Responsibilities and Limits of Local Government Actions against Users of Public Services of Planning and Sustainable Territorial Development in Romania

Bogdan Suditu (), Mariana Nae, Silviu Negut and Aurel Gheorghilas
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Bogdan Suditu: Universitatea din Bucuresti
Mariana Nae: Universitatea din Bucuresti
Aurel Gheorghilas: Universitatea din Bucuresti

The AMFITEATRU ECONOMIC journal, 2014, vol. 16, issue 35, 154

Abstract: In the context of the changes that have occurred in the Romanian society, the public authorities are required to play a coordinating role in providing the framework for a sustainable and balanced development of the national territory, and to ensure the quality of life of the citizens. In order to achieve these goals of social responsibility, the public administration authorities must build and adapt the tools of public territorial action based on their specificity and within the existing legal framework and resources,. Thus, the study shows the national and European context that frames the actions of public administration for what concerns the sustainable territorial development. It analyzes the characteristics of administrative-territorial structures of Romania, highlighting their socio-demographic diversity and the territorial forms of institutional cooperation. The approach of these issues is based in the first instance on an analysis of the European strategic documents in the field, as well as on the national regulations concerning the organization and functioning of public administration and territorial planning. The implementation of decentralization and local public autonomy has led to the capitalization of the local potential of some administrative divisions and caused a competition and a difficult cooperation between them. By analogy with the provisions of the quality standards regarding the responsibilities of the organizations towards customers, the study illustrates and analyzes the responsibilities and limits of public administration authorities in promoting sustainable development, territorial equity and the quality of life for the users of public services, i.e. the community members.

Keywords: sustainable development; social responsibilities of the public authorities; users; quality of life; administrative-territorial structures; local budgets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H20 H61 H68 H72 J11 R13 R51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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