Possibilities of Romania to achieve Objective 11 – “Sustainable cities and communities” under the 2030 Sustainable Development Strategy

Abstract

The paper represents an analysis of Romania’s possibilities of achieving Objective 11 of the 2030 Sustainable Development Strategy, entitled “Sustainable Cities and Communities”. In order to determine the possibilities to achieve the objective, the average evolution rate method was used to predict the evolution of the indicator “share of the population served by the public water supply system” until 2030. Also, given the very large regional gaps between the 8 development regions of Romania, with the help of the rank method, the regions were ranked according to three important indicators that can be the basis for achieving objective 11, respectively: the share of the population served by the public water supply system; gross investments in tangible goods from local units active in the production and supply of electricity and heat, gas, hot water and air conditioning and water distribution and sanitation, waste management, decontamination activities, per capita and gross domestic product per capita.