Borderology: Cross-disciplinary Insights from the Border Zone: Along the Green Belt

This book provides a unique and multifaceted view on and understanding of borders and their manifestations: physical and mental, cultural and geographical, and as a question of life and death. It highlights the Green Belt along the Iron Curtain, which offered a haven for rare species for many decades and, after the Cold War, became a veritable treasure trove for a European network of researchers.

A geographical border is something that can be seen, but other borders sometimes have to be cro...