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Slovenia’s Landscapes

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Geographers have produced four landscape typologies of Slovenia to date. The best-established typology is the one from 1996, which relies on natural landscape elements and divides Slovenia into nine landscape types. Great landscape diversity in a small territory is the main geographical feature of Slovenia, and it also has an important impact on its economic and other activities. The population increasingly perceives it as an element of identity. The importance of landscape diversity is also highlighted in certain EU documents.

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Perko, D., Ciglič, R. (2020). Slovenia’s Landscapes. In: Perko, D., Ciglič, R., Zorn, M. (eds) The Geography of Slovenia. World Regional Geography Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14066-3_14

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