The Geography of Greece (eBook)

Managing Crises and Building Resilience

Régis Darques, George Sidiropoulos, Kostas Kalabokidis (Herausgeber)

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2024 | 1. Auflage
532 Seiten
Springer-Verlag
978-3-031-29819-6 (ISBN)

During the last few years, Greece has become a subject of increasing attention worldwide. Once praised for its ability to innovate and reform during the EU integration process, applauded for its remarkable job in managing the 2004 Olympics, the country fell into a financial crisis of unprecedented magnitude in 2008. Much has been said on this matter, and amid the morass of information a staggering number of untruths have been disseminated.

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.

Régis Darques is a geographer whose research area is at the crossroads of human and environmental geography. Research fellow at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS-UMR 7300 ESPACE, France), his interests focus on Balkan geography and Mediterranean Studies. Remote sensing techniques, advanced GIS, and complex systems are among his areas of expertise.

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 of spatial dynamics over time, geopolitical and geostrategic assessments, as well as the fields of geographic visualization and cartography.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	22.2.2024
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	3-031-29819-5 / 3031298195
ISBN-13	978-3-031-29819-6 / 9783031298196

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