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Scope of activities
 Development of theoretical bases and methodology for physical, human and regional geography, studies on spatial processes and interrelationships; temporal and spatial survey of the interaction between man and environment; assessment of factors of the geographical environment with a special reference to natural and socio-economic resources and to the emerging socio-economic problems in the Carpatho-Pannonian area (mainly in Hungary); international cooperation; documentation and dissemination of research achievements (through volume of studies, periodicals and other publications in Hungarian and foreign languages).
Main research objectives and topics
The Institute has a staff and infrastructuraI equipment to successfully meet the European professional standards. Priorities should be given to the following topics:
Human Geography
- ethnic, religious, political geographic study of Central and South Eastern Europe (with especial regard to the Carpatho-Pannonian area)
- geographic studies establishing the regional and settlement development
- geographic study of transport and telecommunication
- industrial geographic studies (with especial regard to the metropolitan industry and the industrial estates)
- population geographic studies (with especial regard to the employment and migrations)
- social, economic and regional problems of tourism
- urban geographic studies (with especial regard to processes of housing market, urban rehabilitation, the metropolitan part of the accomodating creative knowledge)
Physical Geography
- Recent processes on land surface (soil erosion and related researches, modelling)
- Effects of global climatic change, and application of GIS in physical geographical research
- Application of spatial information techniques in physical geography
- Land and soil degradation
- Behaviour of heavy metals in the soil-groundwater-plant system.
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