ABSTRACT
Integral Green Slovenia is indeed an extraordinary research-and-development undertaking, along the emergent way – not yet fully navigationally and institutionally there – towards an institutional genealogy, now on the path of reasoned realization. For Piciga and her Slovenian colleagues, on the one hand, generally speaking, they want to set their unique country, located at the European if not the world cross-roads, in its natural and cultural context, currently and historically. On the other hand, specifically, they share the actual journey towards an Integral Green Slovenian Society and Economy, the cast of characters involved, the style of leadership, the underlying conceptual model, and the philosophies and practices that underlie it all. Slovenia is small, diverse, green and beautiful. With a population of just above two million inhabitants, half living in urban areas, it covers 20,526 square kilometres and borders four EU Member States – Austria, Italy, Hungary and Croatia – with a short coastline on the Mediterranean Sea.
