ABSTRACT
Seen from a geographical viewpoint, Slovenia – with 20,256sq.km of territory, 1.98mln population and GDP in 1998 equalling US$9700pc – is a distinct Central European transit country, located at the contact of four macro-regional units: the Alps, the Mediterranean, the Pannonian lowland and the Dinaric Mountains (Gams, 1991) (Figure 11.1). Due to this location, its physico-geographical features are intensely intertwined, resulting in an exceptionally diverse landscape and intensely patterned geographical mosaic of small landscape units. Its landscape and biotic diversities, together with abundant forests, essentially contribute to Slovenia’s highly regenerative capacity. Yet for some important and widespread Salient features of Slovenia https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780203449707/524486a3-1084-49d4-a8e0-97d3b4e56111/content/fig00019_B.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>
