Associate Professor

PhD Bojan Đerčan

bojan.djercan@dgt.uns.ac.rs

Short biography:

Bojan Đerčan was born in 1984 in Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia. He graduated from the University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management in 2007. He obtained his MSc in Urbanism and Regional Planning in 2018 at the University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Department of Architecture and Urbanism with the topic “Noise Research in Novi Sad Urban Environment with Urban Solution for its Reduction”. He obtained his PhD in Geography in 2015 at the University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management, where he defended his doctoral dissertation entitled “The System of Settlements in Srem Region.”

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Academic positions:

  • 2020 – Associate Professor, University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management
  • 2015 – 2020, Assistant Professor, University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management 
  • 2012 – 2015, Research Assistant,  na University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management
  • 2010 – 2012, Research Associate, University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management
  • 2007 – 2010, Junior Researcher, University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management

Research interests:

  • Regional geography
  • Social geography
  • Urbanism

Courses:

  • Undergraduate Studies
    • Geography of Settlements
    • Urban Geography
    • Development of Rural Regions
    • Cultural Geography
  • Master studies
    • Revitalization of Bordering Settlements and Regions
  • Doctoral studies
    • Contemporary Urban Processes in Cities in Transition
    • Problems and Challenges of Regional Development in Southeast Europe

Other relevant information: 

  • Foreign languages: English
  • Membership in professional and scientific associations: 
    • Serbian Geographical Society
    • Society of Demographers of Serbia
    • PLPR – International Academic Association on Planning, Law and Property Rights
    • ISDS – International Society for Development and Sustainability
    • NGO Carpe Noctem
  • Other relevant jobs: Technical Editor of the scientific journal Researches Review of the Department for Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management

Selected projects:

  1. Project manager: Anthropogeographical and cultural values of the Vojvodina Slovaks as a factor in the sustainability of the national identity, (No. 142-451-2686/2018-01) Provincial Secretariat for Higher Education and Scientific Research of AP Vojvodina.
  2. Project manager: Diversification of rural potentials in the function of balanced regional development of Vojvodina (No. 142-451-3119/2023-01/02) Provincial Secretariat for Higher Education and Scientific Research of AP Vojvodina.
  3. Contemporary problems and sustainability of urban settlements on the territory of Vojvodina, (No. 142-451-2615/2021-01/2) Provincial Secretariat for Higher Education and Scientific Research of AP Vojvodina. Project manager: Dr. Ivana Blešić.
  4. Demographic problems of smaller ethnic groups in Vojvodina (No. 114-451-3938/2013-02) Provincial Secretariat for Science and Technological Development  of AP Vojvodina. Project manager: Dr. Tamara Lukić
  5. Ethnic groups of Vojvodina in the 21st century – state and perspectives of sustainability (No. 114-451-2539/2016-02) Provincial Secretariat for Higher Education and Scientific Research of AP Vojvodina. Project manager: Dr. Tamara Lukić
  6. Agricultural, food and gastronomic products in the function of the development of tourism in Vojvodina focused on authentic and health-safe food (142-451-2669/2017) Provincial Secretariat for Higher Education and Scientific Research of AP Vojvodina, Project manager: Dr. Bojana Kalenjuk
  7. Transformations of Serbia’s geospace – past, present problems and proposed solutions, (No. 176020), Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia. Project manager: Dr. Slobodan B. Marković
  8. Demographic transitions in Serbia (No. 146017). Ministry of Science and Technological Development, Project manager: Dr. Branislav Đurđev.
  9. Development of a program for the revitalization of depopulated border areas of Banat (No. 114-451-01084), Provincial Secretariat for Science and Technological Development of AP Vojvodina, Project manager: Dr. Anđelija Ivkov-Džigurski
  10. Migration processes in Kosovo and Metohija during the 20th century. Ministry for Kosovo and Metohija, Project manager: Dr. Jovan Plavša
  11. Facing the challenges of depopulation in Vojvodina (No.114-451-1861/2011-02), Provincial Secretariat for Science and Technological Development of AP Vojvodina. Project manager: Dr. Branislav S. Đurđev

Selected references:

  • Lubowiecki-Vikuk, A., Barbosa de Sousa, B.M., Đerčan, B.M., Leal Filho, W. (2021). Handbook of Sustainable Development and Leisure Services, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Cham, Switzerland. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59820-4
  • Đerčan, B., Bjelajac, D., Bubalo-Živković, M. (2019). Sustainability of Ethnic Groups in Vojvodina, Serbia: Role of Social Media, In: S. D. Brunn, R. Kehrein (eds.), Handbook of the Changing World Language Map. Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73400-2_143-1
  • Đerčan, B. (2017). Prostorno-funkcionalne veze i odnosi u sistemu naselja Srema, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Prirodno-matematički fakultet, Departman za geografiju, turizam i hotelijerstvo, ISBN 978-86-7031-447-4, 1-228.
  • Đerčan, B., Lukić, T., Bubalo-Živković, M., Đurđev, B., Stojsavljević, R., Pantelić, M. (2012). Possibility of efficient utilization of wood waste as a renewable energy resource in Serbia, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 16, 1516-1527 DOI:10.1016/j.rser.2011.10.017
  • Đerčan, B., Bubalo-Živković, M., Lukić, T., Pantelić, M., Marković, S.B. (2015). Road Traffic Noise Exposure in the City of Novi Sad: Trend Analysis and Possible Solutions, Polish Journal of Environmental Studies, Issue 3/2015, 24(3), 977-986 DOI: 10.15244/pjoes/31226
  • Gatarić, D., Đerčan, B., Bubalo Živković, M., Ostojić, M., Manojlović, S., Sibinović, M., Lukić, T., Jeftić, M., Lutovac, M., Lutovac, M. (2022). Can Depopulation Stop Deforestation? The Impact of Demographic Movement on Forest Cover Changes in the Settlements of the South Banat District (Serbia), Frontiers in Environmental Science, 10, 897201, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2022.897201 
  • Ðerčan, B., Bubalo Živković, M., Gatarić, D., Lukić, T., Dragin, A., Kalenjuk Pivarski, B., Lutovac, M., Kuzman, B., Puškarić, A., Banjac, M., Grubor, B., Simović, O. (2022) Experienced Well-Being in the Rural Areas of the Srem Region (Serbia): Perceptions of the Local Community. Sustainability 2022, 14, 248. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14010248
  • Ðerčan, B., Gatarić, D., Bubalo Živković, M., Belij Radin, M., Vukoičić, D., Kalenjuk Pivarski, B., Lukić, T., Vasić, P., Nikolić, M., Lutovac, M., Lutovac Đaković, M., Bjelajac, D. (2023). Evaluating Farm Tourism Development for Sustainability: A Case Study of Farms in the Peri-Urban Area of Novi Sad (Serbia), Sustainability, 15, 12952. https://doi.org/10.3390/su151712952 
  • Bjelajac, D., Đerčan, B., Kovačić, S. (2021). Dark skies and dark screens as a precondition for astronomy tourism and general well-being, Information Technology & Tourism, 23, 19-43. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40558-020-00189-9
  • Solarević, M., Đurđev, B., Lukić, T., Đerčan, B., Dunjić, J. (2020). The Historical–Demographic Heritage of the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires through Marriage Patterns in Serbia: The Case of Sremska Mitrovica and Sabac, 1900 to 2011, Journal of Family History, Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 479-497.
  • Lukić, T., Dunjić, J., Đerčan, B., PenjiševiĆ, I., Milosavljević, S., Bubalo-Živković, M., Solarević, M. (2018). Local Resilience to Natural Hazards in Serbia. Case Study: The West Morava River Valley, Sustainability, 10, 2866; DOI:10.3390/su10082866
  • Lukić, Т., Bubalo-Živković, М., Đerčan, B., Jovanović, G. (2014). Population Growth in the Border Villages of Srem, Serbia, Acta Geographica Slovenica, 54(1), 51-65 DOI: 10.3986/AGS5410
  • Lukić, T., Penjišević, I., Đerčan, B., Đurđev, B., Bubalo Živković, M., Armenski, T. (2014). Politics in the Balkan countryside: case study in Serbia, Eastern European Countryside, 20, 99-124. DOI: 10.2478/eec-2014-0005
  • Lukić, T., Bubalo-Živković, M., Đerčan, B., Solarević, M., Kalenjuk, B. (2017). Ethnic Groups of the Vojvodina Region (Serbia): Contribution to Knowledge About the Characteristics of Cohabitation, Anthropologist (ISSN: 0972-0073), Vol 30, No 1, pp. 37-51.
  • Đerčan, B., Bubalo-Živković, M., Solarević, M., Šabić, D. (2017). Living on the border: social indicators of life quality in Srem border region (Vojvodina, Serbia), Geographica Pannonica, 21(1), 26-42. DOI: 10.18421/GP21.01-03
  • Đerčan, B., Bubalo-Živković, M., Lukić, T., Solarević, M. (2014). Demographic characteristics and life satisfaction in settlements of Fruška gora mountain region: Bešenovo case study, Zbornik Matice srpske za društvene nauke, 148, 559-570. DOI: 10.2298/ZMSDN1448559D