Current state of physico-geographical investigations in the Institute of Geonics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Physico-geographical investigations in the framework of the Institute of Geonics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic are carried out in the Department of Environmental Geography in the Brno Branch. Geonics was defined as a science which studies the substance of processes occurring in the Earth crust due to anthropogenic activities including environmental impacts. Activities of the Brno Branch are concentrated on an evaluation of human impact on landscape and a study of the interactions between nature and society. The investigation in the Brno Branch has the direct link to the regional geography, that frequent trend of the Czech regional geographical research is solution of environmental problems in regions. Physical geographers solve research tasks in the framework of environmental geography. Collaboration between physical and human geographers is a basic concept for research projects in the Brno Branch. In the last 10 years, physico-geographical investigation has concentrated to the partial research directions: - geomorphological investigations, - climatic hydrological investigations, - biogeographical and geoecological investigations