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

Stanley D. Brunn, Donna Gilbreath (Herausgeber)

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2022 | 1st ed. 2022
L, 2721 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-94350-9 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.9.2022
• Zusatzinfo: L, 2721 p. 1 illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Schlagworte: Covid-19 pandemic • Geography and COVID-19 • Geography and Media • Geography of health and disease • Geography of health care during COVID-19 • Mapping causes, effects and impacts of COVID-19 • Media Coverage and Reporting on COVID-19 • Medical Geography • Organizational responses to COVID-19 • Political responses to COVID-19 • Regional Planning and Development • Social and Political Geography • Transboundary responses to COVID-19
• ISBN-10: 3-030-94350-X / 303094350X
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-94350-9 / 9783030943509