Drago Perko, PhD
Head of the Department for Regional Geography
Head of the Department for Regional Geography
+386 1 470 63 60
drago.perko@zrc-sazu.si
Research interests
Education
B. Sc. in Geography and Sociology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, 1985
M. Sc. in Geography, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, 1989
Ph. D. in Geography, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, 1993
Research fields
regional geography, physical geography, geographical typification and regionalization, landscape ecology, geographic information systems, thematic cartography, geographical names
Other activities
- Member of the Commission for the Standardization of Geographical Names of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia (since 1995)
- Chair of the ZRC SAZU Board of Directors (since 2019)
- Executive editor of the Acta geographica Slovenica journal (since 2011)
- Coeditor of the Geography of Slovenia book series (since 1999)
- Coeditor of the Georhythm book series (since 2007)
- Coeditor of the GIS in Slovenia book series (since 1992)
- Coeditor of the CAPACities book series (od 2010),
- Member of the Thought, society, culture book series editorial board, Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main (since 2013)
- Member of the Acta geographica Slovenica journal editorial board (since 1995)
- Member of the Geografski vestnik (Geographical Bulletin) journal editorial board (since 1999)
- Member of the Acta Geobalcanica journal editorial board (since 2015)
- Member of the National Geographic Slovenia editorial board (since 2006)
- Member of the scientific committee of the Geographic Information System in Slovenia (since 1991), the Regional development in Slovenia (since 2007), the Natural Hazards in Slovenia (since 2008) symposiums
Recognitions and awards
Gold Tablet of the Association of the Geographical Societies of Slovenia, 2022
Silver Tablet of the Association of the Geographers of Slovenia, 2009
Vajgl Award for Master's degree thesis, 1989
ZRC SAZU Gold Award, 1999
Bronze Tablet of the Association of the Geographical Societies of Slovenia, 1997
Kidrič Award for undergraduate study, University of Ljubljana, 1986
Prešeren Student Award, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, 1986
Selected publications
- Perko, D. 2023: The first world atlas in Slovenian, and Slovenian territory in some early world atlases. Acta geographica Slovenica 63-2.
- Perko, D., Ciglič, R., Hrvatin, M. 2021: Landscape macrotypologies and microtypologies of Slovenia. Acta geographica Slovenica 61-3.
- Perko, D., Ciglič, R. 2020: Slovenia's landscapes. The geography of Slovenia: small but diverse. Springer, Cham.
- Ciglič, R., Štrumbelj, E., Češnovar, R., Hrvatin, M., Perko, D. 2019: Evaluating existing manually constructed natural landscape classification with a machine learning-based approach. Journal of Spatial Information Science 18.
- Perko, D., Ciglič, R., Hrvatin, M. 2019: The usefulness of unsupervised classification methods for landscape typification: the case of Slovenia. Acta geographica Slovenica 59-2.
- Perko, D., Zorn, M., Ciglič, R., Breg Valjavec, M. 2019: Changing river courses and border determination challenges: the case of the Slovenian-Croatian Border. Geospatial challenges in the 21st century. Springer, Cham.
- Ciglič, R., Perko, D. 2017: A method for evaluating raster data layers according to landscape classification scale. Ecological informatics 39.
- Perko, D., Hrvatin, M., Ciglič, R. 2017: Determination of landscape hotspots of Slovenia. Acta geographica Slovenica 57-1.
- Perko, D., Hrvatin, M., Ciglič, R. 2015: A methodology for natural landscape typification of Slovenia. Acta geographica Slovenica 55-2.
- Perko, D., Ciglič, R. 2015: Slovenia as a European landscape hotspot. Acta Geobalcanica 1-2.
- Ciglič, R., Perko, D. 2015: Modelling as a Method for Evaluating Natural Landscape Typology: The Case of Slovenia. Landscape Analysis and Planning. Springer, Heidelberg.
- Ciglič, R., Perko, D. 2013: Europe's landscape hotspots. Acta geographica Slovenica 53-1.
Selected projects
Geography of Slovenia - national research programme (research programme • January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2027)
Advancement of computationally intensive methods for efficient modern general-purpose statistical analysis and inference (applied project • March 1, 2016 - February 28, 2019)
Terraced Landscapes (applied project • December 1, 2004 - December 31, 2007)
Determination of natural landscape types at local level (November 1, 2013 - June 30, 2015)
Landscape diversity and hotspots of Slovenia (applied project • October 1, 2014 - February 28, 2018)
Standardization of hydronyms in the Register of geographical names (target research project • September 1, 2021 - August 31, 2024)
Advancement of computationally intensive methods for efficient modern general-purpose statistical analysis and inference (applied project • March 1, 2016 - February 28, 2019)
Terraced Landscapes (applied project • December 1, 2004 - December 31, 2007)
Determination of natural landscape types at local level (November 1, 2013 - June 30, 2015)
Landscape diversity and hotspots of Slovenia (applied project • October 1, 2014 - February 28, 2018)
Standardization of hydronyms in the Register of geographical names (target research project • September 1, 2021 - August 31, 2024)