Stanko Pelc: professor of geography, studied at Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Architecture, Construction and Geodesy (MSc) at the University of Ljubljana and Faculty of Science at the University of Zagreb (PhD). He has been involved in rural development and planning of transportation systems; worked as university teacher at the University of Ljubljana and University of Maribor. At present he teaches at the departments of pre-school and primary education as well as at geography department at the University of Primorska in Koper. His research interests cover many different fields such as demography, transportation geography, local and regional development, marginality and marginalization especially its social dimension and in educational context. He is (co)author of 24 scientific articles, 22 published scientific conference contributions, 29 component parts or chapters in monographs, edited three books; is author of one book and one university textbook (both in Slovenian). He hasrecently published an online book about Slovenian urban population.Miha Koderman: received his PhD in geography from University of Primorska and is now an Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography, University of Primorska (Koper-Capodistria, Slovenia). His main research fields include tourism and economic geography, as well as geography of migration, where he is especially interested in the phenomenon of roots tourism. He is an author (or a coauthor) of a scientific monograph (in Slovenian) and has published 13 scientific articles, 8 scientific conference contributions, 6 component parts or chapters in monographs and coedited two books. He is also an active member of the editorial board of the Geographic Horizon/Geografski obzornik professional journal.
