This article analyzes the key features of the spatial distribution of creative industries in Ljubljana and the Ljubljana urban region. Special attention is devoted to analyzing factors that influence the concentration of individual branches of creative industries in specific locations. GIS tools were applied to evaluate factors that influence the distribution of creative activities. Simultaneously, the concept of central places is used to analyze variations of spatial clustering of creative enterprises. Data for the analysis were collected from the Slovenian Business Register (AJPES) and the Real Estate Register (GURS). The mapping of creative economies identifies patterns of concentration and reveals some locational disadvantages that have arisen due to the absence of clear development strategies regarding creative economies in Slovenia.
COBISS.SI-ID: 33860701
Monograph “Challenges of citizenship in higher education” addresses a special aspect of human resources development – citizenship. This aspect of manpower development is gaining an increasing importance, particularly in relation to the current changes of understanding of democracy. In the book we first conceptualise, how citizenship is reflecting in particular study fields curricula and in the research. Theory is tested on the basis of programmes at the University of Ljubljana. Further, we study changes of (de)professionalisaiton of academic profession and paradigm of "employability” of higher education. Follows the chapter, that theoretically and empirically explores, what is the impact of higher education on particular dimension of a "good" citizen. The book concludes with an overview of developmental perspectives.
COBISS.SI-ID: 32567901
This paper considers recent developments in participatory approaches to radioactive waste management in Belgium, Slovenia, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The ‘participatory turn’ reflects widespread acknowledgement of the importance of social aspects of radioactive waste management. Despite these developments, the technical aspects are still most often brought into the public arena only after technical experts have decided upon a ‘solution’ to the ‘problem’. Maintaining a divide between technical and social aspects, which we also find in most social studies of participatory engagement, raises pressing questions about the kind of choice affected communities are given if they are not able to debate fully the technical options. The article contributes to an understanding of the socio-technical interplay, beyond a strong socio-technical divide, by presenting the interplay as sociotechnical combinations. Four different ways in which these combinations are constructed, taking examples from the four countries, are analysed and their implications for future practice are discussed.
COBISS.SI-ID: 33070941
This chapter addresses the broader questions of migration and ethnic diversity in Slovenia, “the level” of multiculturalism in the country, and integration policies that constitute the contemporary framework for migration management. Slovenia has a long experience of protecting autochthonous or indigenous ethnic minorities, but little experience of migrants’ integration. Both these issues are today circumscribed by the long-established protection policies, attitudes towards migrants/communities/minorities from the former Yugoslavia (dubbed “suspicious ić” attitudes, alluding to the surname endings commonly found in other parts of the former Yugoslavia, except in Slovenia), and modern global migrations. This is also the main battlefield where the struggle for social cohesion, social solidarity, multicultural society and inclusion of newcomers is taking place.
COBISS.SI-ID: 32871005
Despite being coined by international forums and promoted chiefly by international/supranational organisations and clubs, sustainable development is a concept that in essence rests on and is largely determined by the local level. The local level’s primacy in terms of introducing the principles of sustainability is openly stipulated by Agenda 21, thus providing the impetus for local sustainable development strategies – Local Agenda 21. These community-specific, long-term visions of sustainable co-existence serve as an important strategic tool for overcoming challenges communities may face while maintaining the general idea of the future. In this paper, we analysed four such visions of a sustainable future for two city and two minor Slovenian municipalities in order to examine their capacity to develop into sustainable communities.
COBISS.SI-ID: 4731179