| Title: | Full Professor |
| Function: | Chair, IGU Commission on Marginalization, Globalization, and Regional and Local Response |
| Location: | 228 |
| Public phone number: | 01/4895 428 |
| Internal phone number: | 428 |
| E-mail: | |
| Department: | GEOG - Division of Regional Geography and Methodic |
| Graduation year: | 1983 |
| mr.sc. graduation year: | 1990 |
| PhD graduation year: | 1996 |
| Employed in this institution since: | 1989 |
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CONTACT HOURS
LECTURES IN WS 2024-25
REGIONAL CONCEPTS Tuesday 10:30 - 14:00 GEOG 3. (link)
ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY Wednesday 16:00 - 19:30 GEOG 3. (link)
OFFICE HOURS : after every lecture / via ZOOM appointments or e-mail
The courses are not available for students in mobility programmes in this semester 2024-25
DOCTORAL PROGRAMME:
The course WORK IN SCIENCE: Friday 15:00-20:00 (GEOG 1) following the previous announcement at Doctoral study programme web page. OFFICE HOURS : via e-mail or ZOOM appointments.
Borna Fuerst Bjeliš, senior researcher and full professor at the University of Zagreb. In 2012, she was awarded the “Federico Grisogono” prize for scientific achievement and outstanding contribution to the development of geography in Croatia, in 2021 she was awarded the Croatian Geographical Society Science Prize, while in 2015 she was awarded the plaque and medal of the University of Zadar (Croatia) and in 2020 the plaque of the University of Mostar (Bosnia & Herzegovina) in recognition of outstanding contribution to cooperation.
In the period 2017-19 she was Vice President of the European Society for Environmental History. Since 2016, she has been a member of the Steering Committee of the IGU Commission on Marginalisation, Globalisation and Regional and Local Responses, while in 2020 she was appointed Chair of the Commission.
She graduated in geography from the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Zagreb in 1983, obtained her MSc in 1990 and her PhD in 1996. Since then, she has visited several foreign research and educational institutions (St. Gallen, Bern, Madrid and Boston) with the aim of specialising in the field of environmental history, landscape change and regional and local community development. She speaks English (C) and French (B).
Since 1989 she has been working at the University of Zagreb (Faculty of Sciences, Department of Geography). For many years she was involved in the management of the University of Zagreb, the Faculty of Science and the Department of Geography (among numerous other positions, she was Vice Dean for International Cooperation and Chair of the Doctoral Programme in Geography for 8 years).
Her area of specialisation is environmental history and landscape change, with a spatial focus mainly on the Mediterranean karst area, including the development of research methods (historical cartography, GIS), border areas, spatial perceptions and spatial (regional) identities. Since 2007, she has been head of a project on environmental changes, cultural landscapes and regional identities funded by the Ministry of Science and the University of Zagreb, project coordinator of two international projects (Swiss Science Foundation) and collaborator in a number of other scientific projects (6). In addition to conference presentations, she has given 11 invited or plenary lectures at conferences and international summer schools in Europe, Canada and the USA. She is the author /co-author and editor of 6 scientific books and more than a hundred papers, while the results of her research have been published in more than 70 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles and book chapters to date.
Since the beginning of her academic career, she has taught 20 courses from bachelor to doctoral level at the University of Zagreb in the Geography and Environmental Science programmes, as well as in the PhD programmes at the Universities of Zadar (Croatia) and Mostar (Bosnia and Herzegovina).
She currently teaches Environmental history, Mediterranean studies, Regional concepts and Work in Science and Research methodology in environmental and cultural landscape studies/modules in the PhD programme. She has supervised more than 80 Bachelor and Master theses and 10 PhD theses.
She is co-author of the university textbook „Historical Geography of Croatia“ (University of Split), editor of the open access book "Mediterranean Identities - Environment, Society, Culture" (InTechOpen) and editor of Croatian editions and author of chapters in two books on environmental history: “What is Environmental History” by D. Hughes and “The Global Environmental History” by I.G.Simmons (Disput). She is also author and co-editor of the Springer book series "The perspectives on geographical marginality" and "Environmental History" (volume "Environmental Histories of the Dinaric Karst" ). She is co-author of the scientific monograph "The Historical Geography of Croatia - Territorial Change and Cultural Landscapes" in the Springer series "Historical Geography and Geosciences".
She is a member of a number of international and national scientific organisations, in most of which she was/is a member of the board (International Geographic Union; European Society for Environmental History; Association for Croatian Studies; Association of American Geographers/ Specialty group Environment and Perception; Croatian Geographical Society; Croatian Cartographical Association; Croatian Geomorphological Society). She is a member of the editorial boards of the leading Croatian geographical and environmental history journals and a number of other European journals.
She has been the member of scientific committees of many national and international conferences. She was the initiator and chair of the local organizing and scientific commitee of the first IGU conference held in Croatia, in Dubrovnik (2012) as well as the chair of the local organizing committee of the 9. biennial conference of the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) in Zagreb (2017).
She has been the representative and coordinator of the Regional Action Center – Croatia of the International Year of Global Understanding (2016), the initiative of the International Geographic Union - IGU.
She is also engaged in popular science (journal editorial, popular science TV shows and interviews, public lectures).
The Dinaric Karst in Environmental History Perspective: Conclusions, Contextualisations, and Outlook
Some Insights into the Environmental History of the Dinaric Karst
Land Use/Land Cover Changes on Croatian Islands Since the Beginning of the Twentieth Century—Drivers and Consequences
Development potentials of Podravina region with a focus on rural tourism
Landscape and Life-style changes in Imotska krajina at the Turn of 20th and 21st Century
Landscape Change and Fire Risk in the Croatian Dinaric Karst: Looking Back and Moving Forward
Environmental Histories of the Dinaric Karst
Marginality Issues in a Time of World Reorganization
Elements and perception of Slavonia regional identity
Regionalism and separatism in Nigeria
Changes in spatial identity and self-identification of the residents of Zagreb Prigorje
Crikvenica: development of tourism and local community
Landscape change and fire risk in the Croatian Dinaric Karst: 19th to 21st century
Syrmia – Rethinking the Regional Identity of a (Trans)Border Region: Perception, Self-Identification, and Place Attachment
Some Conclusions About COVID-19’s Impact on Marginality and Marginalisation
(Post)pandemic tourism as a new challenge to marginal areas – selected case studies of mountain and remote island destinations in Croatia
Anthropogenic impact and potential environmental risks in the Ocean City area, Maryland - USA
COVID-19 and Marginalisation of People and Places
Comparative analysis of borderland regional identities
Forest Fire Causes and Motivations in the Southern and South-Eastern Europe through Experts’ Perception and Applications to Current Policies
COVID-19s Economic and Social Impact Globally
The COVID-19 Pandemic’s Implications for Tourism Preferences in Croatia: Potential New Challenges for Marginal Areas
Introduction
A Shrinking Transborder Regional Identity: Case-study of the Region of Syrmia in the Post-Yugoslav Era
The Historical Geography of Croatia - Territorial Change and Cultural Landscapes
COVID-19 pandemic implications on tourism preferences: potentially new challenges for marginal areas
Book Review: Jadran Kale, 2021:Spreading culture. How people create space
Changes of tourism trajectories in (post)covidian world: Croatian perspectives
Great geography of Croatia: Historical-geographical determinants of the development of Croatia
The relationship of language and spatial identity in historical geography research: a review of (multi)disciplinary approaches
Landscape Development Types in Central Lika 1 980–201 2 – Applying Spatial and Process-Oriented GIS Model
Regional identities as heritage
Book Review:Tiziana Banini; Oana-Ramona Ilovan (eds.), 2021: Representing Place and Territorial Identities in Europe Discourses, Images, and Practices
Perception of the Population of Central Lika region on the Land Cover/Land Use and Landscape Change
Opening address
Environmental History in Croatia: The Origins, State and Perspectives
Application of spatial- and diachronic-process analysis of landscape development in Central Lika, Croatia from 1980 to 2012
Comparative analysis of the generational change in the expression of the levels of spatial self-identification of Croats at home and abroad
Opinion and attitudes of the Central Lika population on the characteristics and changes of land cover / land use
Spatial stereotype of suicidality: Comparing Japan and South Korea
Expression of levels of spatial identities according to odonyms of the city of Bjelovar
Cultural Landscape in Geography
Separatism in the United Kingdom
Globalization, Marginalization and Conflict
Other and/or Marginal: Coexistence of Identities in the Historical Borderlands of Croatia
Structural Characteristics of Patches in the Central Lika Landscape – Application of Spatial and Regression Analysis
Geostrategic Aspect of the Danubian-Adriatic Orientation of the Croatian Geographical Space
Marginalization - The Dark Side of Globalization
Environmental Response to Marginality: Between Borderlands and Littoralization in the Eastern Adriatic
Structural Characteristics of Patches in the Central Lika Landscape – Application of Spatial and Regression Analysis
Sources and methodologies into environmental history research. Examples from the case studies in Mediterranean Croatia
The impact of spatial/regional identity on tourism development
Development types and subtypes of the Central Lika landscape for the period 1980-2012 – application of spatial and process-oriented GIS model
Conclusion
The existence of Galician identity in the wider Polish-Ukrainian border area
Mediterranean Landscape: Uses and Consequences
Regionalism and separatism in Spain
Landscapes of identities in shared spaces of the borderlands
Separatism in Italy
ESEH Zagreb 2017 conference: some reflections
THE NOVAK COLLECTION. Mappae Croaticae in the National and University Library Collection of Maps and Atlases by Dubravka Mlinarić and Mira Miletić Drder
Deforestation and reforestation in Croatian Dinaric karst : Human-environmental relations and implications
Historical dynamics of cultural landscapes in Šibenik region
Appreciating differences and co-existence of identities: evidence from the multicultural historical borderlands of Croatia
Marginalization Between Border and Metropolis: Drivers of Socio- Spatial Change in Post-socialist Croatia
Eastern Adriatic: Lifestyle and Landscape Change over the Last Two Centuries
Landscape, identity and commodification
Rethinking the Mediterranean Multiculturalism - The Study of the Eastern Adriatic Landscapes of Identities
Multinational Corporations and the Environment
Human - Environmental Changes in Economic Transition - Case Study Croatia
Borderland Environments
Preface
Environmental Aspects of Mayan Civilization Collapse
THE GIS MODEL FOR THE REVITALISATION OF TRADITIONAL ISLAND CULTURES: THE ISLAND OF HVAR, CROATIA
In Memoriam. Prof. Emeritus Velimir Rogić, Zagreb, 19 April 1925 – Zagreb, 21 October 2017
Proposal of the administrative-territorial organization of Sjeverno hrvatsko primorje, Croatia
Regionalization of Dalmatia – Recommendation of a new administrative and territorial organization
GIS analysis and developmental typology of the Central Lika landscape
Responsible Waste Management - Case Study of Zadar Region
Mapping spatial identities - vernacular regions of Dalmatian interior
Land use and its influence on erosion in Ogorje area
Landscapes of identities - Multiculturality of the borderlands
Međimurje - Spatial Identity Levels of Traditional Border Region
Mediterranean Identities - Environment, Society, Culture
Environmental history conference, Zagreb - 2017
Strategic Geography.The Relation between Geographical Space and National Power
9th ESEH biennial conference, Zagreb 28. lipnja – 2. srpnja 2017. Natures in between. Environments in areas of contacts among states, economic systems, cultures and religions.
Spatial patterns and drivers of fire occurrence in a Mediterranean environment: a case study of southern Croatia
The Impact of Landscape Change on Forest Fire Risk
2016 International Year of Global Understanding and Regional Action Center Croatia
Analyzing post-socialist grassland conversion in a traditional agricultural landscape : case study Croatia
Remote sensing of vegetation cover change on selected Adriatic islands
Anthropogenic drivers of fire occurence in the Eastern Adriatic
The impact and consequences of hydropower plants on the environment: Case study hydropower plant Lešće
Labels of Interest Groups as Indicators of a Vernacular Region: A Case Study in Croatia
GIS modelling localities for the restoration of traditional Mediterranean island crops - island of Hvar, Croatia
Concepts of administrative-territorial division of Republic of Croatia
TYTypes and trends in landscape changes at Ssvilaja - Ogorje mountain area
HvaR&D – Implementation of GIS and IC Technologies in Curricula of Facultative Courses and their Application in Sustainable Development of the Island of Hvar
Environmental effects of the meat industry
Spatial extent and identity of the traditional region of Dalmatia
Fire Risk Incidence Over the Last 200 Years: Case Study in the Mediterranean Croatia
Geography, GIS and local community
Post-socialist transition as a driver of geographic marginalization
Historical geography of Croatia
Contesting regional identities in the historical context of the borderlands
Historical dynamics of cultural landscapes in Šibenik region
Regional identities in the multicultural context of the borderlands
Characteristics and drivers of grassland change in Northern Croatia during post-socialism
Fire risk incidence over the last 200 years: case study in Mediterranean Croatia
The impact of Aleppo pine afforestation on the structure and dynamics of landscape in Mediterranean Croatia
90th anniversary of professor emeritus Velimir Veljko Rogić
Media perception of spatial identities: constructing an imaginative map of Dalmatian interior
Cartography in the making: The geography of religion and borderlands identities
Historical geography of Croatia
Cartography in making: The geography of religion and borderland identities
The Impact of Ethnic Groups on the Development of Cultural Landscape in the Daruvar Area
Spatial identity as a driving force of tourism development: comparative analysis of Bjelovar and Čakovec region
The Impact of Aleppo Pine Afforestation on the Structure and Dynamics of Landscape in Mediterranean Croatia
Cartography revealed: multiculturality and regional identities of the borderlands
Impact of State Regimes and Environmental Policies on Resources and the Environment
At the Borders of Empires: Environment and Marginality in the Mediterranean Croatia
Distribution of Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis Mill.) and its effect on vegetation and landscape structure of wider area of Šibenik
Slavonia - identity of the region and regional autoidentification
The influence of the first modern roads in valorising the Croatian highland treshold
Theoretical Concept of Biogeography
Land use and land cover change in the Krapina - Zagorje County from 1978 to 2011
Human Impact, Landscape Change and Fire Risk Incidence: Svilaja Mountain, Dalmatia - Croatia
Environmental Change and Impact on Traditional Crops, Hvar Island - GIS Approach
Territorialisation and de-territorialisation of the borderlands communities in the multicultural environment: Morlachia and Little Wallachia
Environmental assesment in educational trails planning on Cres-Lošinj archipelago
The Influence of Great World Religions on Environmental Concept and Change
Territorialisation and De-territorialisation of the Borderlands Communities in the Multicultural Environment: Morlachia and Little Wallachia
GIS Modelling for the Revitalisation of Authentic Island Localities - the Island of Hvar
Borderlands, marginality, environment:The Croatian interplay
The Geography doctoral study programme: space, region, environment, landscape
Spatial changes caused by the reforestation with aleppo pine in broader area of Šibenik
Littoralization and Behind : Environmental Change in Mediterranean Croatia
GIS modelling of karst landscape change
Environmental restoration, green urbanism and postmodern landscapes
Littoralization and Behind: Environmental Change in Mediterranean Croatia
Spatial Images and Regional identities in Multicultural realities of the Early Modern Croatian Borderlands
Imaging the Past: Cartography and Multicultural Realities of Croatian Borderlands
Landscape change of southern slopes of Svilaja mountain - GIS approach
Environmental Response to Marginality: Dalmatian Karst Hinterland between Changing Borders and Littoralization
Dalmatinska zagora - Formal and Vernacular Elements in Defining a Traditional Region
Turopolje - spatial concept and regional identity
New Globe Museum of the Austrian National Library in Vienna
Geographic and geostrategic position of Croatia in post-Cold War Croatia
What is Environmental History in Croatia?
Morlacchia: territorialization and deterritorialization of borderland communities
What is Environmental History?
Images and change of regional identity: place-names on early modern maps (selected examples)
Environmental changes in central part of Dalmatinska zagora since 18th century
Mental Maps of Kordun Region
More about region: historical, traditional and vernacular elements
Historical and geographical development of settlements on the island of Pag
Why Global Environmental History?
Historical-geographical development of Varaždinske Toplice
Historical-geographical development of Boka kotorska (Bay of Kotor)
Global Environmental History. 10, 000 BC to AD 2000
Cross border activities as regional policy in peri-Alpine region: the example of Croatia
Regional development of border regions: from periphery to developmental axis
Historical and geographic development of the Ogulin region
Environmental change of the central part of Dalmatian Zagora since the XVIII century
The Approach to Analysis of Presentation and Valorisation of Heritage - A Case Study of Istria
Changes in Slavonic spatial structure from XVIII century
Spatial development of Dugo Selo
Historical-geographical development of Slavonski Brod
Historical-geographical development of Pula
Historical-geographical development of the Military Krajina's space
Historical-geographical development of Bizovac area
Historico-geographical development of Požega basin
Historical-geographical development of Samobor
The impact of border changes on development of Čakovec
Historical-geographical development of Poreč
From fortification to nowadays function
Historical-geographical development of Velika Gorica
Mediterranean Migration - the example of Spain
Historic and Geographic Development of the Island of Mljet
dr.sc. Mirko Marković (1929. - 2009.)
Socio-cultural images of the borderlands: Morlacchia, Terrae desertae and Turkish Croatia
Historical-geographical development of Slunj
Historical-geographical development of Varaždin
Historical and geographical development of Prelog from 13th century until the modern time
Population change in Međimurje
Historical and geographical development of the Zadar archipelago
Historical-geographical development of Đakovo
My Croatia 8 ; Handbook for teachers in the 8th grade
New 18th Century Venetian Border in Croatia and its Spatial and Demographic Implications
Images of the Croatian Borderlands: Selected Examples of Early Modren Cartography
Prof. Reinhard Henkel: Interview
Environmental impact and change on the Velebit Mountain, Croatia: an outline of the periodization
Historical-geographical Development of Valpovo Region
Quantitative-geomorphological and Environmental-historical Impact on the Ecological Soil Depth ; Northwestern Croatia
South Eastern Europe: Discussing quality of life indicators
Historical-geographical Development of Upper Međimurje
Environmental Change of Croatian Islands from 18. Century to the Present
My Croatia
Historical and Geographical Development of Hrvatsko Zagorje
Globes
Professor emeritus Velimir Veljko Rogić - 80 anniversary
The Development of Settlement and Spatial Organization on Hvar Island in Greek and Roman Time
50 anniversary of Geographical horizon
Sustainable development of recreation and tourism in the protected areas of Croatia: issues and indicators
Turopolje. Dynamic garden between river Sava and river Kupa
South Eastern Europe: Discussing Quality of Life Indicators
The New Eighteen-Century Venetian Border in Croatia and its Spatial and Demographic Implications
Historical-geographical Development of Rasinja Area
Historical and Geographical Development of the Šibenik Archipelago
Development of Regional Concepts of Croatia, Dalmatia and Slavonia
Historical-geographical Development of Southeastern Međimurje
Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World of Fernand Braudel - 100th anniversary
Church Parishes an Element of Spatial Organization in the Central Part of Bosnian Posavina with a Special View on Derventa Region
Problems and Models of Environmental Management in Developing Countries' Megacities
The Grimani Cadastral Survey (Eighteen Century): Tracing the Environmental Change in Central Dalmatia
Globes and Globology in Vienna
Venetian Cadastre and the Eco– historical Evaluation of Triplex Confinium (18th century)
Reading the Venetian Cadastral Record: An Evidence for the Environment, Population and Cultural Landscape of the 18th century Dalmatia
Geography of Croatia, teaching methodology handbook
Zabok - Historical-geographical Development
Spatial Concept and Organization of Dalmatia in Antiquity
The Historical-geographical Development of Vukovar
XIXth International Conference on the History of Cartography
From Andautonia to Zagreb ; Historical-geographical Development of Zagreb Sava Region
Grimani Cadastral Survey and the Mediterranean geographical Environment (Case Study in Dalmatia)
Geographic Conditions of Development of Greek and Roman Town in Croatia
Geographical Conditions of Medieval Town Development in the Area of Northwest Croatia (Zagreb, Samobor, Varaždin)
Velika Gorica - Demographic and Spatial Development in the 20th Century
Man and the Environment in the Central Velebit Area - Baške Oštarije and Surroundings
Development of Zagreb Between the Two World Wars
Transformation of the Turopolje Rural Area
Geography of Croatia
XIX International Conference on the History of Cartography
Ian Gordon Simmons: Changing the Face of The Earth, Culture, Environment, History ; Blackwell Publ., Oxford, 1996.
Jean-Rene Trochet: Geographie historique, Hommes et territoires dans les societes traditionelles. Edition Nathan Universite, Serie "Geographie", Paris, 1998.
Fernand Braudel: The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philipe II., I., II., Antibarbarus, Zagreb, 1997.
Jacques Scheibling: Qu'est-ce que la geographie. Edition Hachette, Carre Geographie, Paris, 1998.
Historical-geographical Development of the Central Part of Bosanska Posavina Region
Romi in Croatia
Cartographic Perceptions of the Triplex Confinium and State Power Interests at the Beginning of the 18th Century
Historical and Geographical Base of Croatian Border since 18th Cemtury Untill Today
Lekenik - Settlement Between Sisak and Zagreb
Man and the Environment in the Central Velebit Area - Baške Oštarije and Surroundings
Geographical Determinations
Toponymy and Perception in the Triplex Confinium Area : Morlacchia
Morlacca - The Velebit Region on the Old Maps
The Population of Gornje makarsko primorje
Turopolje - the Position of the Traditional Region in the System of Geographical Regionalization
Turopolje: cultural-ecological evaluation
Triplex Confinium - An Eco-historic Draft
Grasse - Provence Perfumes
Centuries of natural Science in Croatia: Theory and Application
An Approach to the Definition of the Spatial Concept of the Traditional Region
Historical-geographical Analysis of the Territorial Concept of the Traditional Region Turopolje
Centuries of Natural Science in Croatia: Theory and Application 2
Primary Territorial Organization of Croatia from the Historico-geographical Point of View
Tides - Sun and Moon Attracting Oceans
Zagreb - Periodization of Urban Agglomeration Development
Southern Zagreb in Zagreb urban region
Demographic Evaluation of Southern Suburban Settlements in the Zagreb Agglomeration
Structural-geomorphological analysis and regionalization of Hills Vukomeričke gorice
The Transformation Processes of the NW Agrarian Part of the Turopolje Region into the Periurban Zone
The Ecological Conflict Between Man and Water
Geographic dictionaries - the Review and Significance
Contribution to the discussion the position of geography within lexicography
Geography, the bridge between science and humanities
Geomorphological Characterisctics of the River Sava Valley Between Krško and Podsused
Water and a City (UNESCO hydrological projects)
The Island of Lokrum
The significance of river valley in human life
Mont-Saint-Michel
Geomorphological Characteristics of Marija Gorica Hills
River Mississippi delta development
PUBLISHED BOOKS
B. Fuerst-Bjelis et al. (Eds.): Environmental Histories of the Dinaric Karst, Springer 2024. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-56089-7
B. Fuerst-Bjeliš, E. Nel & S. Pelc (Eds.): COVID-19 and Marginalisation of People and Places, Springer, 2022. DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-11139-6
B. Fuerst-Bjeliš & N. Glamuzina: The Historical Geography of Croatia.Territorial Change and Cultural Landscapes, Springer, 2021. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-68433-4
Book review by Radu MÂRZA in Territorial Identity and Development (TID), Volume 7 / No. 1, Spring.
Book review by David S. Hardin in Historical Geography 49, 97-99. doi:10.1353/hgo.2021.0009.
B. Fuerst-Bjeliš & W. Leimgruber (Eds): Globalization, Marginalization and Conflict, Springer, 2020. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-53218-5
B. Fuerst-Bjeliš (Ed.): Mediterranean Identities – Environment, Society, Culture, IntechOpen, 2017.DOI: 10.5772/66587
N. Glamuzina & B. Fuerst-Bjeliš: Historijska geografija Hrvatske, University of Split - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Split, 2015. DOI:10.13140/RG.2.1.2077.2883.
Humanitarian and environmental engagement
Friend and donor to UNICEF Childhood Guardians Programme, SOS Children's Village Lekenik Croatia and independent, non-profit and non-governmental organizations Greenpeace Croatia and Animal Friends Croatia.
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