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Fig. 15.2
Active population share (in %) in Bosnia and Herzegovina in primary, secondary and
tertiary activities according to census from 2006 to 2008
followed with 36.8%, and primary sector with 3.1%. In 2008, there were 488,976
or 63.9% of active population in tertiary sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in sec-
ondary sector 1,990,060 or 33.4%, and in primary 19,160 or 2.7% of total active
population. The secondary sector also represented the most developed activity in
all municipalities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, although the share of employed pop-
ulation reduced by 3.23% against 2006, and in tertiary by 1.5%. In 1999, tertiary
sector recorded increase in the active population share in the Tuzla valley by 7.1%,
the highest in municipality of Banovici by 19.3%, then Lukavac 15.4%, Živinice
7%, Tuzla 3.3% and Kalesija by 2.8%. Economic crisis, which started after 1981,
reflected most expressively on industry, which still had a primacy over all activi-
ties. At the end of 1991, closing down industrial firms and dismissal of workers in
mines and chemical industry of Tuzla, Lukavac and Živinice occurred (Nurkovic,
2004
, p 16).
Focus of the polarised development is the urban agglomeration of Sarajevo,
respectively the broader socio-economic region, in which dynamical processes of
social-geographic transformation are ongoing under the influence of the leading
Bosnian urban centre. Sarajevo region with more than 20% of total population
concentrated in it, 18% of the employed people and 67% of all investment in
long-term state property is above other regions in Bosnia and Herz. The spatial
plan of Bosnia and Herzegovina was prepared on the basis of methodology which
has envisaged, among other, the sector, home and regional line. Regionalisation
in Bosnia and Herzegovina did not exist, and in preparation of the plan the
so-called planned regions were used. No special models were used in prepara-
tion of the plan, except some standard methods and techniques like Lorry's and
Gravity models. It has been determined in the research that natural-geographic fea-
tures had the biggest influence on spatial arrangement of Bosnia and Herzegovina
(Fig.
15.2
).
In 2000, Bosnia and Herzegovina started to differentiate functionally as well.
This relates, first of all, to expansion of tertiary activities and infrastructure
in suburbanised settlements. In their development in period 1991-2008, urban
cores of Bosnia and Herzegovina obtained the character of relative decentrali-
sation. Suburban settlements express faster tendency of increase in number of
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