Za zdraviju Hrvatsku

Govor na I Hrvatskom kongresu preventivne medicine i unapređenja zdravlja u Zagrebu, 27. studenog, 2003 godine

Za zdraviju Hrvatsku

Govor na I Hrvatskom kongresu preventivne medicine i unapređenja zdravlja u Zagrebu, 27. studenog, 2003 godine

FIFTEEN YEARS OF CROATIAN DEMOCRACY

U izlaganju se razmatra razvoj demokracije u Hrvatskoj. Polazi se od važnosti uloge Hrvatskog sabora. Hrvatski Sabor nije bio samo institucionalni državnopravni izraz suvereniteta hrvatskog naroda u različitim državnim i nacionalnim zajednicama – uz iznimku razdoblja od 1918. do 1941. – nego i izraz sabornosti kao iskaza slobode govora, zbora i dogovora. Bio je, dakle, najviši izraz demokratskog duha naroda. Analiziraju se i različiti aspekti razvoja demokracije u Hrvatskoj od 1990. godine. Naglašava se kako je Hrvatska u proteklih petnaest godina prošla iskustva socijalnih i političkih prosvjeda i sukoba u različitim prigodama i s različitim povodima, pokazavši da se zna nositi i s idejnim, socijalnim i političkim proturječjima i neslaganjima.The speech gives an account of the evolution of democracy in Croatia. The importance of the role of the Croatian parliament (Sabor) is analyzed. The Croatian Sabor has not only been the institutional state/legal expression of the sovereignty of the Croatian people within various state and national entities (apart from the period between 1918 and 1941) but also an expression of communality as a manifestation of the freedom of speech, assembly and agreement – in short, the ultimate expression of the popular democratic spirit. In this speech, various aspects of the democratic development in Croatia since 1990 are analyzed. It is pointed out that in the last fifteen years Croatia has witnessed social and political protests and conflicts on a variety of occasions and for a variety of reasons, proving that it is capable of coping with ideological, social and political antagonisms and discords

FIFTEEN YEARS OF CROATIAN DEMOCRACY

U izlaganju se razmatra razvoj demokracije u Hrvatskoj. Polazi se od važnosti uloge Hrvatskog sabora. Hrvatski Sabor nije bio samo institucionalni državnopravni izraz suvereniteta hrvatskog naroda u različitim državnim i nacionalnim zajednicama – uz iznimku razdoblja od 1918. do 1941. – nego i izraz sabornosti kao iskaza slobode govora, zbora i dogovora. Bio je, dakle, najviši izraz demokratskog duha naroda. Analiziraju se i različiti aspekti razvoja demokracije u Hrvatskoj od 1990. godine. Naglašava se kako je Hrvatska u proteklih petnaest godina prošla iskustva socijalnih i političkih prosvjeda i sukoba u različitim prigodama i s različitim povodima, pokazavši da se zna nositi i s idejnim, socijalnim i političkim proturječjima i neslaganjima.The speech gives an account of the evolution of democracy in Croatia. The importance of the role of the Croatian parliament (Sabor) is analyzed. The Croatian Sabor has not only been the institutional state/legal expression of the sovereignty of the Croatian people within various state and national entities (apart from the period between 1918 and 1941) but also an expression of communality as a manifestation of the freedom of speech, assembly and agreement – in short, the ultimate expression of the popular democratic spirit. In this speech, various aspects of the democratic development in Croatia since 1990 are analyzed. It is pointed out that in the last fifteen years Croatia has witnessed social and political protests and conflicts on a variety of occasions and for a variety of reasons, proving that it is capable of coping with ideological, social and political antagonisms and discords

Determination of Soil Temperature Regimes in Croatia

Determination of soil temperature regimes is important to establish the diagnostic horizons that are used for classification of soils. Temperature regimes are determined according to Soil Taxonomy, and soils are allocated into six regimes. From the agricultural aspect, Croatia is divided into three regions: Pannonian, Mountainous and Adriatic and into nine sub-regions. The present analysis shows the average annual cycle of soil temperatures in the period 1981 - 2010 at depths of 10 and 50 cm. According to the average annual soil temperatures, the soils in Middle and South sub-region of the Adriatic region belong to the category of soils with the Thermic temperature regime, and the soils in other seven sub-regions are classified as soils with the Mesic temperature regime. Furthermore, differences between air temperature and soil temperature have been established. Theory that states that the average annual soil temperature can be roughly determined by adding 1°C to the average annual air temperature, was tested on depths of 10 cm and 50 cm and has not proven to be entirely correct

Regionalisation of Croatian Agriculture

After becoming self-standing state one of new needs of Croatia important for agricultural profession, farmers, policy makers and public needs was regionalization of agriculture. It is the analyse of state of agroecological conditions in agrosphere and based on results identification and territorial separation of agricultural regions as parts of agrosphere with similar conditions for plant and animal growing and similar farming systems. On this track within a special project we fi nished an inventory of agrosphere, result of which is Regionalisation of Croatian Agriculture presented in this paper. Following wise message of old Chinese proverb cited above, the starting approach is the MFCAL concept (Multifunctional Character of Agriculture and Land), which means that apart from very important and primary economic, agriculture and agricultural land (soil) in human life play other roles (functions) of similar importance; environmental, social, cultural and spatial, as well as the role of shaping the cultural landscape as a factor of rural development. As well, we respect the point of view prevailing in EU that all natural resources used in agriculture but at the fi rst place soil as a major one, need sustainable use and efficient protection. Using the data on Land resource potential based primarily on data of General Soil Map of Croatia (GSM) in a scale of 1:50 000 and results of our research in the period 2000 – 2003, the agrosphere of Croatia is divided in three agricultural regions; Pannonian with four, Mountain with two and Adriatic with three subregions