Inhabitants' response to the local environment and its problems in the case of the Šalek Valley and the Zasavje Region

In this article we focused attention on the inhabitants' response to the environmental problems in Šalek Valley and Zasavje Region. We used a questionnaire to survey the answers of 1395 inhabitants in both regions. The main aims of our study were following: to estimate the pollution severity and environmental conditions and to compare the answers between both. The inhabitants of the Šalek Valley are very critical toward their environment and they are basically satisfied with it (62,4 %). In the Zasavje Region the inhabitants are less satisfied (39,5 %) with their environment, because the pollution of their region is larger than average in Slovenia