Retzius Medal Royal Swedish Soc. for Anthrop. And Geogr. 1950; Mungo Park Medal Royal Scottish Soc. for Geogr. 1951; Bonaparte-Wyse Gold Medal Société de Geogr. de Paris 1951; Elish Kent Kane Gold Medal Geogr. Soc. of Philadelphia 1952; Hon. Member Geogr. Soc. Norway 1953, Peru 1953, Brazil 1954. Elected Member Norwegian Academy of Sciences, 1958; Fellow New York Academy of Science, 1960. Doctor Honoris Causa Oslo University, 1961; Vega Gold Medal Swedish Soc. for Anthrop. And Geogr. , 1962; Lomonosov Medal Moscow University, 1962; Royal Geographical Society Gold Medal London , 1964; Member American Anthrop. Assoc. 1966; Kiril i Metodi Award Geog. Soc. Bulgaria, 1972; Hon. Prof. Inst. Politec. Univ. Nacional, Mexico 1972; Internat. Pahlavi Environment Prize, United Nations 1978; Doctor Honoris Causa USSR Academy of Science 1980; Bradford Washburn Award, Boston Mus. of Sience, USA, 1982; Doctor Honoris Causa Univ. San Martin, Lima, 1991; Doctor Honoris Causa Univ. of Havana , 1992; Doctor Honoris Causa Univ. of Kiev, Ukraine, 1993; Doctor Honoris Causa Univ. of Maine, USA, 1998;Doctor Honoris Causa Univ. of Hartford, Connecticut, USA, 1998; Doctor Honoris Causa Latvian Academy of Sciences, 1998;International Prize of the Spanish Geographical Society 1998; Doctor Honoris Causa D. Mendeleyev University of Chemical Technology of Russia, 1999.

Austrian Decoration of Honour for Science and Art, 2000, Honorary Doctor Hon. Causa Rostov State University, Russia, 2000.