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The Environmental Research Program defines the framework research directions of the Institute for Environmental Studies (Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague), the Charles University Environment Centre, the Department of Social and Cultural Ecology (Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague), the Department of Meteorology and Environmental Protection (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague), the Department of Environmental Law (Faculty of Law, Charles University in Prague), the Environmental Education and Training Centre (Faculty of Education, Charles University in Prague), and the expert group of the Third Faculty of Medicine (Charles University in Prague).

The goal of the program is to contribute to the knowledge of individual biotic and abiotic components of the environment and their mutual interactions, including interactions with human society. Work to increase the quality and international impact of environmental research within the UK. At the same time, contribute to the solution of current practically applicable questions important for further conceptual decision-making in the field of the environment. The program connects current modern practices in the study of ecosystems of the abiotic environment and biodiversity with the study of environmental behavior and attitudes of human society, including tools that can be used to regulate this behavior. At the same time, the study of these processes on various time-space scales and the mutual interaction of processes with different time-space dynamics is important.

The project is by its nature highly multidisciplinary and follows on from a number of related fields, both at the level of natural science knowledge (ecology, geology, chemistry, hydrology, physics and chemistry of the atmosphere, related medical fields including preventive medicine), and at the level of humanities and social sciences (economics, sociology, political science, legal sciences, didactics). The mutual interweaving and interaction of natural science and humanities approaches of originally separate teams within the framework of one project is in line with the current trend of environmental sciences and creates a methodical and methodological basis for the further development of the field. In this regard, it is a combination of modern methodologies based on technologically advanced instruments and sophisticated statistical procedures in the study of the behavior of the abiotic component of ecosystems, their interaction with the biotic component and human society studied by a number of modern procedures including advanced methods of mathematical modeling, data mining of complex data, creation and implementation different scenarios of society's development and other advanced methods on the side of the humanities.

Key fields of research will include: the study of the main abiotic and biotic components of the environment and their interactions, global climate models and other key parameters of the earth's ecosystem, including their implications for phenomena on more detailed time-space scales, energy and substance metabolism of the economy and its environmental and social correlations, environmental significant forms of consumption, modernization processes of the industrial period and their relationship to the environment, delineation of an environmentally safe socio-economic space through planetary boundaries and determination of the necessary indicators, study of the influence of environmental risk factors on the health status of various population groups, description and comparison of legal regulations and draft legal solving these problems, perception of environmental problems of society and possible tools for influencing it.

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