The IGU Commission Excellence Award winner for 2021 is the IGU Commission on Rural Sustainability. The award recognizes the IGU Commission (or Task Force) that is judged as most successfully advancing the objectives of the IGU in, for example, encouraging and facilitating the involvement of young researchers, female researchers and researchers from low income countries [...]
Professor Jean-Robert Pitte, President of the French Societé de Geographié has written an open letter to Vladimir Putin and Sergei Shoygu, respectively Chairman of the Board, and Executive President, of the Russian Geographical Society. We present here an English translation. the version in French can be found here Dear Presidents, I authorize myself to write [...]
Following on from the highly successful event held in June 2021 ahead of COP26 (Climate Change) in Glasgow, the IGU (in collaboration with the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and the Royal Geographical Society) is co-hosting a second international gathering – this time in connection with COP15 on the UN Convention [...]
The International Geographical Union (IGU) has already expressed its strong objection to the invasion of Ukraine, an independent sovereign state, by Russian armed forces (see: https://igu-online.org/declaration-by-the-international-geographical-union-on-the-ukraine-crisis/). However, the escalation of the military offence and its consequent humanitarian crisis warrants our further response. The Executive Committee of the International Geographical Union (IGU) has, therefore, taken the [...]
Declaration by the International Geographical Union on the Ukraine crisis The International Geographical Union notes with dismay the alarming situation in Ukraine and finds the invasion of a sovereign democratic nation by Russian forces senseless and unacceptable. These actions are undermining global security and stability and have led to deplorable human suffering and loss of [...]
The IGU is delighted to announce that our First V-P, Professor Iain Hay, has been elected as one of the American Association of Geographers Class of 2021 Fellows. The AAG Fellows programme, started in 2018, recognises geographers who have made significant contributions to advancing geography. Dr. Iain Hay is Matthew Flinders Distinguished Emeritus Professor of [...]
14th January is World Logic Day. In association with the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH), IGU favours the practice of geographical investigation on the principles of reasoning and strongly supports the celebration of the principles that World Logic Day represents. Despite its undeniable relevance to the development of knowledge, sciences and technologies, [...]
The International Geographical Union recently held a most successful International Workshop on Geography and Sustainability from November 23rd to 24th 2021. The workshop theme was “Geography of the Anthropocene: Transforming our world for sustainable development”, which aimed to present the latest research progress on geography and sustainability, provide a valuable contribution to transforming our world [...]
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The 2021 International Association for Promoting Geoethics has awarded the Geoethics Medal to IGU Vice-President Iain Hay. The citation reads as follows: Iain Hay has pioneered the field of geographies of domination and oppression in a lifetime’s work acknowledged by a rare Doctor of Letters (University of Canterbury 2009). His research unmasks unintended and insidious [...]
