After December 1989, the Romanian government made efforts to re-establish a coherent legal and institutional framework for private rights in land but the whole process has been characterized by instability, incoherence and unjustified delays. The restitution of land properties in private...

The design of the territorial innovation strategies is based on the local development of the patrimony, valorized as main resource. In this perspective, the rural areas can be analyzed as territories in dynamics, defined by the specific qualities, territorial resources and the existing...

Rural development and modernization implicitly became the main practical and theoretical issues of the local rural communities. In general, the variants of development patterns that are envisaged start from the present characteristics of the rural area, focusing upon the modernization of...

The rural area from Tara Hategului – Retezat is one of the richest area in Romania in natural and anthropic tourism supplies, determined by the natural, socio-cultural, economic and historical potential that can be used for tourism purposes. As the tourism potential comprises few economic...

The main purpose of this paper is to assess the competitiveness of the SIRIUS1 Irrigation Project in the Cazasu Rural Area – North Braila Terrace. SIRIUS aims to establish innovative and new service capacities for the irrigation water management user community with the vision of bridging and...

The paper presents the main modalities and solutions by which agriculture and rural development can represent factors of economic-financial crisis shock attenuation and resuming economic growth. It is without doubt that the main modality to increase agriculture contribution to the general...

Getting people aware – at individual and local level – of the ecosystem benefits and services is a complex phenomenon that starts with the evaluation of the existing natural heritage by the inhabitants and ends with the institutionalization of valorization through the establishment of rural...

The irrigation systems determine the modernization of agricultural activities by promoting technical innovation and emancipation of rural social networks, by inducing and dissipating the organizational behaviours and transformation of rural traditional values.1 The evolution of local power...

Specialists signal out the fact that in the period after the 1989 revolution, the number and complexity of the land disputes increased, first as a result of the changes produced in the agricultural land ownership system. The information regarding the type and nature of land disputes, their...

After one decade of structural, legislative and institutional reforms, of economic and social restructuring for accession preparation, the Romanian agricultural sector has to face again a significantly changed situation in the context of the Common Agricultural Policy future Health Check. This...