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Further regional and spatial development of the Republic of Slovenia is based on a wide share of protected areas that pose significant demands for spatial planers. As an example of links between spatial planning and management of protected areas, in this paper we deal with the Triglav National Park (TNP) in NW Slovenia, particularly with the proposal for its 2014-2023 management plan and to which extent this plan takes into account specific conditions that arise from risk areas due to natural hazards as a significant water management expert foundation for planning the use of space. The paper explicitly demonstrates that the determination of hazard and risk areas in Slovenia is truly necessary, and that only a detailed determination of hazard and risk areas in scales 1:1000 to 1:5000 makes possible detailed spatial planning and thus also the management of protected areas. From the discussion, it also follows that the proposed TNP management plan should be upgraded in the field of research by establishing a Scientific (research) council at the TNP Administration, and by establishing a specific targeted research program focused on research in TNP. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The model developed for evaluating the optimal division of Slovenia into provinces is based on regional centres equipped with activities of appropriate levels, including universities. Connections between universities and the industry of a province are important factors in ensuring equal opportunities to access university education. Information on the regional concentration of students and distribution of organizations providing field placements in relation to all organizations in Slovenia is an important criterion of quality of university education. University and professional studies in geodetic engineering for the entire country is conducted at the University of Ljubljana. A comparison was made between the old and the new university and professional study programmes during the transition to the Bologna study programmes, when University of Ljubljana synchronously offered the old and new study programs (academic years 2008/09, 2009/2010, and 2010/11). The focus of this paper is on the role of field placements in the university with special reference to the understanding and evaluation students' and graduates' competences. The demographic composition of students in geodetic engineering with their involvement in field placements is analysed. An analysis of regional distribution mapping and demographic analysis of organizations with the determination of distance from place of residence of students in geodetic engineering to their field placement is presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article tackles the problem of regionalisation of Slovenia from the integrated perspective of water management. When propositions to divide Slovenia into several regions (provinces) (with proposals to make between 3 and 14 regions) were made, very different and numerous parameters have been taken into account. The article examines the regionalisation problem from the integrated water management perspective that was introduced into the Slovenian water legislation by the European Water Directive, adopted in 2000. The article also summarises the main directions of integrated water management, contained in Water Act that was adopted in 2002 and is still in force. On the basis of integrated water management foundations in European legislation, the article uses the division of Slovenia into water districts as a professional basis for a comparison between different proposals for division of Slovenia into regions. Although it is true that a hydrographical division of Slovenia into water districts cannot be the most important basis for regionalisation, one may notice that a division of Slovenia into three regions (Western Slovenia (Koper), Central Slovenia (Ljubljana), Eastern Slovenia (Maribor)) and partially division into six regions would be fully in line with bases for integrated and (by definition) territorial water management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]