In 2008 the European Council adopted a revised framework for waste management in the EU, with an objective to encourage recycling and reuse of waste, in order to reduce landfills and potential environmental emissions. This paper examines the origin, amount and fraction of construction waste produced in Nigrad, identifying current waste management practices. Based on the state-of-the art study new approaches are to be proposed, which will make it possible to decrease environmental impacts and costs, when providing public services and establishing sustainable service systems. To reach this objective a life-cycle analysis of the existing service has been carried out, which will help identify the system parts that have the most significant impact on the environment.
COBISS.SI-ID: 15923478
Public lighting in Slovenia is energy intensive. Analyses from 2006 and 2007 show that energy consumption per capita for public lighting in Slovenia was 84kWh, whilst the European average was 50 kWh. Maribor municipality has one of the highest energy consumptions for public lighting in Slovenia (120 kWh percapita). In 2009, Maribor municipality started a pilot project on replacing existing streetlights with light emitting diode (LED) technology, manufactured in Slovenia. This study evaluates the environmental impacts of this public lighting service from the aspects of two different technologies (LED and high pressure sodium (HPS)) lights, during all phases of their life-cycle (production, operation, end-of-life). The results from this study will support local decision-makers when seeking a balance between the environmental, financial, and social requirements of public lighting services.
COBISS.SI-ID: 67357441
It is widely acknowledged that environmental literacy, in the early stages of education, can provide a strong foundation for future environmental behaviours, as well as help in the transition towards more sustainable societies. This paper is based upon an evaluation of the environmental attitudes of students in a primary school in rural Slovenia. The attitudes were assessed according to the students' behaviours in their family (primary) and school (secondary) and family contexts. The results show that traditional teaching, in this school, accounts for only one third of the recognised factors that influence the students' environmental behaviours. The other factors that foster environmental behaviours include the primary and secondarysocial environments, the structural and infrastructural condition in the school, and gender, where emotional attitudes play a key role. The authorssuggest that in order to more adequately address the gap between learning and acting, that school administrators, teachers, parents, and othersshould integrate an array of sustainability issues throughout formal andinformal efforts so as to more effectively encourage the development of positive environmental attitudes, and behaviours among their youth and among themselves as role models. Additionally, school principals are urged to improve infrastructural and structural, attitudinal and procedural parameters at the schools and to change the curricula in order to foster pro-environmental behaviours.
COBISS.SI-ID: 15248406
This paper investigates Sustainable Development (SD) initiatives and how the concept has been transferred into the univeristy system. As a result many universities are still lagging behind companies in helping societies become more sustainable. This paper analyses the texts of eleven declarations, charters, and partnerships developed for HEIs, which can be considered to represent university leadersć intentions to help improve the effectiveness of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). The authors of the paper propose that for universities to become sustainability leaders and change drivers, they must ensure that the needs of present and future generations be better understood and built upon, so that professionals who are well versed in SD can effectively educate students of 'all ages' to help make the transition to 'sustainable societal patterns'.
COBISS.SI-ID: 15835414