Primož Pipan, PhD
+386 1 470 63 59
primoz.pipan@zrc-sazu.si
Research interests
Education
- Ph. D. in Geography, Faculty of Humanities, University of Primorska, Slovenia, 2011
- B. Sc. in Geography, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, 2004
Research fields
heritage, political geography, regional geography, natural disasters, geographical names, geography of tourism
Other activities
- member of the executive board of Association of Slovenian geographers (2023-),
- vice-president of Ljubljana Geographical Society (2019-2023),
- president of Ljubljana Geographical Society (2014-2019),
- excursion's commisioner at the Ljubljana Geographical Society (2005–2013),
- president, member of the executive board in charge of international relations at Slovenian Young Geographers Association (1998–2000),
- vice president of The European Geography Association for Students and Young Geographers - EGEA (1998–2000).
Selected publications
- Gabrovec, M., Tiran, J., Benčina, M., Bole, D., Goluža, M., Koblar, S., Pipan, P., Živčič, L. 2025: Transport poverty in Slovenia. Georitem 34. Ljubljana.
- Geršič, M., Kumin Horvat, M., Logar, E., Perko, D., Pipan, P. 2024: Geographical Names of the Rába Valley. Georitem, 33. Ljubljana.
- Geršič, M., Kumin Horvat, M., Pipan, P., Ropoš, M., Perko, D. 2024: Ledinska imena Slovenskega Porabja. Ljubljana.
- Pipan, P. 2023: In search of indigenous speakers of the Slovenian language in Austria : the Bad Radkersburg corner and Burgenland.
Geografski vestnik 95-2. - Tiran, J., Bole, D., Gabrovec, M., Goluža, M., Pipan, P., Benčina, M., Živčić, L., Koblar, S. 2023: Opredelitev prevozne revščine v Sloveniji. Zeleni prehod na regionalni ravni. Regionalni razvoj 9. Ljubljana.
- Pipan, P., Šmid Hribar, M., Urbanc, M. 2023: Motivation, robustness and benefits of water commons: Insights from small drinking water supply systems. Acta Geographica Slovenica 63-3.
- Caf, N. R., Bofulin, M., Pipan, P. 2023: Fish stories between past and future: competing and complementary heritage imaginaries in the Northeast Adriatic. Maritime Studies 22-38.
- Pipan, P., Topole, M. 2023: Heritagization between nature and culture: managing the Sečovlje salt pans in Slovenia. Landscape as heritage: international critical perspectives. Routledge.
- Topole, M., Pipan, P. 2022: Prilaščanje pokrajine Sečoveljskih solin: naravna in kulturna dediščina. Geographical Bulletin: 94-1.
- Bole, D., Kumer, P., Gašperič, P., Kozina, J., Pipan, P., Tiran, J. 2022: Clash of two identities: what happens to industrial identity in a post-industrial society?. Societies 2-2.
- Topole, M., Pipan, P., Gašperič, P., Geršič, M., Kumer, P. 2021: Culinary events in the Slovenian countryside: Visitors’ motives, satisfaction, and views on sustainability. Acta Geographica Slovenica 61-1.
- Topole, M., Pipan, P. 2020: Between Traditions and Innovations. Culinary Boutique Tourism in the Hinterland of Mediterranean Tourist Destinations. Traditiones 49-3.
- Pipan, P. 2020: The power and vulnerability of the Velenje economy. Velenje, industrijsko mesto v preobrazbi. CAPACities 4. Založba ZRC.
- Komac, B., Ferk, M., Pipan, P., Tičar, J., Zorn, M. 2020: Natural hazards in Slovenia. The Geography of Slovenia: Small but Diverse. World Regional Geography Book Series. Springer.
- Pipan, P., Zorn. M. 2020: Public participation in earthquake recovery in the border region between Italy and Slovenia. Participatory research and planning in practice. The Urban Book Series. Springer.
- Kumer, P., Pipan, P., Šmid Hribar, M., Razpotnik Visković, N. 2019: The role of actors' cooperation, local anchoring and innovation in creating culinary tourism experiences in the rural Slovenian Mediterranean. Geographical bulletin 91-2.
- Bole, D., Šmid Hribar, M., Pipan, P. 2017: Participatory research in community development: A case study of creating cultural tourism products. AUC Geographica. Univerzita Karlova 52-2.
- Pipan, P., Kokalj, Ž. 2017: Transformation of the Jeruzalem Hills cultural landscape with modern vineyard terraces. Acta geographica Slovenica 57-2.
- Kladnik, D., Pipan, P., Gašperič, P. 2014: Poimenovanja Piranskega zaliva (Names for the Bay of Piran). Geografija Slovenije 27.
- Bandelj, A., Pipan, P. 2014: Videmsko.
- Bole, D., Šmid Hribar, M., Kozina, J., Pipan, P. 2014: Sinergija kulture in turizma za razvoj podeželskih območij (The synergy of culture and tourism for the development of rural areas).
- Bole, D., Pipan, P., Komac, B. 2013: Cultural values and sustainable rural development: a brief introduction. Acta geographica Slovenica, 52-2.
- Mares, P., Rasin, R., Pipan, P. 2013: Abandoned landscapes of former German settlement in the Czech Republic and Slovenia. Cultural severance and the environment: the ending of traditional and customary practice on commons and landscapes managed in common. Springer, Environmental history, vol. 2, 289-309.
- Urbanc, M., Pipan, P. 2011: Climalptour: climate change and its impact on tourism in the Alpine space.
- Fridl, J., Urbanc, M., Pipan, P. 2009: The importance of teachers' perception of space in education. Acta geographica Slovenica 49-2.
- Kladnik, D., Pipan, P. 2008: Bay of Piran or Bay of Savudrija? An example of problematic treatment of geographical names. Acta geographica Slovenica 48-1.
- Pipan, P. 2008: Border dispute between Croatia and Slovenia along the lower reaches of the Dragonja River. Acta geographica Slovenica 48-2.
- Pipan, P. 2007: Cross-border cooperation between Slovenia and Croatia in Istria after 1991. Acta geographica Slovenica 47-2.
Selected projects
- Heritage on the margins: new perspectives on heritage and identity within and beyond national (research programme • January 1, 2019 - December 31, 2027)
- (Hidden) Industrial Champions: Origins, Features and Futures of Industrial Small Towns (international research project • February 1, 2025 - January 31, 2028)
- MultiPart: A Novel Approach for Improving Health and Well-being in Anthropogenically Perturbed Environments Based on Multi-Participatory Research (fundamental research project • January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2027)
- Research of endangered dialects in the Slovene language area (Brest with surroundings, Savudrija with surroundings, Porabje, Nadiža – Natisone and Ter – Torre valleys) (research project • October 1, 2024 - September 30, 2027)
- Grain of Salt, Crystallising Cohabitation. Salt-making as Experiental Environmental Wisdom (fundamental research project • October 1, 2023 - September 30, 2026)
- TranStat - Transitions to Sustainable Ski Tourism in the Alps of Tomorrow (applied project • November 1, 2022 - October 31, 2025)
- SMF CONSPIRO - Breathing Together for Cleaner Air (September 1, 2024 - August 30, 2025)
- CARE4CLIMATE (January 1, 2019 - December 31, 2026)
- Route biographies: walking and writing as methods for researching border regions (fundamental research project • October 1, 2022 - September 30, 2025)
- Research of endangered dialects in the Slovene language area (Radgonski kot, Gradiščanska, Hum na Sutli with surroundings, Dubravica with surroundings (October 1, 2021 - August 31, 2024)
- Mobility poverty in the Republic of Slovenia (target research project • October 1, 2022 - May 31, 2024)
- Microtoponyms in the Rába Valley (target research project • October 1, 2021 - August 31, 2023)
- Atlas on Quality of Life in Slovenia (June 28, 2021 - November 30, 2021)
- Places that don’t matter? Socio-economic transformation of industrial towns in Switzerland and Slovenia (fundamental research project • November 1, 2020 - October 31, 2024)
- ECOVINEGOALS - ECOlogical VINEyards GOvernance and Activities for Landscape‘s Strategies (INTERREG • March 1, 2020 - August 31, 2022)
- MEDFEST (INTERREG • November 1, 2016 - October 31, 2019)
- Cultural landscapes caught between public good, private interests and politics (fundamental research project • October 1, 2014 - September 30, 2017)
- Bright Future (research project • March 1, 2017 - March 1, 2020)
- WETNET - Coordinated management and networking of Mediterranean wetlands (INTERREG • November 1, 2016 - April 30, 2019)
Other
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