The volume (‘Sustainable Urban Development and Natural Disasters’) contains seventeen chapters dealing with natural disasters. The chapters describe research findings and examples of the use of ...modern technologies in cases of natural disasters, with the focus on natural disasters in urban areas. The volume covers various topics such as earthquakes, floods, avalanches, landslides, heat waves, urban heat island, and web applications.
The book Prostor, regija, razvoj ('Space, region, development') deals with numerous issues, relevant for regional policy and sustainable regional and spatial development. The fields addressed, like ...monitoring and evaluation, processes of urban development, situation on the real estate market, creative class, creative industry, cultural industry, and natural conditions as a factor of spatial and regional development, show the diversity and complexity of the processes taking place in space and regions. From this perspective our ambition is not to solve all the crucial issues at one time, but to contribute to spatial and regional policy with selected studies, methodological approaches and policy recommendations. The chapters pave the way to integrated spatial and regional development, bearing in mind complexity of the field and knowing the most recent analyses. In order to support decision-making with the adequate knowledge, comprehensive studies should be further supported and later used in the policy making processes.
The book is the result of joint work and many years of mutual cooperation between researchers from Slovenia and Croatia. It was made as part of the transboundary project ŽIVO! Življenje – voda! (Life ...– Water!) (IPA CBC SI-HR 2007-2013), which involved the participation of authors from project partner institutions as well as invited authors who are familiar with the characteristics of the karst area of Northern Istria and the conditions there relating to drinking water supply. The monograph presents the natural features of Northern Istria, the karst and karst phenomena, karst hydrogeology, ecology and microbiology, and highlights in particular the vulnerability of the karst to various human activities. The main focus of attention is on karst water sources. In assessing their characteristics we used available knowledge of karst water on both sides of the border and supplemented it with new research on the transboundary area in question, which was based on field measurements and sampling, and chemical, microbiological and biological analysis of water. The collected findings form the basis for planning more effective monitoring of the quality of karst water sources, their protection and consequently the improvement of their quality.First editon was published in 2015, this corrected second edition is available also in paperback (ISBN 978-961-05-0001-8).
Extensive work is a result of four year research within the international project Women's Creativity since the Modern Movement, and brings new insights into women in architecture, construction, ...design, urban planning and landscape architecture in Europe and in the rest of the world. It is divided into eight chapters that combine 116 articles on topics: A. Women’s education and training: National and international mappings~B. Women’s legacy and heritage: Protection, restoration and enhancement~C. Women in communication and professional networks~D. Women and cultural tourism~E. Women’s achievements and professional attainments: Moving boundaries~F. Women and sustainability: City and Landscape~G. Women ‘as subjects’: Documentation, methodology, interpretation and enhancement~SG. Design drawings.
Academic and theoretical foundations of Slovenian emigration research were set at the University of Ljubljana in the 1930s. In the 1960s, more systematic, complex and multi-disciplinary Slovenian ...emigration research began to develop. As part of this process, Slovenian Migration Institute was established in 1982. The book was conceived upon the 30th anniversary of the Institute's affiliation to ZRC SAZU. Besides the Institute's researchers, some other scholars were invited to contribute chapters, especially members of younger generations who tend to test most up-to-date research approaches and treat their themes from new or under-researched angles.The central part of the book is thus thematically divided into three sections: “Selected aspects of Slovenian emigration research”, “Approaches, methods, categorisation”, and “Topical issues”. With such thematic structure and contents, the book is primarily aimed at touching upon some new questions concerning the present state and future development of Slovenian emigration research, taking into account contemporary international trends in migration studies as well as some specificities pertaining to Slovenian emigration.
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