ECOLOGICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL STUDIES OF THE URBANIZED TERRITORIES OF BELARUS
The overview of the main results of ecological and geographical studies of the urbanized territories of Belarus obtained by the Center for Urban Ecology and Transboundary Pollution of the Institute for Nature Management of the NAS of Belarus for the recent five years is shown. The methodical approaches and the results of the ecological and geographical studies of cities and suburb territories including the determination of pollution sources, the spatially distributed of pollutants emission into the atmosphere, the integral modeling of emissions and impacts, geochemical soil and surface water transformation, the peculiarities of landscape and recreational structure and functioning are shown.