PRILAGODBA GRADOVA I NASELJA KLIMATSKIM PROMJENAMA U OKVIRU DUNAVSKE EVROPSKE MAKROREGIJE: PROBLEMI I ISKUSTVA IZ SLOVENIJE
ADJUSTMENT OF CITIES AND SETTLEMENTS TO CLIMATE CHANGES IN THE FRAMEWORK OF DANUBE EUROPEAN MACRO-REGION: ISSUES AND EXPERIENCES FROM SLOVENIA

Author(s): Andrej Gulič
Subject(s): Energy and Environmental Studies, Regional Geography, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Akademija Nauka i Umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: climate change; adjustment; Slovenia; project C3-Alps; UIRS;
Summary/Abstract: The EU Strategy for the Danube Region emphasizes the various problems and challenges of long-term development of the macro-region. Besides uneven socioeconomic development, insufficient investment in infrastructure, environmental problems and so on, it also emphasizes the climate change that represents one of the major threats to current and future quality of life and safe development of countries, regions, cities and towns of the macro-region. Natural disasters (floods, landslides, hails, droughts) that in the last decade hit many towns and cities of the member states of the macro-region require a greater degree of cooperation in the field of adaptation to climate change, both within individual countries as well as between them. In this paper we present the status and activities in the field of adaptation to climate change in the Danube macro-region of Europe, and in Slovenia at the state level and the level of cities and towns. In doing so, we give the main emphasis to the status and trends that are characteristic of the Gorenje statistical region, which is located in the area of gravitational influence of Ljubljana metropolitan region. In the paper, which summarizes the results of the international project C3-Alps, we present the vulnerability of settlements and transport infrastructure in the Gorenje region to climate change as well as the possible scenarios of adjustments of settlements and transport infrastructure to the influence of climate change. In the final part of the paper we present a vision, concept and strategy for adaptation to climate change in the Gorenje region.

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