Institute of Geography
phone: +40 213135990
fax: +40 213111242
mail: igar@geoinst.ro
Bucharest, Romania
web page: www.geoinst.ro
ISSN printed: 1220 - 5311
Number of issues/year: 2
The journal, permanently issued under the aegis of the Romanian Academy, reflected developments and trends in Romanian Geography, also publishing many of the most valuable research results obtained in this country. In time, it included papers presented at international scientific events held in Romania, among which articles written by foreign specialists.
Beginning with volume 53/2009, Revue Roumaine de Géographie, published under the aegis of the Romanian Academy, is issued twice a year.
The publication of the journal in a new format is subject to a peer-review process undertaken by a group of prestigious scientists. This aims to continue past preoccupations and enlarge international relations by including outstanding studies of foreign researchers.
The host of problems posed after 1990 by transition from a centralised system to the free market economy, focus on the complex relations between society and environmental change, sustainable development, urbanisation and the development of metropolitan areas, natural and technological hazards, etc. As well as current issues of Central and South-Eastern Europe, e.g. cross-border co-operation in the eastern extremity of the European Union in the Lower Danube Basin and the Black Sea Basin, etc.