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

Blaheta, Radim; Greer-Wootten, Bryn; Frantál, Bohumil

doi:10.2478/mgr-2019-0005

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.

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

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