Interdisciplinary research group of the Biotechnical Faculty has in co-operation with the ministry, responsible for the environment, prepared the basic grounds for the risk and opportunities’ assessment climate change present for Slovenia. Project was divided into analytical and interactive part in which all the sectors that are affected by the climate change (agriculture, forestry, transport, tourism, health) participated. In the first phase we analysed the existing studies which are concerned with the climate, potential risks and impacts of the changes on different sectors, separately for each of the administrative levels. A short questionnaire was done among the sectors which evaluated results of the analysis, confirmed them or added missing content. In the third phase an interactive event was organised for the exchange of opinions between the sectors on climate change and the more detailed assessment was done for the impacts on different fields for all Slovenian regions. The results show that Slovenia is addressing the climate change still in a very simple and basic manner and the analysis for different areas apart from the agriculture are still missing or are in the preparation phase. Very rarely it was mentioned that climate change presents an opportunity. At the same time it was also brought forward and emphasized that Slovenian political documents should focus more on preventive measures and not only curative as is the current practice.
F.30 Professional assessment of the situation
COBISS.SI-ID: 8091257Active participation in the seminar has again brought forward the importance of the quality of the design of the outdoor space as an inseparable part of the kindergartens and schools. In Slovenian this phenomenon has been addressed already since the 50’s when systemic construction of high quality of kindergartens and schools has started. In the last 20 years a few good examples of renewals and new designs of the outdoor spaces around kindergarten and schools have occurred. The outdoor space should take into account several demands, for which we need to take into account that the children playground is much more than just setting the play stations. A lot of harm would be done if the new construction technologies or environmental regulations would limit and/or abolish what has made our kindergartens of good quality and enable creative play of the children outside as well. The Department of the Landscape Architecture has been dedicated to the outdoor spaces of the kindergarten already from the beginning of the study (from 1972). We are developing especially the research by the principle of the case-studies where in the individual cases we research the options for the design of the open areas of kindergartens and schools in co-operation with the experts from other fields, also engaged with the play and its impacts on the development of the children.
F.18 Transfer of new know-how to direct users (seminars, fora, conferences)
COBISS.SI-ID: 2318972The questions of sustainable development are complex and future oriented. Knowledge about our environment, which can be provided by natural and social sciences is an indispensable basis to find the answers, however usually not enough. Creativity and ethics are two skills that are fundamental for teaching sustainability. While creativity is indispensable for developing sustainable solutions, ethic provides an evaluation framework to select the good ones. This contribution refers on the strategies from the UNESCO Teaching and learning for a sustainable future program to reflect on how these are used in landscape architecture study program to enhance development of creativity and ethic in students. Enquiry learning, community problem solving and values learning are most relevant in this respect. Although we do not have the empirical evidence and despite the lack of adjective “sustainable” in the course titles and curricula, we argue that sustainable development is deeply incorporated in landscape architecture study, and that it teaches students methods and tools to contribute to its implementation.
D.10 Educational activities
COBISS.SI-ID: 7975545Spatial Development Strategy of the Republic of Slovenia, shorter SPRS, wad adopted in 2004 and presents the major national document for managing the spatial development. Besides the ground guideline, concepts and development of the spatial systems it includes as well the fourth chapter in which the measures for the delivery of the strategy are defined. Ministry, responsible for the spatial planning, in year 2013 started with the preparation process of the renewal of the spatial policy which will be valid until 2030 (abbreviation of the document is SPRS2030). In the frame of this process they would like to know to which extent measures, defined in the old strategy, have been delivered and what problems occurred during delivery. The members of the research group had in co-operation with the external partner prepared evaluation methodology which derives from the triangulation method (questionnaire, interviews, document analysis) and was carried out in the period from November 2013 to March 2014. The results were presented in the final event. The major conclusions are that stakeholders do not carry out their tasks as was foreseen because of the administrative, financial and other obstacles. Among recommendations for the preparation of the new document the need for better co-operation between the sectors was mentioned, so was the low capacity of municipalities and the need to establish the regional level of spatial planning. The results will be available to the policy makers in the case of the new policy – definition of the objectives of the spatial policy for the next period, and especially for the design of the measures for reaching the goals of the new policy in the frame of the co-operation and improvement of the measures of sectoral policies and for the choice of the activities that would enable better monitoring of the next policy.
F.26 Improvements to existing organisational structure and managerial solutions
COBISS.SI-ID: 7976057The issues of replacement habitats as nature conservation measure are discussed in the context of Slovenian nature conservation legislation and practice. The main weaknesess of the decision, implementation and maintenance processess are identified. An alternative approach which integrates ecological with social and economic aspects is presented in the case of two powerplants on Sava river: Brežice and Mokrice and their proposed nature conservation compensation measures. An education and recreation path is proposed, linking the areas which have been previously assessed as most suiatable for such multifunctional use. An evaluation among 14 experts confirmed the validity of such integrative approach, which may bring the added value for society as well as better and more sustainable management of habitats.
F.27 Contribution to preserving/protecting natural and cultural heritage
COBISS.SI-ID: 8041081