Електронно списание "Scientific Research"

The present work provides an overview of the local natural potential in the region of Blagoevgrad, as well as an assessment of its practical importance for urban planning purposes. It is of major importance to develop the urban territory in such a manner as to ensure optimum use of the local natural conditions and resources.  It is also important to ensure living spaces with adequate bioclimatic parameters in terms of reducing the effect of the more frequently occurring extreme climate events on people. The results from the study are useful for optimization of territorial structure of the town as well as of the governing activity in the town, in the context of sustainable nature usage.

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Dr. Zoya Mateeva is a climatologist with research interests in the field of human bioclimatology, renewable energy sources, and sustainable management of nature resources. She is working for the National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. She leads some institutional research projects referring to the recreational climatology, bioclimatic comfort&discomfort of man, construction of wind-solar monitoring towers and assessment of wind- and solar-energy potential, etc. Dr. Mateeva is a member of International Society of Bioclimatology, International Geographycal Union, Bulgarian Union of Scientists and Bulgarian Society of Medical Geography.