Spatio-temporal analysis of Romania's rural population access to sanitation services in the context of EU accession

Florin Constantin Mihai (1) , Liviu Apostol (1) , Ana-Andreea Ghiurcă (1) , Andrea Lămăşanu (1)

1 UAIC - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași = Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza din Iași

This paper analysis the disparities between Romanian Counties regarding the spatio-temporal evolution of rural population acces to sanitation services for pre-accession period (2003-2006) and the first two years since Romania is part of the EU-27 (2007-2008) highlighting positive or negative changes occurred in this period.Romanian counties were mapped and divided into five typological classes,using multivariate analysis such as hierarchical cluster analysis method.Each class has different values of rural population served by waste collection services related to the Romania average (expressed in standard deviations).Limited access to sanitation services from rural areas lead to uncontrolled waste disposal.Despite improvement of public access to sanitation services in rural areas compared to 2003 most of population still lack access to waste collection services in 2008.In this context, implementation of the acquis communautaire on municipal waste management is difficult to achieve in rural territory.

Mots clés: spatial analysis; sanitation services; rural territory; waste management

Domaines: Sciences de l'environnement; Environnement et Société; Ecologie, Environnement; Santé; Santé publique et épidémiologie; Sciences de l'Homme et Société; Démographie; Géographie; Etudes de l'environnement; Gestion et management; Sociologie; Méthodes et statistiques; Méthodologie [stat.ME]

Florin Constantin Mihai, Liviu Apostol, Ana-Andreea Ghiurcă, Andrea Lămăşanu. Spatio-temporal analysis of Romania's rural population access to sanitation services in the context of EU accession. 12th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference, SGEM 2012, Conference Proceedings, Jun 2015, Albena, Bulgaria. pp.787-792, ⟨10.5593/sgem2012/s20.v5106⟩. ⟨hal-01166923⟩