AVOIDING FAILURE IN THE URBAN-RURAL RELATIONSHIP, WITH ROMANIAN SOCIETAL CONNOTATIONS

Abstract

Contemporary society has been undergoing major upheavals in recent decades, especially in terms of demographic dynamics in the urban-rural and rural-urban directions. Scenarios and solutions are far from being validated, so that general analyses and consequences at local level become more than timely. This includes the direction of national rural development as a component of the international and global integration process. Elements of the rural, continuously shrinking area and demography are addressed, but which has the potential to become an important necessity and not a derisory annex of the urban. The paper seeks to highlight a number of possibilities, principles and measures to support the increased attractiveness of the Romanian countryside and, by extension, its contribution to the development of agri-food and Responsible Tourism, with a view to 2050.