Aleksandra Spalevic

Geographical Institute "Jovan Cvijic" of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts · Spatial Planning

The publication that is before the reader, entitled From the Notebooks of Jovan Cvijić – Selected Pages and Interpretations, is the result of cooperation between the Belgrade City Museum and the Geographical Institute “Jovan Cvijić” SASA. It has been prepared with a deep awareness of the importance of Jovan Cvijić’s scientific research work and wit...

This paper details methods that contribute towards solving the problem of the spatial relations between surface and underground karst morphology - relationships that are often unclear. The karst landforms studied in this context are karst valleys, through-caves and natural bridges. Two study sites are situated in the Carpatho-Balkan Mountains of ea...

Izložba „Branislav Kojić: prostor u selu, selo u prostoru” održana je od 5. do 31. oktobra 2017. godine u Galeriji nauke i tehnike SANU, Đure Jakšića 2, Beograd. Autori su: dr Zlata Vuksanović-Macura, dr Marija Drobnjaković, mast. Jovana Todorić i mast. Aleksandra Spalević. Izložbu je realizovao Geografski institut „Jovan Cvijić“ SANU u okviru proj...

An architect and ruralist, professor and academician, Branislav Kojić made a remarkable contribution to the study of village architecture and villages, their design and planning. His approach was thorough, systematic, comprehensive and interdisciplinary, and resulted in the establishment of a special trend in the study of the village in these regio...

Књига Из бележница Јована Цвијића – прикази и тумачења настала је као резултат сарадње Музеја града Београда и Географског института „Јован Цвијић“ САНУ. Ова публикација приређена је са дубоком свешћу о значају научно-истраживачког рада Јована Цвијића и у уверењу да се књигом, концепцијски домишљеном, стручно написаном и брижљиво уређеном, непознат...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether is Belgrade (Serbia) suitable candidate for introduction of Heat Health Warning System (HHWS). Belgrade has high population density, considerable share of built up area and lot of multi floor buildings that are factors of heat-health vulnerability. Design/methodology/approach – The auth...

In this paper, we are dealing with two extreme events in temperature and population – heat wave and mortality. Our aim is to assess the relation between high temperatures and daily mortality counts during the summer months in the period 2000–2010 in Belgrade (Serbia). In order to establish this connection, we used Poisson regression and two differe...

The article illustrates the procedure of quantitative demographic and functional evaluation for urban areas in Vojvodina region. Evaluation is based on seven indicators such as total population, population change index, ageing index, the share of employees in primary sector, the share of employees in total population, the share of economically acti...

The paper explores the demographic transformations of the settlement system of South-eastern Serbia during the second half of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century, with the aim of establishing the main reasons and the long-term effects of the dramatic and fast demographic changes. The authors present a detailed demographic analysis and ma...

Adventure tourism represents traveling motivated by the wish to be in the nature. It includes both physical and cultural interaction between the nature and a tourist. The concept of "adventure" includes the wish of a guest for unusual activities and experience. This is also followed by excitement. The natural and tourist potentials of Serbia are an...

Rural territories are specific and complex economic, social, ecological and spatial areas which in the most of the countries occupy over 70 % of national territory and on which live near 50% of the population. Characteristics of the major part of the rural space in our country are: rare settlement, depopulation with distinct trend of demographic ex...