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Author:   Jerzy Bański ,  Michael Meadows
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Imprint:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Edition:   1st ed. 2023
Weight:   0.692kg
ISBN:  

9789819966035

ISBN 10:   9819966035
Pages:   293
Publication Date:   02 December 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Re-thinking cities and the urban: from the global to the local.- From the new world to multiple possible worlds: political geography, geopolitics and border studies.- New and emerging pathways for transport geography.- Geography and geographers in place and time: a view from the international geographical union’s commission on the history of geography.- Innovative development of modern agricultural geographic engineering.- Integrating Geography for Global Sustainability and the Earth's Future: the role of International Geographical Union Commission on Geography of Future Earth.- Global change and human mobility in the Anthropocene.- Contribution of Geography and Geospatial Technology to Cope with Hazards and Risks: Implications of GIS Development in Japan.- Marginality issues in a time of world reorganization.- Land Use and Land Cover Changes in a Global Environmental Change Context.- The Contribution of Geography.- Coastal Systems: the dynamic interface between land and sea.- Advances in karst geomoprhology and hydrogeology research in the last decade and its future direction for karst land use planning.- Achievements and challenges of geographical research in Africa.- Issues and dilemmas of local and regional development in geographical research.

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Jerzy Bański is a professor of human geography at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences (IGSO PAS), where he was the director in 2018-2021. His main research interests include rural and agricultural geography, land use, regional policy, and spatial organization and local development. Between 2006 and 2012, he was the president of the Polish Geographical Society. In 2017-2022, he was the chairman of the Local and Regional Development Committee of the International Geographical Union. He is an author of 400 publications, including 27 books and more than 200 peer-reviewed papers. He is the author and editor of books published by Springer and Routledge, among others. Michael Meadows is the President of the International Geographical Union (IGU). He holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Sussex and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, UK. His research interests lie in the area of physical geography, more specificallyconcerning Quaternary environmental change and the geomorphological and biogeographical impacts of natural and human-induced climate change. He is a Fellow of the Society of South African Geographers (2000), the Royal Geographical Society (2016), the Royal Society of South Africa (2016), the African Academy of Sciences (2018), the University of Cape Town (2018), the International Science Council (2022) and the Royal Scottish Geographical Society (2022).

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