Draghici, AngelicaAngelicaDraghiciGaman, ArturArturGamanVasilescu, DragosDragosVasilescu2017-03-092017-03-092011(on-line)2457-8371L 1843-5831http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/110http://www.simiecoind.ro/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/STUDII-PRIVIND-ELABORAREA-STRATEGIILOR1.pdfVolume IInternational Symposium "The Environment and the Industry" SIMIThe monoindustrial developed areas (such as the mining areas, machine construction areas, etc.) have been subjected to qualitative and quantitative changes that strongly influenced both the whole economy and the human factor. The reorganization of these industries has triggered a series of, cost-related problems especially from an economic and social point of view (unemployment is one of these problems, especially in those areas where the economy totally relies on one industry. Subsequently, this paper tries to settle the main stages necessary to draw up the strategies for a sustainable development of monoindustrial areas in process of reorganization, social and economic implications of this reorganization. The paper also intends to presents the efforts made at national, regional and local levels to mitigate the adverse effects and most important, the paper tries to identify the main economic options that should generate a sustainable development. This study is a start that tries to analyse the broad issue of sustainability, underlining the importance of substitution of the production factors during the sustainable development for the investment strategy in monoindustrial areas, considering the phenomenon of globalization and knowledge-based society.Sustainable developmentModelsECCOCase studySymposium Proceedings