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MUNICIPALITY
SWOT ANALYSIS – NATURAL CAPITAL
STRONG POINTS
WEAK POINTS
• Location close to the border with Bulgaria, and only 50 km far
from the Black Sea.
• Road and railway junction and naval traffic
• Location on the IV Pan-European traffic Corridor.
• Very favourable geographic conditions (in terms of climate,
hydrogeology, pedology).
• Less polluted environment.
• Existence of green areas at the city's periphery.
• Reduced level of industrial pollution due to modernised
technology in the LaFarge Romcim Medgidia plant.
• Sufficient own water resources.
• Relatively high level of pollution.
• Low index of green area to inhabitant.
• Reduced recreational opportunities in the area or in the close
vicinity.
• Low subsoil resources
• Alternation of dry an wet years
• Lack of green belts for protection.
• Lack of integrated waste management.
• Lack of ecological education of the population.
• Heavy traffic crossing the city.
• Lack of a city ring road.
OPPORTUNITIES
THREATS
• Increase the mobility of the population
• Establishment of an ecologic waste landfill.
• Implementation of a system for selective waste collection. ·
• Building the city ring road.
• Reduce the air pollution through switching the fuel of the
thermal power plant from light liquid to natural gas.
• Development of industrial activities
• Reduction of the agricultural exploitations
• Road junction from Remus Opreanu, as a result of the
finalisation of the Bucharest - Constanta highway
• Lack of funds to be invested by the local authority for
environmental protection.
I.2. Structure of the Economic System
I.2.1. Description
During the post-war period, the economy of the municipality
started developing, and the Metallurgic Enterprise for
Equipment Medgidia (MEEM) produced the first steel
charge in the history of Dobrogea.
At the beginning of 1961 there were 6,000 workers hired
in eight large enterprises and cooperatives in Medgidia's
district. In three years, the number of enterprises jumped to
16 and that of workers to 13,000. In the last years of the
communist period, the economy of the city was based on
two large enterprises: MEEM and the Cement Factory.
In the years following the Revolution of 1989, the municipality
went through an obvious transformation process. The
transition from a rigid, planned economy to the
requirements of capitalism triggered a series of difficult
tests for economic agents. The big enterprises (like
MEEM) closed, making room for the small industry and
services. The industrial branches diversified in parallel with
a significant increase of the commercial activity, followed
by that of industry, agriculture and services.