The Geography of Slovenia

Nared).- Chapter 20. Human-induced degradation in Slovenia (Ales Smrekar, Mateja Breg Valjavec, Katarina Polajnar Horvat).- Chapter 21. Slovenia's Protected Areas (Ales Smrekar, Katarina Polajnar Horvat, Daniela Ribeiro).- Part V: Slovenia and the World.- Chapter 22. Slovenia: Comparisons (Drago Kladnik, Matjaz Gersic).- Chapter 23. Slovenia's records and outstanding features (Drago Perko, Matjaz Gersic).

His research interests focus on geographic information systems, landscape classification, and natural disasters. He is a member of the editorial boards of the journals Acta geographica Slovenica, Acta Geobalcanica, and Geografski vestnik (Geographical Bulletin). He is also the coeditor of the book series Naravne nesrece (Natural Disasters) and Geografski informacijski sistemi v Sloveniji (Geographic Information Systems in Slovenia). From 2008 to 2015 he was a member of the executive committee of the Ljubljana Geographical Society, where he was in charge of cartography and publishing. In 2010 he was awarded a grant from the international Society for Conservation GIS. In 2015 he received the Melik Award for Best Young Researcher from the Association of Slovenian Geographers.

 

Matija Zorn was born in 1975 in Kranj, Slovenia. In 2001 he received a bachelor's degree in geography and history at the University of Ljubljana's Faculty of Arts, and he received his doctorate in geography from the same institution in 2007. In 2001 he was employed by the ZRC SAZU Anton Melik Geographical Institute. He served as the institute's assistant director from 2007 to 2018, and since 2018 he has been its director. Since 2008 he has headed the institute's Department of Physical Geography.His research interests focus on physical geography, especially geomorphology and the geography of natural disasters, and he also works on land degradation, environmental history, and geographic information systems. Since 2011 he has been a lecturer at the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Management at the University of Primorska in Koper, Slovenia. Since 2012 he has held the position of visiting lecturer at the University of Novi Sad in Serbia. He heads projects, advises junior researchers, and is the coeditor of several book series. Since 2011 he has been the editor-in-chief of the journal Geografski vestnik (Geographical Bulletin) and chief editor for physical geography for the journal Acta geographica Slovenica. He has received several awards, including the ZRC SAZU Silver Medal in 2009.