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COVID-19 and a World of Ad Hoc Geographies

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Editors:
  1. Stanley D. Brunn

    1. Department of Geography, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA

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  2. Donna Gilbreath

    1. Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA

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  • Discusses geographical causes and effects of COVID-19

  • Provides local, trans-border as well as global contexts

  • Includes innovative maps on COVID-19 related themes

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Table of contents (147 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-liii
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  2. Global

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. International Boundaries, Biological Borders, and the Public Governance of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Are We Entering a Whole New Era?

      • Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly
      Pages 3-14

    3. Pandemic Geopolitics in the Anthropocene

      • Simon Dalby
      Pages 15-27

    4. COVID-19 and the Science of Where

      • Michael F. Goodchild
      Pages 29-41

    5. Coronavirus and Conservation: Environmental Repercussions of the COVID-19 Pandemic

      • Helen D. Hazen
      Pages 43-63

    6. Pandemic Geopolitics and the Bordering of COVID-19: Academic and Lay Geographies of the Pandemic and Policies to Contain and Mitigate the Novel Coronavirus

      • Virginie Mamadouh
      Pages 65-87

    7. Rethinking Distance and Presence Conceptions in Times of COVID-19 and Post-COVID-19: The Search for a New Educational Literacy

      • Paulo Quadros
      Pages 89-96

    8. The Swedish COVID-19 Enigma/Exception

      • Sebastian Abrahamsson, Richard Ek
      Pages 97-112

  3. States, Cities and COVID-19

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113
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    2. Insularity in a Connected World? The COVID-19 Pandemic in Iceland

      • Karl Benediktsson, Benjamin D. Hennig, Anne-Cécile Mermet, Sigríður Haraldsdóttir
      Pages 115-128

    3. Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on a Small Island: The Isle of Man Case Study

      • Sharon C. Cobb
      Pages 129-141

    4. Medical Philately and the World of COVID-19 Postage Stamps: Issues of Truth, Health and Wealth

      • Stanley D. Brunn
      Pages 143-155

    5. The COVID-19 Pandemic in Ukraine: A Mosaic of Regional Patterns and Voices of Social Disparity

      • Eugenia Maruniak, Olena Dronova
      Pages 157-183

    6. COVID-19 Policy in Uzbekistan: Slipping Back Toward Authoritarianism?

      • Reuel Hanks, Dilshod Achilov
      Pages 185-195

    7. The Pandemic in Belarus in 2020–21: COVID-19 in the Shadow of Politics

      • Ales Kirkevich, Alena Makouskaya
      Pages 197-207

    8. COVID-19, the Stay-Home Discourse, and a New Geographic Haven

      • Mohamed Salah Eddine Madiou
      Pages 209-217

    9. COVID-19 Geopolitics in Southeast Asia: Regional and National Health (in)Securities in Times of Pandemic

      • Carl Grundy-Warr
      Pages 219-247

    10. Three Challenges Facing Guatemala’s COVID-19 Crisis: Mobility, Violence and Governance

      • Trudy Mercadal
      Pages 249-267

    11. COVID-19 Waves and Politics in Costa Rica

      • Ivan Molina
      Pages 269-282
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Geography, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA

    Stanley D. Brunn

  • Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA

    Donna Gilbreath

About the editors

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: COVID-19 and a World of Ad Hoc Geographies

  • Editors: Stanley D. Brunn, Donna Gilbreath

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94350-9

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-94349-3Published: 16 September 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-94351-6Published: 17 September 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-94350-9Published: 15 September 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: L, 2721

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Human Geography, Public Health

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