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Some Urgent Issues of Georgia’s Geography

Received: 30 May 2015     Accepted: 1 June 2015     Published: 2 July 2015
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Abstract

Geography is facing new challenges in Georgia. On the one hand, it is related to evaluation of current condition of the country and its geo-ecological issues, and on the other hand, the requirements of practice and the prospects of socio-economic development. The requirements of practice imply several urgent issues such as new orientation of the land use and the optimal use of the region's natural-resource potential, demographic stability and development of mountainous areas. The prospects of the country’s development include the urgent issues such as global environmental problems and prediction of geo-system conditions, development of military geography and planning of environmentally strained areas. In order to present and solve these problems effectively, Georgian School of Geography should play a key role, which will become a prerequisite for its further development.

Published in Earth Sciences (Volume 4, Issue 5-1)

This article belongs to the Special Issue Modern Problems of Geography and Anthropology

DOI 10.11648/j.earth.s.2015040501.11
Page(s) 1-7
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Keywords

Georgia, Geography, Landscape Planning, Tourism

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Author Information
  • Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, Department of Geography, Tbilisi, Georgia

  • Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, Department of Geography, Tbilisi, Georgia

  • Institute of Hydrometeorology at the Georgian Tecnical University, Department of Climatology and Agrometeorology, Tbilisi, Georgia

  • Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, Department of Geography, Tbilisi, Georgia

  • Vakhushti Bagrationi Institute of Geography at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Department of Geomorphology and Geoecology, Tbilisi, Georgia

  • Vakhushti Bagrationi Institute of Geography at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Department of Geomorphology and Geoecology, Tbilisi, Georgia

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