A geographical name or toponym is a proper name that by definition firmly and unquestionably identifies and individualizes a specific geographical phenomenon or topographical object. All geographical ...names in the world and in every language are divided into endonyms and exonyms.An “endonym” is the name of a geographical feature in one of the languages occurring in the area where the feature is situated. An “exonym” is a name used in a specific language for a geographical feature situated outside the area where that language has official status and differs in form from the name used in the official language or languages of the area where the geographical feature is situated.The use of geographical names can be politically sensitive, and for this reason this issue has long been the subject of international discussion. To strengthen the role of international professional associations in this field, in 1959 the United Nations established the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN), which directs international activities in the field of geographical names.
In this paper, the authors divide Slovenia's countryside on the basis of selected indicators combined in eight different content complexes, which they call »partial syntheses«: Natural Limitation ...Factors, Land and Agricultural Systems, Property Conditions, Population Characteristics, Characteristics of Economic Efficiency, Personal Infrastructure, Frontier Status, and Agricultural Burdening of the Environment. The partial syntheses are the basis of an integral synthesis with five distinct levels of countryside development. In the second part of the paper, the importance of the division of the countryside is presented from the viewpoint of providing diverse forms of assistance to ensure its coordinated development, as well as from the viewpoint of monitoring indicators of deviations from the desired impacts of regional development to which the term »regional disparities« refers.
This article examines garden plots in Ljubljana to present the planning of this self-sufficient vegetable production activity, which developed mostly spontaneously in all urban environments in and ...around Ljubljana. Some residents of Ljubljana, the Slovenian capital, are involved in this activity not so much because of economic necessity but because it provides recreation and relaxation, meets their need for direct contact with nature, and offers them an opportunity to produce healthy food. Typically, older people are involved in this activity, among which the number of highly educated people is unexpectedly high. The majority are happy with the plot-gardening situation. The city government has begun systematically removing garden plots in unsuitable locations, and has drafted a proposal to organize gardening areas in a way that does not pollute the environment, and at the same time provide them with suitable infrastructure. We evaluated the appropriateness of the planned locations in the draft City Municipality of Ljubljana Zoning Implementation Plan on the basis of the fulfillment of key exclusion and attraction criteria that were established based on survey answers included in support of the decision-making with the help of GIS tools. Decision-making by consensus, inclusion of public stakeholders, and establishing dialog between the city government and garden-plot users will need to be ensured in carrying out this plan.
V prispevku je na primeru vrtičkarstva v Ljubljani predstavljen vidik načrtovanja te samooskrbne dejavnosti pridelovanja vrtnin, ki večinoma stihijsko obstaja v vseh urbanih okoljih našega kulturnega ...okolja. Z vrtičkarstvom se ukvarja nekaj odstotkov prebivalcev slovenskega glavnega mesta, ki jim ta dejavnost bolj kot ekonomsko nujo pomeni rekreacijo in sprostitev, zadovoljenje potrebe po neposrednem stiku z naravo in možnost pridelave zdrave hrane. Značilno je, da se z njo večinoma ukvarjajo starejši ljudje, med katerimi jih je več visokošolsko izobraženih, kot bi bilo pričakovati. Večina jih je z razmerami za vrtičkarstvo zadovoljna. Mestna oblast je začela načrtno odstranjevati vrtičke na zanje neprimernih lokacijah, kot nadomestilo pa je pripravila predlog vrtičkarskih območij, ki naj bi bila urejena tako, da ne bi kazila okolja, in obenem primerno infrastrukturno opremljena. Primernost načrtovanih lokacij v osnutku izvedbenega prostorskega načrta Mestne občine Ljubljana smo ovrednotili glede na izpolnjevanje pomembnih izločitvenih meril in meril privlačnosti, ki smo jih določili na podlagi anketnih rezultatov, vključenih v podporo odločanju s pomočjo orodij GIS. Pri izvedbi bo treba zagotoviti dogovorno odločanje z vključevanjem zainteresirane javnosti ter vzpostavljanje dialoga med občino in vrtičkarji.
The extensive groundwater reserves in the Ljubljana Plain, estimated at 100 million m3, represent a natural resource of regional significance. The Decree on the Protection of Sources of Drinking ...Water divides this water protection area into three drinking-water protection zones. The area is exposed to possible pollution by many activities, among which agriculture is especially problematic because it is not supervised strictly enough. The majority of farms are engaged in traditional animal husbandry, of which cattle breeding dominates.
The book includes water protection areas near the pumping stations of drinkable water on Ljubljansko polje, consequently in the City municipality of Ljubljana and in the water protection area of the ...water plant Brest in the neighbouring municipality of Ig. The area of Ljubljansko barje was also included in the study.Water wells have, besides the basic function of preserving water, also an aesthetic and symbolic meaning. Many fountains in public and private use are true works of art, but that wasn't the main interest of our study. We concentrated mostly on private water wells and bores, which are not registered and therefore not supervised.
The monograph presents different names of Piran Bay (Slo. Piranski zaliv) over time. Despite the leading onomastic topic, the publication is designed as a regional-geographic review of Piran Bay and ...its hinterland, where all the main physical- and socio-geographical characteristics are presented. This book describes the basic hydro-geographic characteristics of Piran Bay as a part of Gulf of Trieste and the Adriatic Sea. The monograph talks about the historical development, salt making in Sečovlje salt pans and the circumstances that led to the now more than two decades-long border dispute between Slovenia and Croatia. A significant chapter is dedicated to the presentation of the different naming of the Bay of Piran through time. According to the chronological order, 104 different cartographic sources present the name changes of the Piran Bay through time and when a certain specific geographic name appeared. Based on media analysis, one of the chapters describes the relation between the names Savudrijska vala or Savudrijski zaljev (Savudrija Bay) and Piranski zaliv or Piranski zaljev (Piran Bay).
Monitoring the transformation of the Slovene countryside revealed that there are relatively heavily urbanized flatland and valley areas, and on the other, peripheral areas where depopulation and the ...disintegration of the cultural landscape are increasingly pronounced.For the evaluation of the countryside and its typological division, objective criteria are selected that reflect the natural conditions, the principal characteristics of agriculture, and the fundamental demographic, economic, functional, housing, infrastructural, and environmental conditions. Overall, the evaluation is based on the level of individual settlements which enables thorough spatial differentiation. A complex evaluation is carried out by establishing the value and representation of individual groups of parameters and their corresponding weights. On the basis of partial syntheses, two synthetic maps of developmental movements in the countryside are presented that provide a solid foundation in the effort to ensure harmonious regional development.
The book offers multi-layered responses to the scope and causes of spatial, as well as social, economic and physiognomic changes in the cultural landscape in Slovenian countryside. It presents the ...results of an interdisciplinary research approach to recognising spatial change and trends within a two-year research project entitled “The Transformation of the Landscape by Agricultural Modernisation and Changes in Settlement Patterns”, which was financed by the Slovenian Research Agency and the Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning of the Republic of Slovenia within the target research programme Slovenian Competitiveness 2006–2013. Similar research was carried out in three pilot areas, selected because they captured a cross section of typical Slovenian landscape macro-units (Mediterranean, Dinaric, Alpine and Pannonian), while also covering the processes of intensification and marginalisation.
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