Bosnia and Herzegovina ; Economic restructuring ; Rural area ; Rural development ; Settlement system ; Social change ; Socio-economic system
The purpose of this paper is to show a socio-economic transformation of rural areas in Bosnia and Herzegovina thus filling, to a certain degree, gaps in studying the settlements in Bosnia and Herzegovina. With regard to data availability, most
of the attention has been paid to issues of economic development of rural areas. In addition, some characteristics of development of new activities in rural areas of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2010 have been presented here. For decades, settlement growth in Bosnia
and Herzegovina has been connected with spreading their external boundaries beyond historic and organic borders. Nowadays, suburban and remote provincial settlements are showing the highest level of dynamics. – (BJ)
This paper explores some recent manifestations of regional inequalities in the rural space of Israel. The Israeli rural space is largely made up of planned settlements, which were originally based on a principle of equal opportunity to all settlers