<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>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.</p></abstract>

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.

Inter-Communal Cooperation and Regional Development: The Case of Romania

Institute of Geography, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania

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Romania's local administrative-territorial organisation shows a high degree of fragmentation. The situation tends to worsen as some villages break away from...

Inter-Communal Cooperation and Regional Development: The Case of Romania

Published Online: Jun 21, 2012

Page range: 95 - 106

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10117-012-0022-8

Keywords
administrative fragmentation, inter-communal cooperation, regional development, Romania

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Inter-Communal Cooperation and Regional Development: The Case of Romania

Published Online: Jun 21, 2012

Page range: 95 - 106

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10117-012-0022-8

Keywordsadministrative fragmentation, inter-communal cooperation, regional development, Romania

This content is open access.

Keywords
administrative fragmentation, inter-communal cooperation, regional development, Romania