The Geography of Greece: Managing Crises and Building Resilience

ISBN-13: 9783031298189 / Angielski

Régis Darques; George Sidiropoulos; Kostas Kalabokidis

Opis

During the last few years, Greece has become a subject of increasing attention worldwide. Once praised for its ability to innovate and reform during the EU integration process, applauded for its remarkable job in managing the 2004 Olympics, the country fell into a financial crisis of unprecedented magnitude in 2008. Much has been said on this matter, and amid the morass of information a staggering number of untruths have been disseminated.In fact, the challenges of vulnerability and the paradigms of adaptation go way beyond finance and economy in Greece. Mega-fires, earthquakes, landslides and floods, migrations, sociopolitical upheavals, and armed conflicts generate emergency situations repeatedly. Because of its bridging role between natural and social sciences, geography can provide insights into the entire breadth of hazardous and chaotic events driving adaptation and change. Against all these threats, Greece has developed an enhanced resilience capacity. The purpose of this book is to help unravel the complexities of a fascinating country beyond clichés.This book is intended for students, researchers, scholars, and engineers interested in geography, land planning, urban studies, and environmental management. The crises issue intended as a guideline allows widening the audience to include the media, governmental and non-governmental agencies, and the public at large.

Spis treści

Foreword/Introduction

Régis Darques, George Sidiropoulos, Kostas Kalabokidis

Preface

Guy Burgel

About the authors

 

Part I. Into the Depths of Historical Geography

1-Geoarchaeology of Greece, crises and resilience of the past

Laurent Lespez, Matthieu Ghilardi

2-Country building and state crises

Guy Burgel

3-A game of scaling: The cartography of Hellenism

George Sidiropoulos, Phokion Kotzageorgis

4-The Greek Orthodox Church. A unique cultural and social environment

Ioannis Bakas

Part II. Conflicts and Compromises

5-Border areas and land confines. Litigations, defense, and development

Régis Darques

6-Water resources management challenges and options in Greece

Christos Karavitis, Panagiotis Oikonomou

7-The Black Sea & Eastern Mediterranean region and OBOR: Macro-historical tendencies and geopolitical models of analysis

Stefanos Kordosis

8-Limits and prospects of economic debt crisis: An economic analysis of Greece within the EU

George Korres, Aikaterini Kokkinou, Spyros Anagnostou

Part III. Greek Miracles: Resilience through Innovation

9-Athens, an American city by the Mediterranean Sea

Guy Burgel

10-Tourism: A story of success

Theano Terkenli, Harry Coccossis

11-Geodiversity and geological heritage in Greece. The Greek UNESCO Global Geoparks as case studies

Nikolas Zouros

12-Breaking down isolation and managing mobility. Advances in transport and infrastructure development

Régis Darques

Part IV. Managing Local Specifics: Towards New Pathways

13-Living in Greece outside cities: Rural-urban relationships

Michel Bouillet

14-Greek cities and formal planning

Vassilis Pappas, Chrysostomos Kourtinos

15-Urban fabric. A societal triumph

Guy Burgel

16-The impact of new mapping techniques in land management and planning in Greece

Dimitrios Rokos, Panagiotis Lolonis, Dimitrios Stathakis

17-Administrative and territorial structure in modern Greece

Vassilis Pappas

Part V. Adaptation to Changing Dynamics

18-In the Greek countryside: Towards modernization, specialization, or abandonment?

Michel Bouillet

19-Maritime Transport: A dominant factor for Greece’s development

Nikitas Nikitakos

20-International migrations in Greece during the last decades: Inversion of tendencies and refugees waves

Byron Kotzamanis

21-The Greek coastal zone: Risks and adaptation

Adonis Velegrakis, Isavela Monioudi, Ourania Tzoraki, Thomas Hasiotis

Part VI. Emergency Situations and Chaotic Events

22-Pyro-geography of the Greek landscape

Kostas Kalabokidis, Palaiologos Palaiologou, Gavriil Xanthopoulos, Charalampos Kontoes

23-Disaster and recovery. Greece's major territorial upheavals

Régis Darques, Michel Bouillet, George Sidiropoulos

24-The wonderful weather of Greece

Haralambos Feidas, Theodore Karacostas

25- Active geodynamic process and seismicity in Greece

George Drakatos, Nikolas Zouros

Part VII. Oncoming Challenges

26-Aspects of climate change in Greece

Effie Kostopoulou, Christos Giannakopoulos, Sebastian Mirasgentis

27-Greece, demographic changes and challenges

Byron Kotzamanis

28-Decentralization, cohesion, and funding in the European Union. The Greek point of view about structure, growth and equity in the common future

Panagiotis Grigoriou

29-Biodiversity conservation vs Ecological modernization in post-crisis Greece

Andreas Troumbis

30-Greece as a central actor in the geo-strategic competition at the geopolitical complex of Southeastern Mediterranean

Ioannis Mazis, George Sgouros, Xanthippi Domatioti

 

Geographical Index

O autorze

Régis Darques is a geographer whose research area is at the crossroads of human and environmental geography. Research fellow at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS-UMR 7300 ESPACE, France), his interests focus on Balkan geography and Mediterranean Studies. Remote sensing techniques, advanced GIS, and complex systems are among his areas of expertise.

Kostas Kalabokidis is a professor of physical geography with an emphasis on the use of Geographic Information Systems at the Department of Geography, University of the Aegean, Greece. His research resulted in numerous publications on wildfire ecology and management, environmental risk planning, natural disasters, human-environment relations, spatial analysis and geo-informatics.

George Sidiropoulos is a distinguished professor in the Geography Department at the University of the Aegean (Greece), specializing in historical geography and geopolitics. His research encompasses the analysis of spatial dynamics over time, geopolitical and geostrategic assessments, as well as the fields of geographic visualization and cartography.