Contribution of Ivan Gams to Slovenia's regional geography and regionalization
Biography ; Geographer's role ; Geographic research ; Regional geography ; Regionalization ; Slovenia ; Teaching of geography ; Twentieth Century
information systems and the humanistic component strengthened while regional geography revived with the Slovenia’s independence in 1991. Gams enriched it with his regionalization schemes, secondary-school textbooks, leading the regional geography research
Classification ; Digital elevation model ; Geographical information system ; Geomorphology ; Methodology ; Relief ; Slovenia ; Typology ; World
increased the number of methods and indicators used for determining, analyzing, and classifying morphological units at various size levels. The AA. present an example of foreign method of simple global surface classification of the World and Slovenia. - (IKR)
Agricultural practice ; Agriculture ; Arboriculture ; Olive tree ; Organic farming ; Slovenia ; Sustainable agriculture
The AA. present the development and characteristics of organic olive production in Slovenia. In 2012, there were 184.5 ha of organic olive orchards, about 10% of all olive orchards. In the future, it is expected that the area of organic olive
Ivan Gams – terminologist, encyclopedist, biographer, and more : SyCULTour 2013
Biography ; Geographer's role ; Geographic research ; Karst ; Physical geography ; Slovenia
in the variety of contributions in all areas of physical and regional geography. Ivan Gams’s contributions in other areas of geography reflect his restless and critical research spirit, which helped shape Slovenia’s social developments in the recent past. - (IKR)
Trnovski gozd is a karst plateau in western Slovenia modified by glacial action in the Pleistocene. The northern slopes and the footslope of the highest ridge of Golaki had an glacier up to 180 m thick with an area of 4.8 km2. Several outlet
In Slovenia, the migrations are treated in almost all geographical textbooks. In elementary school, the students acquire knowledge of the migrations by the inductive approach. In the grammar school program a trail of gaining knowledge on migration
Attitude ; Behaviour ; Elderly people ; Enquiry ; Medical services ; Population ; Population ageing ; Service ; Slovenia
To determine the views of elderly people to remote home care in Slovenia a survey was conducted and the results are discussed in this article. They show that elderly people have positive attitudes towards a remote home care. This was attributed
Koprsko primorje is the most visited tourist area in Slovenia and the number of tourists influences the characteristics of traffic in the area. Analysis of daily number of vehicles for road traffic has shown that changes in traffic volume
Enquiry ; Farmer ; Part-time farming ; Perception ; Rural area ; Rural population ; Slovenia ; Social status ; Socio-economic indicators ; War
The social respectability of the farming profession and part-time farms after Second World War is an important factor of the socio-economic transformations of farms and agrarian landscape in Slovenia. The article begins with putting the process
Biography ; Geographer's role ; Geographic research ; History of geography ; Karst ; Physical geography ; Slovenia ; Twentieth Century
Ivan Gams is Slovenia's best known researcher of karst. He started with researching the karst surface and underground and published several publications. He focused on issues to which he dedicated his life and which were also widely recognized
Agriculture ; Agroforestry ; Data ; Land use ; Monitoring ; Mura statistical region ; Rural area ; Slovenia ; The 2000's
The article presents the results of suitability analysis of agricultural and forestal land use records for the monitoring of land use change in Slovenia. Since the metadata of land use datasets are of crucial importance, the article exposes