Nenad Starc (ur.): Hrvatski otoci – uvod u nesologiju

Abstract

The book Croatian Islands – An Introduction to Nesiology, edited by Nenad Starc, is an exceptionally valuable and engaging interdisciplinary work on Croatia’s island area. It is an expanded and adapted Croatian edition of the previously published book The Notion of Near Islands – The Croatian Archipelago (2020), which has since been supplemented with new chapters, updated data, and topics relevant to the contemporary social context, including the consequences of the pandemic, the results of the 2021 Population Census, and current development challenges. In the Croatian edition, the emphasis is rightly placed more strongly on internal development dynamics, public policies, demographic trends, economic transformations, and the quality of life of island residents.

For readers of the Journal of Social Policy, it is particularly valuable that the authors do not view island areas merely as a geographical or cultural phenomenon, but as a specific social system in which issues of social justice, regional inequalities, access to public services, poverty, depopulation, and sustainable development intersect. The islands are presented as “laboratories” of social change—spaces where the effects of development policies are more visible and immediate than on the mainland.

           

The book Croatian Islands – An Introduction to Nesiology, edited by Nenad Starc, is an exceptionally valuable and engaging interdisciplinary work on Croatia’s island area. It is an expanded and adapted Croatian edition of the previously published book The Notion of Near Islands – The Croatian Archipelago (2020), which has since been supplemented with new chapters, updated data, and topics relevant to the contemporary social context, including the consequences of the pandemic, the results of the 2021 Population Census, and current development challenges. In the Croatian edition, the emphasis is rightly placed more strongly on internal development dynamics, public policies, demographic trends, economic transformations, and the quality of life of island residents.

For readers of the Journal of Social Policy, it is particularly valuable that the authors do not view island areas merely as a geographical or cultural phenomenon, but as a specific social system in which issues of social justice, regional inequalities, access to public services, poverty, depopulation, and sustainable development intersect. The islands are presented as “laboratories” of social change—spaces where the effects of development policies are more visible and immediate than on the mainland.

   

The book Croatian Islands – An Introduction to Nesiology, edited by Nenad Starc, is an exceptionally valuable and engaging interdisciplinary work on Croatia’s island area. It is an expanded and adapted Croatian edition of the previously published book The Notion of Near Islands – The Croatian Archipelago (2020), which has since been supplemented with new chapters, updated data, and topics relevant to the contemporary social context, including the consequences of the pandemic, the results of the 2021 Population Census, and current development challenges. In the Croatian edition, the emphasis is rightly placed more strongly on internal development dynamics, public policies, demographic trends, economic transformations, and the quality of life of island residents.

For readers of the Journal of Social Policy, it is particularly valuable that the authors do not view island areas merely as a geographical or cultural phenomenon, but as a specific social system in which issues of social justice, regional inequalities, access to public services, poverty, depopulation, and sustainable development intersect. The islands are presented as “laboratories” of social change—spaces where the effects of development policies are more visible and immediate than on the mainland.

   

The book Croatian Islands – An Introduction to Nesiology, edited by Nenad Starc, is an exceptionally valuable and engaging interdisciplinary work on Croatia’s island area. It is an expanded and adapted Croatian edition of the previously published book The Notion of Near Islands – The Croatian Archipelago (2020), which has since been supplemented with new chapters, updated data, and topics relevant to the contemporary social context, including the consequences of the pandemic, the results of the 2021 Population Census, and current development challenges. In the Croatian edition, the emphasis is rightly placed more strongly on internal development dynamics, public policies, demographic trends, economic transformations, and the quality of life of island residents.

For readers of the Journal of Social Policy, it is particularly valuable that the authors do not view island areas merely as a geographical or cultural phenomenon, but as a specific social system in which issues of social justice, regional inequalities, access to public services, poverty, depopulation, and sustainable development intersect. The islands are presented as “laboratories” of social change - spaces where the effects of development policies are more visible and immediate than on the mainland.