The majority of the cultural landscapes in Slovenia reflect former times attach to completely different economic and social conditions, which have mainly been outdated (photography Franci Petek).Mnoge slovenske kulturne pokrajine so odsev preteklosti s popolnoma druga~nimi, danes v veliki meri pre`ivetimi gospodarskimi in dru`benimi razmerami (fotografija Franci Petek). ABSTRACT: The aim of the article is to present the use of the Franziscean Cadastre in studying past land use and reconstructing the rural cultural landscape of the 19 th century. Special attention is devoted to presenting the content and accessibility of archival materials. By comparing maps from the Franziscean Cadastre with current land use, we successfully determined the changes, particularly in the rural cultural landscape. A general trend in Slovenia is the selective abandoning of farm land, which has had a great impact on the appearance of the landscape: cultivated fields become meadows, once cultivated areas on less favourable sites are overgrown by forest, and the same occurs with pastures. On the basis of case studies, we established the great usefulness and value of the Franziscean Cadastre, which still exists for almost the entire territory of today's Slovenia. IZVLE^EK: Cilj ~lanka je prikazati uporabo franciscejskega katastra pri preu~evanju pretekle rabe tal in s tem rekonstrukcijo kmetijske kulturne pokrajine 19. stoletja. Posebno pozornost smo namenili prikazu vsebin in dostopnosti arhivskih fondov. S primerjavo map omenjenega katastra z dana{njo rabo tal smo uspe{no ugotavljali spremembe, predvsem v kmetijski kulturni pokrajini. Splo{en trend v Sloveniji je selektivno opu{~anje kmetijskih zemlji{~, kar ima velik vpliv na podobo pokrajine: njive se spreminjajo v travnike, trajni nasadi na manj ugodnih legah se zara{~ajo v gozd, prav tako pa{niki. Na osnovi primerov smo ugotovili veliko uporabnost in vrednost franciscejskega katastra, ki je ohranjen domala za celotno ozemlje dana{nje Slovenije. KLJU^NE BESEDE: zgodovinski viri, franciscejski kataster, raba tal, spremembe rabe tal, kulturna pokrajina, Slovenija.Prispevek je pri{el v uredni{tvo 17. septembra 2004.

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Upper Bohinj valley -looking from a distance it merely seems completely rural, but closer look reveals intensively transformed social structure (photograph: Franci Petek). Zgornja Bohinjska dolina -na videz povsem kme~ka pokrajina ima `e mo~no spremenjeno socialno strukturo (fotografija: Franci Petek). ABSTRACT: The article presents the elaboration and contents of the typology of Slovenia's alpine region.The smallest spatial unit of the study is the cadastral municipality (total 150), for which I assembled numerous data on land use and changes in land use, surface elements, and sociogeographical factors. To illustrate regional differences in landscape elements, I first divided Slovenia's alpine region into six mezzo-regions. In establishing land use and land use changes, and their correlation with surface elements and sociogeographical characteristics, I determined that the cadastral municipalities within each of the defined mezzo-regions do not necessarily have similar properties but may rather have similar properties with neighbouring cadastral municipalities in other mezzo-regions. This knowledge and numerous data layers were the basis for the elaboration of a synthetical typology of Slovenia's alpine region. With the help of the hierarchical method of classification into groups and factor analyses, seven types (groups) of cadastral municipalities of the alpine region appeared whose borders did not match with the defined mezzo-regions.

This paper compares a high resolution, near-annual pollen record from the Šijec raised bog (1194 m a.s.l., Pokljuka, Slovenia) with historical land-use maps in order to understand how the Alpine environment has altered because of changeable economic trends in the fifteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries AD. In the fifteenth century AD the study site was surrounded by mixed forest ( Fagus, Abies, Picea, Quercus) and agricultural fields and pastures, but by the beginning of the nineteenth century AD the landscape had become more open, with very intensive agricultural land-use and grazing. The forest composition also changed: Fagus and Abies declined because of intensive grazing and ironworks (forest clearance and charcoal production). In the second half of the nineteenth and at the beginning of the twentieth century AD, forest recovered, but farming activities continued and, as a result of the forestry policy, Picea prevailed. After AD 1945 agricultural economy declined and mixed forests, which today cover more than 70% of land, are still expanding.

Most vineyards inABSTRACT: In this article we determine the potential erosion risk of sites with respect to surface morphology and how it is related to the distribution of individual types of land use. We investigated the relationship between relief factors affecting erosion risk (elevation, slope, and aspect of the surface) and types of land use (arable land, vineyards, orchards, grassland, woodland, and built-up and other areas) in six 24 km 2 sectors in Tertiary low hill areas in Slovenia: Koprska brda, Brkini, Gori{ka brda, Haloze, Slovenske gorice and Gori~ko. The areas selected are of particular interest due to the prevalence of rock substrates which are susceptible to erosion. The potential erosion risk was determined by the stream power index. In the Haloze sector, land use was most closely correlated with the aspect of the surface, in Slovenske gorice sector with the surface height, and in the remaining sectors with the potential erosion risk.