»Natural disasters in Slovenija« - NDS '08

Abstract

On average, natural disasters require expenditure of 2–3 percent of annual gross domestic product in Slovenia, and take a fifth of it in exceptional years. As such phenomena cannot be prevented nor can they be avoided, co-existing with them is a way to know them better. In Slovenia about one hundred researchers work in the field of natural disasters, but their knowledge is often not sufficiently appreciated or respected despite the high quality of their work and its international relevance; this is mostly due to organizational and economic problems as well as a lack of mutual co-operation. With a desire for a better understanding of natural disasters, and to bring about better future co-operation, a scientific meeting on natural disasters (Natural disasters in Slovenia) was organized in Ig on December 11, 2008 by the Anton Melik Geographical Institute SRC SASA, in co-operation with the Administration for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief of the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. This article presents the symposium in words and pictures and offers its conclusions for reflection of the readers of Ujma.