Ivo Lučić

Ivo Lučić (Ravno, 1960), is Bosnian and Herzegovinian journalist and karstologist. He is prominent writer and a scientific journalist, ecology activist, interested in a research and protection of nature, especially Bosnia and Herzegovina part of the Dinaric karst, and its hydrology and geology. He is one of the co-founding members of the Centar za krš i speleologiju of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ANUBiH).

Early life and education
He was born in 1960, in a village Ravno, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is the largest settlement in the western part of the Popovo Polje, one of the largest karstic depressions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and indeed in Europe. He completed primary and secondary school in nearby Dubrovnik, across the border in SR Croatia. He, then, graduated in 1986 at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Zagreb. He received his doctorate in 2009 on the study of karstology at the University of Nova Gorica in Slovenia.

Interests
His scientific interests are the perception and valorisation of nature and the environment, especially karst, and the popularization of science. He is the author and co-author and editor of several books on karst, and the role of the media in modern society, as well as the writer of numerous popular, professional and scientific articles. He participated in dozens of scientific and professional meetings in the country and abroad, and organized workshops, round tables and seminars on environmental issues.

He is one of the co-founders and a member of the Center for Karstology of ANUBiH (Centar za krš i speleologiju Bosne i Hercegovine), and is the initiator and coordinator of the Vjetrenica Cave research, popularization and protection project, between 1999 and 2009, within which Vjetrenica was confirmed as a place with the great underground biological diversity, and was nominated for the World Heritage List and is placed on Tentative List for Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Works

 * Selo moje Ravno: povijest stradanja Hrvata u Popovu. Zagreb 1992. 152 str.
 * Ravno, Popovo: četiri slike iz povijesti kraja. Humski zbornik ; 3. Ravno, Zagreb 1997. 432 str. ISBN 953-6590-00-X. 1997. (ur)
 * Lučić, Ivo, Sertić-Janković, Mirela: Obiteljski radio: pet godina. Zagreb, Obiteljski radio, 2001. 147 str. ISBN 953-98476-0-5
 * Bonacci, Ognjen, Lučić, Ivo, Marjanac, Tihomir, Perica, Dražen, Vujčić-Karlo, Snježana: Krš bez granica : popularno-znanstvena monografija. Zagreb, 2008.
 * Vjetrenica – pogled u dušu zemlje : znanstveno-popularna monografija, ArTresor, Zagreb – Ravno, 2003. ISBN 953-99284-0-0
 * Povijest poznavanja Dinarskog krša na primjeru Popova polja. Disertacija. Nova Gorica, 523 str, 2009.
 * Lučić, Ivo, Rudež, Tanja (ur.): Mediji i znanost – Zbornik radova okruglog stola o 100. obljetnici HND-a, Datapress HND i Treći program HRT-a, Zagreb, 2010.
 * Mulaomerović, Jasminko, Lučić, Ivo i Osmanković, Jasmina: Krš i pećine Bosne i Hercegovine: prošlost za budućnost,Centar za speleologiju, Sarajevo, 2012., 90 str. ISBN 978-9958-9932-0-6,
 * Presvlačenje krša: povijest poznavanja Dinarskog krša na primjeru Popova polja, Synopsis, Zagreb-Sarajevo, 2019. ISBN 978-953-7968-63-2
 * Lučić, Ivo (ur.) Značenja krajolika. Disput, Zagreb, 2021. ISBN 978-953-260-416-0
 * K bosanskom oceanu. Kratki ogledi o percepciji prirode u Bosni i Hercegovini. Centar za krš i speleologiju, Sarajevo; Synopsis, Sarajevo – Zagreb. ISBN 978-9926-8278-6-1 (Centar za krš i speleologiju), 978-953-8289-64-4 (Synopsis, Zagreb)