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Editorial: The uneven geographies of the COVID-19 pandemic 社论:COVID-19大流行的地理分布不均匀

IF 1.4 4区社会学

Erdkunde Pub Date : 2022-06-30 DOI: 10.3112/erdkunde.2022.02.01

J. Everts, T. Bork-Hüffer, Carsten Butsch

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One year of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Global South: Uneven vulnerabilities in Brazilian cities 2019冠状病毒病大流行在全球南方肆虐的一年:巴西城市脆弱性不均衡

IF 1.4 4区社会学

Erdkunde Pub Date : 2022-06-30 DOI: 10.3112/erdkunde.2022.02.02

Alexandre Pereira Santos, Juan Miguel Rodriguez Lopez, Katharina Heider, Laszlo Steinwärder, J. Scheffran

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Urban fragmentation and COVID-19 in the Gauteng City Region – diverging vulnerabilities, infections and policies 豪登市地区的城市碎片化和新冠肺炎——不同的脆弱性、感染和政策

IF 1.4 4区社会学

Erdkunde Pub Date : 2022-06-30 DOI: 10.3112/erdkunde.2022.02.03

C. Haferburg, Philipp Ahovi, J. Oßenbrügge

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Informality as crisis management? – Work relationships in inter-municipal cooperation during the COVID-19 pandemic in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany 非正式作为危机管理?-德国莱茵兰-普法尔茨州2019冠状病毒病大流行期间城市间合作的工作关系

IF 1.4 4区社会学

Erdkunde Pub Date : 2022-06-30 DOI: 10.3112/erdkunde.2022.02.06

Maximilian Haße, N. Scharfenort

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The rise of guesthouse tourism in the Greater Caucasus and the effects of the covid pandemic. The example of Lagodekhi town and its Protected Area, Georgia 大高加索地区宾馆旅游业的兴起以及新冠肺炎疫情的影响。乔治亚州拉戈德基镇及其保护区的例子

IF 1.4 4区社会学

Erdkunde Pub Date : 2022-04-30 DOI: 10.3112/erdkunde.2022.01.03

L. Schmid, Temur Gugushvili, T. Kohler

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A geographical retheorization of the tourism value chain 旅游价值链的地理再理论化

IF 1.4 4区社会学

Erdkunde Pub Date : 2022-03-25 DOI: 10.3112/erdkunde.2022.01.05

Yi Liu

引用次数: 1

The effects of gender equality on economic development in Europe 性别平等对欧洲经济发展的影响

IF 1.4 4区社会学

Erdkunde Pub Date : 2022-03-25 DOI: 10.3112/erdkunde.2022.01.02

Marie-Louise Litmeyer, Leah Bender, Sina Happel, Alexa Peusch, Nicola Spory, Stefan Hennemann

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Digitalization and geography education – A curriculum analysis 数字化与地理教育——课程分析

IF 1.4 4区社会学

Erdkunde Pub Date : 2022-03-02 DOI: 10.3112/erdkunde.2022.01.01

C. Peter, Sandra Sprenger

引用次数: 3

Dendrometer measurements of Mediterranean-alpine dwarf shrubs and micro-environmental drivers of plant growth – Dataset from long-term alpine ecosystem research in the Sierra Nevada, Spain (LTAER-ES) 地中海-高山矮灌木的树木计测量和植物生长的微环境驱动因素——来自西班牙内华达山脉长期高山生态系统研究的数据集(LTAER-ES)

IF 1.4 4区社会学

Erdkunde Pub Date : 2022-02-22 DOI: 10.3112/erdkunde.2022.dp.01

J. Löffler, E. C. Albrecht, Svenja Dobbert, Roland Pape, D. Wundram

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引用次数: 3

Book review: Hunza Matters. Bordering and ordering between ancient and new Silk Roads by Hermann Kreutzmann 书评:罕萨很重要。古丝绸之路与新丝绸之路的边界与排序，赫尔曼·克罗伊兹曼著

IF 1.4 4区社会学

Erdkunde Pub Date : 2021-12-31 DOI: 10.3112/erdkunde.2021.04.05

D. Butz

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