Although the green infrastructure concept should be implemented in both urban and rural areas, only few studies investigate the green infrastructure concept in the rural settings. This paper contributes to the relevant discussion by analysing how green infrastructure can serve as a facilitator to sustainable spatial development in the predominantly rural area and at the regional level based on the planning experiences from the Vipava Valley (Vipavska dolina), Slovenia. The Vipava Approach is a bottom-up approach that understands green infrastructure in the broader developmental context and not only as a protection or land-use planning. Planning green infrastructure in rural areas should have characteristics of participatory planning on the local level, but it needs to take into account other territorial dimensions of planning as well. It needs to be holistic by addressing key developmental problems on the basis of a strategic development document. The paper broadens the research area of sustainable use of regional resources through the concept of green infrastructure, and increases cohesion between different research approaches in studying sustainable regional development within the research group at the same time.
COBISS.SI-ID: 69426786
The article presents the first attempt to date moraines in the Dinaric mountain karst using cosmogenic 36Cl surface exposure dating technique. Twenty samples were collected from moraine boulders from two sets of the lowest and largest lateral moraines on the Velež (1965 m asl) and Crvanj mountains (1920 m asl) in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The moraine boulders yielded 36Cl ages spanning from Oldest Dryas for Velež (14.9?±?1.1 ka) to Younger Dryas for Crvanj (11.9?±?0.9 kaNevertheless, this article delivers new data on the extent and timing of Quaternary glaciations in the Mediterranean mountains, where records of glacier fluctuations seem to be asynchronous amongst different areas. It is clear that dating moraines with cosmogenic 36Cl surface exposure dating in carbonate lithologies in areas of high precipitation like the Dinaric karst, remains challenging.
COBISS.SI-ID: 68968034
Analysis of processes of function transformation in historical city centres of Kranj, Kamnik and Škofja Loka is presented in the paper. The research is based on the analysis of change in urban land use between different time periods. Land use was identified by field work and various literature and sources. With questionnaire ad-dressed to owners or renters of economic premises we studied business opportunities in historical city centres. In this way several processes of functional transformation and potential conflicts among different users of space in historical town centers were identified.
COBISS.SI-ID: 71162210
The monograph deals with the development of tourism on the example of a selected tourist destination, ie. area of Kamnik. This destination is especially interesting because it is one of those that emphasize the focus on sustainable tourism (the municipality is the holder of the Slovenia Green Destination Gold label), which has become the main focus of Slovenian tourism on a declarative level. Development processes in the field of tourism have been associated with a number of factors, both social and environmental, in recent decades. Climate change, which has affected the changed role of mountain tourism, is worth highlighting. It is reflected in the reduction of the importance of the winter season, which is especially noticeable at Velika planina, the former well-known winter tourist center. At the same time, the actual changes are conditioned by social processes, which result in the intensification of tourist flows as well as an increased frequency of short-term tourist trips. In this case, the tourist space is also a recreational space, which significantly contributes to the quality of leisure time and thus to the quality of living.
COBISS.SI-ID: 299406080
From the perspective of life quality in contemporary Slovenia, it is especially intriguing to investigate the divergent memories that people have of life in Yugoslavia and their comparison to current life. These divergent memories of Yugoslavia are the central topic of our research. The study focuses on memories and their transmission from older to younger generations and is based on the results of a survey that was carried out in the Republic of Slovenia. The research has clearly shown that positively tinged memories of Yugoslavia predominate in the families of younger as well as older generations on the one hand while on the other hand it has become obvious that Yugonostalgia is nostalgia for something from the past and it is not a desire to experience or revive that in the present. Nevertheless, 69% of respondents older than 30 are convinced that they lived a better life in the former state, and among those younger than 30, 75% confirmed that older generations testified to a comparatively better life in Yugoslavia.
COBISS.SI-ID: 70889058