Demographic Changes and Territorial Implications in the Space of the Kupres Plateau Cover Image

Демографске промене и територијалне импликације на простору Купрешке висоравни
Demographic Changes and Territorial Implications in the Space of the Kupres Plateau

Author(s): Aleksandar Lugonja, Dragica R. Gatarić
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Geography, Regional studies, Human Geography, Regional Geography, Applied Geography, Demography and human biology
Published by: Географски факултет, Универзитет у Београду
Keywords: settlements;demographic aging;natural movements;migrations;

Summary/Abstract: Territory of the Kupres has dispersed population characterized by low population density, deployed in 36 villages of which only Kupres (FBiH) has the character of the city. Significant differences in the overall demographic development of this area are caused by changes in the natural movement, as well as the dynamics and migration trends in the population. Four years of war left the serious socio-economic and demographic consequences in particular, which will be manifested in the coming period of demographic development Kupres. Contemporary demographic situation is the result of complex interactions resulted from the mutual action of elements of natural environment and socio-economic processes.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 7
  • Page Range: 161-176
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Serbian