THE REORGANIZATION OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES AND THE PERSPECTIVES OF THE ENDOGENOUS DEVELOPMENT IN THE MINING AREAS FROM GORJ COUNTY

In the strategies of regional development, a bigger and bigger importance is given to identifying the possibilities of endogenous development which, besides the exogenous impulses, contributes to an optimal development of local economies. Gorj County is one of the counties which registered a major economic decline following the restructuring processes of the economic activities. These counties need interventions at the strategic level, in order to identify the development alternatives, based on the capitalization of localresources. Following the analysis of the relation between the enterprise initiative and development, the way in which it has become fundamental for the development of a geographical space was clearly underlined. The analysis of this determination offers a well documented scientific support to the local and central authorities; this support regards the development of the enterprise initiative in territorial profile and, on this basis, it offers concretesolutions, based on decisional chains, which will have as a result the attenuation of the disequilibrium within the territorial profile. The endogenous development of the territorial systems may contribute to the sustainability of the cohesion process at local, regional andnational level.