Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 International Boundaries, Biological Borders, and the Public Governance of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Are We Entering a Whole New Era?
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   Chapter 2 Pandemic Geopolitics in the Anthropocene
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   Chapter 3 COVID-19 and the Science of Where
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   Chapter 4 Coronavirus and Conservation: Environmental Repercussions of the COVID-19 Pandemic
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   Chapter 5 Pandemic Geopolitics and the Bordering of COVID-19: Academic and Lay Geographies of the Pandemic and Policies to Contain and Mitigate the Novel Coronavirus
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   Chapter 6 Rethinking Distance and Presence Conceptions in Times of COVID-19 and Post-COVID-19: The Search for a New Educational Literacy
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   Chapter 7 The Swedish COVID-19 Enigma/Exception
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   Chapter 8 Insularity in a Connected World? The COVID-19 Pandemic in Iceland
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    Chapter 9 Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on a Small Island: The Isle of Man Case Study
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    Chapter 10 Medical Philately and the World of COVID-19 Postage Stamps: Issues of Truth, Health and Wealth
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    Chapter 11 The COVID-19 Pandemic in Ukraine: A Mosaic of Regional Patterns and Voices of Social Disparity
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    Chapter 12 COVID-19 Policy in Uzbekistan: Slipping Back Toward Authoritarianism?
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    Chapter 13 The Pandemic in Belarus in 2020–21: COVID-19 in the Shadow of Politics
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    Chapter 14 COVID-19, the Stay-Home Discourse, and a New Geographic Haven
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    Chapter 15 COVID-19 Geopolitics in Southeast Asia: Regional and National Health (in)Securities in Times of Pandemic
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    Chapter 16 Three Challenges Facing Guatemala’s COVID-19 Crisis: Mobility, Violence and Governance
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    Chapter 17 COVID-19 Waves and Politics in Costa Rica
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    Chapter 18 Societal Perceptions of the Saudi Government’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
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    Chapter 19 Tackling Challenges of COVID-19: An Assessment of the Convergence-Divergence Debates from the Global South-India
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    Chapter 20 Health Geography of COVID-19: An Exploratory Analysis of the Pandemic during its First Phase in the Compact Cities of Barcelona and Madrid, Spain
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    Chapter 21 Impacts of COVID-19 on Pakistan Society: Home Confinement, Social Survey Data and Maps Showing Diffusion
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    Chapter 22 Peacekeeping Operations: Challenges and Opportunities in the Midst of Health Crises
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    Chapter 23 Travel Restrictions and Border Security Measures on the Canada–U.S. Border During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Does Law Matter in a Crisis?
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    Chapter 24 Forgotten Ones: Rhetoric of Migration and Tourism Governance in South Africa in the Sedentary Epoch of COVID-19
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    Chapter 25 From European Union Student Mobility to Lockdown: “Virtual Study Mobility” in the COVID-19 Era and a Case Study of Transnational Law in an International Classroom Delivered Online
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    Chapter 26 Vaccination Nation: Vaccine Diplomacy and the U.S. Vaccine Rollout
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    Chapter 27 Changing COVID-19 Border Restrictions and Borderland Resilience: The Finnish-Swedish Border Case
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    Chapter 28 Free Movement of Persons and Goods in the European Union During COVID-19
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    Chapter 29 Intertwined Geographies of the Pandemic and the U.S. Presidential Election of 2020: COVID-19 Prevalence and Donald Trump
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    Chapter 30 Affective Immediately: Reading the Semiotic Landscape of COVID-19 in Lincoln, Nebraska
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    Chapter 31 Local Newspaper Coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Two Major Texas Cities: A Visual Comparison of Houston and El Paso
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    Chapter 32 COVID-19 as the Great ( un )Equalizer: The Framing of Women in Media Coverage in China, the Middle East, and the U.S.
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    Chapter 33 Place Branding for Immigrant and Refugee Integration and Receptivity Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: Responses of U.S. Cities in the “Welcoming America” Network
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    Chapter 34 Lost in Translation: Reporting About COVID-19 Pandemic by Community Vernacular Radio Stations in Rural Kenya
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    Chapter 35 Examining Effective Communication During COVID-19 Through Prime Minister’s Speeches: The Case of Malaysia
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    Chapter 36 Trump and the Coronavirus: The Triumph of Incompetence
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    Chapter 37 Presenting, Representing, and Misrepresenting COVID-19 in the Five Central Asian States: The Political Underpinnings of Official State Coronavirus Websites in Authoritarian Regimes
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    Chapter 38 The Role of User-Generated Content Data for Collaborative Learning: Identifying Tourism Hot Topics During the Pandemic
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    Chapter 39 The Impact of COVID-19 and Use of Geo-Tagged User Data in Territories Without Planning: The Case of São Tomé and Príncipe
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    Chapter 40 Social Distancing and Politeness: Hungarian Emailing Practices During the Coronavirus Epidemic
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    Chapter 41 Application of GIS in Vaccine Distribution During COVID-19
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    Chapter 42 More than a Message: Public Health Advocacy, Political Cartooning and COVID-19 Challenges in Pakistan
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    Chapter 43 What’s So Funny About COVID-19? How Some Comic Strip Artists Have Approached or Avoided a Sensitive Subject
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    Chapter 44 Visualizing the Unspeakable in Thought: A Multi-Model Discourse Analysis of Cartoons as a Device for Communicating COVID-19 Messages in Ghana
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    Chapter 45 One Year of COVID-19: Mapping the Spread of a Global Pandemic
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    Chapter 46 Mapping Silenced Spaces During Increased Overdose and COVID-19: Opportunities for Danger and Harm Reduction in Southern Appalachia
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    Chapter 47 COVID-19 in Tunisia: Mapping and Documenting the Impacts on Those on the Margins
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    Chapter 48 Mapping the COVID-19 Spatial Behaviors and Narratives of Women in an Architecture School in the Midwest USA
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    Chapter 49 Increased Use of Maps During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Example from Morocco
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    Chapter 50 The Way from the Leading Position to the Last: Geo-demographic Analysis of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Czechia
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    Chapter 51 COVID-19 Deaths in México: A Spatiotemporal Analysis
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    Chapter 52 Impact of COVID-19 on Culture in Nigeria
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    Chapter 53 Research Frontiers on COVID-19 Issues in Brazilian Context
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    Chapter 54 Geography, Factors and Consequences of COVID-19 Diffusion in Russia
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    Chapter 55 Effects of COVID-19 on Urban Mobility and Public Space Use in Kumasi, Ghana
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    Chapter 56 Impact of COVID-19 on Nepal’s Labour Migration
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    Chapter 57 Voting with Their Feet: Coronavirus Pandemic Refugees and the Future of American Cities
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    Chapter 58 Exploring Human Mobilities in the COVID-19 Era in Urban and Rural Canada
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    Chapter 59 Rearranging Mobilities and Immobilities and Place-Remaking During COVID-19: Governing the Pandemic Situation Through (Im)mobilities in South Korea
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    Chapter 60 Pandemic and Education: Persistent Deepening of Educational Inequalities in Argentina as a Consequence of COVID-19
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    Chapter 61 COVID-19 and the Comorbidities of Spatial Inequality and Colonial Legacy: Two Caribbean Cases – Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago
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    Chapter 62 Digital Inequalities in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Israel and Germany
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    Chapter 63 Beyond the Ecumene: Roma Genesis, Community and Survival in the COVID-19 World
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    Chapter 64 Ethnic Minorities in Poland in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Threats, Stigma and Forms of (In)visibility
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    Chapter 65 Everyday Morbid Geography: Street Life and COVID-19 State Regulation in Manila and Hanoi
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    Chapter 66 Undocumented Migrants and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Similar and Dissimilar COVID-19 Stories Comparing Finland and Iran
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    Chapter 67 ‘If I Don’t Sell Food, How Would I Eat?’ Negotiating Street Vendor Livelihoods in the Context of COVID-19 Lockdowns in Urban Thailand, Vietnam, and Laos
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    Chapter 68 Impact of COVID-19 on Local Planning Practices: Focusing on Tactical Urbanism, Slow Streets and Low-Income Communities in Oakland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Chicago, and New York
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    Chapter 69 Risk and the Transformation of Everyday Places and Spaces: Emptiness and Meaning-Making in Daily Life Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic Hazardscape
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    Chapter 70 Racism in the Times of COVID-19: Angos, Dirty, Undisciplined, and Vendors in Quito, Ecuador
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    Chapter 71 Blurry Microgeographies of the New Normal: Grappling with COVID-19 Disruptions, Disgust and Despair in Switzerland
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    Chapter 72 Vulnerability, Infection, and Anti-discrimination Among Asian Americans and COVID-19: Explorations into Race and Health Intersections in California
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    Chapter 73 Racism, Risk, and Supply: U.S. Policies Toward COVID-19 and Asia, and Current and Future Impacts on Asian Americans
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    Chapter 74 Q’eqaläj Jiq’ Ojöb ‘ Darkest Suffocating Cough’ (COVID-19) in Guatemala: Kaqchikel Maya Personal Accounts of Overcoming the Pandemic and Its Despair
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    Chapter 75 COVID-19, “Black Lives Matter” and Indigenous Australians: A Tale of Two Intersecting Pandemics
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    Chapter 76 Facing Vulnerability and Mobilizing Resilience: Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Speakers of Indigenous Languages in Mexico and Their Protective Behaviours
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    Chapter 77 COVID-19 and the Interruption of Sister Cities Activities: Lexington, Kentucky and Its Four “Sister” Thoroughbred Raising/Racing Cities
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    Chapter 78 Spatial Dimensions of Vulnerability: Meatpacking, Socioeconomics, and the Outbreak of COVID-19 in the High Plains of Texas
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    Chapter 79 Forecasting the Economic Impacts of COVID-19: A Case for the Namibian Economy
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    Chapter 80 Impact of COVID-19 on the Dutch Flower Trade-Logistics Node
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    Chapter 81 Meeting the Challenge of COVID-19: How American Craft Breweries Responded
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    Chapter 82 How Work and Shopping Related Travel Changed During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Western Hungary in 2020
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    Chapter 83 The Italian Fashion Industry Facing the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis
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    Chapter 84 Resilience of Retailing: From the Perspective of Chinese Daily Shopping Distance in Three Stages Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic
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    Chapter 85 Stability Extension of Food Culture Space: A Case Study of Consumer Space Practice Before and After COVID-19 Epidemic in Wuhan Food Markets
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    Chapter 86 Rural Livelihoods Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic: Farmers and Fishers in Thailand and Vietnam
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    Chapter 87 Reflections on COVID-19 and Its Impact on Marginal Urban Places: The Case of Four Small Towns in the Western Cape, South Africa
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    Chapter 88 Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the U.S. Custom Grain and Forage Harvesting Labor Supply and 2020 Harvest
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    Chapter 89 The COVID-19 Pandemic and Coastal Fishery Livelihood Systems: Socio-economic Implications for Small-Scale Fisherfolk in Winneba, Ghana
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    Chapter 90 Reflections of a Nurse/Administrator During COVID-19: Preparedness and Fear in Rural Kentucky Nursing Homes
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    Chapter 91 Life in the National Basketball Association Bubble: A Space for Social Justice During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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    Chapter 92 Futures of Change and Futures of Uncertainty: The Impacts of COVID-19 and Movements for Racial Justice in English Football and NASCAR
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    Chapter 93 Change the Game: Sport and Leisure Responses to COVID-19
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    Chapter 94 COVID-19 Pandemic and Young Tourists’ Travel Risk Perceptions: Impacts on Travel Restrictions (Local and International) and Tourism
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    Chapter 95 Challenges of the COVID-19 Pandemic Confront Georgia’s Tourism Industry
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    Chapter 96 Corporate Social Responsibility in Times of Epidemic Outbreaks: A Case Study from the Hospitality Industry in Spain
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    Chapter 97 How COVID-19 Changed Mobility: A Life-Oriented Approach to Travel Behavior Change in Flanders, Belgium
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    Chapter 98 Finland’s Tourism in the Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Abrupt Halt in Internationals and Moderate Revival of Domestics
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     Chapter 99 Measuring the Spread of COVID-19: Restrictions and Mobility in the Visegrad Countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia)
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     Chapter 100 Emerging Technocratic Cosmologies on Traveling: Travels and Tourism After COVID-19 in Argentina
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     Chapter 101 Impacts of COVID-19 on Youth Tourism and Hospitality Managers in Training in Serbia
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     Chapter 102 Tourism and COVID-19: Socio-economic Impacts of COVID-19 on the Tourism Industry in Bulgaria
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     Chapter 103 COVID-19 and Tourism Geography at a Crossroads: Challenges, Opportunities and Moving Forward
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     Chapter 104 Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Live Musical Performance in the United States and the United Kingdom: Outsider and Insider Perspectives
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     Chapter 105 The Bigger Picture: Coronavirus in the Context of the History of the American Film Industry
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     Chapter 106 Songs Which Resonate: Music and Nostalgia in the First U.K. COVID-19 Lockdown
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     Chapter 107 #Artcovidbn on Instagram: Capturing COVID-19’s New Normal in Brunei Via Creative Artwork
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     Chapter 108 Photographing COVID-19 on the Philadelphia Landscape: Responses, Realities, Silences, and Reactions
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     Chapter 109 “Stay at Home:” Pictorial Reflections of Polish Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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     Chapter 110 Education as “Mental Vaccine:” Designing Educational Materials About COVID-19
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     Chapter 111 Perceived Impacts of COVID-19 by Spanish University Students: Changes in the Physical and Social Environments
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     Chapter 112 Online Education: An Unprepared Effort Posing Challenges to Students and Teachers of the Punjab State of India Amid COVID-19
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     Chapter 113 Social Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the School Closings in Five Southern Africa Countries: Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
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     Chapter 114 Effect of COVID-19 Lockdown on Higher Education: Challenges Facing Engineering Education in India
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     Chapter 115 From Emergency Remote Teaching to Academic Strategic Digitalization Planning: How a College Responded to COVID-19 and What Departments Need to Consider Implementing
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     Chapter 116 The Landscape of Medical Translators and Interpreters During the Coronavirus Pandemic: Terminology, Deontology and Teaching-Learning Resources from the Translation Studies Perspective (English, French, Spanish)
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     Chapter 117 (Re)defining the Teaching-Learning Process During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Portuguese Experience
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     Chapter 118 Teaching Geography in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Chinese University: A Case Study of Beijing Normal University
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     Chapter 119 Teaching About the Geography of COVID-19 in High Schools in Different Neighborhoods in Adana, Turkey: Assessments of Teaching Outcomes and Student Learning
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     Chapter 120 Prospective Aquatic Brandscaping Megaproject Addressing Climate Change and Coronavirus of the Coastal Californias: The Intersection of Natural and Anthropic 2020 AD Impacts
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     Chapter 121 Costa Rican Sustainable Development Perspectives: The COVID-19 Pandemic as a Turning Point?
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     Chapter 122 Risk Perception Management Related to COVID-19: A Study of Scenario Planning in Cuba
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     Chapter 123 Zoos in Canada: Responses to COVID-19 Pandemic
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     Chapter 124 Shared Spaces, Shared Suffering: Exploring the Effects of COVID-19 on Urban Animal Advocacy Organizations in Chicago and Kansas City, USA
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     Chapter 125 Animal Geographies in the Time of COVID-19: Challenges and Opportunities
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     Chapter 126 The COVID-19 Pandemic and Bio/Geopolitics in Japan
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     Chapter 127 Fading Voices: COVID-19, Language Death and the Case of Bergamasco in Italy
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     Chapter 128 Persistence of Ethnic and Linguistic Division During the COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak in Kosovo
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     Chapter 129 The Effect of Face Masks on the Acoustic Properties of Vowels
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     Chapter 130 The Heterogeneity of Language Policies and its Related Health Crisis Communication about COVID-19 in Lesotho and South Africa
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     Chapter 131 ‘No Face Mask, No Entry!’: Dissecting Multilingual COVID-19 Related Public Health Signs in Penang, Malaysia
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     Chapter 132 Explaining COVID-19-Related Concepts in Singapore: A Minimal Language Approach
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     Chapter 133 Faith Communities Contribute to COVID-19 Relief: Global and Local Responses of Churches Belonging to a World Communion in Accompaniment with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
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     Chapter 134 Perspectives on the Role of Mysticism as an Inter-religious Meta-narrative in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic
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     Chapter 135 How Do Arab and Moslem Countries and Communities Act in Dealing with the Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic?
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     Chapter 136 Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic by the Hindu Faith-Based Organizations in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
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     Chapter 137 Narrative Geographies of the Coronavirus: Cultural Interdependencies and the Emergence of New Assemblages
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     Chapter 138 Immediate Urgency and Broad Agreement: Early Public COVID-19 Responses of Religiously Affiliated Non-Governmental Organizations
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     Chapter 139 An Unequal Pandemic: Migration, the Hajj, and Hyper-Nationalism in Saudi Arabia
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     Chapter 140 Orthodox Jewish Communities and COVID-19: At the Interface of Faith, Medicine and Technology
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     Chapter 141 Retrenchment and Retreat: Policy Changes in the Time of COVID-19 for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
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     Chapter 142 Special Libraries in the Time of COVID-19: A Time for Refining, Redefining and Rethinking Missions
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     Chapter 143 American Association of Geographers’ Response to the COVID-19 Crisis
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     Chapter 144 Subjunctive Geographies : The Contribution of Institutionalised Geography in the German-Speaking Countries to COVID-19 Research
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     Chapter 145 The COVID-19 Pandemic and the International Geographical Union
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     Chapter 146 Researching China During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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     Chapter 147 Correction to: More than a Message: Public Health Advocacy, Political Cartooning and COVID-19 Challenges in Pakistan