The International Council for Science (ICSU), on behalf of the Science and Technology Alliance for Global Sustainability, has announced that Professor Frans Berkhout will be the Interim Director of Future Earth. Professor Berkhout will lead the implementation of Future Earth – bringing existing and new research communities and stakeholders together to deliver solutions-oriented knowledge for global sustainability. He [...]
The 9th international conference on Geoinformation for Disaster Management will take place on 9-11 December 2013 in Vietnam. The theme for the conference is Earth Observation for Disaster Management. The conference will concentrate on the following topics: Small satellite programs Remote sensing and GIS as tools for disaster management Landslide monitoring and data processing Flood [...]
International Course/Workshop on Forensic Investigations of Disasters associated with landslides The workshop will take place at Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas, Tuxtla Gutiérrez Chiapas, Mexico during June 24 – July 5, 2013. The main objective of the workshop is to share FORIN-Forensic Investigations of Disasters, a methodology proposed by the program on Integrated Research on [...]
DEVPORT International Conference for Ports, Maritime Transport and Regional Development: Adaptation of maritime, port and logistics actors to hazards of globalization 12-13 June 2014 – Le Havre (France) The DEVPORT project brings together researchers from different research centers and universities. It wishes to initiate the establishment of a network that will contribute to the popularization [...]
2nd Symposium on Advances in in Geospatial Technologies for Health and MEDGEO-2013 August 24 to 30, 2013 in Arlington, VA, USA The International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Working Group on Health of Commission VIII (ISPRS WG VIII/2) is organizing its 2nd Symposium on Advances in Geospatial Technologies for Health. This event is being organized [...]
Eighth international conference on "Geographical analysis, urban modeling, spatial statistics" GEOG-AND-MOD 2013 Cities, technologies and planning (CTP 2013) Econometrics and multidimensional evaluation in the urban environment (EMEUE 2013) International workshop on agricultural and environmental information and decision support systems Remote sensing data analysis, modeling, interpretation and applications: from a global view to a local analysis [...]
The ISPRS/ IGU/ICA Joint Workshop on Borderlands Modeling and Understanding for Global Sustainability will be held on 5-6 December 2013. Call for papers: If you'd like to participate in the workshop, please visit the website here.
International Geographical Union Union Géographique International 2012 Annual Report The International Geographical Union (IGU) The IGU was founded under the auspices of the International Research Council in 1922 in Brussels, having been conceived some years earlier in Paris. Its debut as a formal, continuing organization was preceded by ten International Geographical Congresses, the first of which was held [...]
Congress will be held in Lyon, France, 21-22 October 2013. For more information, download the flyer. The conference will be organized around two workshops: Firms’ policies, households’ residential practices and energy transition Spatial issues, firms, workers and sustainable mobility Important dates Call for paper : open till June 15 2013 Acceptance will be notify [...]
A few places are still available for participation in this Commission workshop organised within joint meeting with RSA Research Network on Geographies of Finance and Post-Socialist Transformations in Bratislava, Slovakia on Thursday 16th and Friday 17th May 2013. Those interested to participate, please express your interest and enclose basic information to Ján Bu?ek until April 10, 2013 by e-mail (bucek@fns.uniba.sk). For our [...]