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COVID-19 and a World of Ad Hoc Geographies (eBook, PDF)

Beschreibung

This book provides an interdisciplinary overview of the causes and impacts of COVID-19 on populations, economies, politics, institutions and environments from all world regions. The book maps the causes, effects and impacts of the virus and describes the impact of the virus on among others health care, teaching and learning, travel, tourism, daily life, local and regional economies, media impacts, elections, and indigenous populations and much more. Contributions to this book come from the humanities, social and policy science disciplines as well as from emerging transdisciplinary fields including climate change, sustainability, health care and epidemiology, security, art, visualization, economic and social well-being, law and borderland studies. As such, this book will be a rich source of information to all those geographers, social scientists and urban and regional planners working in this field.

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• Größe: 81.25MB

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Autor

Stanley D. Brunn, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geography at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA. His research interests cover a broad array of topics within urban geography, economic geography, social geography, information/communications geography, geotechnology and cyberspace, time-space intersections, law, political, and environmental geography, geographical future, as well as disciplinary history. Donna Gilbreath has an MA from the University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA, where she majored in geography and specialized in cartographic techniques. Her interests include public health geography and epidemiology. She also has a graduate certificate in professional and technical writing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 2721
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783030943509
• Artikelnr.: 65737326