Mapping the Epidemic: A Systemic Geography of COVID-19 in Italy

Author:   Emanuela Casti (Professor and Chair of Geography, University of Bergamo, Italy) ,  Fulvio Adobati (Department of Engineering and Applied sciences, University of Bergamo, Italy) ,  Ilia Negri (Department of Engineering of Management, Information, and Production, University of Bergamo, Italy) ,  Fulvio Adobati (Department of Engineering and Applied sciences, University of Bergamo, Italy)
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Pages:   252
Publication Date:   31 August 2021
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Author:   Emanuela Casti (Professor and Chair of Geography, University of Bergamo, Italy) ,  Fulvio Adobati (Department of Engineering and Applied sciences, University of Bergamo, Italy) ,  Ilia Negri (Department of Engineering of Management, Information, and Production, University of Bergamo, Italy) ,  Fulvio Adobati (Department of Engineering and Applied sciences, University of Bergamo, Italy)
Publisher:   Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
Imprint:   Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
Weight:   0.450kg
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9780323910613


ISBN 10:   0323910610
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   31 August 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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1. The COVID-19 epidemic in Italy: The role played by reflexive cartography in the European epicenter 2. Reflexive mapping and territorial analysis on COVID-19 infection 3. Reticularity.and Territorial Fragility 4. Population and Contagion Dissemination 5. Mortality and Infection Severity 6. Pollution and Contagion Rate 7. Commuting and Urban Clusters in Lombardy 8. Containment Policies

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Emanuela Casti is full professor of Geography at the University of Bergamo where she directs the CST-Centro Studi sul Territorio, is responsible of the DiathesisLab (www.unibg.it/diathesis) and is President of the MA in Geourbanistica. Considered and innovator in cartographic theories studies, she has formalize a semiotic theory that investigates the relationship between cartography and geography, extending it to the new systems of cybercartography in the book of theory Reflexive Cartography published in the Modern Cartography Series by Elsevier. Her researches concern the historical context (the prehistoric cartography in Valcamonica, the renaissance and modern cartography of Venice, the Italian and French colonial cartography in Africa) as well as the contemporary one: mapping of movement, of conservation (http://multimap.unibg.it/; https://orobiemap.unibg.it/), for the governance (www.bgopenmapping.it; www.bgpublicspace.it, https://cittaaltaplurale.unibg.it/) and the regeneration of urban peripheries (www.rifoit.org). She has published more that a hundred of essays, among which the books: Reality as representation. The semiotics of cartography and the generation of meaning (Bergamo University Press, 2000); Reflexive Cartography. A New Perspective on Mapping (Elsevier, 2015). Fulvio Adobati is a Researcher in Urban Planning at the Department of Engineering and Applied Sciences of the University of Bergamo. He carries out research, study and territorial planning activities at the ""Lelio Pagani"" Center for Territorial Studies. he is a holder of the Integrated Course of Architectural Design-Architectural and Urban Composition at the Degree Course in Building Engineering, of the Course of Territorial Cultures and Policies at the Degree Course in Letters-Culture and Territorial Analysis, of the Spatial Dimension of Urban Planning course at the master's degree course in Geourbanistics. Ilia Negri graduated in Mathematics at the University of Milan, PhD in Methodological Statistics at the University of Trento and PhD in Mathématique (option Statistique) at L'Université du Maine (France). Today her research focuses mainly on Stochastic Differential Equations, empirical processes, non-parametric inference for diffusion processes. Recently she has also dealt with environmental issues (placement of measures) and the social sphere (changes in the structure of families).

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