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    STUDIA AMBIENTUM - Issue no. 1-2 / 2008  
         
  Article:   RELATION BETWEEN FORESTS AND SETTLEMENTS IN THE CATCHMENT AREA OF THE RIVER FEERNIC.

Authors:  TIBOR ELEKES, PÉTER GYENIZSE, LÁSZLÓ NAGYVÁRADI. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  The extension of the forests in the area of the catchment area of the Feernic had become less and less due to the development of settlements and expanding of agricultural areas. We have studied this process in three periods of time. Near ecological changes, the economic and social effects of landscape modifying features had strengthened. In the 20th century parallel with deforestation, sedimentary processes accelerated, causing prompt elevation of channel floor in the Feernic and its tributaries. These processes, such as slope evolution, soil erosion, sedimentation, floodplain alluviation had accelerated owing to the social activities, such as deforestation, wrong agricultural works, etc. They created state of emergency because of natural disasters: danger of inundation, strengthen of torrents, periodical aridity in drier monthes in the western part of the region and degradation of infrastructure.

Keywords: deforestation, forest-land extension 		 
         
     
         
         
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