CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING THE INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT OF FRESHWATER LAKES IN TRANSYLVANIA PLAIN

Ioan FODOREAN
„Babeş-Bolyai” University Cluj-Napoca, Romania fioan@geografie.ubbcluj.ro

Abstract

Lakes appear under more forms and dimensions and include lots of features that constitute important advantages in defining them as a class of objects that need to be studied. They have very well defined limits and there are open systems that receive water, solar energy and chemical substances from outside the system. The foreign specialty literature provides special attention to the study of the lakes and the swampy fields of their neighbourhood, as well as to the numerous interactions that come out from the existence of these water units. In this purpose, proper paradigms of the study of aquatic systems have been drawn: the paradigm of lakes as microcosmos or integrated ecosystems, paradigm of lakes as experimental systems, paradigm of lakes as chronicles of natural history etc.

Keywords: Transylvanian Plain, sustainable development, SWOT analysis, lake basin