Real estate market activity in Slovenia in 2000-2006

This paper examines a particular aspect of Slovenian real estate market that is still developing -real estate market activity. Only two decades ago, Slovenia still had a socialist, planned economy, so there is a lack of tradition in the fields of both the real estate market and analysis of that market. The former only started to develop with the transition to the market-oriented economy in the beginning of the 1990s. Significant progress was observed in the second half of the 1990s, due to the favourable economic development of the country. In our research, we focused on the real estate market development in the 2000-2006 period, which was marked by major changes in legislation and other institutional backgrounds, directly or indirectly referring to the field of real estate and real property. The development of the real estate market in Slovenia was examined for a given period on the basis of the available market data, which have been acquired from the Tax Administration of the Republic of Slovenia; the real estate market activity development is analysed by statistical regions and types of real estate. The results show general developments in the Slovenian real estate market for the given period and, in particular, the influence of institutional and legal factors on real estate market activity

The influence of protected natural and cultural heritage on land management/market: The case of Slovenian natural protected areas

This article is focused on finding problems in land use domain in the areas of protected natural and cultural heritage. In the paper, the influence of special regulation in the natural and cultural protected areas on land management is presented. The paper gives an overview on history of cultural heritage and nature protection initiatives in Slovenia and provides a review on basic EU and international initiatives, conventions in this field. For the case of Slovenian rural land market, it highlights the problem of complex institutional regulations relating to land management in the protected areas, which affect mostly local people. Here, the impact of the protected regimes, the case of pre-emption right, on land management and consequently spatial development in local communities is stressed, which is an important topic in particular in less developed regions since restriction of land use often means more complex, costly and time lasting procedures in land management and less opportunities as the consequence

The Austrian land cadastre - from the earliest beginnings to the modern land information system

The objective of this discussion is the Austrian land\ud cadastre, which forms the basis of the Austrian land\ud information system, together with the land registry. From\ud a data structure perspective, the Austrian land cadastre is a\ud traditional parcel-oriented system and includes a geometric\ud description of land plots linked to other records describing\ud the nature of the land plots. The changeable institutional\ud (legal) framework was shaped the continuous development\ud of the Austrian land cadastre since the first systematic land\ud survey and cadastral mapping at the beginning of the 19th\ud century. With the progress of information technology in\ud recent decades, it has been developed into a contemporary\ud land information system, which (together with the land\ud registry) provides up-to-date land information. It has to\ud be emphasized that the current land cadastre still contains\ud some data from its very beginning and, for this reason, the\ud historical development of this evidence, including data\ud sources, is of great importance for users of these data. The first\ud part of the article provides an introduction to the historical\ud development of the Austrian land cadastre, followed by\ud the presentation of contents and procedures of the current\ud land cadastre

Land consolidation for large-scale infrastructure projects in Germany

Large-scale infrastructure projects require the acquisition of\ud appropriate land for their construction and maintenance,\ud while they often cause extensive fragmentations of the\ud affected landscape and land plots as well as significant\ud land loss of the immediately affected land owners. A good\ud practice in this field comes from Germany. In Germany,\ud the so-called “land consolidation for large-scale projects”\ud is used to distribute the land loss among a larger group\ud of land owners and to reduce the damages caused by land\ud dissection. In this article, the results of detailed analyses of\ud the land consolidation for large-scale projects’ procedures\ud in Germany are presented. The procedure is coordinated by\ud the land consolidation authority, which has to check several\ud formal and content requirements before implementing\ud a land consolidation procedure. The needed land for the\ud large-scale infrastructure project has to be provided by the\ud owners of the land plots in the land consolidation area by\ud selling it to the developer, by balanced land-loss following the\ud land consolidation plan or relinquishment of re-allocation\ud of particular land owners. The main objective of this article\ud is to introduce and analyse the aims, requirements and\ud procedure of German land consolidation for the purpose\ud of land acquisition by large-scale infrastructure projects\ud associated with remarkable spatial interventions

Geodetski vestnik and its path to better international recognition

The editorial board of Geodetski vestnik, the leading \ud Slovenian scientific and professional journal in the fields \ud of geodesy, land surveying, geoinformatics and land \ud management, has taken many actions to increase the quality \ud of the journal over the past decade. Among others, the \ud reviewing procedures were improved by introducing double-\ud blind peer review of articles, internationalisation of editorial \ud and review boards has been done, the journal has been \ud included in several international bibliographic databases, \ud and open access to full-text papers at the journal’s website \ud since 2000 onwards has been provided. The main aim of \ud the study has been to analyse the influence of editorial policy \ud on the international recognition (citations) of Geodetski \ud vestnik as well as on the quality of the literature cited in \ud the journal. Citations of Geodetski vestnik in the period \ud 2009–2013 are analysed in this article, based on the data \ud from the WoS database. It has been shown that indexation in \ud many information systems and databases, such as COBISS.\ud SI, DOAJ, WoS, DRUGG and CrossRef, has increased the \ud visibility of the journal and its articles at both national and \ud international levels

Protecting trees through an inventory and typology: Heritage trees in the Karavanke Mountains, Slovenia

Both research and policy require a transparent approach to monitoring and managing natural and cultural heritage because landscape quality has become a key concept in landscape planning. This paper introduces an advanced approach to natural and cultural heritage inventory for the study of heritage trees. Because trees play different roles in society, different regulations apply to their preservation, which can lead to inconsistencies in records for heritages trees. The inventory of heritage trees and their types in the study area identified within the Karavanke Natura 2000 project, which is presented in this paper, is based on existing lists of heritage trees, fieldwork, and interviews. A new database of heritage trees has been established in which the advantage of geographical information systems unifying various data sources is emphasized

Dynamics of migration and commuting to the urban centres of\ud Slovenia, 2000-2011\ud

In this paper, the dynamics of migration and\ud commuting into the urban centres of Slovenia\ud in 2000–2011 is presented. The influence of the\ud attractiveness of urban centres, the influence of the\ud emissiveness of migration and commuting flows in\ud the origin and the influence of the distance between\ud origins and destinations on migration and commuting\ud flows into the urban centres in Slovenia were analysed\ud in a spatial interaction model. The dynamics of\ud the parameters were analysed for the period before\ud (2000-2007) and in the economic crisis (2008-2011).\ud According the Spatial Development Strategy of\ud Slovenia, the urban centres of Slovenia were considered\ud at four levels: national urban centres of international\ud importance, urban centres of national significance,\ud urban centres of inter-regional significance and urban\ud centres of inter-municipal significance

Delimitation of functional regions of slovenia based on labour market analysis\ud

In this article, the three approaches for the delimitation of functional regions are presented based on daily commuting data: the labour market method, the commuting zone method and the commuting aggregation approach. The first two methods demand predefined centres while the functional regions are formed without predefined centres by the third method. These three approaches have been used for the case of the delimitation of functional regions of Slovenia considering only one spatial phenomenon, which is the daily commuting between the municipalities. The use of different methods is precondition for comparison and understanding of different approaches for modelling of functional regions. Functional regions might be the basis for numerous organizational tasks as well as development policies. They might be used as the starting-point for the administrative regionalization of Slovenia