PL
Artykuł prezentuje badania, prowadzone w Zakładzie Geografii Regionalnej UW, które dotyczą przyrodniczych uwarunkowań osadnictwa.
EN
The paper discusses in greater detail a set of papers dealing with the issue of the natural conditions determining human activity, in the context of research carried out in the Department of Regional Geography of Warsaw University. The papers were focused on those features of the natural environment that were crucial for settlements, such as diversity, physical and geographical borders and individual qualities, as well as the so-called frontier settlements, a direct effect of nature-man interrelationship. Major approaches, methods and conclusions have been discussed, as well as the author's proposais relating to future prospects of such studies (proposed new approaches: "natural and humanistic" and "based on the confining factors").