DURABLE DEVELOPMENT AND DIVERSIFICATION OF ECONOMICAL ACTIVITIES IN THE ROMANIAN RURAL COMMUNITIES

The rural territory of Romania covers approximately 90% of the country's territory and gathers 45.1% of the population (9.7 million inhabitants). The medium denisty of the population from rural territories remained relatively constant throughout the years (about 45.0 inhabitants / km(2)). Romania's population has a more pronounced level of rurality in comparison with other E.U. countries, where the rural establishments are less populated and at a reduced scale. Therefore we consider necessary paying more attention towards village development and Romanian rural economy diversification. Even though the Romanian rural space shelters a rich culture, with a strong traditional character that differs from one region to the other, it does not manage to fully explore the value of its resources, perpetuating a paradoxal state of poverty due to lack of attractivenesss and promotion of rural areas. In the present paper the authors sinthetize a diagnosis of the rural areas in our country and try to emphasise the main issues with which the rural inhabitants are confronted with nowadays, trying to bring into discussion at least partial resolving solutions for these issues.