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Croatian Islands in Littoralization Process
2004Littoralization, i.e. concentration of economic activities and population along the coast, is a global process which is also present in Croatia, considering its position along the Eastern Adriatic coast. Littoralization in Croatia can be observed through many indicators: intensive development of industry, development of maritime and land transport ...
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Stratification of Croatian island names
2019Contrary to the western, Italian side of the Adriatic, on the Croatian side, we find more than a thousand islands, islets, and rocks whose names clearly reflect the history of the people and languages that have lived for centuries in the eastern Adriatic.
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Croatian Islands in the Online Language Sources
2022This paper presents some of the online language sources in which language data connected to Croatian islands can be found. These data pertain to spelling, grammar, the linguistic norm while providing us with dialectological, onomastic, etymological, and normative information.
Hudeček, Lana, Ramljak, Ozana
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Developing Sustainable Energy Systems on Croatian Islands
2014Today, islands represent excellent places for demonstration of new clean technologies and new pathways for sustainable development. Islands in their nature are isolated systems so to organize life on them they usually have all elements of the big system but just operated on a smaller scale.
Krajačić, Goran +4 more
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Croatian Island's Birth Cohort Study - CRIBS
2016Birth cohort studies, together with long-term follow-up studies, are the most suitable way of investigating various factors associated with general health, growth and development. Specifically, adverse intrauterine factors are recognized to be associated with predisposition to the development of chronic disorders later in life: a phenomenon termed ...
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Outstanding landscapes on Croatian islands, examples of Vis Island and Krk Island, Croatia
2012The Mediterranean area has been under continuous human impact for thousands of years. Agricultural landscapes that resulted from traditional agricultural cultivation are an important part of the cultural heritage. These landscapes are one of the major cultural achievements and they represent the combined works of nature and man.
Krklec, Kristina +2 more
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Small Croatian Islands - Aspects of Ecotourism Development
2002Ecotourism activities have been expanding rapidly over the past two decades worldwide and further growth is expected in the future. Protection of natural and cultural heritage within tourist activities is the main goal. In space limited, high sensitive and isolated social and phisicogeographic units as small Croatian islands are, planning of ecoturism ...
Magaš, Damir, Brkić-Vejmelka, Jadranka
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Vocational education on the Croatian Islands
Vocational education in Croatia encompasses a wide range of programs and schools that provide practical training and expertise for various industries and professions. There is a continuous effort in Croatia to improve the quality of vocational education to ensure that it meets the needs of the labour market and enables young people to pursue successfulDević, Ivan +2 more
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Area of the Croatian Sea and Islands
1993The borders of the territorial units of Croatia were digitized from the map on a scale of 1:1,000,000 made in the Gauss-Krueger projection. A total of 19,000 points were digitized. The file of points in that projection was obtained by Helmert transformation from the local digitizer system based on reference points.
Lapaine, Miljenko +2 more
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Tourism on Croatian Islands - Pride and Prejudice
2018The development of tourism on Croatian Islands started in the second half of the 20th century and until today it became dominant and in some cases the only viable economic activity. Impact of tourism can be seen on almost all islands but there are significant differences regarding the number of tourists and accommodation units that are proportional ...
Pejdo, Ana +2 more
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