Projects / Programmes
January 1, 1999
- December 31, 2003
| Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
| 6.12.00 |
Humanities |
Geography |
|
| Code |
Science |
Field |
| S230 |
Social sciences |
Social geography |
| S250 |
Social sciences |
Demography |
| P510 |
Natural sciences and mathematics |
Physical geography, geomorphology, pedology, cartography, climatology |
| T260 |
Technological sciences |
Physical planning |
Researchers (12)
Abstract
Social geography investigates the spatial dimension of the activity of human society in relation to the economic, social and political conditions, in which the natural conditions in the landscape, relationships, processes and interests in the society are taken into consideration, and the environmental spatial effects of human activity are being established. In social geography, the cultural landscape is the object of investigation. The emphasis is laid on the following subjects: (a) regional development (embraces the questions of settlement development, population mobility, relationships between towns and rural areas, demographic development, spatial and regional planning, landscape transformation, spatial structure, innovative trends, urban management, regional disparities, etc.); (b) economic geography (includes the study of economic activities and spatial structures, economic-social policy, location conditions, interdependence of interests of individual activities and multifunctional character of economic activities in the space, etc.); (c) environmental protection (investigates pollution levels of individual landscape-forming elements, identifies the agents, determines environmental vulnerability, relations of individual population groups to the environment, environmental-protection contents as the subject of strategic judgements, social ecology, etc.); (d) political geography (deals with the ethnic structure of the population, position and structure of ethnic minorities and their settling areas, international migrations, analyses of border areas and transborder relations, assessments of geopolitical position of Slovenia, etc.).
All the basic fields have theoretical-methodological, analytical and synthetic (planning and thus applicative) levels. Due to the specific features of regional structures of Slovenia, its position on the contact of large natural units and, concurrently, diverse nations, cultures and languages, in the geographically very diversified environment, the social geography has good possibilities to gain wide recognition in the international scientific world, especially in the field of theory and methodologies of investigation. This is very important because the study group has developed its own investigation methodologies which have already been empirically tested.
