[ΓΦ4500] Specific topics of Geography (5 ECTS credits)

Link to the english version of the official website which is still under construction... on 2024, May 31.

See on the website of EuroGeographics, an independent international not-for-profit organisation representing Europe’s National Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registration Authorities: https://eurogeographics.org/member/hellenic-cadastre/ 

The Hellenic Cadastre INSPIRE Geoportal:  https://www.ktimanet.gr/geoportal/catalog/main/home.page 

Also a description in English from the Linkedin profile (!!!): The NATIONAL CADASTRE & MAPPING AGENCY S.A. company is a Legal Entity of Private Law and its mission is the study, development and operation of the Hellenic Cadastre. The company was founded with a joint decision of the Minister of Economy and Finance and the Minister of Environment, Physical Planning and Public Works (Decision 81706/6085/6-10-1995/Government Gazette 872Β/19-10-1995). NCMA S.A. operates according to the rules of private finance and the provisions of article 5 of Law 2229/1994, of the coded Law 2190/1920, of Law 2308/1995 and Law Ν.2664/1998, as these stand today. Furthermore, the company does not fall under the class of organizations and businesses of the broader state sector; regulations that concern companies directly or indirectly owned by the State do not apply to NCMA S.A.

Official EU's Commission website of INSPIRE (Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe)

Greek website in English version (description only - no tools): Geospatial Data INSPIRE Geoportal of the "Hellenic Cadastre"

The Hellenic Cadastre INSPIRE Geoportal: https://www.ktimanet.gr/geoportal/catalog/main/home.page

geodata.gov.gr provides open geospatial data and services for Greece, serving as a national open data catalogue, an INSPIRE-conformant Spatial Data Infrastructure, as well as a powerful foundation for enabling value added services from open data. Unfortunately, the geodata.gov.gr service has been suspended [most probably in Spring 2018]: https://ellak.gr/2015/12/to-neo-geodata-gov-gr-anikto-logismiko-gia-anikta-geochorika-dedomena/  2018-12-04 OPERATING AGAIN !

(visit on 2024, May 31) Notice: This translation is generated by eTranslation, the European Commission’s automated translation service. You can learn more by clicking here.

available from http://espon-interstrat.eu/flyers.html > COUNTRY BROCHURES: Current context of integrated territorial development strategic planning

About the project ESPON INTERTSRAT (ended on 30 April 2012, see http://espon-interstrat.eu/integratedstrategies.html

Proceedings:  European spatial planning and landscape, No 99

Corporate Author: : Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (European Commission), European Commission

Subject: economic and social cohesion, EU regional policy, Greece , regional disparity , regional planning , town and country planning

Hagemans, Iris and van Hemert, Patricia and Meerkerk, Joachim and Risselada, Anne and van Winden, Risselada (2020) ABCitiEs Policy Evaluation Report. Research Report. European Union, Brussels.  

Website of the presentation of the project (funded by INTERREG programme) https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/abcities/ 

Municipality of Athens, Action Plan https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/fileadmin/user_upload/tx_tevprojects/library/file_1599228997.pdf 

Find also conferences and lectures on https://www.youtube.com/@EcoleFrancaisedAthenes

A European research team, headed by Utrecht University is conducting a comparative study in 13 European cities [Athens is one of them]. Research will also be carried out in Toronto (Canada), one of the world’s most diverse cities. Four years from 1 March 2013 to 28 February 2017(European Commission 7th Framework Programme). On 2018-11-26, the project main webpage was blank, but many handbooks were available as workpackages wp: A HANDBOOK FOR GOVERNING HYPER-DIVERSE CITIES https://www.urbandivercities.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/DIVERCITIES-Handbook-Digital.pdf now on https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316656064_A_Handbook_for_Governing_Hyper-Diverse_Cities || HANDBOOK OF ATHENS (2017) https://www.urbandivercities.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Divercities-City-Book-Athens.pdf  || Now, 2021/22, handbooks are no more available on the official project website.  This EU FP7 project closed in 2017. See final report: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/319970/reporting (2017).

... in Paris and the Ile-de-France region, London and Athens through real and virtual walks. The project was devised as part of the European Union's Culture 2000 program, A.R.V.H.A. (Association for Research on the City and Habitat), the project's French co-ordinator, in collaboration with British architects and academics from A.T.A.P. (Anne Thorne Partnership Architects) and Greek architects from OMADA 80 architects and planners consultants, Sotiris Papadopoulos, Architect. Athens (English) http://www.culture2000.tee.gr/ATHENS/ENGLISH/main2.html  Athènes (Français) http://www.culture2000.tee.gr/ATHENS/FRENCH/main2.html              

The project (funded by EC Horizon 2020 see https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/727058), in continuity of DIVERCITIES, ended in 2021. Greece was of the case studies: https://www.cohsmo.aau.dk/index.php/greece/  Selected areas, all in Attica: The central Municipality of Athens (located in the centre of Attica Basin), the suburban Municipality of Pallini (located in the north-eastern suburban zone) and the rural Municipality of Marathon (located in the north-eastern “periphery” of the region of Attica). See here documents. || COHSMO final handbook is dowloadable at https://build.dk/Pages/COHSMO.aspx 

Eight-part podcast series produced for "This is Athens - Athens visitor's Guide" (of which the link is here given) with Sofka Zinovieff, British anthopologist, journalist, author. the podcasts can be accessed from https://soundcloud.com/user-46820274-209698857/sets/athens-unpacked 

"Rethink Athens is a vision for the redesign of the inner city of Athens. It was developed by OKRA Landscape Architects and won first place in a competition held by the Onassis Foundation. The OKRA vision for Athens provided a multi-disciplinary redesign that accounted for traffic flows, cultural and social exchange, and enhanced sustainability using green and blue technologies."

"Together with OKRA Landscape architects (Utrecht, NL) and Werner Sobek Green Technologies (Stuttgart, D), the ENVI-met team analyzed the capacity of the OKRA design proposal to improve air temperature, thermal comfort and building energy usage within the city of Athens."

The ISTOPOL research project investigates apartment blocks in Athens as locales of social and ethnic cohabitation, but also of segregation among the different social and eth[n]ic groups of their residents. 

FAIRVILLE: Facing inequalities and democratic challenges through co-production in cities. see https://www.fairville-eu.org/ 

"Mapping the Commons of Athens[1] took place at the end of 2010, at the year when Greece started losing its financial independence. (...) Inspired by the thought of Hardt and Negri, the workshop ‘Mapping the Commons, Athens’ aimed to study and empower these emerging forms of resistance, by focusing on the city’s most significant wealth, its commons."

"Athens Naked Truth" is a campaign that aims at:
a) raising awareness on the subtle promotion of discrimination and inequality on the one hand, and
b) highlighting how community, solidarity and sisterhood can be the key in creating collective solutions and proposing concrete alternatives to the existing normalisation and institutionalisation of violence.

The booklet: results of the Athens Naked Truth: Counter-Cartography Workshop https://interaliaproject.com/event/athens-naked-truth-a-counter-cartography-workshop/ 

Commonspace is recognised as "a network of experts and scientists involved in Urban and Spatial planning and Environmental Management, combining research work and study projects." "So far, the network has collaborated with Universities, Educational Institutions, Public Benefit Institutions, Municipalities, Regional Governments, NGOs and various Enterprises."

"Commonspace has created a specifically structured methodology and a set of tools regarding Participatory Planning of Public Space. Our main goal is to promote and empower Participatory Planning as a design paradigm that emphasizes involving the entire community in the strategic and management processes of public space planning."

Through this Portal HEAL-Link members have full-text access to journals, e-books and to bibliographic databases. HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY Library and Informational Center is member of the network.

TDL hosts various publications (printed or non-printed), journals, conference proceedings etc. of primarily geological interest.

provides open access to scholarly eJournals, eBooks and eProceedings, as well as a range of integrated publishing services to the country's academic community.

Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social sciences content; since 1995, its electronic journal collections have supported a wide array of research needs at academic, public, special, and school libraries worldwide. MUSE books and journals, from leading university presses and scholarly societies, are fully integrated for search and discovery.

The Central Catalogue of the second most important Library of Greece, the Library of the Hellenic Parliament http://library.parliament.gr, is from now displayed on the platform OpenABEKT of the National Documentation Centre - EKT (source: EKT, Press Release, 2018-04-25)

The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences. OAPEN works with publishers to build a quality controlled collection of open access books, and provides services for publishers, libraries and research funders in the areas of deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation.

The GRISSH aggregates, documents, stores, preserves access to authoritative Greek scientific publications. Search by Subject, Author, Journal, Publisher. (need to be updated - It seems cold ~2014 - 2015, when the website was released).

Free access given from HUA networks through HEALlink -  Index, abstract & full-text  - Physical Sciences and Engineering | Life Sciences | Health Sciences | Social Sciences and Humanities

DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

"BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 240 million documents from more than 8,000 content providers. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access). BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library."

"We are indexing the metadata of all kinds of academically relevant resources – journals, institutional repositories, digital collections etc. – which provide an OAI interface and use OAI-PMH for providing their contents."

Ouvert au public en septembre [2017], le site internet trilingue (arabe, FR, EN - en developpement)  Bibliothèques d’Orient est le résultat d’un travail de coopération entre la Bibliothèque nationale de France et huit institutions partenaires implantées à Alexandrie, Le Caire, Jérusalem, Beyrouth, Damas et Istanbul. Ces bibliothèques ont numérisé et mis en commun une sélection de leurs fonds patrimoniaux.

...Les documents témoignent des relations entre l’Orient et la France entre 1798 et 1945... for more see presentation http://lettre-gallica.bnf.fr/bibliotheques-orient

Electronic resources in the humanities and social sciences. Four platforms: BOOKS | JOURNALS | BLOGS | EVENTS

OpenAIRE is a network of Open Access repositories, archives and journals that support Open Access policies. It goes beyond the traditional publications aggregator by interconnecting entities related to scholarly communication (publications, research data, funding, people, organizations, data sources) allowing users to navigate alongside a rich information space graph and provides a wide range of services, from deposition to statistics. -

Abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Available on-line by subscription. - Research fields: science, mathematics, engineering, technology, health and medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Access to full content for free depends on the HUA Library & Informational Center's subscription

IDEAS is based on RePEc, it indexes over 4,100,000 items of research, including over 3,700,000 that can be downloaded in full text.

RePEc is a large volunteer effort to enhance the free dissemination of research in Economics which includes bibliographic metadata from over 2,000 participating archives, including all the major publishers and research outlets. IDEAS is just one of several services that use RePEc data. For some statistics about the holdings on this site, see here.

The site is an archive of the PASCAL and FRANCIS bibliographic databases in exact, human and social sciences, produced by the Inist-CNRS from 1972 to 2015, including the IGB ( INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY / BIBLIOGRAPHIE GEOGRAPHIQUE INTERNATIONALE - for IGU | UGI)

"PubMed® comprises more than 34 million citations [and abstracts] for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books." Citations may include links to full text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

Searchable international registry charting the growth of open access mandates and policies adopted by universities, research institutions and research funders that require or request their researchers to provide open access to their peer-reviewed research article output by depositing it in an open access repository.

Érudit provides access to many document collections in the social sciences and humanities: journals, books and proceedings, theses, and research reports. 

"Érudit is a Pan-Canadian interuniversity consortium comprised of Université de Montréal, Université Laval, and Université du Québec à Montréal. [It is] funded by the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture, and as of 2014,[it is] recognized as a major scientific initiative by the Canada Foundation for Innovation

Platform developed by the Hellenic National Documentation Centre (EKT) which aims to provide open access to scholarly eJournals, eBooks and eProceedings, and deploy a range of integrated publishing services for the Greek academic community.