Integrated Territorial Planning of a Homogeneous Mountain System. The Craiului Forest Microregion

According to the scientific method that served as the foundation for its creation, the article suggeststwo different kinds of methods. The first strategy concentrates on theoretical and methodologicalelements with the goal of examining the primary facets of territorial planning from an integratedapproach at the mountain area level. Applied to the current situation in Craiului Forest, the secondstrategy is pragmatic and considers the attainment of integrated territorial coherence as well as thereduction of social and economic disparities at the component locality level.The specific objectives analyzed in the article are consistent with the trajectory of the logic of thescientific approach, as follows: (1) presenting the main elements of the integrated territorialplanning process; (2) analyzing the economic and social profile of the mountain area; (3) conductinga SWOT analysis for each of the evaluated areas; (4) identifying the main objectives of the integrateddevelopment strategy and the directions of action at the level of the Craiului Forest (CF) mountainmicroregion.The article represents the result of research carried out within CE_MONT in 2024, as part of thestrategic program-CEM 1, entitled “Mountain bioeconomy and renewable resources; Circular economyand social economy as factors for revitalizing disadvantaged mountain communities”. Within theframework of the aforementioned program, the study “Feasibility analysis for a territorialdevelopment model of a mountain microregion, as a support for the application of knowledge-basedbioeconomy. Application: Pădurea Craiului Bioarea”, coordinated by Ms. PhD economist DanielaAntonescu, was developed.