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Ist Island is one of the small inhabited Croatian islands (9.65 km 2 ) which experienced strong socio-geographic transformation in the second half of the 20 th century. Statistical data about the number of population, different demographic structures, dwellings from different censuses and data about land use in 1900, 1951 and 2003 are analysed in the paper. The comparison of these data helps to reconstruct the processes of deruralization and deagrarisation. It is obvious that today Ist Island is among islands with strong economic regress despite suitable naturalgeographic basis for further development of tourism as the most perspective economic sector. The development of agriculture is limited because of the small share of arable land.Key words: Ist Island, socio-geographic transformation, deruralization, deagrarisation, tourism Otok Ist jedan je od malih naseljenih hrvatskih otoka (9,65 km 2 ) koji je u drugoj polovici 20. stoljeća doživio značajnu socio-geografsku preobrazbu. U radu su analizirani statistički podatci vezani uz kretanje stanovništva, pojedine strukture i korištenje stanova različitih popisnih godina, te podatci o korištenju zemljišta iz 1900., 1951. i 2003. godine čija usporedba omogućuje rekonstrukciju procesa deruralizacije i deagrarizacije. Očito je da danas otok Ist spada među otoke s izrazitim gospodarskim nazadovanjem unatoč povoljnim prirodno-geografskim uvjetima za razvoj turizma kao najperspektivnije gospodarske djelatnosti. Razvoj poljoprivrede ograničen je zbog pomanjkanja obradivih površina.
In this work, the author’s starting point is a maximum quality and functional territorial organisation of Croatia, especially its littoral area. Adriatic Croatia, as well as Eastern (Pannonian) and Northwestern Croatia, is one of the three defined (future) Euroregions NUTS II in Croatia. It was suggested in its current territorial coverage by the Republic of Croatia, and accepted by Eurostat in 2007. It includes all littoral counties (7) of Croatia, covering 24.7 thousand km2 with 1.4 million inhabitants (2011). The paper discusses a possible differentiation of this strategic littoral Adriatic area on three functional (gravitational) regions of the third level (NUTS III) according to the criteria of the Croatian Government on efficient decentralisation and new regionalisation of Croatia. Namely, some littoral counties do not meet the European demographic criterion for statistical NUTS III region (150-800 thousand inhabitants) although, in general, Croatian counties meet this criterion. That is why the author, applying demographic, geographic, economic, administrative and other criteria, stresses the need for defining the demographically maximally coordinated three nodal-functional, i.e., gravitational regions with their centres in Rijeka, Zadar and Split. So, the Rijeka region would potentially cover Istria, Kvarner and Gorski Kotar areas with 505,000 inhabitants (2011), Zadar region would cover North Dalmatian and Lika areas with 330,000 inhabitants, and Split region would include Middle Dalmatian and Dubrovnik (South Dalmatian) areas with 578,000 inhabitants. The area of Lika is functionally and economically most optimally oriented towards Zadar, with regard to new processes of highway linking and the recent fast development of Zadar.
The island of Olib, one of the small Croatian islands, is a rural space of striking depopulation and economic regression. Centuries-long development dynamics within the framework of the Mediterranean polycultural production has been seriously disrupted by the deagrarianism and an intensive emigration. It has considerably weakened the demographic basis, which is the main factor of the socio-economic development. In the recent half-century period the way of life has changed radically, which, among other things, manifested also in the changes of island (rural) landscape. Arable areas are fewer and fewer, social fallow dominates, and the physiognomy of the only island settlement has also significantly changed. The appearance and functions of a traditional Mediterranean island settlement have been replaced by an urbanely nuanced "spatial mechanism", where newbuilt weekend houses and renewed old village homes, primarily intended for rest and recreation, have predominant importance.
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