STUDY ON POPULATION DYNAMICS IN ESTABLISHING LOCALITIES DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES

Abstract

In order to develop less favoured areas, such as most rural areas in Romania, because of the transformations in the economic and social life of the Romanian state in the last three decades, it is very important to acknowledge local communities as specific interests and needs units, apart from the general interests of the nation, with their own identity and well-defined personalities, which should benefit from specific strategies for economic and socio-cultural development. In this paper, the authors present the importance and role of the dynamics of the population in establishing the development strategies of the rural communities. In the context of a continuous European integration and of a stronger and more diversified economic cooperation, the population in the border regions, as is the case of the localities in the rural area of Salonta (the area taken in the study), because of their geographical positioning, will be capable of supporting the right to equal living conditions, freedom of movement, and improved population mobility. Following the study carried out, the authors concluded that, in order to have positive social effects, the development strategies of the localities should rely on specific resources, a situation in which the dynamics of the population and its trend plays an important role in establishing the investment projects to be achieved in each local community.