Land Consolidation in the Republic of Serbia: A Needs and Obstacles Assessment

摘要

Year 2006 marks a beginning of a new era for land consolidation in Serbia, after a period of around 15 years without new projects being launched. The 2006-onwards land consolidation projects make a promising research topic that allows us to focus on how proponents of the land consolidation projects fared in the context of transitional reality compared to results achieved at the pike of implementation of this process during socialist period (between the late 1970s and beginning of 1990s). Evidences of much slower pace of implementation of post-2005 projects are detected. Importantly, this slower pace cannot be attributed (only) to the financial constraints. Protagonists of contemporary land consolidations face almost total lack of medium- to long-term planning that had so prominent role in the period of central planning. Somewhat ironically, other critical elements of the transition to the democratic society and market economy also proved to be challenging for the actors of modern-day land consoli- dation.