Slovenija: spreminjanje in raznolikost na majhnem prostoru

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Prof. dr. Jurij Kunaver, osemdesetletnik

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Geografski vidiki poplav v Sloveniji

Slovenia is endangered by floods. Frequent intensive rainfall and heavy rains, a large proportion of mountainous and hilly regions, and numerous populated narrow valley bottoms are the primary reasons for this threat. Floods endanger about seventy thousand hectares of lowlands, and torrential flooding endangers a further three thousand hectares. Due to this enormous threat, Slovenia has more than one hundred years of experience in the field of flood prevention, while only more recently has the awareness developed in the European Union that flood prevention is cheaper in the long run than simply dealing with the consequences of floods. This fact is reflected in the increasing number of laws passed to deal with this danger, and for this purpose maps of flood hazard and flood risk are very important and are presented in the book.V knjigi je predstavljen geografski pogled na zapleteno problematiko poplav, poplavnih območij v kontekstu medsebojno prepletenih naravno- in družbenogeografskih procesov, ki potekajo v konkretni pokrajini oziroma prostoru. S takšnim pristopom so poplave in poplavna območja obravnavani kot pomembne sestavine pokrajine, sestavni deli izjemno kompleksnih součinkovanj in povratnih učinkov. Te bi morali nujno poznati in v vsakdanjem življenju upoštevati zlasti pri načrtovanju posegov v prostor, ki si ga poplavne vode pogosto neusmiljeno prisvajajo. V preteklosti se je človek poplavnim območjem izogibal, v sodobnosti pa na to pogosto pozablja. Poplave so poleg potresov najhujše naravne ujme v Sloveniji, ki nam povzročajo ogromno gmotno škodo in včasih jemljejo tudi človeška življenja. Zaradi silovite dinamike in nenadnega pojavljanja jih ne moremo preprečiti, lahko pa se nanje ustrezno pripravimo

50 let Geografskega inštituta Antona Melika ZRC SAZU

The book, published to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Anton Melik Geographical Institute, outlines the main features of the institute, such as the establishment and development as well as the main stages of the research work over the years. The institute, being part of the Scientific Research Centre of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 1981, is comprised of five departments: the Department of Geoecology, the Department of Regional Geography, the Department of Natural Disasters, the Department of Geographical Information Systems and the Department of Thematic Cartography. Besides this it houses a library, geographical collections, a cartographic collection and the Commission for the Standardisation of Geographical Names appointed by the Government of the Republic of Slovenia.Rich additional material, mainly photos, that result from the research projects (the Triglav glacier and the glacier below Skuta, natural disasters and alpine farms) as well as from the preparatory work for numerous geographical publications about Slovenia and its landscapes, complements the text.Knjiga, ki je izšla ob petdesetletnici Geografskega inštituta Antona Melika, predstavlja nastanek in razvoj inštituta ter glavne značilnosti raziskovalnega dela na inštitutu po posameznih obdobjih. Inštitut, ki je od leta 1981 sestavni del Znanstvenoraziskovalnega centra Slovenske akademije znanosti in umetnosti, ima oddelke za geoekologijo, regionalno geografijo, naravne nesreče, geografski informacijski sistem in tematsko kartografijo, knjižnico, geografske zbirke in kartografsko zbirko ter sedež Komisije za standardizacijo zemljepisnih imen Vlade Republike Slovenije. Besedilo spremlja bogato slikovno gradivo, ki je nastalo med raziskovalnim delom, na primer ob preučevanju Triglavskega ledenika, naravnih nesreč in hribovskih kmetij, ali med pripravljanjem številnih geografskih publikacij o Sloveniji in njenih pokrajinah