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The protection of nature has a long history in Georgia. Its natural environment is now substantially modified, which was conditioned by the development of production, by increase of cities, industrial centers, means of transport, and population, which in its turn caused the violation of environmental regularities and relation between the environmental factors and natural resources established for centuries—variation of natural environmental components, quantitative and qualitative changes of its individual factors: soil, air, and water basin pollution, forest fires, floods, activation of erosive processes, landslides, mudflows and, etc.
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Salukvadze, E., Tsitsagi, M. (2022). Environment Protection. In: Bolashvili, N., Neidze, V. (eds) The Physical Geography of Georgia. Geography of the Physical Environment. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90753-2_18
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