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The article addresses the governance of water commons with an emphasis on drinking water. The study applied two conceptual frameworks: Ostrom's Design Principles and the Social-Ecological Systems framework. The empirical part refers... more
The article addresses the governance of water commons with an emphasis on drinking water. The study applied two conceptual frameworks: Ostrom's Design Principles and the Social-Ecological Systems framework. The empirical part refers to two water commons in Slovenia and is based on qualitative data from semi-structured interviews with locals and professionals. The article follows three objectives: 1) to identify the drivers and motivations for successful local water governance; 2) to assess the robustness of water commons in terms of current and future challenges; 3) to identify the benefits of water commons. The key elements for the functioning of the two local communities under examination are shared interests, as well as a strong commitment to effective management. In addition to the material benefits (i.e. drinking water supply), non-material ones are also important. Community building and identity are particularly noteworthy. The importance of small drinking water supply sys...
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EXTENDED ABSTRACT:DEDI stands for the Digital Encyclopaedia of Natural and Cultural Heritage in Slovenia which was a result of two prototype research and development projects DEDI and DEDI II in the period between 2008 and 2010. The two... more
EXTENDED ABSTRACT:DEDI stands for the Digital Encyclopaedia of Natural and Cultural Heritage in Slovenia which was a result of two prototype research and development projects DEDI and DEDI II in the period between 2008 and 2010. The two projects were co-financed by the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology and the European Regional Development Fund in the frame of research and development projects e-content and e-services. DEDI is the first attempt of multimediarich digital representation of Slovenian natural and cultural heritage on a common web site offering verifiable, qualitative and complex content to a wide range of general public. Digital content (text, video records, audio records, photographs) is enriched by 2-dimensional and/or 3-dimensional visualisation of geographical data or even by 4-dimensional models with time component. 4D models combine 3D models with the time dimension. Thus it is possible to simulate the past, the current and the future condition ...
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EXTENDED ABSTRACT: DEDI stands for the Digital Encyclopaedia of Natural and Cultural Heritage in Slovenia which was a result of two prototype research and development projects DEDI and DEDI II in the period between 2008 and 2010. The two... more
EXTENDED ABSTRACT: DEDI stands for the Digital Encyclopaedia of Natural and Cultural Heritage in Slovenia which was a result of two prototype research and development projects DEDI and DEDI II in the period between 2008 and 2010. The two projects were co-financed by the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology and the European Regional Development Fund in the frame of research and development projects e-content and e-services. DEDI is the first attempt of multimediarich digital representation of Slovenian natural and cultural heritage on a common web site offering verifiable, qualitative and complex content to a wide range of general public. Digital content (text, video records, audio records, photographs) is enriched by 2-dimensional and/or 3-dimensional visualisation of geographical data or even by 4-dimensional models with time component. 4D models combine 3D models with the time dimension. Thus it is possible to simulate the past, the current and the future condition...
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This chapter focuses on the resilience, capacity, and role of the sociocultural context in climate change adaptation in a small and marginal local community that prides itself on an affluent past based on ski tourism and agriculture. The... more
This chapter focuses on the resilience, capacity, and role of the sociocultural context in climate change adaptation in a small and marginal local community that prides itself on an affluent past based on ski tourism and agriculture. The empirical part is built on a case study of Livek in the hilly northwestern part of Slovenia on the border with Italy, and it includes data from available literature and a series of interviews with two local opinion leaders. The results show that, in the absence of local-specific and targeted national or regional measures, the path of transition has relied on the community’s internal strength and motivation, mostly stemming from flexibility, stubbornness, identity, and place attachment. A crucial role was played by several NGOs and the Livek Agrarian Community, promoting various activities to improve the quality of life in both tangible and M. Urbanc (*) • M. Šmid Hribar Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU), Ljublj...
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Protected areas and Natura 2000 sites requires that adequate management and use are planned and implemented for maintenance of the ecological status of these. In many geographical areas e.g. the ka ...
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Ecosystem services (ES) are the benefits people receive from ecosystems and a key tool for assessing the sustainability of natural resource use. Natural resource management requires consistent data on the state of ES; despite this, no... more
Ecosystem services (ES) are the benefits people receive from ecosystems and a key tool for assessing the sustainability of natural resource use. Natural resource management requires consistent data on the state of ES; despite this, no such research has been carried out at the national level in Slovenia. The purpose of the article is to create an overview of past ES studies in Slovenia. The method of systematic mapping was used. We identified, compared, and described data on ES studies that have been published in Slovenia. The key findings are: 1) the number of ES studies in Slovenia is increasing, however the share of studies focused solely on ES has been decreasing since 2015; 2) the most represented field is forestry and the forest is the most commonly examined ecosystem; 3) the prevailing ES groups are regulating ES, while the most commonly explored individual ES are cultural ES, namely recreation and ecotourism, and 4) the most commonly implemented methodological approach is nar...
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The project entitled “Digital encyclopaedia of Slovenian natural and cultural heritage” (DEDI II) has been evolved as a prototype research and development project (2009-2010). It represents the first attempt of multimedia-rich digital... more
The project entitled “Digital encyclopaedia of Slovenian natural and cultural heritage” (DEDI II) has been evolved as a prototype research and development project (2009-2010). It represents the first attempt of multimedia-rich digital representation of Slovenian natural and cultural heritage by the means of interdisciplinary work of different cultural and educational institutions. Verifiable, qualitative and complex contentof four types of heritage is co-located on a common site (immovable, movable, vividand natural heritage) with the goal to promote the heritage and educate the general public, as well as to encourage the public to create tomorrow’s heritage. A new detailed thesaurus was constructed enabling the classification of different kinds of heritage. It merges the established and newly created taxonomies of each type of heritage.To ensure the quality of published contents, the professional Editorial Board hasbeen established. The National and University Library of Slovenia (...
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Although each landscape has its own identity, only some of them are recognized as nationally important because of their cultural and natural values and their contribution to national identity. In Slovenia, these landscapes are listed in... more
Although each landscape has its own identity, only some of them are recognized as nationally important because of their cultural and natural values and their contribution to national identity. In Slovenia, these landscapes are listed in the national Spatial Development Strategy (adopted in 2004). However, this list was neither supported by implementation instruments nor integrated in any conservation or management policy documents and was poorly integrated into spatial plans. The aim of this research was to renew the methodology for identifying landscapes of national importance. The methods included in-depth interviews with experts, an online questionnaire, participatory workshops, and field visits. The questionnaire results showed that only eight landscapes from the original list of 62 were explicitly recognized as nationally important, which confirmed the hypothesis that the initial method was not transparent and that the criteria were biased. The proposed approach included the fo...
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Landscape diversity results in significant land-use differences between Slovenia’s landscapes. A high-quality set of land-use data covering the period from the early nineteenth century to the present is available for Slovenia, which makes... more
Landscape diversity results in significant land-use differences between Slovenia’s landscapes. A high-quality set of land-use data covering the period from the early nineteenth century to the present is available for Slovenia, which makes it possible to study the impact of various factors on land-use changes. In the early nineteenth century, when subsistence farming predominated, farmers on each farm or in each village had to have enough arable land to produce food, enough meadows to feed the animals, and enough forest for firewood. Therefore, the variability in land use was much greater at the local level than today but smaller between regions. Afforestation prevails in the Alpine mountains, hills, and Dinaric landscapes of western Slovenia, grass overgrowth dominates in the hills of eastern Slovenia, farming intensification characterizes the Pannonian plains, and urbanization predominates on the coast and the Alpine plains. Compared to neighboring central European countries, the sociogeographical factors of land-use change in Slovenia diverged the most between 1945 and 1990, resulting in more fragmented land and dispersed settlement.
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This paper aims to ground the research paradigm of public engagement within the field of landscape and heritage. Both the European Landscape Convention and the Faro Convention, major international agreements that shape both these... more
This paper aims to ground the research paradigm of public engagement within the field of landscape and heritage. Both the European Landscape Convention and the Faro Convention, major international agreements that shape both these dimensions, stress the need to reinforce the democratic nature of projects. This participation needs to go beyond informing stakeholders and formal hearings, and community values and ideas should be included in the planning process. This entails addressing the complexities of stakeholder deliberation and the solution of thorny problems. The present study examines in detail four case studies from the Netherlands, Slovenia and Denmark, in which public participation was crucial in different stages of the project development. The methodologies employed, as well as the effect that such engagement had on the general results, will be highlighted. Finally, the discussion of results will evaluate the findings through the lens of deliberative democracy within territo...
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Kratek priročnik za upravljanje s kulturnimi vrednotami, ki je nastal v okviru projekta SY_CULTour. Osnovni namen priročnika je pomagati ljudem, ki želijo s pomočjo kulturnih vrednot prispevati pri razvoju podeželja. Korak za korakom vas... more
Kratek priročnik za upravljanje s kulturnimi vrednotami, ki je nastal v okviru projekta SY_CULTour. Osnovni namen priročnika je pomagati ljudem, ki želijo s pomočjo kulturnih vrednot prispevati pri razvoju podeželja. Korak za korakom vas bomo vodili skozi ključne faze od prve ideje do končne realizacije, pri čemer je končni izdelek lahko nov proizvod ali storitev ali pa doživetje oziroma zgodba, zasnovana na kulturnih vrednotah z razvojnim potencialom.
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Supplementary material 2 from: Burkhard B, Maes J, Potschin-Young M, Santos-Martín F, Geneletti D, Stoev P, Kopperoinen L, Adamescu C, Adem Esmail B, Arany I, Arnell A, Balzan M, Barton D, van Beukering P, Bicking S, Borges P, Borisova B, Braat L, M Brander L, Bratanova-Doncheva S, Broekx S, Brow...more
Kulturna dediščina, bodisi koncipirana kot dediščina, bodisi kot vrednota, ima različne razvojne potenciale. To so tisti potenciali, s čimer lahko prispeva pri razvoju, ki pa ni le ekonomski, temveč se lahko nanaša tudi na socialne,... more
Kulturna dediščina, bodisi koncipirana kot dediščina, bodisi kot vrednota, ima različne razvojne potenciale. To so tisti potenciali, s čimer lahko prispeva pri razvoju, ki pa ni le ekonomski, temveč se lahko nanaša tudi na socialne, okoljske in kulturne vidike. V članku ugotavljamo, da se razvojni potenciali povečajo, ko povežemo posamezne enote kulturne dediščine, ali celo ko pride do prepleta kulturne in naravne dediščine. V prispevku so podrobneje opredeljeni nekateri vidiki razvojnih potencialov.
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This paper presents the web application, called Digital Encyclopaedia of Heritage (or DEDI) as a new milestone in the field of preservation and presentation of the Slovenian cultural and natural heritage. It introduces novel concepts, and... more
This paper presents the web application, called Digital Encyclopaedia of Heritage (or DEDI) as a new milestone in the field of preservation and presentation of the Slovenian cultural and natural heritage. It introduces novel concepts, and aims for a more interactive search capability, and a greater presentation of the heritage to the general public. DEDI also supports research, learning, cultural development etc. and, as such, strengthens the national identity. The most important feature of DEDI is its unified approach where all four types of heritage are presented equally in one place. In this paper, special attention is given to the presentation of services developed for DEDI that could be used in other applications and projects – in essence, a presentation of the DEDI framework and the DEDI metadata model.
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Landscape diversity consisted of heterogeneous landscape elements is largely dependent on human activities such as traditional practices and knowledge related to land use which could be recognized as a contribution to cultural diversity.... more
Landscape diversity consisted of heterogeneous landscape elements is largely dependent on human activities such as traditional practices and knowledge related to land use which could be recognized as a contribution to cultural diversity. Losing traditional practices may result in impoverishing of landscape and biological diversity. We present cases illustrating connections between certain landscape elements and traditional practices typical for the cultural landscape of Ljubljansko barje (Ljubljana Marshes) in Slovenia. The study was carried out on the selected case study sites during 2012–2013 using study visits and interviews with locals. The aim of identifying these connections was to foster synergies between management of cultural landscape, traditional practices and modern way of living. However, against expectations, the study revealed that in the Ljubljansko barje area not many such practices and knowledge remain. The most useful practices that help to sustain extensive meadows and tall-herb communities are horse breeding and late mowing, and the local knowledge concerning agricultural and building land safe against floods. Moreover, we found important the fact that the first ‘victims’ of modern farming are particularly those landscape elements that are the result of a considerably lower level of technological development.
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Drevesa so v zgodovini človeštva odigrala pomembno materialno in nematerialno vlogo, odnos do njih pa se je tekom časa in znotraj različnih kultur spreminjal. Ker imajo drevesa daljšo življenjsko dobo kot človek in ker so s koreninami... more
Drevesa so v zgodovini človeštva odigrala pomembno materialno in nematerialno vlogo, odnos do njih pa se je tekom časa in znotraj različnih kultur spreminjal. Ker imajo drevesa daljšo življenjsko dobo kot človek in ker so s koreninami vezana na določen prostor, se je med drevesom in človekom spletla posebna vez. Na določena drevesa, zasajena ob različnih priložnostih, je bil človek še posebno navezan in ponosen. Taka drevesa imajo v prostoru posebno vlogo, predstavljajo nosilce kulturnega izročila in jih tudi uvrščamo med drevesno dediščino. Kljub temu pa so v trenutnem sistemu vrednotenja drevesnih naravnih vrednot zaradi nedefiniranih in nekonsistentnih kriterijev prav taka drevesa večkrat prezrta. Cilj naloge je bil tako na primeru analize stanja drevesne dediščine na območju predvidenega parka Karavanke Natura 2000 pokazati, da imajo drevesa dvojno razsežnost (poleg naravne tudi kulturno), kar je potrebno upoštevati pri celostnem vrednotenju drevesne dediščine. V nalogi smo na i...
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This study explores the role of stakeholders in creating and managing food tourism experiences. The main aim was to discover who participates in this process, why, and how. The research is based on interviews and participatory observation... more
This study explores the role of stakeholders in creating and managing food tourism experiences. The main aim was to discover who participates in this process, why, and how. The research is based on interviews and participatory observation of twenty-two case studies mainly located in rural areas in eight Mediterranean countries. The paper focuses on two types of food experience: food events and food services with additional subtypes. The results reveal three models of stakeholder collaboration: one typical for events, one typical for services, and one emphasizing more direct interaction between visitors and local communities. The findings show diversity in the connections among stakeholders, who have different motives and roles in food experiences.
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The paper aims to analyse the characteristics and trends in pastoral farming, tourism and recreation in the Norwegian and Slovenian mountains and resulting landscape changes. These land uses and related driving forces have been... more
The paper aims to analyse the characteristics and trends in pastoral farming, tourism and recreation in the Norwegian and Slovenian mountains and resulting landscape changes. These land uses and related driving forces have been scrutinised in the context of economic, social, and political aspects. While pastoral farming has a centuries-old tradition in the higher altitudes of both countries, interest in mountains for tourism and recreational purposes dates back only to the nineteenth century but has been increasing steadily ever since. The findings of the study, based on a literature review and secondary data, suggest that the social, economic, and especially the political situation in Norway and Slovenia have been different, but the development of mountains in both countries in the field of mountain pasturing and tourism and recreation has shared more similarities than differences, although nuances and specificities should not be disregarded. It is evident that mountain pasturing i...
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The European Union (EU) Horizon 2020 Coordination and Support Action ESMERALDA aimed at developing guidance and a flexible methodology for Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their Services (MAES) to support the EU member states in... more
The European Union (EU) Horizon 2020 Coordination and Support Action ESMERALDA aimed at developing guidance and a flexible methodology for Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their Services (MAES) to support the EU member states in the implementation of the EU Biodiversity Strategy’s Target 2 Action 5. ESMERALDA’s key tasks included network creation, stakeholder engagement, enhancing ecosystem services mapping and assessment methods across various spatial scales and value domains, work in case studies and support of EU member states in MAES implementation. Thus ESMERALDA aimed at integrating various project outcomes around four major strands: i) Networking, ii) Policy, iii) Research and iv) Application. The objective was to provide guidance for integrated ecosystem service mapping and assessment that can be used for sustainable decision-making in policy, business, society, practice and science at EU, national and regional levels. This article presents the overall ESMERALDA appr...
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Kratek priročnik za upravljanje s kulturnimi vrednotami, ki je nastal v okviru projekta SY_CULTour. Osnovni namen priročnika je pomagati ljudem, ki želijo s pomočjo kulturnih vrednot prispevati pri razvoju podeželja. Korak za korakom vas... more
Kratek priročnik za upravljanje s kulturnimi vrednotami, ki je nastal v okviru projekta SY_CULTour. Osnovni namen priročnika je pomagati ljudem, ki želijo s pomočjo kulturnih vrednot prispevati pri razvoju podeželja. Korak za korakom vas bomo vodili skozi ključne faze od prve ideje do končne realizacije, pri čemer je končni izdelek lahko nov proizvod ali storitev ali pa doživetje oziroma zgodba, zasnovana na kulturnih vrednotah z razvojnim potencialom.
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The book presents a short manual for the management of cultural values. Its purpose is to help the people who want to contribute to the development of rural areas by utilizing its cultural values. This step by step manual will lead the... more
The book presents a short manual for the management of cultural values. Its purpose is to help the people who want to contribute to the development of rural areas by utilizing its cultural values. This step by step manual will lead the reader through the key phases from the first idea to the final realization, which could be a new product or service, an experience, or a story based on the cultural values with development potential.