ASSESSING THE REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT DEGREE - STEP THREE: ANALYSIS OF LOCAL DEVELOPMENT FIELDS

• Main Authors: Dragoş Valentin DINCĂ, Cătălin Daniel DUMITRICĂ, Teodora I. BIŢOIU
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Technopress 2016-12-01
• Series: Journal of Public Administration, Finance and Law
• Subjects: local development; fields; governance; regulation; science; research
• Online Access: http://www.jopafl.com/uploads/issue10/ASSESSING_THE_REGIONAL_DEVELOPMENT_DEGREE_STEP_THREE_ANALYSIS_OF_LOCAL_DEVELOPMENT_FIELDS.pdf

The territory can be seen as a space power equated in modern societies with the state. From this perspective, the state is responsible for shaping the framework to ensure development of the territory, local development. The concept of local envisages territorial communities, including urban, regional, communities that have been in the spotlight the last few years to address the complex problems faced in different fields: economy, environment, spatial planning, governance, science and research, education and training, social development. Therefore, state governments and primarily local ones, should cooperate with each other and with civil society players that taking into account the legal, operational, institutional and inter-relational, to solve major problems in local communities, in terms of sustainable development, so with responsibility to present generations, but especially to future generations. This article aims to present two specific fields of local development in Romania, through development indicators: local governance and science and research field.