Geology, geography and global energy

Scientific and Technical Journal

Exploration of the Desna River valley landscapes

2016. №2, pp. 62-69

Polianska Kateryna V. - assistant of the department, State Environmental Academy of Postgraduate Education and Management, 35 Mitropolit Vasiliy Lypkovskiy st., Kiev, 03035, Ukraine, ktgreentree@gmail.com

This article contains important and relevant theoretical and methodological substantiation of studying the river valley landscapes as environment of the natural diversity conservation. The river valley landscapes must be investigated not only from the point of view of the geography and landscape science but also its historical, diverse interdisciplinary ecological and humanistic studies. The river valleys still remain and continue to be the major geospatial assemblies of regional and local, and geologically componential, geo-factor, geomatics, biotic, and complex landscape manifestations of nature. The study of both ancient and modern nature of Desna River valley landscapes is important to preserve their current diversity and valuable properties. Logical line of reasoning here is as follows: from determination of past characteristics of object landscapes to understanding their current, human-impacted state; from ascertainment of history of Desna River landscapes’ formation, and subsequent disclosure of their genesis and development, factors and processes of human impact on nature to landscape studies and humanistic scientific substantiation of optimal ways to restore, protect and preserve nature.

Key words: долинно-речные ландшафты, долина Десны, морфогенетический анализ, антропогенизированные ландшафты, природное разнообразие, river valley landscapes, Desna valley, morphogenetic analysis, anthropogenically modified landscapes, natural diversity

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