Human vulnerability due to natural processes as s constituent element of Slovenian regions

The study of natural hazards since the 1950s is considered as one of the most important contributions of physical geography to the application of geographical knowledge in Slovenia. The threat of destructive natural events and significant degree of vulnerability are constituent parts of every cultural landscape, and can be recognized as immediate effects of natural processes, as practical countermeasures to prevent damages, as keeping off the most hazardous areas and, also, as unsuitable acts or wrong interventions into the geographical space. These elements are presented as important topics of geographical research in the near future, together with the study of subjective, personal, perception of vulnerability due to natural hazards, which is one of the key starting-points for future dealing with areas, where the potentially damaging or dangerous natural processes are in action