РЕПУБЛИКА СРПСКА - ДЕМОГРАФСКА ОДРЖИВОСТ ИЗМЕЂУ ДЕПОПУЛАЦИЈЕ И РАСТА ЉУДСКОГ КАПИТАЛА
THE REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA – DEMOGRAPHIC SUSTAINABILITY BETWEEN THE DEPOPULATION AND THE HUMAN CAPITAL GROWTH

Summary/Abstract: Demographic recession in itself hides a great threat for sustainable development in the Republic of Srpska and BiH, which threatens to collapse the economic and related to it, both the health and pension systems. This especially implies aging population, and mutually unchanged mortality and birth rates. This reduces workingage population, which together threatens the foundations on which sustainability and the overall socioeconomic system rest. The goal and research methods according to the “sustaindemo” model were applied in the area of the Republic of Srpska, with the intention to determine the typology of municipalities and cities according to demographic sustainability, which can help creating policies of sustainable spatial development of municipalities and cities, based on the use of “endogenous” (internal) human resources. The methodology is based on the application of multicriteria GIS analysis, in deriving demographic indicators and indexes. The results of the research confirm hypotheses about the interaction of demographic and economic development, more precisely about demographic resources as indicators and factors of economic development of BiH and the Republic of Srpska. Finally, it has been confirmed that changes in demographic resources are indirect, but a very reliable indicator of economic and overall development, where especially demographic index and education index, as the two basic components of the demographic index resources, more closely show specific developmental problems in individual spatial parts of the country.

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