Development and spatial pattern of industry in Serbia

Abstract

Based on the former industrial development trend, planned development prognosis and further endangering of the environmental quality in Serbia, it is estimated that an approach change in spatial management, environmental protection and resource use is necessary. Sustainable industrial development implies the definition of development managing modes of this activity (at the national, regional and, local and sector level), concerted with the principles of sustainable development. The transition on the economic system towards market economy leaves deep traces on the development and spatial planning policy as well as on industrial planning in Serbia. Strategic planning of the territorial development of industry means managing change and creating change, i.e. ways to restructure the process of development as a part of its socio-economic, spatial and ecological context. It also means creating and managing the new spatial organisation, the role of new development and location factors, changing the role of space and "ecological factors", changing the location performance of industry and creating new "agregate" forms of industrial location in Serbia.