George Demko, 1933–2015: Engaging, Emphatic, Empowering

O ur memorial to a longtime friend, George Demko, looks at his career accomplishments through the eyes of some of his former students, colleagues, and a publisher. In their own words, rather than our detailing his professional career and describing significant publications, they inform George Demko’s generation and succeeding ones what he contributed to advancing geography as discipline. They also describe his years in the U.S. Department of State and his focus on U.S. foreign policy and its linkages with scholarly communities in the social, environmental, and policy sciences. The memorial concludes with listing some of his important publications. The voices attest to his high levels of creative energy, professional caring, and lifelong explorations into the geographies of the unknown, including his pursuit of mystery landscapes in his final years.

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[3]  J. Rychtǎŕikov́a,et al.  Inequalities in Infant Survival: An Analysis of Czech Linked Records , 2001 .

[4]  G. Demko.  Population Under Duress: Geodemography Of Post-soviet Russia , 1999 .

[5]  W. B. Wood,et al.  Reordering The World: Geopolitical Perspectives On The Twenty-first Century , 1994 .

[6]  Jerome Agel,et al.  Why in the World: Adventures in Geography , 1992 .

[7]  O. Young.  Global Environmental Change and International Governance , 1990 .

[8]  G. Demko.  On Geography, Geographers and Things Nuclear , 1988 .

[9]  G. Demko.  Geography beyond the Ivory Tower , 1988 .

[10]  G. Demko.  The Soviet settlement system--current issues and future prospects. , 1987, Soviet Geography.

[11]  W. B. Wood,et al.  International refugees: a geographical perspective. , 1987, The Journal of geography.

[12]  G. Demko.  Ideas on How to Enliven the Teaching of Geography. , 1986 .

[13]  R. Fuchs,et al.  Mobility and settlement system integration in the USSR. , 1983, Soviet Geography.

[14]  R. Fuchs,et al.  Rethinking population distribution policies , 1983 .

[15]  W. R. Smith,et al.  Population concentration in an urban system: Korea 1949-1980 , 1983 .

[16]  Day Fa,et al.  Population distribution problems and policies in Asia. , 1981 .

[17]  G. Demko,et al.  Population distribution measures and the redistribution mechanism. , 1981 .

[18]  F. Day,et al.  Population distribution problems and policies in Asia. , 1981, Population geography : a journal of the Association of Population Geographers of India.

[19]  R. Fuchs,et al.  Population distribution policies in developed Socialist and Western nations. , 1979 .

[20]  G. Demko,et al.  GEOGRAPHIC INEQUALITY UNDER SOCIALISM , 1979 .

[21]  R. Fuchs,et al.  Commuting in the USSR. , 1978 .

[22]  R. Fuchs,et al.  The postwar mobility transition in Eastern Europe , 1978 .

[23]  G. Demko,et al.  Internal migration in the Soviet Union. , 1978, Economic geography.

[24]  R. Fuchs,et al.  Commuting and urbanization in the socialist countries of Europe. , 1977, The ACES bulletin. Association for Comparative Economic Studies.

[25]  G. Demko,et al.  Discovery in geography , 1976 .

[26]  G. A. Schnell,et al.  Population Geography: A Reader , 1972 .

[27]  Emilio Casetti,et al.  A DIFFUSION MODEL FOR SELECTED DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES: AN APPLICATION TO SOVIET DATA , 1970 .

[28]  G. Demko,et al.  Spatial population policies in the socialist countries of Eastern Europe , 1969 .

[29]  K. Cox,et al.  Conflict Behavior in a Spatio-Temporal Context , 1968 .

[30]  T. W. Freeman.  The Science of Geography , 1966 .