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Depopulation of Counties and Disparity in the Regional Development of Croatia
Dane PEJNOVIĆ
Sažetak
Differences in regional development have had great
importance in determining the direction and intensity of the
spatial redistribution of Croatia's population during the
second half of the last century. Hence population polarisation
and the damaging influence of the war from the first half of
the 1990s have given rise to more or less intensive
depopulation in the last period between censuses which has
affected about 85% of the country's territory. The
depopulation of counties as a result of Croatia's regional
disparities in the period from 1961 to 2001 has been
analysed in the paper, as well as the retroactive influence of
population polarisation and economic activities on the
existing regional development. Differences in the
development of counties have been interpreted through the
model of cumulative causality of the occurrence of regional
disparity, while spatial distribution of the population between
the less developed counties and the centres of polarised
development has been examined through the relationship
centre – periphery. The research has shown that the greatest
developmental setback and consequent decline of population
since the early 1960s has been registered by counties with a
peripheral position and less developed main central
settlement. Rapid ageing and the deteriorated vitality of the
population, as a result of emigration processes until the early
1990s, and the damaging impact of the war which followed,
caused the highest rates of depopulation also between 1991
and 2001. On the other hand, intensive spatial
concentration of the population and subsequent differences
in distribution of the work potential have resulted in the
highest disparity of Croatia's regional development so far. Its
poles are the City of Zagreb, i.e. the Zagreb Region (Grad
Zagreb and Zagreba~ka `upanija) and the Li~ko-Senjska
County, the latter being also affected by the most intensive
process of demographic extinction.
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
16234
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Datum izdavanja:
31.10.2004.
Posjeta: 3.709 *