Prestigious honour for the discipline of Geography:The Karel Engliš Honorary Medal presentation to Professor Bryn Greer-Wootten-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Prestigious honour for the discipline of Geography:The Karel Engliš Honorary Medal presentation to Professor Bryn Greer-Wootten

Published:2019-03-01 Issue:1 Volume:27 Page:54-60
ISSN:1210-8812
Container-title:Moravian Geographical Reports
language:en
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Author:

Blaheta Radim¹,Greer-Wootten Bryn²,Frantál Bohumil³

Affiliation:

1. Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science & Department IT4Innovations, Institute of Geonics , The Czech Academy of Sciences , Ostrava , Czech Republic

2. Institute for Social Research and Department of Geography , York University , Toronto , Canada

3. Department of Environmental Geography, Institute of Geonics , The Czech Academy of Sciences , Brno , Czech Republic

Abstract

Abstract This communication concerns the prestigious award - the Karel Engliš Honorary Medal for Merit in the Social and Economic Sciences - that Bryn Greer-Wootten, Professor Emeritus at York University in Toronto and the Editor-in-Chief of the Moravian Geographical Reports (MGR), received from the Czech Academy of Sciences in2018. The article contains the most important and interesting points from the Laudation by Professor Radim Blaheta (Chair of the Institute of Geonics’ Institutional Board and the previous Director of the Institute), the Response by Professor Greer-Wootten, and the Closing Speech by Bohumil Frantál (Executive Editor of MGR), which were presented during the award ceremony on August 28, 2018 at the historic Löw-Beer Villa in Brno, Czech Republic.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

General Earth and Planetary Sciences,Geography, Planning and Development

Link

https://www.sciendo.com/pdf/10.2478/mgr-2019-0005

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