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Romania Toward a Low Carbon and Climate Resilient Economy

Urban Sector Analysis

Training Resources & Tools
Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2016
Romania, Europe, Central Asia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
waste (abuse)
climate change
land-use planning
environment
By European standards, Romania is a low urbanized country. There exists a rising trend towards suburbanization, however, that is not fully captured by Romania’s urban statistics. The country’s urbanization rate of 55 percent has remained fairly constant over the past two decades, despite significant population migration out of the country, and a strong suburbanization trend in areas on the immediate outskirts of major cities.
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Romania Toward a Low Carbon and Climate Resilient Economy

Transport Sector Analysis

Training Resources & Tools
Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2015
Romania, Europe, Central Asia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land use
climate change
urban areas
In Romania, as well as in many other East European countries, transport sector Green House Gas (GHG) emissions are increasing fast and their growth is expected to continue into the future, accompanying the on-going economic convergence with the European Union (EU). The objective of the analysis was to assess the impact of green policies and investments on transport emissions. For this purpose, the Romania Transport Strategic Emission Prediction Tool (TRANSEPT) was developed.
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Romania Toward a Low Carbon and Climate Resilient Economy

Energy Sector Analysis

Training Resources & Tools
Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2015
Romania, Europe, Central Asia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
waste (abuse)
climate change
This report is about Energy sector in Romania which is responsible for 58 percent of the country’s GHG emissions (except Land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF)), and is therefore critical for mitigation. Romania’s economic growth and energy consumption have been decoupling since the early 1990s, and the energy intensity of the economy has been continuously decreasing, but it is still high. At present, Romanian energy supply system is relatively carbon intensive, but share of zero-carbon energy sources is growing.
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Romania Toward a Low Carbon and Climate Resilient Economy

Benchmarking Study

Training Resources & Tools
Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2015
Romania, Europe, Central Asia
Urban Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
environment
land
urban population
This report is about Romanis's Green growth benchmarking, which is a country-level diagnostic that helps define a country’s strengths and vulnerabilities in adopting a path to greener growth. The process of defining a country’s green growth path starts with an analysis aimed at mapping the country’s current position on a multi-dimensional green-growth chart, with each dimension defined by an indicator of green growth.
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Romania Toward a Low Carbon and Climate Resilient Economy

Forestry Sector Analysis

Training Resources & Tools
Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2015
Romania, Europe, Central Asia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
climate change
forest management plans
land area
agriculture
forest land
land
land degradation
forestry
land ownership
land use
This report is about forests that provide a substantial contribution to mitigation in Romania by sequestering carbon, helping to counter carbon emissions from other sectors in the economy. Sustainable forest management is challenged by fragmented ownership and insufficient financial resources in particular. A summary of key existing analytic studies, and the construction of a marginal abatement cost curve for mitigation actions in the forestry sector, was the basis for identifying key adaptation and mitigation measures for Romania’s forests.
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indicator framework for the climatic adaptive capacity of natural ecosystems

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2011
Hungary
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land cover
climate change
Questions: Can the climatic adaptive capacity of natural ecosystems be estimated with using landscape indicators based on vegetation or land-cover data? Can species distribution model (SDM) outputs be enhanced using such indicators? What are the data requirements and optimal parameter values of potential indicators? Location: Indicator framework: unspecified. Case study: Kiskunság, Hungary. Methods: (1) We define a general framework for handling adaptation in ecological climate change impact assessments based on IPCC definitions.
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Environmental changes in the Polish agriculture - toward the bio-economy

Conference Papers & Reports
December, 2016
Poland, Latvia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
environment
forest land
farmland
agriculture
sustainable development
This paper attempts to provide an interdisciplinary concept of the bio-economy in the context of environmental changes in the Polish agriculture. Various definitions of bio-economy have been presented and its place in the sustainable development theory has been described. The aim of this paper is to present the environmental changes in Polish agriculture in the context of the bio-economy. For this purpose uses the information published by the Central Statistical Office and Eurostat. To showcase and presentation methods were used descriptive and tabular.
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Drainage systems and their water management function with regard to probable climatic and hydrological changes

Policy Papers & Briefs
March, 2006
Czech Republic
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
water management
farmland
land improvement
Some scenarios of probable climatic changes in the Czech Republic and the anticipated effect of these changes on the components of the hydrologic water discharge from drained agricultural and forest catchments are studied. The function of drainage systems on selected experimental lands is examined. The effect of climatic changes on the hydrologic balance and/or on the runoff from the catchments significantly varies up to +/-150% provided that we compare the average runoff.
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Regulatory and legislative aspects of the ecological evaluation and control of soil degradation in Russia on the basis of the assessment of soil ecological functions

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2015
Russia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land degradation
On the basis of legislative norms concerning land and nature management in Russia and scientific concepts of soil and land, new definitions of these basic concepts are suggested. Soils and lands are considered as separate components of the environment, each performing their own ecological functions. The definitions for land degradation and soil degradation are given.
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Natural and human-induced environmental changes in Eastern Europe during the Holocene: a multi-proxy palaeolimnological study of a small Latvian lake in a humid temperate zone

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2013
Latvia, Eastern Europe
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land cover
climate change
This study uses the Holocene lake sediment of Lake Ķūži (Latvia, Vidzeme Heights) for environmental reconstruction with multi-proxy records including lithology, computerised axial tomography scan, grain-size analysis, geochemistry, diatoms and macrofossils, supported by AMS radiocarbon dating. Numerical analyses (PCA; CONISS) reveal three main phases in the development of the lake. Response to the Lateglacial–Holocene transition in Lake Ķūži took place around 11,300 cal. BP.