Projects / Programmes
The Vulnerability Of The Environment As A Limiting Factor To Spatial Development In Slovenia
| Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
| 6.12.02 |
Humanities |
Geography |
Social geography |
| Code |
Science |
Field |
| T260 |
Technological sciences |
Physical planning |
| B700 |
Biomedical sciences |
Environmental health |
landscape types, Slovenia, environmental vulnerability, indicators and criteria, air, water, humus, flora, relief
Researchers (9)
Abstract
The study originates from the provisions of the Act on Environment Protection that determines that the planning, programming and direction of spatial development has to come from studies in environment degradation.
We assess the level of environment vulnerability in all landscape-ecological units of Slovenia, especially bringing to attention those spatial units where there is an increase in the level of degradation of one or more of the landscape''s components. For a final assessment of joint degradation of the environment, we professionally analyse in detail air, water (surface and underground), the relief with lithology, soil and flora. For each of the landscape components we also determine indicators and criteria, defining their importance in assessing the environment degradation.
Individual human activities or spatial users are treated practically with quantitative and qualitative analysis of the environment. In the follow-up to this project, we are also preparing models of degradation of different landscape types for different active (settlement, transport, industry, energy infrastructure, etc.) and passive (farming, forestry, isolated natural forms of recreation) spatial interventions. With a selected limited number of landscape types (wide ground valleys and basins or fields with high underground streams as important sources of drinking water and one of the most important limiting factors of continued spatial intervention, narrow and closed Alpine, Sub-alpine and Dinaric basins and valleys, high mountain and mountain types, hilly Sub-alpine and Sub-Mediterranean - Flysch regions, etc.) we shall avoid, on the one hand, a large number of landscape units and, on the other hand, preserve a review over the characteristic landscape diversity of our country.
Each of the activities has specific ''''claims'''' on the environment that in the same way is variously degraded with specific effects. We arrive from analyses of actual and potential effects of specific activities and all their apparent forms, functions and structures - that is from a catalogue of interventions. We also arrive at the supposition that the same or similar human influences cause similar negative (only exceptionally positive) landscape effects in the same type of landscape.
In the main this year''s studies were directed towards:
- forming criteria for the landscape-ecological division of Slovenia into landscape types and regionalisation,
- selecting indicators and criteria for assessing the degradation of specific landscape components.
