Rural environments are specific for some crime forms, which can be divided into four categories: 1) agricultural or farm crime, 2) equine crime, 3) wildlife crime, and 4) heritage crime (Hacin and ...Eman, 2019). Pomurje is one of the most remote and least developed regions in Slovenia, where the rural environment predominates. In the article, the rural crime occurrence and related rural policing in areas of Pomurje are discussed. We analysed crime statistics and conducted structured interviews with the commanders of five police stations in the area of Police Directorate Murska Sobota, where each police station's area has its specifics with accordingly organized police work. Individual criminal offences are typical in all areas and do not differ from criminal offences in urban areas (e.g., theft, robbery, vandalism, fraud). Illegal migration, crime related to motorway stops along the Pomurje motorway, environmental crime, crime related to Roma, domestic violence, especially against the women and elderly, and the production of illegal drugs are the most prominent forms of rural crime in the Pomurje region. Socio-economic factors of smaller environments are reflected in rural settings and impact crime and policing. The police work in rural areas depends on residents' trust and respect for the police. This significantly affects the resident's willingness to cooperate with the police. Small size, mutual knowledge, and coherence reduce police operations' rigor and affect police officers' judgment. Police officers in Pomurje stick to the words 'together with the people for a safe local community'. Results show that police officers in a rural environment perceive neighbourhood safety more positively than colleagues in the urban environment. Good interpersonal relations and cooperation with the residents, committed and professional police officers, and management support are essential factors for successful policing in rural areas, reflected in a high percentage of investigated criminal offences.
•Rural crime can be divided into four categories: 1) agricultural or farm crime, 2) equine crime, 3) wildlife crime, and 4) heritage crime.•Pomurje is one of the most remote and least developed regions in Slovenia, where the rural environment predominates.•In the area of Police Directorate Murska Sobota, Pomurje, (Slovenia) individual criminal offences are typical in all areas and do not differ from criminal offences in urban areas (e.g., theft, robbery, vandalism, fraud). Illegal migration, crime related to motorway stops along the Pomurje motorway, environmental crime, crime related to Roma, domestic violence, especially against the women and elderly, and the production of illegal drugs are the most prominent forms of rural crime in the Pomurje region.•Socio-economic factors of smaller environments are reflected in rural settings and impact crime and policing.•The police work in rural areas depends on residents' trust and respect for the police.•Police officers in Pomurje stick to the words 'together with the people for a safe local community'.•Results show that police officers in a rural environment perceive neighbourhood safety more positively than colleagues in the urban environment.•Good interpersonal relations and cooperation with the residents, committed and professional police officers, and management support are essential factors for successful policing in rural areas, reflected in a high percentage of investigated criminal offences.
Šolski vrtovi v Pomurski regiji Ambrožič-Dolinšek, Jana; Katalinič, Dane; Utroša, Patricija
Revija za elementarno izobraževanje,
10/2021, Letnik:
14, Številka:
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School-based learning has a long tradition in Slovenia and is now a globally recognized movement. We present the operation of school gardens in the most agricultural region of Slovenia, the Pomurje ...region, and their inclusion in the pedagogical process of science subjects. Half (19 out of 38) of the primary schools in Pomurje have school gardens. The decision to establish a school garden depends on the good will of the school management and the voluntary interest of the teachers. It would be necessary to include school gardening in science curricula. Garden-related activities contribute to the development of Pomurje as an important agricultural region.
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Systematic hydrologic monitoring of groundwater quantity at the national level in Slovenia has been ongoing since 1952. An insight into long-term groundwater level data enables us to delineate parts ...of aquifers with similar groundwater level oscillation properties as well as to identify changes of those properties in time. We used variety of statistical methods to identify long-term behaviour of groundwater level oscillation of groundwater body (GWB) Murska kotlina. Results showed that fluctuation of groundwater level in time reflect complex set of events that originate in natural or anthropogenic interferences. Using percentile analysis in combination with cluster analysis, we were able to isolate areas with a related groundwater fluctuation. Results of long-term data trends analyses of monthly groundwater level showed the impact of the research area climate on long-term and seasonal groundwater level fluctuation. In addition to natural causes, by performing trend analysis on groundwater level data, we were able identify some human induced interventions into the environment made in the past.
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One of the key success factors of every region is an adequate level of intellectual capital provided by the human capital of its residents. This article aims to show that low levels of regional ...development in Slovenia's least developed region of Pomurje corresponds to the low levels of intellectual capital. The article reviews the literature on the concept and measurement of intellectual capital and provides operationalization of intellectual capital suitable for assessing its levels on a regional, subnational level. The results show that Pomurje has lower level of intellectual capital from the national average. Furthermore, the analysis of rates of growth of intellectual capital indicate the systematic lagging of Pomurje region behind Slovenian average. The case study highlights the problem of brain drain as the key contextual factor that influences the size of intellectual capital and negatively affects the performance of the region thus pointing to priorities of a more effective developmental policy.
This paper introduces the possibility of using publicly available geographic spatial data for the study of biogenic waste management. A number of spatial data is publicly accessible in digital form ...on web portals or in a form of data layers, generated within various European initiatives and/or projects. Many data is accessible in a tabular form in municipal records. This paper systematically processes publicly available digital cartographic data on biogenic waste in Slovenia and data on collected waste in the Pomurje municipalities in 2011. These are collected to show the possible use of existing data sources for further analysis collection, determination of potential and optimization of material flow. A Geographic Information System (GIS) has been developed from the available data, which forms a good device for further analyses of such issues in combination with other publicly accessible digital geographical data layers. Practical examples show the collected data for the municipalities in Pomurje, and describe how to save the issue of managing biogenic waste and contribute to the increased use of alternative energy sources, using these tools.
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