PROSTORNI I DEMOGRAFSKI ASPEKTI REVITALIZACIJE RURALNIH NASELJA U HRVATSKOJ
SPACIAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC ASPECTS OF THE REVITALIZATION OF RURAL SETTLEMENTS IN CROATIA

Summary/Abstract: By examining the rural area in the urban Sava river valley shadow between Zagreb and Sisak, in which almost all demographic indicators displaya negative trend, an attempt was made to demonstrate the current demographic situation and warn about the very difficult problems waiting to be dealt with. Emigration throughout the years and an ever more intensive natural decrease in population, in virtually the whole rural area, have disturbed demographic relations to such an extent that revitalization has become extremely uncertain. The uncertainty of the revitalization of such areas in which there was no war destruction and which are situated amongst or in the near vicinity of the powerful regional and industrial centers Zagreb and Sisak, even deepens our doubt in the possibility of revitalizing those mostly rural settlements in the Croatian Republic which have suffered from war destruction. If one is aware that in areas within the Republic of Croatia which are still under occupation there prevailed a negative trend even before the war, that these are mostly highland and lowland settlements poorly connected, that the non-Serbian population has been expelled from them, that Croatia finds itself in great economic difficulties and that the pre-war demographic picture cannot in fact be restored, then it is clear that the demographic collapse in these settlements shall continue.

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