Rosia Montana

Rosia Montana, Transsylvania, Romania by Oana Baloi --> Back to Rural Landscapes Seminar Case Study List

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Rationale: Why is this case study interesting?

This case presents the economical issues that affect nature, lanscape and people. It is a sugestion of other way of developing in in comunity interes.

There are real eveniments that happend. It is a good example of "do not". Even if surface minier exploatation is an very oboious danger, unfortunately the economical interes coveres the environmental impact.

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Landscape and/or urban context

Biogeography, cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics

The village of Rosia Montana contains hundreds of households, a historical centre with beautiful architecture, various administrative and social-cultural buildings, memorial houses, a mining museum with a unique collection of ancient artifacts, an archaeological reservation and many geological wonders and the incredible deep roots of our history. Many local activities activities started to stagnate in 2002, when Gabriel Resources changed the land use plans and turned Rosia Montana into an industrial area; exclusively reserved for the mine proposal. They put in danger 5 mountains�a unic national patrimony�, 10 churches, 9 cemeterys,�958 households = 2150 people Rosia Montana trough all his natural riches has a big capability of developing, putting in value all the lanscapes, traditions and the inheritances got from ancient times.

Servus Oana - Salutari din partea bucurestenilor. Iti uram multa bafta cu proiectul tau.

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