Sociology and Space, No. 115-116, 1992.
Original scientific paper
Postwar development as a possibility for rural revitalization
Milan Župančić
Abstract
The central theme of this article is the
relationship between the essential renewal
of war-ravaged rural areas and
possibilities for the more lasting
consolidation and revitalization of the
village. In previous development the
industrial-urban sector was favoured,
which together with centralized
decision-making resulted in differences
between regions and the pronounced
depopulation of most rural regions.
To renew settlements that suffered in this
war, return the displaced population to its
homes and renew economic life in
devastated regions, a consistent strategy of
rural revitalization must exist favouring a
different policy of spatial development,
the stimulation of various industrial and
tertiary activities in rural zones, and a
change of attitude towards agriculture.
There are possibilities to draw the village
out of the longlasting phase of
decomposition and start it on a phase of
recomposition, i.e. renewal that rests on
new foundations combining the
advantages of urban contents and the
quality of rural regions.
The author also suggests a change of
attitude towards the peasantry and pleads
for stimulation of so-called market
farming in the development of the
peasant agriculture.
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Hrčak ID:
119742
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Publication date:
12.6.1992.
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