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Primož Pipan, PhD
Research Associate

+386 1 470 63 59

primoz.pipan@zrc-sazu.si


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Dr. Primož Pipan is employed as a researcher at the Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts as a researcher at the Anton Melik Geographical Institute. In 2004, he graduated from the Department of Geography at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana with a thesis entitled Cross-border cooperation on the Slovenian-Croatian border in Istria as the external border of the European Union. In 2011, he obtained his doctorate at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Primorska with his thesis Comparison of Post-Earthquake Reconstruction in Italy and Slovenia after the Earthquakes in the Upper Soča Valley and Friuli. He is interested in heritage, geographical names, natural disasters, community practices, and political geography.


The field of research is human geography. The research is diverse, which is a result of research funding. The researcher is a co-author of publications on various topics, such as: landscape heritage between nature and culture, public participation in post-earthquake reconstruction, participatory research in local community development, industrial identity of a post-industrial society, community practices in the management of small drinking water supply systems, changes in land use in cultural landscapes, abandoned cultural landscapes, transport poverty in Slovenia, the search for native speakers for the purposes of a linguistic atlas and many others.

He hopes that research into the landscape as a meeting point of natural and cultural heritage will at least help to halt the decline of salt production in the Sečovlje salt pans. Perhaps even to the revival of the Musem of saltmaking in its original sense as an open-air museum, as it successfully operated in the period 1999–2014, when the experiential practice of medieval saltmaking was accessible to outside visitors.
 

 
Awards and recognitions
  • Silver Tablet of the Association of the Geographical Societies of Slovenia, 2022
  • Award of Association of the Geographical Societies of Slovenia for work in Slovenian Young Geographers Association and organization of 12th EGEA Annual Congress in Slovenia 2000, 2001
  • Special mention of the jury Europa Nostra Awards in category Education, Training and Awareness-Raising for action plan »Cultural heritage and the development of the Črni Vrh rural community«, 2015
  • Bronze Tablet of the Association of the Geographical Societies of Slovenia, 2013
Other
  • Member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Geographers of Slovenia (2023-)
  • Vice-President of the Ljubljana Geographical Society (2019-2023)
  • President of the Ljubljana Geographical Society (2014-2019)
  • Excursion coordinator at the Ljubljana Geographical Society (2005–2013)
  • President and member of the Management Board responsible for international cooperation at the Association of Young Geographers of Slovenia (1998–2000)
  • Vice-President of the European Geographical Education Association (EGEA) (1998–2000)
Section
Department of Human Geography
Keywords
heritage
geographical names
natural disasters
community practices
political geography

Links
Research Gate