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After the independence of Slovenia and Croatia in 1991, the former internal Yugoslav border between the two countries became an international border (today a Schengen border), of which over two-fifths follows rivers (the Drava, Sotla, Kolpa, Dragonja, and others). Rivers are natural geographical dividers whose shifting courses hamper permanent administrative demarcation, especially in flat areas exposed to frequent flooding and meandering. Thus, rivers as borders may cause problems because they are not static. Moreover, they are very dynamic and tend to change their courses; for example, one country may claim that the “old” course is the border and the other that the “new” course is the border. Practically, all rivers and streams on the Slovenian–Croatian border are such examples. Applied geography and geospatial technologies, especially geographic information systems, have played an important role in the preparation of geographical bases for the arbitration procedure to determine the Slovenian–Croatian border. The final decision, which was announced on June 29, 2017 by The Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration, will affect the lives of many people along the border. To analyze the dynamics of changing river courses along the Slovenian–Croatian border, we used geographic information systems and multitemporal analysis of cartographic and other pictorial sources: historical maps, historical aerial images, satellite images, and precise digital elevation models (LiDAR).
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Perko, D., Zorn, M., Ciglič, R., Breg Valjavec, M. (2019). Changing River Courses and Border Determination Challenges: The Case of the Slovenian–Croatian Border. In: Koutsopoulos, K., de Miguel González, R., Donert, K. (eds) Geospatial Challenges in the 21st Century. Key Challenges in Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04750-4_11
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