Challenges for the Resilience Capacity of Romanian Shrinking Cities
Abstract
:1. Introduction
1.1. Shrinking Cities—Theoretical Background
1.2. Urban Resilience—A Different Approach to Shrinking Cities and Sustainability
1.3. The Situation in Eastern Europe, with a Focus on the Case of Romania
2. Objectives and Methodology
3. Results
3.1. Typology of Romanian Shrinking Cities
3.2. Resilience Capacity in a Time Series Analysis of Romanian Shrinking Cities
3.3. Adaptive Cycles—Key Moments, Trajectories, Thresholds and Strategies for Romanian Shrinking Cities
4. Discussion and Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Author Contributions
Conflicts of Interest
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Variables | Description |
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NAT_Loss | The natural loss of population in the last 20 years (1996–2015) |
Migr_Loss | The migratory loss of population in the last 20 years (1996–2015) |
Shrink_y | Number of years with decreasing population in the last 20 years |
Aging | The difference between the value of ageing index at the end and at the beginning of the period (1996–2015) |
%Jobs_Loss | The decrease in total number of employees in the last 20 years (1996–2015) |
Pop_Loss_ZM | The decrease in total population of metropolitan areas in the last 20 years (1996–2015) |
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Chicago/Turabian StyleBănică, Alexandru, Marinela Istrate, and Ionel Muntele. 2017. "Challenges for the Resilience Capacity of Romanian Shrinking Cities" Sustainability 9, no. 12: 2289. https://doi.org/10.3390/su9122289
APA StyleBănică, A., Istrate, M., & Muntele, I. (2017). Challenges for the Resilience Capacity of Romanian Shrinking Cities. Sustainability, 9(12), 2289. https://doi.org/10.3390/su9122289