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    STUDIA GEOGRAPHIA - Issue no. 2 / 2011  
         
  Article:   COMPONENTS AND INDICATORS OF VULNERABILITY OF RURAL SETTLEMENTS.

Authors:  V. SOROCOVSCHI.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  

The first part of the present paper emphasizes the extrinsic (exposition, elements and vulnerability) and intrinsic components on a rather detailed scale. The vulnerability factors have been categorized on the basis of diverse criteria that took into account the area in which they occur, their role and place in the territorial systems dynamics, their genesis and nature. The intrinsic components category includes the systems resilience, sensitivity, fragility and “preparedness”. In the second part of the paper we analyse the criteria that serve as a basis for the separation of the indicators concerning the rural settlements vulnerability. Considering the nature defining the various elements and factors the vulnerability indicators have been included into several classes: spatial, physical, demographic and human, socio-economic and environmental ones.

Keywords: vulnerability, components, fragility, indicators, rural settlements.

 
         
     
         
         
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