АУТОР / AUTHOR(S): Dragana Miljanović 
DOI: 10.46793/CSGE5.25DM
САЖЕТАК / ABSTRACT:
Environmental issues are in focus of many scientific disciplines. An increasing number of academic papers emphasize the significance of geography in the study of environmental problems, which many authors believe has been overlooked. As an analytical framework for the study of the relations between nature (environment) and society (human being), new scientific concepts such as coupled human and natural systems, social-ecological systems, a sociobiophysical systems, human-natural systems, and human-environmental systems, that have attracted scientific attention, are developed in recent decades. These concepts are structured by the appreciation of the interdependence of nature and society. Study of interactions between natural and social systems, which is one of the epistemological principles of geography, is recognized as essential in explaining of two coupled systems dynamics, i.e., understanding of the complex processes between them (feedback mechanisms). Furthermore, existing environmental studies are based on interdisciplinary approach. Precisely, the integrative and interdisciplinary nature of geography distinguishes it as a scientific discipline from others disciplines. All of the above leads to the clarification of the objective of this paper, based on a literature review: to re-emphasize the importance of geography, i.e., to reaffirm geographical (holistic) thinking in the study of the environment.
КЉУЧНЕ РЕЧИ / KEYWORDS:
environment; geography; concepts; interdisciplinary approach