标题：THE ROLE OF RURAL SETTLEMENTS OCCUPYING A CENTRAL POSITION IN THE ELABORATION OF THE STRATEGIES OF TERRITORIAL MANAGEMENT. CASE STUDY THE SOUTHWESTERN DEVELOPMENT REGION
摘要：There are many directions of action regarding the increase of the functionality of administrative mechanisms. One of them is supporting the development of some territorial management structures of the type of polycentric networks of human settlements, able to ensure the efficient diffusion of development, starting from the level of coordination centres and continuing up to the local level. Creating some development models, based on polycentric structures, is a main preoccupation of the European decision factors, who, once the European Union has been enlarged, confront with an increase of the development gaps in territorial profile. Building these models supposes a series of difficulties at the local level, where it is difficult to identify territorial systems, able to diffuse development within the settlements network. The polycentric development model includes human settlements, each of them having a certain capacity of subordinating areas, where they occupy a central position. The estimatio n of the polarization capacity represents a complex step, frequently applied in specialised literature for the superior levels, where the effects within the subordinate areas are obvious. The methodology of analyzing the role of the settlements with a central position within consolidation has been elaborated and developed within some projects of fundamental scientific research (Territorial management based on the theory of development poles (PNII), Production controlled by discontinuities and treatment of the areas being at a high disadvantage and the Interf ace urban rural in the context of polycentric development) financed by CNCSIS.
