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Authors
Valentina Brečko Grubar
is a teacher (assistant professor) and researcher (research fellow) at the
Department of Geography of the Faculty of Humanities at the University
of Primorska in Koper, Slovenia. Her main research fields are: hydrology;
landscape ecology; environmental geography; and sustainable develop-
ment. She is the author or co-author over 50 scientific articles, conference
contributions, and chapters in monographs. She is an active member of the
editorial board of the Geografski vestnik (Geographic Bulletin) professional
journal. She teaches different courses in graduate and postgraduate study
programmes in the fields of physical geography, the environment, and sus-
tainable development.
Slaven Gašparović
works as an assistant professor at the Department of Geography of the
Faculty of Science at the University of Zagreb. He received his master’s de-
gree and PhD at the same university. His research deals with transportation
geography, especially with social aspects of transportation (i.e. transporta-
tion disadvantage, transportation-based social exclusion, transportation
poverty, transportation of vulnerable groups), as well as interrelations be-
tween ICT, social networks, and travel behaviour. He has written 20 scien-
tific papers and participated in 13 scientific conferences. He has participat-
ed in several projects (e.g. CH4LLENGE, Sinergi, bilateral projects), and
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Valentina Brečko Grubar
is a teacher (assistant professor) and researcher (research fellow) at the
Department of Geography of the Faculty of Humanities at the University
of Primorska in Koper, Slovenia. Her main research fields are: hydrology;
landscape ecology; environmental geography; and sustainable develop-
ment. She is the author or co-author over 50 scientific articles, conference
contributions, and chapters in monographs. She is an active member of the
editorial board of the Geografski vestnik (Geographic Bulletin) professional
journal. She teaches different courses in graduate and postgraduate study
programmes in the fields of physical geography, the environment, and sus-
tainable development.
Slaven Gašparović
works as an assistant professor at the Department of Geography of the
Faculty of Science at the University of Zagreb. He received his master’s de-
gree and PhD at the same university. His research deals with transportation
geography, especially with social aspects of transportation (i.e. transporta-
tion disadvantage, transportation-based social exclusion, transportation
poverty, transportation of vulnerable groups), as well as interrelations be-
tween ICT, social networks, and travel behaviour. He has written 20 scien-
tific papers and participated in 13 scientific conferences. He has participat-
ed in several projects (e.g. CH4LLENGE, Sinergi, bilateral projects), and
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