The ARL - Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association has set up an inter- and transdisciplinary ad hoc working group on "Pandemics and Spatial Development", which brings together expertise from the fields of spatial development and planning, public health services, medical geography, epidemiology/public health and economics as well as the social sciences. The spatially relevant findings on the effects of the pandemic in Germany and the related measures were bundled into a position paper for a crisis prevention perspective and condensed into recommendations for action. These are addressed to the various levels of action in spatial development and spatial planning.

The position paper is available here: https://shop.arl-net.de/sars-cov-2-pandemie.html

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