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Due to frequent floods of the river Ščavnica in the municipality of Razkrižje, the municipal administration in cooperation with local residents decided to prepare application and implement the project "Bridge", in which they constructed a bridge over the river with ecoremediation measures in the riverbed and along it. In the development vision, the municipality of Razkrižje supports sustainable measures and thus the connection of environmental, social and economic approaches. It is this aspect of how ecoremediations affects the sustainable development of the local environment that interested us in this paper. In the first part we presented the understanding of ecoremediations and their dimensions, then their implementation on the river Ščavnica in the municipality Razkrižje and the main result of this paper is the evaluation of synergistic effects of ecoremediations in connection with tourism, movement in nature, development of new activities (self-sufficiency, green jobs) and intergenerational integration. For a synthesis assessment of the effects of ecoremediations, we used the current knowledge from the literature and conducted an interview with the mayor of Razkrižje and the municipal administration and randomly selected locals. We found that such approaches could have an effective impact on reducing environmental damage, increasing biodiversity with social and economic effects, which we associate with the concept of green development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Global, European and Slovenian energy industries have been facing challenges of transitioning to a carbon-free future. The transition into a sustainable power system will play a key role in maintaining the global warming under the +1.5°C IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) scenario in the next few years. The paper addresses a combination of the renewable energy and nuclear sources to fill the gap between the growing power consumption and production from the existing and planned conventional sources while abandoning the use of coal in Slovenia. The results, supported by an optimization of the Slovenian power system on an hourly level, show that using an optimal combination of the conventional and new power production technologies, Slovenia can reach the goal of a carbon-free power system by 2037, when a new nuclear unit is planned to be built. Flexible power sources and sinks combined with daily and seasonal electricity storages will be able to provide a balance to the intermittent renewable power generation. To evaluate the feasibility of the proposed development scenario of the Slovenian power system, three key criteria are used: (1) decarbonization of the Slovenian power system, (2) moderate import and export dependence of the Slovenian power system on the hourly level and (3) rate of the Slovenian power system self-sufficiency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]