%0 Journal Article
%T Inter-Communal Cooperation and Regional Development: The Case of Romania
%A Radu S geat
%J Quaestiones Geographicae
%D 2012
%I 
%R 10.2478/v10117-012-0022-8
%X 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.
%K administrative fragmentation
%K inter-communal cooperation
%K regional development
%K Romania
%U http://versita.metapress.com/content/y838253762n63487/?p=976fe46d74684882aa33e0b23175e88d&pi=9