Abstract

Inter-Communal Cooperation and Regional Development: The Case of Romania Romania's local administrative-territorial organisation shows a high degree of fragmentation. The situation tends to worsen as some villages break away from the parent communes and form new administrative-territorial structures. Since their area is fairly small and adequate financial resources to sustain some coherent, long-term development programmes are missing, a solution would be for them to associate freely into inter-communal cooperation structures, which is a basic prerequisite for attracting European structural funds. Such a type of cooperation practice was experienced in this country at the beginning of the 20th century. Today, inter-communal cooperation could be achieved in two ways: by an association of local communities patterned on historical ‘lands’ (after the French model) and by the establishment of a town, of the metropolitan type, to polarise cooperation structures.

Highlights

  • With the numerical increase in communes, a local tendency to fragmentation has become obvious, especially after 20001.This situation calls for a new territorial planning strategy, either by creating an under-departmental type of administration resembling the French arrondissement, or by having new, flexible structures of inter-communal association based on common interests and established by people’s free accord

  • The situation tends to worsen as some villages break away from the parent communes and form new administrative-territorial structures

  • Since their area is fairly small and adequate financial resources to sustain some coherent, long-term development programmes are missing, a solution would be for them to associate freely into inter-communal cooperation structures, which is a basic prerequisite for attracting European structural funds

Read more

Summary

Introduction

With the numerical increase in communes, a local tendency to fragmentation has become obvious, especially after 20001.This situation calls for a new territorial planning strategy, either by creating an under-departmental type of administration resembling the French arrondissement (or a small rural district – the plasă of inter-warRomania), or by having new, flexible structures of inter-communal association based on common interests and established by people’s free accord. The presence of some strong urban nuclei capable of effectively polarising local settlement systems might help some of those “lands” (Maramureş Land, Dorna Land, Bârsa Land, Făgăraş Land, and Amlaş Land) develop into under-departmental type administrative structures, an aspect taken into account when working out the administrative framework proposed as an optimisation model (Săgeată 2004a, b, 2006).

Results
Conclusion
Full Text
Paper version not known

Talk to us

Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have

Schedule a call

Disclaimer: All third-party content on this website/platform is and will remain the property of their respective owners and is provided on "as is" basis without any warranties, express or implied. Use of third-party content does not indicate any affiliation, sponsorship with or endorsement by them. Any references to third-party content is to identify the corresponding services and shall be considered fair use under The CopyrightLaw.