Slavica Čepić- PhD
- Research Associate at University of Belgrade
Slavica Čepić
- PhD
- Research Associate at University of Belgrade
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Introduction
Slavica Cepic is a research associate at the Department of Landscape Architecture. Faculty of Forestry at the University of Belgrade. Her PhD research is on the socio-economic aspects of urban gardening from several perspectives: ecosystem services and human well-being, economic inputs and outputs of urban gardening, land use, participation. In her research, she applies qualitative and quantitative methods (in-depth interviews, survey), and citizen science.
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The publication “Green Infrastructure in Urban Planning” explores the state and challenges of planning and developing green infrastructure in Belgrade. It analyses the regulatory framework, public policies, and urban planning practices, highlighting inconsistencies in the planning and maintenance of green spaces.
Special emphasis is placed on citi...
The study seeks to provide insights into the subjective experiences and perceived benefits of urban gardening by gardeners in the city of Belgrade. It encompassed several forms of urban gardens, both collective and individual. The study involved conducting semi-structured interviews with 44 gardeners, supplemented by field observations. Thematic an...
Population growth and urban sprawl are expected to continue increasing pressures on agricultural land, green infrastructure and climate change's impact on the urban environment. Accordingly, the challenge of securing sustainable land use and climate change mitigation needs to be confronted in cities globe wide. Urban green areas represent an asset...
Numerous challenges – from population increase to climate change – threaten the sustainable development of cities and call for a fundamental change of urban development and green-blue resource management. Urban forests are vital in this transition, as they provide various ecosystem services and allow to re-shape and re-think cities. Based on a Euro...
This Research Agenda has been developed as part of the European Forest Institute (EFI) Network Fund call for the preparation of a Green Book of Biocities and a Research Agenda for Biocities of the Future. The Research Agenda is intended as a foundational document for further research and initiatives to be undertaken by the new EFI Biocities Facilit...
Understanding the relationship between land use and land cover and thermal environment has recently become an emerging issue for urban planners and policy makers. We chose Belgrade, as a case study, to present a cost- and time-effective framework for monitoring spatiotemporal changes of green spaces in relation to the land surface temperature (LST)...
There is a renewed interest in urban gardening in the past decade stimulated by the increased awareness of benefits that it brings to the city, local communities, and individuals. Previous studies have shown different perspectives on urban food growing in the context of developed and developing countries, but less is known about the countries in tr...
Growing fruits and vegetables in community and home gardens has often been advertized as an economically viable activity that allows urban households to make or save money. Still, there are not many reliable sources to document the actual inputs and outputs of such gardens and track the amount of food produced and production costs. The paper review...
Growing concerns about rapid urbanization and food insecurity in cities worldwide have renewed interest of academic community in urban gardening and urban agriculture. Urban gardens, including community and allotment gardens, are places of local food production that bring many other benefits to local communities, such as improved health, social net...
Growing concerns about the quality and affordability of food, in circumstances of rapid urbanization and increase in urban poverty worldwide, has renewed interest in the integration of urban agriculture in sustainable urban development. Urban gardens, including community gardens, allotments and home gardens, are places where food is grown locally i...
The objective of this paper is to examine the role of landscape in the process of migrants` integration into the new environment and to investigate their influence on the landscape. What happens after people leave the landscape that they identify themselves with? What do people do with new landscape once they arrive? To what extent do migrants pass...
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I was interested in exploring the perceived benefits of gardening in an urban setting, so I conducted interviews with gardeners. Subsequently, I employed thematic analysis to identify the main themes related to these perceived benefits. It was only after the emergence of these themes that I delved into various theories to aid in the interpretation and understanding of the results in the Discussion chapter.
My question is, should I discuss these theories in the Introduction chapter of the paper?
Since the dissertation is led by research questions in the first qualitative phase and hypotheses are formulated only later, before quantitative phase, I wonder about the structure of the dissertation - should hypotheses be presented together with research questions in the same chapter? Or qualitative and quantitative phases should be entirely separated from the beginning - having also research questions and hypotheses in different chapters? For the moment, I separately describe methodologies and results of two phases, but introductory chapters (incl. research questions and hypotheses) are written together. Thank you!
