Aspects of the environmental sustainability for tourism development – women’s experiences from the island of Brač

Jelena Zlatar Gamberožić, PhD and Sara Ursić, PhD are the authors of the paper “Aspects of the environmental sustainability for tourism development – women’s experiences from the island of Brač”. The paper is published in the proceedings from the 4th International Multidisciplinary Scientific Mediterranean Island Conference MIC – Vis, 2022: Preserving, evaluating and developing the Mediterranean.

Islands in Croatia are mainly mass-tourism-oriented and traditional island activities are rather neglected. Islands are also examples of very ‘fragile habitats and communities’. They have a large number of small peripheral places often dislocated and isolated and are also faced with a number of social, economic and demographic problems that put them in an unequal and unbalanced position, like those on the Adriatic coast. The purpose of this research was to explore environmental dimension of sustainability on the island of Brač. Semi-structured interviews (14) with women in selected settlements (Povlja, Selca, Postira, Pučišća and Supetar) were conducted, as well as the analysis of secondary documentation. The environmental dimension of sustainability has proven to be developed in terms of the existence of untouched natural capacities, but it needs more systematic care due to the risk of pollution, as well as greater development of potential in agritourism. The research is a contribution to the analysis of sustainable development on the Adriatic islands.

The paper is available at the link.