Overview
- Analyses the geography and Greek crisis/crises outside the area of finance, focusing on human and physical geography
- Breaks stereotypes about this country and collects the most relevant and up-to-date information from renown experts
- Contains maps, photos, and tables and provides key insights into the dynamics of change and resilience
Part of the book series: World Regional Geography Book Series (WRGBS)
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Table of contents (30 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Into the Depths of Historical Geography
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Conflicts and Compromises
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Greek Miracles: Resilience Through Innovation
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Managing Local Specifics: Towards New Pathways
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About this book
In fact, the challenges of vulnerability and the paradigms of adaptation go way beyond finance and economy in Greece. Mega-fires, earthquakes, landslides and floods, migrations, sociopolitical upheavals, and armed conflicts generate emergency situations repeatedly. Because of its bridging role between natural and social sciences, geography can provide insights into the entire breadth of hazardous and chaotic events driving adaptation and change. Against all these threats, Greece has developed an enhanced resilience capacity. The purpose of this book is to help unravel the complexities of a fascinating country beyond clichés.
This book is intended for students, researchers, scholars, and engineers interested in geography, land planning, urban studies, and environmental management. The crises issue intended as a guideline allows widening the audience to include the media, governmental and non-governmental agencies, and the public at large.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Kostas Kalabokidis is a professor of physical geography with an emphasis on the use of Geographic Information Systems at the Department of Geography, University of the Aegean, Greece. His research resulted in numerous publications on wildfire ecology and management, environmental risk planning, natural disasters, human-environment relations, spatial analysis and geo-informatics.
George Sidiropoulos is a distinguished professor in the Geography Department at the University of the Aegean (Greece), specializing in historical geography and geopolitics. His research encompasses the analysis ofspatial dynamics over time, geopolitical and geostrategic assessments, as well as the fields of geographic visualization and cartography.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Geography of Greece
Book Subtitle: Managing Crises and Building Resilience
Editors: Régis Darques, George Sidiropoulos, Kostas Kalabokidis
Series Title: World Regional Geography Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29819-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-29818-9Published: 23 February 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-29821-9Due: 15 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-29819-6Published: 22 February 2024
Series ISSN: 2363-9083
Series E-ISSN: 2363-9091
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 532
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Geography, general, Environment, general, Earth Sciences, general, Cities, Countries, Regions, Ecology