The commission for Biogeography and Biodiversity will be holding their next meeting Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana, India. It will run March 14-16, 2013. For more information download the flyer here.
The IGU Commission on the Dynamics of Economic Spaces is pleased to announce two upcoming conferences: "Applied GIS and Spatial Modeling", Leeds, United Kingdom, May 29-June 2, 2013. [wpdm_file id=97] "Dynamics in Food and Agriculture based Supply Chains", Berlin, Germany, July 11-13, 2013. [wpdm_file id=96]
There are two interesting job vacancies available at Humboldt-Univeristaet zu Berlin. For more information download the below PDFs: [wpdm_file id=94] [wpdm_file id=95] Alternatively, click here to visit the website.
These maps illustrate the proportion of registered participants for the upcoming 32nd International Geographical Congress at the University of Cologne, Germany. The size of the individual countries is proportional to the number of registered delegates (2400 in all). Naturally, there is domination by the European participants (especially Germany - so that one of the maps excludes the German data to [...]
Ever since the presentation of the Cologne plans for hosting the IGC 2012 in Glasgow 2004 we have used the 'marathon' metaphor to describe the feelings, the efforts, and the joys that were – and still are - triggered by this endeavour. Fewer than six weeks from IGC Cologne, we have entered the final leg, [...]
On behalf of the 2013 World Social Science Report Editorial Team, the ISSC is pleased to announce the call for contributions to the 2013 WSSR. Please note that the deadline for expressions of interest is 20 July 2012. For more information, download here. Please send your expression of interest, as well as your CV, by 20 [...]
The Summer School Course on "Landscape in a Changing World" will be held on the island of Lesvos, September 19-28, 2012. Please, note that the application deadline has been extended to July 31st, 2012. For more information, click here. This international, interdisciplinary course, intended for Master's and Ph.D. students and graduates, will delve into all current landscape-related matters concerning contemporary societies: landscape services of various [...]
Announcing the 5th edition of the International Conference Rural Space and Local Development. This conference is dedicated to the 32nd Congress of IGU, which will be held in 2012, Köln, Germany. The topic of this conference is "Rural Mountain Areas: Experience, Preservation, Trends and Future Challenge" and it will be held 18-22 July 2012. For more [...]
IGU Vice-President Dieter Soyez of the University of Cologne was recently awarded the Johan August Wahlberg medal in gold by the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography at a ceremony in Stockholm. This is a singular distinction and is awarded to Professor Soyez for his meritorious contributions to research and teaching, in particular in the overlapping fields of nature [...]
A major five-day Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development will be held on 11-15 June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in the days just prior to the Rio+20 Conference. Visit the website for more information. The Forum will bring together leading international scientists and policy-makers to explore the key role of interdisciplinary science [...]