Sociology and Space, No. 119-120, 1993.
Original scientific paper
The human factor and Croatia’s rural development
Vlado Puljiz
Abstract
Rural development includes social and
economic changes in the rural area and is
influenced by many factors that can be
observed on several levels. In this article
the author presents changes in the rural
agricultural population (the first level of
analysis) and regions (the second level of
analysis). In the case of population, the
author points to intense rural
depopulation, but he also remarks a
return to the village, a trend primarily
caused by the crisis.
The rural settlement as a framework of
living has changed because the boundaries
of everyday rural life have changed. The
main reason for this was the spread of
communications.
The author mentions the need of regional
rural division according to intensity of
urbanization processes. He ends by giving
a typology of agricultural holdings divided
into five groups, ranging from holdings
with industrial production to self-sufficient
holdings with subsistence production. He
considers that each of those types can
find its place in Croatia’s new agrarian
structure, which means that agrarian
policy must guard against reduction to
only one or two types of holding.
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Hrčak ID:
119769
URI
Publication date:
11.6.1993.
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