Geographies of Mediterranean Europe
This edited volume highlights the geographies of six European Mediterranean countries: France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Turkey and Greece. The book provides a balanced overview on what the geographers of these six countries have investigated and reflected in recent decades. This thematically arranged...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2021, 2021
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2021 |
| Series: | Springer Geography
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 13. Urbanization in the Northern Mediterranean in a changing context of economic growth and decline: the cases of Italian, Spanish and Greek urban systems (Petros Petsimeris)
- Section IV: Applied geographic thinking: education and spatial planning
- Chapter 14. Regions, Nationalities, Nations? A journey Through the contemporary geographic images of Spain´s regional diversity (Jacobo García-Álvarez)
- Chapter 15. Geographical presences and absences. The role of geographers in public territorial debates in Spain (Oriol Nel.lo)
- Chapter 16. Geography and spatial planning in Italy. Piergiorgio Landini
- Chapter 6. The environment in Spanish geography: a decade of research (Jorge Olcina & María Hernández)
- Chapter 7. Geographies of the South. The study of the Portuguese landscape: the characterization to understand the socio-ecological systems that compose it (Teresa Pinto-Correia)
- B) Urbanization, diaspora and new economic activities
- Chapter 8. The ‘Soft City’ of EU power elites: Athens from a neoclassical capital to “Oriental” margin (Lila Leontidu)
- Chapter 9. The Great Beauty: tourism and geographical thought in Italy (Caterina.Cirelli)
- Chapter 10. National borders and Mediterranean diaspora (Vicenzo Guarrasi)
- Chapter 11. The geography of trade in France: a geography in movement (Nathalie Lemarchand)
- Section III. The transactional perspective and comparative studies on Mediterranean countries
- Chapter 12. A model of development of transport between Spain and France: between recovery and mimicry, overcoming divergences. (Jean-Pierre Wolff)
- Preface: Seeking the common arguments of Mediterranean European geographies. (Rubén C. Lois-González)
- Section I: The great contributions of Mediterranean geographical thought
- Chapter 1. The construction of geographical discourse in Italy over the past half century (Franco Farinelli)
- Chapter 2. A geographical look at the territorial planning utopias of the past two centuries in the Mediterranean region (Jean-Yves Puyo)
- Chapter 3. Geography as a social science, education, research and action. The Portuguese case (Joao Ferrao & J.A. Rio-Fernandes)
- Chapter 4. Spanish geographical thinking in the present: its influence and original proposals in a context dominated by tradition (Rubén C. Lois-González)
- Section II: Relevant topics of study in Mediterranean geography
- A) The landscape and environmental approach
- Chapter 5. Physical geography and environmental issues in Portugal. (Lúcio Cunha)