OPPORTUNITIES OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE RURAL AREA AT THE LEVEL OF GALATI COUNTY, ROMANIA.

Sustainable development in rural areas can be identified through a series of projects that highlight both economic, environmental, social problems and measures to improve the quality of life. European standards imposed at local level created opportunities for development and modernization of rural life that raised the level of community trust in European funding instruments. From an economic point of view, it is appropriate to create strategies that include measures and methods of transforming the rural economy into a sustainable and performance focused on innovation. To implement these local strategies, the community will need to implement strategic projects in areas such as health, culture, entrepreneurship, agriculture and education. In the context of the presented ones, the paper constitutes a theoretical and practical analysis of the manner in which the opportunities, phenomena and economic and social processes from the rural area of Galati County must be approached. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]