Geography of Greece

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 ofspatial dynamics over time, geopolitical and geostrategic assessments, as well as the fields of geographic visualization and cartography.

• Chapter1-Foreword- Greece Beyond the Crises, an Enhanced Resilience.- Part I. Into the Depths of Historical Geography: Chapter 2. The Geoarcheology of Greece. Shaping Landscapes vs. Crises and Resilience of the Past.- Chapter 3. Building a Territory in the Midst of State Crises.- Chapter 4. Mapping Hellenism. The Challenge of a Scale Game.- Chapter 5. The Greek Orthodox Church. A Unique Cultural and Social Environment.- Part II. Conflicts and Compromises: Chapter6. Border Areas and Land Confines. Litigations, Defense, and Development.- Chapter7. Water Resources Management and Policy in Greece: Challenges and Options.-  Chapter8. The Black Sea & Eastern Mediterranean (BSEM) Region and BRI: Macro-historical Tendencies and Geopolitical Models of Analysis.- Chapter9. Tossed by the Waves but Never Sinking”: Greece, from the 1826 Default to the Modern Debt Crisis and its Aftermaths.- Part III. Greek Miracles: Resilience through Innovation: Chapter 10. Athens, an American City by the Mediterranean Sea.- Chapter 11. Greek Tourism: A Story of Success.- Chapter 12. The Greek Urban Fabric. A Societal Triumph.- Chapter 13. Advances in Transport and Infrastructure Development.- Part IV. Managing Local Specifics: Towards New Pathways: Chapter 14. Living in Greece Outside Cities: Rural-Urban Relationships.- Chapter 15. Greek Cities and Formal Planning.- Chapter16. Real Estate Property and Cadaster: The Impact of New Mapping Techniques on Land Management and Planning in Greece.- Chapter 17. Administrative and Territorial Structure in Modern Greece.- Part V. Adaptation to Changing Dynamics: Chapter 18. In the Greek Countryside: Towards Modernization, Specialization, or Abandonment?.- Chapter 19. Traveling the Country: Transportation Challenges and Mobility Management.- Chapter 20. The Athos Peninsula. A Living Example of Continuity Over Time.- Chapter21. Coastal Hazards and Related Impacts in Greece.- Part VI. Emergency Situations and Chaotic Events: Chapter22.Pyro-Geography of the Greek Landscape.- Chapter 23. Disaster and Recovery. Greece's Major Territorial Upheavals.- Chapter 24. The Wonderful Weather of Greece.- Chapter 25. Active Tectonics and Seismicity in Greece.- Part VII. Oncoming Challenges: Chapter 26. Aspects of Climate Change in Greece.- Chapter 27. Greece, Demographic Changes and Challenges.- Chapter 28. Biodiversity Conservation vs. Ecological Modernization in Post-Crisis Greece: Environmental Syndemics and the Biodiversity Degradation Syndrome.- Chapter 29. Greece as a Central Actor Amid Geostrategic Antagonisms in the South-Eastern Mediterranean Complex.- Chapter 30. Epilogue- Resilience Through Diachrony?.