Strict monadic topology II: descent for closure spaces

Abstract: By a closure space we will mean a pair $(A,\mathcal{C})$, in which $A$ is a set and $\mathcal{C}$ a set of subsets of $A$ closed under arbitrary intersections. The purpose of this paper is to initiate a development of descent theory of closure spaces, with our main results being: (a) characterization of descent morphisms of closure spaces; (b) in the category of finite closure spaces every descent morphism is an effective descent morphism; (c) every surjective closed map and every surjective open map of closure spaces is an effective descent morphism.