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THE RURAL LANDSCAPE IN THE PLAIN OF TARGOVISTE (ROMANIA) AND ITS ECOLOGICAL FEATURES

Mihaela Sencovici, Mihaela Sencovici

Abstract

The rural landscape is made up of agricultural landscape, completed by the land without an agricultural destination. It comprises three elements: the central area, the habitat made up of buildings related to the agri cultural exploitations, dwellings, artisan’s locations, deposits; rural lands that include both the uncultiv ated areas and the areas meant for different uses (agriculture, fore stry, pisciculture, t ourist and recreational purposes); the physical infrastructure (ways of communication). In this study, we will reflect on the rural landscape of the Plain of Târgovişte, as an area for human habitation (precincts of rural settlements) and social area (rest, recreation, convivial relationships) for the local community, which later on turned into an economic area, providing agricultural lands and other resources as productive and subsistence means. We can distinguish between three different rural landscape approaches: - the first and the oldest refers to the adaptation of the rural society to the inhabited area, explaining the appearance and the settlement of the habitat near water sources and the way the rural population uses the natural offer (soil, water, microrelief); - a second type of approach refers to the hi storic genesis of the rural landscapes, relying on archeological remains and on their rigorous classification; - the third kind of approach considers the rural landscape as a materialization of the present condition of the technology and refl ects, on the level of the inhabitants’ conscience, its evolution. We are going to approach the rural landscape of the Plain of Târgovi şte from a dynamic perspective, as a landscape submitted to a continuous transformation and as the result of the interaction in time between: the initia l physical environment, its biological exploitation and man’s action on it. Taking in to account certain indicators (agricultural land fund, rural population, number of em ployees in agriculture and industry, administrative facilities) , we calculated the landscape naturalness indicator and the environmental transformation indicator , thanks to which we have been able to draw a typology of the localities in the Plain of Târgovişte. The human valorization of the Plain of Târgovi şte in time highlighted its capacity of being a multifunctional space, which repr esents a quality favoring both its own development and the development of the entire country, as it is a bridge that unites and allows the passage to and from the major neighboring units.

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DOI resolver: doi.org/10.5593/sgem2011/s20.176

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