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Milan Orožen Adamič, Ph.D.

1946-2018





Research fields
natural disasters, thematic cartography, geographical names

Other activities
President of the Science Council of the Institute
Editor of the scientific review Geografski zbornik/Acta geographica slovenica
Senior lecturer at Fakulteta za humanistične študije Koper
President of the National Commitee at the Association of the Geographical Societies of Slovenia (1999--2003)
President of Slovene Governmental Commission for the Standardisation of Geographical Names
Convenor of UNGEGN Working Group on Exonyms
Member of the UNGEGN Working Group on Toponymic Data Files and Gazetteers
President of the UNESCO Slovenia and member of the UNESCO steering commitee in Paris (2005–2010)
Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia to the Republic of Croatia (2005–2009)

ZRC SAZU Gold Award, 1999

Orožen Adamič, M. 2007: Treatment of geographical names in multilingual areas. Exonyms and the international standardisation of geographical names. Wiener Osteuropa Studien 24. Wien, Berlin.
Orožen Adamič, M. 2005: The three-junction border points of Europe. Borders 3. Edizioni Università. Trieste.
Orožen Adamič, M. 2004: Natural disasters. Slovenia: a geographical overview. Association of the Geographical Societies of Slovenia. Ljubljana.

Education
B. Sc. in Geography and Biology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
M. Sc. in Geography, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Ph. D. in Geography, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia