Sociology and Space, No. 144-145, 1999.
Preliminary communication
Developmental Difficulties and Developmental Priorities of Communes and Towns of Ličko-senjska County in Local Experts Optics
Anka Mišetić
Abstract
The paper is founded upon the survey research in developmental aspirations and attitudes
made in 1996 for the purpose of making the programme of spatial regulation of Licko-senjska
County, which is undeveloped and impoverished rural area. The research was carried
out by means of inquiry made among the representatives of local expert groups rom
seven towns and communes of the County. Because of the breach in systematically carried
out researches, this paper is among the rare empirical scientific works on undevelope
rural areas in Croatia made in the last ten years. The insight in developmental resources
and factors and in development planning and organization is not possible without socia
and above all, sociological researches. The price of this situation is known: for pure or no
insight at all, developmental resources are being wasted and many actions aiming at revitalization
of economically and demographically depressed regions have failed.
The results of the research of perception of the way and extent the towns’ and communes’
belong to the County, of the judgement of developmental difficulties and priorities set by
towns and communes as well as suggestions given by the participants of inquiry, are given
in this paper by towns and communes. The author concludes with deduction and interpretation
of common characteristics. First, because of the size and heterogeneity of the
sparsely populated region and in the absence of a strong centre as well as because of the
influence of Rijeka, Zagreb and Split macroregions, the cohesion of Licko-senjska County
is very poor and the question of its identity is still open. Second, this County undoubtedly
belongs to Croatian periphery with prevailing rural communities in all its communes and
in small undeveloped towns without motivation for setting development in motion.
Common causes generating County’s developmental problems and originating particu ar
developmental difficulties and priorities make the contents of the characteristics mentioned
Keywords
Ličko-senjska county (Croatia); undeveloped rural areas; developmental aspirations
Hrčak ID:
119971
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Publication date:
10.9.1999.
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