Chinese glaciologist and climate scientist and IGU Vice-President Dr. Qin Dahe has been awarded this year’s Volvo Environment Prize. The award winner is a key contributor to the fifth assessment report from the UN climate panel (IPPC), whose first section, the “Physical Science Basis”, was released in September. He attracted wide attention last year with [...]
SPRINGER SERIES ON ADVANCES IN GEOGRAPHICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Springer’s new book series editor R.B. Singh invites proposals from the IGU Commission Chair, Chair of the IGU National Committees, geographers, environmental scientists and organisers of the related international conference/seminars for negotiating a volume under Springer special book series on Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences. [...]
The IGU Kyoto Regional Conference is underway and registration opened Sunday afternoon 4th August with the opening ceremony scheduled for Monday morning. Around 1600 delegates have registered to attend, more than half of which come from beyond Japan, in all 69 countries. The conference, which concludes Friday, has more than 1200 presentations as well as a number of parallel events and exhibitions. [...]
Preparations remain on track for the upcoming IGU Regional Conference in Kyoto, Japan, to take place from 4th to 9th August 2013. The Kyoto Local Organising Committee has announced with great pleasure that the preliminary program is now available on the website (http://www.igu-kyoto2013.org/). Please check the program to confirm the day, time and session of your own [...]
Breaking news from the Kyoto Local Organising Committee: Extension of Deadline for Abstraction Submission From October 10 last year, we started to receive abstract submissions for IGU Kyoto Regional Conference (KRC), which will be held August 4-Â?9. As you know, the original deadline for submission (January 15, 2013) is drawing near. Unfortunately, however, the number [...]
The International Geographical Congress that concluded at the University of Cologne just a few weeks ago was an unprecedented success for the IGU. Thanks to the selfless efforts of the IGC2012 Local Organising Committee under the fine leadership of Dr Frauke Kraas and Professor Dieter Soyez the congress went off without a hitch. Moreoever, the [...]
Eight years of waiting and anticipation: the hard work is almost done. The machine that is the Local Organising Committee - a younger and more energetic team you cannot find - is now fine-tuning the operations to welcome more than 2000 delegates to the International Geographical Congress at the University of Cologne. With just a few [...]
The deadline for submission of abstracts for the upcoming IGU Regional Conference in Krakow, Poland, has now been extended to 27th January 2014. Please note the following important dates and visit the conference website for further informationwww.igu2014.org 27 January 2014 - Deadline for submitting abstracts for papers and posters 25 February 2014 ? Notification of results of abstract [...]
We invite you to participate in the International Scientific Conference «Geography: Challenges of the XXI Century» dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Geography Faculty of Taurida National V.I. Vernadsky University. The Conference will be held on 8 – 12 April, 2014, at the Geography Department of the Taurida National V.I. Vernadsky University. For more [...]
The Department for Social and Economic Geography and Regional Studies, the Faculty of Geology and Geography, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (Ukraine) invites you to take part on 3-4 April 2014 at the scientific and practical conference for students, post-graduate students and young researches - Region-2014: human-geographical aspects and to publish your articles in the scientific journal JOURNAL OF HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. For more information, download here and here. If [...]
