozalia Benedek 15.00 – 15.15 Typology of Eastern-European airports based on a disaggregated gravity model Andreea Mihaela Buraga 15.15 – 15.30 Estimating airports catchment areas using the Huff model - a case study on selected Eastern European countries Alexandru Rusu, Andreea Buraga 15.30 – 15.45 Ethnographic investigation as a research method in tourism geography Mihaela-Daniela Cazacu 15.45 – 16.00 Monasteries role in socio-economic development of rural communities Elena Ciorogariu

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Session III

Reader/Moderator Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sorina Voiculescu

16.20 – 16.35 New places in old industrial spaces: some development initiatives in Timișoara Ramona Ivan 16.35 – 16.50 Placing Urban Ruined Sites in Geographical approaches: Evidences of Lugoj Municipality Sebastian Jucu 16.50 – 17.05 Analysis of geo-demographic indicators at local scale. A case study on North-East and South-East Regions of Romania Andreea Alexandra Cireaşe 17.05 – 17.20 Recent Demographic Evolutions in Periurban Area of Arad City Teodora Stepanescu, Sorin Pavel 17.20 – 17.35 The Wesselényi domain of Jibou - multisecular planning model Vasile Benedek, Rozalia Benedek

PRESENTATIONS ON SECTIONS PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

ROOM 132 (11.00-13.00; 14.30-16.00)

Session I Reader/Moderator

Prof. dr. Petru Urdea 11.00 – 11.30 SNOWBALL PROJECT PRESENTATION Mircea Voiculescu 11.30 – 11.45 Testing geophysical methods in karst topography evolution, Anina Mining Area (Banat Mountains, Romania) Adrian Cristian Ardelean, Laurentiu Artugyan, Petru Urdea 11.45 – 12.00 Influence of lithology and geomorphometric parameters on block streams morphology from Retezat-Godeanu Mountains Group, Southern Carpathians Raul Şerban, Mihaela Popescu, Petru Urdea, Alexandru Onaca

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12.00 – 12.15 Lichen coverage percentage of some periglacial landforms form upper basin of Capra Valley through Object based image analysis (OBIA) Roxana Putan 12.15. – 12.30 Object based image analysis and classification tree for soil type mapping Andrei Dornik 12.30 – 12.45 Land cover change detection using object based image analysis Marinela Chețan 12.45 – 13.00 The use of GPS precision surveys in landslide susceptibility analyses. Case study: the ring road of Domaşnea village Darius Drăghicescu

Session II Reader/Moderator

Lect. dr. Alina Satmari 14.30 – 14.45 Using Random Forest to model permafrost distribution in Retezat Mountains, Southern Carpathians, Romania Flavius Sîrbu, Alexandru Onaca

14.45 – 15.00 Using generalized linear models (GLM) to assess the distribution of different rock glaciers typologies in the Retezat Mountains Brigitte Magori, Florina Ardelean, Alexandru Onaca, Flavius Sîrbu 15.00 – 15.15 An alternative solution for avalanche tracks mapping using semi-automated methods. A case study from Făgăraș Mountains – Proiectul SNOWBALL Florina Ardelean, Marcel Török-Oance, Mircea Voiculescu 15.15 – 15.30 The necessity for improving the Romanian methodology of qualitative assessment of the agricultural lands Ionuț Zisu 15.30 – 15.45 Some considerations on average, maximum and minimum water discharge from the Timiș-Bega hydrographical basin Andreea Mihaela Arba 15.45 – 16.00 Extreme weather in Banat: heavy snow storm, intense cold wave and its associated risk phenomena. Study case: Bega River in Timisoara between 28.12.2014-10.01.2015 Mihaela Soroceac

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*The Physical Geography section of the conference has been organized in the frame of SnowBall project EEA-JRP-RO-NO-2013-1-0285 Remote Sensing, model and in-situ data fusion for snowpack parameters and related hazards in a climate change perspective (SnowBall).

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