The contribution of the Serbian Geographical Society to environmental protection

Founded in 1910, as the first of its kind on the Balkan Peninsula, the Serbian Geographical Society has contributed in many ways to the knowledge of environmental protection and valorization. Its main tasks were scientific and professional work on learning about the physical-geographical and socio-geographical characteristics of space and the popularization of scientifically proven facts about man, society and their environment. The comprehensive relationships of man, human society became inevitable themes of Cvijić's anthropogeographical school, which did not separate man from nature, nor nature from man. In its extensive publishing activity, which has been going on since 1912, the Serbian Geographical Society has repeatedly published scientific papers, professional papers, monographs and popular literature, which directly and indirectly relate to the problems of environmental protection, improvement and valorization. The following books and works are particularly noteworthy: Geographical Appearance of Serbia at the Time of the First Uprising; Kopaonik; Environment and man; Ecology and geography in solving environmental problems; Altitude zoning of waters in the West Morava basin; Our landscapes; Nature protection - rivers, seas, lakes; Biogeographical basis for forming networks of protected areas; Review of a complex approach to studying interactions between man (society) and nature; Hydrological analysis and flood protection measures in Serbia in the period 1999-2009; Rural space in the light of the concept of active environmental protection; Positive and negative impacts of tourism on the environment; Location of industry according to the United Nations methodology; Recent erosion - a global problem of the world; Water resources of Serbia, their exploitation and protection; Environmental planning; Environment - a field of integral research in modern geography; Dynamics of water exploitation and protection in the world until the end of the 20th century; Erosion and plant production. The works published in the publications of the Serbian Geographical Society were, and remain, indispensable literature for further research into a number of phenomena, processes, objects and events in the environment.