Andrei Rafael Gruia

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The Bucharest-Ilfov region has recorded major structural changes in the local economy in recent decades, being the most dynamic region in Romania. The research aims to highlight the structural changes in the local economy, for the period 2000-2022, following two relevant indicators: turnover and number of employees, at the level of each economic sector, both for the municipality of Bucharest and for Ilfov County. The results highlighted the major structural changes, especially at the level of Ilfov County, where there was a constant increase in the values of the analyzed indicators. The modeling of the structural dynamics highlighted a series of very important aspects regarding the positioning of the Bucharest-Ilfov Region at national level, after 2015 the tendency being to concentrate economic activities with an increasingly high turnover.

In the current geopolitical context in which the Schengen Area has expanded to Romania and Bulgaria, our study proposes new directions for the development of tourism near the border between the two countries, in the Dobrogea region. Thus, by using Geographic Information Systems tools, we will outline several thematic cross-border tourist routes between the two countries. Characterized by strong dynamics, tourism is one of the main economic activities in the European Union. This economic sector has had a positive evolution in recent decades, statistics that come as a result of the reduction of obstacles to the movement of tourists between member states. European integration has driven the rapid development of cross-border tourism. The full accession of Romania and Bulgaria to the Schengen Area in January 2025 may be a good opportunity for certain forms of tourism that bring common elements between the two states to be developed simultaneously by creating tourist routes that unite tourist resources from the two neighboring states. Geospatial technologies provide an overview of the spatial relationships between tourist attractions, helping us to extract new information on the directions of regional economic development. The diversity of archaeological resources in a region where coastal tourism is the main form of tourist activity, constitute important advantages from which our analysis starts. The results obtained indicate that the road distances between the main archaeological sites in Dobrogea have been considerably reduced, new tourist routes being able to sustainably capitalize on the archaeological resources of Dobrogea as a result of accession to the Schengen Area

Economic pressure on agricultural land is generating major changes in affected territorial systems. The development of methodologies to analyze the pressure on agricultural land is one of the main concerns regarding food security and how to provide fresh produce to large cities. The methodology used uses the Corine Land Cover database, provided by Copernicus Land Monitoring Services (CLMS), from 1990–2018. Data processing and analysis was performed using the open-source software package QGIS, a process that started by reprojecting the data into the national coordinate reference system Pulkovo 1942(58)/Stereo 70, EPSG: 3844. The methodology used was able to highlight the transformations that have taken place in land use, highlighting when and how the land was transformed. Our results show that quantitative and land-use changes due to the socio-economic pressures generated by the transition to a different type of economy can be highlighted. Urban sprawl has led to dramatic changes in land use, with agricultural land being the category that has seen the largest reductions in area.