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Moravian Geographical Reports [MGR] is an international peer-reviewed journal, which has been published in English continuously since 1993 by the Institute of Geonics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, through its Department of Environmental Geography. It receives and evaluates articles contributed by geographers and by other researchers who specialize in related disciplines, including the geosciences and geo-ecology, with a distinct regional orientation, broadly for countries in Europe. The title of the journal celebrates its origins in the historic land of Moravia in the eastern half of the Czech Republic. The emphasis at MGR is on the role of ‘regions’ and ‘localities’ in a globalized society, given the geographic scale at which they are evaluated. Several inter-related questions are stressed: problems of regional economies and society; society in an urban or rural context; regional perspectives on the influence of human activities on landscapes and environments; the relationships between localities and macro-economic structures in rapidly changing socio-political and environmental conditions; environmental impacts of technical processes on bio-physical landscapes; and physical-geographic processes in landscape evolution, including the evaluation of hazards. Theoretical questions in geography are also addressed, especially the relations between physical and human geography in their regional dimensions.

MGR publishes original scientific papers, scientific reports on recent projects, as well as critical evaluations of these contributions to current knowledge, scientific announcements and reviews. Original scientific papers are the backbone of individual issues of the journal. These theoretical, methodological and empirical contributions from Geography, as well as regionally-oriented results of empirical research from various disciplines, usually will have a theoretical and a methodological section, and should be anchored in the international literature. Scientific reports are meant to inform the public about current research projects, scientific hypotheses or findings. The section is also used for discussion of scientific debates or refining scientific opinions. Some of the latter contributions may be reviewed at the discretion of the Editorial Board. Scientific announcements present information about scientific conferences, events and international cooperation, about journals with geographical and related issues, and about the activities of geographical and related scientific workplaces. Moravian Geographical Reports also publishes reviews of major studies in Geography and other related disciplines, published as books or atlases.

The journal Moravian Geographical Reports has been covered in the SCOPUS database continuously since 1993: http://www.scopus.com/home.url.
Information about the journal can also be found on other websites, such as: the website of the American Geographical Society Library: http://www.uwm.edu/Library/AGSL/
or the website of the University of Colorado at Boulder:
http://www.colorado.edu/geography/virtdept/resources/journal/journals.htm.