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In December 2022, students of the two-subject master’s programme in teacher education at the Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, conducted an activity day on sustainable development at the Polhov Gradec elementary school, under the guidance of the university professors of Didactics of Geography 1 and 2 teachers. An introductory presentation of basic terms and concepts was followed by four workshops where students discussed the importance of local food supply, glacier melt and greenhouse effects, extreme natural phenomena and sustainable mobility, all while linking the topics to sustainable development and climate change. The paper describes in detail the organisation, implementation and final evaluation of the day of activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Climate change threatens the health of Jelovica’s forests through storms, ice storms and the resulting bark beetles. This paper summarises and describes the activities that the JeloviZA project partners have undertaken to reduce the impacts of climate change in the Jelovica area. The challenge for stakeholders in the area is to maintain areas that are not overly affected by noise and visitors. This is also an important activity from the point of view of mitigating climate change, as it plays a protective role by preserving or creating a healthy, biodiverse forest with its many functions. The project will develop a participatory model for the management of the site that incorporates ecosystem services and is developed with innovative interpretation methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The climate is constantly changing. In the second half of the 19th century, a period of global warming began that is widely recognised as being caused by mankind. After 1980, this process accelerated, also in Slovenia. This paper presents the changes in mean air temperature and precipitation for representative meteorological stations of climatic types in Slovenia for the period 1991-2020 compared to the period 1961-1990. In addition, the main characteristics of the climate typology for the most recent climatological period are presented and the changes compared to the 1961-1990 typology are shown. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the paper, I investigate the use of folktales in the historical legitimization of a particular type of socio-political transformation: Yugoslav self-governing socialism. In this respect I address a less researched and complex topic, while the Yugoslav ideology of self-governance, compared to other 20th century political ideologies, was based on discontinuity - a break with tradition and the past. In order to sharpen the specific function of the narrative tradition in Yugoslav socialism and on the basis of the sociological theory of fairy tales and Walter Benjamin's insights into the role of the narrative tradition, which he reflected on as a transhistorical medium for the transmission of collective experiences - I have devised a research approach that differentiates the epistemic and ideological function of fairy tales. I test this approach via the example of the appropriation of folktales in the Third Reich and Soviet communist regime, and then turn to an analysis of these mechanisms in the context of Yugoslav self-government. On the basis of various theories and understanding of Yugoslav selfgovernance (E. Kardelj, J. Županov, P. Matvejević, D. Suvin, B. Jakovljević etc.), I put forward that the tradition in the latter was expressed in the prism of an alienation effects. I illustrate this with an extensive comparative and transhistorical analysis of the fairy-tale motif of The Gigantic Turnip, especially its unusual Slovenian version which can be perceived as a critical commentary of the socialist motto "together we are stronger". In the conclusion, I reflect upon the theoretical consequences of the Yugoslav self-governing project from the point of view of the theory of societal transformation, and connect this topic to the dilemmas concerning contemporary risks such as the climate crisis, which have no historical equi valent. [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]