1. Mateja Šmid Hribar, a very active team member, completed her doctoral studies in 2015 at the beginning of the project at the University of Primorska; she upgraded and further elaborated the activities and lessons learned from the doctoral studies; research mentor and pedagogical co-mentor Mimi Urbanc; 2. Peter Kumer, a young researcher and a team member whose training was part of the project activities, accomplished his doctor studied in 2017 at the University of Ljubljana; research mentor and pedagogical co-mentor Mimi Urbanc; 3. Caterina Groli finished her doctor studies in 2016 at the University of Nova Gorica; pedagogical mentor Saša Dobričič.
D.09 Tutoring for postgraduate students
The cultural landscape is a complex unit of abiotic, biotic, and cultural components that interact in different ways and form different relationships. Changes in cultural landscape diversity are closely linked with land use and property rights. This presentation is based on the premise that the main stakeholders in rural landscapes are: (1) farmers/land owners, who regard their land as property with economic value and manage it accordingly; (2) other citizens, who have expectations from a perception of public goods, and (3) experts and decision makers, who lead the development and determine the speed and magnitude of changes as well as the politics and norms regarding what is necessary, desired, or prohibited. These groups of stakeholders often lack communication amongst them. An example of a protected rural cultural landscape with its conflicts and dilemmas from Slovenia (EU) will be presented. The Ecosystem Services approach is promising in providing a better insight into the benefits that a society has based on a landscape scale. Furthermore, Ecosystem Services may be regarded in the light of the typology of goods, introduced by Ostrom and Ostrom (1977), and could have a significant role in the future decision-making of cultural landscapes, and their management and governance.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 39041581The keynote on a Conference about Slovenian agrarian communities addressed communally-owned land as a historical and social phenomenon, and especially as a significant part of the rural landscape. The lecture thematised two main aspects, i.e. historical development and the situation following Slovenia’s independence and the adoption of denationalization laws. It focused on three aspects of common land: farming associations, denationalized common land, and agriculturally active common land.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 42589997Together with ISCAR - The International Scientific Committee on Research in the Alps based in Bern, Switzerland, we organized an international workshop in Tolmin and Čadrg, on 7th and 8th September 2017. The program included lectures, discussions and an excursion. Invited experts discussed current trends in traditional Alpine agricultural landscapes and options for proposing them as Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS). http://www.fao.org/giahs/en/.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
The Europe and Central Asia Regional Report has been developed for several years under the auspices of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), an intergovernmental body comparable to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The Regional Report for Europe and Central Asia was co-created by more than a hundred most prominent experts from Europe and Central Asia (http://www.ipbes.net/about-us). IPBES was established in 2012 as a mechanism for transferring scientific knowledge into political decisions. Today (March 2018), there are 128 governments involved with Slovenia as an observer only. That is why the nomination of dr. Mimi Urbanc by the Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning of the Republic of Slovenia was an achievement. She was a candidate at the invitation of the member of the Interdisciplinary Expert Group Marie Stenseke with the Göteborgs University.
D.03 Membership in foreign/international boards/committees