PHYSICAL-GEOGRAPHICAL AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONDITIONS DEFINING THE QUALITY OF THE ECO-PEDOLOGICAL RESOURCES IN THE TIMIŞOARA METROPOLITAN AREA.

The ecopedological resources together with the physical-geographical factors and the regime of climatic factors constitute a subsystem called biotope or resort which is in close connection with the associations of plants and animals, together making up terrestrial ecosystems, they having the ability to transform the energy they store in biomass, between these and socio-economic interventions, relations of a varied and complex reciprocity can be established. The Timişoara metropolitan area, from this paper, is a project that includes the municipality of Timişoara, the city of Recaş and 25 other neighboring territorial administrative units in order to create an integrated administrative unit between the municipality of Timişoara and the neighboring localities, which would include 468,162 of inhabitants, on an area of 223952 ha, establishing relations of economic, social and cultural cooperation, territorial development, technicalbuilding equipment and environmental protection, each locality maintaining its autonomy. In Romania, metropolitan areas were regulated by law 351 of July 6, 2001 an area constituted by association, based on voluntary partnership, between large urban centers and urban and rural localities located at distances of up to 30 km. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]