Throughout history, the Alpine environment presented man and his activities with specific problems and challenges, forging a unique relationship with him. In alpine environment a historical presence of characteristic – and especially collective – forms of natural resource management, combined with a relatively important presence of public authorities aiming to protect and preserve natural resources, but also to maintain a monopoly over them. The discussion addresses the aspect of natural resources as sources of energy, as well as means of sustenance and production. This is a subject that relates, on one hand, to the growing attention being paid to environmentally sustainable forms of exploitation and, on the other, to the social (as well as ethnic-political) dimension of the issue concerning the forms of management and rights to access natural resources, hence their social (and cultural) sustainability. The project leader was a member of scientific committee of the conference. On conference some project members presented their papers.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
The international scientific workshop: "Maritime activities and communities in the Eastern Adriatic in the Middle Ages and in the Early Modern Period" has been realized with a cooperation of the Croatian Institute of History as a central scientific institution for research of Croatian history and the Institute for Historical Studies of the Science and Research Centre of the University of Primorska. The main research goals are directed at the studies of social, economic and demographic characteristics of the history of coastal cities and towns on the East Adriatic coast from the 15th to 18th Century, in the context of their position and relations with the Republic of Venice and the Habsburg monarchy and research of the maritime policy and maritime economies of the Habsburg and Venetian cities in the north Adriatic. 4 participants of the project group presented their papers on the conference.
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Aleksander Panjek, »Radiopunt«, series of 13 broadcastings on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the Tolmin peasant uprising, RAI – Slovenian program, Radio Trst A, October-December 2013, broadcasting editor Peter Rustia.
F.18 Transfer of new know-how to direct users (seminars, fora, conferences)